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CW decides... the best movies of all time

Red_Ink_Squid

Red_Ink_Squid

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Since Shady started (and totally hasn't forgotten about, I'm near-certain) the CW's favourite TV shows vote, and because a big project I was expecting to land on my desk this week kindly didn't, I thought I'd run a parallel thread for films.

Simple rules: just name your favourite 20 films in order and I'll tally up the votes in due course and maybe do a countdown. Any year, any genre, any tastes welcome.

I realise that movie lists are less likely to yield a consensus than the TV shows but that's ok, I can just miscount in favour of my own films to give a result if needed.

Go!
 
Red_Ink_Squid

Red_Ink_Squid

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To set standards encouragingly low to promote participation, here are mine:

1 Casablanca
2 Up
3 The Swordsman
4 Tree of Life
5 The Third Man
6 The Princess Bride
7 Iron Monkey
8 The Maltese Falcon
9 The Killer
10 Memento
11 All About Eve
12 Gone Baby Gone
13 Kind Hearts and Coronets
14 Network
15 Arrival
16 Kill Zone 2
17 LA Confidential
18 No Country for Old Men
19 Toy Story
20 Face/Off
 
vcs

vcs

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1 Schindler's List
2 Jurassic Park
3 Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
4 Philadelphia
5 Good Will Hunting
6 The Godfather
7 Avatar
8 Finding Nemo
9 Kill Bill
10 Ben Hur
11 The Departed
12 Gandhi
13 American History X
14 The Thin Red Line
15 Babel
16 Blood Diamond
17 Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
18 Top Gun
19 Dumb and Dumber
20 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 
Shady Slim

Shady Slim

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was going to bump my thread yesterday after work but admittedly did forget actually (i’ll give it a week from today before i tabulate)

i’ll edit my movie list in here throughout the day

my list which is now done

  1. Fargo
  2. Any Given Sunday
  3. Face/Off
  4. Forrest Gump
  5. 12 Angry Men
  6. Uncut Gems
  7. The Big Lebowski
  8. Inglorious Basterds
  9. The Big Short
  10. Gladiator
  11. The Blind Side
  12. Rocky
  13. Pulp Fiction
  14. Cool Runnings
  15. The Judge
  16. The Shawshank Redemption
  17. Caddyshack
  18. The Running Man
  19. Dirty Harry
  20. Ocean’s Eleven
 
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Burgey

Burgey

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Triumph of the Will is always an interesting watch. Riefenstahl a misunderstood genius.
 
Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
1. The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
2. Star Wars (1977)
3. Aliens
4. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
5. 5cm Per Second
6. In The Mood For Love
7. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (they're one film generally in these lists as they don't stand alone quite like other sequel films do, there is no time gap whatsoever)
8. Bladerunner 2049
9. Back to the Future
10. The General
11. Jurassic Park
12. The Princess Bride
13. Lawrence of Arabia
14. Die Hard
15. Requiem for a Dream
16. Rashomon
17. Utu
18. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
19. La La Land
20. The Royal Tenenbaums
 
Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
Burgey said:
La La Land. Really?
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Yeah, it's kind of hard to explain why it's quite that high really. A bit too personal.

That said I do generally quite enjoy large scale musicals and love both Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, I reckon they are two of the best in the world right now. Chazelle is also potentially in the top 5 directors in the world at the moment, particularly with ending sequences, Whiplash/La La Land/First Man, no one ends movies with quite as much impact as him. And a movie both glorifying and criticisng Hollywood as a dreamland is something I really like, a few years ago I might have had Singin' in the Rain here.
 
Mike5181

Mike5181

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1. Woman in the Dunes 1964
2. Rear Window 1954
3. The Innocents 1961
4. Persona 1966
5. Eros + Massacre 1969
6. Repulsion 1965
7. Possession 1981
8. The Thing 1982
9. Red Desert 1964
10. All About Eve 1950
11. Lady Snowblood 1973
12. L’Avventura 1960
13. 8½ 1963
14. Paris, Texas 1984
15. Lost in Translation 2003
16. Three Colors: Blue 1993
17. I Am Cuba 1964
18. Stalker 1979
19. Heroic Purgatory 1970
20. Chungking Express 1994
 
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Daemon

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Mike5181 said:
1. Woman in the Dunes 1964
2. Rear Window 1954
3. The Innocents 1961
4. Persona 1966
5. Eros + Massacre 1969
6. Repulsion 1965
7. Possession 1981
8. The Thing 1982
9. Red Desert 1964
10. All About Eve 1950
11. Lady Snowblood 1973
12. L’Avventura 1960
13. 8½ 1963
14. Paris, Texas 1984
15. Lost in Translation 2003
16. Three Colors: Blue 1993
17. I Am Cuba 1964
18. Stalker 1979
19. Heroic Purgatory 1970
20. Chungking Express 1994
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Literally never even heard of 90% of this list.
 
vcs

vcs

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Lost in Translation is a good film (though it peaked in the first 30 seconds, it was all downhill from there)

Never heard of the rest
 
Athlai

Athlai

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vcs said:
Lost in Translation is a good film (though it peaked in the first 30 seconds, it was all downhill from there)

Never heard of the rest
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You probably do know a few of these
Rear Window - remember the episode of the Simpsons when Bart breaks his leg when they have the pool and he gets a telescope and thinks Flanders murdered Maude?
The Thing - horror movie in Antarctica
 
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