Top 10

My personal selection would be spinning on loop...


Godfather
Scarface
True Romance
Heat
Bladerunner
Natural Born Killers
Ronin
Pulp Fiction
Apocalypse Now
Alien

 

Your into a bit of violence then?

 

I feel like I should seek councelling now

From the tunble weed's I suspect no one else on here has ten films

 

In No Particular order:

Dead Poets Society (my lady friend beat me up cos I cried like a baby from start to finish and have done every time I see it!)
Requiem for a Dream
Barbarella
Harold and Maude
The Party
Blade Runer
Fitzcarraldo
The Exorcist
Please don't eat the daisys
2001
Ichi The Killer
The Audition

I could go on for years but I've already passes 10 lol.

 

I'm no good at these kind of things as my top 10 will change at any given MOment. Depends how Im feelings and such.

The one constant in any list for me would be Mary Poppins though.

 

Tender Mercies
La Regle de Jeu
The Dead
The Searchers
Paris, Texas
Manhatten
The Big Chill
Bladerunner
Wild Strawberries
Rashomon

.....as usual, in no particular order.

(Bladerunner's doing well!)

 

Bladerunner the final cut next year............WOOT!

 

Yep, Bladerunner would feature in mine too. I was talking to someone the other day about the awful voiceover version and did a google search on it. To my horror I found a whole load of people who thought it was way better than the directors cut! This was on a movie lovers forum I think. They said it didn't make sense without the voiceover telling them what was going on and that some of the scenes were just dull without the voiceover. I didn't imagine anyone in the world would think that! I concluded they must have been yanks who need everything explaining to them and don't like a film with any kind of subtlety. So whats the Final Cut going to be like compared to the Directors Cut then?

Heres some attempt at a top 10 although by no means final!

Goodfellas
The Big Lebowski
Bladerunner
Cyrano De Bergerac
Akira
Zoolander
The Shining
Kill Bill 1&2
Batman
The Spongebob Movie

 

like it!

guns and violence get less attractive as time goes by for me.

 

true romance
shawshank redemption
(i'm cheating here) buffy season 3
mad max 2
withnail and i
bill and teds excellent adventure
spinal tap
dobermann
chasing amy
human traffic.

there are of course loads more but that's the 10 off the top of my head...
cheers


julian

 

A depressingly accurate conclusion I'm afraid.

 

That classic movie is too often forgotten about, nice one. In a similar vien, I would also include J. Carpenter's "The Thing" (maybe not Top 10 material but cool anyway).

Also, Goodfellas. I remember going to the cinema to see a certain movie but on finding it was Sold Out, went into Goodfellas instead and my jaw was on the floor from the start with them driving along and hearing the "thump, thump, thump" in the car boot.

 

Yep...what a film. The Joe Pesci character is possibly the most scary villain in any film going. Great stuff.

"Now go home and get your fking shine box"

You just know his goose is cooked then.

 

Goodfellas got a low key release in Oz so I went into the movie with NO IDEA what it was about (I didn't even know who was in it).

That cinema experience will never be bettered for me.

 

Its great when you see a good film in a cinema and you know its a classic or going to live with you a long time when you leave. Never is quite the same sat at home watching it on a DVD.

 

Oh dear - really must've missed something with Bladerunner. I don't think people should confuse an influential film, with a good film. BR is definitely the former.

Don't think I have a top ten, but for those of you with even the slightest interest (no-one) here the movies most watched at Turtle Towers:

Lawrence of Arabia
Das Boot
The Ten Commandments
Ben Hur
Quo Vadis
Hero

Like my Biblical epics, me.

DT

 

Jaws would be in my top ten. I went to see it twice in one week when it was first released. I had never heard an audience react to a film like that, especially to the head appearing in the hole of the boat scene.

You will never get that experience from watching films at home on video or DVD.

 

On the documentary on my Jaws DVD, I think they say that scene was added very late in the piece and was filmed in the pool at the film editors house (or something like that). Apparently, they were surprised how effective it was in the cinemas.

 

Yes, one of the most memorable moments in film added as an afterthought. It still surprises me now even though I know what's coming.

With Close Encounters, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan et al., you could easily compile a Spielberg top ten.

I'm not too keen on those foreign b&w arthouse subtitled films. I think some people include them in their best films list just to appear cool and 'trendy'.

Rgds,

TIU (obviously a Spielberg fan)

 

The only foreign language film that really got to me was "The Vanishing". Very effective, low budget affair.