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A Night to Remember - 1958
The Spiral Staircase - 1944
The Haunting - 1963
Road House - 1946
The Magnificent Ambersons - 1941
The Red Tent - 1982
The Producers - 1967
Endurance - 1997
Psycho - 1960
Fargo - 1996

Aliens - 1986
Stranger than Fiction - 2006
Forrest Gump - 1994
2001 A Space Odyssey -1968
Lawrence of Arabia - 1962
The Searchers - 1956
Fifth Element -1997
Blade Runner - 1982
Leon The Professional - 1994
The Maltese Falcon - 1941

But how can I leave out "The Wizard of Oz", "Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars" and "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"???

Does this include PorhHub?

To Kill a Mockingbird
Will Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The March of the Wooden Soldiers
Casablanca
Animal House
Jeremiah Johnson
Repo Man
Blade Runner
Star Wars
A Boy and His Dog

I liked these movies, in no particular order of preference:

1. Little Big Man
2. Jeremiah Johnson
3. Das Boot
4. Alien
5. Bullitt
6. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
7. Yojimbo
8. Sunset Boulevard
9. The Man Who Would Be King
10. The Great Escape
11. Thunderball

There are others I am sure but I can't recall. Some may be less interesting to me as an adult, so I won't watch them again.
I think the James Bond movies with Sean Connery were good so I put my favorite one. "Do you mind if she sits this one out? She's just dead."

Edit;

12. Vertigo
13. Manhattan
14. Sparticus
15. Gladiator
16. The Right Stuff

Thief - 1981
Heat - 1995
Apocalypse Now - 1979
The Blues Brothers - 1980
Dawn of the Dead - 2004
Full Metal Jacket - 1987
Body Double - 1984
Taxi Driver - 1976
Risky Business - 1983
Lost in Translation - 2003
The Terminator - 1984

Not in any particular order.
Also, anyone who is interested in houses as an "investment" should definitely watch "99 Homes" from 2014.

Army of darkness
Apocalypse now
True romance
Secret window
Tombstone
Overboard
The godfather
Good fellas
Shawshank redemption
Unforgiven

Movies that are my least favorite Miramax productions. The early movies Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, True Romance ect. Sure they were ground breaking and they changed Cinema in America forever. Those Great movies shit on the future movies as every movie Miramax(which was 90% of American movies) because Dark and lost all touch of Classic story telling. I think that's why we're so dark and bitter as a nation today. Our movies drilled in two decades of doom and gloom everybody dies, in the end, the Girl aint coming back and She's really a whore that would rather fuck black cock for drugs. And the world is going to blow up and there's nothing you can do about it. Thanks Harvey Scumstein!

Movies that I can consider favorite movies have to be a movie I can watch at least a second or third viewing. There's not many movies in the history of Cinema that I can do that with.

1)Independence Day
2)Scrooged, What about Bob, Groundhog Day (All compete for number 2, btw can't stand Bill Murray playing a serious character)
3)Braveheart
4)The Host(Korean Title)
5)The Bounty (1984)
6)Aftershock Tang shan da di zhen (2010)
7)Admiral (2015)Michiel de Ruyter (original title)
8)The Admiral (2014)Myeong-ryang (original title)
9)Saving General Yang (2013)
10)Journey to the West (2013)Xi you: Xiang mo pian (original title)

All so serious. No comedies like "Time Bandits?" No Marx Brothers?

Casablanca
Gone with the wind
Sting
North by northwest
To catch a thief
60 seconds over Tokyo
His girl Friday
Good, bad, ugly
Hellcats of the navy
Braveheart
To kill a mockingbird

This thread reminded me of a lot of great movies. Thanks for sharing all.

Revenge of the Nerds

rocketjoe79 says

But how can I leave out

Night of the Hunter - 1955
Signs - 1992
Rear Window - 1954
Vertigo - 1958
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 1954

HeadSet says

No comedies like "Time Bandits?" No Marx Brothers?

The Cocoanuts - 1929

I also like most all Mel Brooks movies.
Winehorror has a great list, and Clambo I also loved Little Big Man, I think it is Dustin Hoffman's best movie ever.

