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[OrangeGrayBlue]

Which film in The Human Condition trilogy?

If they aren't considered one film, I'll go with part 3.

 

[Blader]

Alright, I think I've settled on this as my top 10 for now.

1. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)

2. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)

3. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

4. Good Will Hunting (Van Sant, 1997)

5. Wayne's World (Spheeris, 1992)

6. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)

7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

8. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)

9. Apollo 13 (Howard, 1995)

10. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

And the honorable mentions:

8 1/2
12 Angry Men
Back to the Future
Before Sunset
Casino Royale
The Dark Knight
Dr. Strangelove
Fight Club
The Fog of War
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Graduate
Harakiri
The Matrix
Once Upon a Time in the West
Psycho
This is Spinal Tap
Toy Story
Unforgiven
When Harry Met Sally...
Yojimbo

 

[ViewtifulJC]

I see you Blader my dude

 

[Minion101]

1. The Matrix
2. Fight Club
3. Sin City
4. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
5. Ghost in the shell
6. The Dark Knight
7. Predator
8. No Country for Old Men
9. The Green Mile
10. Pulp Fiction

 

[Christine]

POST UNDER CONSTRUCTION

TGTBTU

bill an teds excellent adventure Full Metal Jacket

Ran

Unforgiven

Eternal sunshine of the spotless min The Road Warrior

Conan the barbarian

Adventures of baron munchausen the terminator

Princess bride

The empire strikes back

The world's end

I'll order and specify later

 

[Gandalf]

1. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2. Sideways
3. Man on the Moon
4. Schindlers List
5. The Godfather
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. The Italian Job (1969 Version)
8. The Dark Knight
9. The Departed
10. Raging Bull

For the sake if diversity I only included one LOTR. It's incredibly tough to pick a top 10. I could easily make a top 20... And I'm sure I've missed some of my favourites. I'll adjust if I remember any.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

If I watched this about 400 times in a row, that'd be about the length of ten movies. So I'm going with that.

 

[Melchiah]

1. The Evil Dead (1981)
2. Fight Club
3. The Nameless (AKA Los sin nombre)
4. Rosemary's Baby
5. The Shining
6. Se7en
7. Jacob's Ladder
8. Session 9
9. Alien
10. [REC]

I guess it's fairly obvious that I'm inclined towards horror, and a fan of Fincher and Balagueró.

 

[Muchacho]

Remo Williams

Bloodsport

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Enter the Dragon

Goemon

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Highlander

Dark Knight

Invasion USA

Dragon Tiger Gate

Leon
Blade
Braveheart
Jurassic Park
Tremors

 

[Blader]

I see you Blader my dude

Nearly peer pressure rating'd myself out of Wayne's World, but tbh nothing makes me laugh more. And for an early 90s comedy that markets itself with "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hurl" it has, incredibly, aged really really well.

1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)

"Featuring a pre-movie lecture"... If that tagline doesn't get asses in the seat, nothing will!

That's a gorgeous poster of Harakiri.

 

[jett]

I missed this thread. I guess I'll participate.

1. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

2. Speed Racer

3. Lawrence of Arabia

4. 2001: A Space Odyssey

5. The Godfather

6. The Godfather Part II

7. Blade Runner

8. The Last Emperor

9. Amadeus

10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[big ander]

Went with the one film director rule and tried a different angle compared to previous recent-ish lists I've made in other threads like this that were very much geared towards my own obscure, esoteric tastes. So this is less so, if only slightly. TTRL is still the greatest movie ever made, though, no apologies.

1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)

2. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)

3. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

4. Blow-up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

5. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)

6. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)

7. Once Upon A Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)

8. Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988)

9. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)

10. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)

Great list, I really need to catch up on Angelopoulos.

If I watched this about 400 times in a row, that'd be about the length of ten movies. So I'm going with that.

Oh wow this is more sinister, perverse and discomfiting than anything Lars Von Trier's ever done

 

[Bobby Roberts]

10. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)

I'm happy to see this movie popping up here and there in the list, but I'm REALLY happy to know this poster exists. I've never seen it before. Is there a link to a print or something?

 

[superdeluxe]

1.

- Shawshank Redemption

2.

- Godfather 2

3.

- Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Rings

4.

- Saving Private Ryan

5.

- Alien

6.

- Pulp Fiction

7.

- Lawrence of Arabia

8.

- Princess Mononoke

9.

- The Insider

10.

- Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

[graffix13]

1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Unforgiven
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Platoon
6. Fight Club
7. Boogie Nights
8. Dr. Strangelove or: How I stopped worrying and love the Bomb
9. Big Trouble in Little China
10. Sea biscuit

Honorable Mentions: Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, The Right Stuff, L.A. Confidential, The Pianist, The Prestige.

 

[Divius]

9. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)

Heyo! Reason I've not put my list up yet is because I cannot decide between this and Yojimbo.

