Favourite 25 Movies

[GypsySorcerer]

This is incredibly hard to do! In no particular order:

1. All About Eve (perfect script)
2. Casablanca (nearly perfect script)
3. Some Like it Hot
4. Bonnie & Clyde
5. Vertigo
6. Rear Window (really anything Hitchcock)
7. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
8. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
9. Life is Beautiful
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. Amadeus
12. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
13. Harold and Maude
14. Office Space
15. Sideways
16. Love Actually
17. The Last Picture Show
18. The Breakfast Club
19. Steel Magnolias
20. Breakfast at Tiffany's
21. The Way We Were
22. Adaptation
23. E.T. (favorite from my childhood)
24. A League of their Own
25. Splendor in the Grass

[LikeAWillow]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

This is incredibly hard to do! In no particular order:


24. A League of their Own

HOW COULD I FORGET THIS ONE??

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

This is incredibly hard to do!

LOVE your list. I have a lot of these films on mine

[Miss Vicky]

Most of these are pretty recent, others are definitely not, but I've only been really watching movies for the past decade or so and my list reflects that.

Also I have a slightly twisted sense of humor. I think this list reflects that as well.

1. Quills
2. Gladiator
3. Ratatouille
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Fight Club
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte de Loups)
8. Bubba Ho-Tep
9. The Departed
10. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
11. Being John Malkovich
12. Milk
13. The Cell
14. The Boondock Saints
15. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
16 Clay Pigeons
17. The Breakfast Club
18. Up
19. Casualties of War
20. Dances With Wolves
21. Catch Me If You Can
22. A Mighty Wind
23. Saved!
24. The Robe/Demetrius and the Gladiators (sort of a tie, but to me these movies are inseperable)
25. Untamed Heart

Honorable Mentions: Zodiac, Tropic Thunder, Philadelphia, anything Pixar, Army of Darkness, The Libertine, A League Of Their Own, A Perfect World, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, The Sandlot, Serial Mom, The Shawshank Redemption

[CreepingDeath]

Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

anything Pixar

Forget my other list. This is my real choice.

[tilthefirefades]

1.Kill Bill Vol.1
2.Kill Bill Vol. 2
3.Disco Pigs
4.Life As A House
5.Requiem For A Dream
6.Titanic
7.The Silence Of The Lambs
8.Wild Things
9.Pulp Fiction
10.Aladdin
11.American History X
12.The Virgin Suicides
13.Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope
14.Baby Boy
15.London
16.The Lion King
17.Thin Line Between Love And Hate
18.Death Becomes Her
19.Pan's Labyrinth
20.Waiting To Exhale
21.Hannibal
22.Cruel Intentions
23.The Dark Knight
24.Harsh Times
25.The Other Boleyn Girl

Honorable mentions: Running Scared, all the other Star Wars, American Psycho, Ace Ventura...

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

Inspired by the Favourite 25 Albums thread . . .

Click HERE for illustrated list of movies!

My 25 Favourite Movies of All Time
(one per director)

1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
2. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
3. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)
4. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
5. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
6. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
7. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)
8. No Greater Glory (Frank Borzage, 1934)
9. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1973)
10. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
11. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1962)
12. Made in USA (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
13. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
14. A Day In The Country (Jean Renoir, 1936)
15. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
16. Lola (Jacques Demy, 1962)
17. The Love Eterne (Han Hsiang Li, 1963)
18. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
19. Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
20. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1993)
21. The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978)
22. Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981)
23. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
24. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941)
25. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

I keep making changes to this but I promise that this time I am done.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

1. All About Eve (perfect script)

They forgot to dot one of the i's.

Other than that . . . yyyyyyeah!

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

This is incredibly hard to do! In no particular order:

1. All About Eve (perfect script) <---great
2. Casablanca (nearly perfect script) <---bad
3. Some Like it Hot <---bad
4. Bonnie & Clyde <---great
5. Vertigo <---great but overrated (my least fave major Hitch film)
6. Rear Window (really anything Hitchcock) <---great
7. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid <---bad
8. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof <---greatness
9. Life is Beautiful <----horrendous
10. The Wizard of Oz <----great
11. Amadeus <----bad
12. Moulin Rouge! (2001) <----horrendous
13. Harold and Maude <---don't remember it
14. Office Space <---great
15. Sideways <---mediocre
16. Love Actually <---horrendous
17. The Last Picture Show <---great
18. The Breakfast Club <---i understand
19. Steel Magnolias <---i understand
20. Breakfast at Tiffany's <----i understand
21. The Way We Were <---horrible but I understand!
22. Adaptation <---horrendous
23. E.T. (favorite from my childhood) <---perfection
24. A League of their Own <---it is very watchable and Hanks/Davis are magical
25. Splendor in the Grass <---the first movie I cried during--and I haven't stopped

omg you have two warren beatty movies on your list. he's so dreamy.

