YOUR Top Ten List

[Elster88]

What are your favorite movies? Not which ones have the best stories, have the best acting, or were the most groundbreaking in cinematography....unless those are the criteria you use to pick your favorite movies. As In the Bedroom taught us, a movie can have all the pieces of a great movie and still be a snooze-fest.

These are the movies that you would bring with you if you had to live for a year on a deserted island that came equipped with electricity and surround sound. And don't pick a movie just because it has the Katie Holmes' nude scene, because you can bring stills with you from any movie you want.

Rank them 1-10 if you can.

[seawolf17]

In no particular order, my Top Ten:

Clue
Airplane
The Three Amigos
Field of Dreams
Forget Paris
This Is Spinal Tap
Spaceballs
PCU
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

In no particular order, and totally off the cuff -

The Producers (1968)
Radio Days
Airplane
Yellow Submarine
Ruthless People
Johnny Dangerously
A Christmas Story
America's Sweethearts
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Annie Hall


If I'm sitting on that island for a year, I'm going to need some laughs.

If I can add a few others, I'd throw in Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and Party Girl - a Parker Posey trio.

[metirish]

1 - Unforgiven

2 - Gangs of New York

3 - The Deer Hunter

4 - Heat

5 - The Abyss

6 - In The Name Of The Father

7 -In America

8 -Trainspotting

9 - The Field

10 - The Commitments

Well that list would probably change every day but that's it....

[Vic Sage]

Here's 10 off the top of my head, in the order in which they occurred to me (tomorrow would likely be an entirely different list):

The Good, The Bad & the Ugly
The Producers
The Crow
Moulin Rouge
The In-Laws
All That Jazz
Barbarella
Kill Bill (v1-v2)
Field of Dreams
Bladerunner

[metirish]

See I forgot Field of Dreams.....

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

All That Jazz is a great choice.

I remembered seeing that one when I was in college, and hating it the first time because it was so different from what I was prepared to see. By the second viewing, though, I was hooked - it's brilliant.

[Elster88]

I think my top 10 list would stay relatively the same from day to day, it would just take some time to come up with it.

[TransMonk]

1. Glengary Glenross
A movie I can watch again and again and again. It has superb acting by everyone and great dialogue. I enjoy most of Mamet’s screenplays, but this one by far hit the nail on the head in translating to the screen. No violence, no chicks, no drugs…just two set pieces and a whole lot of cursing. Stayed true to the play and blows me away every time I see it.

2. True Romance
Like Mamet, I love Tarantino’s screenplays…also like Mamet, I feel that Tarantino messes his movies up to a certain extent when he directs them. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were great flicks, yet still so stylish and overblown that it sometimes got in the way of the story. True Romance keeps the script but lets Tony Scott tell the tale. He gets great performances from an all-star cast.

3. Empire Strikes Back
My favorite movie from childhood…again, some great stories are better told when someone other than the writer is telling them. Lucas didn’t have the chance to ruin this movie with cheesy gags and over the top animation. It’s still my favorite of the series, dark yet funny. It will always take me back to being 8 years old again.

4. Swingers
Funny, sweet, dated yet hip…this movie always makes me smile. Along with “Beautiful Girls,�

[Elster88]

8. Requiem for a Dream This is the only movie that has effected me on a physical level…which is to say when I got done with this film, I left the theater feeling like I had just been hit in the head with a baseball bat.

Oh my god you said it perfectly. I didn't see it in theaters but rented it, and I was depressed for the rest of the day after I watched it. Felt like a zombie.

[Edgy MD]

metirish wrote: 1 - Unforgiven 2 - Gangs of New York 3 - The Deer Hunter 4 - Heat 5 - The Abyss 6 - In The Name Of The Father 7 -In America 8 -Trainspotting 9 - The Field 10 - The Commitments Well that list would probably change every day but that's it....

metirish following the flag:

1 - Featuring notable Irish actor Richard Harris

2 - Starring notable Irish (assumed citizenship as an adult) actor Daniel Day-Lewis. Full of themes of Irish-American controlled gang activity in New York.

3 - Featured no Irish connections that I know of, though there was a Latvian in the cast.

4 - Featured no Irish connections that I know of.

5 - Featured no Irish connections that I know of.

6 - Again featured Day-Lewis, in a story about Irish prisoners allegedly steamrolled in Britain.

7 -The story of an Irish Immigrant family in New york.

8 -Scottish.

9 - Very Irish story again featuring Richard Harris

10 - Very Irish story. Very Irish cast. Very British director. Very American music.

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: metirish wrote: 4 - Heat 4 - Featured no Irish connections that I know of.

I think De Niro has Irish ancestry on his mother's side.