 

[PassiveObserver]

1. Annie Hall
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Stranger Than Paradise
4. After Hours
5. Blade Runner
6. Blue Valentine
7. Brazil
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. There Will Be Blood
10. Pulp Fiction

 

[ohkay]

I'm happy to see this movie popping up here and there in the list, but I'm REALLY happy to know this poster exists. I've never seen it before. Is there a link to a print or something?

It's a Mondo screen print by Martin Ansin but if you're looking to buy it, it's been long sold out and your only option is the secondary market

 

[Dalek]

Everytime I see someone's list I'm half tempted to edit mine. "I like those movies too, dammit!"

 

[MrS]

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Jackie Brown
3. Goldfinger
4. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
5. The Shining
6. There Will Be Blood
7. The Lives of Others
8. The Seventh Continent
9. Fargo
10. Crimes and Misdemeanours

 

[lordxar]

These lists are genuinely amusing and I mean that in a good way. I expected to be odd man out with all my picks for some reason but this is a gaming site after all. Really expected a shitload of dry, culturally significant stuff and I'm seeing mostly good stuff lol. Not that film school examples aren't good but their usually not what's on this list and its awesome seeing comedies, cartoons, and other weird stuff hitting the list. Pokemon, Wayne's World, and the Godfather...lol

 

[harSon]

1.Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2003)
2.Schindler's List (1993)
3.Scarface (1983)
4.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
5.The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
6.North by Northwest (1959)
7.Into the Wild (2007)
8.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
9.The Naked City (1948)
10.Salinui chueok (2003)

You're going to have to pick between Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, or include both.

1. The Thin Red Line
2. Drive
3. Predator
4. Kill Bill Vol.1+2
5. Mediterraneo
6. When We Were Kings
7. Shawshank Redemption
8. Gladiator
9. Once Upon a Time in the West
10. Terminator 2

Same with you, going to have to decide between Volume 1 and 2.

 

[CharminUltra]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Vertigo
3. The Godfather Part I
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Seven Samurai
6. Persona
7. The Searchers
8. Doctor Strangelove
9. Taxi Driver
10. Casablanca

 

[munchie64]

Note that I consider this a VERY different beast to a list of my favourite films. If you're looking for a more personal list than this, I'll have to edit.

1. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
2. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
3. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
4. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
6. Fargo (The Coen Brothers, 1996)
7. King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933)
8. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
9. Akira (Otomo, 1988)
10. Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)

 

[Kirye]

1. Pursuit of Happiness
2. Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Good Will Hunting
4. The Avengers
5. The Incredibles
6. Princess Mononoke
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Mulan
9. The Dark Knight
10. The A-Team

 

[amaretto]

Surprised yet intrigued at the dearth of Godard films on these lists.

Hopefully more Leigh, Russell, Haneke, Buñuel, and Tarr films show up.

 

[mariachi507]

1. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
2. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
3. Jaws (Senor Spielbergo, 1975)
4. The Godfather (Coppolla, 1972)
5. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
6. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
7. The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
8. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
9. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
10. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)

Honorable Mentions:
1. No Country For Old Men (Coen, 2007)
2. Alien (Scott, 1979)
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
4. The Godfather Part Deux (Coppolla, 1974)
5. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)

Surprisingly I only had trouble with picking #10. Also, the 70's were amazing and will forever stand as the best and most important decade in film.

I also may have got the year wrong on a couple of films, I went straight from memory.

 

[Divius]

In your heart of hearts I think you know what to do.

I think I understand what you are saying...

 

[ErasureAcer]

I hardly watch movies so nothing has really changed from whenever the last thread was.

1. Before Sunset
2. Before Sunrise
3. Gattaca
4. Good Will Hunting
5. Vanilla Sky
6. Before Midnight
7. Glory
8. The Beach
9. The Prestige
10. Sideways

Honorable Mention: American History X, Life Is Beautiful, Bulworth

 

[Retrocore9]

1. 2001 A Space Odyssey
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Star Wars (original 1977 version)
4. Brazil
5. Superman 1978
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Blade Runner
9. Metropolis
10. Batman 1989

 

[seventynine]

1. Fight Club
2. The Shining
3. The Third Man
4. Dead Man's Shoes
5. Dazed and Confused
6. Akira
7. The Social Network
8. The Blues Brothers
9. The Apartment
10. The Wild Bunch

Very tricky with just 10 to chose from. I could easily fill a top 50.

 

[ogbg]

1) Aliens
2) The Terminator
3) Star Wars (New Hope)
4) Mad Max 2
5) Raiders of the Lost Ark
6) Jaws
7) Fargo
8) Heat
9) The Raid 2
10) Robocop

 

[Purple Haze]

You're going to have to pick between Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, or include both.

It's one film ripped apart, but still easy choice for greatest film ever, volume 1.

 

[ClivePwned]

1) Empire Strikes Back
2) Casablanca
3) Lawrence of Arabia
4) The Godfather
5) Star Wars
6) Raiders of the Lost Ark
7) The Blues Brothers
8) Out of Sight
9) Kill Bill pt 1
10) Taxi Driver

first attempt had something like 40 films.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

You can actually just count this as a second vote for my list, OP.

