Favorite Movies of All-Time?

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  1. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    Took 19 posts for a single mention of Shawshank?

    For shame...
     
  2. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    In no particular order...

    Shawshank Redemption
    Amadeus
    LA Confidential
    Kiki's Delivery Service
    Your Name
    LOTR : Fellowship of the Ring
    The Big Kahuna
    Glengarry Glen Ross
    Crimson Tide
    Ransom
    The Fugitive

    For comedies...

    The Naked Gun trilogy
    Top Secret
    Spaceballs
    Loaded Weapon 1 (no, not Lethal Weapon)
    Anchorman
    Step Brothers
    ...too many more to count.
     
  3. In no particuliar order:

    Back to the Future
    A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
    Animal House
    Vacation
    Ghostbusters
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
    Critters
    Toxic Avenger
    Police Academy
    Porky's
    Lethal Weapon
    Hot Tub Time Machine
    Caddyshack
    Halloween (1978)
    The Terminator
    Return of the Living Dead
    Gremlins
     
  4. DaveySR

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    2001: A Space Odyssey
    Alien
    The Seventh Seal
    Citizen Kane
    Death in Venice
    Diner
    Amadeus
    The Friends of Eddie Coyle
    The Guns of Navarone
    The Innocents (1961)
    Nixon
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Rashomon
    Where Eagles Dare
    Lawrence of Arabia
    Equinox
    Planet of the Apes
    Ludwig
    There Will Be Blood
    Psychomania
    Touch of Evil
    Vanishing Point
     
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  5. Myke

    Myke Trying Not To Spook The Horse

    Easy Rider
     
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  6. Standoffish

    Standoffish Smarter than a turkey

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    Tally Time!

    Top Ten (# of votes):

    1. Taxi Driver (11)
    2. The Godfather (10)
    3. The Godfather Part II (7)
    4. Star Wars (6)
    The Empire Strikes Back (6)
    6. Midnight Cowboy (5)
    There Will Be Blood (5)
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (5)
    Goodfellas (5)
    Pulp Fiction (5)
    Apocalypse Now (5)
    North By Northwest (5)

    Next Ten:

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (4)
    Buffalo '66 (4)
    Psycho (4)
    The Searchers (4)
    The Shawshank Redemption (4)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (4)
    A Clockwork Orange (4)
    The Graduate (4)
    Back to the Future (4)
    Chinatown (4)

    Trivia Galore!

    Voting % By Genre:

    Drama 35%
    Comedy 18%
    Crime Drama 8%
    Sci Fi 7%
    Horror 5%
    Musical 4%
    Western 4%
    War 4%
    Fantasy 4%
    Action 4%
    Other 7%

    Voting % By Country:

    US 78%
    England 8%
    France 3%
    Italy 3%
    Other 8%

    Votes By Decade:

    1920s 1%
    1930s 3%
    1940s 4%
    1950s 7%
    1960s 14%
    1970s 27%
    1980s 17%
    1990s 12%
    2000s 10%
    2010s 5%

    Votes By Other Criteria:

    Black & white films: 62 (11%)
    Animated films 12 (2%)
    Al Pacino films: 21 (4%)
    Harrison Ford (3%)

    Favorite Directors (votes), (# of films):

    Coppola (22), (3)
    Scorsese (20), (6)
    Tarantino (19), (7)
    Kubrick (17), (10)
    Lucas (14), (3)
    Hitchcock (12), (4)
    Spielberg (8), (3)
    Woody Allen (6), (3)
    Peter Jackson (6), (3)
    Coen Bros (6), (3)
    Paul Thomas Anderson (6), (3)

    - Films that got only one vote: 51%
    - No votes for Raging Bull, Saving Private Ryan or Snakes on a Plane! :shake:
     
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  7. Standoffish

    Standoffish Smarter than a turkey

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    Keep the lists coming...I'll post an updated tally next week.
     
  8. apesfan

    apesfan "Going Ape"

    Franklin J. Schaffner films, a very underrated director....

    Planet of the Apes (1968 release)
    Patton
    Papillon
    Nicholas and Alexandria
    Boys from Brazil

    Also for his choice of musical collaborator Jerry Goldsmith
     
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  9. Rhinojack

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    The Right Stuff
    Dances with Wolves
    Notes on a Scandal
    Brokeback Mountain
    Apollo 13
    The Color Purple
    Jaws
    Inglorious Basterds
     
