Greatest Movies of all-time?
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July 22nd, 2008
I’m sure something like this has been done before, but I like lists. Let’s go with top 3 greatest movies (though I know some of you will probably have to add a few more). I’m sick now, so perhaps I will have to go rent some of your suggestions.
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I think I must answer my own question.
1. Dead Poet’s Society
2. American History X
3. The War – with Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood
I’m not saying these are all-time greats in the artistry of movie-making, but they are some of my favorites:
Dirty Dancing
Breakfast Club
St. Elmo’s Fire
Footloose
Top Gun
White Christmas
High Society
...I could go on, but I’ll leave it at that.
I don’t think I know St. Elmo’s Fire or High Society. I’ll have to look em up.
Fight Club
Dazed and Confused
Clerks
The Shawshank Redemption
Amelie
Office Space
1.Meet Joe Black
2.Snatch
3.The Departed
I second Amelie, and also include
The Last of the Mohicans
Donnie Darko
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (and all the others)
Star Wars
Pulp Fiction
American Beauty
The Empire Strikes Back
Little Miss Sunshine
Blade Runner
The Shining
@shrubbery: The Emperor’s New Groove?
Oh shivers yeah you’re right bluemukaki, The Emperor’s New Groove is now added to my list. Thanks ;)
Plus I agree with you on Little Miss Sunshine and American Beauty
1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. East of Eden
Captain Ron
Big Trouble in Little China
American History X
Reign Over Me
Clerks 2
Dirty Work
Fight Club
The 25th Hour
Mon Oncle d’Amerique
Mindwalk
Bridget Jones Diary
Wit
The Color Purple
Training Day
The Devil Wears Prada
The Shining
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Shawshank Redemption
The Breakfast Club
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Blow
Amadeus
American Beauty
Velvet Goldmine
Magical Mystery Tour
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Godfather part 2
City of God
Finding Nemo
The Godfather part 1& 2
Lawrence of Arabia
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Gandhi
Malcom X
Its A Wonderful Life
Bullitt
Garden State
The Royal Tenenbaums
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Godfather I & II, A few Good Men, Bourne series = movies i can see again and again
North By Northwest
The Big Lebowski
Some Like It Hot
The Sting
Waiting For Guffman
West Side Story
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Last Picture Show
@breed Ooh, yummy list. I must look up Waiting for Guffman, though, which I have not seen.
Shaun of the Dead
The Incredibles
Snatch
(not the greatest movies of all time but definitely great movies that I can watch countless times)
To toss in a few that haven’t been mentioned yet:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Nightmare Before Christmas
King Kong
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Thin Man
Old Boy
City of God
Jacobs Ladder
The Shawshank Redemption
scarface
devils advocate
the godfather 1
pulp fiction
titanic
The Wizard of Oz
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Godfather
The Breakfast Club
Star Wars
Remember the Titans
The Shawshank Redemption
Running On Empty
Glory
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Born Free
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Braveheart
The Matrix
Fight Club
Snatch
I just watched Adam’s Rib for the first time the other day and I don’t know how I managed to live life without it. Awesome stuff.
guess i have to add that to my list now.
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