My Top Ten Films.

This can change daily or even hourly, but would you like to tell us your favourites. We'll get an idea of what you like and what you don't and we might find some we've missed.

1. A Few Good Men
2. The Hunt For Red October
3. A Walk in the Woods
5. Vantage Point
6. Fun With Dick & Jane
7. Ghost
8. Water Horse
9. Pet Semetary (The first one...the 2nd one is awful)
10. 88 Minutes

I love the Vera Stanhope DVD's and The Shetland Island ones

I have to add The Martian to this list somewhere. Loved that movie.

Jagten aka The Hunt. 2012. Denmark.
Sling Blade 1996. US.
Cook County 2009. US.
OldBoy 2003. S. Korea.
As Good as It Gets 1997. U.S.
Untouchable 2011. France.
Trainspotting 1996. Scotland.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975. US.
Tyrannosaur 2011. UK.
Zatoichi 2003. Japan.
Adam's Apples 2005. Denmark

Obviously Spielberg, Ethan and Joel Cohen and Tarantino have given me enormous pleasure over the years, but my list of 10 (I know I can't count!) is special to me

>2 Carol420: Haven't heard of 88 minutes. Added to my list.

It's Al Pacino - 2008

>5 Carol420: The last thing I enjoyed with Pacino was "You Don't Know Jack", where he plays "Dr Death", the pro-euthanasia doctor, Jack Kervorkian.

Some of his are hit and miss. Scent of A Woman is one of my mother's favorites but I didn't care much for it. I liked this one because of the plot more than Al. The guy only had 88 minutes to solve the murder.

>7 Carol420: Not a fan of Scent of a Women either.

I lost my list of movie favorites at the sinking of HMS Shelfari. Now I will have to do some deep sea diving to dredge them up. But I will post it eventually.

>3 .cris: I also liked As Good as it Gets. It's also one of my mother's most requested. I know I've seen Trainspotting but I looked and I don't own it and I can't remember anything about it. Maybe I got it from the library. so will ahve to look again.

>9 Foghorn-Leghorn: Hire a salvage company:)

>9 Foghorn-Leghorn: I usually rate films on IMDb. I kinda gave up on Letterboxd. I kept forgetting about it.

>10 Carol420: I can't see you forgetting Trainspotting. Everybody knows the "Ewan McGregor down the toilet" scene.
https://youtu.be/R2GKVtWsXKY

Okay...it's coming back. He gets involved with a school girl about 15 or 16 years old? One of the guys dies...can't remember which one... and they go back to Scotland for the funeral. Is that right? Think I'll still get it and watch it again.

>14 Carol420:. You got it!

I have over 3000 movies listed on my IMDB account and you want me to narrow it down to 10! I'll see what I can do!

I still really like 'Twilight Samurai' and 'Hidden Blade'...also 'The Game' with Michael Douglas.

>17 C2.: Well, that's three!

>16 JulieLill: They don't' have to be the best, just special to you and an indication of what you like.

>2 Carol420: Do you ever watch sub-titled films?

>17 C2.: Love anything with Michael Douglas. I don't think I have ever seen him do a bad movie.

>20 .cris: I do but I sometimes miss things reading the sub- titles. I love the ones that they get the English translations wrong:) Amazing how one word can change the whole thing.

>21 Carol420: I did watch a Japanese manga/samurai film recently. The way the subtitle sentences were constructed made me read it in an Irish accent....so it did. It enhanced my enjoyment no end.

I watched a film once without the sub-titles that was totally in Gaelic...to just hear the language again. I grew up close to my grandparents that both spoke Gaelic at home. I can understand some but never really learned it as they were so insistent that all of their children spoke English. Of course by the time we grand children came along Gaelic was only spoken in their home and to one another.

>18 .cris: going to keep remembering and adding until I reach 10.

Another "memorable" is a Japanese movie, 'Ballad of Narayama.'

From Wikipedia:
"Still strong at the age of 69, Orin (Sumiko Sakamoto) prepares herself for an inevitable yet frightening ritual. In her village, where food is scarce, life is harsh and people are desperate and cruel. Anyone who lives for 70 years is hauled to the mountaintop by their children and left to die in the dead of winter. Orin is prepared to accept her fate, but she also has one last, all-important task -- she must find a suitable wife for her son, Tatsuhei (Ken Ogata)."

