Your Top Ten Movies All Time

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He cannot stop the fantasy his wife has revealed, but he can go one better by actually sleeping with someone else.

I think you are crediting the character with far too much “substance”, even if in the form of some legitimate existential angst or paralysis, (though I certainly can see where this reading can come from). To me this is just an idiot who takes his own desire seriously, a kind of paper soul. Unbelieveably L.A. I suppose a good film can bear multiple readings. I just am not sure this is a good film, in that sense.

Dunamis

O.G.,

I figured it out. Lynch said somewhere there WAS an answer…

What I suspect is that this confuses what Lynch was thinking about when he made/wrote it, with what it really means. The combinations of images, characters and reversals I believe would be as likely to be reducible to a single meaning or message, as a dream could be. But that is just my way of relating to latter, less narrative Lynch. It is a dream space for me. But I appreciate the effort to dig down into it. As it proved satisfying and meaningful, that is all one can ask.

Dunamis

  1. Matchstick Men
  2. John Q
  3. Man on Fire
  4. Bowling for Columbine
  5. F 911
    6.Suicide Kings
  6. Heat
  7. Lost Boys
  8. American Pie 2
  9. Shot to Kill
  1. Donnie Darko

  2. Stalag 17

  3. shawshank redemption

  4. Hotel Rwanda

  5. Pi

  6. Birth

  7. Les Miserables

  8. Flight of the pheonix

  9. To kill a mocking bird

  10. Anything with pauly shore in it…

  11. Backdoor sluts 13 :wink:

To Kill a Mockingbird

Unforgiven

Apocalypse Now

The Godfather

Natural Born Killers

The Wizard of Oz

Prince of the City

Godfather II

Moonstruck

Leaving Las Vegas

  1. Pulp Fiction
  2. Platoon
  3. Apocalypse now
  4. For a few dollars more
  5. Fight Club
  6. Austin Powers
  7. Scary Movie (1-4)
  8. Airplane
  9. Crash
  10. Legends of the fall

kurosawa movies. …I find them intense, and somewhat untimely.

in no order, save for the number #1 slot:

→ Bourne Identity series (i’ll count both movies as one)
→ Anchorman
→ Apocalypse Now
→ Kill Bill series
→ Edward Scissorhands
→ SLC Punk!
→ Fight Club
→ Dr. Strangelove
→ Dead Poet’s Society

  1. V for Vendetta
  1. Ikiru (A. Kurosawa 1952)
  2. Bright Future (K. Kurosawa 2003)
  3. Bin Jip (Kim 2004)
  4. Nine Souls (Toyoda 2003)
  5. Seven Samurai (A. Kurosawa 1954)
  6. Visitor Q (Miike 2001)
  7. The Ring (Nakata 1998)
  8. Taste of Tea (Ishii 2004)
  9. Peppermint Candy (Lee 2000)
  10. Like Grains of Sand (Hashiguchi 1995)

This one’s an old top 10 I just copied and pasted from another forum.

Special mentions: Dr. Strangelove, Take Care of My Cat, Apocalypse Now, Blue Spring, Go, Sawshank Redemption, Donnie Darko, Good Will Hunting, Infernal Affairs, Lone Wolf and Cub 1-6, Old Boy, Sympathy for Mr./Lady Vengeance, Sanjuro, The Hidden Fortress, Toni Takitani, Trainspotting, Yojimbo.

American Beauty
Life Is Beautiful
Glory
Platoon
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Requiem for a Dream
Good Will Hunting
Forrest Gump
Snatch

My 10 from the top of my head, in no particular order…

  • The Godfather Trilogy (i’ll count it as one)
  • Scarface
  • Goodfellas
  • Casino
  • Carlito’s Way
  • The Untouchables
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • The Deer Hunter
  • The Hustler
  • Conan the Barbarian

Some honorable mentions…

  • Raging Bull
  • Taxi Driver
  • Men of Honor
  • The Sean Connary, James Bond Collection
  • Cocktail
  • Scent of a Woman
  • The Devils Advocate
  • Predator
  • Rocky I - IV
  • Rambo II
  • Gladiator
  • Apocolypse Now
  • Chopper
  • A Few Good Men
  • The Lone Wolf and Cub Collection
  • Tombstone
  • Sin City
  • Beverly Hills Cop I & II
  • Die Hard
  • Mad max
  • Indianna Jones Trilogy
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Star Wars Collection
  • Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest
  • Chinatown
  • …theres a lot more, but I think I’ve posted too many already.

