Favorite Movies of All-Time?

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  1. Standoffish

    Standoffish Smarter than a turkey

    Location:
    North Carolina
    Final tally!

    Top 20:
    1. The Godfather
    2. Taxi Driver
    3. (Tie) Star Wars
    Empire Strikes Back
    The Godfather Pt II
    6. (Tie) Goodfellas
    Apocalypse Now
    A Clockwork Orange
    9. (Tie) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Midnight Cowboy
    There Will Be Blood
    Pulp Fiction
    Blade Runner
    The Shawshank Redemption
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    16. (Tie) Jaws
    The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
    The Graduate
    Back to the Future
    North By Northwest
    The Elephant Man
    Chinatown
    Planet of the Apes

    Trivia Time!

    Top 10 Directors, By Votes (# of films chosen in parentheses:

    1. Coppola (3)
    2. Scorsese (7)
    3. Tarantino (9)
    4. Kubrick (10)
    5. Spielberg (7)
    6. Lucas (2)
    7. Hitchcock (5)
    8. Coen Bros (5)
    9. Woody Allen (4)
    10. PT Anderson (2)

    Votes By Country:

    US (76%)
    England (9%)
    Italy (3%)
    France (2%)
    Germany (2%)
    Japan (2%)
    Other (6%)

    Voting By Decade:

    1920s (1%)
    1930s (3%)
    1940s (3%)
    1950s (7%)
    1960s (14%)
    1970s (28%)
    1980s (18%)
    1990s (14%)
    2000s (9%)
    2010s (3%)

    - Black & white films (9%)
    - Films that got 1 vote (including Casablanca!) (47%)
    - All of the top 10 Directors are men *
    - Still no votes for Snakes on a Plane :(

    * I'm not familiar with every film, but I don't think that - out of 506 films - a single one was directed by a woman.
     
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  2. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    I'm sure I've posted a few of these types of threads myself. :D
     
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  3. BeaTleBob5

    BeaTleBob5 John, Paul, George, Ringo & Bob

    Das Boot
    McCabe and Mrs. Miller
    The Godfather I & II
    Miller's Crossing
    Rio Bravo
    Unforgiven
    Pale Rider
    The Outlaw Josey Wales
    Million Dollar Baby
    Mon Oncle Antoine
    The Thin Man
    After the Thin Man
    I Love You Again
    Bringing up Baby
    Ben Hur
    The Sweet Hereafter
    The French Connection
    The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
    Seven Samurai
    Jaws
    Donnie Brasco
    The Last Picture Show
    Dirty Harry
    Hud
    The Hustler
    Cool Hand Luke
    Slapshot
    Gangs of New York
    Casablanca
    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    What about Bob
    The Fugitive
    Get the Gringo
    Payback
    Edge of Darkness
    Gaz bar Blues

    and many more which I can't remember right now & I'm also tired of doing this :targettiphat:
     
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  4. Mssisem

    Mssisem Forum Resident

    Carnival of souls is up there..
     
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  5. Whay

    Whay Forum Resident

    Location:
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    Kontroll
    Truman Show
     
  6. Hexwood

    Hexwood Forum Resident

    Location:
    UK
    Harold and Maude
    Zodiac
    The Lost Boys
    Wonder Boys
    The Station Agent
    Withnail & I
    Deep End (1970)
    Almost Famous
    The Fog (the 1980 original)
    Never Let Me Go
    C.R.A.Z.Y.
    Oliver!
    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    The Illusionist (2010)
    Steptoe and Son Ride Again
    Duel
    Escape from New York
    Annie Hall
    Poor Cow
     
  7. LeBon Bush

    LeBon Bush Hound of Love

    Location:
    Austria
    a few

    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Freeway (the 1996 movie)
    Once Upon A Time in America
    A Clockwork Orange
    Happiness
    Reservoir Dogs
    Three Days of the Condor
    Things to do in Denver when you're dead
    Se7en
    The Straight Story
    After Hours
    A Bronx Tale
    The Godfather II
    Seven Years in Tibet
    The Celebration (1998)
     
  8. polchik

    polchik Forum Resident

    time for another set of faves ....

    tree of life
    zodiac
    metropolis
    1984
    city lights
    little malcolm
    withnail & i
    dr.mabuse: the gambler
    breathless (godard)
    vivre sa vie
    vertigo
    sans soleil
    harakiri
    a short film about love
    a short film about killing
    the double life of veronique
    12 angry men
    in the heat of the night
    guess who's coming to dinner?
    dead man walking
    the tenant
    butch cassidy & the sundance kid
    the man from laramie
    young frankenstein
    the graduate
    spinal tap
    fahrenheit 451 (1966)
    death race 2000 (1975)
    beyond the valley of the dolls
    faster pussycat kill kill !
    to sir with love
    the sting

    edit: sorry i didn't know you did a tally ... thanks. fun thread!
     
