Your Top 10 Movies of All Time...- Page 2

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:35pm

Thank you shootin' for posting an original and honest film comment. It was clear it was from the heart. More posts in the film threads should have the same elements as yours.

[luvliza89]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 11:06pm

Not in order...

The Wizard of Oz
A Star is Born (Judy Garland Version)
Funny Girl
All About Eve
Some Like It Hot
Cabaret
Psycho Beach Party
Slums of Beverely Hills
Mommie Dearest
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 12:52pm

OUCH. Hard. So hard.


Rebel Without a Cause
West Side Story
Casablanca
To Kill a Mockingbird
Trainspotting
Les Miserables (French version)
Chocolait (why do I feel as though I spelt that wrong? This is not good..my mother speaks French 24/7 why am I not sure..)
Chicago
Little Women
Titanic (Yes..don't shoot me..I love LOVE Titanic)

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 12:54pm

^ No particular order either

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:29pm

1-Gone With the Wind
2-Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Davis/Crawford version of course)
3-Jaws
4-Forrest Gump
5-Easter Parade
6-Giant
7-What's Up Doc?
8-Beaches
9-Mixed Nuts
10-Hello, Dolly!

*Edit* UH, I just realized that one of my favorite movies has to be added. It can take the place of either Mixed Nuts or Hello, Dolly! But that movie is "Connie and Carla." I watch it way too much, but I just love it.

Updated On: 10/16/05 at 02:29 PM

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:42pm

my CURRENT favorite movies... it changes all the time... and in no order

Billy Elliot
School of Rock
Wallace and Grommit
Citizen Kane
Swing Time
8 1/2
Amelie
Guys and Dolls
Some Like it Hot
the beat my heart skipped

Updated On: 10/16/05 at 02:42 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 4:05pm

I think it's fascinating to read your lists! It tells me a little something about each of you. Some are traditionalists with a little streak of "wild" showing up here and there. Some are rebels, some root for underdog or outsider films, some embrace camp. But there's a lot of diversity showing up in an individual's posted choices, which is pretty neat.

EDIT: I agree that it's hard to limit it to just ten, and I find movies adding on and falling off my list all the time. New films come along and old ones are discovered or rediscovered, and we get older and react to them differently.

Updated On: 10/16/05 at 04:05 PM

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 4:25pm

i found that i was trying to round off my list, i kept having too many of one genre and i wanted to have a well rounded list. but i think my list perfectly reflects my taste. a little bit of evrything!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 4:25pm

i found that i was trying to round off my list, i kept having too many of one genre and i wanted to have a well rounded list. but i think my list perfectly reflects my taste. a little bit of evrything!

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 5:01pm

See? You're striving for balance in your life.

Cool.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 5:04pm

well... i try! even if i'm probably not old enough to have a balanced opinion on movies just yet!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 5:16pm

there we go! that's what i like to hear! HAHA! my perspective is all that's good enough! (but i havent seen a lot of movies that are consistently on peoples list... like Gone With the Wind, Mockingbird, etc...)

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 5:47pm

Perspectives change a lot on movies as we get older. A great example that comes to mind for me would be "Willy Wonka" (the Wilder version). As a kid, I thought the first part was kinda boring and so-so, and I couldn't wait until they got into the factory. Then as I got older, I realized how funny that first part is... the parody of a media frenzy, the satire, etc. Then, when they finally got into the factory, it was pretty routine after that.

Same movie... It hadn't changed. But I had.

[broadway86]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 6:04pm

1. Gone with the Wind
2. All About Eve
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Casablanca
5. Rear Window
6. Singin' in the Rain
7. Ordinary People
8. The Graduate
9. The Exorcist
10. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 6:37pm

I'll even add an explanation of my top choice for you...

A lot of people look at me strangely, as an adult now, when I say "The Wizard of Oz" is my all-time favorite film. They understand why I loved it as a kid. It's so brilliantly imaginative.

But I think this is the ultimate "journey" story about life. At least for me, it is.

I was born in a relatively safe, comfortable, and fairly "non-eventful" environment (in the grand scheme of things). Then suddenly when I was older, I ventured out into the big, wide world. I struggle along, meeting good people and bad people. I had "adventures." I continue to do so. And all the time I'm looking around trying to figure out what "home" means again. That comfortable "non-eventful" environment where I feel safe and happy again.

It’s a total allegory for me. I think it's easy to say that movie will always be my favorite.

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 7:33pm

CQorTaboo is a really ingenious man who enjoys many different movies. It's why you have to love him.


And I second Forrrest Gump

But husband dear. You have to come over and watch To Kill a Mockingbird as it is one of your wife's favorites!


Actually, I think it's great that adults still have the imagination enough to enjoy The Wizard of Oz. Personally, I'm rather frightened of it, but I do admit it's got a great story and a unique spin.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 7:38pm

I used to feel like a total idiot, until Spike Lee, Marlee Matlin and others I respected said it was their favorite film too.

It just got under my skin at such an early age and stayed there. It's part of my psyche.

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 7:40pm

Right, that's like me and To Kill a Mockingbird. When I was in the 4th grade, my teacher said "Now don't you think that's a bit scary or violent for your age?" But..it really wasn't. It was a great film with great performances.

Also, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. I watched it in the 3d grade and will never, ever get the amazment out of my system. It was scary. SO scary. But it shaped the opinions I have today. Movies like that are very important. It's also what makes them so great.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 7:45pm

Kids LIKE to be scared. Not terrified and repulsed. There's a difference. I think that's why (among other things) that Harry Potter is so popular. It scares kids, and they dig it. I wish adults could see that more clearly.

Mockingbird is an amazing film. A journey into and out of fear. And I will never forget Cicely in Pittman as long as I live.

Updated On: 10/16/05 at 07:45 PM

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 7:48pm

Right. When I watch The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman today..I get disgusted at the way people acted. When I was in the 3rd grade I still didn't completely understand it so I just thought it was some scary movie. And I liked it because of the chills it gave me and the thoughts it gave me as I grew older.

I have to say though, I'm still in love with Cinderella. There's just something about it that has captivated me since I was in preschool.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 8:32pm

my hesitations with seeing Mockingbird is that it's one of my favorite books and i see everything so clearly in my mind, EVERYTHING... and i just don't want the movie to wreck that image.

is that foolish!?

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 10:06pm

See, I loved the book too and I was not disappointed AT ALL with the film!

[Conor]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 10:21pm

no particular order

Sound of Music
Silence of the Lambs
Identity
Mean Girls
The Goonies
Beauty and Beast
Breakfast Club
Cruel Intentions
Ghost
Charade

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 10:27pm

Wow Conor that was versatile!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 10:32pm

SallyBrown: I'm surprised to see TRAINSPOTTING. You really liked that? Did you read the book? I read the book before I saw the movie - and the movie is a total bastardization of the book. Check out the book, it's great.

Jose: Does it really matter? Come on...