Take a hike, Ike, I'd never vote for some Greek social studies teacher-looking chucklehead who takes dives for Italian motorcycle cops.

 

[Wandering Ronin]

1. The Thing (1982)
2. Back to the Future (1985)
3. Alien (1979)
4. Equilibrium (2002)
5. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
6. Young Frankenstein (1974)
7. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
8. Princess Mononoke (1997)
9. True Grit (1969)
10. Forbidden Planet (1956)

 

[scarlet]

1. Lost in Translation
2. Her (2013)
3. In The Mood For Love
4. The Sound of Music
5. Gladiator
6. Pulp Fiction
7. The September Issue
8. In Bruges
9. Tangled
10. How to train your Dragon

1-3 is in particular order, the rest is what popped up in my mind when I type this.

 

[deli2000]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Godfather
3. 2001: A Space Oddysey
4. The Social Network
5. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
6. WALL-E
7. Seven Samurai
8. Alien
9. This Is Spinal Tap
10. The Departed

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Nearly peer pressure rating'd myself out of Wayne's World, but tbh nothing makes me laugh more. And for an early 90s comedy that markets itself with "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hurl" it has, incredibly, aged really really well.

I was THIS close to putting Friday on there, but I peer pressured myself out of it. I thought it was screw up my delicate balance, a moderate list sitting between the extremes of Swoon/Blader Criterion Collection film snobbery and "MAN OF STEEL WAS TOP 10 MOVIE OF ALL-TIME" Joe Sixpack populism.

 

[swoon]

I was THIS close to putting Friday on there, but I peer pressured myself out of it. I thought it was screw up my delicate balance, a moderate list sitting between the extremes of Swoon/Blader Criterion Collection film snobbery and "MAN OF STEEL WAS TOP 10 MOVIE OF ALL-TIME" Joe Sixpack populism.

detour is the ultimate film snob, anti populist film

 

[Red Hood]

01. The Godfather (1972)
02. Goodfellas (1990)
03. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
04. The Matrix (1999)
05. Rocky (1976)
06. La Haine (1995)
07. Amélie (2001)
08. Gladiator (2000)
09. Inception (2010)
10. Donnie Brasco (1997)

2-10 may or may not switch among themselves depending on my mood, but The Godfather will for always be my most favourite film of all time. There's literally nothing I have ever seen that even comes remotely close at knocking it from my 1st place. Goodfellas is a very worthy 2nd place while the rest follow at a respectable distance.

 

[lordxar]

I was THIS close to putting Friday on there, but I peer pressured myself out of it. I thought it was screw up my delicate balance, a moderate list sitting between the extremes of Swoon/Blader Criterion Collection film snobbery and "MAN OF STEEL WAS TOP 10 MOVIE OF ALL-TIME" Joe Sixpack populism.

Friday was freaking brilliant! If we did a top 20 I'd probably have it in there.

 

[yamaneko]

01) Blade Runner
02) Citizen Kane
03) Stalker
04) The Shining
05) Pscicose
06) Alexander
07) Hero
08) The Dark Knight
09) Evil Dead II
10) The Holy Mountain

 

[Eric WK]

1. Days of Heaven
2. Vertigo
3. Stalker
4. Seven Samurai
5. Jules and Jim
6. George Washington
7. Play Time
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. The Thin Red Line
10. Cries and Whispers

 

[Quake1028]

1.Casablanca
2.LotR: The Return of the King
3.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4.Jaws
5.The Empire Strikes Back
6.(500) Days of Summer
7.Psycho
8.Munich
9.American Splendor
10.Kill Bill: Vol. 1

 

[TheKaeptain]

I need to make a list.

 

[kerotan_eater]

What do you think about the Hong Kong sequence? I always find it stunning, and probably one of the best parts about the movies, and all my friends love it too. However, I hear very little mention of it on the internet.

That scene in The Dark Knight is pretty cool too, I love the setting, love the build up and love the execution of his entire plan. Though I still think the action sequence beginning with the tunnel and the truck that goes on for ten or so minutes is the highlight for me and takes the cake.

 

[Firemind]

Oh boy, I know more or less how to rank other mediums, but films... What metric do you even use? It's so diverse that it's pretty much impossible to rank them.

 

[Zakalwe]

1. Aliens
2. Brick
3. Drive
4. Terminator 2
5. Bladerunner
6. Whiplash
7. It Follows
8. Fight Club
9. Unbreakable
10. Die Hard

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Oh boy, I know more or less how to rank other mediums, but films... What metric do you even use? It's so diverse that it's pretty much impossible to rank them.

:/

Films aren't more or less diverse than other mediums.

And I don't think anybody is asking for a definitive ranking, just a rough estimate of either your favorite films, or what you consider to be the best films you've seen, or some combination of the two.