The Greatest Movies You Have Ever Seen

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:37 pm

Why not?

Make a list (10, 25, 50, hell 100) of the greatest movies you have ever seen.

Or just a couple. The first few that come to mind.

I am making a top 50. Straight up. No frills. Best movies I've ever seen. The more frequent posters in CYE (drizzle, StormShadow, Andvil, Ice, I am looking at you) should do something similar.

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:21 am

well this should be interesting

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:25 am

well that post was interesting

antwonskee · Post by **antwonskee** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:45 am

Casino - subconsciously I think I just like seeing Lester getting beat the fuck up.

Crash was dope too because I'm deep like that.

Money Gripp · Post by **Money Gripp** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:58 am

Movies in the canon of "Great Films" that I considered great upon viewing

(In no particular order - I am not qualified to rank them)

Paths of Glory
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Third Man
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
2001: A Space Odyssey
Amadeus
Vertigo
Chinatown
The Godfather
Dr. Strangelove
Pulp Fiction
Apocalypse Now
Breaking the Waves
Malcolm X
Goodfellas
The Conversation

There are plenty of so-called great movies I've seen that didn't do anything for me (Citizen Kane, The Conformist, Blade Runner) and also plenty of films that are recognized as great that I have yet to see.

Masked Terror #1 · Post by **Masked Terror #1** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:04 am

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:05 am

8 1/2
400 Blows
Citizen Kane
Grapes of Wrath
Persona
The Mirror
Godfather Part 2
Raging Bull
Seven Samurai
The Thing
Playtime
Band of Outsiders
2001 A Space Odyssey
Jules & Jim
The Bicycle Thieves
Apocalypse Now
Rear Window
Malcolm X
Godfather Part 1
Taxi Driver
The Wild Bunch
Alien
La Strada
Faces
It's A Wonderful Life
Sunset Blvd.
Army of Shadows
Goodfellas
Ran
Atalante L
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Pulp Fiction
Hoop Dreams
Barry Lyndon
Wild Strawberries
La Samurai
Full Metal Jacket
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Last Emperor
A History of Violence
City of God
Ivan the Terrible Part 1
The Sacrifice
Beware of a Holy Whore
The Third Man
Die Hard
Empire Strikes Back
Ikiru
Umberto D

Apathwhy · Post by **Apathwhy** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:06 am

Here's my top 5:

City of God
Godfather II
Once Upon a Time in the West
Patton
Goodfellas

Moolah · Post by **Moolah** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:11 am

Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Jackass 2
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Seven
Fight Club
12 Monkeys
American History X
Primal Fear
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Snatch
The Dark Knight
Sin City
Office Space
Predator
Endless Summer 2
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Happy Gilmore
Dumb and Dumber
Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls
Billy Madison
Forrest Gump
Memento
Clerks
Universal Soldier
The Hot Chick
2001: A Space Odyssey
Scary Movie 2
Don't be a Menace
Boyz 'N The Hood
Scarface
Jurassic Park
Groundhog Day
Ghostbusters
Team America: World Police
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
About Schmidt
The Lion King
Face Off
Con Air
The Rock
Bad Boys
Kickboxer
Under Siege

Movies made before I was born OR take themselves too seriously are generally gay!

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:12 am

antwonskee wrote:Casino - subconsciously I think I just like seeing Lester getting beat the fuck up.

Crash was dope too because I'm deep like that.

dope list!

antwonskee · Post by **antwonskee** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:42 am

Andvil wrote:
antwonskee wrote:Casino - subconsciously I think I just like seeing Lester getting beat the fuck up.

Crash was dope too because I'm deep like that.
dope list!

was i supposed to spend thirty minutes conjuring up a list of every movie that I can tolerate to watch more than once so everyone can nod to themselves in agreement? scarface, goodfellas, godfather, pulp fiction, 187, basically any movie with guns, titties, and explosions.

sneed · Post by **sneed** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:53 am

Citizen Kane
This Is Spinal Tap
La Dolce Vita
Coming To America
Witness For The Prosecution
Hunchback of Notre Damn (1939)
The Conformist
The Good The Bad The Ugly
Psycho
Vertigo
Le Diabolique
Wages of Fear
I Am Cuba
Rambo: First Blood
La Samouri

I dunno, I can't think right now, so many fucking movies that I love, so many I've seen recently too. I can easily admit I've went through a transitional period in the past 3 years, really delving deep into cinema. I look back at my original dvd collection and scratch my head sometimes at things I thought were the shit. It's exciting to know that no matter how many great movies you watch there's a million more you haven't seen.

Simple Rock · Post by **Simple Rock** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:33 am

Usual Suspects
Godfather 1
Born Into Brothels - if that counts
City of God
Boiler Room
25th Hour
Born in East LA

Kalistoga · Post by **Kalistoga** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 5:53 am

can you guys post a little bit of why you consider those movies to be great? i haven't seen them all and your reasons might persuade me to check them out...

Kalel · Post by **Kalel** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:09 am

Blade Runner
Swingers
Clerks
Akira
Friday
Menace II Society
The Goonies
Terminator 2
New Jack City
War Games
Tron
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Jurassic Park
Do The Right Thing
Bad Boys
Back To The Future
Friday The 13th
Sunshine
Happy Gilmore
Iron Man
Taxi Driver
The Breakfast Club
Mo Better Blues
Inside Man
Ocean's Eleven
Ninja Scroll
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Finding Nemo
Coming To America

I think that's about it for me.

