You top five Movie Lists

[Admin]

Okay, how about listing your top five films in a particular category? Should make for an interesting thread.

I'll set the ball rolling...

Top Five World War Two Films
Schindler's List
Das Boot
The Longest Day
A Bridge Too Far
Saving Private Ryan

Top Five, Non-Godfather, Gangster Movies
Goodfellas
Donnie Brasco
Once Upon a Time in America
Casino
A Bronx Tale

Top Five Baseball Films Come on, you knew I was going to do it!
Bull Durham
61*
Field of Dreams
A league of Their Own
Major League

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Feel free to have a go yourself, with either subjects, actors, categories or anything your mind can come up with! ;D

Cheers,

Smudge

[GlennA]

Top Five Youth Culture/Music Films

Wildstyle
Quadrophenia
Do The Right Thing
The Harder They Come
The Filth and The Fury



Top Five David Lynch Films

Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Fire, Walk With Me
Lost Highway
Wild at Heart



Top Five Sports-Based Films

Hoop Dreams
Gregory's Girl
This Sporting Life
Raging Bull
Rollerball



Top Five Westerns

Once Upon A Time in the West
Shane
Unforgiven
High Noon
The Good The Bad and The Ugly

[staffsstokie]

top5 childhood movies ( the 80's in my case)

1/back to the future
2/the goonies
3/ neverending story
4/labrynth
5/robin hood prince of thieves.

top5 trilogies (or more)

1/back to the future
2/ indianna jones
3/ lethal weapon
4/die hard
5/ star wars

top5 westerns movies

1/ the good the bad and the ugly
2/ butch cassidy and the sundance kid
3/ high plains drifter
4/ fistful of dollars
5/ young guns.

top5 films about bands/groups.

1/ blues brothers
2/ bill and teds excellent adventure
3/ spinal tap
4/ still crazy
5/ filth and the fury

top5 arnold shwarznenegger films

1/ T2
2/Predator
3/ Eraser
4/ true lies
5/ end of days

[broadack]

Top 5 Crap Films

1/Man On The Moon- just so damn boring
2/Glitter-granted, i expected little from this spunkball of a film, i decided to watch it on sky. best summed up in 3 words, plethora of wank .(copyright MCF)
3/Matrix 3- crap becuase it was such a let down. actually awful. should have been so much better.
4/Pearl Harbour- now this could of been great... as it turns out, it was fucking awful. had it of been more like saving private ryan, rather that *fucking* titanic.
5/AI- Proper shit. would of expected a lot better from kubrick and spielberg. really piss poor.

probably loads more, i just cannot be arsed thinking as i feel ill.

good day

[JR]

Top 5 Susan George films

1 straw dogs
2 A strange affair
3 Dirty mary crazy larry
4 Fright
5 Die Screaming Marianne

Purely on her acting

Gangster

1 Sting
2 casino
3 Usual Suspects
4 Donnie Brasco
5 Resevoir Dogs

Top 5 Coen Bros

1 Big Lebowski
2 fargo
3 The man who wasn't there
4 Hudsucker Proxy
5 O brother where art thou?

Top 5 crap films

1 airplane
2 Addams Family
3 The Wiz
4 Boxing helena
5 The new Guy Richie/Madonna film

[wisey]

Top 5 most watched DVD's from my collection:

Swingers
We were soldiers
Peter Kay Top o the tower
Studio 54
Donnie Brasco

5 least watched DVD's from my collection

7 years in Tibet (got as part of a 3 for 20 promotion for the missus but not still not watched yet -any good?)

Dances with wolves( not as good as I remembered and v.long)

Black Hawk Down( thought it was over rated)

Unforgiven( good film but no guests/mates/misses ever choose to watch it)

Once upon a time in america( great film but very long!)

