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Bonny Boy May 22nd 2010 3:08 pm

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 
Five I can't see mentioned so far (no order):

Get Carter (British version!)
2001 a Space Odyssey
Midnight Cowboy
Mulholland Drive
Apartment Zero

yc2m May 22nd 2010 4:05 pm

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 
Life of Brian
Shawshank Redemption
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Gladiator
A Man for All Seasons
:):D:thumbup::thumbsup::D:)

Madam Medusa May 22nd 2010 4:38 pm

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 

Originally Posted by yc2m (Post 8582904)
Life of Brian
Shawshank Redemption
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Gladiator
A Man for All Seasons
:):D:thumbup::thumbsup::D:)

agghhh...forgot about man for all seasons, yes a classic for sure...

MM, xx

...- - -... May 22nd 2010 4:50 pm

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 
Raging Bull, because the guy reminds me, of me




...- - -... May 22nd 2010 5:29 pm

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Eight Men Out is real too...great real dialogue throughout- i hate fiction




...- - -... May 22nd 2010 5:47 pm

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Who does'nt like Dr Strangelove? My dad was a big wig in the USAF during this time period so the vibe of this film reminds me of my childhood.


...- - -... May 22nd 2010 5:48 pm

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I like No Country For Old Men


...- - -... May 22nd 2010 5:49 pm

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I liked this, because I have a compitition in me too


arc en ciel May 22nd 2010 10:28 pm

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One each from the 1950's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's which in my opinion were all ahead of their time when released, with masterful, character performances from the lead actors:

1) Rebel without a cause - James Dean

2) Clockwork orange - Malcolm McDowell

3) The man who fell to earth - David Bowie

4) Bladerunner - Harrison Ford

5) Silence of the lambs - Anthony Hopkins

Ray May 23rd 2010 3:10 am

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 
Close encounters of the third kind
The Green Mile
Jaws
O Brother, Where Art Thou
The Godfather

littlejimmy May 23rd 2010 7:18 am

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 
Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Gladiator
The Shawshank Redemption
Alien
Monthy Python's The Life of Brian.

This could change tomorrow, or indeed in the next hour when I remember others.

lionheart May 23rd 2010 7:31 am

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 

Originally Posted by littlejimmy (Post 8583748)
Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Gladiator
The Shawshank Redemption
Alien
Monthy Python's The Life of Brian.

This could change tomorrow, or indeed in the next hour when I remember others.

Some good choices there. I enjoy a good war movie so let me throw these at you;

Zulu
The 633 Squadron
The Great Escape
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Merry Xmas Mr. Lawrence
The Thin Red Line
We Were Soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
The Four Feathers

shiva May 23rd 2010 7:54 am

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 

Originally Posted by Autonomy (Post 8581046)
Totally impossible to narrow it to 5 films...

The possibly pretentious:-

Three Colours Red White & Blue Trilogy
Night On Earth
Big Blue / Nikita absolute classics both
Chungking Express – Wong Kar Wai
Man On Wire – documentary
Akira – anime
The Seven Samuri
Amelie
We Live In Public – doc
All Hal Hartley, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai, John Woo (except US ones), Quentin Tarantino
Blue Velvet

The stone dead classics

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Godfather 1 & 2
Memento
Trainspotting

Guilty Pleasures:-

Highlander
Weekend At Bernies
Heathers
Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
Breakfast Club

Best of the recent films:

Inglorious Basterds
Avatar
Zodiac
Up In The Air
500 Days Of Summer
District 9

Movies in production that will be awesome:-

Bruce Robinson is directing Hunter S Thompson’s only “proper” novel The Rum Diary staring Johnny Depp
Tron Legacy
Inception
(too many to mention!)

some good choices in there but weekend at bernies...did you have a brain fart at that point lol.

for the record and in no order and given that if LOR trilogy counts as one then i'll have a directors filmography as one and there is no way i can limit it to 5 or rank them

any luc besson
schindlers list
casablanca
lawrence of arabia
seven samurai
godfather
star wars
full metal jacket
american history x

more obscure/less popular but still brilliant
bill forsyth ie gregorys girls, local hero
restless natives
withnail and I
english patient
remains of the day
nil by mouth
once were warriors
shallow grave

lionheart May 23rd 2010 8:12 am

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 

Originally Posted by shiva (Post 8583797)
some good choices in there but weekend at bernies...did you have a brain fart at that point lol.

for the record and in no order and given that if LOR trilogy counts as one then i'll have a directors filmography as one and there is no way i can limit it to 5 or rank them

any luc besson
schindlers list
casablanca
lawrence of arabia
seven samurai
godfather
star wars
full metal jacket
american history x

Lawrence of Arabia should definitely have been near the top of my list. As for newer films, I personally enjoyed Jarhead too.

Brains1983 May 23rd 2010 10:42 am

Re: Top 5 Films ever
 
Some of my favourites in no particular order;

Blues Brothers
Gross Point Blank
City of God
Taken
Braveheart
Good Morning Vietnam
The Untouchables


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