Top 10 Movies of All Time

[Richard]

Rob Roy (Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange)
Singing in the Rain
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Babe
The GodFather
Search for the Holy Grail
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Mission
A Fish Called Wanda
Rio Bravo

Just to name a few.

Richard

[admin]

My top ten movies:

1. Signs
2. The Princess Bride
3. E.T.
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. The God Father part 2
6. Star Wars
7. The Legend of Bagger Vance
8. Top Gun
9. Ground Hog's Day
10. The God Father

Now is that a good list or what?   :thumbup:

Lee

[admin]

I had Ground Hog Day on my other list. Jaws bumped it out. But it's right up there.

Yeah, I like Spielberg.  :thumbup: He is good.

[Son of a Preacher Man]

I want to hear your top 10!

To me, these are the top 10 films of all time.

10.  Se7en
9. The 6th Sense
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's
7. Die Hard
6. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Casablanca
4. The Godfather
3. Chinatown
2. The Godfather Part II
1. Citizen Kane

I have many personal favorites not on the list, but these reflect what I think are the greatest films of all time. (It's a clos call between the top four.) Just missing this cut are Psycho, Dances with Wolves, The Maltese Falcon and Traffic .  

Now tell me what you think are the greatest films of all time!

[James Rondon]

No one has Braveheart down?

[OldDad]

In totally random order

Shadowlands
Braveheart
The Shawshank Redemption
Raising Arizona
The Searchers
The Sting
The Natural
The Apostle
Dr. Strangelove
Casablanca
Schindler's List
It's a Wonderful Life

If you're counting, that's twelve, but I couldn't leave any out.  My criteria are simple:  Is this a movie I will always stop and watch if I find it while channel surfing.  Just missing the cut: A Christmas Story (only because I've seen it about 120 times), High Noon (ditto), Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Fargo, The Green Mile, Stand by Me, The God's Must Be Crazy, and Forrest Gump.

OD

[Roman]

1. Braveheart
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Rocky III
4. Signs
5. Princess Bride
6. Raising Arizona
7. Galaxy Quest
8. Count of Monte Cristo
9. Stalag 17
10. Lord of the Rings

Honorables-
The Mask of Zorro
The Natural
The Hunt for Red October
Tears of the Sun
Fletch

Sex scene ruined Jerry McQuire, otherwise one of my favorites.
Language too strong in LA Confidential to recommend, but a good plot and storyline.

Same for Lethal Weapon I and II.

I also would have liked the Patriot, except by the time the bad guy killed two of Mel Gibson's sons and burned the church to the ground while filled with villagers, I was left feeling more depressed than inspired. I prefer a hero who protects instead of avenges.



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[Bon Voyage]

1.  O Brother Where Art Thou?
2.  The Usual Suspects
3.  Godfather
4.  Godfather II
5.  Godfather III (even liked this one no matter what critics say)
6.  Tootsie
7.  Young Guns
8.  Back to the Future
9.  The Karate Kid
10.  The Untouchables

I am sure I could think of a lot more.

[Jim Abb]

I'm going to take this as my top ten favourites...if it were for the ten most important it would include films like D.W. Griffiths "Birth of a Nation"  and Sergei Eisenstien's "Potemkin", films that had a lot of impact, but not the ones I watch over and over. Here they are, in no particular order:

Field of Dreams
Harold and Maude
Wizard of Oz
It's A Wonderful Life
Casablanca
Star Wars...the first one made
The Big Chill
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Annie Hall
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan

Some that just missed include
A Christmas Story (You'll shoot your eye out!)
The Dream Team
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Robin Hood (1939)
The Breakfast Club
Home Alone

[Bobby Valentine]

My taste in movies is pretty diverse.  I like a quality story and good acting -- and adventure built in there.  Well here is my Top Ten of all time:

1) Star Wars (1977)
2) Mad Max
3) The Mission
4) Glory
5) Star Trek II
6) Roots (I know it was a mini-series but . . .)
7) War of the Worlds
8) Empire Strikes Back
9) Willow
10) Big Jake

Ten was hard to pick these others could have tied for # 10:

