Your Top 10 Movies of All Time...

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:42pm

You can tell a lot about a person from the movies they like. Their all-time favorites. Usually they are films that have stood the test of (at least some) time. How old you were when you first saw them, and the mood you were in at the time, usually have a lot to do with their impact on you.

Some are obvious choices, and some not. Here’s a list of my all-time favorites:

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Gone With the Wind
3. The Sound of Music
4. It’s a Wonderful Life
5. Singin’ in the Rain
6. West Side Story
7. To Kill a Mockingbird
8. The Exorcist
9. Oliver!
10. Psycho

What are yours?

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:49pm

All I know is that Citizen Kane would be on my list.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:50pm

done this before at least twice.......search

Updated On: 10/15/05 at 07:50 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:51pm

And is the question asking us to pick what we think are the best 10 in an AFI kind of way or what our top 10 personal faves are? Those are two different lists for me!

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:52pm

Maybe you "dones" this before, but I haven't. Nothing comes up in a search for this.

The search engine on this site sucks, because you can't group words together.

Try it yourself first, next time.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:54pm

Not in an AFI way. My personal list just seems to go with theirs. Just your all-time favorite films. Whatever that means to you.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:01pm

The Jerby List

The Color Purple
Schindler's List
Magnolia
Contact
The Sixth Sense
Boogie Nights
Star Wars (series)
The Lord of the Rings
Amelie
Notting Hill

(this is off the top of my head and subject to edit)

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:03pm

Great list, Jerby! I know it's hard to pick just 10, but I like your "gut instincts."

[cturtle]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:30pm

big eden
maurice
beautiful thing
gods and monsters
get real
trick
bad education
in & out
the closet
tales of the city

now let's see ... just what does that list tell you about ME?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:30pm

FAG! tee hee

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:33pm

in no particular order and VERY subject to edit:

miss congeniality
the whole nine yards
a walk to remember
a christmas story
october sky
field of dreams

theres some off the top of my head, ill fill the rest in later.
(and what i find funny is that i mentioned october sky, and i checked my guide just now and its going to be on PLEX in about 25 minutes. weird..

Updated On: 10/15/05 at 08:33 PM

[cturtle]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:37pm

hey JRB ... takes one to know one!

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:44pm

Yeah, and apparently I'm an old AFI film fart.

But mine was (more or less) already my list before they released theirs nationally. I got teased a lot by close friends. They wanted to know if I had been on some inside committee there. My list doesn't match theirs exactly by any means, but the personal "flavor" is definitely there.

Who knew I was an "institute?" (I belong in one, but that's a different story.)

These are really cool lists you're coming up with. (or "out" with?)

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:47pm

12 bars--your list is great. And, of course, they are great films.

cturtle--I don't know what you are implying, but I don't know any homosexuals and----oh goodness, I can't even TYPE that with a straight face! Ba dum ching!

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 9:11pm

Rebel Without A Cause
Trainspotting
An Affair to Remember
Little Shop of Horrors
Mulholland Drive
Pirates of the Caribbean
Ed Wood
The Ref
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (for right now)
Silence of the Lambs

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 9:23pm

In no order:

Blue Velvet
Casablanca
The Women
That Obscure Object of Desire
Sunset Boulevard
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Mean Streets
In the Mood for Love
Jules et Jim

[cturtle]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 9:46pm

and of course there's my OTHER top 10 ...

frisky summer 1
frisky summer 2
frisky summer 3
frisky summer 4
greek holiday 1
greek holiday 2
alpine adventure
enchanted forest
cover boys
pretty boy

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 9:47pm

what does the t-shirt say?

BAD BOY, GO TO MY ROOM!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 9:50pm

also in no order

The Women
The Upside of Anger
Blade Runner
An Affair to Remember
Now, Voyager.
Sunset Blvd
Mommie Dearest
Tootsie
Schindler's List
All About Eve

[Marquise]

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

The Godfather
The Godfather II
A Raisin in the Sun
Casino
Some Like it Hot
A Place in the Sun
Saturday Night Fever
Sophie's Choice
West Side Story

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

Elphaba is correct. The OT is littered with threads asking this same question.

Why not simply add ot an existing thread?

This is no different that asking one to name one's top favorite movies.

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:12pm

oh wow 12bars i would have to say that almost half of the movies on your list are definitely on mine...

Gone with the Wind
West Side Story
It's a Wonderful Life
To Kill a Mockingbird
Just Like Heaven
Pearl Harbor
King Creole
Frankie and Johnny
The Notebook
The Ring

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:24pm

Here's a recent thread asking for favorite movies.

Is it any surprise that any who reads the lists on this current thread is going to find that approximately 75% of the titles are the same.

If you're going to start a separate thread at least make the question unique...

5 favorite movies set in the South

5 favorite films with scores by Max Steiner

3 favorite horror films that caused you to lose sleep

5 favorite non-MGM musicals

5 favorite comedies of the last 5 years

top 3 Mel Brooks films

5 favorite suspense films

top 3 Westerns and why are their plots relevant to today

top 3 black and white musicals

top 3 prison films

top 5 Clark Gable films, excluding GWTW

Name 3 films that should have starred John Wayne

What 3 films of the last 10 years should have starred Garbo in her prime

A little creativity goes a long way to make the threads interesting.



A favorite movie thread from just 7 days ago Updated On: 10/15/05 at 10:24 PM

[M J R]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:28pm

Here's a few...

American Beauty
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Stand By Me
Chicago
Raising Arizona
Mr. Holland's Opus
Legends of the Fall
The Color Purple
Silence of the Lambs
Dead Poets Society

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:30pm

You know, I'm not gonna lie... I'm kind of intimidated by you Jose'... in a good way though. If that makes sense. You make me want to be really smart and think before I post and check for grammatical errors, most of which I won't catch. Unless it's capitalizing my I's. Yep, that's my thought for the night.

And my favorite movie set in the south is undoubtedly GWTW. I watched it last night, I guess I'm a sucker for what could have been, I wish I had dresses like Scarlett's.