MyLeakyBucket Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Okay here's my idea. Everyone submits their top 20 movies of all time in ranked order. I realise it'll take a while so I'll leave a long time for people to do it. Then, I'll correlate the data and come up with a final list of the top forum films of all time. It might just be crazy enough to work...who's with me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 (edited) Can we include series (liek The Star Wars Trilogy) as one entry. It might be useful to tell people to put Star Wars, Back To The Future, Indiana Jones, etc as one entry. Whatca think? Here's my tentative/no particular ordre list: Fight Club American Beauty Matrix Being John Malkovich Election Pink Floyd The Wall Star Wars Trilogy 12 Monkeys Braveheart Chasing Amy Clerks Dogma Pulp Fiction LOTR Trilogy (pending release) This Is Spinal Tap Vanilla Sky Casablanca Edited March 8, 2003 by Jack's Meandering Thoughts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLeakyBucket Posted March 8, 2003 Author Share Posted March 8, 2003 Tenative entries is a good idea, help with brain storming beofre I ask people to submit a final top 20 list. Also, I think its best if trilogies are all as one. Here's some from me in no particular order, The Big Lebowski Pi Blade Runner Apocalypse Now Fargo Day of the Jackal Buffalo 66 Goodfellas Godfather I II and III Indiana Jones Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Donnie Darko Rushmore Natural Born Killers Pulp Fiction Trainspotting Empire Records Hackers Requiem for a dream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Haha, the only similar one we have is Pulp Fiction. Those are all great films (I've seen all but 4 or 5 of them), btu I doubt they'll make my top 20 list. I wonder what Junker's is going to have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 ...to much Tim Burton...hah, he'll have some good ones there tho. I bet Amelie makes it somewhere in his, Shawshank Redemption toppin the charts. (random for now) Braveheart The Matrix Fight Club The Good, The Bad & The Ugly The Searchers Raging Bull Waking Life Yojimbo Seven Samurai Cool Hand Luke High Noon Unforgiven Carlito's Way Taxi Driver Mr Smith goes to Washington (tentative, but i dig Jimmy) American Beauty Brazil Ok i need to give this more thought, im streatching it...its our favorite movies right? I mean, there's a few up there that i love but Im not gonna argue cinmatic value with Junker over Citizen Kane or anythin... Runners-up i have to choose from so far: Easy Rider The Graudate Hard Boiled Pulp Fiction Michael Collins Scent of a Woman Devil's Advocate (eh, i went to religous schools) Samurai X (do anime films count?) Breaker Morant The Professional Trainspotting MLB's Arnoufsky ones of Pi & Requiem, etc... ps more people should see the Big Lebowski, i wanna see that one again. Off of MLB's list i have yet to see Bufallo 66, Donnie Darko and finish Blade Runner. I dont remember Fargo either so i should see it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 (edited) I sure as hell am not going to try to put these in order, sorry. And these are all personal favorites...dunno if I'd call 'em all one of the "greatest movies of all time". Casablanca Rear Window (hey, I like Jimmy, too) Almost Famous The Usual Suspects Who Framed Roger Rabbit (you heard me) Pulp Fiction 2001: A Space Odyssey Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Schindler's List Chasing Amy Brazil Braveheart The Sting Saving Private Ryan Jaws Philadelphia Silence of the Lambs Indiana Jones The Empire Strikes Back Unforgiven Spirited Away Edited March 8, 2003 by Silent Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 @#$% i need to see Spirited Away... Butch & Sundance...good one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLeakyBucket Posted March 8, 2003 Author Share Posted March 8, 2003 Some cool ones there. Good call on Easy Reider IC, one of those films my dad made me watch and loved it after not expecting much. Silent Bob, don't worry about the order at the mo but I probably will be demanding one a t a later dat so I can set up a scoring system. Good call with Rear Window, definitely my fave Hitchcock. Can't say I've heard of Sting or Hard Boiled? Any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Ill let Silent Bob handle the Sting (McQueen, right?), Hard Boiled..man youd dig it. Classic John Woo, Chow Yun Fat two gun shit. Most people go for The Killer, which is also good, but i prefer Hard Boiled or A Better Tomorrow...all 3 of those were some of action's finest moments while here in the states we were churning out Van Dame, Segal or Lundgren shit. Swear to god if it wasnt for Die Hard id say we put up little fight during the late 80's/early 90's to counter Woo's greatness...anyway check those out if youre ever given the opportunity Bucket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Whoah, wait, you guys don't know The Sting? With Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Robert Shaw? Really? Damn, 's a classic. And MLB, Rear Window was always my favorite, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Oh...wait yeah i was thinkin of somethin else, then i was thinkin of Slap shot for some reason. I gotta go back & see that one. Jax is brave to pre-emptively ad unseen movies like the last LOTR one. Id love to add the rest of the Matrix but i figure ill wait, just in case.