Top ten movies: any genre

[Skaboy]

I'm sure we all enjoy films outside of the horror genre and wondered what others' favourites were.

For what it's worth, my list is below. Some may not have much merit as films but they're guilty pleasures nonetheless.

Electric Dreams
Wargames
Jurassic Park
Big Man on Campus
Point Break
Gregory's Girl
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
McVicar
Scum

[urgeok]

SlingBlade
Rumblefish
Being There
My Favorite Year
Local Hero (although i do quite like Gregorys girl as well)
Equilibrium
Flash Gordon (with Sam Jones)
Time After Time
Broadway Danny Rose
Raising Arizona

[AUSTIN316426808]

-Dirty Harry
-Unforgiven
-Million Dollar Baby
-The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
-Equilibrium
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-L.A. Confidential
-Batman Begins
-Nightmare Before Chirstmas
-Jerry Maguire

[The Mothman]

#1 The Untouchables

the rest i cant really put in order.

[Posher778]

Batman Begins
Jurassic park 1
Halloween
(4-10 in no order)
casablanca
Jaws
Red eye
Million dollar baby
nightmare before christmas
The african queen
scream 1 (maybe, not quite sure)

remember, i have a different taste for movies than most people, and i havent seen many older movies.

[The Flayed One]

-Sin City
-Nightmare Before Christmas
-The Big Lebowski
-Fight Club
-Spirited Away
-Princess Mononoke
-The Dark Crystal
-Drop Dead Gorgeous
-Star Wars: A New Hope
-Pulp Fiction

[The Mothman]

Originally posted by The Flayed One

--The Big Lebowski


o ya that would probably be on my list too.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by urgeok
SlingBlade
Rumblefish
Being There
My Favorite Year
Local Hero (although i do quite like Gregorys girl as well)
Equilibrium
Flash Gordon (with Sam Jones)
Time After Time
Broadway Danny Rose
Raising Arizona


i need to add The Pope of Greenwich Villiage.

Or any of the pre-9 1/2 Weeks Rourke films.


and .. Terminator 2 ... which is still a kick ass film.

[mothermold]

star wars:empire strikes back
mel brook's history of the world part 1
godfather
the wild bunch
monty python's the meaning of life/quest for the holy grail(two way tie)
bottle rocket
goodfellas
the seven samurai
sexy beast
miller's crossing

also in running:
the bank dic
gangs of new york
rio bravo
this girls life
dinner rush

[jenna26]

This is impossible for me, it changes constantly, so my list is always at least slightly different, but I will try it again. These are my all time favorite films as of right now, which includes horror films.

Fight Club
Trainspotting
Rebel Without A Cause
Evil Dead 2
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sin City
Videodrome
The Usual Suspects
Se7en
Tenebre

A few others: Goodfellas, Reservior Dogs, American History X, LOTR trilogy, Heavenly Creatures, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) and Assault on Precinct 13 (original).

[The STE]

1. Taxi Driver (1976)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. 12 Angry Men (1957)
4. The Godfather (1972)
5. Memento (2000)
6. Yojimbo (1961)
7. Citizen Kane (1941)
8. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
9. Raging Bull (1980)
10. Schindler’s List (1993)

[The_Return]

Sans anything I consider horror, in no order:

Robocop
Assault on Precinct 13 [1976]
Sin City
Dick Tracy [1993]
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
X-Men + X-2
K-Pax
Ed Wood
Big Fish
The Time Machine [2002]

[Yellow Jacket]

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[Elvis_Christ]

The Warriors

Robocop

Reservoir Dogs

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2

House Of 1000 Corpses

Evil Dead 2

Drugstore Cowboy

Repo Man

Bad Lieutenant

Barfly

but yeh no particular order except for The Warriors and this changes all the time....

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally posted by urgeok
and .. Terminator 2 ... which is still a kick ass film.

I've always prefered the original

[Posher778]

i thought terminator was really boring. like, extremely, until the end, which i really liked.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Elvis_Christ
I've always prefered the original


i understand why people like terminator better than #2 ... but #2 showed things that have never been seen before.
Even the nuclear holocaust at the beginning was amazing ..

and the action was unrelenting..

