Your 10 Favourite Ever Movies.

Not sure this is my absolute favourite 10 (as with others it's really hard to narrow that down from a pool of so many), but in no particular order....

Monty Python and Holy Grail
Office Space
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Event Horizon
Aliens
Conan the Barbarian (Arnie version, probably one of the best ever movie soundtracks)
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Jaws
Dancer in the Dark

 

Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood’s best. A beautiful film about redemption).
Little Miss Sunshine (So much to love about this film. Especially the final act).
Rocky I (Magnificent movie. Wonderful score by Bill Conti. I love this one).
Rocky II (Worthy follow up. Then ignore subsequent films)
Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh film with Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent and Stephen Frears. Disturbing, amusing, touching.)
There Will Be Blood (Great period drama about early oil greed. Daniel Day Lewis was mighty good)
Gladiator (why not. Powerful).
The Spy Who Loved Me (first Bond for me, aged 7. Dad took me to the cinema. Best theme tune from Carly Bigmouth Simon. Amphibious Lotus Esprit and the most beautiful Bond girl ever).
A Room With A View (The ultimate costume drama, from Merchant Ivory. All others are imitations).
Erin Brockovic (Julia Roberts at her best. Great true story about fighting the big tossers)
This is Spinal Tap (most movie lists only go to 10. This one goes to 11).

 

Liked for the last one.

Those Merchant Ivory films send me to sleep.

 

Saving Private Ryan
The day of the Jackal
Schindlers list
Forrest Gump
Trainspotting
Pulp fiction
Shawshank redemption
Shaun of the dead
Casino
Goodfellows

 

Yep! The Day of the Jackal

 

I see Shawshank Redemption getting in a lot of people's choices including mine. It was absolutely panned by the critics on release apparently.

 

Realised I only did 5!
Adding
Back to the Future
Dawn of the Dead, original and remake
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Goodfellas
Trading Places

 

Very popular films I've never seen
Gladiator
Star Wars
Harry Potter
Lord Of The Rings

 

imho
Gladiator - Overrated
Star Wars - I think needed to be seen in the era. Starting to date badly now but would recommend the pre-touched up version
Harry Potter - I'm not a kid so have avoided.
Lord Of The Rings - Not really into the Wizard and Orcs stuff, tried reading one of the books once and couldn't finish it so avoided.

 

Gladiator is worth a watch if you've not seen it. Along with the others on my list of course

 

Spike Island is on tonight (technically tomorrow morning) at 00.15 on BBC1 if you want to see it again

 

It’s dull.

 

1. Where Eagles Dare (winter wonderland fun for the family)
2.The outlaw Josey Wales (heartwarming tale from the Valleys)
3. The Godfather (proper Italian without a Domino’s in sight)
4. Pulp Fiction (the ultimate good triumphs over evil favourite)
5. Once upon a time in the West (fabulous scenery and fronting up)
6. The Lavender Hill mob (morality tale from post war Britain)
7. Blazing Saddles (best April in Paris film of all time)
8. 2001 A space Odyseey (Hal of a movie and Leon Rossiter’s finest hour)
9. Elf (because it reminds me of my daughter)
10. Every Which Way but Loose (memories of time with Kathryn in the Watford Odeon)

 

Outlaw Josey Wales deserves a shout out. However I would replace your No.5 with :- "How The West Was Won"

 

Without Godfather Part 1, part 2 wouldn't have been made. I agree with your shout that Part 2 was better and would say that as a collection Parts 1 & 2 are outstanding, Part 3 was OK but ruined by some wooden acting.

 

Never seen them. Keep meaning to. It seems I should make the time !

 

Personally think they're overrated.

 

When I have a quiet work day I'll compile the answers in a nice neat list for a forum top 10. Could be a while!

 

Excellent idea. Could even set up a clever voting thingy if you were inclined ?

 

Watched The Green Mile again tonight, first time in years. Forgot how good it was. Absolutely brilliant.

 

Where Eagles Dare
Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape
The Italian Job
Back to the Future
Schindlers List
From Russia with Iove
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Some like it hot
Goldfinger

 

Not a great movie buff, but a mention for Harold and Maude which is one of the quirkiest and most enjoyable films I've seen.
Another vote for Spinal Tap too.

 

Honourable mention for Point Break which I’m currently watching on BBC3.

 

So finally I have created a list of films and votes. There were 339 films mentioned on this thread, (missing out the obvious fakes). Here is a list of all the films mentioned in alphabetical order, (sort of), and what a list it is!

2001 A Space Odyssey
A Fish Called Wanda
A Fistful of Dollars
A Room with a View
Abre los Ojos
Adams Family Values
Airplane
Alien
Aliens
All About Eve
American Beauty
American Werewolf in London
Amores Perros
Animal House
Annie Hall
Another Round
Awakenings
Babe
Back to the Future
Bad Taste
Batman 1989
Batteries Not Included
Beetlejuice
Beverley Hills Cop
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Blood Diamond
Blues Brothers
Borat
Bourne Identity
Breakfast Club
Breaking the Waves
Caddyshack
Casino
Casino Royale
Castaway
Catch Me If You Can
Cinema Paradiso
City of God
Close Encounters
Cloud Atlas
Conan the Barbarian
Dancer in the Dark
Dark Star
Dawn of the Dead
Die Hard
Die Wand (The Wall)
Dirty Harry
District 9
Doctor Strangelove
Donnio Darko
Drive
Dumbo
Educating Rita
El Brigadista
Elf
Empire of the Sun
Erin Brockovic
Escape from New York
ET
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Event Horizon
Every Which Way but Loose
Falling Down
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Forest Gump
From Russia with Love
Gangs of New York
Gattaca
Get Carter
Gladiator
Godather 2
Goldfinger
Gone with the Wind
Goodfellas
Goodwill Hunting
Gran Torino
Groundhog Day
Halloween
Harold and Maude
Heat
High Plains Drifter
Hot Fuzz
In Bruges
Inception
Independence Day
Inglorious Bastards
IP Man
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
It's a Wonderful Life
Jackie Brown
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jodorowskys Dune
Jurassic Park
Kes
Kill Bill
Kung Fu Hustle
LA Confidential
Leon
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Life is Sweet
Life of Brian
Lion
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Women
Lock Stock
Lord of the Rings
Man on Fire
Mean Machine
Meet Me in St Louis
Memento
Mike Basett England Manager
Million Dollar Baby
Mission Impossible 1
Moneyball
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mulan (2020)
Nightmare on Elm Street
Nikita (Victor Nettoyer version)
No Country for Old Men
Office Space
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Operation Daybreak
Paddington 2
Pans Labrynth
Passport to Pimlico
Payback
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Point break
Predator
Primal Fear
Promethius (Alien)
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Resevoir Dogs
Riders of Justice
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Road to Perdition
Robocop
Rocky
Rocky 2
Saving Private Ryan
Scent of a Woman
Schindlers List
Se7en
Shaun of the Dead
Shawshank Redemption
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Shooting Fish
Silence of the Lambs
Slumdog Millionaire
Snatch
Society of the Snow
Some Like it Hot
Southern Comfort
Soy Cuba
Space Balls
Sparticus
Spider Man
Spike Island
Spinal Tap
St Elmos Fire
Star Wars (A New Hope)
Terminator
Terminator 2
The Big Lebowski
The Big Short
The Dambusters
The Day of the Jackal
The Departed
The Eagle Has Landed
The French Connection
The Full Monty
The Godfather
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The Great Escape
The Green Mile
The Italian Job
The Last Samuai
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Magnificent Seven
The Man Who Would be King
The Man with the Golden Gun
The Martian
The Matrix
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Prestige
The Sound of Music
The Spy who Loved Me
The Third Man
The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects
The Victors
The Wicker Man
The Wind
There Will be Blood
Time Bandits
Time Machine (1960)
To Sir with Love
Top Gun
Trading Places
Trains Planes & Automobiles
Trainspotting
Twelve Angry Men
Up
Vertigo
West Side Story (Original)
Where Eagles Dare
Wolf of Wall Street
Zulu

 

And the most popular are:

