A thread about films

[PokerWoody]

So watlys thread on the other forum got me thinking about films I love. It's tough, cause there are so many and my brain is sufficiently small that I can only remember so many. so here is the top 50 from imdb.com; which of these would you pick as your favorite 5 from this list?

1. The Godfather
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Godfather: Part II
4. Good, bad ugly.
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Schindler's List
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
9. Casablanca
10. seven samurai
11. Star Wars
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
13. 12 Angry Men
14. Rear Window
15. Goodfellas
16. City of God
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark
18. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
19. Once opon a time in the West
20. The Usual Suspects
21. Psycho
22. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
23. Fight Club
24. The Silence of the Lambs
25. Citizen Kane
26. North by Northwest
27. Memento
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
29. Sunset Blvd.
30. It's a Wonderful Life
31. The Matrix
32. Lawrence of Arabia
33. Se7en
34. Apocalypse Now
35. Taxi Driver
36. There Will Be Blood
37. American Beauty
38. Léon
39. Vertigo
40. Amélie
41. American History X
42. The Departed
43. Paths of Glory
44. M
45. No Country for Old Men
46. To Kill a Mockingbird
47. The Third Man
48. Chinatown
49. The lives of others
50. A Clockwork Orange

[Top Pair Ace Kicker]

In numerical order 4/6/15/17/27/37 - Yes i know its 6. I cant take any of those out sorry.

[johnjohn]

4. Good, bad ugly
the lord of the rings triology was done very well
2. The Shawshank Redemption ( why this you say) well when someone shits all over you revenge sure is sweet

[Nick Jones]

From the list above, my fav 5 would be:

The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Se7en
The Matrix
Raiders of the Lost Ark

I haven't seen that "There Will Be Blood" yet, but it looks awesome in the trailer.

[Raiser]

The Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
American Beauty
Se7en

I can only do four!! Notable exclusions that would be some of my all time favs are: Being John Malkovich, Donnie Darko, Freddy got fingered, Blade runner, Breakfast club, Waterworld, LA Confidential, The colour purple, Goodwill hunting & Forest Gump.

WTF is Lord of the Rings doing in there? I watched the first 30 mins of the first one and had to walk out of the cinema - yes it was that bad!

[Raiser]

Oh add ben hur to my list above - another awesome film

[CitrusSR]

Out of that list:

23. Fight Club
41. American History X
5. Pulp Fiction
15. Goodfellas
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers


I thought the LOTR trilogy was awesome, how could you walk out?!

[PokerWoody]

I can understand people not liking lord of the rings as a whole franchise type thing, but the films are all truly exceptional. To say they are bad is redic, not personal taste fair enough.

Never has a film taken on such an ambitious book and come out trumps like that. I really wanted to hate all those films just cause the books are so good (imo) and I didn't want it to ruin the images i'd made in my imagination. I can't think of a better book to film adaptation.

[Raiser]

Originally Posted by PokerWoody

I can't think of a better book to film adaptation.

Shawshank is way up there with that rather large statement.

[PokerWoody]

Originally Posted by Raiser

Shawshank is way up there with that rather large statement.

never read the book. same name?