Favorite Films

[gunswordfist]

my list would be like ek's except no bttf films, aliens, the matrix, escape from new york and serenity would be in the bottom 4 but in an unknown order and terminator 2 would be number 2 and the thing is number 1.

[gunswordfist]

1. The Thing
(the rest in no order)
Aliens
Alien
Independence Day
The Matrix
Escape From New York
Men In Black
Pitch Black
The Terminator
Terminator 2

[gunswordfist]

Add these to my list and call it a day:

Predator
Robocop
Starship Troopers
Total Recall

[Avaitor]

Similar to how we ranked our favorite movies by each year since we've been born, I'm going to try to make a choice for my favorite films per decade. I'll stick with 2 per each decade for now, and I'll go as far back as the 20's, since I haven't seen that many features from the 1910's.

2010 (thus far)- Tree of Life/Before Midnight
2000- Persepolis/Before Sunset
1990- The Nightmare Before Christmas/Before Sunrise
1980- Amadeus/Paris, Texas
1970- Badlands/A Clockwork Orange
1960- The Apartment/Psycho
1950- Seven Samurai/Sunset Boulevard
1940- Double Indemnity/The Red Shoes
1930- Duck Soup/The Adventures of Robin Hood
1920- Sunrise/The Gold Rush

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

This is pretty tough for me, but here's my best shot:

1930's: King Kong
1940's: Casablanca
1950's: Gojira/Dial M For Murder
1960's: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly/Psycho
1970's: Jaws/Alien
1980's: The Untouchables/Aliens
1990's: Terminator 2: Judgement Day/Goodfellas
2000's: The Dark Knight/Collateral

That was really hard to narrow down, and highly subject to change for me. And that was AFTER I decided to exclude animation, which I'll have to do a separate list for.

That said, I must admit that, going by this list, I'm not very well-versed in films before the 1950's.

[Dr. Insomniac]

1920s - Metropolis
1930s - M
1940s - Arsenic and Old Lace
1950s - Ikiru
1960s - 8 1/2
1970s - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1980s - Aliens
1990s - Silence of the Lambs
2000s - Hot Fuzz
2010s - Probably some superhero movie coming out in the next few years.

[gunswordfist]

i'd probably have the dark knight and collateral for 2000s as well.

[talonmalon333]

2010s - Toy Story 3
2000s - Pan's Labyrinth
1990s - Schindler's List
1980s - The Empire Strikes Back
1970s - Jaws
1960s - Psycho
1950s - Vertigo
1940s - Casablanca
1930s - King Kong
1920s - Nosferatu

I excluded animation for every decade except for the 2010s... I know that's a stupid way to do it, but I couldn't think of a live action choice from this decade on the level of all my other choices (at least, not that I've seen). Not that I'm necessarily complaining. This decade isn't even close to being done.

I have plenty of honorable mentions, though, such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the 2000s. I'm actually surprised no one picked that.

[Avaitor]

I'll try 5 per decade, skipping the 2010's for now. Also note that I'm ranking them in order of release.

2000's-

1- City of God
2- Before Sunset
3- Persepolis
4- Inglourious Basterds
5- The Fantastic Mr. Fox

1990's-

1- Reservoir Dogs
2- The Nightmare Before Christmas
3- Pulp Fiction
4- Three Colors
5- Before Sunrise

1980's-

1- Coal Miner's Daughter
2- Conan the Barbarian
3- Fanny and Alexander
4- Paris, Texas
5- Amadeus

1970's-

1- A Clockwork Orange
2- Badlands
3- Nashville
4- 3 Women
5- The Muppet Movie

1960's-

1- The Apartment
2- Psycho
3- Lawrence of Arabia
4- Mary Poppins
5- Persona

1950's-

1- Sunset Boulevard
2- Singin' in the Rain
3- Ikiru
4- Seven Samurai
5- North by Northwest

1940's-

1- Fantasia
2- The Philadelphia Story
3- Casablanca
4- Notorious
5- The Red Shoes

1930's-

1- City Lights
2- Duck Soup
3- It Happened One Night
4- The Adventures of Robin Hood
5- Rules of the Game

1920's-

1- Nosferatu
2- Safety Last!
3- The Gold Rush
4- Sunrise
5- October

[gunswordfist]

i want to watch nosferatu. seems like a lot of shows and movies are making their vampires look like him these days, like the strain.

[talonmalon333]

Max Schrek will likely always be the scariest vampire. And when I see him, that's how I imagine a vampire would look like if they existed.

[talonmalon333]

I just want to say...

The Room > Troll 2

[Avaitor]

Absolutely.

Troll 2 has slow points where it isn't any fun, just painful. The Room is always astounding.

[talonmalon333]

A part of me thinks Troll 2 is just a bit overrated (I wonder if I should say "underrated", though, in a really weird way). And I do think it's novelty kind of died off as the movie approached the end. But having seen The Room, it's just mind boggling. Nothing about the movie is competent. Nothing. I especially like the repetitive dialogue and overuse of things like "I don't want to talk about it". And you got to love the lines of dialogue that have absolutely no purpose and just serve to make things awkward for a moment, creating the idea that they'll open a subplot only to be completely forgotten within seconds ("I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer"). A beautifully terrible fluke.

EDIT:

I had to update this post because there's too much worth talking about with this movie.. Another beautiful thing about it (though I suppose this goes into my above sentence) is how it gets sidetracked. I'm not suggesting the movie has a storyline, because it doesn't. But it does have... stuff going on, sort of. And sometimes the characters will be talking about that stuff, but then the movie will just suddenly get distracted and they'll go off talking about something so pointless. One example I'm thinking of at the moment is a conversation between Johnny, Mark, and their psychologist friend. Also, right now I'm holding back laughter just thinking about the "I did not hit her!" rant.

My friends and I saw it recently and we're already planning a drinking game rewatch with some friends that didn't get to see it the first time.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Just because I'm in the mood, I'll do lists of my top favorite films by genre. First are my top 15 favorite Sci-Fi films (Note: I don't count zombie movies):

15. They Live
14. Re-Animator
13. The Terminator
12. The Host
11. Serenity
10. Godzilla (1954)
9. The Fly (1986)
8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
7. Alien
6. John Carpenter's The Thing
5. Predator
4. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
3. Back to the Future
2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
1. Aliens

And yes, when I say The Host, I'm of course talking about the 2006 Korean film. I find it ridiculous that I even have to acknowledge the existence of "that other" POS that happens to share the same title.