top ten list of favourite movies

[tipou]

dont even try to make me believe that your favourite movies of all times include "the battleship potemkin" or "casablanca" - i have learned enough about you guys in a short period of time to totally know if you are sincere or not.



example.

DGD's fake list
the bells of st.mary's
(don't believe)

DGD's true list
mary's bells get ringing
(totally believe)



so be truthful here.

make a list of the movies you adore, cannot live without, have seen the most, for pure or naughty reasons, the 10 movies you would take to a desert island (if, of course, said desert island was equipped with power supply and movie theaters - if so, we should have popcorn too).

HOW FUN IS THIS: you are allowed to later make amend and modify your list, or make a freah one altogether.

AND as a bonus, because you have been such good girls last year, you are allowed to add comments.

AND if you promise to be really b*tchy towards one another once in a while, you will have the right to make comments on each other's lists.

make a top 100 if you feel like it... time is not a problem on a desert island, especially if it is located in the aleoutians and there is ice on the beach.


let me start

[glow=red,2,300]TIPOU'S TOP TEN LIST OF FAVOURITE MOVIES[/glow]
2001: a space odyssey (the 70's were so good to me)
local hero
close encounters of the 3rd kind ("who are you people?")
dark city (no comment.)
notting hill (funny and romantic... what's to hate?)
dangerous beauty (yes, i just saw it. no comment.)
tequila sunrise (hhhhottest love scene with mel)
the hunt for red october (sugar daddy sean connery is a hunk)
monty python and the holy grail (ROTFL)
frankenstein junior (ROTFL X 2)

oh darn. i WILL have to make other lists. 10 is certainly not enough.

[lizap]

Jan 30, 2009 22:49:47 GMT tipou said:

close encounters of the 3rd kind ("who are you people?")

My favorite moment:

" 'Pourquoi?!'

'Why?!'

'Why?!' "

Truffaut was so lovely.


Of course, my list has been drastically revamped in the past weeks!

[tipou]

please share it with us!!!

[rueful]

So you will not believe me if I say my top 10 are all documentaries I viewed in high school?

Oh well. Since I am a movie buff, I'm allowing myself two lists.

Top ten classic movies (in no particular order):
Gone With the Wind
The Philadelphia Story
Casablanca (sorry, Tip, I really love it)
The Best Years of Our Lives
North by Northwest
Now, Voyager
Robin Hood
Pride of the Yankees
The Thin Man (and all its sequels)
You Can't Take It With You

Boy, I had to leave so many great movies off that list....

Top ten "modern" movies (also in no special order):
Cold Comfort Farm
Uncorked
ET
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Silverado
Bridget Jones' Diary
Sense and Sensibility
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Little Mermaid
The Queen

[lizap]

Jan 30, 2009 23:29:07 GMT tipou said:

please share it with us!!!

Of course! First I have to figure out what's on it. ;D

[lizap]

Okay, here are those criteria:

Jan 30, 2009 22:49:47 GMT tipou said:

make a list of the movies you adore, cannot live without, have seen the most, for pure or naughty reasons, the 10 movies you would take to a desert island

I'm going to exempt 'cannot live without', because then the whole list would be Rufus movies, because I am not willing to live without any of them at this point. So I'll go with 'adore, have seen the most, would take to a desert island':

In no particular order:

1. Speed
2. Casablanca ;D (sorry, tipou!)
3. Secrets & Lies
4. Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
5. Ehle & Firth Pride & Prejudice
6. Middlemarch
7. Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility
8. Tombstone
9. Tremors
10. The Woodlanders

[tipou]

north by northwest! totally!!
dr strangelove
12 angry men
a shot in the dark
christmas on 24 th street
the mouse that roared
TOTS with burton/taylor
wuthering heights (with laurence olivier as heathcliff)
the party
to kill a mocking bird

more "modern"

wuthering heights (with timothy dalton as heathcliff)
TOTS with shirley/rufus
zefirelli's romeo & juliette
cold comfort farm!!! of course!!!
death in venice
the king of hearts
wait until dark
the entertainer
the godfather I
airplaine

[tipou]

ladies, i congratulate ourselves for our great taste.