12 Shawshank Redemption
7 Back to the Future
7 Jaws
6 Gladiator
6 Goodfellas
6 Pulp Fiction
6 Saving Private Ryan
5 One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
5 Terminator 2
4 Alien
4 Schindlers List
4 Spinal Tap
4 The Godfather
4 Where Eagles Dare
3 Bladerunner
3 Breakfast Club
3 Close Encounters
3 Leon
3 Resevoir Dogs
3 Silence of the Lambs
3 The Great Escape
3 The Green Mile
3 The Italian Job
3 The Usual Suspects
3 Trainspotting
2 Aliens
2 Amores Perros
2 Animal House
2 Blazing Saddles
2 Caddyshack
2 Casino Royale
2 City of God
2 Donnio Darko
2 Educating Rita
2 Elf
2 Ferris Buellers Day Off
2 Forest Gump
2 Hot Fuzz
2 In Bruges
2 Jurassic Park
2 Kes
2 Kill Bill
2 LA Confidential
2 Life of Brian
2 Lock Stock
2 Lord of the Rings
2 Memento
2 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2 Pans Labrynth
2 Picnic at Hanging Rock
2 Scent of a Woman
2 Shaun of the Dead
2 Society of the Snow
2 Spike Island
2 The Big Lebowski
2 The Day of the Jackal
2 The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
2 The Man Who Would be King
2 The Outlaw Josey Wales
2 Trading Places
2 Twelve Angry Men
2 Zulu
1 2001 A Space Odyssey
1 A Fish Called Wanda
1 A Fistful of Dollars
1 A Room with a View
1 Abre los Ojos
1 Adams Family Values
1 Airplane
1 All About Eve
1 American Beauty
1 American Werewolf in London
1 Annie Hall
1 Another Round
1 Awakenings
1 Babe
1 Bad Taste
1 Batman 1989
1 Batteries Not Included
1 Beetlejuice
1 Beverley Hills Cop
1 Bllod Diamond
1 Blues Brothers
1 Borat
1 Bourne Identity
1 Breaking the Waves
1 Casino
1 Castaway
1 Catch Me IfYou Can
1 Cinema Paradiso
1 Cloud Atlas
1 Conan the Barbarian
1 Dancer in the Dark
1 Dark Star
1 Dawn of the Dead
1 Die Hard
1 Die Wand (The Wall)
1 Dirty Harry
1 District 9
1 Doctor Strangelove
1 Drive
1 Dumbo
1 El Brigadista
1 Empire of the Sun
1 Erin Brockovic
1 Escape from New York
1 ET
1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
1 Event Horizon
1 Every Which Way but Loose
1 Falling Down
1 Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
1 From Russia with Love
1 Gangs of New York
1 Gattaca
1 Get Carter
1 Godather 2
1 Goldfinger
1 Gone with the Wind
1 Goodwill Hunting
1 Gran Torino
1 Groundhog Day
1 Halloween
1 Harold and Maude
1 Heat
1 High Plains Drifter
1 Inception
1 Independence Day
1 Inglorious Bastards
1 IP Man
1 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
1 It's a Wonderful Life
1 Jackie Brown
1 Jaws 2
1 Jodorowskys Dune
1 Kung Fu Hustle
1 Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
1 Life is Sweet
1 Lion
1 Little Miss Sunshine
1 Little Women
1 Man on Fire
1 Mean Machine
1 Meet Me in St Louis
1 Mike Basett England Manager
1 Million Dollar Baby
1 Mission Impossible 1
1 Moneyball
1 Mulan (2020)
1 Nightmare on Elm Street
1 Nikita (Victor Nettoyer version)
1 No Country for Old Men
1 Office Space
1 Once Upon a Time in the West
1 Operation Daybreak
1 Paddington 2
1 Passport to Pimlico
1 Payback
1 Point break
1 Predator
1 Primal Fear
1 Promethius (Alien)
1 Psycho
1 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1 Riders of Justice
1 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
1 Road to Perdition
1 Robocop
1 Rocky
1 Rocky 2
1 Se7en
1 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1 Shooting Fish
1 Slumdog Millionaire
1 Snatch
1 Some Like it Hot
1 Southern Comfort
1 Soy Cuba
1 Space Balls
1 Sparticus
1 Spider Man
1 St Elmos Fire
1 Star Wars (A New Hope)
1 Terminator
1 The Big Short
1 The Dambusters
1 The Departed
1 The Eagle Has Landed
1 The French Connection
1 The Full Monty
1 The Last Samuai
1 The Lavendar Hill Mob
1 The Magnificent Seven
1 The Man with the Golden Gun
1 The Martian
1 The Matrix
1 The Prestige
1 The Sound of Music
1 The Spy who Loved Me
1 The Third Man
1 The Untouchables
1 The Victors
1 The Wicker Man
1 The Wind
1 There Will be Blood
1 Time Bandits
1 Time Machine (1960)
1 To Sir with Love
1 Top Gun
1 Trains Planes & Automobiles
1 Up
1 Vertigo
1 West Side Story (Original)
1 Wolf of Wall Street

 

If you want to know how cr*p AI really is then try to get it to create the above lists from this thread

 

What happened to my votes for the various Carry Ons? ‘Obvious fakes’, my arse.

