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AzwethinkweizAzwethinkweiz Posts: 547
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Hello fellow movie buffs!

I'd like to see a list of your 20 alltime favorite flicks!

Only pick 20...no honorable mentions.

GO!
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  • AzwethinkweizAzwethinkweiz Posts: 547
    After a long and hard thinking, here goes; (In no particular order):

    1. Mulholland Drive
    2. Zodiac
    3. Taxi Driver
    4. Chinatown
    5. Batman Begins
    6. Psycho
    7. Almost Famous
    8. Into the Wild
    9. Raging Bull
    10. Alien
    11. There Will Be Blood
    12. Jaws
    13. Blade Runner (Final Cut)
    14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    15. The Big Lebowski
    16. American Psycho
    17. The Rules of Attraction
    18. Vertigo
    19. The Shining
    20. Session 9
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,929
    The Big Lebowski
    Ghostbusters
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    Dumb and Dumber
    The Godfather
    Happy Gilmore
    Star Wars
    Ace Ventura
    Back to the Future
    Rocky
    Zoolander
    Batman
    Caddyshack
    Lord of the Rings
    Forest Gump
    Stand By Me
    Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
    South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut
    The Naked Gun
    Spaceballs
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2

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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    In no order. I tried to stick to one film per director but failed on two counts with Herzog and Scorcese :o:)

    The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
    Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu)
    Three Colours Trilogy (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
    Fight Club (David Fincher)
    Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa)
    My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
    American History X (Tony Kaye)
    Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
    Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
    Goodfellas (Martin Scorcese)
    Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
    Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo)
    Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
    Superbad (Greg Mottola)
    Taxi Driver (Martin Scorcese)
    Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
    Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
    Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
    In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    The Big Lebowski
    Ghostbusters
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    Dumb and Dumber
    The Godfather
    Happy Gilmore
    Star Wars
    Ace Ventura
    Back to the Future
    Rocky
    Zoolander
    Batman
    Caddyshack
    Lord of the Rings
    Forest Gump
    Stand By Me
    Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
    South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut
    The Naked Gun
    Spaceballs


    Really sticking with the high-brow stuff I see.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,929
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Really sticking with the high-brow stuff I see.

    yeah I guess The Godfather, Stand By Me, Forrest Gump, Back to the Future and Star Wars are pretty low-brow
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2

    Pearl Jam bootlegs:
    http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
  • Drop The Leash 10Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    The Departed
    Forest Gump
    Into The Wild
    Reign Over Me
    Benchwarmers
    Blood Diamond
    1408
    The Pursuit of Happyness
    Saving Private Ryan
    Cast Away
    Gone Baby Gone
    Man On Fire
    Deja Vu
    The Guardian
    The Perfect Storm
    The Blair Witch Project
    Talladega Nights
    Billy Madison
    Anchorman
    Happy Gilmore
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


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  • bryn_cmbsbryn_cmbs Posts: 407
    1. Edward Scissorhands
    2. American Beauty
    3. The Empire Strikes Back
    4. Rushmore
    5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
    6. Kingpin
    7. Pulp Fiction
    8. Forrest Gump
    9. Groundhog Day
    10. Crash
    11. Stand By Me
    12. Die Hard
    13. Raising Arizona
    14. Se7en
    15. The Shawshank redemption
    16. Little Miss Sunshine
    17. E.T.
    18. The Goonies
    19. Rocky III
    20. The Naked Gun
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    bryn_cmbs wrote:
    11. Stand By Me
    14. Se7en
    Should be in my list but I couldn't make room :(
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • tonadaxtonadax Posts: 594
    Top 20:

    The godfather 1 and 2
    The matrix 1 and 2
    Goodfellas
    Fight club
    City of god
    Castaway
    American History
    Batman
    Training day
    Dumb and dumber
    Scarface
    Seven
    Casino
    Ocean's eleven
    X men 2
    Saving private ryan
    Taxi driver
    Carlitos way
  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    Oh man to many for a list, I am to lazy to think.....

