Ten Best Movies Ever Made (comedy, actors, music, watch)

[FlashM]

It's completely impossible to narrow the list to only ten flicks because it's not right to
compare movies of different genre. We can hardly compare for example 'Alien' v. 'Titanic'. They
are too much different.
Anyways, I'm gonna try to list some of my favs.

1.
Annie Hall, 1977 (by Woody Allen)

Funny, self-ironic, bittersome, clever.

Just the one from the lots of funny quotes:

ANNIE
Well, didn't you take a shower at the club?
ALVY
Me? No, no, no, 'cause I never shower in a public place.
ANNIE
Why not?
ALVY
'Cause I don't like to get naked in front of another man, you know-it's, uh...
ANNIE
Oh, I see, I see.
ALVY
You know, I don't like to show my body to a man of my gender-
ANNIE
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I see. I guess-
ALVY
-'cause, uh, you never know what's gonna happen.

2.
Love And Death, 1975 (by Woody Allen)

Extremely funny. Millions of excellent jokes.

Just the one from the lots of funny quotes:

Sonja:
I've been visiting Seretsky in his room.
Boris:
Why? What's in his room?
Sonja:
And before Seretsky, Alexei.
And before Alexei, Alegorian.
And before Alegorian, Asimov.
Boris:
OK!
Sonja:
Wait! I'm still on the A's.
Boris:
How many lovers do you have?
Sonja:
In the midtown area?
Boris:
Oh, Sonja.

3.
Godfather I, 1972 (by F.F. Coppola)
Godfather II, 1974 (by F.F. Coppola)


Just classic saga.
Mike Corleone is terrific. Clever, imperturbable, man of decision.

4.
Scarface, 1983 (by Brian De Palma)

Great story of ascent from the guts to the top and then falling down. Tony is a real self-made
man.
This movie confirms that Al Pacino is a genious actor. Mike Corleone and Tony Montana are
completly different.
Cool soundtrack.

5.
Full Metal Jacket, 1987 (by Stanley Kubrick)

Drop-dead movie! Best movie about Vietnam War.

6.
Goodfellas, 1990 (by Martin Scorsese)

No comments. Just awesome.
Dialogues, story line, characters etc...Everything's perfect.
Wonderful soundtrack.

7.
The Tenant, 1975 (by Roman Polansky).

A few people ever saw this flick though it's a real masterpiece. Not funny one.
The best story about how sometimes people might go insane because of hard life.
The main hero experienced some problems in his life but he was not strong enough to come thru.
Eventually he went insane and in the end commited a suicide.
If you plan to watch this movie please take into consideration that some fragments of this
movie are not real but simply hallucinations of a mad man.
I like soundtrack too. Director of photography made a really good job.

8.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001 (by Peter Jackson)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002 (by Peter Jackson)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003 (by Peter Jackson)

Best fantasy movies ever. Epic.
I like it a lot.

9.
Some Like It Hot, 1959 (by Billy Wilder)


Classic. Just funny. Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are really good.

10.
Harry Potter ans the Sorcerer's Stone, 2001 (by Chris Columbus)


One of the best movies for kids ever.

[ExPit]

A few more to consider, imo...

1. Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sidney Pollock, starring Robert Redford, I can understand why some may think this is a good, not great movie, but what a premise ... A CIA researcher, ("I just read books") comes back from picking up lunch for his office of spy nerds to find that everybody is dead, then spends the rest of the movie trying to find out why and who did it, also not to get taken out himself as we find out he is unfinished business. Starring Max Von Sydow (Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told) as master professional assassin.

2. Hombre, director Martin Ritt. Paul Newman, Fred March, Richard Boone, Martin Balsam ... Raised by, was it the Apaches? Newman is a reluctant warrior who gets caught up in a stagecoach hijacking an against his better judgment chooses to save his white co-passengers.

3. It's a Wonderful Life, don't think this Capra classic has been mentioned yet. Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, doubt if you don't know it, but granted a wish from his own personal angel, Stewart finds out what the world would be like had he never been born.

4. Midnight Run, I know, I know, not a great movie in anybody's book, but a lot of fun. Bounty hunter DeNiro's got a few days to deliver fugitive mob accountant Charles Grodin from NYC to L.A. in order to get 100k pay day.

5. Mystic River, most of you saw it, all of you know it, Sean Penn is the best in Hollywood today.

6. Maltese Falcon, early John Huston, Bogart's Sam Spade, along with Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre, to me as good as the film noir detective drama gets.

7. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, another Huston/Bogart collaboration, I love this movie. Tres gringos en las montanas por oro, ok I'm sure that I butchered that but maybe you get the point.

