Top 10 movies of all time

[Panz]

You seem to be a film buff, so I was curious as to what your favorite movies were, and second, what comics do you think would translate to movies well??

with all the bad vibes on the board of late, and just wanted to kick off something a little lighter

Everyone else is welcome to put in thier own faves as well...and then we can argue about it

[Talon_Flame]

Wow...it's hard for me to say...I love movies. Seen more than most people I know. But anyway:

1) Pirates of the Carribean
2) X2
3) Finding Nemo
4) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5) DragonHeart
6)Shawshank Redemption
7) X-Men 1
8) Spider-man
9) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10) Shrek

Okay, that's all i can think of right now...Shawshank Redemption, one of the best movies of all time, was filmed in the city I live in. That's kinda my towns claim to fame.

Well, can't wait to hear everyone elses!:D

[Gaz]

Honey, I'm pretty sure she was just asking Dave or Paty.....That was really cute of you though.

[Dark Bamf]

I think Panz was throwing it open to everybody, actually. Yeah, I'm a major movie buff, and I like so many of them that it's difficult to narrow them down to just ten. But I'll take a whack at it. These are not necessarily in order as I like them...and they don't necessarily represent what I consider great movies, but rather best beloved (by me) movies.

1. Creature From the Black Lagoon
2. Spartacus
3. Scaramouche
4. The Prisoner of Zenda
5. Lord of the Rings (both movies so far, and
tentatively the third one. Well worth waiting
40 years for the movie)
6. Spider-Man--Best superhero picture ever
made.
7. The Sea Hawks
8. X2
9. Gettysburg (a litle preachy in places, but a Civil
War buff's delight.
10. Peter Pan (Disney) Whatthehell, I'm Peter
himself.

[Northstars Love]

My Favorite Movies

But in no particular order

1. Star Wars
2. Gone With The Wind
3. Now Voyager
4. X-2
5. The Poseidon Adventure
6. The Ten Commandments
7. LOTR
8. Mildred Pierce
9. Cleopatra-Claudette Colbert '30's
10. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade

As you can tell I love the old Hollywood films.

[Bamfette]

ok, becasue i have a lot, all movie series shall be included as one. :p

1. Star Wars (though the latest installments have not lived up to the first ones...)
2. LOTR
3. Fight Club
4. Pirates of the Carribean
5. Princess Bride
6. Braveheart
7. Nightmare Before Christmas
8. American Beauty
9. Ed Wood (amazing how such a great movie could be spawned form some of the worst films ever made :p)
10. Iron Giant

[Panz]

Because I'm a magnanimous giver-goddess, lets just do away with the 10 part and just talk about favorite films

Robin hood
LOTR
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
X2
Pirates of the Caribbean
Benny and Joon
Bend it like Beckhham
young Frankenstein
Spiderman
the scarlet pimpernel
Ladyhawk
Coccoon
The Crow
Three Musketeers
Count of Monte Cristo
Hanover street
The Duelists
....I'll think of more when I'm awake

[bluefooted]

Oooh, fun!

My favorites - no particular order:

LA Confidential
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai
Watership Down
This is Spinal Tap
Dr. Strangelove
Brazil
The Commitments
American Beauty
The Royal Tenenbaums
LOTR

[JmoLovesDepp]

Pirates of the Carribean!!
Cassablanca
X2
The Lion King
Charlie's Angels
Bourne Identity
I can't think of any more...

[JmoLovesDepp]

I just remembered!!
Sargeant Pepper's Lonely hearts club band!!
That was really cool.

[SheCat]

Haha, Jmo, you've never even seen X2...but come Saturday...

X-Men, X2, Pirates, When Harry Met Sally, Broadcast News for me.

[jimmy]

mine are:

1.Selena
2.X2
3.Jimmy Neutron
4.men in black
5.Titanic
6.romy and micheles high school reunion
7.Titus
8.spy kids
9.X1
10. the lion king

and mostly other movies that has alan cumming in it

[Tatu]

I have really funky strange tastes..so, dont make fun! :p

Resident Evil
Gia
Girl, Interrupted
Clueless
Carrie (And Carrie 2)
The Faculty
Run Lola Run
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
X2
The Alien Legacy
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R and S - The Movies

and it probably doesnt count but.. Green day - International Supervideos!

