EWB Top 20 Films

[brenchill]

EWB Top 20

FILMS

Are you tired of seeing The Godfather top the film polls? Never even heard of Citizen Kane? Well now's your chance to play your part in EWB's own Top Films poll.

There are no rules on criteria, base your list on whatever appeals to you personally, if you prefer a balls-to-the-walls revenge flick over a three hour character drama then that's completely your preference. The only rule is it must of been a full length feature, no short films.

POINTS

1st - 20 points

2nd - 15 points

3rd - 12 points

4th - 10th - 8 points

11th - 15th - 6 points

16th - 20th - 5 points

I'll post the result on March 1st.

Edited February 13, 2008 by butchchill

[Baddar]

The trouble for me listing 25 "favourite" films is I'd probably end up thinking of a good one, then putting it in and end up leaving out one I preferred when it comes to the end of it. So, are you looking for us all to list a full 25?

And, I'm tired of The Godfather topping the film polls because I've bought the trilogy from Play.com and I've never actually got round to watching any of them.

[brenchill]

The trouble for me listing 25 "favourite" films is I'd probably end up thinking of a good one, then putting it in and end up leaving out one I preferred when it comes to the end of it. So, are you looking for us all to list a full 25?

[Skummy]

1. Eraserhead

2. Withnail & I

3. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

4. Dolls

5. Sunset Blvd.

6. Amelie

7. Down By Law

8. The Straight Story

9. Hana-Bi

10. A Very Long Engagement

11. Battle Royale

12. Dr. Strangelove

13. The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari

14. Grave Of The Fireflies

15. Blue Velvet

16. Mulholland Drive

17. Wild Strawberries

18. Army Of Darkness

19. Night Of The Living Dead

20. I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK

[Dr. Rated-R]

1. The Exorcist

2. There's Something About Mary

3. Superbad

4. The Shining

5. The Haunting (1963)

6. Borat

7. Juno

8. The Fly (1986)

9. The Big Lebowski

10. Ed Wood

11. Spider-Man 2

12. Frankenstein (1931)

13. The Devil's Rejects

14. A Nightmare on Elm Street

15. Chasing Amy

16. The Blair Witch Project

17. The Exorcist III

18. House on Haunted Hill (1959)

19. Evil Dead II

20. Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story

[GRIFT]

1. Cool Hand Luke

2. Reservoir Dogs

3.Taxi Driver

4. Big Lebowski

5. Caddyshack

6. Gangs of New York

7. High Fidelity

8. Professional Killer

9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

10. American Psycho

11. Ballad of Cable Hogue

12. Yojimbo

13. The Hustler

14. The 25th Hour

15. They Live

16. The Shape of Things

17. Igby Goes Down

18. SLC Punk

19. Green Street Hooligans

20. Street Fighter (The Sonny Chiba film)

[brenchill]

1 The Usual Suspects

(Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Chaz Palminteri)

2 Pulp Fiction

(Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman)

3 Heat

(Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Tom Sizemore, Val Kilmer)

4 Raging Bull

(Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent)

5 Goodfellas

(Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Paul Sorvino)

6 Die Hard

(Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Reginald VelJohnson, Bonnie Bedelia)

7 American Psycho

(Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto)

8 Fight Club

(Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf)

9 Reservoir Dogs

(Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn)

10 Batman

(Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl)

11 True Romance

(Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Gary Oldman, Michael Rapaport)

12 Escape From New York

(Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasance, Isaac Hayes)

13 The Godfather

(Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall)

14 Seven

(Bradd Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Gwymeth Paltrow)

15 Jackie Brown

(Samuel L. Jackson, Pam Grier, Robert DeNiro, Robert Forster)

16 The Killer

(Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu)

17 Twelve Monkeys

(Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe, David Morse)

18 Dead Man's Shoes

(Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell, Gary Stretch, Stuart Wolfenden)

19 The Long Good Friday

(Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman, Pierce Brosnan)

20 Glengarry Glen Ross

(Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey)

