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| Trish |
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marantzo wrote: mo_flixx wrote: Marc wrote: PSYCHO, DON'T LOOK NOW, THE CONFORMIST, THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE,
MEAN STREETS, CHINATOWN, BLUE VELVET, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, OLD BOY.
Thanks. I don't think I could every get my favorites down to just 10.
Me neither. I'm not sure how any movie going adult can.
I can get it down to about 8 then there are several other films that vie for the last two spots - going up or down depending on my mood etc
THE GRIFTERS, LA CONFIDENTIAL , MURIEL'S WEDDING, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, CROUPIER, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE, THE UMBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:45 am |
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| There are films in everyone's top ten that wouldn't even make it into my top 100 (if I had the discipline to generate one that is) and a few of the selections I positively dislike. But I love the variety and lack of consensus. Stick to your individual guns everybody. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:47 am |
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yambu wrote: Only fine acting can save a piece of treacle like Dear Frankie, and it does. Frankie is a nine year old who writes long letters to the father he's never known. Prepare to be touched in the most obvious ways.
its was a sweet film wasn't it - I liked it too |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:49 am |
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jeremy wrote: There are films in everyone's top ten that wouldn't even make it into my top 100 (if I had the discipline to generate one that is) and a few of the selections I positively dislike. But I love the variety and lack of consensus. Stick to your individual guns everybody.
just curious - which ones did you positively dislike? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:28 am |
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mo_flixx wrote:
Thanks. I don't think I could every get my favorites down to just 10.
Which is why YMDB was formed:
http://www.ymdb.com/index_ukuk.html
The only thing is, after you make your list of Top Twenty, there doesn't seem to be much to do except comment on other people's lists or tell them to look at yours. I guess you can change your list, and some people add a list of favorite directors, or favorite 200 movies in the comments. But quickly it seems to get pointless and uninteresting. At least for me.
My Top Ten:
Dr. Strangelove
One Flew Over The Cuckooo's Nest
M.
8 1/2
Annie Hall
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Umberto D.
Zero for Conduct
The Crime of M. Lange
Dr. Mabuse The Gambler
Oddly enough, it's probably easier for me to do a Top 5 list, because those are pretty well fixed. The bottom 5 could get a pretty good re-shuffling, depending on my mood. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:39 am |
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Quote: I can get it down to about 8 then there are several other films that vie for the last two spots - going up or down depending on my mood etc
That's how I felt too.
About a dozen or more films vying for the last two spots.
Strangers on a Train; The Third Man; Citizen Kane; Werckmeister Harmonies; Alphaville; The Wrong Trousers; a few Chaplins; Metropolis; Veronika Voss; Raising Arizona
I dare Jeremy to hate any of these! |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:06 pm |
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Trish,
I did not really want to criticise other people’s choices, just celebrate the diversity. But, as you ask; even if stuck at home doing the ironing on a wet Wednesday in January, I would sooner flick on the radio than watch Raising Arizona again (my least favourite Coen) Kramer vs Kramer, Airport, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or When Harry Met Sally. For a number of the other films, it might depend what was on the radio. It’s not that I think that all these films are bad necessarily, just that I have no compunction to see them again.
And yes, it's only fair that I give others the same chance to pick holes in my choices. So I will post a current top ten, which I suspect will be embarassingly middle brow and white bread...are those synonyms? |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:29 pm |
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Ten films I'd take with me if sent to work in the desert for a year.
Pulp Fiction
Get Carter
Con Air
Local Hero
The Producers(Mel Brooks version, I could easily have chosen Blazing Saddles)
The Godfather Part 2 (or Part 1, I also have a soft spot for Part 3 – and no I wasn’t thinking of the compost heap in Sofia Coppola’s garden)
Blade Runner
Brazil
Beauty And The Beast (Disney)
Toy Story II
Unforgiven
My Neighbour Totoro
Maybe lacking in intellectual weft (or is that heft) but...
In my haste, I left, lying on the living room floor, a half eaten pizza, a disappointed spouse, Lawrence Of Arabia, ET, Beauty And The Beast (Disney), Maitresse, Old Boy, Kill Bill, Barton Fink, Topsy Turvy, Moulin Rouge, In The Heat of The Night (I know it's not great, but it's all to do with at what age and sensibility you catch these things) Spirited Away, The Wrong Trousers, A Hard Day's Night, The Long Good Friday, A Lion In Winter, Snatch, ... |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:27 am |
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My top ten English Language movies of alltime? Perhaps the following :
Casablanca. Dr Strangelove, Godfather,
Goodfellas, Birth of a Nation, Gold Rush, Some Like it Hot, Psycho, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With the Wind.
But I am not really sure. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:05 am |
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| jeremy--Though I'm not nuts about a few of your choices, none are absolutely off the charts--except Con Air. It would be closer to my all-time bottom ten than top. What in the world do you see in it? |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:34 am |
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jeremy wrote: Ten films I'd take with me if sent to work in the desert for a year.
Pulp Fiction
Get Carter
Con Air
Local Hero
The Producers(Mel Brooks version, I could easily have chosen Blazing Saddles)
The Godfather Part 2 (or Part 1, I also have a soft spot for Part 3 – and no I wasn’t thinking of the compost heap in Sofia Coppola’s garden)
Blade Runner
Brazil
Beauty And The Beast (Disney)
Toy Story II
Unforgiven
My Neighbour Totoro
Lacking in intellectual weft may be, but...
In my haste, I left, lying on the living room floor, a half eaten pizza, a disappointed spouse, Lawrence Of Arabia, ET, Beauty And The Beast (Disney), Maitresse, Old Boy, Kill Bill, Barton Fink, Topsy Turvy, Moulin Rouge, In The Heat of The Night (I know it's not great, but it's all to do with at what age and sensibility you catch these things) Spirited Away, The Wrong Trousers, A Hard Day's Night, The Long Good Friday, A Lion In Winter, Snatch, ... |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:56 am |
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Ghulam wrote: My top ten English Language movies of alltime? Perhaps the following :
Birth of a Nation...
I know its a damn classic for its time - but for pete's sake its on your top ten - that tribute to the KKK - watching it doesn't make your stomach turn? |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:20 am |
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| Trish, it was a milestone in movie history, and watching it is still a great experience. Unpleasant subject though. |
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| tirebiter |
| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:49 am |
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| Landmark film? Yes. Favorite film? No. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:05 am |
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| Okay, I shall substitute The General for Birth of a Nation. |
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