The RLLMUK Top 100 Favourite Films poll

[Beitel]

I must say I'm quite pleased to see that Eternal Sunshine is nominated that much.

[Hemzoozlefluff*]

I would have probably voted for it....if we had a top 20 or something...

[TGI Jesus]

1. The Running Man

2. Pulp Fiction

3. LOTR trilogy

4. Wayne's World

5. Dumb and Dumber

6. The Shawshank Redemption

7. Good Will Hunting

8. True Lies

9. Sin City

10. Star Wars Episode 1 (you heard)

11. American Pyscho

12. Happy Gilmore

13. Saw II

14. Casino

15. Kindergarten Cop

[Mr Do 71]

I must say I'm quite pleased to see that Eternal Sunshine is nominated that much.

Not seen that yet.

[FishyFish]

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:

Nothing wrong with either. Remember, this should be a list of people's favourite films, not of movies they perceive as being critically acclaimed, or well made (although it's not mutually exclusive). To use an analogy: Just because you might love dining in high-class restaurants, doesn't mean you don't enjoy a kebab every now and then.

[Graham S]

Nothing wrong with either. Remember, this should be a list of people's favourite films, not of movies they perceive as being critically acclaimed, or well made (although it's not mutually exclusive). To use an analogy: Just because you might love dining in high-class restaurants, doesn't mean you don't enjoy a kebab every now and then.

Even so, it's difficult to make an interesting list. I might love Purple Rain, or Field of Dreams, or the Richard Gere remake of Breathless, but it's hard to stick 'em on a favourite list ahead of Vertigo or Touch of Evil. They wouldn't deserve their spot in comparison to the classics. Even stuff like Seconds or The Andromeda Strain would look out of place. Which means my list would probably look a lot like the next man's.

But not the next woman's. Has Guitar Heroine only seen 15 films or something? That bloke who's only ever seen the hooligan movie ID and half of the St Bernard comedy "Beethoven" would make a better list than that. I must confess to a soft spot for Rita Sue and Bob Too, but the others... Sheesh.

Say, Crispin. I finally got hold of a DVD of "Yi-Yi" last month after wanting to see if ever since it first came out. It seemed really boring, I couldn't make it to the end, and sent it back to lovefilm. Did I do badly? What happened in the end?

[therev]

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

Well, they're favourites for different reasons.

The Passion of Joan of Arc is an amazingly emotional experience with incredible visuals that knocked me for six and basically redefined what I thought of cinema.

Jason X is just incredible fun and endlessly rewatchable. I can just put on at any time and by the end I'll be grinning like a loon.

And, as a list, it's just a snapshot. If I was making it now instead of this morning Robocop and Don't Look Now would probably be in there, in place of... well, I don't know. Oh, maybe Mary Poppins too, actually.

[mash]

Nothing wrong with either. Remember, this should be a list of people's favourite films, not of movies they perceive as being critically acclaimed, or well made (although it's not mutually exclusive). To use an analogy: Just because you might love dining in high-class restaurants, doesn't mean you don't enjoy a kebab every now and then.

Yes I know, it just seemed a little strange.

Just caught me by surprise is all. To use an analogy it'd be like someone having Beethoven's 7th and Daphne and Celeste as their choices for Desert Island Discs.

[SpikedJuice]

Right, putting my list down - I'll probably have to edit it (again) before the closing date:

01. Back To The Future (Part 1)

02. Blade Runner: The Director's Cut

03. Mission Impossible

04. Get Shorty

05. Batman

06. Jerry Maguire

07. Seven Samurai

08. Seven

09. Desperado

10. Heat

11. Pulp Fiction

12. The Matrix

13. Toy Story

14. Rainman

15. Bullitt

Films fighting to get in:

Akira

Shanghai Noon

Rocky Balboa

Minority Report

Fifth Element

Gladiator

Police Story

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Fearless

Saving Private Ryan

[Rsdio]

Just caught me by surprise is all. To use an analogy it'd be like someone having Beethoven's 7th and Daphne and Celeste as their choices for Desert Island Discs.

Funny you should say that, my uploads to Oink include Daphne & Celeste's album and a complete set of Beethoven's symphonies.