[GoGo Yubari]

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. Citizen Kane

3. Seven Samurai

4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

5. Spirited Away

6. Pulp Fiction

7. American Splendor

8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

9. 12 Angry Men

10. Goodfellas

11. Annie Hall

12. Duck Soup

13. Rashomon

14. Chasing Amy

15. Leon

16. Clerks

17. Heathers

18. Battle Royale

19. Zodiac

20. The Princess Bride

I should go find my list from the last time we did this just so I can laugh, because the placements here are probably fairly different from what they were like last time, as my opinions on these sorts of things depends on my state of mind aside from #1, which I'm betting was Eternal Sunshine last time too.

[Thatz]

1. Rocky

2. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

3. Casino Royale

4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

5. Die Hard

6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

7. The Bourne Ultimatum

8. Raiders of the Lost Ark

9. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

11. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

12. Goldfinger

13. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

14. Die Hard with a Vengeance

15. First Blood (Rambo)

16. Goldeneye

17. Gladiator

18. Rocky III

19. Star Wars: A New Hope

20. Remember the Titans

I'm partial to certain series... >_>

[Ananas]

1. Star Wars

2. Casablanca

3. The Matrix

4. The Godfather

5. The Bicycle Thief

6. 8 1/2

7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

8. The Great Escape

9. It's A Wonderful Life

10. Swingers

11. Dogma

12. Amelie

13. Empire Strikes Back

14. Goodfellas

15. Rashomon

16. Lost in Translation

17. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

18. Young Frankenstein

19. Mulholland Drive

20. Donnie Darko

Might fiddle with the margins at some point, but that's the basic structure of it.

[AboveAverage]

1. The Shawshank Redemption

2. The Departed

3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

5. A Beautiful Mind

6. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

7. Crimson Tide

8. Sin City

9. Rain Man

10. Face/Off

11. Gladiator

12. The Usual Suspects

13. Kill Bill: Volume 1

14. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

15. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

16. Air Force One

17. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

18. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

19. V for Vendetta

20. Die Hard With a Vengeance

I'm sure I'll wind up editting at some point.

Edited February 13, 2008 by AboveAverage

[livid]

01. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy

02. HEAT

03. Goodfellas

04. Knocked Up

05. Pulp Fiction

06. Reservoir Dogs

07. Batman Begins

08. Snatch

09. Man on Fire

10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

11. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

12. Insomnia

13. The Departed

14. American Beauty

15. Dodgeball

16. The Presitge

17. The Insider

18. 25th Hour

19. Fight Club

20. Grandma's Boy

There's a good chance that I'll edit these since I've seen and loved so many movies that it's pretty hard to narrow down.

[wCwCreator]

the list of gods...

1. Heat

2. Pulp Fiction

3. The Godfather

4. Collateral

5. Snatch

6. Gladiator

7. Unforgiven

8. The Bourne Identity

9. Blade Runner

10. Lost in Translation

11. Leon the Professional

12. Memento

13. Thursday

14. Layer Cake

15. A Very Long Engagement

16. Spiderman 2

17. Equilibrium

18. Dark City

19. Paradise Now

20. Lovers of the Arctic Circles.

you may now pray.

Edited February 14, 2008 by wCwCreator

[Regia]

1. Fightclub

2. A Clockwork Orange

3. American History X

4. Trainspotting

5. Sin City

6. Snatch

7. Desperado

8. Requiem for a Dream

9. Green Street

10. Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels

11. SLC Punk

12. Rambo

13. The Quick And the Dead

14. Rocky II

15. Happy Gillmore

16. The Butterfly Effect

17. Mr Deeds

18. Toy Story

19. Football Factory

20. Doom

Edited February 15, 2008 by regia

[Guest Testmatch]

1. Requiem For A Dream - Most depressing movie ever made. Loved it

2. Bullet - Not the Steve McQueen version. The Mickey Rourke/Tupac Shakur version. Very underrated movie.

3. Midnight Express - True story about a man put in prison for drug smuggling. Only Requiem was more hardhitting than this.

