Top Ten All-Time Movies

A Boy and His Dog was great. A low budget wicked satire-cum-scifi jewel.

I forgot to put this in my list:

$ (Dollars) with Beatty/Hawn 1971. I only wish they would release it to DVD.

Raising Arizona is fantastic.

American Beauty…bleurgh!

Originally posted by Relaxer:
Polyester

Relaxer, I'm in that movie. :D


I don't know what my 10, or 11, absolute favorites are but the top 4 listed would definitely be on my list. (In no particular order.)

Mon Oncle (a Jacque Tati film and probably my #1)
Repulsion (a Roman Polanski film)
The Exterminating Angel (a Luis Buñuel film - If you know your symbolism, this film makes perfect sense; otherwise, you will think it's total nonsense. As good as it is, this review barely touches any of it.)
Peeping Tom

Blue Velvet
2001: A Space Odyssey
La Grande Illusion
Silence Of The Lambs
A Hard Day's Night
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Summertime

Obviously, I have a thing for really twisted psychos.


When I was about 3 years old, I was obsessed with the film, The Day the Earth Stood Still.


If you haven't seen Gone With The Wind yet, I very highly suggest watching it. Especially the ladies. It's very good. The ultimate chick flick with enough war and history for the guys and it's a big, classic Hollywood production.

8 1/2

Garden State, can't think of others right now…

not possible..

what top 10 sileent films? top 10 Italian? top 10 documentaries?? Best of Ozu???

ridiculous.. too limiting.. too many variations..

Animal House
Office Space
Jaws
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Old School
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Vacation
Raising Arizona
Trading Places
Easy Money

This Is Spın̈al Tap
Goodfellas
The Sting

7 others

ps: you can't dust for vomit

Originally posted by Sir HC:
Garden State, can't think of others right now…

From, where else, The Onion:

Garden State Some Poor Fuck's Favorite Movie

LOS ANGELESâ??Despite the existence of cinema classics such as Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Seven Samurai, the 2004 film Garden State starring Zach Braff and Natalie Portman is some poor fuck's favorite movie, according to a posting on imdb.com.

"I thought the interplay between the main characters was beautiful, and the soundtrack was amazing," wrote the miserable bastard after another post called the film "self-indulgent" and "annoying." "It's this cynical society's snap reaction to dislike a movie about finding one's true self. I honestly cry every time he gets off that plane."

The sad sack of shit was swiftly put in his place by another IMDb user, who argued that the film was just a "knockoff" of superior predecessors, such as You've Got Mail.

I just knew, after seeing Sir HC's post, that someone was going to feel the need to talk shit about Garden State. Look, we all get it, there are those of you out there who think we have horrible taste in movies because we like Garden State. We don't care. But not being able to even mention it without some holier-than-thou movie buff jumping down our throats does get a bit annoying.

I'm cheating a bit with some of these, but I don't think it really matters.

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• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Garden State&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Fight Club&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Star Wars IV-VI (original trilogy)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Indiana Jones trilogy&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Back to the Future trilogy&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;The Lord of the Rings trilogy&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I normally put comedies in their own separate list, for some reason, but this is an exception.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

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SOYLENT GREEN - How could all of you leave this off the list?

Originally posted by Reod Dai:
I just knew, after seeing Sir HC's post, that someone was going to feel the need to talk shit about Garden State.

Sorry, but it just happened to be the timing: the Onion piece was published the day before the thread started, April 26, 2007. Had it been somewhat longer ago, I wouldn't have pointed it out; I probably wouldn't have even remembered it. And I haven't even seen Garden State so I have no personal opinion about it.

Originally posted by Reod Dai:
I just knew, after seeing Sir HC's post, that someone was going to feel the need to talk shit about Garden State. Look, we all get it, there are those of you out there who think we have horrible taste in movies because we like Garden State. We don't care. But not being able to even mention it without some holier-than-thou movie buff jumping down our throats does get a bit annoying.

I'm cheating a bit with some of these, but I don't think it really matters.

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• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I normally put comedies in their own separate list, for some reason, but this is an exception.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

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I can't take anyone who defends Garden State as one of their top ten favorite movies of all time and then adds the Back to the Future trilogy to their list seriously.

Yeah…if you had kept it just to the first one, I might have supported it. But everyone knows that the time travel depicted in the sequel is flawed. If Marty left the time stream to visit the future, how did he wind up aging? It's impossible!

Originally posted by Shadrach:
…then adds the Back to the Future trilogy to their list seriously.

Is there a reason you're dismissing anything and everything made before the 1980's?

Originally posted by Reod Dai:
I just knew, after seeing Sir HC's post, that someone was going to feel the need to talk shit about Garden State. Look, we all get it, there are those of you out there who think we have horrible taste in movies because we like Garden State. We don't care. But not being able to even mention it without some holier-than-thou movie buff jumping down our throats does get a bit annoying.

I'm cheating a bit with some of these, but I don't think it really matters.

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• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Fight Club&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Star Wars IV-VI (original trilogy)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Indiana Jones trilogy&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Back to the Future trilogy&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;The Lord of the Rings trilogy&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Star Trek II, IV, and VI&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
• &lt;font size="2" face="Arial, Veranda"&gt;Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I normally put comedies in their own separate list, for some reason, but this is an exception.)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

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Okay, I'm just an ass or a film snob, maybe both. I guess since the topic is Top Ten All-Time Movies you could read that as your personal favorite top 10 movies and in that case those would be whatever movies entertain you. So fine.

But if we were just doing a list of what the top 10 all time great films were, Garden State doesn't even belong in the conversation, and I enjoyed the movie. Maybe I'm alone here?

Originally posted by Shadrach:
But if we were just doing a list of what the top 10 all time great films were, Garden State doesn't even belong in the conversation, and I enjoyed the movie. Maybe I'm alone here?

Originally (as in post #0) poasted by Dupek:
Poast your top ten films of all time. And please be tasteful.

I think most of the posts are personal. Tasteful is up for argument.

Originally posted by Reod Dai:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

WTF? I thought it sucked. Or did it blow? Either way.

Once Upon a Time in the West

City of God

Westworld
Silent Running
The Omega Man
Tron
Logan's Run
THX-1138
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Cube