Name your all time top ten movies

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<p>Your favorite movies, and you can change your list as movies pop up in your head. There are no rules but if you can’t watch a movie more than once, like Sophie’s Choice for example, it’s probably not in your top ten.</p>

<p>My top 10, but not in order.</p>

<p>Duck Soup
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Crimes and Misdemeaners
All That Jazz
Casablanca
The Stunt Man
Singin In the Rain
Swing Time
and maybe The Philadelphia Story or Raging Bull or The Godfather or When Harry Met Sally or Groundhog Day or Cinema Paradiso.</p>

<p>Ok. It’s not really 10. I probably should have made it a top 20 list. :)</p>

<p>I guess I haven’t liked too many movies lately.</p>

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<p>Dstark, decent list. You need to lose “Annie Hall” and “Manhattan” and I am the only person in the US that didn’t really care for “Raging Bull,” but other than that, nice list.</p>

<p>I’ve been a movie buff since I was a little kid (anyone else remember going to drive-ins wearing jammies?), and a top-ten list is a non-starter for me. Is it movies I admire, or ones that I can watch 50 times, or is it ones that I think broke ground for some reason? Some movies are impressive to me because of my age or what I was doing when I saw it. Without going into a long criteria discussion, I can throw together some movies that moved me, or impressed me, or I admire.</p>

<p>Patton
A Night at the Opera
All That Jazz (see – I might have forgotten this one)
Singin’ in the Rain
The Philadelphia Story
To Have and Have Not
North by Northwest
Toy Story
Star Wars
Dr. Strangelove
Shakespeare in Love
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh and Thompson)
American Graffiti
Real Genius (you had to be there)
House of Games
The Godfather
Animal House
Groundhog Day
Beauty and the Beast (animated)
Best in Show
You’ve Got Mail (don’t tell the guys in the man thread)
The Longest Day
Full Metal Jacket</p>

<p>And probably another fifty I’m forgetting right now.</p>

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<p>I liked the Stunt man also- don’t know if it is in my top 20 though
One of my favorite movies is
Days of Heaven-
also ThinBlueLine,
A fish called Wanda,
The Lady Vanishes
Devil in a Blue Dress
LA Confidential
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
Hsi Yen ( the Wedding Banquet)
African Queen
oh oh oh
The LION IN WINTER</p>

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<p>in no apparent order( off the top of my head):
The Philadelphia Story
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Love Actually
North by Northwest
Vertigo
LOTR(let’s make it 3 in 1)
LA Confidential
Godfather( actually, first 2)
Best in Show/Waiting for Guffman
Young Frankenstein/Blazing Saddles
The Graduate</p>

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<p>From age 10 onwards…
Lost Horizon (1937)…on t.v.
Anything with Jimmy Stewart
The Brain From Planet Arous…best laughs…maybe 10
Ben Hur…preteen
The Magnificent Seven (cowboys)
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg…teen
The Graduate…college
The Godfather…beyond college
The Electric Horseman
Close Encounters of a Third Kind
Flight of the Navigator—parenthood</p>

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<p>Cabaret
Casablanca
To Have and Have Not
Jules et Jim
The Philadelphia Story
Memento </p>

<p>hmm, I’ll have to think more - lots of films I liked - but Best?</p>

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<p>Wow…</p>

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<p>Let’s see - since I am a BIG fan of the mockumentary, ANY Christopher Guest movie (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, etc.), add Woody Allen’s Zelig to that genre list</p>

<p>A Fish Called Wanda
Heaven Can Wait</p>

<p>BUT - my all time favorite (and I judge a student or student athlete’s maturity and spirituality based on whether they GET this movie and it’s messages or not…)</p>

<p>Chariots of Fire</p>

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<p>This is an impossible thing to do because these movies are encountered at certain times in your life (thanks, overseas, for listing them the way you do) and at certain emotional times and have a major impact that “sticks.” For example, in college, “Blow Up” redirected my life in a subtle way. It grabbed me then, but now the movie seems so pretentious I can’t stand it.</p>

<p>Another example is the little movie “Local Hero.” I still love that movie, but my wife and I have spent so much time in rural Scotland and that movie captured the Scots in a way that was so real. Every time we watch it, we’re transported back to the foggy moors. And when the jet buzzes Mac, we’ve been there, done that.</p>

<p>For many, many, many years, I thought “Dr. Strangelove” was the PERFECT movie. I had every line of dialog memorized. It is a great movie.</p>

<p>“My Cousin Vinny” still, after all of these showings, still makes me laugh out loud, something very, very few comedies do. </p>

<p>Other people have mentioned “Groundhog Day,” which I don’t think is a “great” movie, yet I can watch it over and over and over and over…</p>

