What are your 25 favorite movies

[cdollaz]

First, list your 25 favorite movies of all time (not your favorite DVD's). Then, tell whether or not there is an acceptable DVD out for each. This should be interesting. Mine are not in any order:

Breakfast Club (unacceptable)
Mississippi Burning (unacceptable)
Glory (acceptable)
Saving Private Ryan (unacceptable)
Braveheart (unacceptable)
Can't Hardly Wait (acceptable)
Sixth Sense (unacceptable)
L.A. Confidential (acceptable)
JFK (acceptable)
A Few Good Men (acceptable)
Tombstone (acceptable coming soon)
Scream (acceptable)
Raising Arizona (unacceptable)
Happy Gilmore (unacceptable, not even widescreen)
Summer School (Not on DVD yet)
A Time To Kill (unacceptable)
Shawshank Redemption (unacceptable)
The Apostle (acceptable)
The Rock (acceptable)
Die Hard (acceptable)
Real Genius (Not on DVD yet)
Sling Blade (unacceptable)
Les Miserables (unacceptable)
Perfect World (unacceptable)
Robin Hood, Prince of Theives (unacceptable)

[SolidSnakeASS]

The DVDs to Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan are great. What more do you need then amazing audio and video? Extras are just icing...


25 is way to many to list, maybe I'll post them if I get bored or something.

[AnonomusBob15]

I'll give you a top 15.

1. Fight Club
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Cast Away
4. American History X
5. Boogie Nights :|
6. Saving Private Ryan :|
7. Crow
8. Braveheart :|
9. Se7en
10.American Psycho
11.Brazil
12.Mallrats
13.Die Hard
14.From Dusk Till Dawn
15.Scarface :|

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[fuddo]

1. Dr Strangelove
2. Fight Club
3. The Goddfather
4. Shawshank Redeption
5. Se7en
6. Goodfellas
7. Blues Brothers
8. Princess Bride
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Jaws
11. Braveheart :|
12. The Shining
13. Rushmore
14. Evil Dead II
15. Ghostbusters
16. The Game
17. Nightmare Before Christmas
18. Die Hard I
19. Army of Darkness
20. Emporer's New Groove
21. Heat
22. Leon
23. Snatch
24. Citizen Kane
25. Silence of the Lambs

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[vedderstapp]

Yeah, I saw the flick. Ethan Embry is clearly the new Eddie Murphy.

As for my list - ok. I'll give you some I can think up off the top of my head

The Abyss
Animal House
Dances With Wolves
JFK
Any film by Edward Burns (I think he's going to be the next Woody Allen)
Unbreakable
Withnail & I
T2
Leap Of Faith
A Perfect World

erm... that's all I can think of right now

[Nexus 6]

Well, my favorite movies tend to flucuate, but here's a reasonably accurate list in no particular order Also, I know not all of these are technically "great" films, but they're some that I just really enjoy a lot.

The Empire Strikes Back (no-show)
Star Wars (nope)
Return of the Jedi (um...)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (acceptable)
Casablanca (decent, but room for improvement)
The Dark Crystal (very acceptable)
Airplane! (okay, but not enough)
Young Frankenstein (acceptable, except no anamorphic)
2001: A Space Odyssey (not completely acceptable, but probably
as good as we'll get)
Gattaca (so-so)
Blade Runner (hopefully soon-to-be-acceptable)
The Muppet Movie (so-so)
The Godfather (haven't gotten it yet, but looks more than
acceptable
The Godfather Part II (see above)
Superman (quite acceptable)
Ben-Hur (acceptable)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (not acceptable yet, but soon)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (we're waiting, we're waiting...)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (ditto)
Willow (solid, but could be more)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (UNacceptable)
Back to the Future (eventually)
Jaws (would be great with the full documentary)
Planet of the Apes-1968 (unacceptable)
Princess Mononoke (well...it's there)

[The Riddler]

