Greatest Movies?

[liberationjunky]

If the title wasn't self-explanatory enough, what do you believe are the greatest films.

A few of my personal favorites would be:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Donnie Darko
Momento
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fightclub

[angelfacebich]

If the title wasn't self-explanatory enough, what do you believe are the greatest films.

A few of my personal favorites would be:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Donnie Darko
Momento
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fightclub

Agree with the bolded. Loved them.

Some of my favorites

Magnolia
Pretty Persuasion
Boogie Nights
Cool Hand Luke
Unbreakable

[Delta]

Fight Club
Libertarias
Land and Freedom
V for Vendetta
Sin City
Van Wilder

[Clarksist]

Session 9
Requiem for a Dream
Igby Goes Down
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
What the #$%* do We Know?
I Heart Huckabees

Those are all really fucking good, and probably my favorite. But why settle?

[liberationjunky]

Originally posted by [email protected] 26 2006, 11:35 PM
Session 9
Requiem for a Dream
Igby Goes Down
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
What the #$%* do We Know?
I Heart Huckabees

Those are all really fucking good, and probably my favorite. But why settle?
Requiem for a Dream and What the #$%* do We Know are really trippy movies. I really enjoyed them both.

[Delta]

Oh yeah, I heart I heart Huckabees too.

[ComradeRed]

Cool Hand Luke is easily one of the best movies ever made.

"What we've got here is a failure to communicate..." :P

[Pawn Power]

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love the Bomb

[Phalanx]

V for Vendetta
No Man's Land (Bosnia)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Place Called Chiapas

[Vanguard1917]

Requiem for a Dream

The worst and most pointlessly depressing film i've ever seen.

[Global_Justice]

i agree with vanguard1917 about requiem. i didn't like it at all.

motorcycle diaries :P
jean de florrete and OMG you have to see manon des sources. those two films are off the hook. seriously, you watch them and you just can't help but feel good inside. genius films. perfect films, they really are.

anything by jean pierre jeunet (even alien resurection) is brilliant. a very long engagement is a very good film.

also, house of flying daggers is unbelievable.

my favorite film is pulp fiction though. it could have been better, but who am i to judge tarantino :D the writing is quality, i can play the movie in my head any time i want and just act out scenes in my head i know it so well.

[LuXe]

Saving Private Ryan
Gladiator
The last samurai
Enemy at the gates

Last but NOT leas;
V for vendetta


All GREAT movies. The one that inspired me most is V for vendetta. It probably changed me as the person i am today.

[Iseult]

1) The Godfather (1&2)
2) Citizen Kane
3) The Sweet Smell of Sucess
4) The Graduate
5) Annie Hall
6) Apocalypse Now
7) On the Waterfront
8) I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
9) Dr.Strangelove
10) Planet of the Apes

[Little brother]

Yeah my favs have been mentioned above i think.
Sin City
Donnie Darko
Ong Bak
Elephant
The Motorcycle Diaries

I can't get enough of them

[Forward Union]

House on Haunted hill - fucking ace. Scared the shit out of me when I was about 10 :unsure:

[Black Dagger]

Some of my all-time favourites (they're not the great, but i enjoyed em ;) ), no particular order:

10 Canoes
The Edukators
Tais Toi!
Malcolm X
Platoon
I Heart Huckabees
Muholland Drive
Training Day
Blade Runner
Donnie Darko
Dark Crystal
Labyrinth
Australian Rules
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Being John Malkovich
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass/Baadasssss!
Howls Moving Castle
The Usual Suspects
A Clockwork Orange
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
The Big Lebowski
eXistenZ
Cry Freedom


Oh and i laughed my arse off watching the film Jindaybye, it's meant to be a drama, but i was stoned and it was sooooooooo bad, i laughed for maybe 70% of the film (inc. during all the tense and dramatic moments :lol:

[Free Left]

Finding Forrester - Fight Club - Donnie Darko - Any Monty Python - Apocalyspse Now - Coffee & Cigarettes - I'll sleep when I'm dead - Cowboys and Angels

These are the ones that I can think of now...

