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  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,980
    All time top 5:
    Mulholland Drive
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Conversation
    The Departed
    This Is Spinal Tap

    World Cinema:
    Persona
    Dogtooth
    Cache (aka Hidden)
    Wild Tales
    Fitzcalrado
    Amores Perros

    Modern Masterpieces:
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Ex Machina
    Drive
    Whiplash

    Misc:
    Paths of Glory
    Barry Lyndon
    Blue Velvet
    Lost Highway
    Eraserhead
    Manchester 04.06.00, Leeds 25.08.06, Wembley 18.06.07, Dusseldorf 21.06.07, Shepherds Bush 11.08.09, Manchester 17.08.09, Adelaide 17.11.09, Melbourne 20.11.09, Sydney 22.11.09, Brisbane 25.11.09, MSG1 20.05.10, MSG2 21.05.10, Dublin 22.06.10, Belfast 23.06.10, London 25.06.10, Long Beach 06.07.11 (EV), Los Angeles 08.07.11 (EV), Toronto 11.09.11, Toronto 12.09.11, Ottawa 14.09.11, Hamilton 14.09.11, Manchester 20.06.12, Manchester 21.06.12, Amsterdam 26.06.2012, Amsterdam 27.06.2012, Berlin 04.07.12, Berlin 05.07.12, Stockholm 07.07.12, Oslo 09.07.12, Copenhagen 10.07.12, Manchester 28.07.12 (EV), Brooklyn 18.10.13, Brooklyn 19.10.13, Philly 21.10.13, Philly 22.10.13, San Diego 21.11.13, LA 23.11.13, LA 24.11.13, Oakland 26.11.13, Portland 29.11.13, Spokane 30.11.13, Calgary 02.12.13, Vancouver 04.12.13, Seattle 06.12.13, Trieste 22.06.14, Vienna 25.06.14, Berlin 26.06.14, Stockholm 28.06.14, Leeds 08.07.14, Philly 28.04.16, Philly 28.04.16, MSG1 01.05.16, MSG2 02.05.16
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    edited April 28
    It's my 20 favorite, not what I would say are the 20 best. Leans strongly to that GenX timeline. Goodfellas is definitely better than most of these, but just not in my Top 20.
    • Almost Famous
    • Back to the Future
    • Batman (1989)
    • Braveheart
    • Bull Durham
    • Cinema Paradiso
    • Coming to America
    • Die Hard
    • Dumb and Dumber
    • The Godfather
    • The Godfather II
    • The Good The Bad and The Ugly
    • The Goonies
    • The Karate Kid
    • Kill Bill (1 & 2)
    • Office Space
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Rocky
    • Silver Linings Playbook
    • Unforgiven
    • Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factor
    Almost made it.
    • Back to School
    • The Breakfast Club
    • UHF
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    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila,  PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13; Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24; Pittsburgh 5/16/25; Pittsburgh 5/18/25

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,324
    edited April 28
    Loving these lists!

    1-Empire Strikes Back
    2-Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
    3-Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
    4-Full Metal Jacket
    5-Enter The Dragon

    6-The Matrix
    7-Mr Smith Goes to Washington
    8-The Dirty Dozen
    9-The Magnificent Seven (The original)
    10-Walking Tall (The original)

    11-How to Train Your Dragon
    12-Return of the Jedi
    13-Star Trek 4 Voyage Home
    14-Jason and the Argonauts
    15-Ferris Buellers Day Off

    16-Way of The Gun
    17-Forrest Gump
    18-28 Days Later
    19-The Good The Bad and the Ugly
    20-Snatch

    21-Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    22-Rounders
    23-Animal House
    24-Yankee Doodle Dandy
    25-The Dark Knight

    Honorable Mentions: Willy Wonka, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Outsiders, Young Frankenstein, The Mask, Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Breakfast Club, Fight Club, Avengers End Game.

    This is tough but if I was locked in a room I could live with all these.