Here is my list (aside from #1, the rest are in no particular order):

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  1. Casino
  2. American History X
  3. Terms of Endearment
  4. The Breakfast Club
  5. Boogie Nights
  6. The Stendhal Syndrome
  7. Fight Club
  8. Dead Poet’s Society
  9. Abre los ojos
  10. Y tu mama tambien
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Honorable Mentions (no particular order):


April Fool’s Day
Equilibirium
Metroland
200 Cigarettes
54
Fried Green Tomatoes
Some Kind of Wonderful
Can’t Buy Me Love
Just One of the Guys
Valley Girl
St. Elmo’s Fire
Lucas
Less Than Zero
Bright Lights, Big City
Pretty in Pink
Intersection
The Goonies
Friday
Laurel Canyon
American Psycho
Halloween (the original)
Eyes Wide Shut
A Nightmare on Elm Street (the original)
Blade Runner
Sixteen Candles
Steel Magnolias
City of God
Antoine Fisher
Edward Scissorhands
Heathers
The Silence of the Lambs
The Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King’s The Stand (tv miniseries)
Primal Fear
Saw
The Princess Bride
Ace Ventura
Groundhog Day
The Pallbearer
The Boy Who Could Fly
School Ties
The Rachel Papers
Big
28 Days Later
Last House on the Left
Wrong Turn
Intermission
The Karate Kid
Dumb and Dumber
Circle of Friends
A Clockwork Orange
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Living Dead
From Hell (Johnny Depp)

I have an eclectic taste in movies, but prefer ones that are ‘dark.’ I also have a soft spot in my heart for those cheesy 80s films. Many of these movies are “guilty” pleasures too. :blush: :smiley:

Tough question, these are just the ones I can think of right off the bat in a somewhat particular order…

[size=92]Forrest Gump (Why wouldn’t you like this movie I ASK YOU!! I am also a master of Forrest Gump impressions.)
Blow (So…who wants to sell some coke, you in? Ironic though, the ultimate crime doesn’t pay story.)
The Godfather Trilogy (although the third one was definitely the worst of the three)
Scarface (and a giant pile of cocaine sits on his desk, sticks his face in it an image that will stick with me…)
Pulp Fiction (Very cool, very cool)
Goodfellas (another epic mafioso)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I love that dorky fantasy stuff, and the landscapes were simply amazing…gotta go the New Zealand some day)
The Network (Way ahead of its time, and well…a hell of a lot of good monolouges.)
Full Metal Jacket (Just two especially memorable quotes…“What do we have here, a fucking comedian! Private, Joker! I admire your honesty. Hell, I like you, you can come over to my house and fuck my sister!”, “I’ll bet you’re the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around!”
Fight Club (think I read someone say it had a lame twist but good fights well screw that man! The twist was not lame, and of course the fights were good, they were damn good!)
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and there are many more, on my lower echelon of favorites list, though they can morph together at times…

[size=92]Dumb and Dumber (the original funniest goddamn movie ever for me, good quote “Aspen, where the beer flows like wine…”, also the last scene was truly great.)
Giant (its an oldie but an goodie, my sister forced me to watch it)
Friday (“Its a Friday, you ain’t got shit to do…we gonna get you high!”, I always love when they show people getting high in the movies, I only wish it was actually that cool…)
Gattaca (the scene where Uma Thermon says “You are…a god-child!?”, something about it stuck with me, the movie was very beautiful as a whole)
Equilibrium (although a cheap knockoff of Fahrenheit 451…)
Gladiator (Russell Crowe is a badass in this one…)
Carlito’s Way (Oh Al Pacino you just had to fucking die!!)
A Clockwork Orange (I raped and pillaged after watching this one!)
Groundhog Day (Bill Murrey, you are a funny man)
Blade Runner (Nicely ahead of its time, cool cyberpunk film.)
American History X
Casino (fucking classic, Sharon Stone you crazy bitch)
Donnie Darko (Call me stupid, but I had to watch it twice to fully understand it, and…mabye I still don’t.)
Kill Bill 1 & 2 (Uma Thermon is hot.)
the fucking ‘Karate Kid’ (Danielson, you must 'wass on, wass off")
Die Hard (man Bruce Willis is such a hard ass)
Lethal Weapon (and so is Mel Gibson)
Braveheart
Resourvoir Dogs
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mabye I’ll add more later…so many, I love movies!!!

Forgot to mention Boyz in the Hood, suprised nobody else did.
Oh yeah and I Heart Huckabees.

Boyz N the Hood was my favorite movie for a few years, actually. But I was an impressionable youth then. Watching it now, it’s a bit melodramatic, the acting is subpar at best, and opposed to finding those guys ‘cool’ as I did when I was younger, now I just think they’re idiots. Still a good movie, to be sure, but I’d say it ultimately lacks staying-power.

I just watched Waking Life after reading Mucius’s little review on it and I loved it. I think I’m gonna watch it again!
I would say it was one of my favorite movies but it didn’t really have a plot so I wouldn’t classify it as a movie in the traditional sense.

My Top Ten Overlooked/Underrated/Silly Movies:

American Graffiti
Biloxi Blues
Clue
Detroit Rock City
Beautiful Girls
Creepshow
A League of Their Own
Chasing Amy
The Game
Predator

Admittedly, I don’t have such a vast film culture, and I am still waiting to finish downloadi… ermm… buying Antonioni’s films and a couple of Fellini’s which I haven’t seen, so I can make my own list, after I’ve watched them. I am particularly anxious to view, L’Avventura, L’Eclisse, La Notte, La strada, Nights of Cabiria.

Mr. Kebop, if you liked the outlandish feel of Waking Life, you could try Fellini’s 8 1/2. It is based on the same principle of mental distorsion, with emphasis this time on flash-backs, in the manner of Proust. Plus, it features Caludia Cardinale, who is a lovely girl.

Thank you sir, I’ll be sure to check it out.


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