EWB Top 20 Films

[Big Tuna]

1. Fight Club

2. The Departed

3. Se7en

4. Memento

5. The Usual Suspects

6. American History X

7. V For Vendetta

8. Pulp Fiction

9. Sin City

10. Blood Diamond

11. The Green Mile

12. Lucky Number Slevin

13. Boondock Saints

14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

15. Superbad

16. Knocked Up

17. Clerks

18. Dumb & Dumber

19. 300

20. Taxi Driver

[bdsghost]

1. Ghostbusters (How could you all not list this film? My God...)

2. Shaun of the Dead

3. Batman Begins

4. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

5. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

6. Hot Fuzz

7. Almost Famous

8. Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back

9. Live Free or Die Hard

10. Casino Royale

11. The Monster Squad

12. Star Wars A New Hope

13. Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith

14. Transformers

15. Blackhawk Down

16. Grindhouse

17. Halloween (The Original Version)

18. The Devil's Rejects

19. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

20. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...

[Vendetta]

1. Jaws

2. The Godfather Part 1

3. 300

4. Silence of the Lambs

5. Die Hard with a Vengeance

6. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

7. The Rock

8. Face Off

9. Across The Universe

10. Live Free or Die hard (saw 4 times)

11. Top Gun

12. The Devils Rejects

13. Superbad

14. The Godfather Part 2

15. Charlie Wilson's War

16. Suicide Kings

17. The Last King of Scotland

18. Nightmare on Elm Street

19. Friday the 13th

20. Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Edited February 15, 2008 by Wahoo Vendetta

[Timmoru Suzuki]

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Serenity

3. Fight Club

4. LA Confidential

5. American Beauty

6. Monty Pyhton and The Holy Grail!

7. Goodfellas

8. The Long Good Friday

9. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid

10. This is England

11.The Wicker Man (1973 Original)

12. Sin City

13. Reservoir Dogs

14. Airplane!

15. Battle Royale

16. A Few Good Men

17. The Usual Suspects

18. American Pyscho

19. Die Hard

20. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

I'm very unsure of order from 10 downwards, and I left Sunshine, Shawshank Redemption and something else off that I wanted on there, but heh. Also, honourable mentions to 28 Days Later and Good Night and Good Luck.

[Sousa]

1. Ghostbusters

2. This is Spinal Tap

3. American Beauty

4. Big Fish

5. The Shawshank Redemption

6. Waiting for Guffman

7. Braveheart

8. The Green Mile

9. Best in Show

10. Van Helsing ("THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH, I FEAR NO EVIL! YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF DAMN FOOLS!")

11. The Princess Bride

12. Spider-Man 2

13. X-Men 2

14. Aladdin

15. Clue

16. Finding Neverland

17. The Dead Poets Society

18. Memento

19. Fight Club

20. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (And I know I'm going to catch hell for putting this one on and no other Kevin Smith film, but screw y'all. Best dick and fart movie ever.)

Edited February 16, 2008 by JP Sousa is Not a Shark

[Pesci]

1st - 20 points

2nd - 15 points

3rd - 12 points

4th - 10th - 8 points

11th - 15th - 6 points

16th - 20th - 5 points

1. American Beauty

2. The Departed

3. Goodfellas

4. Pulp Fiction (actually, this would be above 2 and 3, and 2 and 3 would be the other way round as well - but I had to go by what might need the points the most)

5. Battle Royale

6. Reservoir Dogs

7. Rocky

8. The Godfather

9. The Shawshank Redemption

10. Die Hard

11. Terminator 2

12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

13. Forrest Gump

14. Shaun of the Dead (this has dropped places like a motherfucker)

15. Trainspotting

16. Scarface

17. Blow

18. Wayne's World

19. Kill Bill

20. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells

[dxhbk]

1. Citizen Kane

2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

3. 2001: A Space Odyssey

4. Vertigo

5. Seven Samurai

6. The Godfather

7. Casablanca

8. The Searchers

9. Raging Bull

10. Lawrence of Arabia

11. Touch of Evil

12. City of God

13. Hoop Dreams

14. Throne of Blood

15. Gone with the Wind

16. Apocalypse Now

17. Goodfellas

18. Léon

19. M

20. La Dolce Vita

Hoop Dreams is a documentary, so if that doesn't count then just move everything up one spot and add The General as number 20.