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

all wrong!

the greatest movie ever made is Battleship Potemkin

[Comrade C.A.]

pretty much all I wanted to say is already up here :blush:

[DM.]

Originally posted by Black [email protected] 28 2006, 04:01 PM
Some of my all-time favourites (they're not the great, but i enjoyed em ;) ), no particular order:

10 Canoes
The Edukators
Tais Toi!
Malcolm X
Platoon
I Heart Huckabees
Muholland Drive
Training Day
Blade Runner
Donnie Darko
Dark Crystal
Labyrinth
Australian Rules
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Being John Malkovich
How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass/Baadasssss!
Howls Moving Castle
The Usual Suspects
A Clockwork Orange
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
The Big Lebowski
eXistenZ
Cry Freedom
Excellent taste :D

Some of my favs:

- Twin Peaks
- Mulholland Drive
- Lost Highway
- Memento
- Donnie Darko
- Goodfellas
- The Usual Suspects
- 1984
- A Clockwork Orange
- City of god
- Reservoir Dogs
- Pulp Fiction
- Jackie Brown
- Kill Bill
- The Godfather (duh)
- Ichi The Killer
- Battle Royale
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Shawshank Redemption

and I could go on like this for hours :D

[Black Dagger]

Originally posted by DM.
Reservoir Dogs
- Pulp Fiction
- Jackie Brown

I had these three on originally as well, but i decided to cut my list down a bit :P

[Invader Zim]

I really like your list Black Dagger, it contains some true indie classics, and some great cult movies - I especially like the inclusion of Dark Crystal.

My current favourites are: -

Trainspotting
Shallow Grave
Swingers
Chopper
High Fidelity
The Full Monty
Withnail and I
Run Lola Run
Dogma
Grosse Point Blank
Brazil
City of God
Bad taste
Pi
Requiem For a Dream
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Solyaris
Straw Dogs
American Beauty
Scum

I've been mainly watching comedy lately.

[homeo_apathy]

all monty python
riding giants
Dogtown and Z boys
green street hooligans
rat race
full monty
jackass

[kael]

wow some great movie tastes here.
i'd say:

-the shawshank redemption
-the anarchist cookbook (really hard to find for me, but love it)
-fight club
-the green mile
-blow (with johny depp, bout drug dealing)

[Umoja]

City of God, I don't think any other movie comes close.

[MiniOswald]

Anyone hear like coen brothers films?

I think I saw a mention of the big lebowski further up

I love their style

[DreamerDeceiver]

My favorites movies have nothing to do with my politics or anything. Rebecca, Flesh + Blood, Lawrence of Arabia, Blade Runner, Casablanca, and others are some of my favorites. I mentioned Rebecca because it's my favorite Alfred Hitchcock film, but I could have mentioned a bunch, I'm a big fan.

[ahab]

fightclub and seven

[Vargha Poralli]

Touched my heart

Dances with wolves
Instinct
Schindler's List
Empire of the Sun
Gladiator
Matrix Series

Made me Laugh

American Pie series
Rush Hour 1&2
Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights
Kung-fu Hustle
Shaolin Soccer
Crocodile Dundee
Gods Must Be Carzy Parts 1&2

Made me Scared

Exorcist
Exorcist The Beginning
The Others
Resident Evil 1&2
Bram Stokers Dracula

This is a short list though

[Postteen]

*Angel Exterminator - Luis Bunuel. ~~anti-religious.MUST watch any of his films.
*Any Theo Angelopoulos's films.They are pure poetry.Real art.
*Fellini's films
*MACHUCA --amazing film during fascism in Chile.
*2046 -- a masterpiece.the whole film is like a painting.
*Frida -- if you like the famous painter.If you dont like her,you will.
*la pianiste -- french cinema, strory about late sexuality..

Run Lola Run
Pulp Fiction
Elephant
City of god
Eros
21 Grams
Goodbye Lenin
Hero
Hair

EDIT:I'll put on my list films that come to my mind at any time!

