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5 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

Nice list and you picked the correct Monty Python movie.

Which begs the thread drift question, what are the best 10 comedies of all time  ?  Life of Brian is my favorite MP movie with The grail being a very close second. My favorite year would be in my top 10 list.

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13 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Which begs the thread drift question, what are the best 10 comedies of all time  ?  Life of Brian is my favorite MP movie with The grail being a very close second. My favorite year would be in my top 10 list.

10 best or 10 funniest? I'm fine with this pivot - seems like we are running out of unique titles on the top 10s at this point. Some off the top of my head:

Anchorman

Old School

Airplane

Animal House

Caddyshack

Supertroopers

Superbad

Pineapple Express

Groundhog's Day

Young Frankenstein

Wedding Crashers

 

No Time For Sergeants 

Animal House

Life of brian

MP and the holy grail

My favorite Year

Raising Arizona

Young Frankenstein

Airplane

Caddy Shack

Blazing Saddles 

Dr. Strangelove

Philadelphia Story

that's 12, not in order really, and I love em all.

 

One of the funniest if not the funniest scenes in any comedy is still the Penis lineup in Porkys.

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The Fearless Vampire Killers

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Vacation.

Obviously. 

Airplane

Animal House

Blazing Saddles

Young Frankenstein

Planes,Trains & Automobiles

My Favorite Year

Vacation(Christmas Vacation also)

Smokey and the Bandit

The Bad News Bears

Caddyshack

 

HM:  Something About Mary,  The Hangover,  A Christmas Story, Pink Panther, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka,  Hollywood Shuffle

 

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 Fight Club For me it starts and ends here and it's not even close. But i'll add 9 more

American Psycho

Gone With The Wind

Barefoot in the Park

Cool Hand Luke

Gangs of New York

The Sting

Ben-Hur (59)

Unforgiven

Casino

I tried picking movies that weren't listed over and over on here and yet i could sit and watch them any time they come on. 

 

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1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

and I loved Hanks in the Ladykillers (he had to have a blast playing that over the top role)

That reminds me of a couple of Alec Guinness classics:

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Man in the White Suit

I'd have to go with:

Forest Gump

Platoon

Apocalypse Now

The Deer Hunter

Shawshank Redemption

The Green Mile

It's a Wonderful Life

The Bucket List

The Longest Day or 30 Seconds over Tokyo...can't decide between those two

Saving Private Ryan

 

CHIEF

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45 minutes ago, BERT said:

 Fight Club For me it starts and ends here and it's not even close. But i'll add 9 more

American Psycho

Gone With The Wind

Barefoot in the Park

Cool Hand Luke

Gangs of New York

The Sting

Ben-Hur (59)

Unforgiven

Casino

I tried picking movies that weren't listed over and over on here and yet i could sit and watch them any time they come on. 

 

I thought you were listing comedies for a second and was very confused.

5 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I thought you were listing comedies for a second and was very confused.

Would've been more confused if i had started listing off porn.

 

Well maybe not

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1 minute ago, BERT said:

Would've been more confused if i had started listing off porn.

 

Well maybe not

Just because it's porn doesn't mean it can't be one of the best 10 movies you've ever seen. 

7 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

If I had to rank Top 5 Coen, I'd go:

Lebowski

Fargo

No Country

True Grit

Raising AZ

I think you underrate Millers Crossing.

57 minutes ago, BERT said:

Unforgiven

Very close to my top 10. Damn this was harder than I though.

2 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Your highly recommended and recommended list needs some revising and flipping places IMO. It's all personal preference pf course.

And Ladykillers is pure unadulterated shit.

44 minutes ago, C-Man said:

I think you underrate Millers Crossing.

I haven't seen it.  I've only seen 9 Coen Bros films.

The Searchers keeps coming up. Another favorite of mine in that vein is 3 Godfathers. I didn't know until just a few weeks ago that the John Wayne/John Ford version wasn't the original. It was the 2nd remake of a 1916 silent film. The 1936 version with Chester Morris is pretty good.

Apocalypse Now

Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Dr. Strangelove

The Bridge Over the River Kwai

The Grapes of Wrath

Rear Window

The Wild Bunch

Bonnie & Clyde

No Country For Old Men

The Conversation

I'm surprised that The Grapes of Wrath gets such high marks from this site.

Isn't it about a bunch of Okies going west?

Okies?

On 1/26/2019 at 11:55 PM, Nicole44 said:

The Stand mini series 

this was awful, but, The Stand is high on my list of things that I wish HBO would take a stab at.  

On 1/28/2019 at 4:50 PM, C-Man said:

I think you underrate Millers Crossing.

I might swap it for true grit on his list.  the other four?  hell no, nobody would. 

Airplane

The Third Man

Casablanca

The Usual Suspects

Jaws

The Manchurian Candidate

Wizard of Oz

Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

Apollo 13

The Great Escape

Reservoir Dogs

Pulp Fiction

At Close Range

Deer Hunter

Silence of the Lambs

Fast Times

Big Lebowski

There Will Be Blood

Platoon

Up In Smoke / Dumb and Dumber 

 

 

I might swap it for true grit on his list.  the other four?  hell no, nobody would. 