    Godfather I
    Godfather II
    Jaws I
    The Outsiders
    Almost Famous
    The Graduate
    Crossing The Bridge
    Forrest Gump
    Gangs of NY
    Saving Private Ryan
    Sixteen Candles
    Fast Times @ R.
    Breakfast Club
    Michael
    Stand By Me
    Goonies
    Shawshank R.
    Rocky I
    Rocky III
    Rockstar ....oh yea.....Rock Star


    I think thats 20
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  • TransplantedNewfTransplantedNewf Posts: 805
    almost famous
    the commitments
    buffalo 66
    into the wild
    harold and maude
    great expectations
    the smokers
    clerks
    souvenir of canada
    imaginary heroes
    magnolia
    bowling for columbine
    best in show
    the royal tenenbaums
    the bad seed
    annie
    snatch
    big fish
    planet of the apes
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  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    star wars
    memento
    dumb and dumber
    fight club
    waynes world
    waynes world 2
    adaptation
    vanilla sky
    pulp fiction
    usual suspects
    reservoir dogs
    anchorman
    office space
    the goonies
    scarface
    rocky horror picture show
    silence of the lambs
    saving private ryan
    terminator 2
    labrynth


    BOO YA. cant fuck with that list. all encompassing great time there.

    shoot, honorable mention ROCKY I + II
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II '24
  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    For the current moment and off the top of my head:

    Shawshank Redemption
    Godfather
    Godfather Part 2
    The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
    Se7en
    Almost Famous
    Say Anything
    The Usual Suspects
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    The Sting
    Rocky
    Full Metal Jacket
    Unforgiven
    The Princess Bride
    Back to the Future
    The Goonies
    Blade Runner
    Blood Diamond
    Goodfellas
    Psycho
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Just off the top of my head I came up with these... a couple short

    Shawshank Redemption
    The Usual Suspects
    A Beautiful Mind
    M*A*S*H
    Goodfellas
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Almost Famous
    Office Space
    Caddyshack
    Airplane!
    Saving Private Ryan
    Snatch
    Something About Mary
    Forrest Gump
    Million Dollar Baby
    Casablanca
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
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  • acoustic guyacoustic guy Posts: 3,770
    Krisdababe wrote:
    almost famous
    the commitments
    buffalo 66
    into the wild
    harold and maude
    great expectations
    the smokers
    clerks
    souvenir of canada
    imaginary heroes
    magnolia
    bowling for columbine
    best in show
    the royal tenenbaums
    the bad seed
    annie
    snatch
    big fish
    planet of the apes

    Oh yea best in show. I love their comedy. They are a funny group of actors.
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  • righteousbaberighteousbabe Posts: 662
    fear and loathing in las vegas
    natural born killers
    the empire strikes back
    beetlejuice
    eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
    indiana jones and the last crusade
    back to the future 1
    return of the jedi
    sweeny todd
    ed wood
    donnie brasco
    star wars: a new hope
    revenge of the sith
    indiana jones and the temple of doom
    blow
    snatch
    american beauty
    scarface
    raiders of the lost ark
    shawshank redemption

    No particular order and I have probably forgotten some that should be in there.
  • battan1120battan1120 Posts: 310
    Apocolypse Now
    We Were Soldiers
    Remember the Titans
    Stalag 17
    Forest Gump
    American Gangster
    All 3 Lord of the Rings
    The Grateful Dead Movie
    Die Hard
    Miracle
    The Longest Day
    Hamburger Hill
    Fractured
    Mr. Brookes
    Up in Smoke
    The Sound of Music
    The bus came by and I got on!!!!!
  • Gold 26Gold 26 Posts: 676
    Again in no real order.....

