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[Dr Frankenollie]

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[dvdjunkie]

Really nice list. Here's mine, in no particular order, but they aren't far from my DVD player:

1. Gladiator
2. That Thing You Do
3. Old Yeller
4. Lady and the Tramp
5. Remember the Titans
6. The Towering Inferno
7. Driving Miss Daisy
8. Dumbo
9. The Final Countdown
10. Twelve Angry Men
11. To Kill A Mockingbird
12. Shane
13. The Searchers
14. The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
15. Alien
16. Kelly's Heroes
17. Dirty Harry
18. Minority Report
19. Aliens
20. The Abyss
21. Avatar
22. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
23. Rocky
24. The Empire Strikes Back
25. Raiders of the Lost Ark
26. Jaws
27. American Graffiti
28. Goodbye Girl
29. Ghost World
30. The Caine Mutiny

[Dr Frankenollie]

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[PixarFan2006]

These are not movies I watched a million times, but are the ones I would not mind seeing again and again.

These are some that come to mind

1.Back to the Future (1985)
2.Toy Story 1-3 (1995, 1999, 2010)
3.Star Wars Trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983)
4.Pulp Fiction (1994)
5.King Kong (1933)
6.Psycho (1960)
7.101 Dalmatians (1961)
8.Jaws (1975)
9.Ed Wood (1994)
10.The Producers (1968)
11.Young Frankenstein (1974)
12.Rear Window (1954)
13.The Incredibles (2004)
14.Spider-Man 2 (2004)
15.Aladdin (1992)
16.Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1992)
17.Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003)
18.Planet of the Apes (1968)
19.Lilo & Stitch (2002)
20.2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
21.Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
22.X-Men (2000)
23.Up (2009)
24.Strangers on a Train (1951)
25.Monty Python & the Holy Grail (1975)
26.Forbidden Planet (1956)
27.Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
28.Lady and the Tramp (1955)
29.An American Werewolf in London (1981)
30.Singin in the Rain (1952)

[Goliath]

Good thing you asked for 30 favorite movies, instead of 30 best movies. That list would be much harder to compile. I haven't put these in particular order; just the order they popped into my head. I have purposefully excluded Disney titles.

01. The Godfather (1972)
02. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
03. Die Hard (1988)
04. JFK (1991)
05. Back to the Future (1985)
06. Pulp Fiction (1994)
07. American Beauty (1999)
08. The Usual Suspects (1995)
09. L.A. Confidential (1997)
10. Il Y a Longtemps Que Je t'Aime (I Loved You So Long, 2008)
11. Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei (The Edukators, 2004)
12. Io Non Ho Paura (I'm Not Scared, 2003)
13. Central do Brasil (Central Station, 1998)
14. Il Ladro di Bambini (The Stolen Children, 1992)
15. Bin-Jip (3-Iron, 2004)
16. Léon (1994)
17. A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
18. The Girl in the Café (2005)
19. Almost Famous (2000)
20. Thelma & Louise (1991)
21. Falling Down (1993)
22. Groundhog Day (1993)
23. 12 Angry Men (1957)
23. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
24. The Apartment (1960)
25. Rear Window (1954)
26. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
27. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
28. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
29. The Graduate (1967)
30. It Happened One Night (1934)

[Dr Frankenollie]

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[Duckburger]

1. Casablanca
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The Godfather + Part II
4. Citizen Kane
5. The Exorcist
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
7. Blade Runner
8. The Truman Show
9. Schindler’s List
10. Das Leben Der Anderen
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11. Psycho (1960)
12. 2001: A Space Odyssey
13. Chinatown
14. Sin City
15. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Arc
16. Million Dollar Baby
17. Amadeus
18. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
19. Beetlejuice
20. Poltergeist
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21. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
22. Pulp Fiction
23. Young Frankenstein
24. The Mask (1994)
25. American Beauty
26. Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
27. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
28. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
29. Singin’ in the Rain
30. The Piano
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31. Forrest Gump
32. Kill Bill, Vol. 01 + Vol. 02
33. Sophie's Choice
34. Spirited Away
35. Dead Poets Society
36. All the President's Men
37. Network
38. The Silence of the Lambs
39. Edward Scissorhands
40. The Sixth Sense

Last ten added as honourable mentions, also put lines in between each ten 'cause it reads a lot easier.

[Lazario]

My list will mostly be placed in chronological order, not of the movie's release year but of the basic time in my life when the movie became one of my favorites. To show the shift from childhood (the films you love because of that nostalgia, you know what I'm talking about) to teen years (the films you think mean more because you were attracted to them during this intense time in your life when you were becoming an idealist) to what I call the DVD years (where you not only discover movies you can't believe you missed during your teen years, but when everyone becomes a critic- with widescreen and retrospective bonus features, we get a much clearer picture of what the actual filmmakers were trying to do).