<p>And another favorite of mine - again not a great movie by any means, but because of the circumstance in which I first saw it - is “Jurassic Park.” I was in Atlanta at a technical conference the night it opened and a vendor at the conference rented out an entire theater in Lenox Square. We were given fancy tickets to visit “Jurassic Park” and transported with all the hoopla that potential visitors planned by Dr. Hammond would have encountered. In the theater, we were given carte blanche at the candy/soda/popcorn counter, and greeted by local celebrities. Then the lights went down, the thumping came on from the soundtrack, and we were all mesmerized. When Ian’s line came - “God help us, we’re in the hands of engineers” - the audience (of engineers) roared. It was a memorable experience and I’ve loved watching that movie ever since.</p>

<p>Oh, when I was 10 years old… the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” Fine, fine chills.</p>

<p>And of course the short “action film” my kid made in high school with its plot holes, grainy flashback scenes, gratuitous violence, and all: <a href=“http://arasian.com/films/prey[/url]”>http://arasian.com/films/prey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I also love Christopher Guest movies–my favorite of those is also Best in Show, although the others are close. The one glaring exception is the newest one–For Your Consideration, which for me was very disappointing. I absolutely love Taxi Driver, The Godfather 1 and 2, Goodfellas, Don’t Look Now, Midnight Cowboy, Psycho…There are so many.</p>

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<p>Digmedia, you’re right that in different times of your life, different movies will be your favorites and movies that mean something to you at one stage in your life will seem silly or irrelevant at others. </p>

<p>I have thought about Groundhog Day and there must be a reason I have watched that movie so many times. I must like it. I see others like it too. </p>

<p>Then there are movies like It’s A Wonderful Life, or The Wizard of Oz, or Miracle on 34th Street which I have seen numerous times. I know they aren’t my favorites (at least anymore).</p>

<p>Then there are movies lie The Kid From Left Field with Dan Dailey, or The Blob that were my favorites, when I was 10.</p>

<p>Then there are movies like Fiddler on The Roof that I liked very much, but now as my kids get older, I really don’t want to listen to Sunrise-Sunset anymore.</p>

<p>I like To Have and Have Not too, and the Graduate, and Love Actually.</p>

<p>I’m never taking Annie Hall and Manhattan off my list. That opening scene in Manhattan, when Woody Allen is trying to write and he keeps coming up with different versions, with Manhattan in the background, and Gershwin’s music is playing, that movie is never coming off my list.</p>

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<p>To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone With the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
Saving Private Ryan
The Sandlot
American Graffiti
The Pianist</p>

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<p>Digmedia, LOL. I never saw Blowup at the right age. I wanted to like it, but it was soooo stupid. Oh well.</p>

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<p>To Kill a Mockingbird - my all time favorite book and movie
A Little Princess - we took our daughter to see this years ago and we just fell in love with this movie
Big Fish - I found this movie to be very moving … I sobbed all the way home
Best in Show - my face hurt from laughing so much!
Grease - I’ve loved this movie since I first saw it in high school … I always thought it would be great to be a teen in the 50’s</p>

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<p>I think I might add The Sting and Pennies from Heaven to my list.</p>

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<p>The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (I love Don Knotts)
It’s a Wonderful Life (It’s shown in Richmond Va Christmas eve and day in a beautiful theater that opened Dec. 24, 1928 <a href=“http://members.tripod.com/~g_cowardin/byrd/index.htm[/url]”>http://members.tripod.com/~g_cowardin/byrd/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;)
Stand By Me
As Good As it Gets
Schindler’s List
Dances With Wolves
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Graduate
Interview With The Vampire
The Last of the Mohicans</p>

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<p>trading out As Good as it Gets with
Something’s Gotta Give (wrong Jack film :))</p>

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<p>Overseas, I’d love to see Marite’s list next to yours!</p>

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<p>How could I have forgotten?</p>

<p>Local Hero – just an amazing film. If you get it, you really get it. Some it puts to sleep.</p>

<p>Defending Your Life
Roxanne
The Wizard of Oz
A Fish Called Wanda
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Fair Lady (a guilty pleasure, don’t tell the guys, OK?)
Rocky/Rudy (It’s the same movie, isn’t it?)
Blazing Saddles (the single funniest movie of all time)
Young Frankenstein (OK, maybe this is the funniest. You can you believe Mel Brooks also did “History of the World”?)
The Producers (not the musical)(OK, maybe this is the funniest.)</p>

<p>I’m sure I’ll think of some others soon.</p>

<p>Sheesh. I almost forgot Local Hero. How could I have done that?</p>

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<p>The Return of Martin Guerre
The Lives of Others
Singin’ in the Rain
Chariots of Fire
Gosford Park
Wizard of Oz]
Local Hero
My Favorite Year
Little Miss Sunshine
Home Alone (I)</p>