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High time we had a list thread in this section I reckon!

So, what are your favourite ten films of all time? This one's going to take some thought...

I'm not ignoring this thread, I'm just carefully considering my options!

I wouldn't want to rush into this only to regret missing something out later...


I'll be back. (No, that one isn't one of my top ten!)

Jones wrote:[color=red]Does anyone have a real top ten that stays with them?
sometimes I think in top ten lists I choose films I loved years ago and never move them, I roll out the same stuff each time I'm asked even if i haven't watched them in years. I'd rather have a top ten that changes frequently.

Please feel free to post your top ten(s) as often as you like, depending on what your favourites are at any given time! That's kind of what made me start this thread, actually, the fact that I saw a new (to me) film last week in The Station Agent that has already gatecrashed my own top ten.

I have to say though that generally my absolute favourites do remain pretty much the same from one year to the next, and it's very rare that something new impresses me enough to make the breakthrough. Not sure what this says about my stubbornness and reluctance to embrace new things in general, but there you go

Anyway, this is my list:

1 Gregory's Girl
2 Roman Holiday
3 Bringing Up Baby
4 Jaws
5 This Is Spinal Tap
6 The Station Agent
7 The Shop Around The Corner
8 Some Like It Hot
9 White Heat
10 Local Hero

(sorry Rear Window, your time's up )

It would have to be a top 100 for me I can't decide, or, a top 10 for a number of categories. I'd have a problem picking 10 for just the Sci Fi category though.

Actually I've been having pangs of guilt ever since posting my top 10, as I somehow managed to overlook The Lady Vanishes, which I think I actually even prefer to Rear Window. I'm not happy having a list completely devoid of Hitchcock, either, so cheerio Local Hero, hello The Lady Vanishes!

I'm going to be different.

I have no way of picking my top 10 films I've had difficulty choosing my top 10 in one categary, so here are the films I reach for when I have need for them. I've also cheated by grouping Trilogies etc

Comedy. I'm not that fond of comedy films but these are the ones that make me laugh/cheer me up.

Lethal Weapon (all 4)
Miss Congeniality
Some Like It Hot
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Ground hog Day
Big
Mrs Doubtfire
Airplane
Calendar Girls
Drop Out Father

also

edit
Stiptease (Robert Patrick is so funny in this film)
Parenthood
Three Men and a Baby
Look Who’s Talking
Notting Hill
4 Weddings and a funeral
Pretty Woman

Science Fiction

Blade Runner
Highlander
Stargate
Mad Max Trilogy
Alien Quadrilogy
Mission to Mars
Flatliners
Independence Day
Star Trek First Contact/Insurrection (my two favs from the movies)
Brazil

also

Doppelgänger (1969)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
THX 1138
The Thing
Dark City
Bicentennial Man
The Matrix
Outland
The Philadelphia Experiment
Enemy Mine


Star Wars (first 3 made)
Soylent Green
Silent Running
Logan’s Run
The Boys from Brazil
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Time Machine (1960)
Close Encounters
Ghost Busters

Thrillers/Suspence

Vertigo
North by Northwest
Rebecca
LA Confidential
The Silence of the Lambs
Rear Window
The sixth Sense
Signs
Unbreakable
Fallen

edit how could I forget
Copland
Braveheart
also

Murder by Numbers
Se7en
JFK
Stigmata
Ransom
Gothica
Kiss the Girls
Psycho
Dead Again
The Lady Killers (1955)



Jagged Edge
Mothman Prophecies
The Others
Resident Evil
Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte
All About Eve
Charade
Shadow of a doubt (original Hitchcock)
The Lady Vanishes

In a cotegary of it's own

A Matter Of Life And Death My feel-good film

There are some more but I think that's enough for now.

always different but these i can watch anytime

Jaws
its a wonderful life
the godfather 1 and 2
star wars
braveheart
zulu
planes trains automobiles
schindlers list
goodfellas
one flew over cuckoos nest

and not forgetting

Back to the future
On the waterfront
Lord of the rings
The Warriors
Deer Hunter
Once upon a time in America
Raging Bull
Stand by me
Halloween
Spartacus
Psycho

toaster wrote:and not forgetting


Lord of the rings
Deer Hunter
Spartacus

How could I have missed those out? There's another three I'd have on my best 1000 list and Grand Prix too.

also

Pocahontas (love the music and songs in that)
South Pacific (my all time favorite love song in that film 'One Dream In My Heart' )
West Side Story (remember seeing that for the first time as a nipper, loved how the end credits were filmed as graffiti and I've ben facinated by opening credits and end credits ever since).

I always thought I wasn't much of a film buff too. I haven't included the
Carry On's yet either! Maybe because they are more of an institution.

David Mitchell's Mom wrote:...a hell of a lot... but mainly this:

Soylent Green

What happens in that, then?


My top ten is something like this (although I reserve the right to change it completely at any time!):

Singin' In the Rain
Airplane
Das Boot
Whale Rider
8 Femmes
Office Space
The Philadelphia Story
Sister Act (shut up!)
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
Rear Window


These aren't necessarily the greatest films ever made, but they are probably the ones I enjoy the most - my favourites. At the moment. I'm sad that there was no room for Disney's Hercules or Finding Nemo, but maybe they'd make it on another day.

The 39 Steps (1939)
Good will hunting
12 angry men(1957)
Time Bandits
Blade runner
Old Boy
12 monkeys
Whalerider
La Haine
The Matrix

in no particular order cept maybe blade runner at top...and very unofficial

check below

avid fan wrote:Good will hunting
12 angry men(1957)
Time Bandits
Blade runner

worthy of any mans list and throw pulp fiction in the mix aswell