[emjay2kay]

4. The Jungle Book (The cartoon)

The 1965 (? ish) Disney film? I didn't know there was another film called The Jungle Book. They didn't do a shitty, live action one did they? I can't imagine the horror.

My list, anyway. This will surely change.

Film 1 - Goodfellas

Film 2 - This is Spinal Tap

Film 3 - For a Few Dollars More (I would put the entire "Dollars" trilogy in, but I'm not a massive fan of For a Fistful of Dollars)

Film 4 - Back to the Future Trilogy

Film 5 - Leaving Las Vegas

Film 6 - Pulp Fiction

Film 7 - Star Wars (Original Trilogy)

Film 8 - Dawn of the Dead (1978 (I think))

Film 9 - When Harry Met Sally

Film 10 - Assault on Precinct 13

Film 11 - Reservoir Dogs

Film 12 - Groundhog Day

Film 13 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Film 14 - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Film 15 - Heat

The "Roy Walker" Awards go to:

Die Hard; Taxi Driver; Zoolander; Swingers; Wedding Crashers; The Godfather (Parts I & II); Lost in Translation; The Terminator; Leon; Stand by Me; Lady and the Tramp; Toy Story; The Cable Guy; Casino; Aliens;

These aren't just all the films I've ever seen, honest.

[Meat]

Film 1 – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Film 2 – Manhattan

Film 3 – Mulholland Drive

Film 4 – Adaptation

Film 5 – Annie Hall

Film 6 – The Seventh Seal

Film 7 – The Sea Inside

Film 8 – Good Will Hunting

Film 9 – The Notebook

Film 10 – The Royal Tenenbaums

Film 11 – Garden State

Film 11 – As Good as it Gets

Film 12 – Terminator 2

Film 13 – Anchorman

Film 14 – Lost in Translation

Film 15 – Seven

[Magoo]

1)Big Lebowski - Great character comedy

2)Monty Python And The Holy Grail - Hilarious from end to end

3)Withnail And I - Like Lebowski only with paranoid and narcissistic leads

4)Once Upon A Time In The West - Savage fucking beauty

5)Easy Rider - Manages to be reminiscent of that era but not dated and quite unsentimental

6)Bubba Ho Tep - Not a great work of cinema but holds a special place and makes me cry

7)Dead Mans Shoes - A western set in northern England with neds, sweet

8)Star Wars: A New Hope - Great

9)Dr Strangelove - Quotastic

10)Lawn Dogs - See Bubba Ho Tep

11)Amores Perros - Balls, vitality and not a huge amount of subtlety but breathtaking

12)One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest - A great work of cinema, holds a special place and makes me smile

13)The Usual Suspects - Never miss it when it's on telly

14)Fargo - The atmosphere and acting means this was wonderfully realised

15)Night Of The Living Dead - Still the only horror movie I really like, and the ending of course

[Silent Runner]

The 1965 (? ish) Disney film? I didn't know there was another film called The Jungle Book. They didn't do a shitty, live action one did they? I can't imagine the horror.

Heck yes they did; starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli.

[Tetchy]

1) The Usual Suspects

2) Austin Powers: IMoM

3) The Warriors

4) The Wild Bunch

5) Akira

6) Where Eagles Dare

7) Mission: Impossible

Star Wars Episode 5: TESB

9) The Matrix

10) Patriot Games

11) The Untouchables

12) Lord Of The Rings: FOTR

13) Platoon

14) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

15) Escape From New York

[Jim Miles]

Here are "15 films that I like". If it was 50 favourites I'd still have as much trouble picking them.

Yeah, same.

One of the difficulties is that there are films that I could watch over and over and over again and still enjoy but there are others that I thought were fantastic the first one, two or three viewings but I just can't rewatch because I feel like I've got everything out of them that there is to get. The following list has a mixture of the two types.

