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[Eos]

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite books. also liked the movie as well.

 

[injurai]

Mr. Smith goes to Washington

 

[IrishNinja]

I've never watched a cowboy movie

...of course you haven't
for me, when starting people on westerns, a good go-to i find is Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid; it's a fun buddy movie that's more approachable, i think

your palette has to be refined a bit to be ready for the 3 or so hours with like 10 or so lines of dialogue of GB&U, haha

people like HRD

...fair

Mr. Smith goes to Washington

still my favorite Jimmy Stewart flick

 

[Esch]

Ten movies eh? No order.

The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Metropolis
Chinatown
The Great Escape
Blazing Saddles
Maltese Falcon
2001: A Space Odyssey
City of God
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

Imitation of Life.

You that motherfucker.

Imitation of Life, which is on my list above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP1eJ_j7doM

Lightskin people are demonic.

Is that time right for the related video, because I thought I remember it being about 3 hours long, though I had watched on TV, so it might've been on there with commercials.

Please watch Imitation of Life too if only because it will get rid of one of the many movies you named that it is better than

Nah son, all those are treasures. A lot of y'all's seemed kind of boring. Where's the variety? You got blaxploitation, comedies, comic book movies, horror, martial art, hood movies, animated, etc. IrishNinja that shit though.

Damn, looking back at this, I gotta watch a couple of these soon. I'm going to fill out a couple of more applications and then get on that shit.

 

[HiResDes]

Ten movies eh? No order.

The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Metropolis
Chinatown
The Great Escape
Blazing Saddles
Maltese Falcon
2001: A Space Odyssey
City of God
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Pretty astounding array of great taste not gonna lie, covering different genres and eras in such a concise list.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Douglas Sirk's melodramas and Hip Hop have a lot in common

 

[PhoenixDark]

You that motherfucker.


Is that time right for the related video, because I thought I remember it being about 3 hours long, though I had watched on TV, so it might've been on there with commercials.





Nah son, all those are treasures. A lot of y'all's seemed kind of boring. Where's the variety? You got blaxploitation, comedies, comic book movies, horror, martial art, hood movies, animated, etc. IrishNinja that shit though.

Damn, looking back at this, I gotta watch a couple of these soon. I'm going to fill out a couple of more applications and then get on that shit.

Looks like this one is real but there's some weird effect that makes the picture quality shitty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvK72TX2VZ8

 

[Frankensteiner]

Ten movies eh? No order.

The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Metropolis
Chinatown
The Great Escape
Blazing Saddles
Maltese Falcon
2001: A Space Odyssey
City of God
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

 

[Trey]

The Matrix
Black Dynamite
Terminator 2
Starship Troopers
Toy Story
The Shawkshank Redemption
Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
Pulp Fiction
Memento
Casino Royale

Memento is just sneaking in there, really. I could put a dozen movies in its spot. The other 9 are pretty solid.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

I need to rewatch Black Dynamite too. Terminator 2 is the best Terminator, but I haven't seen Salvation. Love Casino Royale.

 

[MoodyFog]

The godfather, Seppuku, 2001, Persona, High and Low, They shoot horses don't they?, The Apartment, Last Year at Marienbad, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, I vitelloni

 

[IrishNinja]

my only regret with my drunken list is not putting some noir shit down there, in retrospect

 

[Bubbavelli]

Ayyyye we doing top movies?

A Clockwork Orange
City of God
Paid in Full
Godfather
Akira
Full Metal Jacket
Black Dynamite
Casino
Training Day
American Psycho



Honorable mention:

Enter The Void (it can be kind of dumb and sensational at times but I appreciate its take on what happens after death. Plus the visuals are awesome)

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

mulholland drive

I love the idea of David Lynch but am way too much of a pussy to follow through and watch his stuff


To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book. I wrote up a polemic because I thought you guys were talking about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

 

[injurai]

I love the idea of David Lynch but am way too much of a pussy to follow through and watch his stuff


To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book. I wrote up a polemic because I thought you guys were talking about One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Feel free to still get that off your chest. I'll read it.

And yeah I've only seen Twin Peaks, and I had to stop after the first episode of season 2. Lynch just spooks me in my deepest exposed nerves, and I haven't much ventured further with him. Great Directing from what I've seen though.

 

[Esch]

Pretty astounding array of great taste not gonna lie, covering different genres and eras in such a concise list.

Thanks brehs. I don't watch any obscure shit so I don't really consider myself into films but I know both of y'all are aficionados, thanks for validating my taste lol.

Struggled with putting some of my faves on there.

Some of my runner ups: Koyaanisqatsi, To Kill a Mockingbird, Yojimbo, Baraka, Heat, Lawrence of Arabia, Five Deadly Venoms, Idi I Smotri, Casablanca.

 

[Frankensteiner]

my only regret with my drunken list is not putting some noir shit down there, in retrospect

To be fair there's too much good noir out there to choose. I purposefully forget to add them because then I'd be working on a post for a good few hours.