4. American History X - What a performance from Edward Norton.

5. Full Metal Jacket - Best war movie ever made.

6. Pulp Fiction - The coolest movie ever made.

7. Kill Bill Vol 1 - Action is awesome. I never thought I'd ever enjoy a movie where the action lead is a lady. Tarantino convinced me .

8. Once Were Warriors : Jake the Muss.

9. Mad Max 2 : Hard core action.

10. First Blood : The most underrated action movie ever made.

11. When A Stranger Calls (1984 version) : Scariest movie I've ever seen. The movie still gives me the creeps.

12. Rocky 3 : Good old Sly.

13. New Jack City : Wesley Snipes in his prime.

14. Breakdance : I've lost all credibility now....lol. You are a product of your youth and I liked 80s breakdancing as a kid. Worth looking at for a Van Damme cameo...hillarious.

15. Romper Stomper : Go Crowe.

16. Missing in Action 2 : Braddock Vs Yin. Chuck at his best.

17. Death Wish 3: Charles Bronson vs every mugger in New York. Classic.

18. The Karate Kid : Geez, I've played this movie a lot of times in my life.

19. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly : Clint at his prime.

20. Scarface : What is there NOT to like?

[phatman]

01. Donnie Darko

02. The Girl Next Door

03. Superbad

04. Knocked Up

05. Halloween (Original)

06. Reservoir Dogs

07. Juno

08. Napoleon Dynamite

09. Labyrinth

10. The Karate Kid

11. The Rules Of Attraction

12. Wristcutters

13. A Nightmare On Elm Street

14. Brick

15. Transformers

16. Varsity Blues

17. The Toxic Avenger

18. Youngblood

19. Fight Club

20. London

A mixed bag of movies there but just my personal preference...

[Chris the Human]

1. The Shawshank Redemption: Only gets better through repeat viewings.

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: An emotionally and visually stunning journey. My favourite Kauffman film.

3. American Beauty: One of those films that totally changed my view of life at the time, and it still catches me everytime.

4. Fight Club: An edgy, enthralling thrill ride. The first R-rated movie I ever saw.

5. La Vita e Bella: Just heart-wrenching. Holocaust movies are always a sensitive subject, but this one attacks it from an entirely different perspective and succeeds on so many levels.

6. No Country for Old Men: A visually stunning cat and mouse, and ignores so many Hollywood conventions that you can't help but feel sobered by the ending.

7. Stranger Than Fiction: It's cute and quirky, sure, but there's something deeper in the flick. A really good 'serious' outing from Ferrell.

8. The Departed: I would probably prefer Infernal Affairs if it was in English, and definitely prefer the IA ending - but The Departed was slick and stylish, and wonderfully cast.

9. Fellowship of the Ring: I know Return gets all of the props and Towers had more action, but I don't think I ever came out of a movie as buzzed as I did after Fellowship. Just visually stunning, wonderfully cast, and epic in every sense of the word.

10. Oldboy: I dread the day when Hollywood gets ballsy enough to bastardise this into a Hollywood film. The content, the style... it's just a wonderfully made movie.

11. The Green Mile: Like Shawshank, this one is just a beautifully told story. Heart-wrenching and amusing and shocking - it's a ride (to use a cliche) that only improves with time.

12. A Love Song for Bobby Long: I'm sure it wasn't everybody's cup of tea, but I liked the humanity of the drama. It's just a few people and their story without a big budget or epic fight scenes, but it works. Plus, you know, there's some Scarlett Johannsen side-boob

13. Sin City: Translated brilliantly from graphic novel to the big screen without losing any of its style. It's gory and dark and sexy in all of the right places.

14. Pulp Fiction: It's probably a cliche to like this movie, but it's just the complete package. The dialogue and soundtrack, like most everything Tarantino touches, is gold - and the cast has a fantastic chemistry.

