Top 5 Films - Your Opinion?

On 2004-08-06 23:43, Alnshely wrote:
Kelly's Heros
"I'm just having a little wine and cheese soaking a few rays". Oddball

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I had a radio as a kid that would pick up tv stations, so I taped Kelly's Heroes, and practically memorised that flick!

Donald Sutherland stole the show in that one!

"HOOUU!!! Hooouu!!! Houu! Thats my other dog imitation!"

And my fave was about the paint filled shells. " It paints...pretty pictures"

Couldn't think of just five -

The Apartment
On the Waterfront
High and Low
High Noon
The Third Man
Charade
MASH
Vertigo
Fight Club
Hard Day's Night
Jackie Brown
Royal Tennebaums
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Day of the Jackel
Dr Strangelove
Close Encounters
Touch of Evil
A Mighty Wind

Guilty Pleasures:
Can't Stop the Music
Cool As Ice
Xanadu

hhhmmmmm...

in no particular order:

The Muppet Movie

The Elephant Man
(Great Direction, Devastating Story)

House of Sand & Fog
(Kingsley's best performance?)

Hable Con Ella
(Almodovar's one of the best. Live Flesh & All about My Mother are incredible too!)

O Brother Where Art Thou
(I giggle just thinking about this movie. Pass the butter!)

My Neighbor Totoro/Spirited Away

Honorable Mentions:

The Crazy Safari

The Piano

Wings of Desire
Paris, Texas

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Young Frankenstein
The Producers (Gene Wilder at his best?)

Rushmore
Lost in Translation

(& If you like L in T, you'll love ...)
In the Mood for Love

Brazil/Time Bandits

Withnail & I

Fargo

Leone's Dollar Trilogy
(Definitely one of the top 5 Soundtracks!)

The Original Godzilla

Ran

Mean Streets
(Scorsese, De Niro, & Keitel at their best?)

Citizen Kane

[ Edited by: Tiki Chris on 2004-08-07 10:23 ]

Has everyone forgotten "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"?

This is the best film (so far) of the year and possibly (so far) the decade....

Bottle Rocket
Safe Men
Schitzopolis
Stealing Beauty
Basquiat

Scarface-Carlito's Way-Rocky Horror Picture Show-Shawshank Redemption-Enter the Dragon-Any old shorts with Harlod Lloyd.

1. Reservoir Dogs
2. Clockwork Orange
3. Kill Bill vol. 1 + 2
4. Lord of the Rings ( all 3 films)
5. King of New York

It is so hard to choose only 5. Being only 29, I have seen countless movies, and I do appreciate that some of you are older, but I can't really do black and white movies to often. I grew up with color, stereo sound, and then surround sound. I have seen most of the old standby classics such as Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Casablanca, all of the James Dean movies, etc...but I am mostly a fan of movies within my lifetime with a few exceptions.

What about the Godfather 1 + 2?
Casino
Goodfellas
Black Rain
Big Trouble in Little China
Replacement Killers
The Professional(International version)
Desperado or the origional El Mariachi
The Witches of Eastwick
Kelly's Heros

ZuluMagoo wrote:
I based my selections on movies that I can watch over and over again and never get tired of them.

This was my criterion as well. In no order:

Triplets of Belleville

Mon Oncle (or anything by Tati, but this is my sentimental favorite)

North by Northwest

Les parapluies de Cherbourg

Scorsese: Raging Bull, Taxi Driver

Cronenberg: Rabid, Scanners, Spider

Egoyan: Calendar (his most overlooked & underrated), Exotica, Felicia's Journey

Eraserhead

Slacker

The Man Who Planted Trees -- probably my favorite film of all time; truly inspiring.

A big shout out to everyone who mentioned Tati and Ray Harryhausen!

oooh, I forgot Bergman's Fanny & Alexander

-Sweet Daddy T.
Because crap doesn't buy itself.

[ Edited by: Sweet Daddy Tiki on 2004-08-07 12:54 ]

Favorite directors :

Jacques Tati
Jacques Demy
Blake Edwards
Aki Kaurismaki
Takeshi Kitano
Wong Kar Wai
Tim Burton

• any Santo movies, Something weirds, surf's movies, Monster's...