[Laice07]

1.) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

2.) Almost Famous

3.) Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring

4.) Citizen Kane

5.) Terminator 2: Judgement Day

6.) The Godfather

7.) Casablanca

8.) No Country For Old Men

9.) There Will Be Blood

10.) The 40 Year Old Virgin

11.) Lord Of The Rings: The Return of The King

12.) Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

13.) Aliens

14.) Pulp Fiction

15.) Goodfellas

16.) Raging Bull

17.) 2001: A Space Odyssey

18.) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

19.) Gone With The Wind

20.) Toy Story 2

[arwrestling]

1- Grease

2- Mr. & Mrs. Smith

3- Interview With A Vampire

4- Kill Bill 1

5- Kill Bill 2

6- Sin City

7- 300

8- Taking Lives

9- Little Miss Sunshine

10- Mortal Kombat

11- Memoirs Of A Geisha

12- Awake

13- Basic Instinct

14- Underworld: Evolution

15- Babel

16- Mortal Kombat Annihalation

17- Snakes On A Plane

18- Mrs. Doubtfire

19- I Am Legend

20- Angela's Ashes

Edited February 27, 2008 by arwrestling

[reyrey619]

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Snakes on a Plane

3. Goodfellas

4. The Godfather Part 2

5. Halloween

6. Reservoir Dogs

7. Shaun of the Dead

8. The Godfather

9. Anchorman

10. American History X

11. Billy Madison

12. Fight Club

13. Clerks

14. Super Troopers

15. 40 Year Old Virgin

16. Superbad

17. American Beauty

18. American Psycho

19. Heat

20. Donnie Darko

[Future-Shock]

1. From Dusk Till Dawn

2. Planet Terror

3. Death Proof

4. The 13th Warrior

5. Serenity

6. Big Trouble in Little China

7. Krull

8. The Warriors

9. Conan the Barbarian

10. Tremors 2: Aftershocks

11. The Usual Suspects

12. Tremors

13. Face/Off

14. Desperado

15. Reservoir Dogs

16. Army of Darkness

17. Slither

18. Die Hard

19. The Rock

20. Escape from New York

[DeeJam]

1) A Beautiful Mind

2) American Me

3) Colors

4) American History X

5) Blow

6) Scarface

7) Blood In Blood Out

8) The Notebook

9) Desporado

10) Face/Off

11) Grease

12) Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy

13) Fight Club

14) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I

15) Batman Begins

16) Stigmata

17) The Last Samurai

18) Hero

19) Bad Boys

20) Cinderella Man

[TCO]

1. Shawshank Redemption

2. Forrest Gump

3. The Departed

4. I am Legend

5. Crash

6. Pursuit of Happyness

7. I-Robot

8. Happy Gilmore

9. Finding Nemo

10. Wedding Crashers

11. The Longest Yard (Remake)

12. Snatch

13. Dumb and Dumber

14. Toy Story

15. Fight Club

16. Oceans 11 (Remake)

17. Sin City

18. Donnie Darko

19. Million Dollar Baby

20. Click

[maddog]

1. The Godfather II

2. The Wizard of Oz

3. It's a Wonderful Life

4. The Godfather

5. Star Wars: A New Hope

6. Dr. Strangelove

7. Full Metal Jacket

8. West Side Story

9. Birth of a Nation (I have a feeling I'll be one of the few to vote for this. I did a film project on racism and watched this. It's very well made, especially for it's time, and is a great insight into 1910s Racism. And if you can get over the fact it's extremely racist, it's a good plotline.)

