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Takara
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 2:26pm
Last time, december last year, the thread asked for your top10. Well i'd have soooooo many films deserving of top10, but 5.... that I can do. So here's mine.

1. Gattaca
2. Glory
3. Empire of the sun
4. Gladiator
5. Alive

Cúchulainn
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 2:41pm
Yojimbo
Battle Royale
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Paradise Now
Baran

This is bound to change...

kuemper
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 2:55pm
Favorite: that which I can watch on a daily basis and not get sick of

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. Star Wars: A New Hope
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. Evil Dead
5. clerks.

Notice how they gradiate from longest to shortest. ;)

Death Rabbit
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 4:39pm
1. The Karate Kid
2. Real Genius
3. Rudy
4. Star Wars Original Trilogy (they count as one film, I say)
5. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (ditto)

Rallymama
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 4:42pm
My top three are easy...

1. Bull Durham
1. Princess Bride
1. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

after that it gets harder. I'd have to say these are tied as well:

4. Remo Williams
4. To Cast A Deadly Spell

Funny, we own a whole bunch of DVDs but hardly ever watch any of them.

...sorry, there's one more, the Grandaddy of 'em all!

0. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Master of Nuhn
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 4:44pm
Shawshank Redemption,
The Green Mile,
The Usual Suspects,

Then, it gets blurry. There are so much movies I fancy.

Takara
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 5:15pm
My top 3 will never change but the last 2 often come and go for The Game, Memento, The 13th floor........ hence why 5 is hard enough, lol

DarkStrider
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 5:24pm
Too many to choose brain implodes...

amongst them Ran, La dernier combat, la belle et la bete, Solaris (the Tarkovsky version), Blade Runner, Shawshank redemption, Trainspotting, The ususal suspects, American Beauty, Kill Bill 1, pulp Fiction, Desperado, Once upon a time in the West, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Azumi, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, So Close, Wasabi, Old Boy, Hero, Crouching Tiger, House of Flying Daggers, Ghost Dog: the way of the Samurai, Platoon, 2001, Full Metal Jacket

These are just some of my favourite films

Cap'n CJ
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 6:05pm
1. Fight Club
2. Pulp Fiction
3. American History X
4. Battle Royale
5. From Dusk Till Dawn

Alavin
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 6:25pm
1. Rules of Attraction
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Hero
4. Trainspotting
5. Saw

I like my films gritty. Also, Hero.

Barmy Army
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 6:32pm
Pulp Fiction
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Shawshank Redemption
American History X
Silence of the Lambs

In no real order

theGodless
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 6:39pm
In no particular order:
Hero
Old Boy
Legends of the Drunken Master II
City of God
Ong Bak

Not much has changed since December, these films simply rule. :D

Faye
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 6:51pm
Ghost in the Shell (Kokaku Kidotai), Bladerunner, Gattaca.... (No wonder I'm in the field of bio-engineering!)
Argh, its so hard to decide!!!! These three are the top dogs. Beyond them, they run the gamut: Aliens, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Millenium Actress (Sennen Joyu), Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka), The New Dragon Inn, Swordsman I, II, 13th Floor, The Land Before Time, The Godfather, Infernal Affairs...
I give up. This list will never end. Curse top '5's! (or '10's!)

Chandos the Red
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 7:14pm
In no order:

The Lord of the Rings
Citizen Kane
The Treasure of Sierra Madre (reminds me a little of the "Pardoner's Tale."
Doctor Zhivago
A Night at the Opera
North by Northwest
The Seventh Seal

Honorable mentions: Excalibur, Rear Window, Hamlet (Olivier), Glory, Lawrence of Arabia, Annie Hall, A Day at the Races, Cyrano de Bergerac (Gérard Depardieu) and Patton.

Harbourboy
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 9:18pm
1. Star Wars IV: A New Hope
2. The Karate Kid
3. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. Star Wars VI: The Return of the Jedi

Barmy Army
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 9:52pm
The Karate Kid? :lol: Wax on, wax off!

Master of Nuhn
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 10:17pm
5. From Dusk Till Dawn That's the Vampire movie with George Clooney, right? I think that one would be in my Bottom 5 movies.

I have only seen the last half, I see. I heard the change from Bankrobery-movie to Vampire-slaying is interesting. But since I have only seen the vampire-part, I thought it to be munchy

[ August 24, 2006, 22:30: Message edited by: Master of Nuhn ]

Rawgrim
Thu, 24th Aug '06, 11:44pm
1. The Three Musketeers + The Four Musketeers (1973 version)
2. Lord of the rings
3. Original SW trilogy
4. Bubba Ho-Tep
5. Much Ado About Nothing

nior
Fri, 25th Aug '06, 7:32am
In no particular order

Il Mare (Korean)
Hero (Jet Li)
Ladyhawke
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Shawshank Redemption

Disciple of The Watch
Fri, 25th Aug '06, 7:44am
1- Spawn
2- Scarface
3- The Punisher
4- See No Evil
5- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

DarkStrider
Fri, 25th Aug '06, 10:35am
@DotW I presume for the Punisher, you are praising the latest version, not Dolph Lundgren's

Beren
Fri, 25th Aug '06, 12:40pm
1. The Lord of the Ring Trilogy
2. Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith
3. Schindler's List
4. Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back
5. Star Wars - Return of the Jedi

Disciple of The Watch
Fri, 25th Aug '06, 6:55pm
@DotW I presume for the Punisher, you are praising the latest version, not Dolph Lundgren's Correct.

And for Spawn, I was praising Todd McFarlane's Spawn, the animation film, not the crappy, sorry excuse of a movie.

Wiley One
Fri, 25th Aug '06, 8:06pm
1. Tombstone
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Aliens
4. Gladiator
5. The Great Mouse Detective

shadow lurker
Sat, 26th Aug '06, 1:15pm
No order:
-LOTR trilogy
-SW movies
-Circle of Iron
-Project A (etc.)
-Spirited Away
-My Neighbour Totoro

edit:
Oh I REALLY wanna watch "Once Upon A Time in China" we taped over it expect for the ending and I really wanna watch it because the 'rope/cloth thing' fight scene was quite impressive.