Just off the top of my head:

The Out of Towners - I've seen it umpteen times & still laugh my ass off every time Jack Lemon breaks his tooth on the Cracker Jacks.

Black Orpheus - beautiful cinamatography & a must for all Bosa Nova lovers.

Fargo - sick & funny.

Sunset Boulevard

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

*On 2004-08-07 12:53, Sweet Daddy Tiki

Eraserhead

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-Sweet Daddy T.
[i]Because crap doesn't buy itself.*

SDT, glad to know that someone else remembers this classic!!

Since many (understanably) cannot limit their picks to just 5, in addtion to my top 5 posted earlier, I would add:

Not one movie by Jim Jarmusch mentioned yet, who is one of my all-time favorite directors. I would have to pick Stranger Than Paradise as my favorite by him, just because it was so unique and revolutionary when released. I can't count how many independent films imitated his style. One example: the black screens between scenes in Pulp Fiction were introduced in Stranger Than Paradise.

How about Fellini? I would be hard pressed to pick between 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita, but since 8 1/2 was so impressionable on me during my young mod days I have to choose it as one of my top ten.

I'm gald others picked Jacques Tati's films among their favorites. I would say Mon Oncle is my favorite work by the genius mind of Tati.

Vintagegirl, you picked Duck Soup (one of my favorites by the Marx Bros.). I can tell you are a woman with a great sense of humor! Nevertheless, Monkey Business is my favorite by the brothers Marx, because of the comic mayhem that ensues among the stunning Art Deco ship interiors.

I have to include Hitchcock among my top ten. I agree with the others here who picked North by Northwest as their favorite by the Master.

"Did you say Wing Attack, Plan R?"

-- Major Kong

For some reason that's my favorite line in a movie full of great lines.

On 2004-08-07 21:17, Satan's Sin wrote:
"Did you say Wing Attack, Plan R?"

"You can't fight in here, this is the WAR ROOM!"

(Fun Factoid: "Dr. Strangelove" was James Earl Jones' screen debut.)

"How many times do I gotta tell you boys, I don't want no horseplay on the airplane" - Major Kong

"Well, I think I'll mosey on down to the war room and see what's cookin' on the threatboard" - Gen Buck Turgesen

"do you think I go into combat with loose change in my pocket?" - Major Bat Guano

"I do not support the labor of capitalist stooges" - Soviet Ambassador

"mind you Mandrake, I do not make myself a stranger to women, but I do however deny them my essence" - Gen Jack T. Ripper

a few of my favorite lines from Dr. Strangelove.

another interesting factoid - when Major Kong was goig through the articles in their survival kit he said "hell, a guy could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all this". The original line was "Dallas" instead of "Vegas" but while the movie was being edited JFK was shot in Dallas so they decided to change it to Vegas in the interest of "good taste" ('60's lingo for PC)plus the two words kinda sound alike so it was no big deal.

"Now, I ain't much of a hand for makin' speeches .... "

"Let us now bow our heads in prayer. [Looks up] LORD, ..." -- Gen Buck Turgesen

On 2004-08-07 21:08, thejab wrote:

Not one movie by Jim Jarmusch mentioned yet, who is one of my all-time favorite directors.

What am I, chopped liver? I mentioned "Dead Man." Also, I just saw "Down by Law" (Jim Jarmusch, 1986) on the big screen. Now, I'm not exactly a huge Roberto Benigni fan, but he's awful funny in this, as are Tom Waits and John Lurie. Everyone should definitely see both films. Also, if you like Jarmusch, you should see some Aki Kaurismaki films, including "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" (Aki Kaurismaki, 1989) which features Jarmusch in a walk-on.

[ Edited by: DaneTiki on 2004-08-08 18:23 ]

[ Edited by: DaneTiki 2009-08-30 19:03 ]

Since we all love Hitchcock here's a couple that you should rent if you haven't seen or revisit if you have:

"The Birds" - Hands down, his best. Don't believe me? Watch it again. Isn't Antonio Banderas' mother in law hot?

