The RLLMUK Top 100 Favourite Films poll

[Sabreman]

Bah. Increasing it to 15 actually makes it much harder! My top 10 are pretty much set in stone - all of them have essentially been in there since I first saw them, so I never have to think twice about that list. When you get to add in another 5 all kinds of things charge in, jostling for position.

I've got some thinking to do

[Goose]

You can do it!

Good to have you back, btw!

[kamaran]

great idea, thanks for doing this fishy. Any chance you can publish the top 50 when your done?

My list:

Film 1 - Gladiator

Film 2 - Forrest Gump

Film 3 - Goodfellas

Film 4 - Shawshank Redemption

Film 5 - Transformers the Movie 1986

Film 6 - The Prestige

Film 7 - Kingdom of Heaven

Film 8 - Batman Begins

Film 9 - Blow

Film 10 - Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers

Film 11 - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Film 12 - A Beautiful Mind

Film 13 - Napoloeon Dynamite

Film 14 - Star Wars II - Attack of the clones

Film 15 - Stand By Me

[Kelthink]

1) Army of Darkness

2) Monty Python & The Holy Grail

3) Beavis & Butthead do America

4) City of God

5) It's a Wonderful Life

6) A Clockwork Orange

7) Leon

The Incredibles

9) The Truman Show

10) BaseketBall

11) Sin City

12) The Breakfast Club

13) Wayne's World 2 (Just edges it past the sequel)

14) Trading Places

15) The Naked Gun

Not sure about the order. Except 1), like. I forget a lot and just went through other people's lists, to be fair.

[acidbearboy]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

2. Akira

3. American Beauty

4. Blade Runner (Directors Cut)

5. Dawn Of The Dead (Original)

6. Donnie Darko (Directors Cut)

7. Enter The Dragon

8. Lost In Translation

9. Star Wars Trilogy (Original)

10. The Matrix

11. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

12. Lord Of The Rings

(I guess it will have to be Fellowship over Towers, I wasn't keen enough on King to include the full trilogy)

13. Princess Mononoke

14. The Beach

15. The Ring (US Remake)

I'm not into films a great deal but the first 10 I think are pretty special. The extra 5 were a lot harder to choose, there are probably another 5 that could be swapped in in their place. I also feel like I'm missing something, like a film that made me laugh hard all the way through. I'll be damned if I can think of what it was though.

[Isaac]

It is depressing how many people are putting The Matrix.

Anyway, in no particular order (a few recent films are probably there because they are fresh in my head),

1) Waking Life

2) The Lives Of Others

3) Dead Man's Shoes

4) Rocky

5) Pulp Fiction

6) Threads (Although not Hollywood, and made-for-TV, I count it as a film)

7) Infernal Affairs

Battle Royale

9) The Big Lebowski

10) Toy Story (the best family film ever made imo)

11) It's a Wonderful Life

12) Lost In Translation

13) Trainspotting

14) Monty Python and The Holy Grail

15) This Is England

[Guest]

1. Ghost Dog

2. The Godfather

3. Lost in Translation

4. The Godfather Part 2

5. Terminator 2

6. Rocky IV

7. American Psycho

8. Fight Club

9. Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

10. Die Hard

11. Batman Begins

12. The Motorcycle Diaries

13. Dead Man

14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

15. Uncle Buck

[Rsdio]

Performance

12 Angry Men

Robocop

Taxi Driver

Aliens

Terminator 2

Dr. Strangelove

Big Lebowski

Blue Velvet

Full Metal Jacket

The Wicker Man (the original, obviously)

Mean Streets

Don't Look Now

Chinatown

Once Upon A Time In The West

I had a hard time whittling it down from twenty, I had to take out a Tarkovsky film when I remembered Robocop which was quite a nice contrast. I pretty much grew up with these so although I've seen many films that might better some of them since it'll probably be a few years before they can really displace them from the list.

[Vemsie]

Shit. I've just seen Pan's Labyrinth and that made a huge impression. Astoundingly beautiful movie that perhaps deserves a place in my list.

[Sabreman]

Beware the honeymoon period! It's why The Fountain isn't up for consideration in my list. Too soon

[cistm_k0nfliqt]

Aladdin

Back to the Future

Contact

Ferris Beuller's Day Off

Goodfellas

Heat

MiB

New Police Story

Office Space

Oldboy

Predator

Rushmore

The Godfather: Part II

This Is Spinal Tap

Toy Story 2

[Mr Do 71]

It is depressing how many people are putting The Matrix.

Everyone has their own tastes, it would be a boring world if everyone was the same. Thankfully I'm not wanking over The Big Lebowski, which is popping up a lot

[CrispinG]

Beware the honeymoon period! It's why The Fountain isn't up for consideration in my list. Too soon

Oh, not you too.

[Mr Do 71]

Film 01 - Blade Runner (Director's Cut)

Film 02 - The French Connection

Film 03 - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Film 04 - Heat

Film 05 - American Graffiti

Film 06 - Two Way Stretch

Film 07 - Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Film 08 - Groundhog Day

Film 09 - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Film 10 - Amelie

Film 11 - Dawn Of The Dead (Original)

Film 12 - Enemy Of The State

Film 13 - The Train

Film 14 - Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)

Film 15 - 2001: A Space Odyssey

[Sabreman]

Oh, not you too.

Sorry

I think it's a wonderful film.

