Apolytoner's Favorite Films

[Dinner]

In no particular order:

Seven

Lawrence of Arabia

Casa Blanca

Tora, Tora, Tora

The Empire Strikes back

Clock Work Orange

Saving Private Ryan

The Shawshank redemption

Bladerunner

[Boris Godunov]

1. Amadeus (that no one else so far has listed this is a damning indictment of Apolyton movie taste!)
2. A Night to Remember (Titanic can't even hold a candle to this film).
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Citizen Kane (Welles rocks!)
5. The Haunting (1963 version by Robert Wise--best haunted house movie ever)
6. Blazing Saddles
7. Clue (so many classic lines!)
8. Without a Clue (sorely underrated comedy about Sherlock Holmes with Michael Cain and Ben Kingsley)
9. The Two Towers (Standing in for all LotR films)
10. A Christmas Story (a movie I have to watch whenever it's on)

[Dis]

Originally posted by Dracon II
Swept Away and Battlefield Earth

swept away was cool. I got off seeing Madonna treated like a 2 bit whore.

[JohnT]

Amadeus
Chinatown
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Titanic
Terms of Endearment
Election
Kill Bill 1
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Exorcist
The Conversation

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No idea how best to narrow it down to 10, but here's one way -- the 10 films I've (voluntarily) seen most often as an adult:

8 1/2
Bringing Up Baby
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
The Conversation (edit: which John T just posted, too! All Hail The Conversation!)
Duck Soup
Nashville
Singing in the Rain
The Wizard of Oz

Interestingly, 6 of the 10 were made before I was born, and none was made in my adult lifetime. Don't know what to make of that...

[Dis]

Originally posted by JohnT
Amadeus
Chinatown
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Titanic
Manchurian Candidate (1961)
Election
Kill Bill 1
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
The Exorcist
The Conversation

I'm just gonig to pretend you didn't just put Titanic in your top 10 list.

Even though the movie isn't as bad as everyone says it is, it just isn't cool to like the movie. you are required to bash it like everyone else.

[JohnT]

Unlike other people on this thread, I didn't make my list worrying about whether some website folk will think my selections are "cool."

[Moral Hazard]

I'm sure I'm leaving out a quite a few but these spring to mind at the moment.

1. Clerks
2. The Usual Suspects
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Don't Be a Menace to South Central while drinking your Juice in the Hood
5. High Noon
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Fight Club
9. Alien
10. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Ask me tommorrow and the list will be different.

[Dis]

ahh ****, I forgot clerks, that definately belongs on my list.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

1. Passion of the christ
2. Coyote ugly
3. usual suspects
4. uncle Buck
5. Goodfellas
6. The Cure
7. Pay it forward
8. braveheart
9. emperors new groove
10. animal house

[JohnT]

Same thing with "Raising Arizona" and my list. Oh, well.

[Imran Siddiqui]

In not really proper order:

1. Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
2. O'Brother Where Are Thou
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
5. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
6. Field of Dreams
7. Bull Durham
8. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
9. Animal House
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Alien (can't decide)

[Tuberski]

I have to follow Rufus and base it on movies I'll watch whenever it's on:

1. Arsenic and Old Lace
2. The Usual Suspects
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. The Last Dragon
5. Bachelor Party
6. Fifth Element
7. Big Trouble In Little China
8. Animal House
9. Porky's
10. Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein

ACK!

[Ned]

Ah, so many good films! I had completely fogotten about Kurosawa. Several of his films deserve to make someone's all time list. I particularly like Rashomon, Yojimbo and The Hidden Fortress. Also, I agree that Aliens was terrific.

[molly bloom]

Utterly impossible to narrow down a list to ten favourites.

Ten I like a lot at this moment:

Tokyo Story

The Grifters

Rue Cases Negres

Monsoon Wedding

The Parallax View

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Get Carter

Culloden

Blade Runner

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