1. 24 7: Twenty Four Seven

2. Princess Mononoke

3. Pulp Fiction

4. Quadrophenia

5. Celine and Julie Go Boating

6. Akira

7. Talk Radio

8. Glengarry Glen Ross

9. Citizen Kane

10. Dazed & Confused

11. The Empire Strikes Back

12. Hana Bi

13. Hoop Dreams

14. The Rules of the Game

15. Team America

Close runners up: The Lion King, My Sassy Girl, The Rock, Con Air, Die Hard, Only Yesterday, Muppet Christmas Carol

[Wallpaper]

1. Taxi Driver

2. Pulp Fiction

3. The French Connection

4. Dawn of the Dead (original)

5. Spirited Away

6. Godfather part 2

7. Total Recall

8. Lost in Translation

9. Reservoir Dogs

10. Full Metal Jacket

11. Robin Hood (Disney Animated)

12. The Shining

13. Withnail & I

14. Westworld

15. The Ipcress file

others that I had a lot of trouble not including.. Blade Runner, Running Man, The Warriors, The Godfather part 1, Akira, Matrix(1 not trilogy), Seven, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Shawshank Redemption, Enter the Dragon, Fight Club, Watership Down, Planet of the Apes, Transformers (original).

[Hawkeye]

In no particular order

Film 1 - The Godfather

Film 2 - It's a Wonderful Life

Film 3 - Blazzing Saddles

Film 4 - Star Wars: A New Hope

Film 5 - The Godfather Part II

Film 6 - Trading Places

Film 7 - Life of Brian

Film 8 - Platoon

Film 9 - Goodfellas

Film 10 - Grosse Pointe Blank

Film 11 - The Lion King

Film 12 - The Warriors

Film 13 - For a Fistfull of Dollars

Film 14 - Fletch

Film 15 - Stir Crazy

Once again if I did this tomorrow there would probably be about five changes.

[Paradigm]

So much Grosse Pointe Blank love

[Sun Tze]

1. 2001

2. Dr. Strangelove

3. Boiling Point

4. Zatoichi

5. Ghost in the Shell

6. Fargo

7. Akira

8. 12 Monkeys

9. Blade Runner

10. The Big Lebowski

11. Pulp Fiction

12. Heat

13. Lost Highway

14. Natural Born Killers

15. Metropolis

[lordcookie]

So much Grosse Pointe Blank love

Yet no love for A Matter of Life and Death

[faek]

1 The Royal Tenenebaums

2 Akira

3 Jackie Brown

4 Princess Mononoke

5 12 Monkeys

6 Oldboy

7 Ferris Bueller's Day Off

8 Apocalypse Now

9 Battle Royale

10 The Lion King

11 From Dusk 'Til Dawn

12 Commando

13 La Haine

14 Amelie

15 Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip

That's just a quick list from glancing over my DVDs. Probably change a few when I have a think but there's not really any glaring omissions I don't think.

[hauk]

Here's my 15:

1. Blade Runner

2. Escape from New York

3. The Godfather

4. Taxi Driver

5. Goodfellas

6. Star Wars

7. Blue Velvet

8. Midnight Run

9. Enter The Dragon

10. Total Recall

11. Fletch

12. Pulp Fiction

13. The Matrix

14. Raiders of the Lost Ark

15. Ghostbusters

[Jolly]

Heck yes they did; starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli.

I can't let this go by without pointing out that that's my name with a 'Lee' on the end.

Useless boring fact admitedly, but I always like to pretend I'm Bruce Lee's son.

[Andsom]

15 Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip

You can't be struggling to find 15 films so badly that you have to include that, surely.

[lordcookie]

Useless boring fact admitedly, but I always like to pretend I'm Bruce Lee's son.

I'm sure Jason Scott Lee also pretends he is Bruce Lee's son even though they are no relation.

[Couch Corpse]

I can't let this go by without pointing out that that's my name with a 'Lee' on the end.

Mowgli Lee?

[faek]

You can't be struggling to find 15 films so badly that you have to include that, surely.

Not at all it actually beat out a lot of very good films. I'm a big fan of Richard Pryor and while 'Live in Concert' is more recognised and praised ...Sunset Strip was the one I saw first and it had a lasting impression on me as a possibly too young child watching it with my dad.

[Andsom]

Not at all it actually beat out a lot of very good films. I'm a big fan of Richard Pryor and while 'Live in Concert' is more recognised and praised ...Sunset Strip was the one I saw first and it had a lasting impression on me as a possibly too young child watching it with my dad.

Not really a film though...

[Vemsie]

Mowgli Lee?

Best name ever.