"The Trouble With Harry" - Shirly Mclane, Charlie (before he got those irritating angels) and the Beav! Hillarious fun, Hitch at his funniest. I'm pretty sure I could watch this flick every day and never get bored!

On 2004-08-08 18:15, DaneTiki wrote:
And "La Dolce Vita" is in fact one of the best movies ever made. I just felt that a lot of folx would have already seen it or at least heard of it, or it would have been in my top 5.

So true. I thought of that after I listed my FIVE & came to the conclusion that if you're any kind of film fanatic (and I think I am) you just can't narrow it down that far. I have a hard time coming up with five favorite films from any genre or period much less overall, all-time! Other movies I think got overlooked: Un Chen Andalou, the brilliant Luis Bunuel / Salvador Dali collaboration shot in 1929. Crumb, the most revealing, bare your soul documentary I've ever seen. I've watched it twenty times and I could watch it twenty more. The Last Picture Show, The Days of Wine and Roses, Petrified Forest, Dead End, Sunset Blvd...well you get the picture.

"You is an ungrateful man-whore!"

My second-favorite movie line of all time.

"Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo"! Should probably be under "guilty pleasure", with lines like, "Don't make me he-bitch man-slap you!"

In no order after the first:
"Casablanca""Raiders of the Lost Ark"
"Rushmore","Bottle Rocket"

"The Royal Tenenbaums" ("He died valiantly trying to rescue his family from a sinking ship" One of Royal's exaggerations, or was he the sinking ship?)

Jaws (Peter Benchley's father suggested "What's That Noshin' on My Laig" as the title)

And for general wackiness: "The Great Race"

Almost any movie using an animation sequence to illustrate travel with an airplane leaving a dotted line trail over a map. Extra points if the countries have their names printed on the map! I'd like to think that this is an homage to "Casablanca".

Watch "Ed Wood" (this may make you buy a Korla Pandit CD), then watch the real "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Strictly for people with way too much free time.

"Home? I have no home. The jungle is my home! Hunted. Despised! Living like an animal! But I will show the world who is its master -- by building a race of atomic supermen!"

In the immortal words of Ed Wood - "Cut! that's a print!" Ed Wood's movies weren't "movies" in the conventional sense of the word in the 1950's. They were more like Worhol but on a smaller scale. I don't sit around soaking up Ed Wood movies all day long, but I am glad he got the chance to make 'em and there's people who still watch 'em.

[i]
Not one movie by Jim Jarmusch mentioned yet, who is one of my all-time favorite directors. I would have to pick Stranger Than Paradise as my favorite by him, just because it was so unique and revolutionary when released. I can't count how many independent films imitated his style. One example: the black screens between scenes in Pulp Fiction were introduced in Stranger Than Paradise.

Stranger than Paradise is his best film. It was the first time I heard the fantastic Screaming Jay Hawkins. Highly recommended.

On 2004-08-06 21:37, Feelin' Zombified wrote:
Oh Crap, I almost forgot Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.

Bergman slipped my mind too! The Seventh Seal is a great one. Wild Strawberries is brilliant too! & features Max Von Sydow's first on screen appearance.

On 2004-08-08 18:44, Shipwreckjoey wrote:
Crumb, the most revealing, bare your soul documentary I've ever seen. I've watched it twenty times and I could watch it twenty more.

WOW! That's more intestinal fortitude than I will ever be able to claim. If I had watched "Crumb" 20 times I would be doped up on Thorazine and bouncing off the walls. That movie ranks right up there with "Nil by Mouth" (Gary Oldman, 1997) and "Intimacy" (Patrice Chereau, 2001) as one of the most depressing, soul-searing films I have ever seen. Not that that's bad or anything, but I have lost the crust of jadedness that used to protect me from horrible emotions like the ones engendered by those films.

[ Edited by: DaneTiki 2009-08-30 19:02 ]

On 2004-08-08 18:15, DaneTiki wrote:

What am I, chopped liver? I mentioned "Dead Man." Also, I just saw "Down by Law" (Jim Jarmusch, 1986) on the big screen. Now, I'm not exactly a huge Roberto Benigni fan, but he's awful funny in this, as are Tom Waits and John Lurie. Everyone should definitely see both films.