10. M*A*S*H

11. Forrest Gump

12. The Deer Hunter

13. Rocky

14. Goodfellas

15. Duck Soup

16. La Vita è Bella

17. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back

18. The Matrix

19. American History X

20. 300

Edited February 20, 2008 by maddog

[JSV]

1. Die Hard

2. The Road Warrior (a.k.a Mad Max 2)

3. Lethal Weapon

4. Pulp Fiction

5. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

6. Die Hard 4.0 (a.k.a Live Free Or Die Hard)

7. John Rambo (a.k.a Rambo 4)

8. American Beauty

9. Usual Suspects

10. Old School

11. Ace Ventura

12. Die Hard With A Vengeance

13. Grindhouse

14. Sin City

15. Rocky

16. Rocky III

17. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

18. Snatch

19. Snakes On A Plane

20. Tears Of The Sun

[Guest timelesstequila]

1. The Godfather II

2. Memento

3. One Flew over The Cuckoos Nest

4. The Big Lebowski

5. Usual Suspects

6. The Departed

7. Goodfellas

8. Pulp Fiction

9. Reservoir Dogs

10. No Country for Old Men

11. Schindlers List

12. Forrest Gump

13. I am Legend.

14. Shawshank Redemption

15. The Shining

16. Fargo

17. Fight Club

18. The Matrix

19. Face/Off

20. Scarface

[Mling]

1. Scarface

2. Ghostbusters

3. The Karate Kid

4. Tremors

5. The Wedding Singer

6. 300

7. Nightmare on Elm Street

8. Star Wars: Revenge of the sith

9. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

10. Pathfinder

11. Rocky

12. Rocky Balboa

13. Rocky II

14. John Rambo ( Thats Rambo 4)

15. Friday The 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan

16. Tremors 2: Aftershocks

17. Tremors 3: Back to perfection

18. Ladder 49

19. John Q

20. Rambo: First Blood

Edited February 23, 2008 by Mling

[arwrestling]

Just wanted to say I changed my list on page 2...

My number 20 was originaly Underworld but I changed it to Angela's Ashes.... The rest is the same... Thanks.

[brenchill]

Just wanted to say I changed my list on page 2...

My number 20 was originaly Underworld but I changed it to Angela's Ashes.... The rest is the same... Thanks.

[brenchill]

20. SUPERBAD (2007) 34 points

Directed by: Gregg Mottola

Starring: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Bill Hader.

Seth and Evan are best friends, inseparable, navigating the last weeks of high school. Usually shunned by the popular kids, Seth and Evan luck into an invitation to a party, and spend a long day, with the help of their nerdy friend Fogell, trying to score enough alcohol to lubricate the party and inebriate two girls, Jules and Becca, so they can kick-start their sex lives and go off to college with a summer full of experience and new skills. Their quest is complicated by Fogell's falling in with two inept cops who both slow and assist the plan. If they do get the liquor to the party, what then? Is sex the only rite of passage at hand?

19. SNATCH (2000) 35 points

Directed by: Guy Ritchie

Starring: Jason Stantham, Stephen Graham, Brad Pitt & Alan Ford

Turkish and his close friend/accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets the shit kicked out of him by Pitt, a 'pikey' ( slang for an Irish Gypsy)- who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including 'Cousin Avi', 'Boris The Blade', 'Franky Four Fingers' and 'Bullet Tooth Tony'. Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog!

19 (TIED). BATTLE ROYALE (2000) 35 points

Directed by: Kinji Fukasku

Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto & Chiaki Kuriyama

Forty-two delinquent students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of delinquent students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a new forum of reality television.The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focus on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mistuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and classmates to survive?

