YOUR Top Ten List

[dgwphotography]

Edgy DC wrote: 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.

um. That Thing You Do?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Iubitul wrote: um. That Thing You Do?

That was one of the reasons that we almost considered naming MK Spartacus.

[Willets Point]

I thought of several movies I like that would make a good pretentious list to show how cultured I am but figured instead to go with movies I've watched over and over and over again and still like:

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 )
Young Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Right Stuff
The Princess Bride
Roger & Me
Delicatessen
Donnie Darko

I left out Midnight Madness because even though I watched it over and over I don't think I ever thought it was good (damned HBO).

Honorable mention to Party Girl for helping me choose my career path.

I know I'm forgetting something.

[seawolf17]

Ah! The Princess Bride! How did I forget that? That knocks Bill & Ted off my list.

[Edgy MD]

Leprechaun
Leprechaun in tha Hood
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold
Finnian's Rainbow
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
A Gnome Named Gnorm
Leapin' Leprechauns
Leprechaun in Space
Gnomeo and Juliet

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Worth watching if only for the unlikely moment when Sean Connery sings.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Ten movies I pretty much know all the lines to:

1. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
2. Robocop
3. Goodfellas
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Fargo
6. Rocky
7. Back to the Future
8. Local Hero
9. 16 Candles
10. The Graduate

[Vic Sage]

LOCAL HERO is a great movie. Great Mark Knopler soundtrack, too.

[Vic Sage]

[u:2cme3bkh]Day 3, 3rd top 10 list (again, in no particular order):[/u:2cme3bkh]

BREAKFAST CLUB - Hughes' brand of teen angst in its purest form, undiluted by plot or even much humor. Reminiscent of DUCK SOUP, in that way.

THIS IS SPINAL TAP - the Ur-text for the mockumentary form.

CLOCKWORK ORANGE - ultra violence and Ludwig Van, my droogies.

STARDUST MEMORIES - Woody's quirky, personal 8 1/2.

WILLY WONKA - Wilder + songs + oompa loompas = many viewings.

MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL - how could i have forgotten this one?

THE TWELVE CHAIRS - my second favorite Brooks film. "Oh God, you're so strict!"

ROBOCOP - violent and funny... my favorite combination.

LOCAL HERO - gentle, whimsical and sad fairy tale, of a sort, with great score.

THE NATURAL - 3rd favorite baseball movie. Betrays the book, but stands on its own.

[Willets Point]

If we're doing different lists for different days, here's my list for today.

Dr. Strangelove
A Fish Called Wanda
Bringing Up Baby
You Can't Take it With You
The Trouble With Harry
Breaking Away
The Empire Strikes Back
Glory
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Next Stop, Wonderland

[Vic Sage]

day 4, list #4:

Conan the barbarian - Milius' Ahnold epic
Seconds - fascinating "twilight zone" type frankenheimer movie
Sleeper - Woody when he was funny
Magnificent 7 - love it, love it, love it
Matrix - i can watch it indefinitely
Maltese Falcon - love that snappy dialogue
Terminator - i can watch it even more than "Matrix"
Young Frankenstein - Brooks #3
Kind Hearts & Coronets - Ealing comedies always work
Jaws - heartpounding thriller

[MFS62]

Vic, your mention of Magnificent 7 made me ponder a while.

Have you noticed that if it wasn't for (having to save) kids and small animals in action adventure/ western movies, many of the characters wouldn't have been killed?

Just a thought.

LAter

[Willets Point]

Vic Sage wrote: Jaws - heartpounding thriller

What I like about Jaws beyond the thriller aspects is the relationship among Scheider, Shaw and Dreyfuss. The movie works well because its really about these three very different men and how they're changed on this boat journey. The sequels were all about the shark and thus failures as drama. Same thing with the Rocky franchise. Rocky was about people, one of whom happened to be a boxer. The sequels were about boxing.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Interesting point, Willets. Rings true to me. (I only saw the first Jaws sequel, and the first two Rocky sequels, by the way.)

[Frayed Knot]

The sequels were about boxing

The sequels were about making shit-loads of money ... but that's a different story.



I generally suck at these 'list' projects, but here goes:

Casablanca
Godfather (original)
Some Like it Hot
Cabaret (NTTAWWT)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Duck Soup
Wizard of Oz
Network
The Sting

(I need some newer flicks)

[MFS62]

More about Jaws.

A few years ago, there was a poll taken. The question was (I paraphrase):
"If you are clicking through the channels and you see a movie is on, which one will you always watch to the end, no matter where you come in?"

The overwhelming majority said Jaws.

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Willets Point wrote: Vic Sage wrote: Jaws - heartpounding thriller What I like about Jaws beyond the thriller aspects is the relationship among Scheider, Shaw and Dreyfuss. The movie works well because its really about these three very different men and how they're changed on this boat journey. The sequels were all about the shark and thus failures as drama. Same thing with the Rocky franchise. Rocky was about people, one of whom happened to be a boxer. The sequels were about boxing.