Oops, I missed that! Sorry!

On 2004-08-07 11:50, The Ragin' Rarotongan wrote:
\ Being only 29, I have seen countless movies, and I do appreciate that some of you are older, but I can't really do black and white movies to often. I grew up with color, stereo sound, and then surround sound. I have seen most of the old standby classics ...but I am mostly a fan of movies within my lifetime with a few exceptions.

I hope the same criteria doesn't apply to drinks. If so, then any cocktail that was created before 1975 would be verboten. Whoops, that includes almost everything in, say, the Grog Log or Trader Vic's Cocktail book.

You kids and your video games! It's a little known fact (and I shouldn't be telling you this) but people born before 1970 can ONLY see in Black and White.

I don't have a top 5 "movies" list as "movies" are too new-fangled for me. I prefer the magic-lantern shows the traveling man puts on once a year.

YAHOOOO, them dancing girls are PURDY!

[i]On 2004-08-09 19:34, Atomic Cocktail people born before 1970 can ONLY see in Black and White.

and those of us who were born IN 1970 can only see in plaid.

Plaid pants to be exact.

-Z

You poor, poor people!
Now HERE are some good movies. (although I couldn’t commit to a fifth)

City of Angels
Matrix
Princess Bride
Dogma

Other movies for consideration:

My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Leaving Las Vegas
Goonies
Ferris Bueller's Day off
Clue
Sixth Sense
A Knights Tale
Peter Pan (the new live action)
Anne of Green Gables / Anne of Avonlea

As if written on a tablet and handed down from the mountain top, here are the five greatest movies in no particular order....

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Plan 9 from Outer Space
3. Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!!
4. Biloxi Blues
5. East of Eden

Red Rock West
The Last Seduction
U-Turn
Romeo Is Bleeding
2 Days In The Valley
Jackie Brown

Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V.

I love Dead Man! When Billy Bob Thornton starts obsessing over Johnny Depp's hair and says, "How do you get your hair so dang shiny? My hair's like ole' barn hay..." it kills me everytime!

Two GUILTY Pleasure movies that always cheer me up when I'm down

Village of the Giants

Crazy teens eat some "goo" become giant and take over the town. Ron Howard is the boy genius who creats the "goo" and tests it on some ducks who grow 10 times their size then go where all ducks go... The Whisky A-Go-Go!

The ruffian teens see the crazy ducks pogoing to the Beau Brummels Band and want a piece of the action... craziness and Barris hot rods ensue. Stars Tommy Kirk, Beau Bridges and Joy Harmon. Crazy Daddy, Ca-ray-zee!

Also, The Dancing Outlaw

Jesco White is one of the last remaining Mountain Tap Dancers in West Virgina. He is also one gass huffin' Elvis Impersonatin' wife beating sumbitch. An actual documentary made by PBS' "Different Drummer" series, this hour of jam packed entertainment will scare the hell out of you and charm the pants off you at the same time. If you're lucky enough to find a "director's cut" you can enjoy an additional 45 minutes of slack jawed entertainment.

[ Edited by: stuff-o-rama on 2004-08-10 03:10 ]

After much deliberation, my top five films for this hour are.....
(In no particular order)
Monty Python's Life of Brian
The Usual Suspects
The Seventh Seal
2001
The Godfather II

Ask me again tomorrow and I reckon there will be at least three changes.

Dang, I plumb forgot "Hewig And The Angry Inch."

The "Bad Santa" DVD is getting better with each viewing.

On 2004-08-10 03:07, stuff-o-rama wrote:
Also, The Dancing Outlaw

Jesco White is one of the last remaining Mountain Tap Dancers in West Virgina. He is also one gass huffin' Elvis Impersonatin' wife beating sumbitch. An actual documentary made by PBS' "Different Drummer" series, this hour of jam packed entertainment will scare the hell out of you and charm the pants off you at the same time. If you're lucky enough to find a "director's cut" you can enjoy an additional 45 minutes of slack jawed entertainment.

how could i forget jesco (jessie & elvis too)?

one of the MOST inspiring moments in cinema is the "i'm tired of eatin' sloppy, slimey eggs" scene. oh god it's so flippin' depraved! the "costly shades" scene is classic too!