[Djehuti]

Shogun (mini-series)
Land and Freedom
Freeway
Pulp Fiction
Serenity
V for Vendetta
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
The wind that shakes the barley
Magnolia
1900
American Beauty
Braveheart
Star Wars
Lord of the rings (the animated one too!)
Bloody Sunday
Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels
Reservoir Dogs
Once Upon a Time in America
La Haine
Taxi Driver
Amélie from Montmartre
A Clockwork Orange
The Usual Suspects
Apocalypse Now
Planet of the apes
Cannibal Holocaust

Etc.

[bunk]

Infernal affairs
" " 2
City of God
Save The Green Planet
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Amores Perros
Apocalypse Now

Honorary mention: Ong Bak. The chase scene is really funny and there are awesome fight scenes in it.

[Iroquois Xavier]

Pulp Fiction is the best movie ever made.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by Iroquois [email protected] 7 2006, 01:11 PM
Pulp Fiction is the best movie ever made.
No.

Its a good movie, but it is not anywhere near the best movie ever made, I can think of at least a dozen better movies off the top of my head.

[Tower of Bebel]

Warriors by Peter Kosminsky (1999).

One quotes cathed me the most :o : "I used to dream about scoring the winning goal for Liverpool on Wembley. Now I dream about walking on dead bodies, because that's what I did".

Not one of the best movies, but I would have regret it if I hadn't seen it some monts ago.

[Sadena Meti]

Naqoyqatsi
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplain 1936)
Bullitt (1968)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Fight Club
Messenger: the Story of Joan of Arc (with Milla)
Ronin
1941 (if you haven't seen it, watch it, it's hilarious)
12 Monkeys
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
PayBack
UltraViolet (director's cut only)
Underworld (lame premise but great movie)
High Heels and Low Lives
Snatch

[Leo]

In no particular order those movies are the ones which comes to my mind;

Before the Rain
Amores perros
21 Grams
The Edukators
Goodbye Lenin
The Sea Inside
Surviving Picasso
Silence of the Lambs
Carandiru
Billy Elliot
Chinatown
No Man's Land
Se7en
Les Rivières Pourpres
Dancer in the Dark
Godfather Part II
House of Spirits
Hero
Hair
Battleship Potempkin
Fight Club
Birds
Birdman of Alcatraz
Blow
American Psycho
Max
Melinda Melinda
Million Dollar Baby
Pi
Leon

[1984]

Cinema? Think Italian.

Amacord
Bicycle Thieves, The
Decameron, Il
The Working Class Goes To Heaven
Postino, Il
1900
Blow-Up! (Ok, made in UK but it's a Antonioni...)

:)

[Ricardo]

Waking Life
Fight Club
V For Vendetta
Goodfellas
City of God
Blazing Saddles
12 Monkeys
Back To The Future 1 & 2
Pulp Fiction
American History X

[Pirate Utopian]

V For Vendetta
Apacalypse Now
Goodfellas
Do The Right Thing
Scarface
American History X
Bamboozled

[SPK]

- 2001 A Space Odyssey
- Aguirre, Wrath of God
- Alexander Nevsky
- Alphaville
- Andrei Rubelev
- Ararat
- Blood Simple
- Bloody Sunday
- Caravaggio
- The Conformist
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
- Andy Warhol's Dracula
- Dressed to Kill
- Ed Wood
- Elephant
- Eraserhead
- Farenheit 451
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Irreversible
- Land and Freedom
- The Last Picture Show
- Marat / Sade
- Paris, Texas
- The Piano Teacher
- Ragtime
- Reds
- Romeo and Juliet (Luhrmann)
- Salo, 120 Days of Sodom
- Seconds
- Spider
- Stalingrad
- State of Siege
- The Seventh Seal
- The Tenant
- Titus
- V for Vendetta
- Zabriskie Point

[somebodywhowantedtoleaveandnotcomeback]

The Stoner Five:

-Trainspotting
-Donnie Darko
-Pulp Fiction
-Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
-Lock, stock and two smoking barrels

Best movie ever IMO: Cidade De Deus

Best anime ever IMO: Akira

Other great movies:

