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What are you top 25 films of all time?

posted 5 years ago by TheHungryHippo (821)
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Here are mine:

25. Apollo 13
24. Jurassic Park
23. Aliens
22. Memento
21. Reservoir Dogs
20. Saving Private Ryan
19. Scarface
18. The Terminator
17. Saturday Night Fever
16. Edward Scissorhands
15. Schindler’s List
14. The Godfather
13. Psycho
12. The Dark Knight
11. Braveheart
10. Titanic
09. Interstellar
08. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
07. Platoon
06. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
05. The Dark Knight Rises
04. Apocalypse Now
03. Pulp Fiction
02. The Godfather Part II
01. The Empire Strikes Back

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21028) 5 years ago

I expanded my list to 50 but still no way to put them in order of favorites. It’s always so interesting to see what years your favorites fall in.

Cleopatra (1963)
Father Goose (1964)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Man From Deep River (1972)
The Harder They Come (1972)
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Coffy (1973)
Jaws (1974)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Rolling Thunder (1977)
House (1977)
The Deep (1977)
Suspiria (1977)
The Wild Geese (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1978)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Shining (1980)
Urban Cowboy (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Art (1981)
Conan the Barbarian (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Thing (1982)
Nightmare City (1983)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Red Dawn (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
Come and See (1985)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
Platoon (1986)
The Naked Gun (1988)
The Woman in Black (1989)
Killing Zoe (1993)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jackie Brown (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Kill Bill (2003)
Old Boy (2003)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
There Will be Blood (2007)
Death Proof (2007)
True Grit (2010)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

[–] TheHungryHippo (821) 5 years ago

Glad to see Platoon and Blade Runner on here, two of my favorite.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21028) 5 years ago

Every time I get in a bad situation I quote Red from Platoon.

“I don’t think I’m gonna make it.”

That and many others from Platoon. 😀

[–] TheHungryHippo (821) 5 years ago

LOL, whenever I'm feeling overwhelmed at my job I sometimes say "Hell is the impossibility of reason,that's what this place feels like....Hell"

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21028) 5 years ago

lol. So many great quotes in Platoon.

“Sometimes feeling good is good enough.”

[–] TheHungryHippo (821) 5 years ago

"I am reality"

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21028) 5 years ago

Hell yeah! As he downs JD he says “so you all come down here and smoke that stuff to escape from reality?!”

[–] TheHungryHippo (821) 5 years ago

That had to be such a confusing situation they were in. Barnes was their comrade and he was the guy in the platoon who was going to keep all of them alive and get them through Nam, do they really stand up to him and tear him down over what he did to the Vietnamese even though they were innocent victims? With the situation they were in the moment you let your guard down is the moment then entire platoon gets blown to pieces. So glad I wasn't in Vietnam, I never could have figured all of this out.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21028) 5 years ago

I feel the same! Now I think of Apocalypse Now when Kurtz talks about the pile of arms in the village and how long would the war last if all his men were that fanatical. I always think that kind of man is Barnes. What if you had a Platoon of Men like Barnes? It’s scary.

[–] TheHungryHippo (821) 5 years ago

I felt that both Kilgore and Kurtz were just like Barnes (all 3 of them pretty much did what they saw was necessary and didn't give a sh!t about the consequences) only Kilgore bought into the bullsh!t and the glamorization of what he was doing while Kurtz recognized that he was a monster (although at the same time he couldn't stop despite the fact that he hated what he had become), and figured if he's going to be a monster he'd might as well appear to be a monster. But yes to win the war you have to resort to brutal tactics because "it's judgment that defeats us" which may mean chopping off inoculated arms, helicopter raiding a village or shooting an innocent woman in the chest and then threatening a little girl.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21028) 5 years ago

Very well stated. I never put Kilgore in the same class with Kurtz but I’m rethinking it now.

[–] TheHungryHippo (821) 5 years ago

Yeah there's a line in there "if that's the way Kilgore fought the war I was beginning to wonder what they had against Kurtz?" What they had against Kurtz was that he wasn't hiding his brutal nature and wasn't buying into the bullsh!t that his actions should be glorified or respected. Because of that he was an embarrassment to the US military.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21028) 5 years ago

Obviously..... insane.

[–] TheHungryHippo (821) 5 years ago

Terminate with extreme prejudice.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I don't have that many favorite movies.

[–] StoneKeeper (24604) 5 years ago

I can't do it so here are all the movies I rate 9.5 or higher:

1. Requiem for a dream 10
2. Fight Club 10
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 10
4. Scarface 10
5. Goodfellas 10
6. Apocalypse Now 10
7. A Beautiful Mind 10
8. Trainspotting 10
9. The Usual Suspect 10
10. Natural born Killer 10
11. Blood in Blood Out 10
12. Basketball Diaries 10
13. Biutiful 10
14. The Revenant 10
15. Braveheart 10
16. Saving Private Ryan 10
17. The Doors 10
18. The Pianist 10
19. Lawrence Of Arabia 10
20. Biodome 10
21. Multiplicity 10
22. La Loi du Cochon 10
23. C.R.A.Z.Y. 10
24. T 2 Judgment Day 10
25. House Of Flying Daggers 10
26. Friday 10
27. Glory 10
28. Mr.Nobody 10
29. Rebelle 10
30. The Lion King 10
31. Homeward Bound 10
32. The Land Before Time 10
33. Les Choristes 9.5
34. The Dark Knight 9.5
35. Clockwork Orange 9.5
36. Blade Runner 9.5
37. Sling Blade 9.5
38. Life is beautiful 9.5
39. Papillon 9.5
40. O Brother Where Art Thou 9.5
41. The Wolf Of Wall Sreet 9.5
42. SubUrbia 9.5
43. City Of God 9.5
44. City Of Men 9.5
45. Midnight Cowboy 9.5
46. Léolo 9.5
47. Jacob’s Ladder 9.5
48. The Return Of The King 9.5
49. Irreversible 9.5
50. L’Écume Des Jours 9.5
51. Red Cliff 9.5
52. I’m a Cyborg but that’s OK. 9.5
53. The Raid 2 9.5
54. Boys In The Hood 9.5
55. The never ending story 9.5

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21028) 5 years ago

Irreversible! Whoa.. I only saw it once and that was enough.

[–] StoneKeeper (24604) 5 years ago

Saw it three times, at three different stages of my life and it shook me each time. But I watched the final scene a dozen times

[–] Jones70 (6351) 5 years ago

zodiac
pulp fiction
seven
no country for old men
la confidential
die hard
fight club
the insider
inside man
casualties of war
drugstore cowboy
mystic river
dead man walking
the exorcist
dog day afternoon
dirty harry
match point
road to perdition
gone baby gone
silence of the lambs
memento
bonnie and clyde
12 angry men
Halloween
speed