[Elster88]

Funny story about about a friend of a relative. She was working at a store (jewelry I think, but can't remember) and was filling out a customer's order form. She asked for his name while looking down at the form but didn't quite hear him.

*still looking down* "Could you spell your last name please?"

"D-E-N-I-R-O"

*Repeating it back as she writes* "D-E-N-I-R......" *looks up, mouth slowly opening in shock*

*nods and half-smiles* "Yup"

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I think it's funny at least. Really needs to be told in person.

[Edgy MD]

Sure. So does Clint Eastwood. I've got to give metirish the benefit of the doubt somewhere though, and I'll assume that his Eastwood Jones and his DeNiro DeSire aren't ethnically linked.

[Elster88]

Edgy DC wrote: Sure. So does Clint Eastwood. I've got to give metirish the benefit of the doubt somewhere though, and I'll assume that his Eastwood Jones and his DeNiro DeSire aren't ethnically linked.

Sure. I only posted that to be a pain in the neck.

[Edgy MD]

Like I wasn't?

God, who in their right mind is going to hire us?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Perhaps the solution is to focus on employers who aren't in their right mind?

[metirish]

You lads are too funny..I just thought of Gladiator...I love that movie...and Crowe thinks he's Irish.

Again featured Day-Lewis, in a story about Irish prisoners allegedly steamrolled in Britian

They were steamrolled, plain and simple.....

[RealityChuck]

My list changes all the time, but for now:

1. Singin' in the Rain
2. Citizen Kane
3. Duck Soup
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. North by Northwest
6. Love and Death
7. Playtime
8. Stagecoach
9. Chicago
10. The General

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll do the top-of-my-head thing too:

King Kong (1933)
Duck Soup
Casablanca
Bride of Frankenstein
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
High Noon
The Desperate Hours
The Out-of-Towners
Take the Money and Run
Spider-Man

[Edgy MD]

They were steamrolled, plain and simple.....

Hook baited. Fish caught. Of course they were.

I was working at a bookstore inthe mid-nineties. It was starting to get aggravating how many "real" stories featured book covers, not with the real person who lived the story, but instead with Daniel Day-Lewis.

[MFS62]

No particular order:

Touch of Evil
Dr. Strangelove
History of the World (Part I)
G-dfather (parts I and II edited in chrono sequence)
Kill Bill (V1)
Primal Fear
King Kong (1933)
West Side Story
Napoleon (Abel Gance - Director) Since I'd have plenty of time to kill on that island, I might as well take a brilliant seven hour long movie.
Hoosiers

Later

[dgwphotography]

In no particular order:

The Sting
Singing In The Rain
Bull Durham
That Thing You Do
The Music Man
Jaws
North By Northwest
Field Of Dreams
The Candidate
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

[Edgy MD]

I think your common thread is ruggedly handsome leading men, with sinewy forarms and a charming rascally anti-heroism.

Except North by Northwest and Singing in the Rain, where you went for classy handsome leading men.

I have no idea what my favorite movies are.

[Vic Sage]

well, since today is another day, here's my new "top 10 desert island movies":

True Romance - it was a toss-up between this and PULP FICTION, but this one wins due to the comicbook connection.

Empire Strikes Back - best of Star Wars

Almost Famous - great music, great characters, funny and sad

Singin in the Rain - greatest movie musical ever

Duck Soup - greatest Marx Brox movie

Wizard of Oz - i can't believe i didn't put this on my list yesterday

King Kong (33) - I've watched it every Thanksgiving since i was a kid

Casablanca - you MUST remember this!

Bull Durham - After "field of dreams" but before "the natural".

Outlaw Josey Wales - as much as i like "Unforgiven", this one gets the nod.


and tomorrow i can make another top 10... and we can go on like that for weeks...

[Willets Point]

Vic Sage wrote: Duck Soup - greatest Marx Brox movie

Saw that a few weeks ago at a local ahts theatre. Meant to put up a poll. Pretty darn hillarious.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Hail Fredonia!

[Vic Sage]

I gots guns
you gots guns
all god's chilln' got gunnnss.....

We should make that our new national anthem.

"Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honour, which is probably more than she ever did."

[Benjamin Grimm]

I had Duck Soup on my list too. In fact, I had three overlaps with Vic, (Duck Soup, King Kong, and Casablanca) and they were probably my only three no-brainers.

I thought about going with two Marx Brothers movies and also including Animal Crackers but Duck Soup is the only film the Brothers made that wasn't bogged down with romantic subplots, and stands far above the rest.

I ended up picking Humphrey Bogart three times and could easily have gone with more: The African Queen and The Maltese Falcon for example.

[MFS62]

Oh crap!
African Queen.
How could I have forgotten?

Looks like I have to drop Hoosiers from my list.

Later