Favourite Films
Favourite Films
JakeB
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#0Favourite Films
Posted: 6/29/04 at 5:21pm
What are your top 10 favourite films? Can't remember this being discussed before and a quick search yielded no results..
In no particular order,
About Schmidt
Amelie
Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)
Spellbound
Pleasantville
About a Boy
American Psycho
The Others
East is East
Forest Gump
#1re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/29/04 at 5:27pm
My top ten films (and these I would rate high simply because I can watch or not watch them forever and still find things to not watch about them) in no particular order:
1. Waiting for Guffman
2. Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Clue
5. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
6. Being John Malkovich
7. Almost Famous
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. The Nightmare Before Christmas
10. This is Spinal Tap
#2re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/29/04 at 5:53pm
I know that this list makes it look like I don't know how to alphabetize. But I ranked them. Yes, they are just that frighteningly close to alphabetical order. I repeat these are in my ACTUAL FAVORITE ORDER. I did not screw up. The end.
- Animal House
- Boondock Saints
- Clue
- Clueless
- Dirty Dancing
- Girl, Interrupted.
- Life is Beautiful
- Moulin Rouge
- Sister Act
- Ocean's Eleven
EDIT: Moulin Rouge was inexplicably forgotten, so I had to move things around a bit.
(By the way, it was REALLY HARD to get this down to 10. Hey, if anyone decides to post their top 20 instead, I've got my next ten ready to go.)
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Updated On: 6/29/04 at 05:53 PM
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#3re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/29/04 at 6:13pm
No order...
Waiting for Guffman
Moulin Rouge
Minority Report
Citizen Kane
A Mighty Wind
Best in Show
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Rear Window
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
#4re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/29/04 at 6:21pm
I find there is a difference between a movie and a film, so I'll give you my top ten for both in no particular order. 
Films:
1. Forrest Gump
2. Cleopatra (the Taylor/Burton epic)
3. Gone With the Wind
4. Giant
5. The Wizard of Oz
6. A Star Is Born (Judy's version)
7. Cast Away
8. Braveheart
9. For the Boys
10.Titanic
Movies:
1. Connie and Carla
2. Meet Me In St. Louis
3. Beaches
4. Dirty Dancing
5. Grease
6. Interview With the Vampire
7. What's Up Doc?
8. Annie
9. The Clock
10.Finding Nemo
11.Center Stage (I'm editing this to add an 11th one, because I just adore this movie and cannot leave it out)
FF, I also loved That Thing You Do. It was a very interesting movie, and very well done for low-budget. It didn't quite make my top 10 movie list, but I would put it under top 20 (movie...lol again, not a film)
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~
Updated On: 6/30/04 at 06:21 PM
#5re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 12:53am
FERRIS BUELLER!!! AAAAHHH!!!!
Also:
**Spaceballs
Forrest Gump
**MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL!! (What, the curtains?)
Bowling for Columbine
Canadian Bacon
Lord of the Rings 3
**Little Shop of Horrors
**BIG FISH!!!
Amelie
Watch me edit this in a few hours because I forgot something. Oh, and the ** stands for my FAVORITEST movies...Ferris goes without saying because I say so :)
"And now for something completely different..."
#6re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 8:50am
OK in no order...
1 Casablanca
2 Singing in the Rain
3 Citizan Kane
4 Life of Brian
5 Some Like it Hot
6 Robin Hood (Errol Flynn, as well as Patrick Bergins')
7 Braveheart (Historically acurate? No, but still good)
8 Wizard of Oz
9 LOTR
10 American Graffiti ( just for the soundtrack!)
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#7re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 10:18am
Enchanted April
The Haunting
The Sound of Music
Victor Victoria
ET
Jackie's Back!
The Others
Virtigo
The Family Plot
On A Clear Day
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#8re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 10:32am
No Order but...
The Princess Bride
The Producers
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Waiting for Guffman
A Mighty Wind
Pleasantville
The Wizard of Oz
Strictly Ballroom
Hairspray
The Lord of the Rings
Shrek
Little Shop of Horrors
Hmmm...that's actually 12. Sorry 
Updated On: 6/30/04 at 10:32 AM
#9re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 11:15am
By "favorite", I assume you mean the films we watch the most, but it doesn't mean they are considered the "best".
Singin' in the Rain
Star Wars
Jurassic Park
When Harry Met Sally
Hannah and Her Sisters
Crimes of the Heart
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Waiting for Guffman
Hands on a Hard Body (no, it's not porn)
The Color Purple
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
TorontoBoy
Featured Actor Joined: 6/24/04
#10re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 11:31am
In no particular order:
1) Dangerous Liasions
2) Psycho
3) Rear Window
4) Chicago
5) The Wizard of Oz
6) All About Eve
7) Born Yesterday
Sunset Boulevard
9) Midnight Cowboy
10) Moulin Rouge
Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later, every a**hole gets one.
