top ten films

[thatcomedian]

1. Gregory’s Girl

2. Raising Arizona

3. Flirting with Disaster

4. Stalag 17

5. Annie Hall

6. Play It Again, Sam

7. The Graduate

8. E.T.

9. Pulp Fiction

10. Gotcha

[MacG]

Haven't we done this before...and hasn't it always ended up a disaster of pointless bickering?

Interesting choices, though, David. Not sure any of them would appear on my Top 10, but I like several of 'em.

[thatcomedian]

I'm not saying these should be everybodies top ten but thought we might get ideas from one another for movies to check out. I also did a search within the film thread and got no results from top ten or top or ten.

[TwoBitHack]

10

Force 10 from Navarone

The Ten Commandments

Ten Little Indians

The Whole Ten Yards

[MacG]

I'm not saying these should be everybodies top ten but thought we might get ideas from one another for movies to check out. I also did a search within the film thread and got no results from top ten or top or ten.

No-no, I didn't mean to imply that you were trying to say this was a be all-end all list of Top Ten.

This was the thread I was thinking of:

http://scriptsales.com/boards/showthread.php?t=12029

[thatcomedian]

10

Force 10 from Navarone

The Ten Commandments

Ten Little Indians

The Whole Ten Yards

Thanks TenBitHack

[dclary]

Comedian, read this first.

Then get back to us.

Thank you.

http://64.78.28.161/boards/showthread.php?t=12029

[Pen Dragon]

force 10 from navarone was a turkey

[dclary]

You obviously underestimated Harrison Ford's ability to act like a plank of oak.

[MacG]

Comedian, read this first.

Then get back to us.

Thank you.

http://64.78.28.161/boards/showthread.php?t=12029

Way to read previous posts, Dave. :rolleyes:

That link had been up for about 45 minutes courtesy of yours truly....

[dclary]

Has anyone seen Mac recently? Man, I miss his posts.

[Pen Dragon]

You obviously underestimated Harrison Ford's ability to act like a plank of oak.

Actually the only good line in the movie was when Ford, after the explosives went off and the dam was still standing, screamed at Robert Shaw


IT DIDN'T WORK!!!!

[Pencey]

1.Gregory’s Girl

2.Raising Arizona

3.Flirting with Disaster

4.Stalag 17

5.Annie Hall

6.Play It Again, Sam

7.The Graduate

8.E.T.

9.Pulp Fiction

10.Gotcha

Gregory's Girl...A film that I've often heard good things about and yet have never seen. Will put this in my Netflix queue.

Gotcha is a wonderful little film that no one knows about. All I remember about it is that it deals with relationships beteeen men and women...I think. I may have to see this again to remind myself why I liked it.

[Bad Liver]

Gotcha is a wonderful little film that no one knows about. All I remember about it is that it deals with relationships beteeen men and women...I think. I may have to see this again to remind myself why I liked it.


Yeah, you REALLY need to see it again if that's what you think it's about. :p

[Erehwon]

1. The Exorcist

2. Harold and Maude

3. Apocalypse Now

4. Dead Man

5. The Godfather

6. Jaws

7. Wonder Boys

8. Rashomon

9. Death Wish

10. Taxi Driver

[Pen Dragon]

Gotcha wasn't a bad little comedy/espionage caper. If you can take Anthony Edwards playing a teen Bond. I keep meaning to pick up the dvd. It's usually pretty cheap

[Pencey]

Yeah, you REALLY need to see it again if that's what you think it's about. :p

Woops. Got this confused with another movie called Watch It.

Yes, Gotcha was good too...and many more people know about that one.

[randesq]

Maybe this time we can get an accurate count on DD's favorite films.

Breaking Away
the underneath
tender mercies
stealing home
the ninth configuration
you can count on me
My body guard
the deep end
searching for bobby fischer
smoke

[miles]

I loved the Sheen voice-overs in Apocalypse Now.

"I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said yes to a divorce" or something like that.

[Erdnase]

1. Rear Window
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. Garde A'Vue
4. Casablanca
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. The Day of the Jackal
7. North By Northwest
8. Serpico
9. Dog Day Afternoon
10. Yume

[Kelsey]

In no particular order:

(#1) A Far Off Place
(#2) Girl With a Pearl Earring
(#3) Beauty and the Beast
(#4) Chicago
(#5) Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
(#6) Twister
(#7) A Knight's Tale
(#8) Bend It Like Beckham
(#9) Garden State
(#10) A Love Song for Bobby Long

Honorable Mentions:
Lightning Bug
Wild Hearts Can't be Broken

[thatcomedian]

In no particular order:

(#1) A Far Off Place
(#2) Girl With a Pearl Earring
(#3) Beauty and the Beast
(#4) Chicago
(#5) Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
(#6) Twister
(#7) A Knight's Tale
(#8) Bend It Like Beckham
(#9) Garden State
(#10) A Love Song for Bobby Long

Honorable Mentions:
Lightning Bug
Wild Hearts Can't be Broken

Well, if we are doing honorable mentions then I would add

Marathon Man
Catch-22

[miles]

Well, if we are doing honorable mentions then I would add

Marathon Man
Catch-22

Okay, here's one honorable mention: Go.