    Few more honorables  Aladin, Back to the Future, Say Anything, Tombstone.
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,324
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    It's my 20 favorite, not what I would say are the 20 best. Leans strongly to that GenX timeline. Goodfellas is definitely better than most of these, but just not in my Top 20.
    • Almost Famous
    • Back to the Future
    • Batman (1989)
    • Braveheart
    • Bull Durham
    • Cinema Paradiso
    • Coming to America
    • Die Hard
    • Dumb and Dumber
    • The Godfather
    • The Godfather II
    • The Good The Bad and The Ugly
    • The Goonies
    • The Karate Kid
    • Kill Bill (1 & 2)
    • Office Space
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Rocky
    • Silver Linings Playbook
    • Unforgiven
    • Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factor
    Almost made it.
    • Back to School
    • The Breakfast Club
    • UHF
    I forgot about Back to the Future... gadddddamit!
  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,558
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    It's my 20 favorite, not what I would say are the 20 best. Leans strongly to that GenX timeline. Goodfellas is definitely better than most of these, but just not in my Top 20.
    • Almost Famous
    • Back to the Future
    • Batman (1989)
    • Braveheart
    • Bull Durham
    • Cinema Paradiso
    • Coming to America
    • Die Hard
    • Dumb and Dumber
    • The Godfather
    • The Godfather II
    • The Good The Bad and The Ugly
    • The Goonies
    • The Karate Kid
    • Kill Bill (1 & 2)
    • Office Space
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Rocky
    • Silver Linings Playbook
    • Unforgiven
    • Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factor
    Almost made it.
    • Back to School
    • The Breakfast Club
    • UHF
    I forgot about Back to the Future... gadddddamit!
    😂 yep, every list I read I see one that I’d overlooked. 
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  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 708
    Hey tempo n groove,
    What are your final cuts ;)
    Or will move block 21-25 to honorable mentions?
    Btw Way of the Gun is a eyecatcher up there.
  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 708
    + finally Rocky and Unforgiven popped up
  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 708
    edited May 4

    Alien

    Rocky 

    Terminator 

    Paper Moon

    True Romance

    Thelma & Louise

    Leaving Las Vegas

    My Sassy Girl (2001)

    Who framed Roger Rabbit

    Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

    The Place Promised In Our Early Days

    The French Connection

    The Right Stuff

    The Fly (1986)

    The Exorzist

    The Heiress

    Save the green Planet!

    Dances with Wolves 

    Unforgiven

    Will Penny

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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,851
    edited April 29
    20 is hard
    In no particular order

    The Jerk
    The Matrix
    Slapshot
    Snatch
    Casino
    Tombstone
    The Natural
    Pulp Fiction
    Shawshank
    Pee Wees Big Adventure
    Momento
    Spiderman Across the Spiderverse
    Dark City
    Half Baked
    Saving Private Ryan
    Terminator 2
    Signs
    Burn After Reading
    No Country for Old Men
    American History X
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  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 708
    some late outs: 
    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    I’m I Cyborg, But That’s Ok
    Princess Mononoke
    My Neighbour Totoro
    Apocalypse Now
    Monster Inc.
    Aliens
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,812
    On The Waterfront 
    Shane
    Liberty Valance
    Dog Day Afternoon
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 708
    edited April 29
    My Top 30 is pretty fix nowadays - ranking impossible.
    Now I have the feeling a TOP 50 would be way harder to do. More 90s, 80s, some favourites worldwide 2000-2025 and above all: masses of stuff older than me to choose from. Die Hard survived the last battle to enter the Top 20 - It Happened One Night was the rival. 

