Yet another Favorite Movies Of All Time thread!

[Luckyflux]

Yeah, and smoke some shit too man....it ain't all dat bad

 

[Corwwyn]

changes day to day, but ten films I like off the top of my head

Yeah, same here. At the moment, 16 fave films (in no particular order) include:

The Big Sleep (1946)
Spirited Away
The Seven Samurai
Les Miserables (1935)
Shrek
Apollo 13
The Silence of the Lambs
Psycho
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Ben Hur
12 Angry Men (1957)
Amelie
Yellowbeard
Monsters Inc
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
King Kong (1933)

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Part of the problem with people's attitudes toward The Heretic is that they're judging it by the standards of the original 1973 William Friedkin/William Peter Blatty film.

Actually. I saw The Heretic before I saw the first one and still disliked it. It took me a long time to watch the first movie because I was expecting that I wouldn't like it.



My list (ever changing and in no particular order)

• The Manchurian Candidate (original)
• Night of the Hunter
• Forbidden Planet
• The Thing (John Carpenter version)
• Soylent Green
• The Omega Man
• Lethal Weapon
• L.A.Confidential
• Saving Silverman
• Silent Running
• Tequila Sunrise
• Alien
• Tombstone
• Unforgiven
• Ravenous

 

[Corwwyn]

I do wonder what anyone likes about the first Exorcist movie. To me, it's a pretty boring, tedious film, with a rather good soundtrack.

 

[Harvey]

I've only seen The Exorcist once. I found it to be plodding and, worse, not scary! The French Connection is the far superior Friedken film, though I haven't seen Cruising.

 

[Darth_Pazuzu]

Ummm...I think I'm just gonna tweak the order of this list a little bit, and then expand on it some more!

1. Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
DIRECTOR: John Boorman
STARRING: Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow

2. Fight Club (1999)
DIRECTOR: David Fincher
STARRING: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf

3. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith (2005)
DIRECTOR: George Lucas
STARRING: Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid

4. The Shining (1980)
DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick
STARRING: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd

5. Requiem For A Dream (2000)
DIRECTOR: Darren Aronofsky
STARRING: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

6. Hellraiser (1987)
DIRECTOR: Clive Barker
STARRING: Andrew J. Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman

7. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
DIRECTOR: Alan Parker
STARRING: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Bob Hoskins, Eleanor David

8. The Ninth Configuration (1979)
DIRECTOR: William Peter Blatty
STARRING: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders

9. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino
STARRING: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, Eli Roth

10. Dawn Of The Dead (1978)
DIRECTOR: George A. Romero
STARRING: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross

11. Cruising (1980)
DIRECTOR: William Friedkin
STARRING: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox

12. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick
STARRING: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Madison Eginton

13. Altered States (1980)
DIRECTOR: Ken Russell
STARRING: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid

14. The Beyond (1981)
DIRECTOR: Lucio Fulci
STARRING: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John

15. Dancer In The Dark (2000)
DIRECTOR: Lars von Trier
STARRING: Bjork, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare

16. Zardoz (1973)
DIRECTOR: John Boorman
STARRING: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton

I simply decided to put The Beyond before Zardoz, and put Dancer In The Dark in between.

Now, without further ado...

17. Ghostbusters (1984)
DIRECTOR: Ivan Reitman
STARRING: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis

18. I'm Not There (2007)
DIRECTOR: Todd Haynes
STARRING: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger

19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino
STARRING: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis

20. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick
STARRING: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke

21. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
DIRECTOR: James Cameron
STARRING: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick

22. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
DIRECTOR: David Lynch
STARRING: Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Grace Zabriskie