Titanic – Sort of acceptable…needs more extras
Raiders Of The Lost Ark – Unavailable
Indiana Jones & the Temple Of Doom – Unavailable
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade – Another Unavailable
Godfather – Good stuff
Godfather II – Good Stuff also
Godfather III – Good Stuff Trilogy
Goodfellas – Piece of shiznit
Back To The Future – Unavailable
Back To The Future II - Unavailable
Back To The Future III - Unavailable
The Mask Of Zorro – The SE has got to be the good stuff (even though I have the original release )
Men In Black – Excellent
Jurassic Park – Excellent
Independence Day – Good stuff…5.1 audio could'a been better
The Mummy – The UE is "Excellenté"
The Mummy Returns – Plug-in for the Scorpion King? Yeah..but acceptable
Fight Club – Excellent
Se7en – Don’t get no better than this
E.T. – Bring on Fall 2002
Psycho (Hitchcock) - TOTALLY acceptable
Fright Night – Pitiful
Army Of Darkness (Director’s Cut) – Finally…good stuff
Evil Dead – Excellent
Evil Dead II – Excellent
Nightmare On Elm Street – Excellent

[soxfandoug]

1 Braveheart (Decent)
2 American Beauty (So-so)
3 Edward Scissorhands (Decent)
4 Titanic (Where is the S.E.?)
5 Sleepy Hollow (Nice)
6 Shawshank Redemption (So-so)
7 The Rock (Criterion rocks)
8 Saving Private Ryan (Nice)
9 Crybaby (Unavailable)
10 The Game (Hoping for Criterion)
11 Fear (So-so)
12 Any Given Sunday (Pretty good)
13 Scream (Okay)
14 Batman (Where is the S.E.?)
15 Chasing Amy (Once again...Criterion rocks!)
16 Clerks (Decent, but can't wait for the 10th anniversary edition!)
17 Sleepless in Seattle (So-so)
18 Seven(Awesome)
19 Memento (Somewhat lacking)
20 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (okay)
21 Jurassic Park (Pretty Good)
22 Almost Famous (Original is So-so, should get the Bootleg today)
23 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Can't wait!!!)
24 American Psycho (So-so)
25 Planet of the Apes 2001 (Awesome)

[SephirothClone]

Well I guess it's in order, or mabey I posted them over and over again??
1. Fight Club
2. The Matrix
3. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
4. Akira
5. Se7en
6. Silence of The Lambs

And after that Im cluelezz!!

[Rogue]

The thing that surprises me the most is that VedderStapp and Cdollaz haven't been chastised by the moderators. :p

[Taxi]

Yeah, well we've been a little busy with the new software upgrade.

It's being taken care of.

[chlngr1970]

Originally posted by vedderstapp on 12-04-2001 07:23 AM
Luckily for me, however, I can spell.

Lucky for me I can Delete.

Posts of this nature are not alloud in the forum. Personal attacks are unnacceptable. If you feel you must personally attack someone, take it to email.

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[Josh]

Star Wars Saga
Superman
Jaws
2001
Lawrence of Arabia
Hook
Gia
Girl, Interrupted
Tomb Raider
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Godfather Trilogy
Hannibal Trilogy
View Askew films (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, J&SBSB)
The Killer
True Romance
Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Iron Giant
Heat
The Insider
Any Bond Film
JFK
Taxi Driver
Carlitos Way
Natural Born Killers
Leon
The Crow
Citizen Kane
The Doors
Gladiator
Braveheart
Goodfellas
Evil Dead 2
Psycho
Matrix
Batman
The Rock
Aliens
As Good as it Gets
Bram Stokers Dracula
Apocalypse Now

Sorry, but I just couldnt keep it down to 25.

[Avid]

1) The Bad News Bears -- comes out in Feb and will be unacceptable:mad: :mad: :mad:
2) JFK -- where's the theatrical cut?
3) Citizen Kane
4) sex, lies & videotape -- okay
5) Out of Sight -- okay
6) The Limey
7) Searching for Bobby Fischer
8) Dances with Wolves -- didn't grab the disk in time...
9) Back to the Future -- MIA
10) Raiders of the Lost Ark -- MIA
11) Fresh -- looks like it will be good
12) To Die For
13) Chasing Amy -- the crown jewel
14) Six Degrees of Separation
15) The Virgin Suicides -- okay
16) Taxi Driver
17) Desperately Seeking Susan -- love the cinematography... hope the transfer is good...
18) Bull Durham
19) Almost Famous -- can't wait to see Bootleg...
20) Eve's Bayou -- anybody know if this is anamorphic?
21) The Full Monty
22) The Brothers McMullan -- okay
23) Dazed and Confused
24) Welcome to the Dollhouse
25) The Sixth Sense

[Disc-Flipper]