  9. eric777

    eric777 Astral Projectionist

    It is too difficult for me to make a full list ;however, my all time favorite film is The Exorcist. Bladerunner comes in at a close 2nd.
     
  10. yesstiles

    yesstiles Senior Member

    Meatballs (1979)
    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
    Harold and Maude (1971)
    Breaking Away (1979)
    Boogie Nights (1997)

    Kill Bill Complete (2003)
    Step Brothers (2008)
    Hot Rod (2007)
    Dawn of the Dead (1978)
    It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
    Chinatown (1974)
    Inglourious Basterds (2009)
    Hombre (1966)
    Stir Crazy (1980)
     
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  11. Jacob29

    Jacob29 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Kansas City
    Hunt for Red October
    Pride and Prejudice 2005
    Almost Famous
    High Fidelity
    Fletch
    Love Actually
    These are my favorite movies not necessarily the movies I consider the greatest when it comes to acting or technical achievements.
     
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  12. Karnak

    Karnak "81, 82, 83, 84..."

    Thank goodness, I have most here on dvd or Bluray:

    The Apartment(fantastic)
    Summer Of '42 - now on BR:)
    Blade Runner
    The Egyptian
    (1954) - deeply rooted in my past
    The Remains Of The Day(should've won best picture)
    Ben Hur
    Jeremiah Johnson
    Far From The Madding Crowd
    - the 2015 version
    Big
    Bright Lights Big City
    Planes, Trains and Automobiles
    (John Candy's finest moments?)
     
  13. stepeanut

    stepeanut The gloves are off

    Your inclusion of this makes my day :)
     
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  14. Hall Cat

    Hall Cat Senior Member

    Location:
    Chicago, IL USA
    I gotta put The Spook Who Sat by the Door on there, otherwise known as the anti-Black Panther
     
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  15. Hexwood

    Hexwood Forum Resident

    Location:
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    Nice one. I think the two Steptoe and Son films are the best spin-off films from a British sitcom. I find it fascinating watching films set in the grim areas of London as urban renewal took hold in the 1970s.
     
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  16. stepeanut

    stepeanut The gloves are off

    Absolutely. It’s even more interesting when you know the city intimately.

    We don’t really have that kind of film record of Manchester, but there was an organised effort to photograph the city during the 1950s and 1960s, and that huge, searchable archive has been made available online, for free.

    But yeah, Steptoe is ace.
     
  17. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

    Location:
    Central PA
    While I'm at it, thanks to all who contributed the grey-matter to come up with ernest, interesting choices. I see so many nowadays, I can barely keep up with remembering a list...not to mention, a Criterion Collection wish-list!
    (Incidentally, if you hop by Barnes & Noble, and spend half your afternoon creeping on your knees with your head tilted sideways, and you're still taking advantage of their current 50%-off sale, watch-out for the table in front of the store, in the aisle where the cash registers are...you may be tempted to snag a few more, that are already list-priced for even less...but, that's because they're all DVD editions up there, NOT blu-rays. Forewarned is fore-armed!) :nauga::nauga: (there ya go - four more arms!)
     
  18. Hexwood

    Hexwood Forum Resident

    Location:
    UK
    Have you got a link for that archive? I would love to take a look.
     
  19. stepeanut

    stepeanut The gloves are off

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  20. Hexwood

    Hexwood Forum Resident

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  21. stepeanut

    stepeanut The gloves are off

    You’re welcome. It could take up your entire day!

    When I first discovered the archive, a few years ago, I became obsessed with it for weeks.
     
  22. hurple

    hurple Forum Resident

    Location:
    Clinton, IL, USA
    Star Wars
    Monty Python & The Holy Grail
    Princess Bride
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    The Empire Strikes Back
    Modern Times
    Raiders Of The Lost Ark
    Evil Dead II
    The Thing (1982)
    Blade Runner

    And my ultimate guilty pleasure: Better Off Dead
     
  23. HippieDrill

    HippieDrill Forum Resident

    Location:
    Sacramento, Ca
    LOL. Yeah, there's almost always that guy. As if there's some rule that favorites threads can only be done one time on any particular forum.
     
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  24. HippieDrill

    HippieDrill Forum Resident

    Location:
    Sacramento, Ca
    In no real order

    Pulp Fiction
    Sling Blade
    The Shining
    Sunset Blvd
    Vertigo
    Apocalypse Now
    Clockwork Orange
    Terminator 2
    Mulholland Drive
    Ghost World
    Rear Window
    Blazing Saddles
    Office Space
    American Beauty


    Those are a few of the ones that I’ve seen the most and really made lasting impressions on me. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few as well. I’m not as thorough with my lists as I used to be.
     
  25. Borgia

    Borgia Do not speak wisely of this night

    Location:
    Arkansas
    I always seem to forget about this one at list making time, but Mamet's Oleanna made a big impression on me.
     
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