The RLLMUK Top 100 Favourite Films poll

[Yiggy]

My current list is as follows. To be edited in the next few weeks.

Ikiru

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Leon

Aliens

Disney's - Beauty and the Beast

Back to the Future

The Nightmare before Christmas

Star Trek II - The Wrath of Kahn

Pulp Fiction

Memento

Se7en

Fargo

Groundhog Day

Ed Wood

Brewsters Millions

[faek]

Not really a film though...

Oh fuck off.

[SpikedJuice]

Can we add lists from friends who are not forumites?

[DonRumsfeld]

Film 1 - It's a Wonderful Life

Film 2 - Robocop

Film 3 - Oldboy

Film 4 - Mulholland Drive

Film 5 - Blue Velvet

Film 6 - Taxi Driver

Film 7 - Goodfellas

Film 8 - The French Connection

Film 9 - Deep Red

Film 10 - Evil Dead 2

Film 11 - Star Trek II - Wrath of Khan

Film 12 - Die Hard

Film 13 - Platoon

Film 14 - Herbert West Reanimator

Film 15 - Batman Begins

15 is just too hard to do, It'd be different tomorrow.

[SpikedJuice]

Sod it - here's my friend's list:

EDIT: Oh, ok, FishyFish rules ok.

[FishyFish]

Can we add lists from friends who are not forumites?

No! - there's going to be enough films to add up without getting friends and relatives in on the act.

Plus, it's the RLLMUK top 100 favourite films. If your mate want's in, he needs to join the forum.

[El Stevo]

Wow, there are a fair few John Carpenter fans about. And why not?

1. The Matrix

2. Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead

3. The Shawshank Redemption

4. Bound

5. Lost in Translation

6. Kill Bill (it counts as one)

7. The Chronicles of Riddick

8. The Bourne Identity

9. GoldenEye

10. The Fifth Element

11. Aliens

12. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

13: Dragnet

14: High Plains Drifter

15: American Beauty

[Sportello]

1) Jaws

2) The Empire Strikes Back

3) Godfather Part I

4) Godfather Part II

5) Pulp Fiction

6) Blade Runner

7) The Wild Bunch

Die Hard

9) Zatoichi

10) The French Connection

11) The Bourne Identity

12) Goodfellas

13) Chinatown

14) Leon

15) Alien...s

[MechE]

Film 1 – The Princess Bride

Film 2 – Vertigo

Film 3 – Aliens

Film 4 – If

Film 5 – Ghostbusters

Film 6 – Notting Hill

Film 7 – LA Confidential

Film 8 – Casablanca

Film 9 – Airplane

Film 10 – Ferris Buller’s Day Off

Film 11 – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Film 12 – Jerry Maguire

Film 13 – Grosse Point Blank

Film 14 – Amile

Film 15 – Fight Club

[Matt]

1. The Matrixz

2. Sin City

3. Reservoir Dogs

4. Clockwork Orange

5. Kill Bill

6. One Flew over the Cukkus Nest

7. Despardo

8. Pulp Fiction

9. Goodfellas

10. Batman Begins

11. Jackie Brown

12. Casino Royale

13. Akira

14. Layer Cake

15. Natural Born Killers

[Tetchy]

Mowgli Lee?

No silly. It's obvious that his name is Mr Heckyestheydid Starringjasonscottleeasmowg. Must be a sod for cheque books and credit cards.

[bowser123]

1. Goodfellas

2. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

3. Aliens

4. Fight Club

5. Terminator 2

6. E.T.

7. Die Hard Trilogy (Or the first film if I can only have one)

8. The Shining

9. Reservior Dogs

10. Magnolia

11. Silence of the Lambs

12. Fargo

13. Full Metal Jacket

14. Toy Story

15. Gremlins

Not sure on the order out of the first 3, but they're pretty much what I always say.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Raging Bull get honorable mentions as films that were in the list but edited out.