Note: 70 yrs. old seems somewhat "youngish" these days, so this movie is frightening.

>21 Carol420: Michael is a good actor.

>20 .cris: RE: Eng sub:

I find not always accurate or thorough...cultural jokes are lost in translation...you are limited by the translator's understanding of subject matter. Some historical Korean were amusing...seemed like an Oxford or Cambridge person translated it -- formal British "high-sounding" language with so many sesquipedalian words that I kept pausing the screen in order to define them to extract meaning. Maybe they wanted a "Shakespearean" effect to maintain the "formal" feeling of archaic history, and I don't have a problem with this genre, but in these Korean dramas all that seemed out of place. Perhaps since they wrote the dialogue in archaic Korean, which I am aware that they do in Korean historical dramas, they thought they needed to use English the same way. In my mind I kept saying, "why wasn't it said in this 'simpler' way?" I wanted to write to DramaFever to suggest that they re-do the translations so a younger generation can enjoy the wonderful action-packed dramas.

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Another Top Ten add:
'Sense and Sensibility'

(We're up to 5 now.)

In no particular ranking the following is a half-ass Top Ten list:

Sense and Sensibility
Twilight Samurai
The Hidden Blade
The Game
The Ballad of Narayama

Okay, I got my Top Ten Movies as of June 2016 in no particular order-

Fiddler on the Roof 1971
Being There 1979
Forrest Gump 1994
Funny Girl 1968
The Sixth Sense 1999
Cloud Atlas 2012
Jaws 1975 We need a bigger boat!
Die Hard 1988
Pride and Prejudice 2005
Gone With the Wind 1939

I can watch all of these over and over again!

>26 JulieLill: Do I spy at least one other "bonnety" film? Can a wide-brimmed sun-hat be described as a bonnet?

>27 .cris: You lost me there? What is bonnety film?

>28 JulieLill: A period drama where the ladies wear bonnets, à la Austen and Bronte.

>29 .cris: I do have a couple of those films but thank goodness we don't have to dress like that- I don't look good in a bonnet!

>29 .cris: I probably would....if we could wear them backwards.

>27 .cris: Jane is rolling in her grave...with bonnet on.

>26 JulieLill: I like your list.

>24 C2.: I've heard of it, but haven't watched it. I won't be watching it with number two son. He's due from S Korea for a holiday this month, and I suspect he has his eye on my flying ducks. Picture added to gallery.

Well, Flixter finally let me back in. There must have been something wrong with the site or something!
And now I am starting to back up my films on letterboxd. I will look into IMDB, can you have a list there?

I am assuming these are for all-time favorites and not just for 2016.
These are in no particular order. And I've got so many others that are solid 4 stars.

Romeo and Juliet 1968
As It Is In Heaven 2004
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
Intouchables 2012
Kickass 2013
City of God 2003
A Prophet 2010
Sophie's Choice 1982
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc 1999
Life is Beautiful 1997

These should be up there with the other ones but so should many others.

Ice Cold In Alex 1958
Lord of the Rings Trilogy 2001

There's a couple there that interest me. Thanks Fog. Re IMDb: I've got a couple of lists there. My ratings list is public, but my "wish list" and "waiting for" list is private.

In no particular order - and subject to change as I think of other films I should have included...

• Forrest Gump
  
• The Usual Suspects
  
• Team America: World Police
  
• Evil Dead 2/Army of Darkness
  
• 12 Angry Men
  
• Pulp Fiction
  
• Inception
  
• The Shawshank Redemption
  
• The Big Lebowski
  
• Snatch
  

>37 ScoLgo: I like your list immensely. There's two I haven't seen and will be checking out. Thanks Stefan.

>37 ScoLgo: Are you having a little cheat here (I did)? Evil Dead, Army of Darkness is Evil Dead 3. Evil Dead 2 is called Dead by Dawn (according to IMDb). Which one is the best in your opinion.

>38 .cris: Thanks! Which two?

>40 ScoLgo: Evil Dead 2 or 3? Which is best? And Team America. I assumed that it was a rehash, in the style of Thunderbirds from the 60s/70s?

