Favourite movies

I'll give you mine:

1)The Truman Show
2)Forrest Gump
3)One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
4)Zoolander
5)Me, myself and Irene
6)The Shawshank redemption

Whaddya think?

Originally posted by Zonko The Sane
I'll give you mine:

1)The Truman Show
2)Forrest Gump
3)One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
4)Zoolander
5)Me, myself and Irene
6)The Shawshank redemption

Whaddya think?

No order:

For a Few Dollars More
Metropolis
Our Hospitality
Forbidden Planet (Everyone has stolen something from this one!)
In Bruges
Paprika
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Fog of War
Lawrence of Arabia
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
The Lady in White
Patton
Shane
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Die Hard
Lord of the Rings series (even if Peter Jackson should be hanged without trial for not including Tom Bombadil 😠 )

The Da Vinci Code
All of Alfred Hitchcock's movies (i.e. Psycho, the Birds, Lifeboat, Vertigo, North by Northwest, etc.)
The third Harry Potter (the other ones aren't nearly as good)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Glory
Crimson Tide
Amadeus

That's all I can think of off the top of my head right now.

Pulp Fiction is by far my favorite film. My top ten are in no particular order.

Pulp Fiction
The Matrix Trilogy
Rocky 3
Total Recall
The Godfather - Parts 1 and 2
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Shawshank Redemption
Fist of Fury
The 40 Year Old Virgin?
Training Day

Originally posted by bling9er
Pulp Fiction is by far my favorite film. My top ten are in no particular order.

Pulp Fiction
The Matrix Trilogy
Rocky 3
Total Recall
The Godfather - Parts 1 and 2
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Shawshank Redemption
Fist of Fury
The 40 Year Old Virgin?
Training Day

Here's the list from AFI. How does your list compare to theirs as of 1998?


Rank Title Year
1 Citizen Kane 1941
2 Casablanca 1942
3 The Godfather 1972
4 Gone with the Wind 1939
5 Lawrence of Arabia 1962
6 The Wizard of Oz 1939
7 The Graduate 1967
8 On the Waterfront 1954
9 Schindler's List 1993
10 Singin' in the Rain 1952
11 It's a Wonderful Life 1946
12 Sunset Boulevard 1950
13 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
14 Some Like It Hot 1959
15 Star Wars 1977
16 All About Eve 1950
17 The African Queen 1951
18 Psycho 1960
19 Chinatown 1974
20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
21 The Grapes of Wrath 1940
22 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
23 The Maltese Falcon 1941
24 Raging Bull 1980
25 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
26 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
27 Bonnie and Clyde 1967
28 Apocalypse Now 1979
29 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
30 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
31 Annie Hall 1977
32 The Godfather Part II 1974
33 High Noon 1952
34 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
35 It Happened One Night 1934
36 Midnight Cowboy 1969
37 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
38 Double Indemnity 1944
39 Doctor Zhivago 1965
40 North by Northwest 1959
41 West Side Story 1961
42 Rear Window 1954
43 King Kong 1933
44 The Birth of a Nation 1915
45 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
46 A Clockwork Orange 1971
47 Taxi Driver 1976
48 Jaws 1975
49 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937
50 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
51 The Philadelphia Story 1940
52 From Here to Eternity 1953
53 Amadeus 1984
54 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
55 The Sound of Music 1965
56 M*A*S*H 1970
57 The Third Man 1949
58 Fantasia 1940
59 Rebel Without a Cause 1955
60 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
61 Vertigo 1958
62 Tootsie 1982
63 Stagecoach 1939
64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
65 The Silence of the Lambs 1991
66 Network 1976
67 The Manchurian Candidate 1962
68 An American in Paris 1951
69 Shane 1953
70 The French Connection 1971
71 Forrest Gump 1994
72 Ben-Hur 1959
73 Wuthering Heights 1939
74 The Gold Rush 1925
75 Dances with Wolves 1990
76 City Lights 1931
77 American Graffiti 1973
78 Rocky 1976
79 The Deer Hunter 1978
80 The Wild Bunch 1969
81 Modern Times 1936
82 Giant 1956
83 Platoon 1986
84 Fargo 1996
85 Duck Soup 1933
86 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935
87 Frankenstein 1931
88 Easy Rider 1969
89 Patton 1970
90 The Jazz Singer 1927
91 My Fair Lady 1964
92 A Place in the Sun 1951
93 The Apartment 1960
94 Goodfellas 1990
95 Pulp Fiction 1994
96 The Searchers 1956
97 Bringing Up Baby 1938
98 Unforgiven 1992
99 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967
100 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942

Have you seen "O Lucky Man" ?

Billy Jack
Serenity
Videodrome
Caddyshack
Outlaw Josey Wales
2001
Rudy
Dawn of the Dead
Midway
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Ringer
Hot Fuzz
Robin Hood - Men in Tights
Telladega Nights
Hot Rod
Shaun of the Dead
i Robot
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremecy
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Patriot
Braveheart
Spiderman Trilogy
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight

Week End
Mamma Roma
Kumonosu jô (Throne of Blood)
Raging Bull
American Beauty
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
El Topo
8½
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Is there anyone who can guess which internationally famous British film director and which movie he released in the early 1930s inspired Monty Python's Norwegian Parrot sketch?

Originally posted by Scriabin
Is there anyone who can guess which internationally famous British film director and which movie he released in the early 1930s inspired Monty Python's Norwegian Parrot sketch?

Ahhh, Videodrome. I haven't seen it in many, many years but still remember it oh so well. Debbie Harry, nude, with a cigarette.

Originally posted by uzless
Rank Title Year
1 Citizen Kane 1941
2 Casablanca 1942
3 The Godfather 1972
4 Gone with the Wind 1939
5 Lawrence of Arabia 1962
6 The Wizard of Oz 1939
7 The Graduate 1967
8 On the Waterfront 1954
9 Schindler's List 1993
10 Singin' in the Rain 1952