[tubes]

Top 5 Gangster Films

Godfather
Scarface
Carlitos Way
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas

could almost be top five pacino movies)


Top five biggest crappy sequels / prequels (films that just didn't live up)

Star Wars 1 and 2 (...JarJar Binks?...)
Matrix 2 and 3 (just expected so much more)
Butch and Sundance: the younger years (how dare they...)

[Admin]

Wisey,

I genuinely enjoyed '7 years in Tibet and if you don't like it then I'd gladly liberate it from your collection!

Smudge

PS ~ Some great lists so far!

[Hooky]

Top 5 Spoof Movies

Space Balls
Naked Gun
Loaded Weapon 1
Naked Gun 2
Naked Gun 33 & 1/3

[slangking]

Top 5 films not in English

Pickpocket
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Throne of Blood
Andrei Rublev
M

Top 5 films about War

All Quiet on the Western Front
Paths of Glory
The Thin Red Line
The Big Parade
Sons of the Desert

[JR]

Top 5 non English (good category)

1 Battle Royale
2 The ring
3 Taxi
4 City of God
5 Bride with white hair

[broadack]

run lola run was a good film

city of gods, is that the film about the columbian druglord kids??

i was in muziczone on sat, i was racking by brains to remember what the damn film was called, i asked a useless bloke behind the counter, he had a stupid ginger beard. he said he did not know what i was talking about, i left feeling quite stupid.

[JR]

Brazilian

Great film

[Admin]

Top Five Sci-Fi Movies

Blade Runner
Star wars
Forbidden Planet
Alien
Solaris (Original by Andrei Tarkovsky)


Top Five Sci-Fi Movies in Black and White

The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Thing From Another World
Metropolis
Them!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Top Five Crap Sci-Fi Movies

Plan 9 From Outer Space
Independence Day
Starship Troopers
Battlefield Earth
Sphere

Smudge

[Deleted]

just lost classics:

Quick Change
Society (deserves a DVD release)
Little Otik
Don't Look Now (out on DVD now)
Blood and Wine

DVD's that deserve a commentry:

Batman (there's a great DVD waiting to happen here, all there seems to be at the moment is the film on disc with no extras )
Pulp Fiction (still no commentry release?)

[JR]

"Day the Earth stood still" absolute classic. "Plan 9" is a work of genius...don't knock it.


A sci fi black and white for me would have to include "When Earth's Collide" and "It came from outer space" as well.


DVD lost highway "Night of the Lepis" and "Cannibal the Musical". "Society" a good shout.

Top 5 colour sci fi

1 Soylent green
2 planet of the Apes 1968
3 Barbarella
4 The Omega Man
5 Silent Running

[staffsstokie]

Top 5 plot twists

1/ Uusual suspects...Verbal Kint is making the whole story up.
2/ Empire strikes back....... Darth Vader is Lukes father
3/Fight club....they r the same guy
4/ Sixth sense.....he's dead
5/ blade runner...maybe he's a robot and maybe he isnt

[Admin]

staffsstokie said:

5/ blade runner...maybe he's a robot and maybe he isnt

Oh there's no doubt about it on this one Staffs fella... Deckard most certainly IS a replicant!

Though you're right, you don't actually get to see it for sure until the very end!

Good list!

Smudge

[JR]

Staffs...I hope no one has bought any of those 5 and hasn't watched them yet....you've kinda ruined them there ;D

I thought the "Sixth Sense" was shocking, sussed out what was going on straight away and thought the story was so lame. Enjoyed "The Others" more actually. Never thought I'd see Eric Sykes act alongside Nicole Kidman

[StuttgartStokie]

Top Five German Films

1, Good Bye Lenin
2, Das Boot
3, Lola Rennt
4, Be.Angeled - 1,000,000 Ravers at the Love Parade.
5, Nackt. - For the two fit naked birds in it.

Ok I admit it I've only seen about 6 German films that get a cinema release, but they've all been top quality films. The others were purchased from Beate Uhse.

[JR]

Stuttgart...what about "Christiane F"....surely the best German film ever?


