Films - Top 10

[mikedee]

1. "2001: A Space Odyssey" - Stanley Kubrick 1968 / "A Clockwork Orange" - Stanley Kubrick 1971 (ex aequo)
2. "Blade Runner" - Ridley Scott 1982
3. "Goodfellas" - Martin Scorsese 1990
4. "Back To The Future" (Trilogy) - Robert Zemeckis 1985, 1989, 1990
5. "Alien" - Ridley Scott 1979
6. "Casino" - Martin Scorsese 1995
7. "Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest" - Miloš Forman 1975
8. "Carne" and its sequel "Seul Contre Tous" - Gaspar Noé 1991, 1998
9. "Birth" - Jonathan Glazer 2004
10. "Forrest Gump" - Robert Zemeckis 1994

What's your TOP 10?

 

[zekko]

This is the type of things that changes all the time, but today this is what I feel like, in no particular order:

Ed Wood
Amadeus
It's a Wonderful Life
Modern Times
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Dracula (Lugosi)
The Bride of Frankenstein
A Christmas Carol (Stewart or Sim, either version)
Pale Rider
2001: A Space Oddysey

 

[DarwinTaurus]

Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Goodfellas
The Godfather Part II
Pulp Fiction
Inception
Saving Private Ryan
Seven
Fight Club
Aliens

 

[Zimbabwe]

1. Blade Runner 2049 - Denise Villeneuve - 2017
2. Prisoners - Denise Villeneuve - 2013
3. Interstellar - Christopher Nolan - 2014
4. Logan - James Mangold - 2017
5. Collateral - Michael Mann - 2004
6. Good Will Hunting - Gus Van Sant - 1997
7. The Shining - Stanley Kubrick - 1980
8. American Psycho - Mary Harron - 2000
9. The End of Evangelion - Hideaki Anno - 1997
10. Ghost in the Shell - Mamoru Oshii - 1995

 

[corrector]

1. Hunger Games (2012)
2. Tenet (2020)
3. Dunkirk (2017)
4. Quiet Place (2018)
5. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
6. Annihilation (2018)
7. Interstellar (2014)
8. Nope (2022)
9. Edge of Tommorow (2014)
10. Borne Identity (2002)

Honorary mentions:
1) Children of Men (2006)
2) V for Vendetta (2005)
3) Matrix and its sequels (1999)
4) Signs (2002)
5) Split (2016) and Glass (2019)
6) Mamma Mia & Its sequel (2008/2018)

They did not make the list, but might bump one of them off if I look at it further, or may be very close entries that I felt should be on it.

The first two in particular (Children of Men & V for Vendetta) have aged very well since I first watched them both in the cinema, in particular Children of Men. Every re-watch of Children of Men, seems eerily close to how America's divided politics have devolved to, even though they are using the UK as an fictional anchor point. V for Vendetta also uses the UK as the fictional anchor point of a future dictatorship. They are one of the most oldest and more frequently re-watched movies on the list.

 

[mikedee]

What do you guys think of David Lynch?

 

[Dr.Suave]

Not my real top 10, just my "top of my head"

Honorable Mentions:
Joker
The Batman
Doctor Sleep
Star Wars
Scarface
The Godfather
Silence of The Lambs
Back to the future

10.- The Conjuring Universe
9.- Detective Pikachu
8.- Batman begins
7.- Batman (1989)
6.- Sonic The Hedgehog
5.- Chip & Dale Reacuse Rangers (2022)
4.- Suicide Squad (2016)
3.- Puss in Boots The Last Wish
2.- No way Home
1.- Infnity War

 

[zekko]

1. Hunger Games (2012)

Hunger Games, that's interesting, didn't expect to see that on here. There's a new one coming out, did you know?

Also interested to see Signs on your Honorable Mentions. A lot of people really roast that movie, they give a lot of criticism about the aliens coming to a plane that's 70% water. But I don't care, I've always liked it.

Lots of good movies in this thread.

 

[mikedee]

Some other films that I like

All Kubrick's films from 2001 to Eyes Wide Shut
Boyz N' The Hood
Shame
Fish Tank
Lord Of War
Blow
Scarface
It's All Gone Pete Tong
Eastern Promises
La Haine (France)
Cube (Canada)
American Gangster
Shawshank Redemption
Брат & Брат 2 (Russia)
Un prophète (France)
Pulp Fiction
Inglorious Basterds
Terminator 1 & 2
War Of The Worlds
Seven
Fight Club
Alien 3
Cast Away

 

[RickTheToad]

Frogs
Frog and Toad Together
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Cane Toad
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Another Froggy Evening
Frog Baseball
The Frogville
The Princess and the Frog
Ribbit

 

[mikedee]

Hunger Games, that's interesting, didn't expect to see that on here. There's a new one coming out, did you know?

Also interested to see Signs on your Honorable Mentions. A lot of people really roast that movie, they give a lot of criticism about the aliens coming to a plane that's 70% water. But I don't care, I've always liked it.

Lots of good movies in this thread.

Signs is a good movie, M. Night Shyamalan is a cool director (Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, Signs, etc.)

 

[mikedee]

This is the type of things that changes all the time, but today this is what I feel like, in no particular order:

Ed Wood
Amadeus
It's a Wonderful Life
Modern Times
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Dracula (Lugosi)
The Bride of Frankenstein
A Christmas Carol (Stewart or Sim, either version)
Pale Rider
2001: A Space Oddysey

Despite the rape charges, Miloš Forman is a really talented director (Rosemary's baby, Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, etc.)

