BR top 100 movies

goonz

Right so on the back of the IMDB highest rated movies which rightly or wrongly rated Shawshank as numero uno, causing a few murmurs on BR, I thought lets have a BR top 100 movies list.

Will be interesting to see what the BR faithful find to be their top movie.

seanoconn

How does this work? One pick or as many as you like?

I don't have to compile my top 100 do I?

goonz

Errr i'm not actually sure, I did think it but clearly not planned properly!

seanoconn

May I suggest 1-5 picks. And a volunteer ( goonz ) to count the votes/nominations and arrange in descending order.

goonz

Sounds good. Go!

seanoconn

Only 5 picks! This is gonna give me a headache!



Hooper:You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody:What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail fin. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark will go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.


More to follow

drays

American Beauty
Pi
Se7en
Fight Club
Reservois Dogs

Dazza2280

The Dark Knight
The Shawshank Redemption
Grown-ups
Rocky (1, 2 and 6)
The Shining

simonhead

1. Usual Suspects
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Leon
4= Coming to America
4= Trading Places

Honrable mention - Ronin

afx237vi

Here's my Desert Island DVDs.

Double Indemnity



Gun Crazy



Night of the Hunter



Repulsion



The Wicker Man

john_kline

Performance
Bronco Bullfrog
Good Bad & The Ugly
Nil By Mouth
Blue Velvet

bompington

If you want to check out any Pixar films for consideration, Rick Astley says you can borrow any of his. Except for one - he's never gonna give you Up.

seanoconn

bompington wrote:

If you want to check out any Pixar films for consideration, Rick Astley says you can borrow any of his. Except for one - he's never gonna give you Up.

Jokes you make up yourself are always the best :roll:

bompington

And in other news: for the first time ever an internet forum user has just posted a joke he didn't make up himself!



PS isn't a grumpy putdown a bit of an anticlimax for the fabled 1000th post?


EDIT: OK, OK, I didn't do my research. Because to do that would have been REALLY sad.

disgruntledgoat

Grosse Point Blank
Before Sunrise
The Blues Brothers
The Big Lebowski
A Bridge Too Far

junglist_matty

Gangs of New York
Inception
Snatch
The Fighter
Home Alone

ballysmate

In no particular order and until someone posts something and I think, 'Oh, I had forgotten about that one.'

Shawshank Redemption
Outlaw Josey Wales
Zulu
Life of Brian
The Four Feathers.

My list may alter tomorrow, depending on mood.

ballysmate

I would also give Laurel and Hardy a category of their own for the pleasure they gave me when I was a kid, in particular, 'Bonnie Scotland'.

Bozman

In no particular order -

The Getaway, Steve Mcqueen.
Whisky Galore.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
Get Carter, Michael Caine.
The Train.

crispybug2

The Shawshank Redemption
The Life of Brian
Goodfellas
Dr Strangelove or how I learnt to stop worrying and love the bomb
Million Dollar Baby

Davdandy

seanoconn wrote:

Only 5 picks! This is gonna give me a headache!



Hooper:You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody:What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail fin. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark will go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.


More to follow

Also my number one movie and favourite scene.

Others are..............

Oldboy
Dawn of the Dead `79
King Kong `33
Phantasm

This is always hard to do and always changing.Tomorrow will be different again.Though i still rate the above extremely highly.

Hoopdriver

The Thomas Crown Affair (the original, with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway)
The Maltese Falcon
Pulp Fiction
L.A. Confidential
The Magnificent Seven

EKIMIKE

Forgive me for being a pretentious bellend but i'm going to suffer the indignity of posting 5 foreign language films (including some French):

Amores Perros
The Lives of Others
Tell No One
A Prophet
Biutiful (I think I love the trailer more though, and it's nice to see Bardem in a different role but still smashing it)

Not necessarily my absolute favourite films but it would be a boring thread if we all posted the same ones, eh. The Usual Suspects is one that sticks out that has been mentioned already. Keep them coming!

RDW

IMDB also has the 100 best picked by Time magazine in 2005 (alphabetical order, no ranking):

http://www.imdb.com/list/Kad6cGvk8aE/

Some interesting choices there (a bit less populist than the IMDB 250). Five I might go for (at least today):

Chungking Express
Brazil
Lawrence of Arabia
The Searchers
Some Like it Hot

finchy

Trainspotting, From Russia With Love, Ong Bak, Vertigo, Life of Brian

seanoconn

Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark



"Snakes! I hate snakes!"

alihisgreat

City of God
Dr Strangelove
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Apocalypse Now

Tom Butcher

In no particular order and with no particular thought

Get Carter
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Raging Bull
Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid

Missed the cut

Crouching Tiger
Dr Strangelove
A Better Tomorrow
Zulu
Italian Job

Oe nobody will pick (probably for good reason) I really like is ID and as a family film The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe stands
Comparison with classics like ChittyChitty Bang Bang, Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and other great films thst used to be on every Xmas when I was a kid.

mfin

In the name of the Father
Toy Story
Goodfellas
Leon
True Romance

(left out Donnie Brasco, Dead Man's Shoes and Star Wars)

bernithebiker

Heat - superb acting, action, etc. etc. and it's got de Niro in it.

Once - great music, and the chicks dig a guy in touch with love story films......

Meet the Parents - hilarious, and it's got de Niro in it

Aliens - looking dated now, but jaw dropping in 1986

Saving Private Ryan - by far the best, most realistic portrayal of WW2 yet.

(Did I mention Heat?)

seanoconn

The Empire Strikes Back