[Silent Runner]

1. The Life of Brian

2. Broadway Danny Rose

3. Dumb & Dumber

4. The Jungle Book (The cartoon)

5. Star Wars

6. Robocop

7. Raiders of The Lost Arc

8. Romper Stomper

9. Take the Money and Run

10. Hannah and her Sisters

11. Airplane

12. The Commitments

13. Heathers

14. Back To the Future

15. South Park- Bigger, longer and uncut

[ghosted]

1. Fight Club - The final scene may be a little hard to swallow but the entirety of the film is pure poetry.

2. Battle Royale - Squeaky Japs on an island with guns. I wish I'd thought of that.

3. The Shawshank Redemption - Five-Hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile.

4. Go - It's a lot of fun despite having a ex-Grange Hill actor in it.

5. Casualties of War - Mickey J Fox proving he's more than jsut a sidekick to science-bothering mentalists.

6. Star Wars - No brainer really.

7. Unforgiven - A real insight into the concept of murder and what it really means. An awesome anti-western western.

8. Terminator 2 - The bad guy came back as a good guy - and Robert Patrick was an awesome casting

9. Platoon - War

10. A Perfect World - On paper, it's about a padeophile kidnapping a kid - in reality it's a feel good film

11. Forest Gump - I must had me about fifteen Dr Peppers

12. Crash - A simple, if protracted, take on racism that had me close to crying (almost cost me man points)

13. The Wrong Trousers - Wallace and Gromit for pity's sake. Shove Akira an all that faffy animation up your bum.

14. Leon - A hitman and ickle Portman - enough said

15. Dunston Checks In - A kleptomaniac ape loose in a hotel run by George Costanza - brilliance

[Mr Do 71]

1. Dunston Checks In

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13. Dunston Checks In

14. Gorillas In The Mist

15. Dunston Checks In

[CrispinG]

Got a chuckle out of me.

[Corleth the Fey]

Some films :-

1. Blue Velvet

2. Robocop

3. Star Wars Ep IV

4. The Black Hole

5. Commando

6. Predator

7. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

8. Dr Strangelove

9. Willow

10. Ghostbusters

11. The Life Aquatic

12. Mad Max

13. Re-Animator

14. Aliens

15. Double Indemnity

I made this list without reading the rest of the thread - in case I was influenced!

[Mr Do 71]

4. The Black Hole

Ooooh, I really want to see that now. Along with, The Parallax View, from someone else's list.

[Corleth the Fey]

Ooooh, I really want to see that now. Along with, The Parallax View, from someone else's list.

I prefer it to Star Wars. I love my DVD.

[Mr Do 71]

Whoops! Wrong thread.

[Anger]

True Romance

Halloween

Assault on Precinct 13

Escape From New York

Do the Right Thing

25th Hour

Suspiria

Lovers of the Arctic Circle

Before Sunrise

Before Sunset

Happiness

Mystery Train

Lost Highway

Taxi Driver

Badlands

That's in no particular order. And I'd probably come up with a different list of 15 if you asked me a month later.

[noizu]

Ooooh, I really want to see that now. Along with, The Parallax View, from someone else's list.

Parallax View is great, all paranoid moody conspiracy stuff. It's so well directed.

And it has the voice of KITT in it!

[Hemzoozlefluff*]

EDIT: Now 15!

1 The Ice Storm

2 Amelie

3 Perfect Blue

4 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

5 Sex and Lucia

6 LOTR trilogy

7 American Beauty

8 Heavenly Creatures

9 The Secret Garden

10 South Park- Bigger, longer and uncut

11 Blue Velvet

12 Heathers

13 Garden State

14 Little Shop of Horrors

15 The Life of Brian

[therev]

1. The Wicker Man (Original)

2. Star Wars (series - Empire is favourite)

3. Indiana Jones (series - Raiders is favourite)

4. Army of Darkness

5. Brazil

6. Vertigo

7. Jason X

8. Blade Runner

9. Alien (series - Aliens is favourite)

10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

11. Bad Santa

12. The Godfather (series - Part II is favourite)

13. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc

14. Moulin Rouge!

15. Twelve Monkeys

[mash]

1. The Wicker Man (Original)

2. Star Wars (series - Empire is favourite)

3. Indiana Jones (series - Raiders is favourite)

4. Army of Darkness

5. Brazil

6. Vertigo

7. Jason X

8. Blade Runner

9. Alien (series - Aliens is favourite)

10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

11. Bad Santa

12. The Godfather (series - Part II is favourite)

13. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc

14. Moulin Rouge!

15. Twelve Monkeys

How the frig does one go from Jason X to The Passion of Joan of Ark?

It'd be like having

Weekend at Bernies and Jules et Jim

in the same list.

:lol:

[polygon_monkey]

1- Ghostbusters

2 - The Royal Tenumbaums

3 - Predator

4 - The Thing

5 - The Life Aquatic

6 - Terminator 2

7 - The Abyss

8 - Hani Bi

9 - Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

10 - Aliens

11 - Dr Strangelove

12 - Amelie

13 - The Shawshank Redemption

14 - Children of Men

15 - The Big Lebowski

[Pekoe]

Jean De Florette

Manon Des Sources

Time Bandits

Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind

North By Northwest

Godfather pt2

Being John Malkovich

Princess Mononoke

Fight Club

Watership Down

Goodfellas

Cyrano De Bergerac ( subtitled )

Once Upon A Time In America

Kingpin

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou