1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2. American History X
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. American Beauty
5. Crash
6. The Wind That Shakes The Barley
7. A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints
8. The Last King of Scotland
9. V For Vendetta
10. Memento
11. Heat
12. Hard Candy
13. Donnie Darko
14. The Matrix
15. The Bone Collector
16. The Kingdom
17. Rescue Dawn
18. Lucky Number Slevin
19. The Prestige
20. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
21. The Mothman Prophecies
22. Kingdom of Heaven
23. Batman Begins
24. The Departed
25. Fight Club



Agree? Disagree? What are yours?

hard candy was interesting and ellen page is a really good actress, but she was way too over the top in that flick. 12 in your all-time list? also lucky number slevin was a POS. josh hartnett is one of the worst actors i've ever seen.

too late to come up with my list right now, but i'll put mine up later.

Umm yea, I dont know how I eff'ed that one up. Number Slevin was supposed to be 25. Yea, Batman is better, Prestige is better

Bolded I agree, Italics I haven't even seen. I'd have to add The Usual Suspects, Casino, Goodfellas, Scarface, Donny Brasco, The Godfather's, The Boondock Saints, Crimson Tide, The Last Castle, The Negotiator. I know I am missing more, and I lef tout some of the great comedies.

Bold ones I liked but didnt make...Boondocks, it was between that and Fight Club
The Underlined Ones I saw and did not like whatsoever

Wow not a fan of gangster flicks I see. That's too bad, I guess we can't be friends.

Alot of these movies are really good, but I'll have to say even the ones I liked I don't know if i'd have them in my top 25. Also one thing I noticed, you don't have any older flicks. Any specific reason?

Yeah me neither...lol...jk...

Nah, Im not too high on them...As a matter of fact Scarface and Goodfellas are prolly my top 2 hated movies

Oh I forgot about The Deer Hunter, and some of the other war movies. Deer Hunte was crazy good. Mau!

I've actually been meaning to buy that. I havn't seen it forever.

I might try to make a top 25 but I know i'll leave some stuff off and it's so hard to rank some of my favorites.

Umm, yea...The ones I did see I didnt like (Its A Wonderful Life, Wizard of OZ, Psycho (not Vince Vaughn version), among other.
And the ones I did see and liked werent good enough to make the list (Apocalypse Now,Clockwork Orange, From Here To Eternity, The Deer Hunter, Citizen Kane) among others
And the rest I havent seen but want to (The Grapes of Wrath, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind...so on)

Just by skimming over some of my older movies you should check out if you havn't seen them are, Platoon,One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Dog Day Afternoon, Chinatown, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly which is considered to be one of the best directed movies ever. Of course not everyone has the same taste in films, but these are pretty much all classics and i've never really heard anyone say they weren't great movies.

Liked them all, not good enough to make the list however

not a list, more like a pile. i'll order em later and trim the fat. but this is what i got after skimming my DVD collection.

The Godfather
Goodfellas
Requiem for a Dream
Fargo
Silence of the Lambs
Memento
American Beauty
Leon (The Professional)
A Clockwork Orange
La Vita e bella
Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
Usual Suspects
Donnie Darko
Die Hard
Se7en
Heat
Stand By Me
El Laberinto del Fauno
Trainspotting
Casino
Taxi Driver
Cidade de Deus
Sling Blade
The Exorcist
American History X
The Shining
Blade Runner
The Deer Hunter
The Matrix
Reservoir Dogs
Full Metal Jacket

I pretty much like every movie on this list other than El Laberinto del Fauno and Cidade de Deus which I havn't seen . The ones I bolded are the ones I own lol.

Billy Madison.

/End list/

A lot of good dramas here, but where are the comedies? I like The Godfather 1 and 2, Blade Runner,The Usual Suspects, Forrest Gump, The Natural,etc. But sometimes a good comedy like Wedding Crashers,Dodgeball ,Old School, A Fish Called Wanda, etc. really hits the spot. Not the most intellectually challenging movies, but great entertainment! Vince Vaughn is the King!

No Braveheart???? Thats the best movie ever, bar none. Can't believe it didn't make anyone's top 25.

