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Posted by Jack Gannon (Member # 9144) on :
 
1. The Burbs
2. Conan the Barbarian
3. Diggstown
4. Into the Night
5. Last of the Mohicans
6. Day of the Dead
7. Temple of Doom
8. Innerspace
9. Big Trouble in Little China
10.Cat's Eye

Its really hard to put into a list of top ten, the next time I watch somthing like a Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Bloodsport, Willow, Three O' Clock High, or a Quiggly Down Under I could change my mind about one of the ones on the list. But I will say that the my number one will always be the burbs, for whatever reason the movie really does it for me
 

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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
 
1. Casablanca
2. Citizen Kane
3. Blue Velvet
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. The Third Man
6. (tie) A Clockwork Orange
The Godfather: Part II
7. Sunrise
8. The Wages of Fear
9. Rear Window
10. (tie) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Brief Encounter

Near misses--at least for tonight
Pulp Fiction, The Wizard of Oz, Double Indemnity, The Conversation, Dr. Strangelove, Once Upon a Time in the West, Pan's Labyrinth, The Searchers, Psycho, and Star Wars.

[ 16. March 2011, 19:03: Message edited by: Crash ]
 

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Posted by The Pyromantic (Member # 7658) on :
 
1. Back to the Future
2. Night of the Living Dead
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Wizard of Oz
5. Jaws
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Aliens
8. Psycho
9. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
10. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Honorable Mentions (11-20)

11. Rocky
12. Ghostbusters
13. King Kong
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. Full Metal Jacket
16. A Nightmare on Elm Street
17. Gremlins
18. 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
19. Poltergiest
20. Monty Python & The Holy Grail


my favorites too are always changing...so this list is in no way etched in stone. But it's as accurate as I can make it for the time being.
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
1. The Karate Kid I, II and III
2. Once Upon A Time In America
3. Dracula: Prince Of Darkness
4. The Wicker Man (1973)
5. Rumble Fish
6. Batman Returns
7. Casino
8. Dead Of Night (1945)
9. Phantasm I, II, III and IV
10. Funny Girl
 

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Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
 
I can't do it. I simply can't boil it down to ten. There are about 50 films I would want to list, and any omission would be a sin.

[ 17. March 2011, 12:46: Message edited by: Logan 5 ]
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Spoilsport
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 
Helen, I know you think you can get away with that but I think some people might notice that you have listed 15 films. Nice try though. Ultra shifty IMO
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Ssh
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 
I think we need a thread/hotline called 1800 - whistleblower for your dodgy tactics


 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Yeah your dodgy tactics to draw attention to my cheat to take away from you not doing your own list. I'm onto you
 

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Posted by Jack Gannon (Member # 9144) on :
 
If you can count a series of films as one, I would say the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

You know of all the ones you guys mentioned I've yet to see

Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Blue Velvet
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Third Man
Sunrise
The Wages of Fear
Dracula: Prince Of Darkness
Brief Encounter
Pan's Labyrinth
Double Indemnity
The Conversation
The Wicker Man (1973) though saw Nic Cage one and wish i hadn't
Rumble Fish
Funny Girl
Dead Of Night (1945)
Saw the first Phantasm but none of the others

Pretty sure I saw all of yours The Pyromantic
7 Faces of Dr. Lao is that the one where the guy plays Dr. Lau and all the attractions in his carnival?
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 

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Originally posted by Helen_S:
Yeah your dodgy tactics to draw attention to my cheat to take away from you not doing your own list. I'm onto you

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I am much more comfortable criticising other people's lists
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 
Citizen Kane is getting alot of mentions and I know it is highly regarded, but IMO it's absolute vomit.

Jack, BTW, I love The Wicker Man '73. Fantastic movie. I have not seen the remake, but I read somewhere that it is now considered an unintentional comedy.
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
That's what I love about you, always holding back
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 
I cannot put it down to ten movies but if I did it would look like nobody elses. That's for sure. Caddyshack would be number one for starters. Weekend at Bernies might make the list too. Season of the Witch might make it if I was to do a top 5,000 list though
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Just do it and quit your whining
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 
Caddyshack
The Terminator
Stand By Me
Teen Wolf
Trading Places
The Breakfast Club - yeah I know
Dirty Harry
Jaws
Fletch
Thrashin'

Dishonorable mentions: Season of the Witch
 

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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
 
The Wicker Man '73 is a justly recognized masterpiece. The remake is probably one of the worst remakes of any film ever. And another bad Nic Cage film...

By the way, my Top 10 list is serious and not just put together to be a contrarian. I want to beat the drum to folks on here to move a little out of their comfort zone of yet another viewing of "Can't Buy Me Love" and just check out some of these amazing films, even if they aren't from the 80s. It may look like an off-putting high-brow list, but I think that many of you will find these to be great, enthralling, and entertaining films, even if "Sunrise" is a silent film (but it looks like it could've been filmed this past year) and "The Wages of Fear" has subtitles.
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
What a horrible smiley Bernie lol

See, wasn't so hard was it Nice to see you stepped out of the 80's 3 times
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 
I know my list sounds prototypical of this site but these kind of movies are the movies that I really do get the most out of. Or at least have got the most out of over the years.
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Have you seen A Cottage On Dartmoor Crash? My fave silent outside of the horrors. Great thriller.
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 

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Originally posted by Helen_S:
What a horrible smiley Bernie lol

See, wasn't so hard was it Nice to see you stepped out of the 80's 3 times

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Originally posted by Helen_S:
Have you seen A Cottage On Dartmoor Crash? My fave silent outside of the horrors. Great thriller.

