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My All-Time Favorite Films

posted 7 years ago by skovp
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Hi everyone! Now that the great IMDb era is coming to an end I would like to share my list of favorite films with you. I haven't been contributing to this list for a long time, but before the party is going to be over I just wanted to say fare-thee-well. So I suppose this is my last chance.

I have been working on this list for well over a year now of my favorite films and have been quite happy with it, but I haven't updated it since before last summer and I didn't think my list fitted my taste as accuratly anymore, along with the fact that since last time I have been seing and rewatching a lot of films which I have since begun to like tremendously. As you will quickly realize when looking over the list, I have a very broad taste. The films on my list is what I consider to be the films that have had the biggest impact on my own view of cinema and the films that IMO stands at the pinnacle of cinematic achievement. As it says on my list, the top 50 is almost an entirely accurate representation of what I like, however beyond that the list becomes quite fluid.

I will be happy to discuss the list itself, the films, why I have rated a certain film so highly, recommendations, any mistakes I might have made and so on. Btw, the list is in preferential order and I hope you enjoy it: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls031367581/

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My All-Time Favorite Movies:http://www.imdb.com/list/ls031367581/

[–] ringfire211 7 years ago

Best films of all time are...

The Ten Commandments
Ben-Hur
Spartacus
Psycho
Dr. No
To Kill a Mockingbird
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
Doctor Zhivago
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
You Only Live Twice
Once Upon a Time in the West
Where Eagles Dare
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Live and Let Die
The Man With the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Black Sunday
Capricorn One
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
The Terminator
A View to a Kill
The Delta Force
The Living Daylights
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard With a Vengeance
Licence to Kill
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lethal Weapon 2
Home Alone
Cliffhanger
In the Line of Fire
Speed
True Lies
GoldenEye
Braveheart
Eraser
Air Force One
Titanic
Tomorrow Never Dies
Breakdown
The World is Not Enough
The Green Mile
Gladiator
Pearl Harbor
Panic Room
The Passion of the Christ
Casino Royale
Skyfall
Django Unchained
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

This is where it's at. And please refrain from bringing up snoozers like Citizen Kane or 2001 or any other pretentiousness out there. You know you don't really like it anyway. Rosebud, oooooo how exciting and deep. 

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

You're obviously a big time Bond fan, ringfire.

My List:
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Godfather
Casblanca
Gone With The Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars IV: A New Hope
The Graduate
ET: The Extraterrestrial
High Noon
Apocalypse Now
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Midnight Cowboy
M*A*S*H*
A Night at the Opera
Duck Soup
North By Northwest
Raiders of the Lost Ark
A Clockwork Orange
The Shawshank Redemption
Goldfinger

[–] A_Friend_of_Sarah_Connor 7 years ago

C'mon ring, other people have different tastes. Not everyone's top XXX list is going to consist of action movies and mainstream American films.

The OP's list is very good. Excellent choices.

"Some men are coming to kill us. We're gonna kill them first."

[–] ringfire211 7 years ago

I've been taught here that action is the lifeblood of cinema. But I do have the occasional MOCKINGBIRD or ZHIVAGO in my list. So it's not all action.

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!

[–] A_Friend_of_Sarah_Connor 7 years ago

I said action movies and mainstream American films (lets just say British as well since you include Bond). The only outlier in your list is Black Sunday, though I'm not sure if you mean the 1960 one or the 1977 Robert Shaw vehicle (judging by the rest of the list, this is probably the 1977 one and not a gothic Italian horror film). Everything else is cut and dry, standard Hollywood. Nothing wrong with that, but honestly you're hardly in any position to hate on someone else's top XXX.

"Some men are coming to kill us. We're gonna kill them first."

[–] ringfire211 7 years ago

or the 1977 Robert Shaw vehicle
That's a BINGO!

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!

[–] skovp 7 years ago

Not a single Hitchcock, but you have Home Alone?

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My All-Time Favorite Movies:http://www.imdb.com/list/ls031367581/

[–] ant-mac 7 years ago

PSYCHO is in there.

ant-mac

[–] ringfire211 7 years ago

In addition to PSYCHO I would have definitely added NORTH BY NORTHWEST and THE BIRDS to the list. But I tried to keep the list a bit on the shorter side, not that it worked out that way anyway.

As for HOME ALONE yes it is one of the finest films ever made! Certainly the best comedy of all time!! You will never again see another comedy that can combine gut-busting humor with pure human emotion so well as this film did.

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!