Top 5 films ever

Karl Hungus

goin'_to_the_PS wrote:

many good films, would like to see some of the Asian films karl hungus put down they look very interesting

Start with Hana-bi. Utterly staggering piece of film-making altogether.

mycroft

Karl Hungus wrote:

Start with Hana-bi. Utterly staggering piece of film-making altogether.

God yes. Breath taking and its the absudirity of the talent. He even made the painting. It's dark and funny and it's a thriller and it's just tragic....

mycroft

Also a couple of others

Colour of Paradise

My life as a dog

The Big Sleep

Advise and consent

and

Judgement at Nuremberg

RuggieBear

in no particular order

Watership Down
Die Hard Trilogy
The Silence of the Lambs
Total Recall

and if i can cheat a little.....

Band of Brothers

herobear

5. a mix up between clerks/before sunset/la haine
4. Hotel Rwanda
3. Millennium Actress
2. Donnie Darko
1. the best of youth

Unit00

Five good films

Requiem for a dream
Oldboy
Spirited Away
Fight Club
Hana-bi

eyebrows

top 5:

LOTR (3) return of the king
The Matrix
The Gladiator
Terminator 2
Star Wars VI

maybe Aliens 2 should be there but it's too hard to take any of the above out of the list

Tusky

eyebrows wrote:

top 5:

LOTR (3) return of the king
The Matrix
The Gladiator
Terminator 2
Star Wars VI

maybe Aliens 2 should be there but it's too hard to take any of the above out of the list

action fan then ?

Kevin_rc_ie

Requiem for a dream

did not like this. not because it was a bably made film mind you.

nadir

these threads really suck, casue like... they just do, but I guess we've been here so many times before. anyway.

Conan the Barbarian, just cause no one mentioned it, and it's class.

BraveheartGal

The General wrote:

Braveheart

thank god for that

BraveheartGal

oh and what about lawrence of arabia....amazing film! and casablanca too! i loved in the name of the father too, not too flashy but still amazing

youcancallmeal

Ok i'll have a go but i'll probably regret leaving something out later!

Apocalypse Now Redux
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Leon
Hero

mycroft

youcancallme>al wrote:

Apocalypse Now Redux

Are you out of your tiny dribbling mind? Redux spoilt a masterpiece turning an engrossing and still overlong epic into a bloated rambling wreck of movie. I can't understand why anyone would see this an improvement on the original, the scenes dropped brought nothing extra to the film and it makes the film flop. After watching the interminale french plantation scene I realised that they hadn't even met curtz yet and thats when the pain in my bladder got really intense.

Just on an aside The Sweet Hereafter is one of the finest movies of the last ten years. Harrowing intense vividly well acted, and profound.

did not like this. not because it was a bably made film mind you.

bably made film. Requim is a film that effects you, even you if don't like it, you have to admire it, it's a film that has a physical effect on you.

Kennington

Braveheart in the top 5 films of all time? My god girl what are you on?

BraveheartGal

Kennington wrote:

Braveheart in the top 5 films of all time? My god girl what are you on?

oh come on!
its absolutely savage! the only film ever that made me cry (excluding 2)
the storyline, the acting, the passion, the battle scene
granted theres not many flashy special effects but that doesnt make a film
its all about the heart

mycroft

BraveheartGal wrote:

oh come on!
its absolutely savage! the only film ever that made me cry (excluding 2)
the storyline, the acting, the passion, the battle scene
granted theres not many flashy special effects but that doesnt make a film
its all about the heart

With the most pathetic middle section every. It sags so badly in the middle and just go's on and on.......

Glipmac

Rainman exellent film
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Evil Dead Trilogy
Commando (class)

thas about it really

Big Nelly

Godfather 1 & 2
Star Wars 1 - 6
Schindler's List
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Pulp Fiction
Trainspotting

Special Mention
Memento
LOTR 1-3
Goodfellas

nlgbbbblth

Braveheart is the only film that I have walked out of the cinema during.

absolute rubbish.

my favs

1 Taxi Driver
2 Blue Velvet
3 A Clockwork Orange
4 Once Upon A Time In America
5 Picnic At Hanging Rock

Gileadi

in no particular order :

Fear and loathing in las vegas
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Godfather 1+2
LOTR trilogy
Withnail and I

garred

Braveheart
Jerry Maguire
The Omen
Aliens
State Of Grace

CathyMoran

In no order:

* Frequency - because it is one of the sweetest parent-child relationship movies I know (it always makes me cry) and because it features aurae borealis.

* Donnie Darko - the time travel element in this is excellent, it has an excellent soundtrack and a very witty screenplay.

* Its a wonderful life - just because...

* Aliens - kick a$$ science fiction at its best

* LOTR - beautiful

If I could include a 6th movie it would be Shaddowlands - a very touching romance movie. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind also deserves an honorable mention.

OY

The greatest movies of all time:
1. The Muppet Christmas Carol
2. Muppet Treasure Island
3. It's a Very Very Muppet Christmas Movie.
4. The Muppets Take Manhattan
5. Muppets From Space

bounty

My Top 10 movies I've watched recently

Hustler's hot showers 1-16
Goodfellas
The godfather 1-3
Scarface
Gangs of New York
Star wars 2-6 + clone wars cartoons
The Sting
Terminator
Braveheart
Sin city


Those LOTR movies are overrated

film_gonzo

My top 5 movies at the moment are as follows: (in order of no particular preference) :

1. Donnie Darko
2. Back to the Future movies
3. Garden State
4. Gremlins
5. Ginger Snaps....

subject to change from now!

heggie

my 5 at the moment but theres too many more equally as good

american histoy x
american psycho
eternal sunshine...
sin city
requiem for a dream

Mitch Connor

Mine are:

Mulholland Drive
25th Hour
Memento
To Kill a Mockingbird
Usual Suspects

BraveheartGal

to kill a mocking bird
doesnt compare to the book although gregory is on top form


usual suspects
class

heggie

i liked the butterlfy effect too

i R baboon

right theres so many good films out there that im gonna put em into caregories

animated:
The Incredibles
Toy story 1&2
Finding nemo
Ani-matrix
Monsters inc.

Action:
the Matrix Trilogy
Terminator 1&2
Mad max trilogy
Bad Boys 1&2 (partly comedy)
Braveheart (mostly historical-did ya know that mr wallace actually scalped an opponent on the battle field and was actually castrated before his execution)

Comedy:
Old School
Evil woman
dumb and dumber
ace ventura 1&2
cable guy
anchorman
the ladies man
waterboy
me myself and irene
(sorry this list could go on forever)

television programmes on dvd
family guy
simpsons
nip tuck
x-files
spaced
father ted

special section
rocky antology
goodfellas
american psycho
the rock


i could go on but i dont wanna bore ye, wait, yeah, yeah i already did

ObeyGiant

mycroft wrote:

Hmmm and might have made it on the list were it not for the fact that the themes and style of the film are being canabalised by the advertising industry at the mo' meteor ripped of the garden gnome for their MMS service and dulex have stolen the style to sell paint.

Sure they're both just ripping off Coronation Street anyway.

Me, as of right now (this will no doubt change before I even get home this evening):
* Stop Making Sense
* The Shining
* Big Trouble in Little China
* Repo Man
* Ping Pong

And a general wildcard for anything starring Charles Napier. But that goes without saying.

Einstein

Shawshank redemption
Breakfast club
6th Sense
Alien
The Abyss

pat kenny

1.Memento
2.Blade runner
3.Akira
4.Commando ( Everyone loves this movie )
5.Dawn of the Dead ( all versions are good even the new one)

Stompbox

goin'_to_the_PS wrote:

1. scarface
2. scarface
3. scarface
4. scarface
5. scarface

I'm sorry Goin' To The PS what movie did you choose, you didn't make it clear

qz

LOTR (all three)
Fight Club
Shaun of the Dead
Spiderman
Pulp Fiction

Mr. Presentable

Can only post my favourites

Aliens
Broadway Danny Rose
The Cincinatti Kid
Full Metal Jacket
Quadrophenia

Alana

I R baboon, I thought it was top 5......?

Leon
Usual suspects
three colours-white
run lola run
eternal sunshine...

goddamit, 5 is too hard! me goes back to think.

Imp7

I R Baboon, are there any movies you don't like!?

In no particular order, my five fav movies would prob be Godfathers 1 & 2, the Silence of the Lambs, Finding Nemo and prob Some Like it Hot.

Very hard list to make, bet when i log off i'll think of some i like more!

Neo#

LOTR trilogy
The Sting
The MAtrix
Terminator 2
Pulp Fiction

All of these have been mentioned before. Here are some more that havent:
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid.
Back to the Future Trilogy(cant believe nobody mentioned this).
Bourne Identity.
Bourne Supremacy.
3 Days of the Condor.
All the Presidents Men.

i R baboon

Alana wrote:

I R baboon, I thought it was top 5......?

Leon
Usual suspects
three colours-white
run lola run
eternal sunshine...

goddamit, 5 is too hard! me goes back to think.

ah come on, its too hard to pick only five, theres so much quality out there,

I R Baboon, are there any movies you don't like!?

ya know, i dont think there is...wait, there is one (or 3), you might have heard of it, it was a small budget film that came out a few years ago, alot of hype about i think, dont remember it cause i didnt like it, i think it was called the lord of the, mmmmmm, rings, yeah, rings that was it.

i have to add shaun of the dead and i cant believe i forgot the funniest film of all time, well it has the funniest character for sure of all time in it, randy quaid as uncle eddie in National Lampoons Christmas vacation, what a film.

i also agree with cammando, actually any film from the seventies and eighties with big arnie or sly in it.....wait that actually is every film of all time, your right, im easily entertained.