Yeah I forgot about Gladiator, Braveheart, Troy! I also forgot about The Silence of the Lambs and Hanibal. Great movies! Old School, Road Trip, the Austin Powers all comical classics. Vince Vaughn is the King!

1. High Fidelity
2. Goodfellas
3. The Godfather
4. Billy Maddison
5. Christmas Vacation
6. Caddyshack
7. Shawshank
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Silence of the Lambs
10. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
11. Se7en
12. The Departed
13. Resevoir Dogs
14. Animal House
15. Ghost Busters
16. Batman (1989)
17. Back to the Future
18. American Psycho
19. American History X
20. The Big Lebowski
21. Groundhog Day
22. Across the Universe
23. Menace to Society
24. Young Guns
25. Field of Dreams

Terminator 2
Blow

1. 310 To Yuma (Original)
2. High Fidelity
3. Tombstone
4. Green Street Hooligans
5. Braveheart
6. 300
7. American History X
8. Mystic River
9. Donnie Darko
10. Boondock Saints
11. The Departed
12. Rounders
13. Sleepers
14. Reservoir Dogs
15. Office Space
16. The Last Samurai
17. Saving Private Ryan
18. Poolhall Junkies
19. Boiler Room
20. Pulp Fiction
21. Shawshank
22. Gone, Baby, Gone
23. The Hurricane
24. Training Day
25. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

3 of my final cuts. You are a man of great taste and sophistication as demonstrated with the movie listed at #2 on your list.

I only quickly looked through the lists, but I'm shocked if I saw correctly and The Boondock Saints wasn't listed... I know I'm different but that's my favorite movie...

And I obviosly am retarted, saw it on SMK's

Cool Runnings





I see Amercian Beauty on a few lists. I've seen that movie like 5-10 times just trying to see what everyone else loves about it because it is a lot of favorites, but I just can't say I like it.

I've thought of more to add: Snatch - Brad Pitt is hilarious in this one,Unforgiven, The Quick and the Dead (not usually a Western fan actually), Grosse Point Blank, The Right Stuff, Rocky, The Road to Perdition, Chasing Amy,This is Spinal Tap,So I Married An Axe Murderer (Mike Myers' best movie), Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2.

great acting, cinematography, script, score. perfectly executed dark comedy. only way i cant see anybody getting this movie is if you dont get the cynical, dark humor and cant relate to any of the following: dysfunction, existentialism, shallow consumerism, and alienation.
maybe deep inside you're offended by its satirical view of the typical suburban, american family with skeletons in their closets.

I thought the acting was great, I'll give it that. As far as the script goes though, it just really didn't do it for me.


Or maybe the bolded is the case in a non-concious way.

Crash?
American History X?
Hard Candy?

Really?

good list though

In no particular order and I'm sure I forgot a ton of great movies.

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Green Mile
3. The Departed
4. Tombstone
5. Mystic River
6. Office Space
7. Old School
8. The Last Samari
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Jaws
11. Road to Peredition
12. Anchorman
13. The Crow
14. Star Wars Trilogy (original 3 movies, not the last crappy 3)
15. Silence of the Lambs
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark
17. Field of Dreams
18. Animal House
19. Gladiator
20. Memento
21. LA Confidential
22. Se7en
23. Big Fish
24. Caddyshack
25. Braveheart

My addition to your lists'.

Black Hawk Down
Boiler Room
The Game
Sin City
Gone in 60 Seconds
Zodiac
The Bourne series.
Die Hard
Saw Series.

I struggled mightly through that movie. The acting was so cheezy, almost unwatchable. If you're gonna make a movie about tough guys, find some actors that make the role believable.

while i completely disagree.... to each his own haha i dont expect a new yorker to understand a movie in boston

Snatch was very good, but Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels was much better. Thats one of my favorites.

Layer Cake was very good too, great ending.

Snatch is good I've watched it once a week for the last 3 weeks

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I agree w/ almost all of the movies on here. I'd put a list up but it's pretty much bits and pieces of everyone's I've seen posted. Here's one movie I love for it's dark humor I didn't see posted.