[peach]

My top ten (changes will indeed be made in future)) in no particular order.

Philadelphia Story
Slapshot
His Girl Friday
Dark City
Singin' in the Rain
Swingtime
The Godfather (Directors Cut)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Uncorked
Mel Gibson's Hamlet

Ruf's films should be put on a separate list.

[ambra]

In no particular order, favorite non-Rufus movies:

Freaks
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Some Like it Hot
Casino Royale--the Bond movie, not the David Niven comedy
Airplane!
Animal House
Hamlet 2
Serenity
Slither
Psycho--the original, not the remake

[robbiesheik]

1st of all I have to say how tickled I am to see there are other Jimmy Stewart fans here. But I shouldn't be surprised. WE all know talent when we see it!!!

OK my list:

1. The Philadelphia Story
2. Pride and Prejudice (new one)
3. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (Ok not movie but mini series...but oh how I love it and watch it over and over!!)
4. Spring Forward
5. The Station Agent
6. Me Without You
7. Dangerous Beauty/Uncorked (tied for fave Ruf movie)
8. Donnie Darko
9.Sense and Sensibility
10. Gentleman's Agreement

[tipou]

gentleman's agreement! yessss!!!! i loved gregory peck! well i have to add
the omen
arabesque
roman holiday
boys from brazil - for the sheer fun of seeing mr. peck as a vvvery good baddie
moby dick
and i will put another copy of "to kill a mockingbird" just incase

as per james stewart - waht can i say. anyone ever existed that did not like him, except perhaps a few unfortunate german soldiers?

the glen miller story
the man who shot liberty valance
rear window

these two gentleman would certainly be in tipou's top ten list of handsomest-gentlemen-actors-ever-to-have-graced-the-face-of-the-earth list. so far, rufus seems to be worthy to belong to that list, if what i read about him is true.

my only regret is that he did not play more baddies, he was totally terrifying when he did, with those dangerous blue eyes. brrrrrrrr.

[rugirl]

Top Movie List for Today (reserving the right to modify as I think of more):

1) Psycho - best thriller of all time

2) Last Tango in Paris - or "The Last Time I Ate Butter", you have to see the movie to understand

3)The Pink Panther with Peter Sellers, pure comedy genius

4) What's Up Doc? Streisand/O'Neal comedy chemistry really worked

5)Suspicion - Cary Grant as a baddie is amazing

6)Tootsie - Dustin Hoffman is comedy royalty, I laugh every time I see this movie (and I've seen it about 30 times)

7)To Have and Have Not - Lauren Bacall, the ultimate femme fatale

8)Goodfellas - because I'm from NY and I love gangster movies, remind me of home

9) Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown - Pedro Almodovar's breakout hit, a hodgepodge of storylines that work hilariously well

10) Hannah and Her Sisters - homage to NY and such well-developed characters, Michael Caine won an well-deserved Oscar here.

I am sure there is more to come.....there always is!

[catdishy]

Here's my Saturday morning list:

Bread and Tulips
Swept Away (the Lina Wertmuller one, not the Madonna one)
Summertime
Love in the Ruins
Bringing up Baby
Notorious
THe Women
Heat and Dust
Love, Actually

[GreenEyesToo]

Okay, my list is ten of the films that have been my absolute favourite at various times:

~ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (which qualifies as my all-time favourite. Won't tell you how many times I've seen it, but I know the entire script off by heart )
~ Harvey (Jimmy Stewart version)
~ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
~ What's Up Doc?
~ The Hot Rock
~ Four Weddings and a Funeral
~ The Goodbye Girl
~ The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
~ At Sachem Farm/Higher Love/Uncorked
~ The Squeeze (Michael Keaton, not the Stacy Keach one)

Oh, no - just thought of two more:

~ Ring of Bright Water (cried buckets at that one)
~ Brian's Song (TV movie - the original one with a young and still pretty James Caan - wept buckets at that one, too)