15. Battle Royale: Maybe I'm biased because I'm a enamored with CSAMH's game of the same name, but there's something of a guilty pleasure to be found in watching school-children murder one another.

16. The Boondock Saints: It's criminal that this movie wasn't a bigger box office success. It's witty, its violent, and it has Billy fucking Connelly in it!

17. Cruel Intentions: It's no Shakespearean epic, but the sheer steamy sensuality of it scores points for me. There's not a lot of flesh on show, sure, but they say that there's a lot to be said for seduction. Gellar is positively sexual in this.

18. Super Troopers: My favourite comedy film of all time for sheer replay value. I could quote this ad nauseum and never tire of it. Nothing spectacular plot wise, but it's good, innocent fun.

19. Casino Royale: I was never much of a Bond fan, good though the films were, until seeing this. Craig takes the role and reinvents it without the cliches and catch-phrases that had begun to wear thin for me under the previous incarnation. With most of the cheese cut out, it made Bond bad-ass again.

20. Collateral: Another great cat and mouse film, and like No Country, it's delivered with style and flair. Cruise is positively intimidating while Foxx turns whiny bitch without flinching. Thoroughly enjoyable.

[Pepsi]

1. L.A. Confidential

2. Requiem for a Dream

3. Seven

4. Juno

5. Casino

6. Pan's Labyrinth

7. Fight Club

8. Heat

9. Children of Men

10. Mulholland Dr.

11. Shaun of the Dead

12. Chasing Amy

13. Grindhouse

14. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

15. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

16. Brick

17. Donnie Darko

18. Magnolia

19. V for Vendetta

20. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Edited February 14, 2008 by Pepsi

[FLiam]

1. Pulp Fiction.

2. Die Hard.

3. Fight Club.

4. Stand by Me.

5. Clerks.

6. Apocalypse Now.

7. Cloverfield.

8. Brotherhood (Taegukgi).

9. The Departed.

10. Boyz 'n The Hood

11. Aladdin.

12. Shawshank Redemption.

13. Saving Private Ryan.

14. Taxi Driver.

15. Leon.

16. Downfall.

17. The Breakfast Club.

18. No Country For Old Men.

19. Toy Story.

20. The Lion King.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

1. Seven Samurai (1954)

2. Zatoichi (2003)

3. Fight Club (1999)

4. Amelie (2001)

5. Battle Royale (2000)

NOBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

6. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)

7. Alien (1979)

8. Apocalypse Now (1979)

9. Ran (1985)

10. Sunshine (2007)

11. Oldboy (2003)

12. Infernal Affairs (2002)

13. Trainspotting (1996)

14. Gosford Park (2001)

15. The Sting (1973)

16. Snatch (2000)

17. Jaws (1975)

18. Carry On Camping (1969)

19. Intacto (2001)

20. Hero (2002)

Just for my own maths...

+ 5 British movies, 5 American, 4 Japanese, 2 Chinese, 1 French, 1 Korean, 1 Spanish, 1 US/UK partnership.

+ Takeshi Kitano (Zatoichi, Battle Royale), Tony Leung (Infernal Affairs & Hero) and Brad Pitt (Fight Club & Snatch) appear in two movies.

+ Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Ran) directs two of the movies.

+ Seven of the movies were released while I was at university.

+ 2001 was apparantly the best year for movies with Intacto, Gosford Park and Amelie all released. However 1979 had Alien and Apocalypse Now, 2002 had Hero and Infernal Affairs, 2003 had Zatoichi and Oldboy (two mindblowing trips to the cinema on a whim) and 2000 had Snatch and Battle Royale.

+ I own all these movies except The Sting.

+ Three involve samurai, two are love stories, two are science fiction, two are very different sorts of comedy (Battle Royale and Carry On), two are caper movies and one is a period murder mystery....Among others in the list.

+ One is an excellent re-imagining of Shakespeare's King Lear (guess which one).

Edited February 29, 2008 by ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster