Cantina Top Tens: All Time Top Films

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id be into that. this is my favorite way to kill time at work.

 

Blame ol' @Willybobo haha

 

Wow! what you said gave me one of My Top Ten Biggest Laughs of my life! LOL!!!

 

1. The LotR trilogy

It's the only fandom I love more than Star Wars. Or maybe they're tied.....Blast it I'll never be able to choose

2. Star Wars OT

Well, yeah. Obviously.

3. Kick-Ass

I cannot rationalize why I love this film so much. It's just two hours of unadulterated awesomeness.

4. Inception

It ain't perfect, but the cool concept and high entertainment value are impossible to ignore.

5. Jurassic Park

Blew me away. The animatronics, music, tension, Jeff Goldblum....it's just perfect.

6. Fight Club

I quote this film on a daily basis. I wish I could say more, but sadly, I'm not allowed to talk about it

7. Cloud Atlas

The Wachowskis put all the ingredients for any great film together, mixed it in a pot, put it in the oven, and cooked up the cinematic wonder that is Cloud Atlas.

8. Django Unchained

Now, I love me some Pulp Fiction, but when Jamie Foxx said goodbye to Miss Laura, I knew I'd witnessed Tarantino's masterpiece.

9. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Visionary and brilliant. This isn't just a movie, it's a work of art.

10.The Dark Knight

Entertaining, powerful, and shocking; The Dark Knight is a superhero film done right. Not to mention, Heath Ledger is fantastic.

 

My favorites:

1 - 2001 Space Odyssey (Kubrick);
2 - Aguirre (Herzog);
3 - Nosferatu (Herzog);
4 - Blade Runner (Scott);
5 - Elephant Man (Lynch);
6 - The Empire Strikes Back;
7 - The Godfather (Coppola);
8 - Apocalypse Now (Coppola);
9 - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Leone) and..
10 - Taxi Driver (Scorsese).

 

I actually think we all love Star Wars for slightly different reasons, or that it resonates with people regardless of their usual interests. It's just so.. Natural, and resonant.

You surprise me with that one. I've never seen it on anyone's favorites list. Which isn't bad, because I find it fascinating how unique everyone's tastes are, and what resonates with them.
Never been able to decide if I like it or not, though.. Was just thinking about it a day or two ago, actually. Need to rewatch it. I enjoy Guy Pearce, and I like the score, but.. I don't know what it is that keeps me from saying I like it.

More surprise additions! I wasn't expecting these two at all. I love Star Trek, and I definitely like/love Generations, but I didn't expect it to be a favorite. Insurrection has, to me, always been "the best two-part TNG episode ever", lol. Neither is a bad choice though, Star Trek is great But no First Contact?

Definitely close to my own list.
I really like The Thing, only just saw it within the past year. And I HATE to say that I've never seen the original Kong...

Good to see some love for Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum!

I saw 2001 recently and enjoyed it a lot. It's so artistic, and so leisurely-paced, it's not something I think of myself as being identified with. I think I may be too interested in what other people might think of which films I call favorites..

But the visual and musical storytelling of that film definitely share a little bit with Star Wars.

My Top 10:
1) Star Wars*
2) The Lord of the Rings*
3) Jaws
4) American Graffiti
5) Forbidden Planet
6) The Naked Gun
7) Super 8
8) Up
9) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
10) 2001: A Space Odyssey

Honorable Mention: Citizen Kane

The order fluctuates a lot, and I'm terrible at picking favorites, so this wasn't easy, and the order isn't exact. I typically just list favorites in no order, and un-numbered.

*I consider Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, from an artistic and philosophical point of view, to be a single work each. To narrow it down, Star Wars could be narrowed to the OT, and probably A New Hope, more because it represents all of Star Wars than because it's a favorite, becaue I think I prefer Empire, just barely. As for Lord of the Rings... I can't separate it. Even the "books" are considered to be one single work.

 

Seeing this again after 7 months I realize I was negligent by not adding Ghostbusters (1984) to this list. Need to make it fit in there somewhere...
I guess I could remove Princess Bride.

 

1. Citizen Kane
2. All About Eve
3. Duck Soup
4. Star Wars: Episode IV
5. Life of Brian
6. Godfather I
7. Bridge Over River Kwai
8. Annie Hall
9. Wizard of Oz
10. Maltese Falcon

I left foreign film out and I'd like to call out honorable mentions to Lawrence of Arabbia, Raging Bull, Gandhi, Do the Right Thing, Frida, Rear Window, The Caine Mutiny, The Player and Clockwork Orange.

 

Nice list. All About Eve and Duck soup are already in my watchlist at IMDB. Wizard of Oz its a life time classic!