It’s definitely better than True Grit. I’m sure I’m in the minority but I like it at least as much as No Country.

No Particular Order

 

Under Siege

Marked For Death

Out for Justice

Under Siege II: Dark Territory

Above the Law

The Glimmer Man

On Deadly Ground

Exit Wounds

Hard to Kill

Fire Down Below

Hot Tub Time Machine (Cox nnnnnnn Dix)

Thief

Boogie Nights

The Final Countdown

First Blood

Die Hard

Better off Dead

King Kong 77

Rounders

 

Obligatory 

GF / GHD / SR / GWH / A13 / IB / ANH & ESB

IN no particular order, by genre:

 

Classic: Lawrence of Arabia (saw it at the Paramount on Congress when I was a kid)

Western: Unforgiven ("You still talking about the Queen, English Bob, on the Fourth of July?")

War: Apocalypse Now

Comedy: Big Lebowski

Horror: Alien

Sci Fi: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Mob: Godfather or Godfather II (favorite depends on which way the wind is blowing)

Cop: Training Day

Action: Road Warrior

Freaky: Natural Born Killers

Other/Honorable Mention: Easy Rider, Jaws, Blade Runner

 

Not in any order:

The Apartment

Vertigo

North by Northwest

Cinema Paradiso 

Godfather Part 2

Schindler’s List

Defending Your Life

The Best of Times

The Graduate

The Big Lebowski

I'm horrible at these things, but let me take a stab at this:

Stalker

L'avventura

Elevator to the Gallows

Wings of Desire

Wages of Fear

Pather Panchali

Tokyo Twilight

Au Hasard Balthazar

La Dolce Vita

Le Samouraï

1.  Rear Window
2.  The Shootist
3.  Godfather 1, 2 or 3 (pretty much interchangeable imo)
4.  There Will Be Blood
5.  Gangs of New York
6.  Cool Hand Luke
7.  The Hustler
8.  Legends of The Fall
9.  Scarface (Pacino version)
10. The Untouchables

List subject to change depending on mood, time of year and weather.
 

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13 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

1.  Rear Window
2.  The Shootist
3.  Godfather 1, 2 or 3 (pretty much interchangeable imo)
4.  There Will Be Blood
5.  Gangs of New York
6.  Cool Hand Luke
7.  The Hustler
8.  Legends of The Fall
9.  Scarface (Pacino version)
10. The Untouchables

List subject to change depending on mood, time of year and weather.
 

Your current mood seems to be: Pissed off at the world and people need to die.

4 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Your current mood seems to be: Pissed off at the world and people need to die.

Damn, had not noticed that, although from my list it would certainly appear that way.   I think my username is a bad influence :)

17 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

1.  Rear Window
2.  The Shootist
3.  Godfather 1, 2 or 3 (pretty much interchangeable imo)
4.  There Will Be Blood
5.  Gangs of New York
6.  Cool Hand Luke
7.  The Hustler
8.  Legends of The Fall
9.  Scarface (Pacino version)
10. The Untouchables

List subject to change depending on mood, time of year and weather.
 

I can endorse 1,3 (except Part 3) 6, and 7 as all extremely solid choices.  2, and 8 as major big picks. I like the rest, but not as GOATS.

Shane

Cool Hand Luke

Hud

The Last Picture Show

Giant

To Hell and Back

Blazing Saddles

The Great Escape

The Wizard of Oz

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

 

 

 

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On 1/31/2019 at 11:28 AM, Cheeseweasel said:

Your current mood seems to be: Pissed off at the world and people need to die.

Current? This is always my mood. 

This is Surly, right? Isn't that the general "mood" of this board?

Godfather I

Apocalypse Now

Grapes of Wrath

Fargo

Tender Mercies

The Searchers

Breaking Away

LA Confidential

The Big Lebowski

To Kill a Mockingbird

Casablanca

Godfather 1/2

Citizen Kane

Lawrence of Arabia

Ben Hur (59)

True Grit (John Wayne)

Jaws

The Ten Commandments

The Bridge Over the River Kwai

Sound of Music

Cool topic.  Impossible to narrow down to 10 and greatest is so subjective.  I would say that these 10 had the greatest emotional (funny, scary, action, inspiring etc.) impact on me personally when I watched them:

Rocky

Godfathers

Star Wars

Jaws

Shawshank

Shining

Wedding Crashers

Caddyshack

Platoon

Goldfinger

Hoosiers

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Yeah, I couldn't even guess what the 10 best movies I've seen are.   It depends on whose list I'm looking at I suppose.   I know my personal 10 favorite movies are:

1.  Pulp Fiction

2.  The Graduate

3.  The Godfather

4.  Annie Hall

5.  Casablanca

6.  Young Frankenstein

7.  Monty Python and The Holy Grail

8.  This is Spinal Tap

9.  In The Heat of the Night

10.  It Happened One Night

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