Ghost Dog- Way of the samurai
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Snatch
The Edukators
The Elephant Man
Irreversible
C'est arrivé pres de chez vous
Scarface
American History X
A Clockwork Orange
The Virgin Suicides
Amores Perros
Hable Con Ella
Leon
Silence of the lambs
Ronin
Modern Times
City Lights

And many, many more

[Iroquois Xavier]

Originally posted by Invader Zim+Sep 7 2006, 01:24 PM--> (Invader Zim @ Sep 7 2006, 01:24 PM)
Iroquois [email protected] 7 2006, 01:11 PM
Pulp Fiction is the best movie ever made.
No.

Its a good movie, but it is not anywhere near the best movie ever made, I can think of at least a dozen better movies off the top of my head. [/b]
It so is.

[kaaos_af]

http://www.moviemaker.com/issues/55/images/mid.PinkFlamingos.jpg
Pink Flamingos. "You stand accused of asshole-ism. The sentence is death."

[Janus]

Let's see. Here's all I can think of at the moment.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
The Godfather
Lord of the Rings
Lawrence of Arabia
Snakes on a Plane (oh yeah! :P )

[BreadBros]

My short-list:
Brazil
City of God
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Godfather
Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi
Taxi Driver
Fight Club
Fargo
All of Tarantino's movies (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown)
The Big Lebowski
Waking Life
Last Days
I Am Cuba/Soy Cuba
The Buena Vista Social Club
And I'm likely forgetting many more...

[unema-]

No order
Fightclub
American History X
Boiler Room
Reqiuem For a Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Goodfellas
One Flew Over The Cookos Nest
ummmm Freddy Got Fingered
American Pie 1-2
Old School
:D
Traffic
Training Day
All I can think of right now...

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by Iroquois Xavier+Sep 11 2006, 01:36 PM--> (Iroquois Xavier @ Sep 11 2006, 01:36 PM)
Originally posted by Invader [email protected] 7 2006, 01:24 PM

Iroquois [email protected] 7 2006, 01:11 PM
Pulp Fiction is the best movie ever made.
No.

Its a good movie, but it is not anywhere near the best movie ever made, I can think of at least a dozen better movies off the top of my head.
It so is. [/b]
And on what basis do draw such conclusions? Is it the only film you have ever seen?

I suggest you watch some of the other films listed in this thread.


The Stoner Five:

-Trainspotting
-Donnie Darko
-Pulp Fiction
-Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
-Lock, stock and two smoking barrels

Eh?

Dazed and Confused
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Mallrats

Replace the first three with these.

[gilhyle]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 08:39 PM

Requiem for a Dream

The worst and most pointlessly depressing film i've ever seen.
Watch 'SALO' - although its far from pointless.

[MiniOswald]

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2006, 04:28 AM

Snakes on a Plane (oh yeah! :P )
hell yeah

[Sabocat]

Originally posted by [email protected] 1 2006, 01:20 PM
Anyone hear like coen brothers films?

I think I saw a mention of the big lebowski further up

I love their style
I am also a huge Coen brothers fan.

Blood Simple
Millers Crossing
Barton Fink
Hudsucker Proxy
Raising Arizona
Fargo
Big Lebowski
O' Brother
Man Who Wasn't There
Intolerable Cruelty (probably their weakest but still pretty funny)
Lady Killers

If you're a Lebowski fan, you'll find this Funny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqtgfjkB6Pg&eurl)

[Invader Zim]

Intolerable Cruelty (probably their weakest but still pretty funny)

I dunno, being a fan of the orgional Ladykillers i thought that the 'remake' was disappointing.

But the Big Lebowski is a film which one must see before death as is Fargo.

[bigscream]

Im guessing that loads of you are into graphic novels (yey) i love v for vendetta, loose change (if you havent heard of it, truth behind 911, you can buy it on ebay for a £, its great!), batman begins, o brother, and i haveto say it... cool runnings! love it!

[gilhyle]

Unless I missed it no one mentioned any films by Rossellini pity that :(

[that1guy435]

Clerks.