It was damn funny and entertaining.

[dpaterso]

Seeing Gregory's Girl and Romy & Michelle in any "top 10" list is a boggling experience. Just thought I'd toss that in. But it would be a dull world indeed if we all liked the same things.

Someone asked much the same question over on Absolute Write a few days back, I defined my top 10 as the DVDs I'd take with me onto a desert island if I got shipwrecked and had a solar powered DVD player.

Forbidden Planet
The Big Country
Guys & Dolls
West Side Story
The Long Ships
The Vikings
Seven Samurai
The Warlord
The 300 Spartans
Troy

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

[Kelsey]

I don't watch movies to analyze them to the point where they are no longer enjoyable. I watch them to have a good time and escape from my ****ty, dramatic life. I saw Romy and Michele in 6th grade, it was hilarious and I memorized it and quoted it as much as I could, people laughed at my Romy impression, and it's a movie that greatly influenced not only who I am as a person, but why I want to be in this industry. All of the movies on my list have influenced me in one way or another, whether they are a good movie or not.

[thatcomedian]

I don't watch movies to analyze them to the point where they are no longer enjoyable. I watch them to have a good time and escape from my ****ty, dramatic life. I saw Romy and Michele in 6th grade, it was hilarious and I memorized it and quoted it as much as I could, people laughed at my Romy impression, and it's a movie that greatly influenced not only who I am as a person, but why I want to be in this industry. All of the movies on my list have influenced me in one way or another, whether they are a good movie or not.

My favorite school related movie is Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Hilarious, great quotes, "People on ludes should not drive" and Phoebe Cates t**s.

My favorite school reunion movie would have to be Gross Point Blank.

[miles]

Seeing Gregory's Girl and Romy & Michelle in any "top 10" list is a boggling experience. Just thought I'd toss that in. But it would be a dull world indeed if we all liked the same things.

Someone asked much the same question over on Absolute Write a few days back, I defined my top 10 as the DVDs I'd take with me onto a desert island if I got shipwrecked and had a solar powered DVD player.

Forbidden Planet
The Big Country
Guys & Dolls
West Side Story
The Long Ships
The Vikings
Seven Samurai
The Warlord
The 300 Spartans
Troy

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

D, are you saying that you wouldn't take along your Deep Throat I and II?

[dpaterso]

Michelle & Romy: yeah, good laugh, shame about the trite ending. Mira Sorvino would be on my top ten list of actresses I've fallen in love with, if that's any consolation.
-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)

[Biohazard]

My list depends on whether or not you want to know what 10 films I enjoy watching the most, or what 10 I consider to be the best. But either way, I couldn't narrow it down. Here's 10 films that I'd include on either list (in no order other than the order in which they appear):

01 - Once Upon A Time In The West
02 - Once Upon A Time In America
03 - Vertigo
04 - Rear Window
05 - North By Northwest
06 - The Elephant Man
07 - The Shining
08 - Jaws
09 - Apocalypse Now
10 - The Godfather

honorable mention to Mulholland Dr. and about 100+ other films.

[Josh]

Goodfellas

Resevoir Dogs

American Beauty

Aliens

Casablanca

Platoon

Memento

Unforgiven

Adaptation

The Shawshank Redemption

[dclary]

Kelsey gets a million bonus points for putting A Knight's Tale in the top 10.

[Pen Dragon]

Seeing Gregory's Girl and Romy & Michelle in any "top 10" list is a boggling experience. Just thought I'd toss that in. But it would be a dull world indeed if we all liked the same things.

Someone asked much the same question over on Absolute Write a few days back, I defined my top 10 as the DVDs I'd take with me onto a desert island if I got shipwrecked and had a solar powered DVD player.

Forbidden Planet
The Big Country
Guys & Dolls
West Side Story
The Long Ships
The Vikings
Seven Samurai
The Warlord
The 300 Spartans
Troy


You should combine this list into one mega action script

7 dancing vikings from a big country band together to save a long ship full of guys and dolls from 300 Spartans led by a Warlord from the forbidden planet of Troy

[Josh]

You should combine this list into one mega action script

7 dancing vikings from a big country band together to save a long ship full of guys and dolls from 300 Spartans led by a Warlord from the forbidden planet of Troy

:rolling:

I like it. Someone should run with this. Post the first 5 on DD.