Some 10 movies I really liked:

Deathwish
Bladerunner
2001
Assault on precinct 13
Strange Days
Peculiarities of the National Hunt
Man bites dog
Cinema paradiso
Fargo
Big Lebowski

Scent of a Woman
Bladerunner (first version)
Planes, Trains, Automobiles
Matrix (series)
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
Truman Show
Good Fellas
Apocalypse Now
Kingdom of Heaven
Gettsyburg

WineHorror1 says

Army of darkness
Apocalypse now
True romance
Secret window
Tombstone
Overboard
The godfather
Good fellas
Shawshank redemption
Unforgiven

THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK!

OMG I left out Monty Python and the Holy Grail!!!

I have shamed my family.

Conan the Barbarian (Original)
Monty Python (any)
History of the World Pt2
Bladerunner (original)
Aliens
Casino
Godfather 2
Reservoir Dogs
The Thing
Unforgiven

Bonus Cheese: The Warriors
Bonus Classic: Maltese Falcon (should be required for all teenage males)
Bonus Harvey Keitel: Bad Lieutenant
Bonus Cage: 8mm

You got 4 guys fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black.

MisterLearnToCode says

You got 4 guys fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black.

"Why do I gotta be Mr. Pink?"
"Because you're a Fagot!"

Remember Young Frankenstein”.

Best Halloween movie ever made.

Tenpoundbass says

I also like most all Mel Brooks movies.
Winehorror has a great list, and Clambo I also loved Little Big Man, I think it is Dustin Hoffman's best movie ever.

jazz_music says

Glengary Glen Ross

That's another great movie.

No one said: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - 2003

How about?: Die Hard - 1988.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Wars (the original, Episode IV)
Predator (also, the 1st one, none of the others)
The Chronicles of Riddick
The Highlander
Escape from New York
Apocalypse Now
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Thing (John Carpenter's version)
Fail Safe

MisterLearnToCode says

Conan the Barbarian (Original)
Monty Python (any)
History of the World Pt2
Bladerunner (original)
Aliens
Casino
Godfather 2
Reservoir Dogs
The Thing
Unforgiven

Bonus Cheese: The Warriors
Bonus Classic: Maltese Falcon (should be required for all teenage males)
Bonus Harvey Keitel: Bad Lieutenant
Bonus Cage: 8mm

You got 4 guys fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black.

Forgot about The Warriors. Good flick. How about Escape from NY?

jazz_music says

Nobody mentioned Glengary Glen Ross, The Quiet Man, Rocky Horror Picture Show, or Forbidden Planet.

I understand Rocky Horror Picture Show is offbeat and weird, but you kind of got to love it for weird reasons.

Mentioning the Godfather is good, but you should have a favorite pick within that franchise. You must mean 1972.

I don't think of movies, albums or even songs as being my top favorites, so I can't really make up an answer.

I used to think of Hendrix as the greatest but not even him so much now. He sure created some uniquely bubbly melodic solos along with his incredible showmanship. Even though it was a little bit naive, I used to like his lyrics a lot too.

Nobody mentioned silent films like The Birth Of A Nation, or even Metropolis.

It's just a simple fun question, no technical analysis is required. Do you do this kind of thing before sex also? Poor poor lady.

Star wars is an overrated kids movie

Casino
Forrest Gump
Blow
Bronx Tale
Saving Private Ryan
One Flew Over the CooKoos Nest
Boys in the Hood
Falling Down
Shawshank Redemption
The Hangover
Scarface
The Departed

Heraclitusstudent says

No one said: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - 2003

FOTR was really good. The others had very, very questionable editing and pacing.

The best part of Two Towers was seeing the Jihadi Easterlings march into Mordor to join the main army.

WineHorror1 says

Forgot about The Warriors. Good flick. How about Escape from NY?

Another great Kurt Russell flick.

Best Guilty Pleasure: Big Trouble, Little China. Or, Red Dawn.

"Pieces of April" (2003) was very well done, imho.

Fight Club has to be #1 for me.