 

[corrector]

Hunger Games, that's interesting, didn't expect to see that on here. There's a new one coming out, did you know?

Also interested to see Signs on your Honorable Mentions. A lot of people really roast that movie, they give a lot of criticism about the aliens coming to a plane that's 70% water. But I don't care, I've always liked it.

Lots of good movies in this thread.

Hunger Games franchise accentuated my past with my ex gf and ex wife around the times those movies were released. Its one of the nicest true puppy love movies I have ever seen. Think I know about the new movie, but allot personally and in the world has changed since 2015 to have the same resonation that had in the past.

 

[DarwinTaurus]

Despite the rape charges, Miloš Forman is a really talented director (Rosemary's baby, Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, etc.)

I think your confused with Roman Polanski. He directed "Rosemary's Baby", and he was charged with Rape.

 

[mikedee]

I think your confused with Roman Polanski. He directed "Rosemary's Baby", and he was charged with Rape.

my bad!

 

[zekko]

Hunger Games franchise accentuated my past with my ex gf and ex wife around the times those movies were released. Its one of the nicest true puppy love movies I have ever seen.

That's true, now that you mention it. You'd think she would have chosen the more aggressive Gale instead of Peeta, but that's not the case. I read the books. When it starts out, it looks like it's going to be a Battle Royale type of film with kids killing each other, with a Twilight style love triangle. But it ends up being a political story. I thought it was a mistake that they turned the third book into two movies, they stretched it out too much.

 

[zekko]

Despite the rape charges, Miloš Forman is a really talented director (Rosemary's baby, Flew Over A Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, etc.)

You don't hear much about Amadeus anymore, it used to be considered a big movie and was heavily spoofed. Made F. Murray Abraham's career. Same with Cuckoo's Nest, you don't hear about it as much anymore.

I try to watch all of M. Night Shamylan's movies, I'm not even sure why. His earlier ones were really good, then he started to fall off. I like The Village too, but that's another movie that gets a lot of criticism (people don't think they could have successfully lived so isolated). My main gripe with it is what kind of father lets his blind daughter go off to collect medicine for her loved one? Get off your high horse and go get it for her, I don't care what kind of oath you took.

 

[corrector]

That's true, now that you mention it. You'd think she would have chosen the more aggressive Gale instead of Peeta, but that's not the case. I read the books. When it starts out, it looks like it's going to be a Battle Royale type of film with kids killing each other, with a Twilight style love triangle. But it ends up being a political story. I thought it was a mistake that they turned the third book into two movies, they stretched it out too much.

I guess it's a true blue-pill fantasy, but in all honesty Peeta did have some skills, and Gale wasn't in those games and Peeta admitted to having a secret crush on Katniss on national television, so in a sense it's like Peeta earned Katniss' love. Had Gale been on those games instead of Peeta I don't know. For a puppy love sort of movie this was just great.

On the political side, Mockingjay 1 & 2 was more intensely into that. However, say if I like dystopian political movies, older movies like V for Vendetta or Children of Men strike have been re-watched more often than Hunger Games. Honestly, I thought I would be re-watching (Hunger Games movies) more regularly since I was really into it. When the sequels came out I was really excited to see where that story was going and apart from Catching Fire, actually watched the other 3 movies in the cinema when they were playing. Instead, I stumbled upon a TV-Show, called The 100, which has some aspects like Hunger Games, and while I've stalled-out on Season 5, I hope to look at the series again one day in the future.

There is another interesting movie I did not mentioned called Passengers (2016), which also starred Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. One can make a similar argument in that movie, did Chris (known as Jim in the movie) Chad/Chadlite looks lead Aurora (Jennifer) to accept him in the end and even risk her life to save his? They were the only hetrosexual, man and woman, in a ship full of sleeping passangers.

 

[Dr.Suave]

I thought it was a mistake that they turned the third book into two movies, they stretched it out too much.

I kind of hate when they do this. Maybe Harry Potter is partly to blame for starting this trend of splitting the final book in a couple of movies. I think twilight did it next.

While not based on a book (but on comic books instead), I feel Avengers 3 kind of did this. Endgame has some cool stuff but I cant shake this little voice in the back of my head telling me it was an unnecesary film. Thor overpowering 6 stones Thanos at the end of Infinity War but still failing to stop the Snap felt anti climatic and just like an excuse from the writers to have a second, unnecesary movie.

Maybe its not completely Harry potter´s fault. If we go back a bit further, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3 were shot back to back and to me they kind of felt like they should have been one movie. Going back even further, I think I kind of feel something similar for Back to the Future 2 & 3.

And the trend continues. If Im not mistaken, John Wick 4 & 5 are going to be shot back to back.

 

[Dr.Suave]

Updating my list:

Honorable Mentions:
Joker (2019)
The Batman (2022)
Doctor Sleep
Star Wars
Scarface
The Godfather
Silence of The Lambs
Back to the future
Pirates of The Caribean
Seven (1995)
Shutter Island
The Conjuring Universe
Detective Pikachu
Batman begins
Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Curse of Chucky (2013)
Summer of 84


10.- Sonic The Hedgehog
9.- Chip & Dale Reacuse Rangers (2022)
8.- Spiderman Into The Spider-Verse
7.- Wreck It Ralph
6.- Batman (1989)
5.- Suicide Squad (2016)
4.- Puss in Boots The Last Wish
3.- Spiderman No way Home
2.- Infnity War
1.- The Lego Batman Movie