I think we Americans have cornered the market on cinema (I truly believe we do it best), but here are some of my favorite foreign films (only 1 was mentioned in my first post - Rashomon). You all should go out and rent these today, I mean it...

1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir) - Why none of Renoir's films have not been mentioned yet is disturbing. Like his father was to the Impressionist Movement in art, Jean is to cinema. You think Welles was inventive with "Citizen Kane"? Check out this flick! It has been said that Welles studied this film before he shot "Kane"

2. Grand Illusion (Jean Reoir) - Another masterpiece from Renoir. This could be the greatest war movie of all time. A WWI story about French POWs. Great acting, great story, great shots, GREAT MOVIE!

3. Rififi (Jules Dassin) - Though Dassin was an American filmaker (Blacklisted and forced to move to France), this one was filmed in France, written by the French, and used French actors (so I'll consider it a foreign film). Great Noir caper film about 4 guys that plan the "perfect crime", but . . . .

4. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore) - If you love cinema, you'll love this film. You'll laugh and you'll cry. I love this movie.

5. Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi) - This could possibly be the funniest movie I have ever seen! Marcello Mastroianni at his best. The first time I saw this I was in a film class and I couldn't stop talking about it for months. This is a must see!

6. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica) - This heartbreaking movie is one of the best in Italian Cinema. You can talk about Fellini all you want, but it doesn't get much better than this.

7. The Killer (John Woo) - Of all the John Woo / Chow Yun Fat collaborations, this is my favorite. The Restaraunt shoot out in the begining is amazing. The film also has a soul, not common with action flicks of today. If you haven't seen this one, it's a must see.

how could i forget jesco (jessie & elvis too)?

one of the MOST inspiring moments in cinema is the "i'm tired of eatin' sloppy, slimey eggs" scene. oh god it's so flippin' depraved! the "costly shades" scene is classic too!

and let's not forget the Tuesday night party at the White family's trailer where the "oldest and meanest" sibling tries to run over the camera man in her pick'em up truck, the brothers spinning donuts in the front yard until they blew up the engine and the impromptu music jam in the front room. **wipes tear ** beautiful as a super double buzz!

On 2004-08-06 15:20, Tiki-bot wrote:

1. Crossroads
2. Glitter
3. Showgirls
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Gigli

sigh...did I marry this man?

1. Jaws
2. Casablanca (or even better, Gaslight!)
3. Rear Window or North by Northwest (grace kelly or eva marie saint, hmmmm)
4. Bicycle Thief
5. Citizen Kane

others - triplets of belleville, empire strikes back, rushmore, rocky (yo, I'm from philly...) breakfast at tiffany's, to kill a mockingbird, she devils on wheels...I can't stop....

"You're the mayor of shark city, people think you want the beaches open."

[ Edited by: mrs. pineapple on 2004-08-11 15:56 ]

The Jerk
City Of Lost Children
Goodfellas
Scarface
Popeye (starring Robin Williams)

Mrs.Pineapple,I think we'd be compatible,except I'm married to wonderful man.I have Jaws,Casablanca,and Citizen Kane on my list,but I forgot "To Kill A Mockingbird"-my absolutely favorite book of all time-You've got great taste!!!

The Jseco documentary, though I haven't seen it, kinda reminds me of the one from here in Canada about the guy who builds the bearproof suit and goes out and tries to get atttacked by Grizzly bears. I think it's called Operation Grizzly. Totally insane.

On 2004-08-12 07:09, tikifish wrote:
The Jseco documentary, though I haven't seen it, kinda reminds me of the one from here in Canada about the guy who builds the bearproof suit and goes out and tries to get atttacked by Grizzly bears. I think it's called Operation Grizzly. Totally insane.

operation grizzly sounds like fun! i think the key diffence might be that the grizzly guy's got a few screws loose & has to work a lot harder than most for an endorphine rush, jesco is depravity personified & started huffin' whatever he could git his hands on in his early teens: