which is your favourite: Film from the current top 50 on IMDB?

[L2R]

yeah this is a ever changing list but there are regulars that have stayed on it for years. there will inevitably be some fad of the month temporarily there but that can be said of any time. so without further adieu.

 

[Rated E]

A Clockwork Orange.

 

[EJ]

It's sad to see Lawrence of Arabia slowly, but surely slide down the list. It was in the top 20 not that long ago. It is my favourite movie of all-time, so it obviously got my vote.

As a matter of fact, 8 of my top 10 are in that list. Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction, LOTR Trilogy (I count them as a single work, as they were all done in one go), The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gandhi complete my top 10.

 

[panic_the_digital]

Dr. Strangelove, but Fight Club was a close second.

 

[junctionalfunkie]

Wow, tough list...

I went with Apocalypse Now.

For anyone who doesn't read Italian:

buoni, il brutto, il cattivo = The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

c'era una volta il west = Once Upon a Time in the West

 

[Feels]

It's a pretty awful list, half those films are total shite. A Clockwork Orange is the best film in there.

 

[AmorRoark]

Tough to choose between Seven Samurai, It's a Wonderful Life & Dr. Strangelove. I had to go with It's a Wonderful Life though ultimately.

 

[Infinite Jest]

NxNW, ahead of Apocalypse Now and Taxi Driver.

 

[XiolaBleu]

Taxi Driver. Though I sadly have to admit there are quite a few on there that I haven't seen. All That Jazz is still my fav though.

 

[L O V E L I F E]

the shawshank redemption, pulp fiction, godfather, godfather II, schindler's list, in that order, are my five favorite films of all time.

from OFF the menu, i'd go with 25th hour, kramer vs. kramer, closer, a bronx tale, and who's afraid of virginia woolf.

 

[L2R]

i'm having a real tough time picking from this list.

 

[Max Power]

Fight Club.

Tough call though, some fantastic movies up there.

 

[Rated E]

Fight Club and Clockwork Orange have some similarities in the themes they touch on, now that I think about it. Maybe only in a vague way I guess.

 

[Feels]

hm not really, clockwork orange is about alex being mind controlled by the gov't and how man ceases to be truly human if he "is not capable of moral choice" to quote one of the characters in the film. fight club is more about masculinity, consumerism, postmodern malaise, etc.

 

[Rated E]

Well like I said, "vaguely".

They both touch on psychological disorder. Clockwork on the fixing of it and Fight Club on the creation of it.

They both centre around a single, young adult male.

They both touch on an alienation from mainstream society and subsequent attempts to fit in.

 

[AmorRoark]

who's afraid of virginia woolf.

So underrated. I've probably seen it 10x. Great film.

 

[EA-1475]

Surprising that Gone With The Wind is not on there. Of the ones listed, I was torn between two Hitchcocks (NBNW and Vertigo) and two Billy Wilders (Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity).
I went with Double Indemnity.

 

[L O V E L I F E]

who's afraid of virginia woolf

So underrated. I've probably seen it 10x. Great film.

Gun at my head, it's the best acting (based on the acting of the entire cast) of any film I've ever seen.

I can't believe how long it took until it FINALLY fell into my lap at like 5:00 a.m., flipping channels during the comedown during one early Sunday morning back in 2003, hanging out in my apartment with a Bluelighter, who, unfortunately, doesn't post here much anymore, by the name of Sara Tonin.

I've probably re-watched it 7 or 8 times myself.

An absolute must-see, in my opinion.

 

[EJ]

I may or may not be showing my shallowness here, but I don't like describing or categorizing films all that much, even in a very general way.

For example, I would say A Clockwork Orange "is about" the way you can't change how a person is and how they think. But really, I look for even more simplicity than that in film.

Another example. I once let myself get into an argument over the merits of Full Metal Jacket. The other guy was saying something like "It's essentially about how hard it is to perform a mercy killing, something that Aliens accomplished in a 2 minute scene." I was like, "What?". And I guess that's why I don't like looking for meaning in just about every movie I see, i.e. I don't want to presume to know what the director intends, as it can often negatively affect my judgement.

That could certainly just be me and my still developing appreciation for film (and I hope it keeps developing for a long, long while yet), but that's how I am at the moment.

 

[auto238367]

Tough to choose between Seven Samurai, It's a Wonderful Life & Dr. Strangelove. I had to go with It's a Wonderful Life though ultimately.

I thought you were the perfect women.

I voted for Seven Samurai.