What are your top 10 movies of all time?

[oldhippy]

1 hour ago, Leaver said:

Who remembers the first porn movie they saw on VHS?  ????

Deep Throat.

Funny movie, much unlike the zillions of boring porn movies that followed.

 

[Metropolitian]

Metros Top 10.

 

Metros Nostalgia Movies

 

Not that they are the best but they are for me good memories as I loved them once in my life, and still do for most.

 

1. Coma

2. Wizard of Oz

3. Logans Run

4. Star Wars 4,5,6 (the first 3)

5. Jurassic Park

6. 2001 A Space Odyssey (and the sequel 2010)

7. Hellraiser sequels

8. Moonwalker

9. Forbidden Planet

10. De Gendarmeries (Louis DeFunes)

 

bonus ????

11. Dr Goldfoot (Bikini Machine and Girl Bombs)

 

Metros Current High Ranked Movies

 

1. Cherry 2000

2. The Big Lebowsky

3. A clockwork orange

4. Peter Pan (1924)

5. Total Recall

6. Jaws (the first)

7. Green Mile

.. too many and it won't be fair to put more here.

 

 

Metros Like These Movies Top Ten

 

1. Cocoon

2. _Batteries not included

3. My Science Project

4. Wargames

5. The Fountain

6. Weird Science

7. Upside Down

8. The Monty Python movies

9. Men At Work

10. Back To The Future Trilogy

 

[oldhippy]

Romance, music, political, funny, porn

 

- Aadalen 31

- Hugo och Josefin

- Elvira Madigan

- Brasil

- Life of Brian

- Meaning of life

- Clockwise

- Holy Grail

- Libertarias

- Pink Floyd in Pompeii (if that counts)

- Deep Throat

[thaibeachlovers]

14 hours ago, azaazo9 said:

El secreto de sus ojos

Dersu Uzala

Manchester by the Sea

Tokyo Story

Contagion

The Occupant

Chocolat

Parasite

Just the Wind

Moonlight

Lots of people think Manchester by the Sea is a great movie so I watched it and I thought it was pants.

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, Metropolitian said:

9. Forbidden Planet

I have the DVD and I love it, from the pants scenery to the unbelievable robot ( wonderful ). The special effects were really bad, but it had a plot and wasn't PC. I saw it as a child and it stayed in my mind. It may not be the best movie ever made, but it lifted my imagination to the stars.

 

I like movies that leave me happy, not depressed, so almost everything by Studio Ghibli are my favorites of all time. I'm just sad it took so long for me to discover them.

[Metropolitian]

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I have the DVD and I love it, from the pants scenery to the unbelievable robot ( wonderful ). The special effects were really bad, but it had a plot and wasn't PC. I saw it as a child and it stayed in my mind. It may not be the best movie ever made, but it lifted my imagination to the stars.

Not having the DVD but did see it as child, and when it was aired again later I recorded it to tape.

When I watched it again, it felt a bit different as I had grown up so the eyes more focused on the effects and indeed compared with the years of production it was low. But still got the warm feeling from the 'remembrance'. Will always love that robot with antennas in his head.

 

Funny thing is that Leslie Nielsen has a role in that film, which I didn't knew.

I start like him and movies he is playing and only to knew many years later when internet was there and I first saw the cover that he DID play in Forbidden Planet.

 

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I like movies that leave me happy, not depressed, so almost everything by Studio Ghibli are my favorites of all time. I'm just sad it took so long for me to discover them.

???? Agree!

 

I had Howls Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away when I start looking for the makers and then found out about Studio Ghibli. Great content!

Have added Lupin, Nausicaa of the vally of the wind, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, The Cat Returns and Whisper of the Heart, since then.

 

[Metropolitian]

In the 'genre' as the Studio Ghibli movies.

 

Ghost in the Shell (the 1995 version)

Akira

Steamboy

Fist of the North Star

[moontang]

Cuckoo's Nest, Patton, They Were Expendable, Night of the Iguana, The Birds, Psycho, The World of Suzie Wong, From Here to Eternity, Sahara, Kelly's Heroes.