Close Encounters
El Dorodo (John Wayne)
Forbidden Planet
Lord of the Rings
Gene Kelly movies were good
The Right Stuff was great

Movie Reviews from the Land of Beer and Cheese,
Bobby Valentine

[marc]

The top ten, for the moment:

1. Casablanca
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock (early Peter Weir)
3. The Manchurian Candidate
4. Harvey
5. Dr. Strangelove
6. Signs
7. Gallipoli (early Peter Weir and early Mel Gibson)
8. A Day at the Races (liked it even better than the more critically acclaimed Night at the Opera and Duck Soup)
9. The Maltese Falcon
10. Chinatown


Others:The Shining, The Sixth Sense, Witness, Dead Poets Society (get the idea I like Peter Weir movies?), Psycho, The Birds, North by Northwest, Close Encounters, The Mark of Zorro (Tyrone Power/Basil Rathbone), Key Largo, Sabrina, Charade, Glory, Matewan, Eight Men Out . . . . (yes, I keep coming back and editing in more movies.  I will stop now.)

And then, looking back at others' lists, I realize I've left off The Princess Bride, which has to be top five.  It's hopeless!

[brandt]

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Remains of the Day
Gross Anatomy
Matrix
Jurassic Park
Batman
Cider House Rules
True Romance
Superstar
Return of the Jedi

[admin]

I forgot my honorable mentions!

Rocky III
Rocky IV
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and Last Crusade
Ground Hog Day
Contact
Matrix
Roswell
Fire in the Sky
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Dead Poet's Society
Alien
Willow
Lord of the Rings
Hook
Ghost Busters
Dumb and Dumber
Ace Ventura
Ace Ventura, Back to Nature

[RMSoule]

As others have said, it's tough to pick 10, but here goes...

1. Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Dances with Wolves
3. The Right Stuff
4. The Matrix
5. Shadowlands
6. E.T.
7. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (would be higher if it weren't for that lame "Raindrops Keep Dancin' on my Head" scene!
8. Rear Window
9. Moulin Rouge (the energy of this blew me away!)
10. Groundhog Day (ironically, probably the one movie I would take to the proverbial desert island if I could only take one...)

Honorable mentions:
It's a Wonderful Life, Braveheart, Glory, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sting, Ben-Hur

[dgdodd]

Here is my list - in no particular order  :cool:

Ben Hur
The Rookie
Dr. Zhivago
Ghandi
Sabrina (the original black and white)
Beauty and the Beast
The Sound of Music
Out of Africa
Hoosiers
Miricle on 34th Streen (again, the original black and white)

[david johnson]

unordered, because i can't. (faves, no claims for greatness)

casablanca
it's a wonderful life
alien
the 10 commandments
frankenstein
tombstone
sgt york
godzilla
maltese falcon
amadeus

dj

[Barb1957]

I tend to want to list top 10 favorites, as others have.  Top 10, as  in best movies of all time would be quite different. Some of my favorite movies to watch over and over aren't necessarily "great".
Best of all time would include films like the usual ones that end up on such a list: Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Godfather ....
But my personal top 10 (favorite) movies of all time, in no particular order (and which could change at any time) are (based on the fact that I can stand to watch them over and over):

Adventures in Babysitting
E.T. the Extra-terrestrial
Superman (and) Superman II
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
My Favorite Wife
His Girl Friday
(the 3 above are my favorite Cary Grant movies)
A Fish Called Wanda
Home Alone
It's A Wonderful Life

not far behind: Miracle on 34th Street; anything with Kevin Kline; anything with Cary Grant; Spider-Man, The Matrix, Pay It Forward (except I hate the ending), A.I., Legally Blonde, Election, Raising Arizona ... those are what comes to mind ...

[Barry]

Here goes:

1. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
2. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3. The Apostle
4. Waterboy
5. Planet of the Apes series (I know, I'm weird)
6. Gladiator
7. Lawnmower Man
8. Stir Crazy
9. Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
10. Monty Python: Holy Grail

[Talulah]

The Sound of Music
Braveheart
The Shawshank Redemption
Schindler's List
Annie
Anne of Green Gables
Chicago
Fried Green Tomatoes
Moulin Rouge
Boys on the Side

[janine]

The whole LOTR trilogy can count as one movie.  It would be on my list for sure.

