I planned on putting together a top 10 list for a long time ago, but I only got around to doing it just now. We've had tons of these topics - lets do it again.

1. La Haine
2. Infernal Affairs 2
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4. The Last Emperor
5. The 400 Blows
6. Amadeus
7. Lust, Caution
8. Barry Lyndon
9. O' Lucky Man
10. Stalker (1979)

EDIT: I need to change and take out some shit so I can put in Kikujiro and Paranoid Park.

Top 10's! Love top 10's!

(not in order)

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Magnolia
3. Taxi Driver
4. Rear Window
5. City of God
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Blue Velvet
9. The 400 Blows
10. Amelie

Here's my top 10 for 2007/2008

(not in order)

1. Lars and the Real Girl
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. Wall-E
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. The Dark Knight
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Eastern Promises
8. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
9. No Country for Old Men
10. Tropic Thunder

(I haven't seen a shitload of new movies)

Lennon, what the hell, man? Haven't you seen any movies before 2008

You've come a long way psyburn-sama....

hey write a description for these lists okay.

1. The Shining
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Fargo
4. Jaws
5. The Thing (1982)
6. The English Patient
7. Aliens
8. Being John Malkovich
9. No Country for old men
10. The Exorcist

It's late, but thats what I have come up with right now. These things are never that accurate. Basically, I through a few pop-corn flicks in there (Aliens, Jaws, The Thing) becuase they never get old.

I DO!!! I CARE A LOT THAT PSYBURNS FAVORITE MOVIE IS LA HAINE!!!

I do, I've read all of them. Lyndon's is the most GW Movie Fan so far but with a couple oddballs

I think the lists are a fascinating peek into the minds of other GWers.

In no particular order:

1) Diminished Capacity
2) Full Metal Jacket
3) Star Wars VI
4) Cidade de Deus
5) Apocalypse Now
6) Gettysburg
7) Gods and Generals
8) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
9) Interview with the Vampire
10) Tigerland

it's odd how you group all those action movies together!  i haven't seen any but total recall in years, but they vary in quality even between themselves.  robocop seems really dumb in retrospect but i feel like alien might've actually been a pretty good movie.  total recall is cool because i feel like it is tongue in cheek like a lot of dick's other works, so i don't really look at it the same way i look at other cheeseball action movies.

As far as I remember Robocop and Total Recall had a very similar tongue-in-cheekiness to them. (Which isn't surprising since they're both directed by Paul Verhoeven. You'll find a lot of that tongue-in-cheekiness in Verhoeven's SF films. See also: Starship Troopers)



If I went back and checked my old top ten it probably hasn't changed much. Places 1-9 is filled with Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. I've had an almost "top 10" movie list but it always contained more than ten movies. The Lord of the Rings and the Star Wars were all in there (I don't really worry if the prequels were bad, it's still Star Wars and I'm such a fanboy so suck on that). Some others that I recall being in the list:

-The Nightmare Before Christmas
I really love this film. I know it's everywhere nowadays with all the logos and shit. But I still love it dearly. The music is wonderful and... you know... the message is one that I've always gotten behind. "Monsters are people too".

-Batman Begins
This is the most recent addition to my list. I'll throw in The Dark Knight in here as well. Once I've seen it a couple more times that is. When I first saw Begins it was just a cool movie. But it entered my "top 10"-list when I noticed that whenever it ran on TV I turned around and watched it to the end. There's something about the music in it that just make me go "fuck yes". Batman Begins is really that great.


Oh shit that's the only two I can recall at the moment. I remember that it used to be a huge list... I suppose some of them has just dropped out over the years. I mean films like Twelve Monkeys, Der Untergang, City of the Lost Children, Requiem for a Dream, Battle Royale, Goodbye Lenin, Blade Runner, The Crow, Moulin Rouge have all possibly had a place there at one time or another but I'm not sure they really should belong that pantheon of awesome... Except perhaps Moulin Rouge. That one needs to be put back in now that I remembered it.

I think the best way to put the requirements for this list is that to be included it'll have to be a movie I'm willing to watch almost any time. And movies I can watch over and over and over again. So yeah...

-Moulin Rouge
When I saw this one I wasn't sure what to expect. In fact I had no idea at all but in the end it turned out to be a pretty awesome musical and romance drama thingie. With comedy and all the other stuff musicals should have. My favorite part is probably the Roxanne-Medley-thingie. It always brings out the tears. But a lot of it is just brilliant.


And as I wrote this I remembered two other films that was in my old top10. The first isn't anymore. Because of crappy sequels. The Matrix. I had nothing to go on but someone saying "the Matrix is good, dont read further because I'll spoil some of it". It ran in theatres in my town so I went and saw it on a fluke and was blown away. The sequels however have sort of made it hard to make me want to watch the first again...

-The other I can probably still leave in my top10. Titanic.
I loved Titanic. It's massively epic and very pretty. However I haven't seen it in ages. I've been meaning to pick up one of those special edition DVD versions of it but I just don't know which one to pick. I want the one with the most extras but it seems some extras don't overlap and I don't want to sit there with a version that doesn't have EVERYTHING

That's my crappy toplist. All hugely big blockbuster films. No fancy artistic crap in my lists. No way.

ps strangeluv tell me you like lars and the real girl because it was really ridiculous!  what a movie, man.  i didnt think it'd be about what it was because it did not seem possible to me but then i saw it and....and....

I liked Lars and the Real Girl because it had this crazy concept but I thought it was handled really tastefully, like it wasn't this GOOFY comedy, and it still managed to be funny. I was really interested to see it because I didn't really know how they would handle a concept or material like that, and I was pleasantly surprised how it never really made fun of Lars but made me feel for him, especially him being viewed from the "outside". It's kind of hard for me to explain but I walked out of this movie feeling very good and not emotionally manipulated.

i loved lars and the real girl because its the gooniest fucking movie, literally, i believe larsis a goon and he is a fictional character.

ps: stoooop listing shit. write descriptions.

pps:

Well I like reading these because I think for the most part you guys have obscenely similar tastes, so it's interesting to me when people put things on their lists that aren't stanley kubrick or fight club or whatever.

really guy.