[mindgames]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
   
2. LOTR Trilogy (fellowship being my fave)
   
3. Die Hard Trilogy (The first being the best)
   
4. Robocop
   
5. North by Northwest
   
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
   
7. The Shining
   
8. Seven
   
9. Aliens
   
10. Terminator
    
11. American Werewolf in London
    
12. Close Encounters
    
13. Jaws
    
14. Prince of Darkness
    
15. Rear Window
    

Christ that was hard, I had 15 before I realised I had no Hitchcock ffs...

Wasnt sure if I could have Die Hard as a trilogy so have put an individual preference as well.

I will echo others in saying ask me next week for a totally different list!

[Jolly]

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

Well he wouldn't be pretending if they were related would he?

[Couch Corpse]

Brothers?

[lancashirebambaata]

Big Lebowski

amores perros

Leaving Las Vegas

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

The Thing

Commando

Robocop

Donny Darko

The Departed

Oldboy

Platoon

Usual Suspects

Dog Day Afternoon

A Room for Romeo Brass

Dances with Wolves

[Professor_k]

2. Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead

Buckwaits all round!

[El Stevo]

o/\o Boat drinks.

Ace film.

[Ork1927]

1. Goodfellas

2. The Godfather

3. City of God

4. Battle Royale

5. Last Boy Scout

6. Ferris Buellers Day Off

7. Catch me if you Can

8. Finding Nemo

9. Shawshank Redemption

10. Slapshot

11. Raiders of the Lost Ark

12. Trains, Planes and Automobiles

13. LA Confidential

14. Face Off

15. LOTR Trilogy

In no particular order bar the top two and it will be edited. Currently bubbling under - Die Hard, T2, Sean of the Dead, Empire, High Fidelity, Princess Bride, Fight Club, and probably loads more I'll think of later - Seven, Robocop, Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh

[superpretend]

Festen

My Neighbour Totoro

In The Mood For Love

Chungking Express

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

A Hard Day's Night

Monsters Inc

Back To The Future

Groundhog Day

Ed Wood

Stand By Me

Hard Boiled

Cinema Paradiso

Almost Famous

Memento

There's probably lots of old films I've totally forgotten about. Oh well.

[Tokatee]

bit late to the party, but oh well...

1. Mulholland Drive

2. My Neighbour Totoro

3. Star Wars

4. The Lion King

5. Rear Window

6. Blade Runner

7. Blue Velvet

8. Ace Venture: When Nature Calls

9. A Clockwork Orange

10. Fight Club

11. Spirited Away

12. Toy Story

13. Dr Strangelove

14. The Shining

15. The Royal Tenenbaums

[Sabes]

1. Shaun of the Dead

2. Evil Dead II

3. Back to the Future I

4. Back to the Future II

5. Big Fish

6. Grave of the Fireflies

7. A Clockwork Orange

8. Fight Club

9. 28 Days Later

10. Harvey

11. Hot Fuzz

12. Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

13. V for Vendetta

14. The Italian Job

15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

(in no particular order)

[marlonharewood]

1. Fight Club

2. Seven

3. Usual Suspects

4. Shawshank Redemption

5. Gattacca

6. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

7. Blow

8. Matrix

9. Back to the Future

10. The Big Lebowski

11. Mulholland Drive

12. Pulp Fiction

13. Superman 2

14. Memento

15. American Psycho

You can tell I'm a big David Fincher fan.

[doodie]

1 Perfect Blue

2 The Lion King

3 Kill Bill & Kill Bill 2

4 Heathers

5 South Park: Bigger, longer and Uncut

6 Drop Dead Gorgeous

7 Sin City

8 American Beauty

9 Nightmare Before Christmas

10 A Tale of Two Sisters

11 The Fifth Element

12 Spirited Away

13 Tank Girl

14 Adam's Family Values

15 Pulp Fiction

[chalkitdown]

1 - Aliens

2 - Die Hard

3 - Dr Strangelove or HILTSWALTB

4 - Grosse Point Blank

5 - Jaws

6 - LA Confidential

7 - The Matrix

8 - One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

9 - Out Of Sight

10 - Predator

11 - Raiders of the Lost Ark

12 - Seven

13 - The Shawshank Redemption

14 - The Thing

15 - Training Day

In alphebetical order, because trying to choose which is better than the other is just impossible, hell, narrowing it down to 15 was a hard enough task in itself.

