"What are your top 10 films of all time" thread

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Feb 2005, 21:13

What are your top 10 films of all time? Here is my list:

My Top 10 Films - Of All Time

Feel free to disagree.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 10 Feb 2005, 21:34

Pimp your site babay

hey I wont say anything bad to you except I disagree soo much its scary

so are they all 5 star top films for you?

I am not sure I could do a top ten as I love so many films, and not even one of them even comes in my top 100 films of all time I must say

(I dont think I have seen 2, I think)

I am still looking for Mullholand Falls on dvd

for them 2 ladies alone its worth watching.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Feb 2005, 21:40

Leon and Seven almost made it into the top 10. Which 2 haven't you seen? I'm betting you've not seen Lilya 4-ever?

As for ratings - I prefer to rate films out of 10 and all are 8 or above in my books. There are some I'd definitely rate higher than other but the top 3-4 would be impossible to put in any order.

I think you mean Mulholland Drive. Mulholland Falls is a gangster film and not a very good one I hear. The 2 disc Dutch DVD is the way to go with DTS and an hours worth of extras. The French DVD has similar extras but no DTS and forced subs. Most other DVDs are only single disc releases.

p.s - Could you do a top 3 or 5 then?

[Edited on 10-2-2005 by bradavon]

ghevans · Post by **ghevans** » 11 Feb 2005, 11:41

Changes all the time but currently its:

1)Magnolia
2)Raging Bull
3)Amelie
4)After Life (Hirokazu Kore'eda)
5)Hana-Bi

The above never change.

6)Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7)Fight Club
8)All About Lily Chou-Chou
9)Irreversible
10)Audition

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Feb 2005, 13:05

Cool you've picked Amelie too. I've never heard of After Life before.

I want to see All About Lily Chou-Chou, Magnolia was very good but "possibly" a bit long. Raging Bull is fantastic (but it is a Scorsese film so is to be expected).

Hana-bi was fairly good but then tbh I'm not really a Kitano fan (as a director). I've seen enough of his films to now know this. Zatôichi is my favourite out of the 5 I've seen. I need to give Dolls another go.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is cool, Fight Club is awesome, Irreversible I've not seen but it looks very gratuitously violent and Audition while shocking was too violent for me.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 11 Feb 2005, 14:12

As with everybody else my top 10 also keep on changing. I have the UK disc of "All About Lily Chou-chou" but have yet to watch that film.

Now lemme see... my list includes a lot of recent films which I am surprised about myself. in no particular order it looks something like:

01. Seven Samurai
02. Sonatine
03. OldBoy
04. Memories of Murder
05. The Last Samurai
06. A Moment of Romance
07. The Killer
08. Friend (Chingu)
09. Rocky
10. Infernal Affairs II

Seeing that there are a lot of recent titles here, my list would look like this if they hadn't been released recently.

In no particular order:

01. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
02. Once Upon a Time in China
03. The Road Home
04. Scarface
05. City on Fire
06. Beijing Bicycle
07. The Boondock Saints
08. Bullet in the Head
09. Joint Security Area
10. In the Mood for Love

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Feb 2005, 14:30

So which is your top ten? You're a big Asian fan aren't you!. I love Asian films to but not exclusively.

No German films?

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 11 Feb 2005, 16:15

Lilya 4-ever I havent seen, yet! but will

and Mulholland Drive (I always call it falls for some reason) its always appealed to me and I need to buy it, just waited for a good dvd I guess

I adore the 2 lady stars!

for me well top 10 is imposable, I can only say some films that would be around my top 20 or so, its just too hard to single them out

but in my top lots will be

ALIENS
Terminator 2
StarShip Troopers
Seven Samurai
The Thin Red Line

erm will find more later as my dvds are imposable to scan with my eyes as just moved em around

those above all look action film, but I do love many others.

Amelie is one film I cannot understand why anyone could find it perfect, I just must not have got it like others, beleve me I wanted to love it.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Feb 2005, 16:20

Lilya 4-ever is a perfect example of powerful film-making. I was completely emotionally exhausted by the end of it but very pleased I'd see the film. It opened my eyes to child trafficking throughout Europe. Mulholland Drive was my first experience of the world of Lynch and boy was I impressed. Laura Harring is one HOT lady too!

I hate Starship Troopers but am a fan of the rest you've chosen (I've not seen Seven Samurai though). Terminator 2 is the best action film ever made, no other film comes close.

[Edited on 11-2-2005 by bradavon]

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 11 Feb 2005, 17:41

I do think you will love Seven Samurai when you get round to seeing it, its an epic like no other! it makes me want to cry.

Irreversable, well its not all about the 2 BIG nasty scenes in the film, you really need to see it to see what I mean its a beautiful film as it goes on and it defianlty needs to be seen, think Malena but set now and your close

the relationship between Monica and Vincent is pretty much as perfect as you would want in life, guess that why they married.

Starship Troopers is definaly one film which devides people

Verhoven always dpes I guess.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 11 Feb 2005, 19:35

[quote][i]Originally posted by bradavon[/i]
So which is your top ten? You're a big Asian fan aren't you!. I love Asian films to but not exclusively.

No German films? [/quote]I hate most German films. They might look good to non-German speakers, but their acting is so bad, especially in dialogue scenes. I like the old German films and there are only a handful of German films I would watch. I quite enjoyed "Lola Rennt" ("Run Lola Run"), but I wouldn't get it on DVD.