 

 

[2009]

1. Pulp Fiction

2. There Will Be Blood

3. Mrs Doubtfire

4. Forrest Gump

5. Godfather

6. Back To the Future

7. Se7en

8. Taxi Driver

9. ET

10. American Pie (F#$ it; too hard to choose)

[Nout]

Casablanca

The Wild Bunch

Parasite

Bone Tomahawk

Eden Lake

Pulp Fiction

Apocalypse Now

Godfather 1

Godfather 2

Forest Gump

[isaanpaul]

I have this ten:

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

[champers]

I could easily pick 100 films and the order would depend on many different factors. So todays 10 are:

Airplane!

Groundhog Day

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

The Producers (Zero Mostel & Gene Wilder original)

The Duellists

Men In Black 3

This Is Spinal Tap

Ronin

Life Is Beautiful

Das Boot

[Andrew Dwyer]

Snatch

Dead Man’s shoes

Anchorman

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Django Unchained 

Inglourious Basterds

Big Fish ( Albert Finney )

Mad Max : Fury Road

The Great Escape

Sound of Music ( yes , seriously, brings back many happy memories from my childhood and my dear old mum played the soundtrack a lot !! ).

 

Also:

Anything with Clint 

Bullitt

Anything with Will Ferrell 

Shaun of the dead.

The Ladykillers ( 1955 )

St Trinians ( 50’s and 60’s )

 

[Jack Hna]

Too many but here's a few I watch over and over

 

Heat

 

Top gun

 

Wind river

 

Creed 2 

 

American history x

 

Snow town 

 

Colombiana

 

Apocalypto

 

Hangover part 2

 

Wolf of wall street

 

 

 

[Leaver]

On 9/7/2020 at 1:31 AM, oldhippy said:

Deep Throat.

Funny movie, much unlike the zillions of boring porn movies that followed.

 

VHS basically allowed us to rent movies to watch, or record movies on TV to watch at a later time.  Given porn was not allowed on free to air TV, the porn industry took off when VHS arrived.

 

I seem to remember Top Gun being one of the most rented movies back then.  

   

[lazygourmet]

Apocalypse Now

Caligula

Man Bites Dog (C'est arrivé prés de chez vous)

Indochine

Un Singe en Hiver

Fight Club

The Meaning of Life

La Piscine

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Betty Blue (37°2 le matin)

 

 

 

[lazygourmet]

On 9/7/2020 at 12:25 AM, Leaver said:

Who remembers the first porn movie they saw on VHS?  ????

Not 100% porn but some really hardcore scenes : 

Caligula

VHS was referenced under Biblical/Historical at my local media library.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 9/7/2020 at 7:06 PM, Metropolitian said:

Not having the DVD but did see it as child, and when it was aired again later I recorded it to tape.

When I watched it again, it felt a bit different as I had grown up so the eyes more focused on the effects and indeed compared with the years of production it was low. But still got the warm feeling from the 'remembrance'. Will always love that robot with antennas in his head.

 

Funny thing is that Leslie Nielsen has a role in that film, which I didn't knew.

I start like him and movies he is playing and only to knew many years later when internet was there and I first saw the cover that he DID play in Forbidden Planet.

 

???? Agree!

 

I had Howls Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away when I start looking for the makers and then found out about Studio Ghibli. Great content!

Have added Lupin, Nausicaa of the vally of the wind, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, The Cat Returns and Whisper of the Heart, since then.

 

My favourite is Kiki's Delivery service. Second favourite My Neighbour Totoro. Third favourite Only Yesterday.

When Marnie was there is good but really sad at the end.

 

Didn't Leslie Nielsen play the captain of the ship?

[thaibeachlovers]

On 9/7/2020 at 5:25 AM, Leaver said:

Who remembers the first porn movie they saw on VHS?  ????

That would be in Singapore in the 70s. They were illegal so I had to ask a taxi driver and he took me to a building site where a few of us watched some. I only remember one involving an elephant.

My partner loaned me a John Holmes one in the 80s and I was quite impressed.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 9/7/2020 at 7:15 AM, oldhippy said:

Romance, music, political, funny, porn

 

- Aadalen 31

- Hugo och Josefin

- Elvira Madigan

- Brasil

- Life of Brian

- Meaning of life

- Clockwise

- Holy Grail

- Libertarias

- Pink Floyd in Pompeii (if that counts)

- Deep Throat

Brazil was neither romantic nor funny, though I suppose it could be described as political.