Okay, I'll play, and keep it limited to movies I've seen:

Casablanca
Goodfellas
The Usual Suspects
Star Wars
All the President's Men
Raiders of the Lost Ark
12 Angry Men (original)
The Princess Bride
The Untouchables
High Fidelity
This Is Spinal Tap
Best In Show
The Godfather
M*A*S*H*
Animal House
Caddyshack
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Royal Tenenbaums
Waiting for Guffman
The Breakfast Club
Cape Fear (original)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
The Crow

1. After Dark
2. Jaws
3. To Kill A Mockingbird
4. Alien
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Full Metal Jacket
7. The Elephant Man
8. The Empire Strikes Back
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark
10. 12 Angry Men
11. Citizen Kane
12. Casablanca
13. A Clockwork Orange
14. Cinema Paradiso
15. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
16. The Big Lebowski
17. eXistenZ
18. Raging Bull
19. Jacob's Ladder
20. Bram Stoker's Dracula
21. The Deer Hunter
22. Bad Luientenant
23. Silkwood
24. The Shining
25. There Will Be Blood

I don't know how I forgot about American Psycho. One of my favorites as well. I even love the soundtrack.


Christian Bale is the best actor out there right now.

You saw There Will Be Blood, I am insanely jealous

I just watched Jacob's ladder for the first time and wasn't overly impressed. Maybe it's because it's a little dated, but that normally doesn't bother me. Also I need to re-watch Bad Luientenant, I was about 12 when I watched it.

I'm a film fanatic & could go on forever, but here are 25 in alphabetical order ...

Alien/Aliens

Amelie

Amores Perros

Apocalypse Now

Bound

Cinema Paradiso

City of God

Dead Alive

Dr. Strangelove

Edward Scissorhands

The Godfather

The Godfather: Part 2

Goodfellas

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Network

Pan's Labyrinth

The Producers

The Professional

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raising Arizona

Se7en

The Shawshank Redemption

The Silence of the Lambs

True Romance

Twelve Monkeys

Mine in no particular order:

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Four Brothers
3. 300
4. Remember the Titans
5. The Rookie
6. Crash
7. Rush Hour (all 3)
8. Star Wars (all)
9. Lord of the Rings (all)
10. V for Vendetta
11. Pearl Harbor
12. 61*
13. Happy Gilmore
14. Inside Man
15. The Departed
16. Armageddon
17. Bad Company
18. Black Hawk Down
19. Glory Road
20. Dodgeball
21. Transformers
22. Pirates of the Caribbean
23. Wedding Crashers
24. Sin City
25. Ocean's Eleven

I can't believe that no one has mentioned Airplane! or Blazin Saddles or Spaceballs or any of the older spoof movies. They are pure comedic gold and are tastefully done instead of the horrid ripoff spoofs like the Scary Movie Franchise.

One of these movies doesn't belong. Lucky Number Slevin was a laughably atrocious movie. It was cheesy and predictable and Josh Hartnett has the acting chops of a 7th grade after girls film club.

V for Vendetta
Heat
The Departed
Usual Suspects
Scarface
Casino
Goodfellas
True Romance
Godfather I and II
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
The Big Lebowski
Platoon
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Braveheart
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Dog Day Afternoon
The Abyss
Star Wars IV V and VI
The Patriot
Superbad
40 year Old Virgin
Me Myself and Irene
Pulp Fiction
Young Guns
Clerks
Suicide Kings
Training Day
Army of Darkness

I can't put them in order, it's just too hard, but here is a list of some of my favorite movies that I can come up with off the top of my head. A few of them aren't exactly Cinematic Masterpeices but more of just personal favorites.

With a couple exceptions (you'll recognize them) I'll avoid listing the movies that I think are the greatest movies and also are among my favorite movies (like Godfather II, Sunset Boulevard).

Some of mine have been mentioned. Very cool. /I'll try to cover those that haven't been.

In no particular order, numbered only for reference:

1. Used Cars - A better Robert Zemeckis fable than "Forrest Gump"

2. Midnight Run - DeNiro and Grodin should have made more films; NOT to be confused with "Midnight Express". This movie has everything except a love interest. Good.

3. The Wicker Man (1973) - Some b*tch about the music. WTF? Should they have been grooving to funk on Summerisle?

4. Black Christmas (1974) - The effect of this film has been watered down over the years by the proliferation of inferior imitations (like "Halloween"). But for better and mostly worse, this started "it" all.

