What are your 15 best movies of all time?

[Botany]

Please help me take my mind off *.

1. Mystic River
2. Dances with Wolfs
3. Little Big Man
4. Godfather 1 & 2
5. Breaker Morant
6. Blazing Saddles
7. Patton
8. Cool Hand Luke
9. North by Northwest
10. Amadeus
11. Animal House
12. Monster
13. Harvey
14. The Lion in Winter
15. Field of Dreams

:toast:

[KurtNYC]

1. In no order

1. Big Lebowski
2. Apocalypse Now!
3. Oliver!
4. Star Wars
5. Amadeus
6. Hail Hail Rock and Roll
7. Ray
8. Hard Day's Night
9. The Color Purple
10. Goodfellas
11. Midnight Cowboy
12. La Strada
13. Wings of Desire
14. Gone with the Wind
15. Wizard of Oz

[progmom]

2. c'mon over to the Lounge

We talk about this kind of thing all the time.

[Poiuyt]

9. c'mon over to the Classic Films Group

We talk about this kind of thing all the time.

[sportndandy]

3. I don't even know 15 movies

And in no particular order

1 Farenheit 911
2 Planet of the Apes (original)
3 Fiddler on the Roof
4 Animal House
5 Cool Hand Luke
6 The South Park Movie
7 Empire Strikes Back
8 The Color Purple
9 48 Hours
10 Private Parts
11 L A Story
12 Young Frankenstein
13 Love and Death
14 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
15 I don't know. How about Something About Mary.

Some are a reach, but I am impressed with myself for remembering that many movies that I like.

[nashville_brook]

4. in no particular order

1. Walker
2. Tombstone
3. Donnie Darko
4. Before Sunrise -- Before Sunset
5. Vernon, FL
6. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
7. Dazed and Confused
8. Princess Bride
9. Stardust Memories
10. Blue Velvet
11. Barfly
12. Zoolander (got me thru 4 months in the hospital)
13. Office Space
14. Spinal Tap
15. Best In Show

[lindsayg]

5. I came up w/ 10

the godfather
dr. strangelove
raging bull
to kill a mocking bird
the hustler
lawrence of arabia
rebel without a cause
easy rider
the last picture show
7 days in may

[Botany]

7. Thank you! DUers.

I would rather do this than watch Wolfiwitz lie.

The Grey Fox
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Graduate
7 Samurai
Young Winston
Field of Dreams

are good ones too.

I rented a movie and had some wine rather than watch * SOTU last night.

One movie i would love to see .......
It all started with the Boxer Rebellion ......
First Scene ...... Conyers speaking on the Ohio Elections
Last Scene ........ Rove & Blackwell in chains being frog-walked into a court room.

:bounce:

[jeanarrett]

8. I know I'll forget some. . .

Shawshank Redemption
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Color Purple
Pretty Woman (Yes!)
Jerry Maguire (because of Cuba)
The Secret Garden
Primal Fear
The Long Weekend
Waterworld (Yes I liked it!)
The Postman (Also Kevin Costner one)
The Green Mile
Seven
A River Runs Through It
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

[Yupster]

16. Polite Applause for

Willie Wonka. I hope they don't ruin it with a badly done remake.

[drbtg1]

27. How can the remake ruin it?

The Gene Wilder version will still be there.

(idea stolen from the story about the author who said movies about his books can't ruin his books since the books are still there up on the shelf.)

[Nordmadr]

6. Mine are:

1) Dances with Wolves
2) The Matrix
3) Excalibur
4) Tombstone
5) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
6) Super Troopers
7) Braveheart
8) Rob Roy
9) Dazed and Confused
10) Say Anything
11) 50 First Dates
12) The Great Escape
13) Saving Private Ryan
14) The Last Samurai
15) Good Will Hunting

I am sure I ahve forgotten some I would prefer and these are not in order, but off the top of my head.

Olaf

[RNCPsychiatry]

10. Pulp Fiction and The Usual Suspects

[dryan]

12. My favorites....

Citizen Kane
All Quiet on the Western Front
Gone with the Wind
Ben Hur
Schindler's List
Casablanca
Goodfells
Godfather 1 and 2 - 3 was lousy
Mildred Pierce
Chinatown
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
Amadeus
The Matrix

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. the lion in winter, inherit the wind, giant, Fahrenheit 911:),

[LibDemAlways]

13. Here are a few:

Godfather I and II
Citizen Kane
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
Days of Heaven

[AP]

14. Godfather, C. Kane, Bonnie/Clyde, Days of Heaven: YES!!!

Add to that:

Goodfellas, Battle of Algiers, Raiders of the Lost Arc, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back...

I also love Gilda and The Awful Truth.

What else? Fargo.

[Yupster]

15. #1 The Princess Bride

a few others

The Last Starfighter
The Lost Boys (for the musical score)
Max Dugan Returns
The Bad News Bears

Worstiest of all time

My Dinner With Andre

[CBGLuthier]

17. In no particular order

Sunrise
Metropolis
Modern Times
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Amadeus
Lawrence of Arabia (which I am seeing on a big screen in a few weeks)
Do The Right Thing
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Princess Mononoke
In the Heat of the Night
The Conversation
Phantom of the Paradise

Ok, just kidding about Phantom of the Paradise. It is one of my favorites, along with Zardoz but I won't argue to anyone that it is one of the best.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Here are mine

I liked The Lost Boys, also

Dr. Zhivago
Dr. Strangelove
(got a doctor thing going on)
Sideways
Mystic River
The Godfather movies
The Vampire's Kiss
I loved West Side Story when I was a kid
F9/11, Bowling for Columbine
Little Big Man
Midnight Cowboy
The President's Analyst (cracked me up)
Easy Rider
Bonnie & Clyde

Edit to add Born on the Fourth of July. Although I'm not usually a Tom Cruise fan, I thought he was perfect in this movie.