19 (TIED). MEMENTO (2000) 35 points

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano & Mark Boon Junior

A memory inside a memory, Memento is a complicated head spinning adventure. Award winning Guy Pearce plays Leonard, who is determined to avenge his wives murder. However, unable to remember anything that happens day-to-day due to a condition he sustained, short term memory loss, he has to write himself note after note that still don't mean anything after he falls asleep. The film goes back in time to reveal each little bit of the puzzle as he tries to find out the person who killed his wife and makes the audience feel just as confused as he is. The narrative closely follows a phone call Pearce has in which he talks about Sammy Jankis a former client of his who he believed had the same condition. The film takes an unexpected twist as the two characters have a lot more in common than is initially put across. Nominated for 2 Oscars this film is a definite must see for anyone who enjoys a mystery.

18. DONNIE DARKO (2001) 40 points

Directed by: Richard Kelly

Starring: Jake Gylenhaal, Holmes Osbourne, Maggie Gylenhaal & James Duval

Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

18 (TIED). SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) 40 points

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba & Seiji Miyaguchi

A village is constantly attacked by well armed bandits. One day after an attack they seek the wisdom of an elder who tells them they cannot afford weapons, but they can find men with weapons, samurai, who will fight for them, if they find samurai who are in down on their luck and wondering where their next meal will come from. They find a very experienced samurai with a good heart who agrees to recruit their party for them. He selects five genuine samurai and one who is suspect but the seven return to the village to protect it from the forty plus bandits.

17. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) 41 Points

Directed by: Darren Afonofsky

Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jenniffer Connelly & Marlon Wayans

Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Doing their best to succeed in the world, but failing miserably, four people get hooked on various drugs. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.

16. STAR WARS (1977) 42 points

Directed by: George Lucas

Starring: Mark Hammill, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness & Carrie Fisher

Part IV in a George Lucas epic, Star Wars: A New Hope opens with a rebel ship being boarded by the tyrannical Darth Vader. The plot then follows the life of a simple farmboy, Luke Skywalker, as he and his newly met allies (Han Solo, Chewbacca, Ben Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2) attempt to rescue a rebel leader, Princess Leia, from the clutches of the Empire. The conclusion is culminated as the Rebels, including Skywalker and flying ace Wedge Antilles make an attack on the Empires most powerful and ominous weapon, the Death Star.

16 (TIED). LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001) 42 points

Directed by: Peter Jackson

Starring: Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Sir Ian McKellen & Viggo Mortensen

An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!

15. CITIZEN KANE (1943) 43 points

Directed by: Orson Welles

Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead & Everett Sloane

Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" is widely considered to be the greatest film to ever come out of Hollywood. The film is basically about a group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world."

15 (TIED). AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999) 43 points

Directed by: Sam Mendes

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Wes Bentley & Thora Birch

Lester Burnham is suffering a mid-life crisis that affects the lives of his family, which is made up of his super bitch of a wife Carolyn and rebelling daughter Jane, who hates him. Carolyn is a real estate agent, a little too wrapped up in her job, who takes on an affair with business rival Buddy Kane. Meanwhile Jane seems to fall in love with Ricky Fitts, the strange boy next door, who is a drug dealer/documentarian and lives under a roof governed by a very strict marine father and a speechless mother. Lester's mid-life crisis causes him to drastically change his life around when he quits his job and works at a fast food restaurant. He starts working out to gain the attention of Angela, a friend of Jane's, who brags about her sexual exploits every weekend. Lives change and not for the best.

14. AMERICAN HISTORY X (1998) 44 points

Directed by: Tony Kaye

Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverely D'Angelo & Avery Brooks

Derek Vinyard returns from prison to find his younger brother, Danny, caught in the same web of racism and hatred that landed him in prison. After Derek's father is killed in the line of duty by a minority, Derek's view of mankind is altered, but while in prison, he discovers that there is good and bad in every race. The task before him now is to convince Danny of his newfound enlightenment.

13. THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995) 47 points

Directed by: Bryan Singer

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Stephin Baldwin & Kevin Pollak

Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned and very scared Hungarian terrorist and Verbal Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining exactly what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects on a hijacked truck and ends with the possible identification of a criminal mastermind

In the next post I'll put up the results of 12th - 6th.

Edited March 2, 2008 by BC