I don't know about ten of 'em... thinking...

Definitely somewhere in my 10 would be "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum", starring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, and a bunch of other excellent actors and actresses.  I could watch it weekly.  (Yes, I know it's earthy and bawdy.  Stone me.)

And I'd put in "Gideon", with Charleton Heston, Shirley Jones, Mike Connors, Shelly Winters, & more.

How about "African Queen"?

[Son of a Preacher Man]

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote (RMSoule @ April 08 2003,3:58)[/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]As others have said, it's tough to pick 10, but here goes...

1. Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Dances with Wolves
3. The Right Stuff
4. The Matrix
5. Shadowlands
6. E.T.
7. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (would be higher if it weren't for that lame "Raindrops Keep Dancin' on my Head" scene!
8. Rear Window
9. Moulin Rouge (the energy of this blew me away!)
10. Groundhog Day (ironically, probably the one movie I would take to the proverbial desert island if I could only take one...)

Honorable mentions:
It's a Wonderful Life, Braveheart, Glory, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sting, Ben-Hur[/quote]
I like the way you think!  Welcome to the board.  You have some excellent choices there.

Hey Lee!  You seem to have a Spielberg motif goin' on there.  Lucas/Spielberg/Shaylaman/Copola seem to be your bag.

[spurly]

Here's my list without thinking to hard:

1.  E.T.
2.  Matrix
3.  Star Wars Trilogy
4.  First Knight
5.  Gladiator
6.  The Rookie
7.  Tombstone
8.  Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn
9.  It's a Wonderful Life
10.  Hoosiers

Honorable Mention:  Top Gun, Pearl Harbour, Saving Private Ryan, Beauty and the Beast, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, Raiders of the Lost Ark

[marc]

Harvey was my favorite movie when I was very small.  Not too many years ago I watched it again for the first time in decades.  I expected to be disappointed, but I wasn't.  Not only did it hold up, but I liked it even better than I had before.  Since then I have watched it several times.

[Seeker]

Hard to do, but here is a shot that I will probably want to revise as soon as I post and think more - foreign language movies are omitted

1. Intolerance (silent film directed by DW Griffith)
2. Birth of a Nation (ditto)
3. Gone With the Wind
4. Citizen Kane
5. The Godfather
6. How Green Was My Valley
7. It's a Wonderful Life
8. Braveheart
9. Rob Roy
10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[duckman]

My Top 10 Favorite Movies (in no particular order):

1.  It's A Wonderful Life
2.  A River Runs Through It
3.  Chariots of Fire
4.  Remains of the Day
5.  Star Wars (the first one)
6.  Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein
7.  Matrix
8.  12 Angry Men
9.  Godfather (I)
10.  Monty Phyton's The Holy Grail

Duckman

[Jim Abb]

marc...I had forgotten "Harvey" which has one of what I think is the best lines of all time. I'm doing this from memory, but it's close, I think:
"There's two ways you can go through life. You can be oh so smart or oh so kind. I tried the smart. I recommend the kind."

"Harvey" and "Field of Dreams" would be a great double feature, as would "Casablanca" and "Play It Again Sam".

[admin]

[!--QuoteBegin--][/span][table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"95%\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"1\"][tr][td]Quote (admin @ Feb. 08 2003,11:27)[/td][/tr][tr][td id=\"QUOTE\"][!--QuoteEBegin--]My top ten movies:

1. Signs
2. The Princess Bride
3. E.T.
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. The God Father part 2
6. Star Wars
7. The Legend of Bagger Vance
8. Top Gun
9. Ground Hog's Day
10. The God Father

Now is that a good list or what?   :thumbup:

Lee[/quote]
My top ten list has one obvious flaw. I forgot about the movie "Jaws." What was I thinking?  :doh:

So my real top ten would be:

1. Signs
2. The Princess Bride
3. E.T.
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. The God Father part 2
6. Star Wars
7. The Legend of Bagger Vance
8. Top Gun
9. Jaws
10. The God Father

Comments? Observations?