Speaking of classic hollywood from earlier. If y'all haven't watched The Third Man be sure to do so. Fantastic movie.

I love the idea of David Lynch but am way too much of a pussy to follow through and watch his stuff

You should anyway. The man has a great track record.

 

[IrishNinja]

man, Lynch can be great, but Mullholland Drive took some...explaining

i still can't be convinced Lost Highway was a good film, but the OST is solid

To be fair there's too much good noir out there to choose. I purposefully forget to add them because then I'd be working on a post for a good few hours.

Speaking of classic hollywood from earlier. If y'all haven't watched The Third Man be sure to do so, fantastic movie.

exactly that; i know Chinatown is (rightfully) a common pick, but it wouldn't be mine & there's a bunch id have to weigh in. add to that the fact im not as clear on the genre's limits as i thought (for years i was sure Casablanca counted, apparently it doesn't, it's still high on my list though)

and co-sign Third Man, so great. really love the villain's speech too.

 

[CrazyDogg77]

My top list would have to be:

The Godfather
Do The Right Thing
Pulp Fiction
A New Hope
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Boyz n the Hood
Memento
The Departed
Reservoir Dogs
Taxi Driver

 

[HiResDes]

Inland Empire makes Mulholland Drive look safe.

 

[Nibel]

Kanye West Doesn’t Smile Because…

“Back when I was working on Yeezus, I saw this book from the 1800s and it was velvet-covered with brass and everything,” West said. “I looked at all these people’s photos and they look so real and their outfits were incredible and they weren’t smiling and people, you know the paparazzi, always come up to me, ‘Why you not smiling?’ and I think, not smiling makes me smile…When you see paintings in an old castle, people are not smiling cause it just wouldn’t look as cool.”

 

[Frankensteiner]

for years i was sure Casablanca counted, apparently it doesn't, it's still high on my list though

What's noir is really tough for some people to base. As some see black and white plus fedora wearing dude is all it needs. At the end it's how it's filmed and a sense of mystery. Casablanca has a bit of that, and I can completely understand seeing it as such, I personally don't count it. But there's no real metric to stop anyone from counting it anyway.

One of the greatest movies of all time regardless, though.

 

[DominoKid]

 

[injurai]

Kanye West Doesn’t Smile Because…

 

[WanderingWind]

My top ten today, in no real order.

Casablanca
Rushmore
Die Hard
Lord of the Rings (it's just one long movie)
Full Metal Jacket
Fargo
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Tombstone
The Big Lebowski
Big Fish

 

[overcast]

I did 15 (in no order) and chose movies that I saw further than the past year. A lot of these had an impact that lasted on me. I've watched a few in the past year that were incredible, going to have to watch them again. Anyway.

The Apartment
Lost in Translation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Shaun of the Dead
The Warriors
Ratatouille
Breathless
In the Mood for Love
Godfather Part 2
2001: A Space Odyssey
Children of Men
Before Sunset
25th Hour
There Will Be Blood
Chinatown

Edit: I forgot any Coens and Taxi Driver. I hate lists.

 

[WanderingWind]

I did 15 (in no order) and chose movies that I saw further than the past year. A lot of these had an impact that lasted on me. I've watched a few in the past year that were incredible, going to have to watch them again. Anyway.

Lost in Translation
Shaun of the Dead
Children of Men
Taxi Driver

Yeah, I could have added these too.

 

[IrishNinja]

Eternal Sunshine is one of the best love stories ive seen, good call

i really gotta see more Michel Gondry one day

 

[Frankensteiner]

Nope

Truly enjoying the joys of garbage tv and movies. To be honest I don't really like movies that much especially.

As a movie fuck myself, I enjoy the hell out of a nice trash movie or TV show.

It's the pretentious fucks who only watch whatever shows up in AFI top 100 lists that I can't stand. Usually they will ignore a great blockbuster or put average oscar bait crap on a pedestal. Kind of like the Immortal Technique fans of the movie world.

 

[WanderingWind]

Love stories that aren't overwrought or insulting to all possible genders are rare. Before Sunset and Eternal are among the best. Eternal gets the nod from me because of the overall sentiment and the visual feast.

 

[IrishNinja]

fuck, Before Sunset has been in my queue for a minute now, gotta finally watch that one soon

 

[overcast]

Eternal Sunshine is one of the best love stories ive seen, good call

i really gotta see more Michel Gondry one day

Gondry isn't all that great actually. He has pretty good vision, but I'm not a big fan.

Charlie Kaufman has written some fantastic movies though.

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

And yeah I've only seen Twin Peaks, and I had to stop after the first episode of season 2. Lynch just spooks me in my deepest exposed nerves

This is what's so brilliant about his work. It's so good at probing these base insecurities we all have and it goes deeper than just fear, it's more like a celebration of uncomfort. Blue Velvet = sexual subjugation/violence, Eraserhead = loss of identity/purpose within an industrial society, Inland Empire = complete disorientation (as far as I know, I'm actively avoiding watching it). They all excel at making the viewer feel small.