    Goodfellas
    Shawshank Redemption
    Halloween
    28 Days Later
    LOTR Return Of The King
    Fight Club
    Donnie Darko
    Shaun Of The Dead
    Seven
    Empire Strikes Back
    Ghostbusters
    American Psycho
    BASEketball
    Monty Python & Holy Grail
    Trainspotting
    Blair Witch
    Eternal Sunshine
    Back To The Future
    Big Fish
    It's A Wonderful Life
    All my favourite singers have stolen all of my best lines.
  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    not in exact best to worst order, except for #1

    1. Big Lebowski
    2. North Shore
    3. Rad
    4. Wedding Crashers
    5. Braveheart
    6. Rocky III
    7. Rocky IV
    8. Friday Night Lights
    9. Step Into Liquid
    10. Reign Over Me
    11. Big Trouble In Little China
    12. Revenge Of The Nerds
    13. Into The Wild
    14. Raising Arizona
    15. American History X
    16. Happy Gilmore
    17. Pearl Jam: Live At The Garden
    18. Top Gun
    19. Old School
    20. The Goonies
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    I love the 80s movies...

    better off dead

    breakfast club

    sixteen candles

    pretty in pink
    I know Im forgetting some....

    forrest gump ( yeah I know corny..but I loved it)

    Gone with the Wind

    It's a wonderful life

    Untamed Heart ( something about it gets me)

    eh...I need sometime for the rest.
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  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    libragirl wrote:
    I love the 80s movies...

    yep...the 80's were a good time. A great time! Music, movies, clothes (well at least at the time I thought they were great lol...the clothes that is)
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. wrote:
    yep...the 80's were a good time. A great time! Music, movies, clothes (well at least at the time I thought they were great lol...the clothes that is)

    Yeah the clothes I could do w/o...well at the time I thought I was the shit with my dayglo shirts and gummy bracelets :D
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  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,173
    The first two movies are in order, then after that it's no particular order:

    Animal House
    Silence of the Lambs
    Clerks I and II
    Mallrats
    Chasing Amy
    Dogma
    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    The Godfather I and II
    Almost Famous
    Fight Club
    Old School
    Coach Carter
    Remember the Titans
    Office Space
    Saved
    South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
    The Matrix
    American Pie
  • PJ_LukinPJ_Lukin Posts: 2,055
    Singles

    doesn't make anyones list?
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    In no particular order..

    Star Wars
    The Empire Strikes Back
    Return of the Jedi
    The Fellowship of the Ring
    The Two Towers
    Return of the King
    Back to the Future
    Braveheart
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Die Hard
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
    The Road Warrior
    The Ninth Gate
    The Princess Bride
    The Goonies
    Serenity
    The Wizard of Oz
    What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    PJ_Lukin wrote:
    Singles

    doesn't make anyones list?
    I could never sit all the way through that movie without getting bored.. only watched it for Pearl Jam. :p
  • Gold 26Gold 26 Posts: 676
    PJ_Lukin wrote:
    Singles

    doesn't make anyones list?

    Now I really liked Singles when I watched it (like, 10 years ago) but being honest I don't know if I'd like it as much if it wasn't for the Pearl jam connection. The same applies to Into The Wild I think....
    All my favourite singers have stolen all of my best lines.
  • Housing JimHousing Jim Posts: 644
    Not in irder but the top seven are my favourites:

    1. Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope
    2. Stand By Me
    3. Scream
    4. Psycho
    5. Heathers
    6. Donnie Darko
    7. Lost In Translation
    8. Star Wars: Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back
    9. Star Wars: Episode 6 - Return of the Jedi
    10. Singles
    11. Fight Club
    12. Aliens
    13. Aliens
    14. Die Hard
    15. Robocop
    16. Batman Begins
    17. Dial M For Murder
    18. Spider-man
    19. High Fidelity
    20. From Dusk Till Dawn
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  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,173
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    I could never sit all the way through that movie without getting bored.. only watched it for Pearl Jam. :p
    Yeah, I only watched it because Pearl Jam was in it. It was cool to get a feel for the early 90s, but that's about it. Definitely wasn't Crowe's best work and the big name actors (Sedgwick, Dillon, Fonda) have turned in better performances for other projects, so it's just kind of so-so to me.
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