1. TOYS (OK DVD, but missing isolated score, director's commentary, and LD production stills)
2. Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (no official DVD exists)
3. Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (no official DVD exists)
4. TRON (OK DVD, but next month, an awesome 2-disc set should be coming out!)
5. Batman Forever (barebones, but excellent transfer)
6. Batman & Robin (barebones, but excellent transfer)
7. Hawk the Slayer (sadly not on DVD)
8. Beauty and the Beast (to be released fall 2002 - yahoo!)
9. The Neverending Story (excellent transfer, but poor extras)
10. Ten Who Dared (unfortunately, not on DVD)
11. Labyrinth (acceptable DVD)
12. Flash Gordon (barebones with a dirty transfer)
13. The Velvet Goldmine (good DVD)
14. Wild Wild West (awesome DVD!)
15. The Avengers (okay DVD)
16. Friday the 13th part V: A New Beginning (poor extras - terrible cover - damn you, Paramount!)
17. Friday the 13th part III (great transfer, poor extras, no attempt to transfer the 3-D elements)
18. The Beyond (fabulous DVD)
19. Cube (decent DVD)
20. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (not on DVD)
21. Popeye (not on DVD, but expected in 2003)
22. Murder By Death (coming to DVD in two weeks!)
23. The Grinch (a wonderful DVD)
24. Evita (sucky bare-bones DVD, but a good transfer)
25. Dungeons & Dragons (great DVD)

[SebastianCole]

Hmm...

1. Untitled (Almost Famous Director's Edition)
2. Fight Club
3. Memento
4. Wonder Boys
5. Chasing Amy
6. The Graduate
7. Magnolia
8. Out of Sight
9. Plesantville
10. Psycho
11. Rushmore
12. Shallow Grave
13. Silence of the Lambs
14. Singing in the Rain
15. The Untouchables
16. American Graffiti
17. When Harry Met Sally
18. The Talented Mr. Ripley
19. Akira
20. The NeverEnding Story
21. Jaws
22. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
23. High Fidelity
24. Grosse Pointe Blank
25. The Great Escape

There's my list, in no particular order...

[Sid]

These are in no real order, but some are better than others

Manhunter
Blade Runner
JFK
Goodfellas
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Dawn of the Dead
Evil Dead trilogy
The Beyond
Zombie
Hellraiser
Hellbound: H2
Strange Days
Silence of the Lambs
Goonies
Re-Animator
Superman
Superman II
The Great Rock n' Roll Swindle

[dvds'r'us]

My Top 25 Movies Are:

1. Empire Records
2. The Faculty
3. The Rock
4. Lady & The Tramp
5. Terminator 2
6. Shrek
7. Toy Story 2
8. Clerks
9. Mallrats
10. Vegas Vacation
11. Rush Hour
12. Love, Valour, & Compassion
13. Rush Hour 2
14. National Lampoon's Vacation
15. Men In Black
16. Toy Story
17. Save The Last Dance
18. Scary Movie
19. Scary Movie 2
20. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
21. Chasing Amy
22. Sugar & Spice
23. Titanic
24. The Matrix
25. Dogma

[ToejamandEarl]

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Back to the Future
3. Empire Strikes Back
4. Star Wars
5. Jaws
6. Back to the Future II
7. Terminator
8. Terminator II
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Shindler's List
11. Goldfinger
12. The Spy Who Loved Me
13. Alien
14. Close Encounters
15. Star Trek II Wrath of Khan
16. Big
17. Shawshank Redemption
18. As Good As It Gets
19. 2001
20. Dances with Wolves
21. Casino
22. When Harry Met Sally
23. Braveheart
24. Toy Story
25. Predator

Pretty tough to do...I'm sure I'm leaving out an obvious favorite....

I've got some on Laser Disc/VHS so I haven't bothered to upgrade them to DVD...maybe one day.

[Marty McFly]

I don't have any at "#1" (besides BTTF and Ghostbusters), so the following aren't in any particular order:

Beetlejuice
Terminator 1 & 2
'Crocodile' Dundee
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure/Bogus Journey
UHF
Brain Donors
The Naked Gun Trilogy
Caddyshack I & II
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Airplane!
Brain Donors
The Great Outdoors
Dragnet
Major League
Vacation (everyone except European)
The Breakfast Club
Weekend at Bernie's I & II
Raising Arizona
Animal House
Timerider
Brain Candy
Stoogemania
The Bles Brothers
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
The Bond Series
Ladybugs
Speed
Fletch
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Summer Rental

I probably should've cut that list in half...