The only German film I own on DVD is "kurz und schmerzlos". The funny thing is that the only German thing about this film is that it was partly financed with German money and that it takes place in Hamburg. The director and main star are both Turkish and the other two main stars are Greek and Yugoslavish. I don't know if there is a English subtitled version, but even if you have to download it, you should check that film out.
The funny thing about this is that the Turkish main actor (Mehmet Kurtulus) would be the main lead from the film I am working on now. He's a great actor. Did films in Germany, Turkey, Vietnam, in the USA and soon in HK, too.

Here he is on the cover (in the middle)...

[img]http://www.jpc.de/jpcimages/big/1653960.jpg[/img]

and in a few scenes from the film...
[img]http://www.kinoweb.de/film98/KurzUndSch ... mehmet.jpg[/img]

(Won't appear as an image please follow this link to see the other picture.)
[url]http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/img/11/0,1886,2094891,00.jpg[/url]

And yes, I'm a really huge fan of Asian cinema. I have 12 drawers of DVDs. Only one drawer holds Hollywood films and it isn't even full. I have all the Bond-films as I love them and I have a few Russian films. Apart from that...? Well, "City of God" is a Brazilian film and "Kops" is a great Sweddish comedy which I also bought. But not many Western films have grabbed me so much that I really had to buy them. The last two US flicks I got were "Butterfly Effect" and "Scent of a Woman" with Al Pacino. I have a few boxsets of US films, like all the gift sets of "Lord of the Rings", "Rocky", "The Godfather", "Indiana Jones", "Back to the Fututre" or "Once Upon A Time in the West".

I think Asian films are way more refreshingly than US films and I love to explore the roots of that by buying the old films. Unfortunately, Asian films don't get theatrical releases in the West (apart from Asian blockbusters), hence you never really know whether to buy a film or not (and I do not download if it isn't really a film out of print and a must-have-watched). With Hollywood-films, I know whether I should get them, because I watch them at the theatre here. The last film I watched at the theatre which made me wanna get it on DVD was "Collateral".

[Edited on 11-2-2005 by thelostdragon]

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Feb 2005, 20:02

Run Lola Run is great IMO, a lot of fun. "Nowhere in Africa" is very good too but I don't feel the need to rush out and buy it.

You're not a 1920's German film fan? (aka - M, Nosferatu, Metropolis).

So your new film will partially be in Turkish too? Thanks for the info above it was an interesting read.

[quote]I think Asian films are way more refreshingly than US films[/quote]
I second that but I'd add other continents such as Europe (namely France and Spain) and South America (namely Mexico and Brazil) are also as refreshing

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 11 Feb 2005, 20:57

I think films from anywhere are refreshing nothing at all wrong with Hollywod film the make trhe best films for me and most my favorate films are Holywood films.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 11 Feb 2005, 21:59

[quote][i]Originally posted by bradavon[/i]
"Nowhere in Africa" is very good too...[/quote]I second that!

[quote]So your new film will partially be in Turkish too? Thanks for the info above it was an interesting read.[/quote]Thanks! The film won't have any Turkish. Mehmet plays a German guy in the current project. Our make-up guy recently cast his head in gypsum because his mask has to make him look German. Blond hair etc etc. LOL!

[quote]I second that but I'd add other continents such as Europe (namely France and Spain) and South America (namely Mexico and Brazil) are also as refreshing [/quote]Right! There are wonderful French films. The most recent French film I watched was "Ruby & Quentin" with Jean Réno and Gerard Dépardieu. Wonderful comedy. And as for Brazil, I guess the only Brazilian film I have watched is "City of God" which is a great film.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Feb 2005, 22:11

Isn't the blonde hair thing a load of crap though?

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 11 Feb 2005, 22:17

So you mean all Germans are crap, lol!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 11 Feb 2005, 22:34

Huh no, just the idea that all Germans are blonde is a load of crap, right?

[Edited on 11-2-2005 by bradavon]

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 11 Feb 2005, 22:40

Oh, now I see what you mean, he he he! No, not all, but a lot of them are and Mehmet doesn't necessarily look like he is German, so we need to make him brighter. All hairs on his chest need to be removed as well and the hair on his legs and arms have to be softened and dyed brighter.

Maybe the blond won't look as fitting as we imagine it, but it should by no means look good, as the guy goes through hell in this film and he can't look good.

brooce-leroy · Post by **brooce-leroy** » 12 Feb 2005, 04:17

Shouldn't the thread title be "top ten films so far" or "to date" as its not possible to watch the films of all time, since there's lots of films still to be made, and the world hasn't ended (yet)?

[Edited on 12/2/2005 by brooce-leroy]

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Feb 2005, 12:31

It's all time in your opinion you duffus! Talk about not even answering the question.

p.s - Out of the films you've seen of course.

Mordib · Post by **Mordib** » 12 Feb 2005, 19:51

hmm top ten films....

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Requiem for a dream
cypher
dune
shaolin soccer
the one
enpire records
happy gilmore
the crow
taxi I (& II if thats allowed!!)

m.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 13 Feb 2005, 13:26

Crikey some people love some films I wouldnt even think off as good.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 Feb 2005, 14:39

LOL coming from the King of tosh that's funny

. Cradle to the grave anyone. I am surprised The One would feature in a top ten but that's just me.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 13 Feb 2005, 14:53

Nope I have never said Cradle to the grave was anywhere close to my top films ever, I like lots of films, but no way would they get in my top 100.

Unrealnils · Post by **Unrealnils** » 14 Feb 2005, 16:35

top ten jebus thats hard !!!!

off the top of my head and not officale as im sure it will change by tomorrow

No order

Ghost in the shell
Infernal affiars
Pulp fiction
Aliens
Battle royale
Momento
Crouching tiger
Hard boiled
Resivoir dogs
Shoalin soccer