5. Frenzy- Hitchcock's underrated penultimate film.

6. Phantom of the Paradise- With its early days of movies melodrama (and the overacting that goes with it) segments, homage to comicbooks and sly references to Hitchcock, Led Zep and The Alice Cooper Group this "Faust/Phantom of the Opera" send-up is not for everyone. But Paul Williams great pop score (with musical nods- chord progressions and lyrical references- to the aforementioned 70s' acts), DePalma's always expert pacing, the (decidedly 70s') humor and the story-line will suck you in if you let it. If you don't let it, then it will just suck.

7. Robocop- Fast paced clever stuff. Classic last scene.

8. Monty Python's Life of Brian- This movie is f*cking brilliant. Makes "Dogma" look like "Dogsh*t" (which I think it looks regardless; an overrated piece of crap and still Kevin Smith's worst movie).

9. Taxi Driver

10. The Magic Christian- This scatological retelling- and nationality altering- of Terry Southern's classic novel is not for everyone. It's inconsistent, infallibly British and features Ringo Starr in a lead role. But there are parts of this movie that will have lovers of irreverent humor tearing. Watch for an honour roll of Britain's funniest. And for Yul Brynner. And Raquel Welch. And....

11. Bedazzled (1967) - Not sure what the hell they were thinking 8 years ago, but 40 years ago there was a nifty little movie about an unassuming devil conning one poor trusting depressive schmuck. Sweet flick. If you saw the Hurley/Fraser abomination you owe it to the makers to see the original.

12. Harold and Maude- Hal Ashby's beautiful fable on love, death and life- not necessarily in that order.

13. Being There- Another Ashby fable. His last great film was also Peter Seller's last great film.

14. Tommy- Ken Russell's adaption of The Who's groundbreaking work is uneven like nearly all Ken Russell movies. But enough works and seeing the talent involved is amazing. I want Ann-Margaret to be my mom. YES- Even now.

15. Silent Running- Bruce Dern's outer space refugee thinks green, sees red.

16. Woodstock- Some prefer "The Last Waltz" or some lame Dead concert film (sorry Deadheads- you had to be there, dropping a good deal of Window Pane helped too). I'll take this time capsule filled with awesome performances and snap-shots, expertly edited with bursts of unexpected humor. ("What's it called?" "Port-a-san." "Cool.")

17. Five Easy Pieces- Saw this in 1975 for 50 cents (yeah- I'm old) on a double-bill with "The Last Detail" I think it was. (I know for sure I saw "Detail" on a double at the same place with "Cinderella Liberty".) I had recently begun expanding my writing in many directions. But my jaw dropped as I sat transfixed with a movie that seemed to have no linear narrative only character study. Of course the whole point unfolds in the movie's last 15 minutes. See it if for no other reason than to witness where Juliette Lewis ripped off every expression for her "fringe girl" persona from Karen Black.

18. MASH- I like his treatment of "The Long Goodbye", especially the clever final line. And "Nashville" is a classic. But this basically "sketch movie" is still my favorite Altman movie.

19. Chinatown- One. Of. The. Greatest. Movies. Ever. Made. "LA Confidential" wants to be "Chinatown" when it grows up.

20. Jaws- Quint's monologue is still the best scene in any Spielberg flick.

21. This Is Spinal Tap- I know these guys. I bet you do too.

22. The Fly (1986)- Great tragic horror story. As much as I dig his other work this is still my favorite David Cronenberg film.

23. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation- Depending upon which one it is, my girlfriend or buddies will say "That's you" in reference to Clark's scenes.

24. A Clockwork Orange- Because of the behavior it inspired in idiots and the subculture it birthed Anthony Burgess wished he had never written the book. I'm glad he did. Kubrik's color schematic (black/white/red) and modern art feel never worked so right. If this movie fails to shock you then you likely have become desensitized by mediocre grindhouse fare.

25. The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane- The human world is full of all different types of predators, with myriad motivations and of any shape or size.

OTHERS- Holy Grail; Star Wars (1977); Empire Strikes Back; Blade Runner; Die Hard; Terminator 2; The Warriors; The Driver; Slaughterhouse 5; American Graffiti; Dr Strangelove; 2001...