Oh, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[DelawareValleyDem]

22. I really liked

Nicolas Cage's perfomance in the vampire movie - he made the film. Most people I know either haven't seen it or thought he was acting too crazy

[Blue_In_AK]

28. I was employed as a secretary at the time that movie came out...

He so reminded me of bosses I have had. LOL.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

19. The Deerhunter is the best: DeNiro, Streep, Walken

Mystic River
Amadeus
ordinary people
Pulp Fiction
the usual suspects
Hannah and Her Sisters
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Room With A View
Splendor in the Grass
After Hours
Shawshank Redemption

Then:

Apollo 13
Godfather
Harvey
Farenheit 911
to kill a mockingbird
the last picture show
Duck Soup
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
The Princess Bride
Grease
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

[Blue_In_AK]

20. Oh, yeah, The Last Picture Show. GREAT movie. n/t

[DelawareValleyDem]

21. In no order

Forbidden Planet
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Quiz Show
All the President's Men
Back to the Future
A Civil Action
Midnight Cowboy
Deliverance
FM
Gahndi
5 Easy Pieces
Bridge on the River Kwai
Life is Beautiful
Buck Privates
Mad Mad Mad Mad World

[hector459]

23. If you haven't seen these please do.

1. Little Big Man
2. Blood Simple
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. The Godfather...I, II, and III
5. Blazing Saddles
6. Mystic River
7. BAPS (terribly funny with Halle Berry at her best)
8. History of the World (Mel Brooks)
9. Being There
10. Gone With the Wind
11. High Noon
12. China Town
13. Psycho
14. The King and I
15. Malcolm

[DerekG]

24. 15 Perfect films...

Different genres, different eras....and PERFECTLY FLAWLESS.


1. The Godfather
2. Vertigo
3. Jaws
4. The Godfather: Part II
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. Chinatown
7. Singin' In the Rain
8. Intolerance
9. The Empire Strikes Back
10. Modern Times
11. Fantasia
12. Raiders of the Lost Ark
13. Schindler's List
14. The Producers
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey

[bryant69]

25. In No Order

Batman
Con Air
Raiders of the Lost Arc
The Thin Man
Oceans 11 (the Remake)
Duck Soup
Love and Death
Delicatessen
Bringing up Baby
A Mighty Wind
O Brother Where Art Thou
12 Angry Men
The Maltese Falcon
Sanjuro
The Incredibles

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[KNUTSY]

26. In no particular order

Schindler's List
Braveheart
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Dances With Wolves
Platoon
Seabiscuit
Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Rudy
Hoosiers
Field of Dreams
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
The Big Labowski

[bmovies]

29. I am shocked...shocked....

that no one included "The Apartment"

[mojaverose]

30. O.K. Let's All Get Our Minds Off shrub

In no particular order:

1. The Searchers
2. Citizen Kane
3. His Girl Friday
4. North by Northwest
5. L.A. Confidential
6. Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice
7. It Happened One Night
8. Anything with Gable and Harlowe
9. A Man For All Seasons
10.The Maltese Falcon
11.Johnny Belinda
12.Anything with Tracy and Hepburn
13.The Crying Game
14.Titanic - The Cameron version
15.Chinatown

[mojaverose]

35. Oh, Yeah, Tombstone and To Kill A Mockingbird

They were on my original list but it got zapped. I think I tried to post just as the moderators were moving the thread.
Forgot them when I made up a new list. But Definitely there. I'm still mad because Val Kilmer didn't even get Nominated for that role. I was sure he'd win.

[DrWeird]

31. In no order.

Yojimbo.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Apocalypse Now
Three Kings
To Kill a Mocking Bird
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Jaws
For a Few Dollars More
The Seven Samurai
Kill Bill (1 & 2)
Do the Right Thing
Psycho
The Ghost and the Darkness
Alien
The Last of the Mohicans

[tigerbeat]

32. 1. Brazil

2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Godfather
5. Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
6. Alien
7. Airplane
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Heathers
10. Young Frankenstein
11. Blade Runner
12. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh version)
13. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
14. Goodfellas
15. Apocalypse Now

[tigerbeat]

33. oh, and runners up

Almost Famous
Boogie Nights
Much Ado About Nothing
Rio Bravo
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Phillip Kaufman version)
Halloween
The African Queen
Full Metal Jacket
A Hard Day's Night
Ed Wood

[Spider Jerusalem]

34. Okay, no particular order:

Dr. Strangelove; Or, How I learned TO Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Godfather 1 & 2 (but not 3)
Casablanca
π (Pi)
Lola Rennt
Das Boot
The Searchers
Chinatown
Lawrence of Arabia
Metropolis (the Fritz Lang original, not the animated remake)
Citizen Kane
The Great Dictator
North by Northwest
Once Upom A Time in the Weat
Yojimbo