GTP - Your Best 10 Films of All Time

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Here goes... :D

Name your top ten films ever. Simple as. The cutoff date for "ever" is any film made and released in the cinema (or straight-to-video/TV) by the time this thread is created - I anticipate this running for a little while, so no sneaking in "Indiana Jones XIV: There must be some quasi-religious artefact we haven't found".

When I get bored, I'll collect all of the votes and post the 30 most popular for the entire of GTP to vote upon and we can see GTP's top ten films of all time...

My top 10:
1. LOTR Trilogy (and even better in extended versions)
2. Sleuth
3. Batman Returns
4. The Hunt For Red October
5. The Hunted
6. Star Trek films (really only "The Wrath of Khan", "Insurrection" and "First Contact", but hey. Although "Nemesis" was good too)
7. Memento
8. Alien Quadrilogy (the first sequel being the film of choice).
9. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (superior to the first and... dont' talk about the third)
10. The Fifth Element

(feel free to vote for either individual films in a series, or the series themselves, but don't include multiple individual films from a series - either vote for, say, LOTR or, say, Return of the King. Don't vote for Return of the King AND The Two Towers as separate entities in your list of 10. Please.)

All votes for Matrix films will be ignored, as you're clearly delusional
Edit: The thread will close on Christmas Eve. You will then have one week to vote for your 3 favourites in the subsequent list of "less than 31" films.
 
Famine, I think including the Lord of The Rings Trilogy as one choice, the Star Trek series as another, and the Alien Quadrilogy as yet another, is cheating. If you include these selections, you actually have a list of your Top 21 favourite movies. I know you created the thread and all, blah blah blah, but I think you should pick one film from each of those series. Anyway, here's my list:

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The 'Burbs
3. Big Trouble In Little China
4. The Thing (1982)
5. Aliens
6. Die Hard
7. The Big Lebowski
8. Ghostbusters
9. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
10. The Matrix Revolutions
 
In no particular order:

Star Wars Trillogy (movies IV, V, and VI)
The Godfather and The Godfather II
Indiana Jones (movies I and III, can't recall the titles)
The Usual Suspects
Memento
Monty Python's The Holy Grail
Spaceballs
Pulp Fiction
Lord of the Rings (all three)
L.A. Confidential
 
Jacobs Ladder
Lost Highway
Mulholland Dr.
Eternal Sunshine (of a spottless mind)
Adaptation
Memento
Pi
Reqiem for a Dream
Alien
(after this they lost the vision and the films became to Hollywood in style and direction)(and they didn't commission H. R. Geiger to do any of the design = poor decision)
The Hours



;)
 
Anderton Prime
I know you created the thread

Ker-ching!

As I said, I'm happy with it. I wouldn't be happy with:
1. LOTR: TROTK
2. LOTR: TTT
3. LOTR: FOTR
4. Star Wars IV: A New Hope
5. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

and so on. One or all. I'm tempted to make an exception for the Bond films, since there's no single defining storyline there, other than it's the same character (or is it?). Then again, the same thing can be said for Indiana Jones, or Star Trek (not including II, III and IV). Wrath of Khan and Insurrection are both blinding films - but I'd have two entries in my top ten for Star Trek, instead of one.

If one film in any series becomes over-ridingly popular, this will be reflected in the final list of 30. I know many people who prefer Alien to Aliens, or Resurrection to Alien (although none who prefer Alien3 to being stabbed through the heart with staples). This way I can allow for personal preference AND personal indecision - with a little variety too... :D


Delphic Reason
Mulholland Dr.

What penalties are there for killing a moderator?
 
No, although what did you have in mind?
 
1.Meatballs
2.Friday After Next
3.Pitch Black
4.The Shining
5.Godfather I,II,III
6.It
7.Next Friday
8.Apocolsype Now
9.Saving Private Ryan
10.Oceans Eleven
 
The Abyss
Aliens
Blade
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Hunt for Red October
LOTR (series)
Matrix (first one only)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Spaceballs
T2
ST: Wrath of Khan (That's 11. Sue me!)
 
Did it have a cinematic/video/TV release? If not, I can't allow it - I love that weird French guy with the bike horns on him. It's one of the best video clips ever. It's not exactly a film...

Pupik - Mulholland Drive? Mulholland Drive? "Silencio!"...