 

For reference, this is the IMDB top 100 by user rating:

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. 12 Angry Men (1957)
7. Schindler's List (1993)
8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
10. Fight Club (1999)
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
12. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
13. Forrest Gump (1994)
14. Inception (2010)
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
16. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
17. Goodfellas (1990)
18. The Matrix (1999)
19. Star Wars (1977)
20. Seven Samurai (1954)
21. City of God (2002)
22. Se7en (1995)
23. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
24. The Usual Suspects (1995)
25. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
26. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
27. Leon: The Professional (1994)
28. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
29. Interstellar (2014)
30. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
31. Casablanca (1942)
32. American History X (1998)
33. Spirited Away (2001)
34. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
35. City Lights (1931)
36. Psycho (1960)
37. Rear Window (1954)
38. The Intouchables (2011)
39. Modern Times (1936)
40. Whiplash (2014)
41. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
42. The Green Mile (1999)
43. The Pianist (2002)
44. Memento (2000)
45. The Departed (2006)
46. Gladiator (2000)
47. Apocalypse Now (1979)
48. Back to the Future (1985)
49. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
50. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
51. Inside Out (2015)
52. The Prestige (2006)
53. Alien (1979)
54. The Lion King (1994)
55. The Lives of Others (2006)
56. The Great Dictator (1940)
57. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
58. The Shining (1980)
59. Django Unchained (2012)
60. Paths of Glory (1957)
61. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
62. WALL·E (2008)
63. American Beauty (1999)
64. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
65. Aliens (1986)
66. Citizen Kane (1941)
67. North by Northwest (1959)
68. Vertigo (1958)
69. Oldboy (2003)
70. Princess Mononoke (1997)
71. Das Boot (1981)
72. M (1931)
73. Return of the Jedi (1983)
74. Amélie (2001)
75. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
76. Toy Story 3 (2010)
77. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
78. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
79. Braveheart (1995)
80. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
81. Double Indemnity (1944)
82. Taxi Driver (1976)
83. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
84. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
85. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
86. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
87. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
88. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
89. The Sting (1973)
90. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
91. Amadeus (1984)
92. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
93. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
94. Snatch (2000)
95. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
96. The Kid (1921)
97. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
98. L.A. Confidential (1997)
99. Rashomon (1950)
100. All About Eve (1950

 

Actually blame AI again as that isn’t right, missing a few newer ones, try this:


Here's a sorted list of the films by rank, film name, and year:

1. **The Shawshank Redemption** (1994)
2. **The Godfather** (1972)
3. **The Dark Knight** (2008)
4. **Schindler's List** (1993)
5. **The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King** (2003)
6. **12 Angry Men** (1957)
7. **The Godfather Part II** (1974)
8. **The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring** (2001)
9. **Pulp Fiction** (1994)
10. **Inception** (2010)
11. **Fight Club** (1999)
12. **Forrest Gump** (1994)
13. **The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers** (2002)
14. **12th Fail** (2023)
15. **The Good, the Bad and the Ugly** (1966)
16. **Interstellar** (2014)
17. **The Matrix** (1999)
18. **GoodFellas** (1990)
19. **One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest** (1975)
20. **Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back** (1980)
21. **Seven** (1995)
22. **The Silence of the Lambs** (1991)
23. **The Green Mile** (1999)
24. **City of God** (2002)
25. **Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse** (2023)
26. **Terminator 2: Judgment Day** (1991)
27. **Saving Private Ryan** (1998)
28. **Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope** (1977)
29. **Spirited Away** (2001)
30. **Life Is Beautiful** (1997)
31. **Seven Samurai** (1954)
32. **It's a Wonderful Life** (1946)
33. **Harakiri** (1962)
34. **Dune: Part Two** (2024)
35. **Gladiator** (2000)
36. **Alien** (1979)
37. **Parasite** (2019)
38. **Back to the Future** (1985)
39. **Leon** (1994)
40. **Whiplash** (2014)
41. **The Prestige** (2006)
42. **Django Unchained** (2012)
43. **The Departed** (2006)
44. **Grave of the Fireflies** (1988)
45. **Psycho** (1960)
46. **The Usual Suspects** (1995)
47. **The Lion King** (1994)
48. **American History X** (1998)
49. **The Pianist** (2002)
50. **Untouchable** (2011)

Let me know if you need further details or additional information!

 

Interesting that the Dark Knight isn't mentioned by a single poster.

 

Never seen it

 

Thanks.

 

I haven't seen it either.

 

Nor have I. Anyone else?