Feel free to still get that off your chest. I'll read it.

well since you asked

My beef with Cuckoo's Nest is that it's the quintessential appeal to every American's fear of having their individualism compromised by an institutional authority that exercises Disney-tier villainy. It's ok, in fact right, to

Spoiler

kill McMurphy following his lobotomy because he's completely dependent on someone/something else and is therefore less of a person than he once was and doesn't have a life worth living anymore.

I enjoyed the movie, and liked the book (to my knowledge it's one of the few portrayals of a Native American protagonist that isn't a complete farce) but the way that it handles mental illness and normalcy bugs the shit out of me.

 

[Snuggles]

Before Sunrise is probably my goat. Bittersweet love movies are my weakness.

 

[Rastafarian42]

TBh I'd need a top 25 list this is what I could come up with at the moment (no order).

City of God
Malcolm X
Goodfellas
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
Apocalypto
The Lion King
The Thing
Jurassic Park
Gladiator
The Terminator
Full Metal Jacket
Jackie Brown
Tombstone
Heat
Shawshank Redemption
Coming to America
Godfather Part 1 & 2
Do The Right Thing
The Raid Redemption
Friday
The Warriors
Seven
The Dark Knight
Aliens

 

[overcast]

Before Sunrise is probably my goat. Bittersweet love movies are my weakness.

Yeah, that's mine as well.

I forgot to put Alien :[

 

[Frankensteiner]

All three Before movies are fantastic. Lost In Translation is great too.

As manly as I am, posting on GAF and all, can't help but love a good romantic story.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Sunset Blvd (1950, Wilder)
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Mackendrick)
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1996, Leone)
Jaws (1975, Spielberg)
Die Hard (1988, McTiernian)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Lee)
Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese)
Heat (1995, Mann)
Mulholland Dr. (2001, Lynch)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Gondry)

Before for best trilogy OF ALL TIME

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

Sunset Blvd (1950, Wilder)

totally agree, I love Swanson's performance, and Von Stroheim is a baller

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Swanson's is maybe my favorite actress performance ever tbh

 

[Esch]

This is what's so brilliant about his work. It's so good at probing these base insecurities we all have and it goes deeper than just fear, it's more like a celebration of uncomfort. Blue Velvet = sexual subjugation/violence, Eraserhead = loss of identity/purpose within an industrial society, Inland Empire = complete disorientation (as far as I know, I'm actively avoiding watching it). They all excel at making the viewer feel small.

Incredible. Gonna watch all of these.

Lynch is something I've totally been putting off, I like Twin Peaks S1 but I haven't seen any of his movies aside from

Spoiler

the pretty shit Dune movie.

 

[Cheddahz]

The ten movies I can think of that I can say that I like are (no order)

Alien
Blade Runner (all versions, like them all for their differences)
Rushmore
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Akira
Coming to America
The Lord of the Rings (all three of them)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Life of Brian or Monty Python & The Holy Grail (this changes just about everyday)
Princess Mononoke

 

[jakefromstatefarm]

yeah lol you do not want to use Dune as your yardstick

Eraserhead is Cronenbergy in a body horror kinda way; Blue Velvet is one part hokey drama with Degrassi-tier emotional depth, one part jarringly brutal, hammy performance by Dustin Hoffman* (it's sampled in Cassie Eats Cockroaches, to give you an idea of the level of violence); I've heard horror stories of people watching Inland Empire in their film class and the brooding atmosphere that dominated the next ~3 weeks of the course

*Dennis Hopper, I always get those two fucks mixed up

 

[The Artful Dodger]

We're just listing ten movies we like? I'm in. (No Order)

Fitzcarraldo
Apocalypse Now
Scarface
The French Connection
Chinatown
No Country for Old Men
Mud
Jackie Brown
The King of Comedy
Touch of Evil (even though Charlton Heston makes a pretty awful Mexican)

 

[PhoenixDark]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_srnNASnMyc

apparently this is getting airplay in NY on pop stations.

 

[The Return of]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_srnNASnMyc


apparently this is getting airplay in NY on pop stations.

Troy Ave found his hit brehs, I can imagine youtubers around the world who do cover songs getting an immediate hard on when they hear this song

 

[RBK]

Compared to the other lists, I really don't watch much out of the norm.

No order:
Do the Right Thing
Road to Perdition
The Godfather
Paid in Full
Menace II Society
Pulp Fiction
American History X
Lion King
Toy Story 3

Probably missing something, but don't want to dive deeper into Google.

 

[deli2000]

No Order:

2001
The Social Network
The Empire Strikes Back
This Is Spinal Tap
WALL-E
The Godfather
Koyaanisqatsi
Alien
The Departed
No Country For Old Men

Honourable Mentions: Pulp Fiction, Life Of Brian, Blade Runner, Raging Bull

I know this is my first post in here for ages but whatevs.

 

[Bubbavelli]

Troy Ave found his hit brehs, I can imagine youtubers around the world who do cover songs getting an immediate hard on when they hear this song

At least he's self aware with the title