Clockwise was great though, in a very Cleese way.

[dddave]

On 4/24/2020 at 8:49 AM, Logosone said:

1.    The Karate Kid (obviously the original version and not that turkey copy. It is one of the greatest tragedies in the world that the second Karate Kid was ever made, I still get upset just thinking about it)

They shot scenes for "Karate Kid-3" at the local high school where I lived (Brookline, Ma)  My nephew who was a student at the HS got a bit part.  

When the film was released he complained it was so awful, he couldn't brag to anybody about being in it.

[dddave]

On 4/24/2020 at 5:22 PM, rumak said:

Finding Forrester                              ok, not great,  but different

Nat King Cole singing the prelude to "Stardust" as the opening theme.  Without doubt, one of the most beautiful song verses ever written or sung.

Edited September 12, 2020 by dddave

[dddave]

Some amazing films on other people's lists.  Some real gems that I had forgotten about and will now seek out to watch again so "Thank You!!"

 

Maybe not great, but some memorable films not yet mentioned:

 

"The Man Who Never Was"  Clifton Webb (A quiet movie about a clever deception in WW2)

"The Enemy Below"  Robert Mitchum, Kurt Jurgens (Cat & mouse game between a destroyer captained by Mitchum and a U-Boat captained by Jurgens)

"To Have & Have Not" Bogart and a 19 year old Bacall. "You know how to whistle, don't you Steve?  You just put your lips together....and blow"

"Rear Window"  Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr.  A "peeping tom photographer see's more than he should"

"Dial "M" for Murder"  Ray Milland

"Lavender Hill Mob"  Alec Guinness

  

Two classic courtroom dramas:

"Witness for the Prosecution" Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power

"Anatomy of a Murder"  Jimmy Stewart, Lee Remick

 

Two great Lee Marvin "Bad Guys":

"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence"

"Cat Ballou"

 

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, dddave said:

Nat King Cole singing the prelude to "Stardust" as the opening theme.  Without doubt, one of the most beautiful song verses ever written or sung.

Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World would give that a run for it's money, IMO. Gut wrenching in Good Morning Vietnam.

[Peter Denis]

2 hours ago, dddave said:

...

Two great Lee Marvin "Bad Guys":

"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence"

"Cat Ballou"

...

Recently watched 'Death Hunt' (1981) again with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin.

Quite a good movie with trapper Bronson being hunted by Marvin in his role of a tough-as-nails canadian mountie.

[moontang]

Hitchcock's Birds, Psycho, Frenzy, Vertigo...

[Peter Denis]

8 minutes ago, moontang said:

Hitchcock's Birds, Psycho, Frenzy, Vertigo...

Yes, you cannot go wrong with Hitch.  One of the Greats > did you forgget to mention Rear Window?

Recently also watched 'Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf' with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

It's actually more a filmed stage-play.

But what firework between Burton and Taylor as a couple that cannot live with or without each other during an alcohol-drenched night!

[Nout]

On 9/6/2020 at 4:52 PM, azaazo9 said:

El secreto de sus ojos

Dersu Uzala

Manchester by the Sea

Tokyo Story

Contagion

The Occupant

Chocolat

Parasite

Just the Wind

Moonlight

Nice list

 

[TooBigToFit]

I can't come up with 10 of all.

 

War Movies

Saving Private Ryan

Come and See (Russian)

A Bridge Too Far

Fury

The Great Escape

The Captain (German)

Enemy at the Gates

The Boys in Company C

Platoon

Siege at Jadotville

Kelly's Heroes

etc

 

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Drama with positive vibes

Forrest Gump

Shoes of the fisherman

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Last Brickmaker in America

Saving Grace 1986

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

October Sky

Roman Holiday

Mister Roberts

On Golden Pond

Good Will Hunting

 

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Comedy

 

Office Space

Airplane

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Caddyshack

Superbad

Elf

School of Rock

Shaun of the Dead

Fun with Dick and Jane

Borat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Leaver]

11 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

That would be in Singapore in the 70s. They were illegal so I had to ask a taxi driver and he took me to a building site where a few of us watched some. I only remember one involving an elephant.

My partner loaned me a John Holmes one in the 80s and I was quite impressed.

VHS gave us our favourite movies to watch over and over again.  ????