  10. polchik

    polchik Forum Resident

    kubrick from 'strangelove' to 'full metal jacket'
    stalker
    one who flew over the cuckoo's nest
    being there
    star wars (a new hope)
    three colours trilogy (blue, white, red)
    citizen kane
    planet of the apes (1968)
    unforgiven
    the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford
    altered states
    la strada
    nights of cabiria
    8 1/2
    persona
    midnight cowboy
    marathon man
    rosemary's baby
    the conformist
    apocalypse now
    the deer hunter
    the thin red line
    come and see
    ivan's childhood
    the right stuff
    invasion of the body snatchers (1978)
    amadeus
    fargo
    se7en
    the game
    searching for bobby fischer
    jaws
    jackie brown
    alien
    blade runner
    aguirre wrath of god
    fitzcarraldo
    little dieter needs to fly (documentary)
    scarface (1983)
    taxi driver
    raging bull
    the king of comedy
    casino
    the ten commandments
    mr. smith goes to washington
    it's a wonderful life
    mash
    nashville
    rashomon
    blind chance
    the red shoes
    a matter of life and death
    tokyo olympiad (documentary)
    woodstock (documentary)
    monterrey pop (documentary)
    gimme shelter (documentary)
    i am cuba
    the elephant man
    mulholland dr.
    blue velvet
    the servant
    the bridge of the river kwai
    lawrence of arabia
    fistful of dollars
    harakiri
    ikiru
    the passenger
    there will be blood
    the french connection
    the exorcist
    don't look now

    there's something about mary
    kingpin
    the big lebowski
    monty python holy grail
    monty python life of brian
    the three musketeers (1973)
    the four musketeers (1974)
     
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  11. dividebytube

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    Sorcerer
    To Live and Die in L.A.
    The Road Warrior
    The French Connection
    The Chaser
    Memories of Murder
    The Killer
    Stalag 17
    The Great Escape
    Breathless
    Alphaville
    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    Blow-Up
    Manhunter

    and probably another dozen that don't immediately come to mind without my collection in front of me. Same problem if people ask what my favorite albums are.
     
  12. TimM

    TimM Senior Member

    Sound Of Music
    West Side Story
    Pulp Fiction
    Groundhog Day
    Singing In the Rain
    Die Hard
    Meet Me In St. Louis
    On the Town
    Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
    LA Confidential
    Horse Feathers
     
  13. marke

    marke Forum Resident

    Blade Runner
    Goodfellas
    The Godfather
    Back to the Future
    Aliens
    The Fly (1986)
    Star Wars
    The Empire Strikes Back
    After Hours
    Army of Darkness
     
  14. jlocke08

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    anybody who has Sorcerer, Manhunter, and The Great Escape on their list, we could hang!
     
  15. jlocke08

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    these take up an honored place on my shelves-
    The Hustler
    Lawrence Of Arabia
    Bridge On The River Kwai
    The Great Escape
    12 Angry Men
    Magnificent 7
    The Man Who Would Be King
    Jaws
    Die Hard
    Silence Of The Lambs
    The Usual Suspects
    My Favorite Year
    Do The Right Thing
    Princess Bride
    Shawshank Redemption
    Shakespeare in Love
    Pulp Fiction
    Hoop Dreams
    When We Were Kings
    Grizzly Man
     
  16. jlocke08

    jlocke08 Forum Resident

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    10 favorite foreign films-
    Hard Boiled
    Battle Royale
    A Better Tomorrow
    Fitzcarraldo
    Aguirre: The Wrath Of God
    The Seven Samurai
    The Lives Of Others
    Life Is Beautiful
    Kitchen Stories
    tie-Local hero and Four Weddings & A Funeral
     
  17. dmiller458

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    "I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people!" --- Auda abu Tayi
     
  18. Partyslammer

    Partyslammer Lord Of The New Church

    Top 20 in somewhat descending order.

    Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
    (Horror of) Dracula
    Gojira/Godzilla
    Jason And The Argonauts
    A Clockwork Orange
    War Of The Worlds (original)
    Monty Python's Life Of Brian
    Akira
    Alien
    The Thing ('82 remake)
    Jaws
    All That Jazz
    Repo Man
    Videodrome
    Ed Wood
    The Elephant Man
    Spirited Away
    Re-Animator
    Hellraiser
    Young Frankenstein
     
  19. Inherit The Wind.
     
  20. Dazan

    Dazan Member

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    Of course! I forgot about this one.
     
  21. Macman

    Macman Senior Member

    2001: A Space Odyssey
    Apocalypse Now
    The Godfather
    Alien
    Saving Private Ryan
    Annie Hall
    Midnight Cowboy
    The Graduate
    Almost Famous
    Chinatown
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Deliverance
    A Clockwork Orange
    Schindler's List
    Unforgiven
    American Splendor
     
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  22. snowdog66

    snowdog66 Forum Resident

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    Lancashire UK
    The Godfather I + II
    Goodfellas
    The Blues Brothers
    Dawn Of The Dead
    The Breakfast Club
    Pulp Fiction
    Shawshank Redemption
    Ferris Buellers Day Off
    This Is Spinal Tap
    Life Of Brian
    Blade Runner
    The Warriors
    The Empire Strikes Back
    Mad Max II
     
  23. kanakaris

    kanakaris Forum Resident

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  24. Hall Cat

    Hall Cat Senior Member

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    Chicago, IL USA
    In no order:

    The Thing
    Head
    Glory
    The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
    Yellow Submarine
     
  25. jlocke08

    jlocke08 Forum Resident

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    next ten-
    Unforgiven
    Glory
    My Left Foot
    Rear Window
    Memento
    Philadelphia
    Papillion
    Seven
    Schindler's List
    Close Encounters
    or Slumdog Millionaire
    or The Sting
     
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