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1. monty python- holy grail
2. better off dead
3. wedding crashers
4. office space
5. dumb and dumber
6. bull durham
7. star wars- the empire strikes back
8. godfather 2
9. spinal tap
10. four weddings and a funeral
11. groundhog day
12. blazing saddles
13. the producers
14. hunt for red october
15. singin in the rain
16. sleepless in seattle
17. bill and ted’s excellent adventure
18. while you were sleeping
19. midway
20. the muppet movie
21. Apollo 13
22. true lies
23. white Christmas
24. Indiana jones 3
25. grosse pointe blank
 
Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right in the eye and says, "Give me your best shot. I can take it."

You can post your Top 50 if you want like elevation2u did, but only the first 25 will be counted :up:
 
Here it is folks. At least as definitive as I'm going to make it within the next couple weeks. The first 9 are pretty much set in stone aside from the occassional small shifts in possitioning. The rest of the list was much much more difficult to order. It will probably change a little bit by tomorrow even. But it's good enough for now.

1. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. American Beauty
6. Blade Runner
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. The Big Labowski
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey
12. Aliens
13. Jaws
14. Once Upon A Time In America
15. V For Vendetta
16. Lost in Translation
17. Spiderman 2
18. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
19. Casino
20. Fargo
21. Young Frankenstein
22. Little Miss Sunshine
23. Reservoir Dogs
24. Once Upon A Time in the West
25. Grindhouse
 
1. Star Wars
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather Part II
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. Pan's Labrynth
7. Empire Strikes Back
8. Harold and Kumar
9. Sin City
10. The Two Towers
11. Vanilla Sky
12. Big Lebowski
13. Raiders of the Lost Ark
14. Shawshank Redemption
15. Fight Club
16. American Beauty
17. Apocalypse Now
18. Braveheart
19. Amelie
20. The Princess Bride
21. 12 Monkeys
22. Scarface
23.Wall Street
24. Layer Cake
25. Patton

Not great but I have to watch them everytime they are on:
26. Super Troopers
27. Europtrip
28. Grandma's Boy
 
Nice list Beav. Curious to see The Two Towers so high though, without either of the other film anywhere on the list. :hmm:
 
1) American Beauty
2) The Shawshank Redemption
3) Forrest Gump
4) Clue
5) Love Actually
6) The Green Mile
7) Michael Collins
8) Field of Dreams
9) Shall We Dance (The original Japanese version)
10) I can't pick a specific Marx Brothers movie, and I don't want to fill the rest of my list with Marx Bros. movies, but suffice it to say I'm going to represent all of their films with Duck Soup
11) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12) Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
13) Die Hard
14) Heavyweights
15) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
16) The Land Before Time :uhoh:
17) Sideways
18) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
19) The Empire Strikes Back
20) The Prestige
21) Saving Private Ryan
22) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
23) Battle Royal
24) Braveheart
25) Sister Act :uhoh:

I think that's as good as I can get it, I've got an hour to edit :lol:
 
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Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Star Wars
Some Like it Hot
West Side Story
March of the Wooden Soldiers
Two Towers
The Wild Bunch
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Wizard of Oz
Some Like it Hot
Wee Willie Winkie
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
O' Brother, Where Art Thou
Clockwork Orange
Last of the Mohicans
Touch of Evil
Best in Show
Midnight Cowboy
Drums Along the Mohawk
Them
White Heat
Shakespeare in Love
Damn Yankees
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

So many more where these came from.......:wink:
 
hardyharhar said:
Monty Python's Life of Brian

That one just barely didn't make my list.

My friend was ready to kill me when we watched the "Jehova! Jehova!" scene, because I kept rewinding it. That might be one of the all-time funniest scenes :lmao:
 
1. Star Wars
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Saving Private Ryan
4-6. Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Fellowship, ROTK, Two Towers)
7. Braveheart
8. Die Hard
9. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
10. Tombstone
11. Independance Day
12. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
13. Aliens
14. Air Force One
15. Raiders Of The Lost Arc
16. Revenge Of The Sith
17. The Matrix
18. The Rock
19. The Terminator
20. The Patriot
21. The Hunt For Red October
22. Return Of The Jedi
23. Predator
24. Leathal Weapon 2
25. The Abyss
 
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1. Rushmore
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Almost Famous
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. The Life Aquatic
6. BASEketball
7. The Big Lebowski
8. V For Vendetta
9. Children Of Men
10. The 40 Year Old Virgin
11. The Empire Strikes Back
12. Waiting For Guffman
13. This Is Spinal Tap
14. The Departed
15. Anchorman
16. Back To The Future
17. Love Actually
18. Boogie Nights
19. Moulin Rouge
20. Bottle Rocket
21. Anchorman
22. O Brother, Where Art Thou
23. Field Of Dreams
24. American Splendor
25. Snatch

Something like that. The top five is fairly accurate.
 
Wes would be proud. :up:

Is a Criterion Collection DVD of the Tenenbaums for 20 bucks worth it? I'm not too sold on getting movies over 15 bucks, but I could've gotten:

The Royal Tenenbaums (Criterion)
Rushmore
and another one for about 35 bucks.

:shrug:
 
Well, the Criterion Tenenbaums is the only one that exists, to my knowledge. Thus, it's completely worth it.

If you can find the Criterion of Rushmore, I'd highly recommend picking it up in lieu of the bare bones version also offered.

