Your Top 20 movies

[Henrik Main]

This list reflects the fact that I haven't seen a lot of movies, and that I'm easily entertained when it comes to movies.

1. The Lord Of The Rings: Two Towers
2. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
3. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
4. Snatch
5. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Pirates Of The Carribean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl
8. Fucking Åmål (Mainly because of the line "HON TOK DEN SISTA O'BOYEN!")
9. The 51st State
10. Goodbye Lenin
11. Villmark
12. Catch Me If You Can
13. Monty Python's Holy Grail
14. Robin Hood: Men In Tights
15. The Filth & The Fury
16. Buddy
17. James Bond: Goldfinger
18. James Bond: Goldeneye
19. The Thin Red Line
20. The Mummy

 

[speed]

Well I'll try, I am also a bit of a movie buff- especially foreign films that have some meaning. You know, I am the usually serious one here. This was much more difficult than I thought.

Andrei Rubylev
The Seventh Seal
8 1/2
La Dolce Vita
Stalker
The Decalogue
Kieslowski's Three colors series.
Lawrence of Arabia
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather
Dirty Harry
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
National Lampoons Vacation
Adaptation
Back To School
Planes Trains And Automobiles
Groundhog Day
2001
The original Cape Fear- Robert Mitchum looked like he really did want to rape and kill those girls, Ive never seen such believable acting.
Sleeper
The Mouse that Roared

Honorable mention: Rocky i and ii, most likely because I have seen them more times than all but the vacation movies put together.

 

[lurch70]

with all these Tarkowski fans here ...

honorable mention to the original SOLARIS ... only seen it once ... but it has engraved itself in my mind forever. amazing!

 

[speed]

Yeah Tarkovsky is my favorite director ever. I could have listed everyone of his movies. Epecially the Mirror- its oneof the most modern movies I have ever seen- collection of dreams and memories of his childhood that all somehow come together.

He was such a graceful director. As you said he blended everything perfectly in each movie. Not a shot or a line, or a single movement in his flms is wasted- even if they are all 3 1/2 hours long. I have no visual talent, but I can appreciate a master when I see one.

And yes Solaris is maybe the greatest sci fi movie ever. The reconnection with the One/the soul- memories- love. Its amazing. Isnt that what we all want in the future- its not to watch some monsters or robots or wookies, its to elevate to immortality- or to reconnect with our memories. Ok I may have to re-edit my list.

 

[lurch70]

And yes Solaris is maybe the greatest sci fi movie ever. The reconnection with the One/the soul- memories- love. Its amazing. Isnt that what we all want in the future- its not to watch some monsters or robots or wookies, its to elevate to immortality- or to reconnect with our memories.

that's awesome ... yes, this is why it is so brilliant.
sci-fi movies never show a human / spiritual level in characters. always the machines become more advanced but humans are never.
i hope this will not parallel our imminent reality.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Andrei Rubylev

This one is by far the "heaviest" film i have ever seen.

 

[speed]

SO we agree on somehting I of the Storm- a love for Tarkovsky.

 

[NAD]

Raising Arizona has not been mentioned yet, for shame.

 

[jimbobhickville]

Fight Club
Unbreakable
The Sixth Sense
Twelve Monkeys
A Life Less Ordinary
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Adaptation
Lord of the Rings trilogy (counting as one so it doesn't take 3 spots )
Star Wars series
Say Anything
Dark City
The Matrix
Bottle Rocket
Alien
The Terminator
American Beauty
The Ring
Joe Vs. the Volcano
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Hudsucker Proxy

So, I can't order them, but there's 20 of my favorites. I'm sure if I went to look at my DVD collection, I'd change the list some.

 

[J.]

heh, Bottle Rocket was awesome.

 

[Tranquillian]

1. LOTR - Return of the king EE
2. SW - The Empire strikes back
3. The shawshank redemption
4. LOTR - The fellowship of the ring EE
5. L.A. Confidential
6. LOTR - Return of the king EE
7. Star Wars - A new hope
8. Terminator 2
9. Aliens
10. Die Hard
11. Godfather trilogy
12. The boondock saints
13. Saving private Ryan
14. Lock stock and two smoking barrels
15. Office space
16. Sällskapsresan (Swedish comedy)
17. Where eagles dare
18. Four weddings and a funeral
19. Indiana Jones in The Raiders of the Lost Ark
20. First blood

I seem to have a few favourite genres
The classic good vs evil adventures
Highbudget explosive action movies
Epic war movies
Comedies
Dramas

 

[NAD]

Alright, somebody mentioned Boondocks!

I'm not going to finish my bottom 10, just keep commenting on ones that people list / forget.

 

[Henrik Main]

The Boondocks Saints was the win. Especially that gay detective.

 

[speed]

Yeah the boondock saints is surprisingly good. And who recommended First Blood? I was going to, but was afraid it would throw of my intellectual reputation. Kidding. I love First blood.

Oh how about funniest movie ever? I wish to share my answer: Hannibal. When Anthony Hopkins cuts open ray liotta's brain and serves it to him. I was fucking dying laughing. Its still the funniest scene I have ever seen.

 

[J.]

The ending of Hannibal was so stupid. The book ending was a lot better.

 

[lurch70]

it's funny how all lists from people in Europe are dominated by US movies.
which brings me to another question ... what is the largest budget movie ever made in Europe (or anywhere else outside the US) ?

seems most countries (outside of India) always make simple dramas, probably for budget constraints.

 

[NAD]

The Boondocks Saints was the win. Especially that gay detective.

Willem Dafoe makes any movie better.

That brain eating crap in Hannibal killed an otherwise okay movie. I still haven't seen all of Red Dragon (the remake), but it was much better than Hannibal. Silence of the Lambs cannot be touched.

 

[speed]

Yeah Hannibals a pretty shitty movie. But that scene, as well as the over top nature of the whole movie, make me giggle uncontrollably.

Red Dragon isnt nearly as good as Manhunt.