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:24 am

SLING FUCKIN' BLADE

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:27 am

Moolah wrote:The Hot Chick

Really?

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:09 am

Moolah wrote:Movies made before I was born OR take themselves too seriously are generally gay!

I don't understand that first part. A lot of people are like that though. Why does it seem ok to read a book from before you're born, but yet people get turned off by films that are older than them?

I watch so many classics each week and not to study them or anything, I just find them to be highly entertaining.

Some of my favorite films of all time are:

The Apartment
Some Like it Hot
Sophie Scholl
Casablanca
Marty
Tadpole
Blackboard Jungle
Goodfellas
The Big Lebowski
The Graduate
and virtually every Woody Allen film which he stars in

I seriously could keep going with this list.

tehgiftofgab · Post by **tehgiftofgab** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:52 am

3,000 Miles To Graceland
The 36Th Chamber of Shaolin
The 40 Year Old Virgin
8MM
Airplane!
American Gangster
American History X
American Psycho
Bad Lieutenant
Bad Santa
Baseketball
Big Daddy
The Big Lebowski
Big Money Hustlas
Black Sheep
Blankman
Blazing Saddles
Borat
Boyz N The Hood
Caddyshack
Boondock Saints
A Bronx Tale
Cannibal! The Musical
Carlito's Way
Casino
Clerks
Clerks 2
A Clockwork Orange
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
Cheech & Chong's Still Smokin'
Cheech & Chong's Upin In Smoke
The Deer Hunter
The Departed
Desperado
Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo
The Devil's Rejects
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dog Day Afternoon
Don't Be A Menace
Donnie Darko
Dracula Dead and Loving It
Drunken Master
Enter The Dragon
Fargo
Fight Club
Freddy Got Fingered
From Dusk Till Dawn
Friday
Friday After Next
Four Brothers
Funny Games
Gangs Of New York
Gladiator
Godfather
Godfather Part 2
Godfather Part 3
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Goodfellas
Half Baked
Happy Gilmore
Harsh Times
Heat
History Of The World Part 1
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Hostel
House Of 1,000 Corpses
Hot Fuzz
How High
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Jackie Brown
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Johnny Dangerously
Kids
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
King Of New York
Knocked Up
Kung Pow
Kung Fu Hustle
Life
Little Man
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Nicky
Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
Lucky # Slevin
The Machinist
Malibu's Most Wanted
Mallrats
Mars Attacks!
Meet The Fockers
Meet The Parents
Me, Myself & Irene
Men In Black II
Menace II Society
My Blue Heaven
My Cousin Vinny
Naked Gun
Natural Bork Killers
New Jack City
Next Friday
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Ong-Bak
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Orgazmo
The Professional
The Protector
The Pink Panther Collection
Pulp Fiction
The Ref
Remember The Titans
Reservoir Dogs
Road Trip
Romeo Must Die
Rush Hour
Running Scared
Scarface
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
Serpico
The Shawshank Redemption
Shaolin Soccer
Shaun Of The Dead
Snatch
Spaceballs
Soul Plane
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
Stir Crazy
Superbad
Suicide Kings
Taxi Driver
Team America
There's Something About Mary
Tommy Boy
Training Day
True Romance
The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects
Vegas Vacation
The Wash
The Waterboy
Wayne's World
Wayne's World 2

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:00 am

ive said it about 20,000 times on this board....but crash fucking sucks. it is one of the worst movies i have ever seen. its a movie about racism for stupid people and if you like it you must be a big fan of the ellen.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:04 am

Crash (1996)>>>>>>Crash (2005)

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:06 am

^^^for realz

Website · Post by **Random Sample** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:08 am

1-100 - Out for Justice

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:09 am

I'll come back to this later, but for right now:

Straw Dogs
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
King of Comedy
Goodfellas
Badlands
Apocalypse Now
Godfather 2
New World
Bicycle Thief
Happiness
Sunset Blvd.
Singin' in the Rain
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Short Cuts
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
DEAD MAN
Fargo
Miller's Crossing
Malcolm X
Do the Right Thing
Grosse Pointe Blanke
Chinatown
Dead Man Walking
Discreet Charm of the Bougie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ratatoille
The Dreamers
History of Violence
Gangs of New York
Borat
Just One of the Guys
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Say Anything
Dazed and Confused
Nobody's Fool
Ice Storm
The Sweet Hereafter

BlACk EGO · Post by **BlACk EGO** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:30 am

Dan wrote:Crash (1996)>>>>>>Crash (2005)

i always try to tell people about this. awesome movie.

anyone who thinks crash (2005) belongs on any sort of list of greats is a fucking twit.

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:51 am

Surprised no one has said Lawrence of Arabia yet, one of the first that came to mind

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:14 pm

BlACk EGO wrote:
Dan wrote:Crash (1996)>>>>>>Crash (2005)
i always try to tell people about this. awesome movie.

cosigned like a motherfucker, car crashes + dirty fucking >>>>>>> car crashes + racism

cas are you looking for best or favourite? cause I know every word to Duel to the Death, but that's probably not even in my top 1000 as far as actual film making goes

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:21 pm

MY LIST IS THE BEST THUS FAR.

Website · Post by **Random Sample** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:33 pm

Trademark wrote:MY LIST IS THE BEST THUS FAR.

did you see my list?

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:37 pm

having a hard time deciding on a final order but here's my list for now:

speed racer