[drewbaldy]

In no order (also, these are my favorites, not particularly the best)

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Up
3. Jurassic Park
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Vanilla Sky
6. Hostel
7. Star Trek (new one)
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9. Ghostbusters
10. Step Brothers
11. The Man From Nowhere
12. Watchmen
13. The Dark Knight trilogy
14. The Avengers
15. Cabin in the Woods

Sorry, had to do top 15. Three of them came out this year. Weird.

[revkev151]

Originally Posted by saofan_315

10. The Emporer's New Groove

Yeah nostalgia!!!

[TorontoMatt]

I was expecting more hate for my bullshit post so I could post this gif




Anyway, my real list would be in no real order:

The Ten Commandments
Snatch
Matrix
Drive
Desperado
Meet Joe Black(maybe)
Munich
Casino Royale
Memento
Rounders
The Sixth Sense

[drat!]

Fight Club
Revolver
Rushmore
Chinatown
Taxi Driver
Gangs of New York
American Psycho
Seven Samurai
Garden State
The United States of Leland

[fran.182]

I'll go top 15 'cause that allows me to separate the movies of my life from those I "only" love...

1. The Butterfly Effect
2. Fight Club
3. (500) Days Of Summer
4. American Beauty
5. Donnie Darko
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Inception
8. Pulp Fiction
9. The Dark Knight
10. The Usual Suspects
11. Se7en
12. Inglourious Basterds
13. The Departed
14. Mulholland Dr.
15. Lost In Translation

[Tetragrammaton]

Originally Posted by deadkidsean

The Butterfly Effect to Mulholland Dr.


That's some goddamn range.

I haven't seen that one, but the rest of his top five are among my most hated films. It is an eclectic list, though.

[Cody Nelson]

Originally Posted by Stephen Chamberlain

Decided to do a list and I kept trying to stop at a multiple of five and next thing I knew I was at twenty-five. No possible way to order them, and overall I'd just call them my favorite twenty-five films right now. Unsurprisingly (for me, since my knowledge of earlier film is limited), the 90s and 00s are the most represented decades, and Grandrieux the most featured auteur with three films. As cshadows2887 said, bring on the hate.

Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
A Casa aka The House (Sharunas Bartas, 1997)
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998)
No Quarto da Vanda aka In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000)
L'Homme qui ment aka The Man Who Lies (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1968)
Kamen aka Stone (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1992)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)
La vie nouvelle aka A New Life (Phillipe Grandrieux, 2002)
ユリイカ aka Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Out 1 (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
Combat d'amour en songe aka Love Torn in Dream (Raúl Ruiz, 2000)
Un Lac aka A Lake (Phillipe Grandrieux, 2008)
Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
O Sangue aka The Blood (Pedro Costa, 1989)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
สุดเสน่หา aka Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
La vallée close aka Closed Valley (Jean-Claude Rousseau, 1995)
Duelle (une quarantaine) (Jacques Rivette, 1976)
Сталкер aka Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
The Hart of London (Jack Chambers, 1970)
洞 aka The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, 1998)

When I get more room on my computer and a better ratio on PtP, or DVD service back on Netflix (whichever happens first), I really need to look into some of these, because I've heard of literally four of them.

[theDrivingSnow]

Originally Posted by Cody Nelson

When I get more room on my computer and a better ratio on PtP, or DVD service back on Netflix (whichever happens first), I really need to look into some of these, because I've heard of literally four of them.

Thanks for the interest. Overall, there's a definite bias toward visual poetry, psychosexual themes, emphasis of atmosphere/mood over story/message/character, and duration (read: the long take/slow cinema). Many (if not most) will not be available on Netflix, and some (e.g. Kamen and Out 1) are probably not on PtP. Karagarga would be your best option; I think all but Showgirls are there.

[Cody Nelson]

Originally Posted by Stephen Chamberlain

Thanks for the interest. Overall, there's a definite bias toward visual poetry, psychosexual themes, emphasis of atmosphere/mood over story/message/character, and duration (read: the long take/slow cinema). Many (if not most) will not be available on Netflix, and some (e.g. Kamen and Out 1) are probably not on PtP. Karagarga would be your best option; I think all but Showgirls are there.

Duly noted. I know I have an account on Karagarga, but it's gone almost completely unused for a month or so. I wouldn't be surprised if it's suspended due to inactivity. Might have to check that tonight.

[fran.182]

Originally Posted by deadkidsean

It's a massive pile of shit.

It was bashed by critics, but it was well received among audiences (Rotten Tomatoes: 81%; IMDb: 7.7). And I'm pretty sure that if Ashton Kutcher wasn't starring it wouldn't be so hated. It was the first movie to hit me, so it's a truly special one for me.

Anyway, those are just my favorites. Relating plays a big role. I'm aware there are better films out there (Mulholland Dr. is the best thing I've ever seen, though and, creatively, it opened doors for me, more than anything else).

By the way, it's particularly hard for me to understand how someone can hate American Beauty. I really think that's one of the best dramas ever made. Great characters, excellent performances, hypnotizing ambience, perfect tension build up, beautiful emotional ending... It's always the first film I recommend. I think everyone can at least enjoy it...

[SweetBasil]

Fight Club
American History X
Dogma
Toy Story 1 & 3
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Milk
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

All of those are pretty well up there in my opinion. Although, there are a lot more movies I need to see before making a proper top 10.

[Tetragrammaton]

Originally Posted by fran.182

By the way, it's particularly hard for me to understand how someone can hate American Beauty. I really think that's one of the best dramas ever made. Great characters, excellent performances, hypnotizing ambience, perfect tension build up, beautiful emotional ending... It's always the first film I recommend. I think everyone can at least enjoy it...

I think it's one of the worst dramas ever made. I can't think of a single good thing about it. The main character is an obnoxious man-child, the wife is an unrealistic shrew, the repressed homosexual homophobe is offensive, the kid is annoying. It is a lazy and dumb "critique" of suburbia.

[Argentine]

Originally Posted by Tetragrammaton

I think it's one of the worst dramas ever made. I can't think of a single good thing about it. The main character is an obnoxious man-child, the wife is an unrealistic shrew, the repressed homosexual homophobe is offensive, the kid is annoying. It is a lazy and dumb "critique" of suburbia.

Exactly all of this. One of the most obnoxious, ham-fisted, horrible suburbia pieces ever.

[fran.182]

Originally Posted by deadkidsean

Not hating on you man. Dig what you dig. Just not a big fan of that movie.

Yeah, I know. I just enjoy discussing... ^^

Have you a posted a list?

[Wake Up]

Originally Posted by fran.182

Yeah, I know. I just enjoy discussing... ^^

Have you a posted a list?

yeah he has!

Originally Posted by deadkidsean

Requiem For A Dream
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Cars 2
The Boondock Saints
Highlander 2: The Quickening
The Hitcher [remake]
The Love Guru
Alone In The Dark
Dreamcatcher
Precious

I could've added more, but these are just so much better than every movie I've ever seen in my entire life.