[Iroquois Xavier]

No Pulp Fiction is not the only movie i have ever seen, i hav seen hundreds and thousands of films but in my opinion Pulp Fiction is the best movie ever closely followed by the life of brian, you could just respect my opinion for once couldnt you?

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by Iroquois [email protected] 18 2006, 10:55 AM
No Pulp Fiction is not the only movie i have ever seen, i hav seen hundreds and thousands of films but in my opinion Pulp Fiction is the best movie ever closely followed by the life of brian, you could just respect my opinion for once couldnt you?

you could just respect my opinion for once couldnt you?

Pulp Fiction clearly is not the greatest film ever made, perhaps it has the best dialogue in a film (but then again I can think of some tough competition). But it does not have the greatest camera work, acting, direction, etc. The famous dialogue and screen play is just one element of a film and I can never understand why people think that alone makes this film the greatest ever made. It doesn't have the technical ingenuity of Citizen Cain, the epic stand off of a Sergio Leone film, it lacks the surreal brilliance of a David Lynch film and it doesn't exactly have Laurence Olivier starring in it.

Don’t get me wrong, it is a very good film and I would certainly have it in my top 20 maybe 15, but there are too many other great films for it to be ever top 10 let alone top 5.

[Invader Zim]

Djehuti, is Cannibal Holocaust the one with the woman impaled onto a stake, or was that the dodgy sequal?

[somebodywhowantedtoleaveandnotcomeback]

Originally posted by Invader [email protected] 16 2006, 12:31 PM

The Stoner Five:

-Trainspotting
-Donnie Darko
-Pulp Fiction
-Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
-Lock, stock and two smoking barrels

Eh?

Dazed and Confused
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Mallrats

Replace the first three with these.
:o You can't replace Trainspotting! And Pulp Fiction is just... classic (though I agree it is absolutely not the greatest movie ever). As for Donnie Darko, it's just so plain wrong that it becomes perfect.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by s3rna+Sep 18 2006, 04:49 PM--> (s3rna @ Sep 18 2006, 04:49 PM)
Invader [email protected] 16 2006, 12:31 PM

The Stoner Five:

-Trainspotting
-Donnie Darko
-Pulp Fiction
-Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
-Lock, stock and two smoking barrels

Eh?

Dazed and Confused
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Mallrats

Replace the first three with these.
:o You can't replace Trainspotting! And Pulp Fiction is just... classic (though I agree it is absolutely not the greatest movie ever). As for Donnie Darko, it's just so plain wrong that it becomes perfect. [/b]
Agreed on all counts, but they aren't really stoner movies, per say. Unlike Dazed and Confused.

[Zero]

HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITECASTLE!

Add that to your Stoner five man.

[somebodywhowantedtoleaveandnotcomeback]

Originally posted by Invader [email protected] 18 2006, 05:04 PM
Agreed on all counts, but they aren't really stoner movies, per say. Unlike Dazed and Confused.
True, but I didn't mean for them to be stoner movies per se, just the top 5 movies watched by stoned people (in my experience, at least).

Dazed and Confuse was great as well, though.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18 2006, 05:25 PM
HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITECASTLE!

Add that to your Stoner five man.
I thought it was called Harold and Kumar get the munchies....

[somebodywhowantedtoleaveandnotcomeback]

Just went trough the Harlod&Kumar go to Whitecastle's website, watched trailer and stuff... looks like a decent American comedy, but not much more than that.

[BreadBros]

They renamed it "Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies" in the UK cause they expected most people would not get the reference or know about White Castle, so the title change is to make the movie's plot more clear. Its a pretty damn good Stoner comedy in the vain of the old buddy stoner comedies (think Cheech and Chong). It had me laughing :).

[Revulero]

Mine are:

Blood in blood out and American History X

[Zero]

They changed the name of it because people might not get the Whitecastle reference?

You mean theres actually a fast food place called Whitecastle?

[Pirate Utopian]

http://www.whitecastle.com/
yup!, harold & kumar was hella lame by the way!