[jenna26]

I would say that I like the first two Terminator films equally, except that Michael Biehn was in the first one, so I have to give it the edge (I had a mad crush on him when I was a kid :p ). The second one was every bit as good, but for different reasons (the effects were outstanding). The first one was just a more unique film, I think.

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally posted by jenna26
The first one was just a more unique film, I think.

Yeh it was. Its a really dark film and I found it was paced a lot better than the sequel. The original had more substance and was more character driven opposed to T2 which was mainly a special effects extravaganza. The original has that film noir meets sci-fi feel (that I really dug in Blade Runner aswell).
But don't get me wrong I love T2.... the original has more heart.
Why didn't James Cameron keep making films like this?

[jenna26]

Originally posted by Elvis_Christ
Yeh it was. Its a really dark film and I found it was paced a lot better than the sequel. The original had more substance and was more character driven opposed to T2 which was mainly a special effects extravaganza. The original has that film noir meets sci-fi feel (that I really dug in Blade Runner aswell).
But don't get me wrong I love T2.... the original has more heart.
Why didn't James Cameron keep making films like this?

There was some good character development in the second one; but you're right, often that seemed to take a backseat to the special effects and that usually leaves me cold. Yet it didn't get anywhere close to the point that many films get to these days where the special effects are the ONLY thing there; there was still an attempt to make a smart, emotional film that didn't completely rely on the special effects to pull it through. Overall, I would agree. You're right; the first one is the darker film and the smarter of the two films, in my opinion.

Now I have little use for the third one.... there were some cool individual scenes, but overall, it was a huge disappointment. There wasn't any real attempt to make the characters stand out in that case.

[Posher778]

Originally posted by Elvis_Christ
Yeh it was. Its a really dark film and I found it was paced a lot better than the sequel. The original had more substance and was more character driven opposed to T2 which was mainly a special effects extravaganza. The original has that film noir meets sci-fi feel (that I really dug in Blade Runner aswell).
But don't get me wrong I love T2.... the original has more heart.
Why didn't James Cameron keep making films like this?


you said blade runner. every time i see that movie i say "what...?"

[lionels_mother]

(no order)

-Leon
-True Romance
-Kill Bill (1 & 2)
-Pulp Fiction
-Sin City
-Alien
-TCM
-Battle Royale
-The Omen
-Full Metal Jacket

Honourable Mentions:
A Clockwork Orange
Braindead
DotD
NotLD
Predator
The Thing
Apocalypse Now
The Blob
Jarhead
Donnie Darko
all Wallace and Gromit
Scarface

(I could go on for hours...)

[noctuary]

Let's see... no horror...

The Godfather
Unforgiven
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Piano Teacher
Legend
Bright Future
Rashomon
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
The Princess Bride

Honorable Mention: The 400 Blows, Ran, Yojimbo, Barry Lyndon

[Sick_As_Fuck]

Training Day, Man On Fire [2004], Boyz N The Hood, Dead Presidents, Menace II Society, Baby Boy, Deep Blue Sea, Independance Day, Men In Black, and Jurassic Park.

Probably forgetting a lot, but oh well.

Edit: I forgot about "Blade". The whole trilogy deserves to be mentioned as well as "Juice", "White Men Can't Jump", "Ray", "Cry Baby", "Requiem For A Dream", "Lethal Weapon 4", and "American History X". I know that's much more than 10 but really anyone of these can be #1 at any given time.

[alkytrio666]

Ahh. What hard decisions. Here are mine:

1. Casablanca (1942)

2. Sin City (2005)

3. The Evil Dead (1981)

4. The Sting (1973)

5. King Kong (1933)

6. Halloween (1978)

7. Rear Window (1958)

8. The Shining (1980)

9. Nosferatu (1922)

10. King Kong (2005)

[sk8boarder]

Here's my top ten

1. Lord of the Rings (all three movies)
2. War of the Worlds (the new version)
3. The Ring (1 & 2)
4. Signs
5. King Kong (the new version)
6. The Village
7. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
8. Halloween (1-5)
9. The THing
10. Jurrasic Park

[alkytrio666]

(UPDATED)

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Casablanca
The Evil Dead
Blazing Saddles
Vertigo
Reservoir Dogs
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Rear Window
The Maltese Falcon
The Sting
A Shot in the Dark
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[joshaube]

How you guys manage to decide all this is beyond me. I'd never be able to construct an acurate top 10 list.

