Top 10 Favorites?

[Noodles]

It sure was difficult but I managed to come up with a Top 10 of my all-time favorite movies. Here goes:

1. The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola
2. Once Upon A Time In America (1984) - Sergio Leone
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola
4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) - Sergio Leone
5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - Stanley Kubrick
6. Once Upon A Time In The West (1968 ) - Sergio Leone
7. GoodFellas (1990) - Martin Scorsese
8. Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola
9. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Jonathan Demme
10. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Frank Darabont

As you can see I love gangster movies. And 2 directors, Coppola and Leone, basically dominate my list.

So, has anyone else ever sat down and tried to come up with an honest Top 10? Top 5? Top 3? Please share your all-time favorites, I'm eager to hear them!

 

[jimm04]

1. Frantic by Roman Polanski (1988 )

2. Pierrot le Fou by Jean-Luc Godard (1965)

3. Show Girls by Paul Verhoeven (1995)

4. Theorem by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1968 )

5. Midnight Cowboy by John Schlesinger (1969)

6. The Witnesses by André Techiné (2007)

7. Death In Venice by Luchino Visconti (1971)

8. Dick Tracy by Warren Beatty (1990)

9. Gone with the Wind by Victor Fleming (1939)

10. Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears (1988 )


This is so hard to do

 

[Rimmer]

Wow, good thread.

In no particular order with the exception of #1

1) American Beauty (1999)
2) Midnight Express (1978)
3) Fight Club (1999)
4) Silence of the Lambs (1991)
5) Gods and Monsters (1998)
6) Natural Born Killers (1994)
7) Last Night (1998)
8) Psycho (1960)
9) Orfanato, El (2007)
10) Interview with the Vampire (1994)

You can probably tell, I like my movies.... 'dark'. I'm sure I'll think of more... how can you have just 10?

 

[scains]

This is actually really hard to do!

1) The Little Mermaid (1989)
2) Beautiful Thing (1996)
3) The Sound Of Music (1965)
4) The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
5) Legally Blonde (2001)
6) The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
7) The Goonies (1985)
8) Ballet Shoes (2007)
9) Titanic (1997)
10) Red Eye (2005)

 

[LatinoSTAR]

Legend (Ridley Scott)

Heathers (Michael Lehmann)

Escape From New York (John Carpenter)

Alien (Ridley Scott)

Scarface (Brian De Palma)

The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes)

Monsters Ball (Mark Forster)

Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)

Titanic (James Cameron)

Purple Rain

Blade Runner (ridley scott)

Dracula (Francis Ford Copolla)

 

[cyclops35]

1. Star Wars Episodes 4 & 5
2. The Goonies
3. Stand By Me
4. The Never Ending Story
5. The Breakfest Club
6. Talented Mr Ripley
7. Goodwill Hunting
8. Halloween (Original Version)
9. A Nightmare On Elm St
10. A Nightmare On Elm St: Dream Warriors

 

[translation]

1. Lost in Translation
2. Jerry McGuire
3. Closer
4. Hard Candy
5. Little Children
6. Memento
7. Million Dollar Baby
8. Dan in Real Life
9. Keys to the House
10. The Little Mermaid

 

[sean9999]

I know I'm forgetting some great ones . . .

Urbania
Shortbus
Spinal Tap
Best In Show
Lars And The Real Girl
Bent
Donnie Darkoirector's Cut. The other is shit.
Apocalypse Now
Maurice
My Beautiful Launderette

 

[scains]

1. Lost in Translation
2. Jerry McGuire
3. Closer
4. Hard Candy
5. Little Children
6. Memento
7. Million Dollar Baby
8. Dan in Real Life
9. Keys to the House
10. The Little Mermaid

Yay! Someone else who has The Little Mermaid in their top 10!!!

 

[NomineDetracto]

in no order:

Magnolia
Fight Club
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Royal Tennenbaums
Jurrasic Park
Clueless
Kill Bill Vol. 1
American Splendor
As Good As It Gets
Rushmore

 

[chillyboi]

1 terms of endearment
2 guess whos coming to dinner
3 home alone
4 steel magnolias
5 halloween
6 whats eating gilbert grape
7 the ref
8 dolores clayborne
9 working girl
10 between friends=HBO made film

 

[Noodles]

Thanks for your responses, guys!

If this were a poll of some sort, here are the most commonly named movies in your guys' Top 10s (so far):

3 "votes"
Stand By Me
Star Wars V
Kill Bill Vol. 1

2 "votes"
The Silence Of The Lambs
The Little Mermaid
Titanic
The Goonies
Psycho
The Godfather
Dr. Strangelove
Star Wars IV
Apocalypse Now
Natural Born Killers
Halloween

 

[scains]

It would have been a more interesting result if more people had taken the time to contribute though...

but considering there were only fifteen and there were quite a few doubles I fins that pretty interesting

 

[eddielee]

1. Gone With The Wind
2. The Color Purple
3. The Wizard of Oz
4. Singing in the Rain
5. Titanic
6. Fantasia
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Independence Day
9. A Night to Remember
10. Dracula--original with Bela Lugosi

 

[justsimon]

Top Ten (that I Can Think of Right Now):

Heathers
Annie Hall
The Life Aquatic
Apocalypse Now
Igby Goes Down
The Abyss
Rear Window (Original)
Touch of Evil
The Graduate
Raising Arizona

 

[darrow]

The top five are a sure thing but the rest are subject to change

A Christmas Story
The Trip to Bountiful
Roxie Hart
La Vie En Rose
Sunset Boulevard
Undercurrent
The Awful Truth
Bringing Up Baby
The Wizard of Oz
Jezebel

 

[evilest]

In no particular order.

Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
X 2 (Bryan Singer)
Seven (David Fincher)
Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Cube (Vincenzo Natali)
House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
The Aventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott)
Die Hard (Love em all) (Various)

 

[jj1087]

(no order)
Star Wars IV
Dr. Strangelove
Blade Runner
Sin City
Vertigo
Three Days Of The Condor
Lord Of The Rings (Combined)
Devil Wears Prada
Moonraker
V For Vendetta

I guess most of those are action-y. But I don't like most action movies, go figure.