Im sure there are plenty of other i can't think of at the moment..

[Shadow_Dancer]

Is this top ten best movies IMHO or top ten favorite movies

Well, My top ten movies (favorites)

1. Gone with the Wind
2. Casablanca
3. Romancing the Stone
4. LOTR series
5. Star Wars Series
6. Indiana Jones series
7. The Hiding Place
8. Princess Bride
9. Disney's Beauty and the Beast
10. While You Where Sleeping

Kind of see a trend here? (mostly)

[Dark Bamf]

Since Panz isn't limiting us to 10 pictures, here are a few more of my favorites:

The Ten Commandments
Ben Hur
How the West Was Won
Hallelujah Trail
Alien
Aliens
All three Jurassic Park flicks
Almost anything with Meg Ryan in it
Almost anything with Julianne Moore in it
Almost anything with Nicole Kidman in it
Star Wars
War of the Worlds
Forbidden Planet
The Time Machine (George Pal)
Giant
Singin' In the Rain
Brigadoon
Kiss Me Kate
McClintock
Rio Bravo
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Mummy (Karloff)
The Mummy (Brendan Frasier)
The Wolf Man
The Little Mermaid (disney, obviously)
Beauty and the Beast (ditto)
Aladdin (ditto)
Tarzan (ditto)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (ditto)
Independance Day
The Abyss
Braveheart

'nuff for now.

[NightPoofer]

Woah... that's quite a selection. I don't even think I've seen that many movies... I guess mine would be:
1. Kill Bill (or any other movie with Lucy Lui)
2. X-men 1&2
3. Beauty and the Beast
4. Finding Nemo!
5. Batman Movies
6. Star Wars movies
7. Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
8. Aladdin
9. Superman movies
10. Akira & Princess Mononoke

[Gaz]

Okay, these are in no perticular order, except that Donnie Darko is my favorite.

Donnie Darko
X2
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
Some Like it Hot
Rocky Horror Picture Show
South Park - Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Nightmare Before Christmas
Ghost World
Lost in Translation
Edward Scissorhands
Run Lola Run
Pirates of the Carribean
Waking Life
Dragon Half
Fudoh - The Next Generation
Spirited Away
Rabbit Proof Fence
The Pianist
The Seven Year Itch


That's all I can think of. it would take me hours to rate them by favoritism.

[Dracadancer]

I'll never be able to to decide on just 10 so I'll read off the first 10 movies in my massive dvd collection since they're all part of my favorites anyway.

1. The Fellowship of the Ring (soon to be replaced by RotK I'm betting)
2. Jurassic Park
3. Star Wars (the originals of course)
4. Cannibal the Musical
5. Beauty and the Beast
6. Braveheart
7. Addicted to Love
8. Black Beauty
9. Fight Club
10. My Fair Lady

Honorary Mentions: Dragonheart, MST3K The Movie!, 5th Element, Princess Mononoke, Nassica of the Valley of the Wind, Evolution, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Waiting for Guffman (a MUST for anyone from Missouri), Life is Beautiful, Detective Conan and the Timed Skyscraper, Road Trip, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, X2, Empire of the Sun, John Huges 80s movies, The Evil Dead movies (especially Army of Darkness), Seven, The Secret Garden, American Beauty, Independence Day, Gundam Wing Endless Waltz (okay so it was a three part OVA but they did make a movie out of it), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Piano, Conan the Barbarian (it did have James Earl Jones anyway), The Two Towers, The Black Stallion/Returns, Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, Jekyl and Hyde the Musical, all animated Disney and Don Bluth movies (Sleeping Beauty and The Land Before Time my favorites out of that group though), Balto, Spirit, Shrek, Dinosaur, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, The Matrix (only the first one though), City of Angels, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, The Broken Hearts Club, Dragonslayer, Ladyhake, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, Gonies (I really hope they aren't going to ruin this with a sequel 20 years later), Indiana Jones movies, Princess Bride, Signs....etc, etc, etc.

I'm going to be here all night if I don't stop! Let me just say though that everyone around here seems to have exceedingly good taste in movies.

