Some of your favourite films?

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Well, i'm re-watching 'Sin City' after about 2 years and within those 2 years i have had various experience in watching various styles of film. I have grown to massive appreciation of David Lynch and Jean-luc Godard. Thinking that this would completely take away my appreciation of mainstream cinema, it actually hasn't.
My top 20 films (in no order apart from number 1) are as follows:

1. The crow
2. The silence of the lambs
3. The basketball diaries
4. Double indemnity
5. The wizard of oz (For many external reasons)
6. Mulholland Drive
7. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
8. American beauty
9. Pulp fiction
10. City of god
11. Pan's Labyrinth
12. Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
13. The shawshank redemption
14. Full Metal Jacket
15. The breakfast club
16. Magnolia
17. A clockwork orange
18. Crash - Not the car crash fetish one
19. Once upon a time in america
20. Dogma


So, what are your top 20? (if you can be arsed typing)
 
I like david lynchs stuff to!

I can't get the film ''the ninth configuration'' out of my head though....most of the films I like are nutty though.
 
  1. Alfie
  2. Rodger Dodger
  3. Metropolis
  4. Rearwindow
  5. Godfather's 1+2
  6. As Good As It Gets
  7. American History X
  8. Wicked City (animated)
  9. Fight Club
  10. 300
  11. The departed
  12. Gone in 60 SeconRAB
  13. Pirates of the Carribean 1 2 3
  14. Troy
  15. saving private ryan
  16. Walk the Line
  17. Shawshank Redemption
  18. Rainman
  19. Slumdog Millionaire
  20. Schindler's List
 
I can never pick a favourite film, or a top 3, but top 20 is just about doable. My top 20 today is:

* Before Sunrise
* Before Sunset
* The English Patient
* The Truman Show
* Gattaca
* Bob Roberts
* To Kill a Mockingbird
* Superman
* Doctor Zhivago
* Brief Encounter
* Dead Poets Society
* High Fidelity
* The Breakfast Club
* E.T.
* Back to the Future
* Au Revoir Les Enfants
* The Wicker Man
* Breakfast at Tiffany's
* The Shawshank Redemption
* Eat Drink Man Woman

Ask me again tomorrow, it'll probably be totally different.
 
I loved:

1. Ghost
2. Grease
3. Dirty Dancing
4. Thelma & Louise
5. Shawshank
6. Kramer versus Kramer
7. Watership Down
8. Titanic
9. Flashdance
10. Brokeback Mountain
 
My favs as a kid were Disney's Toby Tyler about a kid joining the circus and when I was a teen To Sir With Love.


Lots of other goodies as well if I can think of them ???????????????



....................Marty.


Whadda ya feel like doin' tonight Marty ?????????????????


Well recently on American tv Ernest Borgnine (who played Marty) told us. :p
 
I don't watch many films but you've mentionned the last 2 that I watched and thought were terrific........

Sin City and Pan's Labyrinth.............

I thought Fargo was pretty good as well..........
 
Rocky horror picture show has to be my all time favourite film but funnily enough I'm not that into other sci-fi/musicals.

I usually hate weepy chick flicks but 'The Notebook' is absolutely fantastic and had me in tears, longing for a huge romantic gesture from my OH.... it passed after around half an hour though.

I love gangster movies like Casino, Goodfellas and Scarface, the Godfather.

American history X, Battle Royal, Now and Then, Reservoir Dogs and anything with Steve Buscemi in it are also notable movies I like.
 
In no order!!
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Mamma Mia
  • Narnia
  • Batman (new ones!!)
  • Practical Magic
  • Funny Face
  • Cruel Intentions
  • Just Like Heaven
  • Legally Blonde
  • Sweet Home Alabama
  • Miss Congeneality
  • Notting Hill
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • Bourne Trilogy

Oh I can't think of any more!!:)
 
Here's an alphabetical selection of 25. 'Z' defeated me.

  • Aliens
  • Blade Runner
  • Charade
  • Donnie Darko
  • Event Horizon
  • Fog, The (original)
  • Gladiator
  • Heat
  • Ipcress File, The
  • JFK
  • Key Largo
  • L.A. Confidential
  • Matrix, The
  • North By Northwest
  • Others, The
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Quiz Show
  • Requiem For A Dream
  • Shadow Of A Doubt
  • Third Man, The
  • Usual Suspects, The
  • Vanishing, The (original)
  • War Of The WorlRAB (original)
  • X-Files, The
  • Y Tu Mama Tambien
 
The Lord of the Rings (I'm counting as one...)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Grindhouse
A Clockwork Orange
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Mulholland Drive
Gladiator
The Beach
American Beauty
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis a personne)
Pan's Labyrinth
Misery
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

That's only 17 ... lol. There are far more and my favourite films change very quickly. But the above kind of stick there. Some mainstream, some less so.
 
Reservoir Dogs
Chasing Amy
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Usual Suspects
Jean de Florette
Cyrano de Bergerac
Battleship Potempkin
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The Empire Strikes Back
LA Confidential
The Godfather (Parts one and two)
2001 A Space Odyssey
Terminator
Dawn of the Dead
Ring
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Festen
Shaun of the Dead
Wall-E
Kind Hearts and Coronets

But it will be different tomorrow.
 
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