(Charlotte Rampling from Swimming Pool)
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Stand-by Joined: 11/17/03
#11re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 11:38am
Here's ten movies I watch everytime they air on cable.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Shawshank Redemption
A Hard Day's Night
The Usual Suspects
Bridget Jones' Diary
Zoolander
Field of Dreams
*61
Forrest Gump
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
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Updated On: 7/1/04 at 11:38 AM
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#12re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 11:50am
1. Silence Of The Lambs
2. The Piano
3. Jaws
4. Aliens
5. The Matrix*
6. Wings Of The Dove
7. The English Patient
8. Se7en
9. Betty Blue
10. Amelie
That's my current "of all time" list but of course it changes on a reasonably regular basis. It certainly won't be too long before Bad Education and The Dreamers make it on there.
*even though it's been slightly tarnished by the two godawful sequels.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
Updated On: 6/30/04 at 11:50 AM
#13re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 12:51pm
american beauty
the usual suspects
forest gump
sunset boulevard
gone with the wind
the lion in winter
a streetcar named desire
chicago
the original kings of comedy
cat on a hot tin roof
*these are the ones i could think of, but they constantly change
#14re: Favourite Films
Posted: 6/30/04 at 1:17pm
In no particular order, of course:
Cruel Intentions
Welcome to the Dollhouse
South Park the Movie
LOTR (ugh, I can't list all 3)
Harry Potter (again, can't list all 3)
Superstar
Life as a House
Star Wars (any of them will work)
Scary Movie
Kill Bill
junglered
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#15re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/1/04 at 12:16pm
Top Ten:
Steel Magnolias
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Dangerous Liaisons
My Best Friend's Wedding
Elizabeth
The Sound of Music
The Lord of The Rings (trilogy)
Clueless
The Wizard of Oz
Live and Let Die
Honorable mention to my Runners-up:
Gone With the Wind
Circle of Friends
The Women
The Godfather
School Ties
Oceans Eleven
Mary Poppins
Shakespeare in Love
Song of the South
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#16re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/1/04 at 1:19pm
In no particular order:
L.A. Confidential
Chicago
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
X-Men
Six Degrees of Separation
Charade
Sabrina (The original- I adore Audrey Hepburn)
Annie Hall
Blazing Saddles
The Usual Suspects
And that's my kinda sorta list of movies I like. Today, anyway. :)
Updated On: 7/1/04 at 01:19 PM
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#17re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/1/04 at 2:17pm
In no order
-The Matrix
-Gone With the Wind
-Dirty Dancing
-Pulp Fiction
-A Few Good Men
-LOTR
-Original Star Wars
-Kill Bill
-Chicago
-Forrest Gump
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#18re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/1/04 at 2:18pmI love how Gone With The Wind was just kind of thrown in there with The Matrix and Kill Bill.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#19re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/1/04 at 2:28pm
in no order (gotta do 15):
Schindler's List
The Color Purple
Star Wars (series)
Steel Magnolias
Amelie
Notting Hill
Contact
Requiem for a Dream
The Crying Game
The Sixth Sense
Magnolia
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Moulin Rouge
Dancer in the Dark
Kill Bill
#20re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/1/04 at 2:33pm
Off the top of my head ...
Ed Wood
Carrie
Glengarry GlenRoss
Jerry Maguire
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Bridget Jones' Diary
Nightmare on Elm Street
LA Confidential
American Beauty
Edward Scissorhands
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#21re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/1/04 at 11:21pm
Matt_G, variety is the spice of life.
I also really liked Pieces of April.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/1/04 at 11:25pm
Amadeus
To Have and Have Not
All About Eve
Lost in Translation
A Midwinter's Tale
Desk Set
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Gosford Park
City Lights
Moonstruck
Honourable mention to anything with Colin Firth.
#23re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/2/04 at 12:12amHas anybody mentioned THE most beautiful film of all time-The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. 19 year old Catherine Deneuve, beautiful music, acid-trippy sets and french!
'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston
taboo17
Stand-by Joined: 6/4/04
#24re: Favourite Films
Posted: 7/2/04 at 12:47am
My all time favorite is 1. Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet. I absolutely love that film.
After that, at the moment in no order:
2. Blade Runner
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock
4. Mary, Queen of Scots
5. Basquiat
6. Isadora
7. Ken Russell (can't pick just one)
8. Excalibur
9. The Crying Game
10. Wuthering Heights
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