[msgt]

My list

1. Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange

2. 2001 A Space Odyssey

3. Midnight Express

4. Batman Returns

5. Boys Don't Cry

6. Beautiful Dreamers

7.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

8. X2

9. Murder in the First

10. The Others

[Ult_Sm86]

1) Shawshank Redmeption
2) LOTR (3 will dominate tho)
3) Schindler's List
4) Mystic River X2
5) X2
6) SPider-man (I'm with you dave but X2 has kurt so...)
7) Pirates of the Carribean
8) Old School
9) Tombstone
10) Godfather (I)

6th sense and Austin Powers are in there somewhere. M. is my fave director and Mike Myers if one of my favorite actors. I'm also a huge fan of Catch me if YOu can and any tom hanks movie...which places Toy story in there somewhere...

[Dark Bamf]

I have to add Schindler's List, Shawshank Redemption, Rocky Horror Picture Show, most Tom Hanks and most Harrison Ford movies to my favorites, too.

I haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean yet, but two pirate movies I absolutely love are Errol Flynn's The Sea Hawk, and Burt Lancaster's The Crimson Pirate. Swashbuckler, with Robert Shaw and James Earl Jones, isn't bad either.

[scheherazade]

Oi... Looks like I have more classical tastes in movies compared to most here. I'm afraid mine reads like the AFI list (or something)

1. Citizen Kane - The angles! The deep focus! */cinematography fangirling*

2. It's a Wonderful Life. A friend of mine took a scriptwriting course where the instructer told them than anything they needed to know about screenwriting they could learn from this script. I don't know about that, but it is amazing, and has my city's motto (or, it should be) is in it:
George: Rochester? Well, why Rochester?
Sam: Well, why not? Can you think of anything better?

3. Anything Hitchcock. It's all amazing. Saboteur, The Birds, Rear Window, and especially Rope. I jump every time I hear the music to Psycho.

4&5: For sheer quotability; The Princess Bride and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (on a related note, I wonder why almost everyone here has Princess Bride on their lists? Well, besides the fact that it's one of the greatest movies ever made...

6. ET. Baby's first VHS! I watched this movie so much when I was little, because it was the only tape I could recognise by color (It was green... for some reason...)

7. Grave of the Fireflies An anime movie that makes me sob like a baby...

8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Another sad one... sheesh

9. Nightmare Before Christmas. I loved this movie when I was young, and recently got the special edition DVD. When I watched the 'making of' documentary, I gained a whole new respect for the flawless stop-motion animation

10. Edward Scissorhands Suffice it to say, Tim Burton rocks my surreal little world...

And now I stop babbling on... *g*

[kurtlover]

Waterworld
Forrest Gump
Clash of Titans
Como Agua para chocolate
Mrs Doubtfire
Jaws
Cocoon
Jurassic Park
La Vita es Bella
8mm
Run Lola Run
Tesis
Pirates of The Caribbean
Amores Perros
X-men and X2
Star Wars
Stargate
The Fly
Psycho (the first version of course)
Dreamcatcher
It
LOTR
sings
Silence of The lambs (including Hannibal and Red Dragon)
Seven
Predator and Alien movies
Monsters Inc.
Dumbo
Finding Nemo


and i can go for hours, i looooove movies.

[NightPoofer]

I can't believe no one has even mentioned Mulan by Disney! I thought that movie was very inspiring for some reason. The songs were really good too. Even the script was good!

Look at me ... I will never pass for a perfect bride
Or a perfect daughter
Can it be?
I'm not meant to play this part?
Now I see
That if I were truly to be myself
I would break my family's heart.

Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me
Why is my reflection someone I don't know
Somehow I cannot hide
Who I am, though I've tried
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
Who I am, inside?

My favorite quote was:
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

[Nightcrawler ZERO]

Originally posted by Dark Bamf
I haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean yet, but two pirate movies I absolutely love are Errol Flynn's The Sea Hawk, and Burt Lancaster's The Crimson Pirate. Swashbuckler, with Robert Shaw and James Earl Jones, isn't bad either.

PotC is a Great film- you really should check it out. It had one of the best Sword fights I've ever seen in the first act. Of course, as Late Night talk show host Conan O'Brien observed, a hit movie based on a ride at Disney World is a dangerous thing- soon, we will be faced with "It's a Small Wold Afterall"-The movie