[whitenavel]

A Random top ten:


1. Airplane!

2. Top Secret

3. History of the World Part 1

4. Caddyshack

5. Fletch

6. Quick Change

7. Raising Arizona

8. The Big Lebowski

9. National Lampoon’s Animal House

10. Better Off Dead

[Kelsey]

Just to be clear: my top ten wasn't what I thought the top ten movies of all time were. I haven't seen early as many movies to seriously compile a list like that. Those are just my favorite movies.

[dpaterso]

You should combine this list into one mega action script
7 dancing vikings from a big country band together to save a long ship full of guys and dolls from 300 Spartans led by a Warlord from the forbidden planet of TroyTook a lot of moonshine-damaged brain cells to come up with that staggering combo.

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)
"What's the strategy, sir?"
"Get out of the bloody place before it blows up."
~Casino Royale

[Pen Dragon]

...starring nicolas cage

[habronic]

1. rear window
2. the big lebowski
3. double indemnity
4. amelie
5. aliens
6. eternal sunshine
7. run lola run
8. fargo
9. LA confidential
10. usual suspects

[dpaterso]

Boring afternoon. Results thus far, based on the order in which folks posted their "top 10" -- assuming first listed earns 10 points and last listed earns 1 point. I gave "honorable mentions" 0.5 points each. No doubt the neat spacing will disappear soon as I hit the button...

Rear Window 27.0
Aliens 13.0
Casablanca 13.0
Raising Arizona 13.0
The Big Lebowski 12.0
A Far Off Place 10.0
Airplane! 10.0
Apocalypse Now 10.0
Breaking Away 10.0
Forbidden Planet 10.0
Goodfellas 10.0
Gregory's Girl 10.0
North By Northwest 10.0
Once Upon A Time In The West 10.0
The Exorcist 10.0
Girl With Pearl Earring 9.0
Harold and Maude 9.0
Once Upon A Time In America 9.0
Reservoir Dogs 9.0
Shadow of a Doubt 9.0
The Big Country 9.0
The Underneath 9.0
Top Secret 9.0
American Beauty 8.0
Beauty and the Beast 8.0
Double Indemnity 8.0
Flirting with Disaster 8.0
Garde A'Vue 8.0
Guys & Dolls 8.0
History of the World Part 1 8.0
Jaws 8.0
Tender Mercies 8.0
Vertigo 8.0
Amelie 7.0
Caddyshack 7.0
Chicago 7.0
Dead Man 7.0
Stalag 17 7.0
Stealing Home 7.0
The Godfather 7.0
West Side Story 7.0
Annie Hall 6.0
Fletch 6.0
Raiders of the Lost Ark 6.0
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion 6.0
The Long Ships 6.0
The Ninth Configuration 6.0
Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind 5.0
Platoon 5.0
Play It Again, Sam 5.0
Quick Change 5.0
The Day of the Jackal 5.0
The Elephant Man 5.0
The Vikings 5.0
Twister 5.0
You Can Count On Me 5.0
A Knight's Tale 4.0
Memento 4.0
My Body Guard 4.0
Run Lola Run 4.0
Seven Samurai 4.0
The Graduate 4.0
The Shining 4.0
Wonder Boys 4.0
Bend It Like Beckham 3.0
E.T. 3.0
Fargo 3.0
Rashomon 3.0
Serpico 3.0
The Deep End 3.0
The Warlord 3.0
Unforgiven 3.0
Adaptation 2.0
Death Wish 2.0
Dog Day Afternoon 2.0
Garden State 2.0
L.A. Confidential 2.0
National Lampoon's Animal House 2.0
Pulp Fiction 2.0
Searching For Bobby Fischer 2.0
The 300 Spartans 2.0
A Love Song for Bobby Long 1.0
Better Off Dead 1.0
Gotcha 1.0
Smoke 1.0
Taxi Driver 1.0
The Shawshank Redemption 1.0
The Usual Suspects 1.0
Troy 1.0
Yume 1.0
Catch-22 0.5
Go 0.5
Lightning Bug 0.5
Marathon Man 0.5
Mulholland Drive 0.5
Wild Hearts Can't be Broken 0.5

I'm off to find something even more pointless to do. Such as, writing.

-Derek
Derek's Web Page - stories, screenplays, novels, insanity. (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DPaterson57/scripts.htm)
"What's the strategy, sir?"
"Get out of the bloody place before it blows up."
~Casino Royale