Mulholland bloody Drive.
 
The Birds 👍
Tommy Boy
Black Sheep
LOTR Trilogy
Arsenic and Old Lace
Forrest Gump
Hoosiers
American Graffiti
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Billy Madison
 
Famine
Did it have a cinematic/video/TV release? If not, I can't allow it - I love that weird French guy with the bike horns on him. It's one of the best video clips ever. It's not exactly a film...
It won an oscar for best animated short film in 2000. My friend has it on DVD. I don't know if that would be allowed.
 
Event Horizon
It won an oscar for best animated short film in 2000. My friend has it on DVD. I don't know if that would be allowed.
Did it?

SHORT FILM - ANIMATED
2000 73rd Academy Awards
FATHER AND DAUGHTER - Michael Dudok de Wit


EDIT:
http://www.bitterfilms.com/rejected.html
2001 Academy Award© Nominee, Best Animated Short Film (didn't win)
the Gold Hugo - Chicago International Film Festival 2000
Official Competition - Sundance Film Festival 2001
 
daan
Did it?

SHORT FILM - ANIMATED
2000 73rd Academy Awards
FATHER AND DAUGHTER - Michael Dudok de Wit


EDIT:
http://www.bitterfilms.com/rejected.html
2001 Academy Award© Nominee, Best Animated Short Film (didn't win)
the Gold Hugo - Chicago International Film Festival 2000
Official Competition - Sundance Film Festival 2001
I could've sworn it won... i guess i misread it. It was nominated then.
 
1) LOTR (all)
2) Matrix (all)
3) Braveheart
4) Terminator 2
5) Star Wars (4-6)
6) You’ve Got Mail
7) The Abyss (original theatrical release)
8) Star Trek (2,6)
9) Spiderman (1 and 2)
10) Princess Bride
 

1.Happy Gilmore
2.Reservoir Dogs
3.Narc
4.Taxi Driver
5.Scarface
6.Godfather 1,2(the third was garbage)
7.American History X
8.Spaceballs
9.21 Grams
10.The Untouchables

/\ Off the top of my head
 
Famine
Pupik - Mulholland Drive? Mulholland Drive? "Silencio!"...

Mulholland bloody Drive.

They're clearly mad.

These are just from what I've seen -

Pulp Fiction
Forrest Gump
Memento
Contact
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
The Matrix (first)
Good Will Hunting
The Godfather series
Ocean's Eleven

The Truman Show was really great, too.
 
LOTR
Star Wars
Back to the future trilogy
Braveheart
Casino
Indiana Jones
Schindler's List
Terminator II
Memento
Forrest Gump
 
-Terminator 2:Judgement Day
-Troy
-Gladiator
-Star Trek First Contact
-School of Rock
-Scarface
-The Matrix
-Schindler's List
-Star Wars
-Lord of the Rings
 
Okay, here goes.

Spiderman 2
Billy Madison
Anger Management
The Perfect Score
Beavis And Butt-Head Do America
Orange County
Malibus Most Wanted
Tomb Raider Cradle Of Life
School Of Rock
Kung Pow Enter The Fist
 
The Hustler
Grand Prix
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
LOTR-Trilogy
Star Wars (Episodes 4-6)
Monte Python: Quest for the Holy Grail
Indiana Jones 1 & 3 (2 sucked)
Payback (where else can you truly love a bad guy)
The Outlaw Josey Wales.

I could go on, and on...
Honorable mention to: Ocean's Eleven.
 
Here's mine excluding LOTR and Star Wars, which both rule, and I expect plenty of abuse!!! Still, they're MY favourites, and the rest of you just don't have my warped tastes!!!!

1. The Italian Job (1969)
2. Withnail & I
3. 12 Monkeys
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Bad Taste (Peter Jackson's first movie)
6. Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
7. Enter The Dragon
8. South Park Bigger, Longer & Uncut
9. Waking Ned Devine
10. Fargo
 
Most definitely in no order:

Blazing Saddles
The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Repo Man
Mad Max (only the original one)
Diva (in French with subtitles)
North By Northwest
Excalibur
Quadrophenia
Blade Runner
Pale Rider

Honorable Mention to:

LOTR
Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back only

OK, that's 13 counting the honorable mentions, so don't count them.
 
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