8. Angels with Dirty Faces ... Cagney, Bogart, O'Brien, the Dead End Kids in Hell's Kitchen late thirties... Cagney's Rocky Sullivan ... classic!

9. White Heat ... Cagney again, a lot older and fortunately for us not any wiser, he's at it again, this time as an infamous heist man with a mother complex.

10. Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder, with the freakishly talented Cloris Leachman, and the frighteningly sexy Teri Garr, send-up camp at its best.

[rural lady]

Here goes mine

1. Gone with the Wind
2. Shane
3. Imitation of Life
4 The Sting
5 .One flew over the Cuckoos Nest
6. #? Angry Men (Jurors)- Lee J Cobb 8 or 12AngryMen
7 Its a Wonderful Life
.8 A Streetcar Named Desire
.9. The Exorcist
10. Pharlap

[Gunluvver2]

I have a hard time composing a list of favorite movies. During my early years I went to a theater as often as I could. A lot of the movies that I thought were great when I was younger I have seen since on TV and wondered what was so great about that? Thanks to Cable and DVDs I probably see more movies now than ever. Some of my favorite movies of the past twenty years were made for TV and probably didn't make it to a theater. Here are some I loved.

LONESOME DOVE, the movie and the book.
WINDS OF WAR, again both the book and movie.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Movie and book.

Several Mel Brooks' movies- - - SILENT MOVIE, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, ANXIETY, HISTORY OF THE WORLD I & II.
THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY, even better than most Mel Brooks' comedies.
Herman Wouks WINDS OF WAR, book and TV Miniseries.


I know I have left a bunch of really great movies off the list but the old memory is getting weak.

GL2

[Ghengis]

My favorite movie is one I can watch over and over again and although I do see it from time to time on best movies lists, haven't seen it listed here yet so...

Sergio Leone's "Once Upon A Time in the West"

great story line, no clear hero's or villains, Claudia Cardinale and my favorite Henry Fonda role of all time.

[greatmuta]

I don't know what my exact top 10 would be but here's some of my favorite films. I know there's alot that I'm forgetting.

M (1931)
The Wizard of OZ (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho (1960)
The Godfather (1972)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Star Wars (1977)
Halloween (1978)
The Shining (1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Back to the Future (1985)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Terminator 2 (1991)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Professional (1994)
Requiem For A Dream (2000)

[FlashM]

Originally Posted by greatmuta

I don't know what my exact top 10 would be but here's some of my favorite films. I know there's alot that I'm forgetting.

M (1931)
The Wizard of OZ (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho (1960)
The Godfather (1972)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Star Wars (1977)
Halloween (1978)
The Shining (1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Back to the Future (1985)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Terminator 2 (1991)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Professional (1994)
Requiem For A Dream (2000)

Much more than ten movies Lol
I wonder why did you like 'Vertigo'? It seemed pretty boring to me...

[ExPit]

Originally Posted by FlashM

Greatest love story!


Masterpiece. No doubt. One of the best movies ever. Joe Pesci is terrific.
There were some awesome scenes in 'Goodfellas'. Here is one of them.

***
Billy Batts:
You remember Tommy's shines? The kid was great. He made mirrors.
Tommy (Joe Pesci):
No more shines, Billy.
Billy Batts:
Come on. Tommy. We're only kidding. You can't take a joke? Come on.

Tommy is mad. Pause. And then Billy says, 'Now get the hell home and get your shine box!'
Tommy is pissed off.
Later on Tommy kicked Billy's ass for these words. And other guys (Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta) helped Tommy.
***

P.S. The soundtrack is drop-dead too

Don't you remember Flash? They did a helluva lot more than just kick Billy's ass. Maybe you remember the opening scene when Tommy has to pull the car over because of the racket coming from somewhere in the car, from the trunk it turned out, where Billy Batts was still semi-conscious, at least until Tommy stabbed him repeatedly and if I'm not mistaken DeNiro's character shot him a couple times too ... just to be sure.

Billy Batts, played by Frank Vincent, Phil Leotardo in the Sopranos, Salvie in Raging Bull, right?

[QwertyFarmer]

1. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Starring Angela Landsbury
2. Made in Heaven - w/ Kelly McGillus & Timithy Hutton
3. City of Lost Children - Starring the guy who plays Hell Boy
4. Near Dark
5. Night Breed
6. Legend
7. Gatica
8. Dune
9. Witches of Eastwick - try and match those three beauties
10. Beetlejuice

[leaana]

grave of the fireflies
ET
alien
star wars
legend
oldboy
the classic
akira
last samurai
empire of the sun