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freebird Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 (edited) not much of a movie junkie, even though i did work at a movie theatre for a year and saw every movie that came out that year, that's not the point.... in no set order... gone in 60 seconds dirty dancing grease la bamba bone collector deuces wild amelie almost famous lilo and stitch rebel without a cause east of eden the generals daughter enemy at the gates a christmas story zoolander the score fight club mallrats dogma ps... gladiator is much better than braveheart... Edited March 9, 2003 by Freebird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkerSeed Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 Hard hard hard list to make, and yes, I'll say these are favorites, not "most well made" or whetever, favorites are very personal, and ten times more fun to talk about. And, these are favorites of the moment, this list would probably be very different if I typed it tomorrow, there's just too much amazing stuff out there. Quite a few of these are rock solid though. The first few in particular. Nick predicted a few but here it goes shawshank redmption Being john malchovich Amelie who's afraid of virginia woolf? Dark City Dolores Claiborne The nightmare before christmas Hard boiled Pulp Fiction Mr smith goes to washington/It's a wonderful life (tie, similar enough to go together) Braveheart Fight Club Indiana Jones ET Jurassic Park Minority Report (tempted to put speilbergs entire fucking library) Mulhullond Drive Spirited away Ghostbusters Royal Tenenbaums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 Jax is brave to pre-emptively ad unseen movies like the last LOTR one. Id love to add the rest of the Matrix but i figure ill wait, just in case.. There is a slight difference. The LOTR movie were all shot together, so consistantly similar adaptation methods are to be expected. Of course, you can bring Back To The Future in to argue (BTTF 2 and 3 were filmed together, and most people think 3 was very lame). I don't particularily agree with people who bash BTTF3, but the point is taken. But The Return Of The King is based on a book, so the source material is solid. So this much I know: 1) The source material is solid, 2) They turned to similar pieces of source material into gold, 3) this movie was from the same shooting. I wouldn't put The Matrix sequel in there for three reasons: 1) I haven't seen the source material, 2) They created gold just once, making it less certain they can reproduce the effect, 3) The Matrix was great because of it's intelligent approach and sociological and philosophical metaphors. Without those, the action alone would have made it just pretty good. The trailers have proven to me that the action will make the first movie look like a Broadway production, but I'm spectical if they can explore these intelligent aspects fo the movie in further depth without basically rehashing the same thought-provoking philosophical arguments from the first one. Basically, I'd be willing to put money on ROTK being as good as the first two, as much as I hope for the Matrix sequel to live up to my expectations for them, money tight right now and I can't call it a sure thing. I'm adding Amelie and Casablanca to my tentative list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 Yeah...yeah i too hope the new, bigger scale doesnt lose its intellect but ive faith thus far. Virginia Wolf was indeed good, i should give this Dolores Claybourne a go... Birdy - damn girl you need to see more movies. Zoolander...hah...i know another chick that would put that one up there, that one was funny as hell. I wont argue, its your list, but... once upon a time we had another chick here who thought Gladiator was better than Braveheart. I think we ran her off. If youre feelin some anti-mainstream pull here, acknowledge that both won tons of awards. Then, one day when youve a lot of time, go watch the two, then swing on by this thread and do the right thing. I know you can. Ha...Glad-he-ate-her's a good movie, but...see thats how i know you crazy. Im tempted to make this one topic o' the week to get it more attention, hear more lists. im leavin south partk there till i find a place to host our creations..but i can just leave it there so fuck it, this one's in stonehenge for this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted March 9, 2003 Share Posted March 9, 2003 (edited) Damn, I forgot Dark City (which, despite the lack of amazing action, was better than The Matrix IMHO) and Nightmare Before Christmas...hmmm. Freebird...Gone in 60? Really? And Zoolander was funny as hell, don't care what anyone else says. Edited March 9, 2003 by Silent Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 She also has the Bone Collecter, so I just figured she was an Angelina Jolie fan. Birdy was the hots for Angelila Jolie. That's hot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Bob Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Can't really blame her... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 No, we really can't. Jolie is the type of woman who can ignite lesboerotic fantasies in any woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Or, say, her brother. Wow, Topic o' the Week doesnt mean as much these days, was hopin for more attention on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLeakyBucket Posted March 10, 2003 Author Share Posted March 10, 2003 I'm back from rainy depressing scotland, wahoo! To quote Trainspotting "It's shite being Scottish". I'm honoured this has been made ToW but I agree, shouldn't more people be sharing their views because of it. Come on I need at least a few more people before I ask for final top 20's. Come on! At least say you exist and will submit a top 20 when I ask for it if you don't want to post now. On the note of Being John Malkovich I'm off to see Adaptation tomorrow. Could it enter into my top 20, hold your breath.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier of fortune Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 I must think about this, my top 20!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 It certainly should make your top 20. It made mine, but I forgot to add it cause I was looking through my dvd collection to determine my top 20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 I wanna fit Boondock Saints into mine, at least a runner up if nothin else. Just remembered how much I enjoyed that one, had me in a vigilatne mood for like a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLeakyBucket Posted March 13, 2003 Author Share Posted March 13, 2003 Did see Adaptation, not sure whether it'll make my top 20, we'll see. Haven't seen Boondock Saints either, missed out on a few good ones it sounds like. Gonna be asking for top 20 in a few days guys and dolls so lets have some more suggestions before the final lists.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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