Downhill Racer is great. I believe I read one time Redford had planned to make a trilogy of sports films not including the Natural. Gene Hackman is great as usual, and I have to love the final shot of Downhill Racer as Redford and Hackman wait for the last skier.
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
I don't think its been mentioned yet and I can't believe it.
A trully great film
THE BLUES BROTHERS!
Classic
The Seven Samurai (i think thats the name?) by Kurasawa.
I saw it a long time ago in a foreign film festival that was being shown on PBS on the weekends.
One of the most intense things I've ever seen.
most posters would live this to be their story.
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Lawrence Of Arabia.
Honourable Mentions: 2001 A Space Odessey, King Kong (1933), Vertigo, The Bicycle Thief, Citizen Kane.
I'd have to say Porkie's
Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Chariots of Fire
This is a tie between 'Barfly' and 'Sometimes a Great Notion'.
If you haven't seen 'Barfly' rent it tonight. In fact, you can probably buy a copy for less than $5 and it's DEFINITELY worth having.
'Sometimes a Great Notion' is f-cking brilliant as well. Probably the best final scene of any movie EVER.
conan the barbarian, he knocks out a camel and a horse (seperate incidents)
Yeah, Ahhnold ripped off Alex Karras. Playing Mungo in "Blazing Saddles", Karras knocked out a horse way back in the early 70's.
Re: my inclusion of Jules et Jim, I realize I forgot to screen that one out from my Top 5 favorite films. (ie. Citizen Kane is not on that list, but would easily qualify for my list of the 5 BEST Movies Ever, if not my five favorite (although it would easily slip somewhere in slots 6-10 on my list of favorites). So while Jules et Jim is a great movie, I can admit it is probably not one of the 5 BEST movies ever made. So to amend my list:
Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia, Manchurian Candidate, and The Godfather (treating I & II as one whole).
The Godfather - and I don't think anyone else has mentioned it yet, believe it or not. As for L'Avventura, and a few other non-American films that have been mentioned on this thread, I think they are great movies, but, in many ways, too caught up in their own stylistic conceits to be The Best Ever. For instance, the idea of staging scenes in real-time in L'Avventura is a bold idea, much like the concept of the jump-cut that Godard and the Nouvelle Vague gave us. So I would call films like L'Avventura of A Bout Souffle IMPORTANT because of the way they, as representatives of a striking movement like Italian Neo-Realism or The French New Wave, affected and continue to affect filmmaking across the world. But I just tend to feel that with those films, if you get past the fact that the stylistic choices are different, revolutionary even, and assess those films purely on the basis of their form's functionality... then those movies don't QUITE crack my personal Top 5 list.
However, one non-American film that very nearly made my Top 5 Best Movies Ever Made list was Pather Panchali, the first film in Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy." It's terrific and moving and I recommend that anyone interested in film check it out. Oh yeah, Bergman's The Seventh Seal almost made my list, but I've only seen it once, and as a result, haven't really been able to digest it completely and come to fully appreciate it yet. And Bicycle Thief, too. Almost made it.
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Can't stop the music
Ishtar
Heaven's Gate
Over the Top
Rocky IV
Stop or my Mom will shoot
The Bodyguard
this asshole said stop or my mom will shoot
I forgot about Pather Panchali and the Apu triology, which is tremendously moving. The Bicycle Thief, along with The Life of Umberto H, were the start of the Italian neo-realist movement. Both are great. Andrei Rublev is another great movie.
Great post JRunnerJ.
I need to watch Seventh Seal again. I'm just not getting it's supposed brilliance.
Bicycle Thief blew me away the very first time I saw it. An absolutely PERFECT movie.
Jules et Jim is quite a ride! I definitely must see this several more times.
Enjoy very much your comments regarding L'Aventura. Question: Was there another boat or a shark on screen for a split second before the disappearance??? :) (Look again.)
1. Mighty Ducks
2. Judgement Night
3. Breakfast Club
4. Mighty Ducks 2
5. Men at Work
6. Young Guns
7. Maximum Overdrive
8. Another Stakeout
9. Repo Man
10. Loaded Weapon 1
In no particular order, and I'm forgetting way too many greats:
Recent:
Eternal Sunshine
Boogie Nights
Rushmore
Royal Tenenbaums
Election
Spirited Away
80s:
Goodfellas
70s:
The Conversation
Godfather 1+2
I can watch over and over:
Office Space
Anyone who said these should be killed:
Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Shawshank Redemption
in my opinion:
1. the great dictator (chaplin)
2. scent of a woman
3. forest gump
4. leaving las-vegas
Once Upon a Time in the West, directed by Sergio Leone and soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. Awesomest spagetti western of the 7 Leone directed. Best music, best actors (Hank Fonda, Claudia Cardinal (hot) and Chuck Bronson) and very well directed and cinemaphotography was superb. Certainly was the best Western ever made, a bit ahead of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and the other Clint spagetti Westerns.