What are your 10 favorite movies ?

[KenC]

This is just too hard, but here are some, concentrating on the older stuff

Casablanca
Horsefeathers
Double Indemnity
Maltese Falcon
Rear Window
It's a Mad, Mad ... World
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Mean Streets
Chinatown
Blue Collar
Blade Runner
Alien

 

[KenC]

You should read the book: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I used to have a first edition that I bought way back in the early 70's... wish I still had it!

Ditto that. The book is quite different, with a whole sub-plot left out of the film. This makes the film that much more impressive because it transformed the book into something different and better than it would have been.

 

[KmH]

1. On Any Sunday (by Bruce Brown)
2. Big (with Tom Hanks)
3. Forrest Gump
4. Grand Prix (1966 film)
5. Le Mans (1971 film)
6. Once Upon a Time in America
7. The Hunt for Red October
8. Patriot Games
9 The Fourth Protocol (1987 film)
10. Day of the Jackal (1973 film)

Honorable Mentions:
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Along Came a Spider
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 original)
The God Father
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Good will Hunting
Finding Forrester
War Games
Ferris Buellar's Day Off
and many more

 

[MSnowy]

To Hell and Back (Audie Murphy)
On Any Sunday (Motorcycle Documentary)
Shawshank Redemption
Rudy
Slap Shot
Jaws
Omega Man
Platoon
Animal House
Green Beret (John Wayne)

 

[Tuffythepug]

This was quickly compiled and could be subject to change at any time !

Fargo
Casablanca
The Godfather
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Slingblade
Mash
Reservoir Dogs
Citizen Kane
The Usual Suspects
This Is Spinal Tap

 

[kundalini]

Tough to think off the top of my head, but here's a few in no particular order.....

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch - Guy Ritchie
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Being There
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Casablanca - most Bogey films
Citizen Kane
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
Adam's Rib - pretty much any Spencer Tracy film, especially with Hepbun... oh, oh, oh..... Guess Who's Coming to Diner
The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Raising Arizona, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? - Coen Bros
Silverado
Young Frankenstein, Blazin' Saddles, - sh!t, Mel Brookes has too many to mention

............

 

[camz]

1. Step Into Liquid
2. Heat
3. Rabbit Proof Fence
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Forrest Gump
6. The Big Lebowski
7. The Prestige
8. Endless Summer
9. Unforgiven
10. The Pianist
11. City of God
12. Usual Suspects

How about that op...12?

 

[kundalini]

3. Rabbit Proof Fence

Ohhhh, good one Camz.

 

[oldhippy]

Oh The Gods Must be crazy..forgot it Love it

 

[sm4him]

1. Alien
2. Gladiator
3. IP Man
4. The Crow
5. War Games
6. Donnie Darko
7. Blade Runner
8. Dark City
9. The Matrix
10. Inception

That was actually tough. There are others that I love and really, I brought this list to 10 but should have been a top 20 for me, lol. My favorite movie of all time though is Blade Runner.

You should read the book: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I used to have a first edition that I bought way back in the early 70's... wish I still had it!

Hmmm...I used to have that book around somewhere too! I had quite a few first edition Philip Dick, Heinlein, Clarke, Niven and others, but ever since my boys turned into teenagers and took an interest in science fiction, my collection has mysteriously vanished! :lmao:

 

[sm4him]

Wow--now I'm almost wishing for a snow day or maybe an...ahem, cough, cough..."sick" day to watch some of these old favorites, and some that have been mentioned that I've never seen but always meant to get around to.

1. Ground Hog Day
2. Hopscotch
3. Ghostbusters
4. Hunt for Red October
5. Romancing The Stone

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Loved that movie!!

^ +1 Add that to my list!

Not necessarily top ten but a few of my favorites:
The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! -> This may be my favorite.
The original Star Wars trilogy
Young Frankenstein
Stripes
10 Things I Hate About You
Top Gun
Doctor Zhivago
Sweet Home Alabama

Young Frankenstein... YES! How could I forget that one! "What Knockers!" lol!

Yeah, I really wanted to put Young Frankenstein on my list (and actually, Doctor Zhivago as well) but I'd already bagged more than my limit!

Tough to think off the top of my head, but here's a few in no particular order.....

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch - Guy Ritchie
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Being There
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Casablanca - most Bogey films
Citizen Kane
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
Adam's Rib - pretty much any Spencer Tracy film, especially with Hepbun... oh, oh, oh..... Guess Who's Coming to Diner
The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Raising Arizona, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? - Coen Bros
Silverado
Young Frankenstein, Blazin' Saddles, - sh!t, Mel Brookes has too many to mention

............

^YES, to the Gods Must Be Crazy.
and Oh, H3ll YES to Blazin' Saddles; that and Young Frankenstein are the funniest movies EVER.

 

[oldhippy]

Oh brother where art thou.. love it have the sound track
how about Sleepless in Seattle fav soundtrack also

 

[BlackSheep]

Cannot narrow it down to just 10, but I'm just a few over the limit:

Schindler's List
Grumpy Old Men (& Grumpier Old Men)
Titanic (any version)
Ramen Girl
Second Hand Lions
Dirty Dancing
The Party
Twister
Terminator 2
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Lost in Translation
Premonition
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
A Civil Action
The Princess Bride
Cheech & Chong Up in Smoke

Someone should start a Top Ten TV Shows thread, that might be easier to limit to just 10!

 

[Rick Waldroup]

The Big Sleep

Manhattan

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Bladerunner

The Wizard of Oz

All Quiet on the Western Front (The original version)

Silence of the Lambs

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Best Years of Our Lives

To Kill a Mockingbird

American Beauty

These came to mind right away. I am sure there are more.

 

[sm4him]

WAIT!! STOP The Presses!!
HOW did I leave off Monty Python and The Holy Grail?!?