BraveheartGal

Braveheart (mostly historical-did ya know that mr wallace actually scalped an opponent on the battle field and was actually castrated before his execution)



i did not know that!

andirbabboon, youre a fan of anrie? the guy cant act??same with sly!

how bout one flew over the cuckoos nest, pulp fiction, ( i rly enjoyed sin city too, not good enuf for top 5 but still wicked altogether!)

i rly wanna add van wilder party liason,its hillarious!!soooo predictable but hillarious!anyone know the scene, with the dog....and the doughnuts


my god

sock.rocker*

i dont have a top 5 but leon is def in it.. what a film

Kingp35

Well first off I have to say that Braveheart was a poor film. it was so historically inacurate its not right. The middle part was so boring and the only thing good about the film were the battle scenes which were excellent. Its an average film at best.

I cant come up a definitive top 5 but one movie everyone should see is The Machinist staring Christian Bale. Its a dark film and very disturbing. Bale actually had to lose 63lbs to play the role of the razor thin lead character. he seriously put his health at risk to play the role because he actually stopped eating in order to lose the weight.

Gladiator was another excellent film. Fantastic battle scenes and storyline combined with amazing breathtaking scenery. Also the cinematography and the wonderful musical score by Hans Zimmer made the film. Great support acting too by Jaoquin Pheonix and by the ever brilliant Oliver Reed playing his last ever role as he died during the filming.

I also really like the Indiana Jones series. Harrison Ford has played some excellent roles with the likes of Hans Solo standing out but none quite like Indy. The three are excellent films with perhaps the temple of doom being the weakest but still superbly entertaining. Indiana Jones is now a modern icon and one of the best characters, if not the best, to ever appear on screen. They have been talking about an Indy 4 for some time now but so many scripts have been written and then discarded for not being good enough. Lets hope they keep it that way until they have a superb script so that they dont ruin a fantastic series. Maybe Ford is a bit too old to play the role now anyway. But who could ever forget that superb theme tune!!!

Die Hard also deserves to be in there. The other 2 were also good films but Die Hard had everything. The superb Alan Rickman playing his first ever role as the German baddie Hans Gruber, John McClanes brilliantly witty one liners and more superb testosterone fuelled action that your gonna see. Quite simply, anybody who does not like this movie should make an appointment with their GP first thing in the morning to make sure they still have a pulse!! The best action movie ever? You would have a damn hard job finding another.

Finally there is the superb ghostbusters movie. Up until its release in 1984 nobody was entirely sure who to call when there was something strange in their neighbourhood. At the end of the year their wasnt a guy around who didnt fancy strapping on a proton pack and zapping a ghost or three. Bill Murray is superb as super sarcastic Venkman and Rick Moranis is also fantastic playing the super geeky nextdoor neighbour. The comedy is timeless, the concept fabulously original and the acting first rate. Even the special effects have stood up to time superbly. Who could ever forget the stay puft marshmellow man? Totally deserving of it's status as a classic - funny, original and massively entertaining, "Ghostbusters" is one of the best films not just of the 1980s, but of all time.

Those are the films that stand out for me perhaps because I only saw the Machinist recently that it gets in there but it was a fantastic film. The other movies are all classics in their own right but there has been so many good films it really is unfair to single out 5 as being "the best".

P.

johnnyc

MY five top films would be:
raging bull
the deer hunter
godfather2
shawshank redemption
forest gump

i R baboon

Kingp35 wrote:

Finally there is the superb ghostbusters movie. Up until its release in 1984 nobody was entirely sure who to call when there was something strange in their neighbourhood. At the end of the year their wasnt a guy around who didnt fancy strapping on a proton pack and zapping a ghost or three. Bill Murray is superb as super sarcastic Venkman and Rick Moranis is also fantastic playing the super geeky nextdoor neighbour. The comedy is timeless, the concept fabulously original and the acting first rate. Even the special effects have stood up to time superbly. Who could ever forget the stay puft marshmellow man? Totally deserving of it's status as a classic - funny, original and massively entertaining, "Ghostbusters" is one of the best films not just of the 1980s, but of all time.

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you have actually made me want to watch it again, i forgot how class it is
'hey who brought the dog....' absolutely class

Tackle

My top five, in no particular order:

Predator
Aliens
Commando
Freddie Got Fingered
Con Air

IANOC

1. The Snapper
2. Snatch
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Heat
5. Matrix

Ishmael

After reading the other posts i think i've settled on the best i've seen anyway
might not be the best ever.

5. Dead Mans Shoes
4. leon
3. Commando
2. Forest Gump
1. The Thing

PatrickStar

Willow
The Goonies
Teenwolf
BioFoot and the Hendersons
Original Batman Movie - Adam West and Burt Ward