[johnT]

Apocalypse Now

The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

Funny Games

Lost in Translation

Delicatessen

Fargo

Three Colours Blue

2001: A Space Odyssey

Pan's Labyrinth

Spirited Away

Seven

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

12 Angry Men

Taxi Driver

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[johnT]

Apocalypse Now

The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

Funny Games

Lost in Translation

Delicatessen

Fargo

Three Colours Blue

2001: A Space Odyssey

Pan's Labyrinth

Spirited Away

Seven

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

12 Angry Men

Taxi Driver

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I know it's all personal choice and all, but I can't help but think the finished list is going to turn out to be the kind of shit Channel 4 churns out - i.e. dominated by Hollywood films. I could probably throw in a few more foreign films in place of some of my selections above - like Va Savoir, Etre et Avoir, Uzak, Amelie, Russian Ark (if only for it's audacity of being filmed in one take), Monsoon Wedding (great meeting of Bollywood and western films), The Story of the Weeping Camel (very quirky but strangely compelling), but I won't in an effort to keep it balanced.

The more Haneke films I see, the more impressed I become by them. Initially they can be quite off-putting, especially the likes of the Piano Teacher, but they're all fantastic.

I'm hoping to see some more Tarkovsky films soon, I've only seen Ivan's Childhood, but I saw Soderbergh's remake of Solaris, and I got the original a few months back but haven't got round to seeing it yet. Hopefully I'll get a chance to see Stalker and The Sacrifice soon.

[Jim Miles]

I agree about the apparent Hollywood dominance but this is supposed to be about personally favourite films, not ones we solemnly consider to be "worthy". It's easy to look at some lists here and think that people are just in general ignorant of foreign cinema, but that is likely nonsense - people do watch foreign films, but do they enjoy them enough to make their top 15?

Statements such as this:

Russian Ark (if only for it's audacity of being filmed in one take)

suggest you might not quite be thinking in the spirit of the topic. Russian Ark is visually splendiferous and technically impressive but does being filmed in one take qualify a film for a favourites list? Maybe. I suppose it's subjective, but I think I more greatly value the opinions of people whose lists are made up of films they watch again and again and again and which hold special memories attached to the parts of their lives when they first saw them. Also, it's not as though Russian Ark was the first film to experiment with one single take (Hitchcock, with Rope, for example - though he was limited by technology).

I'm hoping to see some more Tarkovsky films soon, I've only seen Ivan's Childhood, but I saw Soderbergh's remake of Solaris, and I got the original a few months back but haven't got round to seeing it yet. Hopefully I'll get a chance to see Stalker and The Sacrifice soon.

I enjoyed Andrey Rublov. You might too.

[Vemsie]

I agree about the apparent Hollywood dominance but this is supposed to be about personally favourite films, not ones we solemnly consider to be "worthy". It's easy to look at some lists here and think that people are just in general ignorant of foreign cinema, but that is likely nonsense - people do watch foreign films, but do they enjoy them enough to make their top 15?

Very true, I've seen many foreign films and lots of films that are considered classics by the connoisseurs but while I'm impressed by many of those, I wouldn't call them my fave films. I could watch a film like Raiders or Lebowski each week and never get bored by them. Fun goes a long way.

[johnT]

I agree about the apparent Hollywood dominance but this is supposed to be about personally favourite films, not ones we solemnly consider to be "worthy". It's easy to look at some lists here and think that people are just in general ignorant of foreign cinema, but that is likely nonsense - people do watch foreign films, but do they enjoy them enough to make their top 15?

It's maybe a reflection of people's ages too, if you're younger you're less likely to pick foreign films, at least that was my experience. I'm quite fussy now with films, but I do admit I still enjoy the likes of Jaws, Indiana Jones etc.

I enjoyed Andrey Rublov. You might too.

Yeah, I'll be giving that one a go too.