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My favourite silent movie is Karate kid 1 through 3 with the TV muted
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Now this is an eyebrow
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 
Monobrow, you mean. It looks like my 6th grade teacher.
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
*Shudder*
 

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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
 
You two should take this comedy show on the road...
 

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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
 
my list

1. Escape from New York
2. Big Trouble in Little China
3. Conan the Barbarian
4. Batman (89) and Batman Returns
5. Wolf
6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
7. The Princess Bride
8. Back to the Future Trilogy
9. Mr. Destiny
10. The Dream Team

honorable mentions The Shawshank Redemption, The Missouri Breaks, The Survivors, and Holiday with kathern hepburn and carry grant
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Yay for more Returns love
 

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Posted by Jack Gannon (Member # 9144) on :
 
Helen S if you want more love for Returns, here it is. I think that Batman Returns was one of the best written and best directed Batman movies ever. Sure I like Batman 89 better, but how can you miss with Nicholson playing the Joker, Keaton as Batman?

However when you take a look at Returns you see that it takes in my opinion two of the weaker characters of the Batman franchise, The Penquin, and Catwoman and casts two excelent actors who play them so well they make them interesting. Also they took simple plot and created a cool, unique, interesting movie. And made in my opinion a masterpeice of film. And to top it all off, here is the cudegraw, Christopher Walken is an added bonus.
 

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Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
 

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Originally posted by Helen_S:
Now this is an eyebrow

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Some day I'll find out where you stash your avatars. Then your powers will be mine and the internet will fall to me.

I still think a top 10 for all time is impossible.

Despite this I still love you all.
 

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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
 
No, those avatars will be mine! "There is nothing that you possess that I cannot take away..."
 

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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
 
1. Contact

Here are 2-9(sometimes)but in no particular order....too hard to do!

Goodfellas
Fire in the Sky
Fire with Fire
The Game
Sneakers
Revenge of the Nerds
Donnie Brasco
Stargate
V (The entire series)

So many others can be added!
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 

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Originally posted by Jack Gannon:
Helen S if you want more love for Returns, here it is. I think that Batman Returns was one of the best written and best directed Batman movies ever. Sure I like Batman 89 better, but how can you miss with Nicholson playing the Joker, Keaton as Batman?

However when you take a look at Returns you see that it takes in my opinion two of the weaker characters of the Batman franchise, The Penquin, and Catwoman and casts two excelent actors who play them so well they make them interesting. Also they took simple plot and created a cool, unique, interesting movie. And made in my opinion a masterpeice of film. And to top it all off, here is the cudegraw, Christopher Walken is an added bonus.

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Cool stuff You know, I always loved Returns but I wasn't that into the 89 Batman when I was a kid. It was only when I gotten old that I fell in love with it.

Woo @ Donnie Brasco
 

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Posted by Zach (Member # 9459) on :
 
I personally think my list might get the award for most eclectic taste in movies. In no order of preference,

Duck Soup (1933)
Better Off Dead (1985)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
King Kong (1933)
Gremlins (1984)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Thing (1982)
Gojira/Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1954/1956)

Honorable Mentions:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

The Buddy Holly Story (1978)

North by Northwest (1959)

Halloween (1978)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Creepshow (1982)

How's that for diversity?

As you can see, I prefer movies made from 1990 and before. Although there have been some good and even a few great movies made since then (i.e. Napoleon Dynamite, Where the Wild Things Are, the British version of Death at a Funeral, etc.), they are few and far between.
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 

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Originally posted by 80'sRocked:
1. Contact

Here are 2-9(sometimes)but in no particular order....too hard to do!

Goodfellas
Fire in the Sky
Fire with Fire
The Game
Sneakers
Revenge of the Nerds
Donnie Brasco
Stargate
V (The entire series)

So many others can be added!

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Originally posted by Crash:
You two should take this comedy show on the road...

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Well this show aint free ya know!
 

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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
 
Tickets! Anybody? Probably stuck in a queue or something.
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
That's gotta be it.
 

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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
 

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Originally posted by Bernie_Lomax:
I love Fire in the Sky. I am not into UFOlogy but this is fantastic movie.

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Cool Bern. The book is even better! Obviously, I am a HUGE fan of Sci-Fi and Sci-Fact! lol. Love UFOlogy and the paranormal....
 

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Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
 
80'sRocked.. how did you skip a chance to mention "Contact"?
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Come on Valley, where's yours?
 

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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
 

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Originally posted by Valley:
80'sRocked.. how did you skip a chance to mention "Contact"?

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Hey, I listed it as number 1 all time!
 

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Posted by oneyedwilly (Member # 8730) on :
 
ten of all tiime - LOL Im not going near this one . . ill end up in a straight jacket!!
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Aww go on, even Bernie did it

Valley's ignoring me
 

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Posted by oneyedwilly (Member # 8730) on :
 

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Originally posted by Helen_S:
1. The Karate Kid I, II and III
2. Once Upon A Time In America
3. Dracula: Prince Of Darkness
4. The Wicker Man (1973)
5. Rumble Fish
6. Batman Returns
7. Casino
8. Dead Of Night (1945)
9. Phantasm I, II, III and IV
10. Funny Girl

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ROFL
i think you cheated here JUST a little Helen.
 

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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
 
Crash cheated too. How come people only pick out mine lol
 

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Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
 

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Originally posted by Helen_S:
Aww go on, even Bernie did it

Valley's ignoring me

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Originally posted by Helen_S:
Crash cheated too. How come people only pick out mine lol

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