And I do realize I'm a Wes Anderson fanboy. At least I make no qualms about it.
 
I'm a Wes fanboy, too, don't get me wrong. :up:

As awesome as the The Criterion Rushmore sounds, it looks way too expensive for one movie though.

On half.com I can get:

Tenenbaums (Criterion)
Rushmore (Barebones :| )
Aliens (2 Disc Version)

for 27 bucks, not a bad deal, but not a great one either.
 
IMP, your list kicks some hardcore ass.

Almost Famous just missed the cut for mine, but it does have one of my top 5 scenes of all time.

On the bus. Tiny Dancer. Makes me feel good to be alive. :love:
 
Mine will probably most resemble Beav's, sadly. This is hard, obviously. I think my Top 5 are always gonna be my top 5, but the rest could move up or down, or be replaced by current #'s 26-50. And, inevitably I'll forget one, but, I'll shut up and post:

1) G-dfather
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) G-dfather II
4) Empire Strikes Back (What can I say? It's an action film and all and obviously it's not the 4th greatest film ever made but I have seen it too many times to count, and will see it many more times, and it never gets old for me)
5) Shawshank Redemption
6) Chariots of Fire (This one seems to bore everyone, me, it capitaves and stirs)
7) Raging Bull
8) Goodfellas
9) 2001 - A Space Odyssey
10) Excalibur (Again, this is not the 10th best film ever made, but, I love Arthurian myth, and there's just something very lush and majestic about it...plus, has Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and Patrick Stewart in it, though some have small roles)
11) Star Wars
12) Raiders of the Lost Ark
13) Schindler's List
14) Taxi Driver
15) Dr. Strangelove
16) The Two Towers (Agreed with Beav, this is my fave of the 3...things are getting darker and urgent..love all 3, though)
17) Broadcast News
18) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
19) The Game
20) The Deer Hunter
21) Blade Runner
22) Chinatown
23) Return of the King
24) Field of Dreams
25) The Big Lebowski and Network are tied here

Honorable mention to: Jedi, Fellowship of the Ring, Bottle Rocket, Dune (My favorite bad movie of all time), Roadhouse (another favorite bad movie), Tombstone (same deal), Swingers (which is really #25A), The Natural, Defending Your Life, The Prestige, Braveheart, Gladiator, Master and Commander, Fast Times, Children of Men and on and on)

ETA: Mentions to 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, Fargo, Unforgiven, Croupier as well. Ugh, so hard, this....:)
 
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I'm definitely adding 25-50 later, especially since I saw The Big Lebowski all the way for the first time and it really deserves to be in the Top 25.

New Rule:

If you would like to re-do your list, than you can as long as you tell me which list you want to use. Okay? Okay. :Up:
 
Hmm, probably. What I'm hoping for is enough people to submit Top 25 Lists so I can make a pretty good Top 50 Interference Board, now I'm beginning to think submitting your Top 50 for an Interference Top 100 is better.

:shrug:
 
I just realized I put Anchorman twice.

Take the Anchorman at #15 out and add Dumb And Dumber. I don't know how that happened.
 
No spoken words said:
Maybe since people did a top 25 already, you leave it for now...then post the results....then do a top 50 another time, down the line?

Yeah, good call, I was thinking the same thing. :up:

inmyplace13 said:
I just realized I put Anchorman twice.

Take the Anchorman at #15 out and add Dumb And Dumber. I don't know how that happened.

Got it.
 
Gotta thank Bee for sizing it down for me. I couldn't get the file size under 5000 :grumpy:

"You cahn shee hearah the Death Schtarrr orbiting the fohrrrrresttt mooooon of Endorrrrr."
 
1. The Ice Storm
2. Beautiful Girls
3. Boiler Room
4. LA Story
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Star Wars
7. St Elmo's Fire
8. The Royal Tenenbaums
9. Singles
10. Dazed and Confused
11. Girl Interrupted
12. The Life Aquatic
13. Revenge of the Sith
14. Rushmore
15. Waiting For Guffman
16. Better Off Dead
17. Best In Show
18. Ghost World
19. Real Genius
20. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
21. Lost and Delirious
22. Happiness
23. Man On The Moon
24. Wall Street
25. Dirty Dancing II: Havana Nights ( :coocoo: :help: )


This was a lot harder than I thought. :huh:
 
It's interesting how some people are posting Revenge of the Sith over Jedi on their lists. Apart from some of it's flaws, I'm starting to feel like Sith is as good or better than Jedi.

I know, I know, Jedi has Jabba, the best space battle ever, Luke/Vader II, and muthafuckin' Ackbar, but Sith's overall story and Palpy are insanely good.

If Anakin/Padme had some decent dialogue, the Rebellion deleted scenes were in the movie, and Mace didn't go out like a bitch, Sith would be, hands down, better than Jedi. :up:
 
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I am utterly disappointed in the lack of American History X in this thread.

Just an incredible film.

The story is incredible, the acting is SUPERB(Edward Norton was straight robbed of an Oscar that year, 1998), the filming is phenomenal(flashbacks in b&w and present in color), the direction is phenomenal, everything is brilliant.

I think the word 'powerful' is a word that is tossed around too often when describing films, but in this case, it's completely accurate. This film is absolutely one of the most powerful I've seen, in the truest sense of the word.

I know this is all subjective, so I'm not going to sit here and say you're all wrong for not including it - that would be silly.

But I am surprised that no one has included it yet.

:tsk:
 
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