Is that Bar "Zum Zum" still going in Stuttgart?

[StuttgartStokie]

Not seen that film JR, will add it to my list of films to see.

I think that bar has now changed its name. It might be called Laura's Bar.

Did you find that most of the men in there were really friendly? Or that the Village People seemed to always be on the Juke Box?

[JR]

Didn't notice that mate ??? Pretty pleased as well. There was a dubious looking chap behind the bar with a handlebar moustache now you mention it.

"Christiane F" a bit like an 80s Trainspotting. Same subject and a killer soundtrack. Excellent film.

[Deleted]

JR- said:

Staffs...I hope no one has bought any of those 5 and hasn't watched them yet....you've kinda ruined them there ;D

I thought the "Sixth Sense" was shocking, sussed out what was going on straight away and thought the story was so lame. Enjoyed "The Others" more actually. Never thought I'd see Eric Sykes act alongside Nicole Kidman

I was going to post the same thing about the Sixth Sense and The Others, same principle but The Others told the story far, far better with a greater atmosphere imo

[Admin]

Worst Five Films I've ever Seen
Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John howler)
Independence Day (pass me the sick bucket)
Carry On England (dreadful CO movie... Patrick Mower... says it all!)
Pokemon The Movie (Had to sit through it with the kids!)
Sudden Death (Ridiculous Van Damme hokum)

[Admin]

GlennA said:

Top Five David Lynch Films

Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Fire, Walk With Me
Lost Highway
Wild at Heart

Glenn,

Seems as though one of your fav films has made it into the "Stinkers" top 100 worst films ever made... here's the review...

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Kyle MacLachlan, Madchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Phoebe Augustine, David Bowie, Eric DaRe, Miguel Ferrer, Pamela Gidley, Heather Graham, Chris Isaak, Moira Kelly, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall, Harry Dean Stanton, Kiefer Sutherland
The sleepy Washington town with 'damn good coffee and cheery pie' and the oldest looking high school students in the world comes back to haunt us. This infuriating prequel to the bizarre TV show "Twin Peaks" moves at a snail's pace and is filmed in director David Lynch's usual unwatchable style. Seeing it will remind former fans of the series' first season why they quit watching the show. All the weird characters from the TV show are on display - Bob, The Log Lady, The One-Armed Man, and the Dwarf in the Red Room who likes to speak backwards - but the film makes little sense. Some dialogue amounts to little more than whispers and mumbles. Sporting such nonsensical lines as "I'm as blank as a fart," this over two-hour long nightmare will have you running in terror for the fast forward button.

Just thought you'd like to know, in case you wan tto hunt down and kill the people responsible, like....

Smudge

[GlennA]

Far from it. I'm delighted. This reviewer is clearly the kind of prick who compiles the film pages for TV Times or something. Best sticking to My Big Fat Greek Wedding or some such shite.

[JR]

I recently bought the Twin Peaks season 1 box set and watched it back to back..........it really is fantastic but oddly have never watched the movie due to reviews like above. Must make a point of doing so.

Mr Smith...save me a piece of that "Cheery pie"...sounds good

[wanchaiwarrior]

Top Five Best De Niro Films

Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Casino (only wanted to choose one Mafia flick, so no Bronx Tale, Goodfellas etc)
The Deer Hunter
Cape Fear (even surpassed Mitchum's great performance in the original)

Top Five Worst De Niro Films

Analyse This
Analyse That (the first was so bad, why do a sequel?)
Falling in Love
Awakenings
Meet the Parents (you might notice I don't like him in comedies)

[GlennA]

JR

The film does indeed move at a snail's pace - as does much of Lynch's best stuff.

It's also beautifully made and really dark - like the series but without a lot of the quirkiness. Among other things, it gives you a new take on what was actually going on between Leland and Laura, and it's very, very unpleasant.

Not one to take the granny to, but if you got into the heart of the series (as you obviously have) then I'd definitely recommend it.