Best Films Ever.

I love a wide range of films, impossible to have a top ten, but filsm I consider great would be,

Brazil , great Terry Gilliam film, gets more relevant every year
Amelie , love a bit of french whimsy
Spirited Away, classic anime
Sin city
Watchmen, not universally applauded but thought it was at least different.
City of God, film about favelas in brazil
Casablanca, cant go wrong with Humphrey Bogart
Tora Tora Tora - best and factually accurate pearl harbour movie

 

Back draft was in my top ten, watched it the other day and now it just seems gay just like top gun and cocktail lol

 

My best films ever are :-

Lord Of The Rings (these are my fave films of all time)
Star Wars (all 6 - bloody awesome)
Unforgiven (really moving about how a man cant escape who he is no matter how hard he tries)
Dances With Wolves (absolutely brilliant music and story - shame about Kostner)
Last Of The Mohicans (best fight sequences in any film, plus my mate Mike was in it as an extra!!!)
Platoon (cool music and cracking story loosely based on Oliver Stones experience in Vietnam)
Dune (one of the best sci-fi films Ive ever seen)
Falling Down (brilliant and funny at the same time)
Pulp Fiction (same as above)
Sons Of The Desert (the funniest Laurel & Hardy film ever)

Thats my top ten. Missing are the Alien films which I love to bits, as well as the Matrix trilogy, Flash Gordon (bloody good soundtrack and Ive never got over my crush over Ornella Muti), Planes Trains & Automobiles, Dirty Harry films, the Bourne trilogy, The Good, The Bad & the Ugly, Dog Soldiers and The Descent. Im a sci-fi nut, but on looking through my blu-ray/dvd/hd dvd collection theres a lot of horror in there. Now I wouldnt have said I was a horror fan, but I guess I am!!

TV I'd say Game Of Thrones is the best thing Ive ever seen (Im biased as I love the books anyway ), the Sopranos (I love that episode Pine Barrens where Pauly & Christopher are lost in the woods - so funny), Friends (still good and funny even now), Bottom, Young Ones, Father Ted, Cold Feet, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf ( ), Just Good Friends, Dirty Sanchez, & Cold Feet.

Best rom-coms/chick flicks are The Sure Thing and About Last Night. The Sure Thing is really cheesy, but has some really witty lines in it.

Worst film Ive seen is probably Father Of The Bride. I watched 20 minutes and me and my mate walked out the cinema. We couldnt understand why the cinema audience were laughing, as I thought the film was soooo bad. Anything with Stallone is usually shite as well.

 

Just in case you were wondering who Ornella Muti is (any excuse for a pic!!! )

 

Oh just for you heres one of her "presenting"....

 

I've got quite a collection of DVD's (300+) and a few Blu-Ray's.

The favorite ones are (in random order):

Action
The Incredible Hulk
The Avengers
Pulp Fiction
Sin City
Gone in 60 Seconds (remake with Nic Cage)
Smoking Aces
300
The Score

Crime
American Gangster
Casino
The Godfather
Inside Man
Law Abiding Citizen
Shawshank Redemption

Sci-fi
Terminator
Alien vs Predator
I-Robot
American History X

Comedy
The Mask
Me, Myself & Irene
The whole 10 Yards
Shaun of the Dead
Harlem Nights
Anger Management
Oceans 11, 12 and 13
The Big Lebowski

War
Platoon
Shaving Ryan's Privates
Apocalypse Now
Enemy at the Gates
Rules of Engagement
The Alamo
Lord of War

Drama
Gran Torino
Good Will Hunting
Dances with Wolves

I may have missed a few, but there you go

 

Some good choices so far

Here's my top 10 in no particular order except for the number 1 slot
10-Terminator
9- It's a wonderful life
8- Mad Max 2
7-Shawshank redeption
6-Seven
5- The Matrix
4- Monty python and the holy grail
3-Saving private Ryan
2-Lord of the rings-trilogy
1-The great escape

These are my favourite movies but they are not the best thing that i have ever seen in either a cinema or at home.
That accolade go's to Band of brothers
In my opinion the best thing ever to be stuck on a blue ray disc, fanbloodytastic

 

This is my DVD collection

 

And my Blu-rays

 

Our collection is over 700 strong, so nearly caught up Herman . Will post my lists a little later after much thought . However an app on both my PC and synch with the ol' IPad called Movies CLZ. It does cost about £20 (bought mine ages ago, so don't quote me). Anyway it is a superb program, just zap in your barcode and all the movie details populate, along with the movie trailer. It even has a lent out section, so you know who has borrowed your copy of Confessions of a Window Cleaner 8 months previously .

 

Christ it is hard to make a definitive list. I forgot about Seven, Man On Fire, The Thing, 30 Days Of Night, Watchmen, Saw, Gangster No 1, Jackass The Movie 1 & 2, and of course all the Bond movies (I love James Bond. Silly films really, but enjoyable all the same).

Ive got the ultimate grumble flick on dvd called Virtual Blowjobs. Its the only dvd I own that has multiple angles, so you can switch from POV, between the legs/nut/hairy arse crack shot, or side profile of them noshing, all on the fly. I only kept it because of the multi-angle thing, although there are some cracking money-shots in it. But most bizarre of all, theyve got Directors extras. These include proper interviews with the "cast". And I do mean proper interviews. Fully clothed and not talking dirty, just a bit about themselves, how they got in to porn, etc etc. My mates wives/girlfriends returned back early from a night out, and they watched all these extras with great fascination. It really is bizarre to hear them talk normally, rather than the ridiculous monlogues of "yeah, oooh yeah baby, your so big" etc etc. Another reason I kept it & fought the wife over removing this said article from the house, is that I went through extreme and utter embarrassment in the purchase and repatriation of this dvd, and I'll be damned if Im going to get rid of it!!

 

Just checking if anyone would notice. Good boy Herm