[Vodstok]

Aliens
Alien
Alien3
The Usual Suspects
The Ref
Trainspotting
Dog Soldiers
28 days Later
12 Monkeys (Willis and Pitt at their best)
Virtuosity

[DieMonsterDie]

My top ten would have to be...

The Devil's Rejects
High Tension
Big Fish
High Fidelity
Anchorman
Runaway Jury
Station Agent
Cello
BioZombie
Secerete Window

But it's always changing.

[The Mothman]

Originally posted by Sick_As_Fuck
"Blade". The whole trilogy deserves to be mentioned 'cept for the fucking 3rd. ugh.

[Bee-otch]

No particular order...

Blade Runner
Taxi Driver
Death of a Salesman
Amadeus
Dune
Phantasm
Soylent Green
The Omega Man
Planet of the Apes(original of course)
Breaking Away

[Amalthea]

1. Over The Hedge (2006)
2. Ice Age 2
3. Ice Age
4. Chicken Little
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Aliens
7. A.I. - Artifical Intelligence
8. Black Cat, White Cat
9. Signs
10. Spirited Away

[Bee-otch]

Originally posted by joshaube
How you guys manage to decide all this is beyond me. I'd never be able to construct an acurate top 10 list.

Actually you have a really good point.

[The Mothman]

Originally posted by Amalthea
1. Over The Hedge (2006)
2. Ice Age 2
3. Ice Age
4. Chicken Little
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Aliens
7. A.I. - Artifical Intelligence
8. Black Cat, White Cat
9. Signs
10. Spirited Away
damn..join a pixar/disney forum why dont you?:p

[The Mothman]

1. The Untouchables
2. The Evil Dead
3. The Toxic Avenger
4. Hard Boiled
5. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
6. Day Of The Dead
7. Braindead
8. Zombie
9. Cobra
10. Zombie Doom

[roshiq]

1] Forrest Gump
2] Rainman
3] The Untouchables
4] Gladiator
5] The Good, the bad & the Ugly
6] Dirty Harry
7] RoboCop
8] Die Hard
9] The Evil Dead
10] School of Rock

[BH14]

Here is my top 10 (not including horror):

1. Shawshank Redemption (the best drama movie)
2. Bloodsport (old school Van Damme movie where you memorize like all the corny lines)
3. The Warriors (hilarious action movie)
4. The 40 Year Old Virgin (Hilarious!!)
5. Jet Li:Fist of Legend (great kung fu movie)
6. Requiem for a Dream (Best drug movie)
7. Seven (my favorite thriller)
8. Meet the Parents (ton fo laughs)
9. Goodfellas
10. Training Day

Honorable mentions: American History X, Fight Club, Scarface

[joshaube]

I like this list, it shows character. :) You get used to seeing a lot of;

Halloween
The Thing

etc on here. :)

[Amalthea]

I'm a meber of the Toonzone forum! :D

[tarcher80]

-jaws
-clerks
-the sting
-trading places
-scent of a woman
-casablanca
-lock stock and two smoking barrels
-the shawshank redemption
-an american werewolf in london
-one flew over the cuckoo's nest

[Ooky_Kabuki]

Originally posted by Elvis_Christ
The Warriors

Robocop

Reservoir Dogs

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2

House Of 1000 Corpses

Evil Dead 2

Drugstore Cowboy

Repo Man

Bad Lieutenant

Barfly

but yeh no particular order except for The Warriors and this changes all the time....

I'm going to have to go with some of these.

1. The Crow
2. The Goonies
3. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
4. Nightmare Before Christmas
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
6. Keeping the Faith
7. House of 1000 Corpses
8. The Devil's Rejects
9. American Psycho
10. Anything at all with Ben Stiller in it

[alkytrio666]

Originally posted by tarcher80
-jaws
-clerks
-the sting
-trading places
-scent of a woman
-casablanca
-lock stock and two smoking barrels
-the shawshank redemption
-an american werewolf in london
-one flew over the cuckoo's nest

That's a mighty fine list.