#1: Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Though, I'm posting this here not necessarily because it's the first movie I became attached to, it's because it is my actual favorite film. I already posted my reasons why and pics, etc(.), here:
http://www.dvdizzy.com/forum/viewtopic. ... c&start=18


#2: The Disney Years

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Fun and Fancy Free, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland

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Sleeping Beauty


#3: The Worst Witch


#4: Ghostbusters


#5: Batman
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#6: Catwoman
(I MEAN... Batman Returns)


#7: Clue
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#8: Oscar


#9: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead


#10: Gremlins


#11: Sorority House Massacre 2


#12: Hard to Die (aka- Tower of Terror / Sorority House Massacre 3)


#13: Dead Dudes in the House

#14:




Friday the 13th: Parts I-VIII


#15: Creepshow


#16: All Tied Up


#17: Clueless


#18: The Brady Bunch Movie


#19: A Very Brady Sequel


#20: Serial Mom


#21: Polyester


#22: Videodrome


#23: The Living End


#24: Phenomena


#25: Deep Red


#26: Opera


#27: Suspiria


#28: Inferno


#29: Tenebre


#30: Carnival of Souls

[Avaitor]

I made a top 50 a while ago. Lemme try to pull it out.

0- The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003)
1- The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
2- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
3- The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993)
4- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
5- A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
6- Shichinin no Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
7- Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
8- Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
9- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski & Bruce Timm, 1993)
10- X2: X-Men United (Bryan Singer, 2003)
11- Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
12- Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
13- Pollyanna (David Swift, 1960)
14- Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Sergio Leone, 1966)
15- Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
16- El laberinto del fauno (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
17- Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)
18- Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)
19- The Godfather Parts I & II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972/1974)
20- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
21- M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
22- Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
23- The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994)
24- Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
25- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright, 2010)
26- Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
27- Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
28- Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964)
29- North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
30- The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
31- The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
32- Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
33- Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1950)
34- American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
35- Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
36- It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
37- Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
38- Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953)
39- Dogma (Kevin Smith, 1999)
40- Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
41- Fantasia (1940)
42- 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
43- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
44- Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
45- Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
46- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
47- Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
48- Det sjunde inseglet (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
49- The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)
50- Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)

[Super Aurora]

I made a top 50 a while ago. Lemme try to pull it out.

0- The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003)

[Avaitor]

[Goliath]

Well, if you're all going to add more than 30 choices and mention titles that 'didn't make it to the list' (Why? Frankenollie asked for your top 30!), then I'll list those as well. I had to reluctantly leave out some titles to limit the list to 30 titles, but now I can present them here:

31. The Godfather, Part III (1990)
32. Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
33. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
34. I'm Not There (2007)
35. The Hole (2001)
36. Man Cheng Jin Dai Huang Jin Jia (Curse of the Golden Flower, 2006)
37. Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips, 2000)
38. L' Auberge Espagnol (The Spanish Apartment, 2002)
39. The Breakfast Club (1985)
40. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
41. The Da Vinci Code (extended director's cut, 2006)
42. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
43. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
44. Reservoir Dogs (1991)
45. Unbreakable (2000)
46. The Game (1997)
47. The Truman Show (1998)
48. Bowling for Columbine (2002)
49. His Girl Friday (1940)
50. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

[Dr Frankenollie]

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[Lazario]

Well, if you're all going to add more than 30 choices and mention titles that 'didn't make it to the list' (Why?

I wasn't that bad. I grouped some of the movies together only because they were in franchises anyway. For some people, a franchise can be like your kids- how can you pick a favorite? It would take a lot of time and consideration to place one movie above another when really, what we love about the series / franchise cannot sometimes be divorced from the experience of watching them together.

[Chernabog_Rocks]

To add to what Laz has said on the franchises, for Friday the 13th at least one of them picks up immediately where the previous left off so in a way it's almost like one long film split into two parts. Much like the last Harry Potter for example.


As for my list, that would take quite a bit of time to consider. I will have to take a look through what I have and see what kind of list I can come up with.

[Lazario]

To add to what Laz has said on the franchises, for Friday the 13th at least one of them picks up immediately where the previous left off so in a way it's almost like one long film split into two parts. Much like the last Harry Potter for example.

I think almost every horror film sequel has terrible story continuity. Friday the 13th Part II might very well have more holes in it than a year's supply of Swiss cheese. I'm not sure anything attempting to connect the two storylines makes any sense.