>39 .cris:: Hehe. Yep, it is a slight cheat. Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness are separate movies but AoD is a direct sequel/continuation as it picks up precisely where EDII ends so I listed them together. By contrast, Evil Dead II, (my dvd does not have the 'Dead by Dawn' title), is actually an attempt by Raimi & Co. to improve upon the first movie, (which I also really like). Raimi, Tapert, & Campbell made the original Evil Dead on a shoe-string budget as a college film project and, after it hit big, they went back and re-made it as Evil Dead II. It's really a sort of parody/remake of the first film more than being a sequel. I read Bruce Campbell's book, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor a few years ago and he talks about it in some detail. It is a funny and informative book and I highly recommend it for anyone that is a fan of the films.

Looking at your list, I also really wanted to include Sling Blade, Cuckoo's Nest and Trainspotting. I could not figure out how to squeeze in the Kill Bill movies either, (another cheat! ;), and I really vacillated between Inception and Memento for my Christopher Nolan entry. Same for Fargo and Lebowski. And I wasn't able to shoe-horn Darren Aronofsky in at all, (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, Pi), or the Wachowski's, (Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas are all brilliant - Jupiter Ascending... not so much, though I thought it was a fun film).

Too many good movies. Even if this was a top 25 list, I would have trouble whittling it down...

>42 ScoLgo: I think my list of English language only films would be very similar to yours.

>37 ScoLgo: Forrest and Shawshank would be on my list...Thanks!

>42 ScoLgo: Perhaps we should keep adding lists of our favourite genres/actors.

My top 5 S. Korean films.
OldBoy
Castaway on the Moon
Going by the Book
The Chaser
I Saw the Devil

Top 5 Animated films.
Harvey Krumpet
Mary and Max
Coraline
The Wrong Trousers
Watership Down
(No Studio Ghibli for me)

>1 .cris: - This can change daily or even hourly ...

You're right there. I have three lists: a top ten, a second string, and a third string which currently has just four films in it; and I'm regularly chopping and changing and adding. Anyway, currently, and definitely in no particular order - that would be too difficult -

Blade Runner (Director's cut – the original one - haven't seen the later director's cut)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Golddiggers of 1935
To Have and To Have Not
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, etc.)
Casablanca
Spirited Away
Sexy Evil Genius
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Serenity

>48 tytocambrensis:

Those are favourite films, by the way - trying to work out 'greatest' or 'best' is much too difficult for me.

>48 tytocambrensis: I don't see a pattern forming here. It looks like you don't have a favourite genre. Mmm! Strokey beard time.

>50 .cris:

Hmmm ... I've actually never given a thought to a favourite genre.

I like proper sci-fi (that is, with special effects and visibly alien aliens - hate them done on the cheap where the otherworldliness is talked about rather than seen) and old-fashioned horror films (not slashers - in my book they should be a separate genre) to the extent that I'll happily watch a quite poor one. So I suppose you could call them favourite genres.

Apart from those, it's the film rather than the genre that counts, I think.

>48 tytocambrensis: I too enjoy multiple genres.

One of my top ten..is French Movie Mr 73 starring Daniel Auteul.

Best for 2017:
In no particular order
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. 2017. Wonderful performances from all.
Hector. 2015. UK drama with Peter Mullan.
Queen of Katwe. 2016. Disney biography about a young Ugandan girl who becomes a chess master.
Home. 2015. Cute DreamWorks animated.
Chronic. 2015. Tim Roth as a nurse for the terminally ill.
The Young Offenders. 2016. Irish comedy.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. 1999. Forest Whitaker as a hitman with a strong moral code.
Baby Driver. 2017. A great mix of action and music.
On Body and Soul. 2017. Hungary. Love in an abattoir.
Okja. 2017. Korean/US collaboration.
A special mention for:
Angelina Jolie's Cambodian film First They Killed My Father. 2017.
Shepherds and Butchers. 2016. Steve Coogan as a lawyer trying to defend a South African prison guard.

My Top Films for 2017

*Kubo and the Two Strings
The Dressmaker
The Edge of Seventeen
Lion

A Man Called Ove
Manchester by the Sea
Sing
*A Monster Calls

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Big Sick
The Wedding Plan
Wind River

My Life as a Zucchini (French)
Get Out
*This Beautiful Fantastic
Tommy’s Honour

* Boss Baby
The Shape of Water
The Greatest Showman

*Top 4