This is a strange list for me. YOu have some of my favorites and some movies I really care about and some I even admire and then you've got some of the worst movies ever made. Fascinating.

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

25. Mary Poppins

Dani - I LOVE that you included this!

How did this thread pass me by?! I'm doing a film phD and this is one of the questions I always, always get asked... So here's my list! Such lists sometimes annoy me because people often put on what they think they Sshould like rather than what they actually like. It's your list! I think it's perfectly possible to have a mix of both...

This is so hard to narrow downa and I'm not totally sure of the order of these as I get out of the top 10 but there they are:

1. The Silence Of The Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
2. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
3. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
4. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989)
5. All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950)
6. To Die For (Gus Van Sant, 1995)
7. Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
8. Thelma And Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
9. 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
10. Love Me Or Leave Me (Charles Vidor, 1955)
11. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
12. Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
13. Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986)
14. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
15. Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964)
16. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
17. Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker, 1976)
18. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Lhrmann, 2001)
19. Overboard (Gary Marshall, 1987)
20. Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
21. The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985)
22. 500 Days Of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
23. Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
24. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
25. Empire Records (Allan Moyle, 1995)

Honourable mention to: St. Elmo's Fire (Joel Schumacher, 1985)

[Dodfather]

Sorry, but did I just read an earlier post that described Some Like It Hot and Casablanca as BAD?!? No, no, no! See, this is what happens with me and these lists, I'd better stop...

[Sleepless-Child]

Originally Posted by Dodfather

Dani - I LOVE that you included this!

How did this thread pass me by?! I'm doing a film phD and this is one of the questions I always, always get asked... So here's my list! Such lists sometimes annoy me because people often put on what they think they Sshould like rather than what they actually like. It's your list! I think it's perfectly possible to have a mix of both...

This is so hard to narrow downa and I'm not totally sure of the order of these as I get out of the top 10 but there they are:

1. The Silence Of The Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
2. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
3. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
4. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989)
5. All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950)
6. To Die For (Gus Van Sant, 1995)
7. Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
8. Thelma And Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
9. 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
10. Love Me Or Leave Me (Charles Vidor, 1955)
11. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
12. Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
13. Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986)
14. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
15. Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964)
16. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
17. Bugsy Malone (Alan Parker, 1976)
18. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Lhrmann, 2001)
19. Overboard (Gary Marshall, 1987)
20. Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
21. The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985)
22. 500 Days Of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
23. Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, 2004)
24. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
25. Empire Records (Allan Moyle, 1995)

Honourable mention to: St. Elmo's Fire (Joel Schumacher, 1985)

I love your list ! Those are four of my favorite movies ever.
Well, here's mine, in no particular order (I just can't) :

Thelma and Louise
Arizona Dream
When Harry Met Sally
Into the Wild
Gone with the Wind
Some like it Hot
Elephant man
The Shining
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Forrest Gump
School of Rock ( 'cause of Stevie)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bonnie and Clyde
Bus Stop
The Full Monty
Time of the gypsies
Lost in Translation
The Virgin Suicides
Four Friends
Little Miss Sunshine
Titanic
The fifth element
Harold and Maude
Anastasia
La belle et la bête.


And many, many others...

[skcin]

No order, except Goodfellas which is my most favorite movie EVER. The list is very random, and a few couldbn't be considered all that good. But they are my favorites.

Goodfellas
Imitation of Life (any version)
Wedding Crashers
Dazed & Confused
My Left Foot
Dirty Dancing
Terms of Endearment
Officer and a Gentleman
Wille Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)
National Lampoon's European Vacation
Pulp Fiction
Silence of the Lambs
Mask (Cher)
The Color Purple
Steel Magnolias
The Breakfast Club
Overboard
Dances with Wolves
Braveheart
When Harry Met Sally
Thelma & Louise
The Lost Boys
The Goonies
Tommy Boy
Legends of the Fall

[JazmenFlowers]

even though I hate lists, I'll play. I really had a hard time coming up with this list, but here it is...in no order.

Imitation of Life
Madame X
For Pete's Sake
Big Business
Terms of Endearment
Yentl
The Mirror Has Two Faces
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Steel Magnolias
Fried Green Tomatoes
Driving Miss Daisy
Kill Bill 1/2
Labyrinth
Red Sonja
Because I Said So
Conan series
Blade
Resident Evil
Underworld
28 Days Later
Loblolly by the Sea
The Notebook
Riding in Cars with Boys
Death Proof
Lord of the Rings trilogy

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by skcin

Overboard

YES!!! Someone else who loves Overboard! It's in my list too! It's so brilliantly quotable!

"Andrew! Are you going to bring me my lemon or do I have to squeeze it through my hat?!"