I forgot to mention one of my favorites too, like:

- Ran (Kurosawa);
- Vertigo (Hitchcock);
- Suna no onna (Teshigahara);
- The Gold Rush (Chaplin);
- Derzu Usala (Kurosawa);
- Repulsion (Polanski);
- Fitzcarraldo (Herzog);
- Les quatre cents coups (Truffaut);
- Aleksandr Nevskiy (Eisenstein);
- Ivan (Eisenstein);
- Memento (Nolan);
- Lolita (Kubrick);
- El Dorado (Saura);
- Tree of Life (Malick);
- Casablanca (Curtiz);
- Deer Hunter (Cimino);
- Ben Hur (Wyler);
- Stalker (Tarkovsky)

 

That is a superb list list there! Lolita is a very underrated, creepy and also funny. Nice to see I'm not the only one who considers it one of Kubrick's best.

Casablanca is a classic and Deer Hunter to this day produces scenes that I have to turn away and not watch at certain points, a superb indication the tension is superbly crafted.

If you love Vertigo, and have not seen Rope, check it out. It has virtually no cuts (they are there but so subtle you never notice them) so the entire film is almost one giant entire take, with fluid movement and blocking. The premise is deliciously macabre, two college students who study Criminology with a professor take on his challenge that there's no such thing as a perfect murder, by murdering someone and storing the body at a dinner party and invite the professor the party...just to prove they could get away with it.

My favorite Polanski film is his interpretation of Macbeth.

Some impressive list here folks, color me impressed!

 

Kubrick is one of my favorites film makers, most of his movies are classics, my favorites: 2001, Lolita, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Clockwork Orange and Barry Lindon.

Deer Hunter has such a good photography and the story its so depressive that's imposible not to get emocional. This movie, Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky) and Apocalypse Now are the three greatest movies about war that I've watched in my life.

I've watched Rope more than ten years ago, I remembered that I liked and the longs shots impressed me, great movie.

Macbeth i've seen about a month ago and was a nice surprise, I really enjoyed it. My favorites Polanskis are: Repulsion, Dance of the Vampires, Rosemary's baby, The Tenant and Bitter Moon.

 

1. The Fountain
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Wall-E
5. Unforgiven
6. The Matrix
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. The Empire Strikes Back
9. Jaws
10. The Bridges of Madison County
Honorable Mentions: The Homesman, Memento, Courage Under Fire

 

Sorry, can't put them in order, and can't really narrow it down to just 10...

The Conversation
John Carpenter's: The Thing
Being There
Pi
North By Northwest
Reservoir Dogs
Ghostbusters
Withnail & I
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Dead Man's Shoes





Oh, yeah, and Star Wars IV, V and VI... of course.

Honourable mentions: The Life of Brian, The French Connection, Pulp Fiction, Yojimbo, Raging Bull, The Straight Story, Fargo, Buffalo 66, Time Bandits, The Terminator, Rope, Adaptation, This Is Spinal Tap, The Third Man, The Graduate, Head, Go, Magnolia, The Usual Suspects, Easy Rider, A Hard Day's Night, Ed Wood, Blade Runner - oh, this is too hard to narrow down...

 

1 - Fight Club
2 - 12 Monkeys
3 - Empire Strikes back
4 - A New Hope
5 - The Watchmen
6 - Slumdog Millionnaire
7 - Close Encounters
8 - E vita e bella
9 - Trainspotting
10 - Fargo

 

01. Rear Window (Quintessential Narrative/Camera Work)
02. Empire Strikes Back + Return of the Jedi (i see them as a single Movie, the Movies of my childhood)
03. The Birds (almost as good as Rear Window)
04. Fight Club (amazing counter culture)
05. Blade Runner (perfect feeling for a movie)
06. GoodFellas (best gangster movie in my opinion)
07. Raiders of the Last Ark (the true adventure movie, just amazing)
08. Matrix (ground breaking, flawless as a movie and as a narrative)
09. Gladiator (the great epic of our days)
10. Ed TV (the best and must inteligent comedy ever, the expanded edition dvd is a must to every movie guy)

 

TOP TEN



01 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
02 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
03 Das Boot (1981)
04 Casablanca (1942)
05 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
06 The Shining (1980)
07 Metropolis (1927)
08 Apocalypse Now (1979)
09 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
10 A Clockwork Orange (1971)

outside the TOP 10

11 Seven Samurai (1954)
12 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
13 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

 

How could i forgot "Metropolis" and i also would like to consider "The Day the Earth Stood Still" from 1951 and "Forbiddden Planet" fom 1956 as true amazing Sci Fi Epics of all time.

And as for Sci Fi low budget good Movies (B Series) please consider:
- Dark City
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Labyrinth
- The Fly
- 5 Th Element

Actually "Rear Window", "Metropolis" and "The Shining" are the only movies i studied in Art School.

 

My Top Ten: (Not including Star Wars movies)
10) Home Alone (1990)
9) The Hunt for Red October (1990)
8) Star Trek: Generations (1994)
7) The Love Bug (1968)
6) Hook (1991)
5) Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
4) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I'm counting it as one) (2001-2003)
3) How to Train your Dragon 2 (2014)
2) Spider-Man 2 (2004)
1) Man of Steel (2013)