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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    D-Day said:
    + finally Rocky and Unforgiven popped up
    :)
    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila,  PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13; Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24; Pittsburgh 5/16/25; Pittsburgh 5/18/25

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,787
    There were so many I had to leave out... Leon, The Departed, Thor: Ragnarok, Burn After Reading, Major League, Trading Places, Fletch, Ford vs Ferrari, Bullet Train, The Replacements... I would have struggled to keep it to 30!
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,396
    Eraserhead said:
    All time top 5:
    Mulholland Drive
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Conversation
    The Departed
    This Is Spinal Tap

    World Cinema:
    Persona
    Dogtooth
    Cache (aka Hidden)
    Wild Tales
    Fitzcalrado
    Amores Perros

    Modern Masterpieces:
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Ex Machina
    Drive
    Whiplash

    Misc:
    Paths of Glory
    Barry Lyndon
    Blue Velvet
    Lost Highway
    Eraserhead
    Finally saw Ex Machina a few months ago. Impressive and scarily realistic in the current tech landscape.

    Whiplash is such a good movie as well.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,396
    I love a lot of the movies mentioned. Don't think I've seen these mentioned, but I'll watch these anytime they come on:

    Mad Max: The Road Warrior (Saw this as a kid and loved the dark dystopian vibe)
    Speed (Pure summer action movie fun and Dennis Hopper is fantastic as a "madman")
    Seven (Love the dark grittiness of this movie)
    Edge of Tomorrow (Such a good movie, rewatched several times. Emily Blunt is the best.)
    A Quiet Place (see above about Emily Blunt)
    Looper (Great concept and execution of what can be a tired genre involving time travel)
    Sicario (Benicio and Brolin are great and of course, Emily Blunt)
    Get Out (Good modern horror/thriller with original script)
    Scream (Probably my favorite horror film of all time. I love this franchise)
    The Usual Suspects (Great cast and plot twist)
    Dazed and Confused (Still love this movie and the end of school craziness it brings back memories of)

    Of those mentioned, my favorites:

    Raiders of the Lost Ark (Always and forever the best)
    Aliens (pure nerve racking chaos and bad ass Sigourney with some sweet Michael Biehn action)
    Inception (this movie makes my head hurt and is such a great original concept)
    T2 (About as perfect as an action movie can be and tops the original 10x over)
    Pulp Fiction (Such a damn good movie and Sam Jackson is legend in it)

    It's a hopeless situation...
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,396
    edited April 29
    goldrush said:
    There were so many I had to leave out... Leon, The Departed, Thor: Ragnarok, Burn After Reading, Major League, Trading Places, Fletch, Ford vs Ferrari, Bullet Train, The Replacements... I would have struggled to keep it to 30!
    I love The Departed. Awesome movie. A few slow spots, but some great acting and the no one is safe type plot that keeps it interesting. Bullet Train is another I could watch over and over. Great snappy dialog and action.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,151
    I'll give it a go. Not in any particular order

    Jaws
    Star Wars trilogy (original)
    Shawshank Redemption
    The Fugitive
    Breakfast Club
    Stand By Me
    Predator
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Goonies
    Pulp Fiction
    Cloak and Dagger
    Fire in the Sky
    Back to the Future trilogy
    Thor: Ragnarok
    Shaun of the Dead
    The Sandlot
    True Lies
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    Spaceballs
    Halloween


    20 was hard and I probably could add another 20 or so if i wanted to.

    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    Damn Dave, how'd I forget The Fugitive and Halloween?
    Spectrum 10/27/09; New Orleans JazzFest 5/1/10; Made in America 9/2/12; Phila, PA 10/21/13; Phila,  PA 10/22/13; Baltimore Arena 10/27/13; Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22; Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24; Pittsburgh 5/16/25; Pittsburgh 5/18/25

    Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
  • D-Day
    D-Day Posts: 708
    edited April 30
    Anyone with a Top 20 incl..
    Nightmare on Elm Street  ;)

     or as a serious contender for it.

    It would be - along with those named  in my list and The Descent - one of the rather few Horror movies in my Top 100.




    + Anyone in Universal Horror Classics - or even one in the own Top 20!!

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