CW decides... the best movies of all time

[grecian]

I rewatched "the Thing" recently, and was oddly disappointed, not Kurt Russels best film of the era , maybe I had built up over the years from when I watched it in my teens and how it's lauded now.

I've watched 7 of Mikes list, none of them are getting in mine, certainly not the terminally dull Stalker, Solaris I can just about handle, but Stalker a bridge to far.

 

[Athlai]

The short story - The Things really adds to it. Probably the best film add on text material I've ever read. The last line still makes me deeply deeply uncomfortable.

 

[Line and Length]

Tough call!

Any of those in the 10 to 20 range could be replaced by half a dozen different movies.

1. The Life of Brian
2. Gran Torino
3. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Shawshank Redemption
6. Good Will Hunting
7. The Godfather
8. The Italian Job (the original, not the re-make)
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
11. Citizen Kane
12. Dead Poet's Society
13. Midnight Express
14. To Kill a Mockingbird
15. The Graduate
16. Green Book
17. On the Waterfront
18. Papillon
19. A Clockwork Orange
20. Lawrence of Arabia

 

[honestbharani]

Avengers Endgame

 

[grecian]

Avenges : Endgame...

Is that the porn parody?

 

[Anil]

almost famous
empire strikes back
the last emperor
gandhi
a few good men
the shining
the exorcist
fried green tomatoes
shawshank redemption
my left foot
godfather
casino
e.t the extra terrestrial
psycho
casablanca
schindler's list
good will hunting
jaws
jurassic park
unforgiven
modern times
to kill a mocking bird

 

[grecian]

1. Bladerunner
2. The Apartment
3. Airplane
4. Once upon a time in the West
5. Life of Brian
6. Aliens
7. La Confidential
8. Gregory's Girl
9. 12 Angry Men
10. The Big Lebowski
11. Terminator
12. Cool Hand Luke
13. A boy and his dog
14. Some like it Hot
15. Tremors
16. Unforgiven
17. Trainspotting
18. To kill a Mockingbird
19. Battle Royale
20. Beetlejuice

Could do a totally different list depending how I felt at the time....

I refuse to do Schindlers List, because it rather does one of the schindlers down IMHO, after reading the book.

 

[honestbharani]

Is that the porn parody?

lol no, editing it

 

[Anil]

Could do a totally different list depending how I felt at the time....

yeah too many great movies...

 

[Mike5181]

I know enough to know how disappointed how mainstream my list was to Mike's eyes.

I'm easy to please. Short of gore movies and paranormal activity stuff, I'll give just about anything a try.

I'd have more mainstream titles like The Godfather, Alien, and Lawrence of Arabia on there, but they slipped my mind. I've got LOTR fatigue from living in NZ and I was never much of a Star Wars guy though.

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

What, you didn't load up a My Bloody Valentine album and pensively look out of car windows? That really spoke to me as a teenager.

 

[grecian]

Haven't got many modern ones in, because in the end I have put the ones that have given me most joy over the years, I mean actually could see a marvel film get in one day, or Hunger Games Catching fire.

Surprised at the lack of Tremors from anyone else though, stone cold classic....

 

[Athlai]

Tremors is pretty rough watching these days. Tried to get someone to watch it a year or so ago that had never seen it before and God it starts so ****ing slow.

 

[grecian]

Tremors is pretty rough watching these days. Tried to get someone to watch it a year or so ago that had never seen it before and God it starts so ****ing slow.

I guess I know it'll get to be epic, so don't mind, I can watch it again and again.

In the end plenty of films used to start a bit slower, I blame MTV and video games, he mumbles and grumbles to himself like the old man he is.

 

[nightprowler10]

Oof, top 20 movies way more difficult than TV shows.

This took forever. I'll order them later.

The Matrix
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Syriana
The Dark Knight
Knives Out
Sicario
Arrival
Memento
Dumb and Dumber
Schindler's List
Waltz with Bashir
Pan's Labyrinth
Finding Nemo
Motorcycle Dairies
Hotel Rwanda
Kingdom of Heaven (the long edition)
Earth
Gladiator
12 Angry Men
Children of Men

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

5. 5cm Per Second

This is such a good pick and not one I was expecting to show up in these lists.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

When's the cutoff for submissions?

(applies to Shady Slim's TV list too fwiw)

Let's provisionally say end of July as the cut off. That should give everyone a chance to post a list who wants to but hopefully not so far off it's forgotten.

 

[Shady Slim]

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

@RIS done and done brother

 

[StephenZA]

1. Shawshank Redemption
2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Longest Day
6. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (other two did not illicit same emotions)
7. The Princess Bride
8. Die Hard
9. Usual Suspects
10.The Silence of the Lambs
11. Million Dollar Baby
12. Seven
13. Singing in the Rain
14. My Fair Lady
15. Aliens
16. Sixth Sense
17. The Matrix
18. Star Wars (retroactively A New Hope) (the rest did not do it for me)
19. The Abyss
20. Leave No Trace (Only at the bottom because I need to see if it stands the test of time.)

I have not included any animation. I love animation films but I do think of them almost as a separate entity.

 

[Shri]

1. Star wars
2. Jurassic Park
3. The Godfather
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Inglourious Basterds
6. Django Unchained
7. Kill Bill
8. Scarface
9. Avengers 2011
10. The Matrix
11. Avatar
12. Reservoir Dogs
13. The Departed
14. Interstellar
15. Inception
16. Goodfellas
17. Snowpiercer
18. 12 Angry Men
19. The Man from Earth
20. Die Hard

 

[Line and Length]

You guys are reminding me of so many films that I enjoyed yet, in my rush, overlooked on my list.
One that isn't in that category is Mike's #1 "Woman in the Dunes". I saw it at a film festival the year it was released and it confused me at the time. Perhaps now I'm a little older (and hopefully wiser) I might get a better grasp of the film.