Absolutely. Though the movie was more shark and less people than the book! In the book, Hooper banged Brody's wife and got eaten by the shark.

[dgwphotography]

Iubitul wrote: 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

How did I not include The Right Stuff?!?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Here's my top 10 list off the top of my head, without giving this topic too much thought other than to alphabetize my picks. BTW, that Vic Sage had a nifty idea here, back when this thread was active during the Salty Parker era, about posting different top 10's every so often as a nod to the fact that a person's list changes often:

City of God

Duck Soup. I had to have a Marx Bros. pick in here and I'm not the first person with the idea that this one was their best ever. I can enjoy any Marx Bros. movie other than The Big Store and Room Service. A Night in Casablanca is my second favorite. I realize that NIC is considered one of their lesser movies but this list is personal and this one's a personal fave. Plus, NIC has some terrific Harpo bits including (baseball tie-in coming up) some clever business involving a catcher's mask and chest protector.

A Face in the Crowd

GoodFellas

Midnight Cowboy

The Purple Rose of Cairo I'm a big Woody Allen fan and this one's my personal fave, slighly edging out Hannah and Her Sisters and Stardust Memories. Purple Rose rarely makes critic's lists of top Woody movies.

Psycho Much of the charm of this movie (yeah, I know - charm's a funny way to describe this one) involves the surprise plot twists and turns and unfortunately, this can only be enjoyed the first time around. I saw Psycho again recently and couldn't help but notice how far ahead of its' time the film was. Plus that bone-chilling Bernard Hermann musical score that I hear in the back of my head whenever the #2 guy in Willie's lineup crouches down to telegraph a freakin' sac bunt.

Rosemary's Baby

Saving Private Ryan

Umberto D.

When I made up this list, I had 13 films. The three that didn't make the cut: Requiem for a Dream. To be honest, I had forgotten about this one and was reminded of it by reading this thread, where several of you had mentioned it. When I first discovered Requiem, I must have seen it like half a dozen times in about two months. A powerfully depressing movie.
Singin' in the Rain. Sixty years old and still watchable. I watch this movie about once every 10 months or so. Misses the cut because last month, I slipped the DVD into the player, and after 5 minutes, decided I had seen it too many times and shut off the DVD player. Maybe it'll make the next list. Treasure of Sierra Madre. Bogie's no gangster in my favorite Bogie movie.

Not Really Applicable but I'm putting it in: I'm currently watching TV reruns of the old early 60's TV detective show Naked City on DVD. Almost every single exterior shot is filmed on location in NYC. Also, many of the interior shots are also filmed on location. So if a scene occurs in a grocery store, the director is is just as likely to have picked out an actual NYC grocery store to film the scene.

[Guest sharpie]

Yow. Magadan doing a big reachback.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Yeah. I'm reachin' here. I'm reachin' here.

[nymr83]

I'm going off the top of my head here so this is all subject to change:

The Hunt for Red October
Shawshank Redemption
The Final Countdown
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
Goodfellas
Ghostbusters
The Sixth Sense
Knocked Up
X-Men 2


the first 6 are in no particular order but are higher than the bottom 4.
i like knocked up alot but i'm sure that spot could just as easily have gone to a different comedy like Road Trip or American Pie

[Batty31]

The top 7 are locked in...the bottom 3 change upon my mood, but basically any old Universal, Hammer or Vincent Price or film noir movie goes in the rotation.

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Godfather I and II
Strangers on a Train
Rear Window
Dial M for Murder
Ed Wood
Young Frankenstein
Dracula
Nosferatu
Dracula AD 1972

[soupcan]

I guess I missed this thread the first time.

Tough to do just 10 so here's my 11.


Not ranked - just there.

Pulp Fiction
A Fish Called Wanda
The Sting
Back To The Future
Diamonds Are Forever
Full Metal Jacket
Reservoir Dogs
Jaws
Bull Durham
The Natural
The Professional

[Centerfield]

Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Godfather
My Cousin Vinny
Bull Durham
Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring)
Major League
Beautiful Girls
Dances With Wolves
Tombstone

[nymr83]

I'll take Sixth Sense and Ghostbusters off my list in favor of Back to the Future which i didn't think of and a Bond movie - likely Goldeneye or Goldfinger.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Top of my head:

King Kong (1933)
Casablanca
Duck Soup
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
Bull Durham
Bride of Frankenstein
The Desperate Hours
High Noon
The Untouchables

[Centerfield]

Grimm's head is remarkably consistent to the tune of 8 out of 10.

[metsmarathon]

in no particular order, save the first, and with many a presumed oversight:

better off dead
heat
terminator 2
die hard
star trek iv
raiders of the lost ark
back to the future
true lies
down to you
disney's aladdin

[TransMonk]

Centerfield wrote: Beautiful Girls

nice

metsmarathon wrote: better off dead

as well