The Road Warrior
Beyond The Valley of the Dolls
The Exorcist
Sanjuro
Dirty Harry
Apocalypse Now
The Last Detail
Repo Man
Jaws
Hard Eight (low-budget noir pick)

I can't narrow it down to 10, but I can list several films I've returned to repeatedly and listed them in order of date, instead of by preference.

Safety Last (1923)
Metropolis (1927)
M (1931) [1]
Godzilla / Gojira (1954)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Haunting (1963)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979) [2]
Altered States (1980)
The Plague Dogs (1982) [3]
Aliens (1986)
Blade Runner (1982)
Repoman (1984) [4]
La Femme Nikita (1990)
Naked Lunch (1991)
La Cité des Enfants Perdus (1995)
Brazil (1995)
Abre los ojos (1997)
Lola rennt (1998)
NightWatch (2004)

[1] M is by Fritz Lang - its' about a child killer. It was decades ahead of its time.
[2] This was the smartest Star Trek film - get the director's cut.
[3] This is not a kids film and it's remarkable they made it. Wouldn't recommend it for kids under 13.
[4] This is actually my favorite film - it's a dark comedy.

Nikita and Abre Los Ojos were redone in the United States, I think the original is much better. I'm not a snob though, the Ring was better as an American remake than Ringu in my opinion. Remakes usually are not as good, but that's not always true. John Carpenter's The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers were remakes and I think they were much better than the originals. Both were more terrifying.

Reviewing other people's entries.

The Guard (2011) is great as is Sunset Blvd (1950), Das Boot (1981), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Heat (1995), Army of Darkness (1992), Unforgiven (1992)

I'd also put in there Unbreakable, Split, and Glass - they are all M. Night Shyamalan.

www.youtube.com/embed/qljXevEW2W0

I've done (most of) that speech a few times at bars with friends just to mess with the patrons just before we left, because it's the most insane speech ever given in a film, and it does make me look like a bitter old drunk that helped work on the neutron bomb.

What happened to man bites dog? Also funny games (1997/98) if you like dark (with a twist of comedy but not enough to not be outraged).

@Patrick - why don't you make a space just for films? I really miss the IMDB when people could make lists and recommendations and comments on films. Now it just promotes whatever current garbage is being made and at least 1/2 the reviews are professionals working for the production team.

Kind of lost interest in films though. The last recommendation made to me was Ex Machina (2014) and it was OK, but it's not realistic. If an artilect was made it would join with other artilects. Nobody would waste time giving it a human like body.

richwicks says

why don't you make a space just for films?

@richwicks What do you mean by a space? Something more structured that this thread?

Patrick says

richwicks says

why don't you make a space just for films?

@richwicks What do you mean by a space? Something more structured that this thread?

Yes, like allow a subsection, where movies can be listed, and people simply talk about them. It is a question if other people would be interested in this. I've seen a huge amount of films, but opinions are just that. If you could make a search on the film, and by year and then just commenting below, that was be interesting.

I've seen an amazing amount of films.

I'd really recommend Naked Lunch, it's just so damned bizarre. It's about William S. Burroughs dealing with his homosexuality during an uncontrolled drug bender - or that's at least how I interpreted it. I don't think the book is readable unless you're on at least some mind bending drug. I've tried to read it, but it's just free form of thought, from a madman as I recall. It's been a long time since I've attempted reading it.

It's about him writing the book, and it's very surreal. It helps to know something about Burroughs to see the film. David Cronenberg directed it, he's kind of a David Lynch lite. The visuals of the film are what I enjoyed most, the plot itself is kind of thin but it's re-watchable, and that's what I enjoy in a film.

Oh yeah, I missed a seriously great film:

Memento (2000)

I've must have seen that film a dozen times. That film WILL make you think. It's a series of surprises.

Without deeply thinking about it, here are some of my favorites off the top of my head...
Big Trouble in Little China (best B movie of all time)
The Matrix
My Cousin Vinny
Major League
Caddyshack
Star Wars
A Few Good Men
Underworld
Tombstone
Jaws
Heat
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Back to the Future
Ghostbusters

Memento is a really good movie.