The Best Films Ever!

Seeing as we have over-rated films, how about some of your all time favourites...

Layer Cake - Brilliant film, proper gangster flick, Gambon, Meaney, Craig all play their parts brilliantly.

Love, Honour & Obey - Another classic, such a great brit cast and some great performances from Jonny Lee Miller, Ray Winstone, Sadie Frost and Rhys Ifans.

For me...

Pulp Fiction. Tarantino’s finest hour. Wonderfully interweaving characters with great dialogue between characters.
Fight Club. Brad Pitt being the coolest split personality ever seen. 1st rule of Fight Club? Watch Fight Club.
Trainspotting. In an age of wishy washy British romcoms there was this wonderfully dark tale of drug-abuse, child neglect, underage sex and Aids in Glasgow.

Honourable mentions:

Empire Strikes back, Airplane, Shawn of the Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Dogma, Diehard, Dodgeball, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, 28 Days later, Lost Boys, American Psycho, Children of Men, Goonies, Aliens, Breakfast Club, Nightmare before Christmas, Gremlins, Life of Brian, Ghostbusters, True Romance, One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Ferris Buellers Day Off, the Great Escape, the Shining, BladeRunner, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Over the years, I have different tastes in favourite movies
All time favourites is
Brubaker
Ricochet
Slap Shot
Return Of The Jedi
Pharlap
Gremlins
The Blind Side
I got many more put it would take too long
The Last Castle
Mad Max
John Q
The Bone Collector
seabiscuit

GOONIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hero, if you like Airplane, you'll love The Kentucky Fried Movie!

I'll throw in that Trainspotting was set in Edinburgh too

Pulp Fiction - Nothing will ever come close to matching this film. Samuel L, Travolta, Thurman, Willis. Could it get any better?

You know what they call a big mac in europe? A royal with cheese.

AberdeenSteve wrote:Pulp Fiction - Nothing will ever come close to matching this film. Samuel L, Travolta, Thurman, Willis. Could it get any better?

You know what they call a big mac in europe? A royal with cheese.

True Romance - Walken, Hopper, Christian Slater, Brad Pitt, Samuel L Jackson, Gary Oldman, Patricia Arquette, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore to name but a few.

Its written by Tarrantino so has brilliant dialogue but isnt irected by him, which is why it is better

AberdeenSteve wrote:Pulp Fiction - Nothing will ever come close to matching this film. Samuel L, Travolta, Thurman, Willis. Could it get any better?

You know what they call a big mac in europe? A royal with cheese.

"You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?"

"They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with ?"

"No man, they got the metric system over there, they wouldn't know what the Flip a Quarter Pounder was. They call it a Royale with Cheese."

Cool Runnings

Taken with Liam Neeson - one of the best films i've seen for a while

Young Frankenstein Gene Wilder,Marty Feldman and the cameo by Gene Hackman
Blazing Saddles
Ice Age
Aliens
Con Air
Casino Royale & Quantum of Solace I think Daniel Craig is possibly the best Bond yet
The Birdcage just for how they dressed Gene Hackman up at the end of the film
Anger Management Jack Nicholson was very good

A Bronx Tale
The Burbs
Coming to America
Casino
Goodfellas
Stepbrothers
Kindergarden Cop
Narc
National Lampoons
Hear No Evil See No Evil
Saving Private Ryan

Two new films to watch:

Fair Game - Sean Penn

The next Three Days - Russell Crowe

Try and catch them both excellent!

Training Day - Denzel Washington is amazing in this!

Old School

Law Abiding Citizen - best film iv seen in years!

Far too many to mention but these are the ones that spring to mind just now:

Airplane
Anchorman
Blazing Saddles
Con Air
Heat
Usual Suspects
Man on Fire
Goodfellas
Top Gun
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Any Given Sunday

The best film ever...........Silence of the Lambs.....FACT!!!!!

My top five films are : Cool hand luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, Jaws, Brotherhood of the Wolf and NARC. Five great films that I can watch over and over again and not get bored of them.

Predator - the first one!
Terminator - the first one again!
Commando

My favourite film is a disney one with Denzel Washington...Remember the Titans

There are far too many films to mention here, I have a dvd collection in the hundreds and think they are all ace

The Crow
Batman dark night
Requiem for a dream
Apocolypse Now
American Pie 2
Pans labyrinth
The incredibles
L.A. Confidential

Have to agree with you KB, Layer Cake is one of my favourite films.
Along with:
The Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Lucky Number Slevin
Scarface.
Lastly another one of my favourites is The Dark Knight, mainly due to Heath Ledgers brilliant portrayal of The Joker, absolute class!

Anyone got any thoughts on any of the above?

My favourite films are, and i might be opening myself up for ridicule here, are: The Matrix, and Jurrasic Park!

Virtually anything Audie Murphy did.

There's no dead time or boring pontificating, or long, long camera shots.

"B" films are the very distillation of the essential elements.

I've been watching films for over 50 years and just cannot stomach any more
those long, boring, psuedo films.

Some honourable exceptions of course-e.g. "Once Upon a Time in Amerix=ca".

Cheesehead

I so agree on the Matrix (assuming you're NOT talking about the third film). It was totally awesome and still ranks as my favourite film.

Another I really enjoyed is The Incredibles.

American History X was a superb film.

I thought that was good too but I've never managed to find the first 9 parts.

LOLOLOLOLOL.

Mad for Chelsea wrote:Cheesehead

I so agree on the Matrix (assuming you're NOT talking about the third film). It was totally awesome and still ranks as my favourite film.

Another I really enjoyed is The Incredibles.

Absolutely not! that was 1 too many! Same with Jurassic Park. Why do they always do that? Make too many films of a franchise?

Cheesehead United wrote:

Mad for Chelsea wrote:Cheesehead

I so agree on the Matrix (assuming you're NOT talking about the third film). It was totally awesome and still ranks as my favourite film.

Another I really enjoyed is The Incredibles.

Absolutely not! that was 1 too many! Same with Jurassic Park. Why do they always do that? Make too many films of a franchise?

Because they still bring in money.

It’s the same as why do they make remakes of old films/tv shows?
Because it’s a safe bet and film studios don’t like taking risks.
A remake of say ‘Star Wars’ would sell by the bucket load even if it would be tosh.
Yet a new space opera film would be a gamble, it could be a smash, it could flop even if it is really good.

For example, Serenity is one of the best Sci Fi films of the last 10 years but was a flop.

Whereas Indy IV is one of the worst films (ever) and was a hit.

no justice.

Godfather 1 & 2
Breakfast Club
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The Sting
The Untouchables
The Goonies
Trading Places
Resevoir Dogs
Gladiator

All Classics

Harlod and kumar

Hot Fuzz for purely being filmed where i live

urm anyways:

Dark Knight
Iron Man
Scary Movie 1

For being watchable i dont know why but i find i can always watch Angles and Demons dont know why.

my favourites:

The Matrix Trilogy (yes trilogy although obviously the first was the best for being so groundbreaking both stylistically and in its plot - I truly believe The Matrix is one of the greatest films to have ever changed cinema)

Batman Begins and the Dark Knight - the two greatest comic book films ever made, especially the Dark Knight with a flawless representation of the Joker.

Blade Runner - ground breaking, intriguing, visually stunning and a very artistic film

clockwork orange
dark knight
first matrix
one flew over the cukoos nest
pans labryinth
trainspotting
lord of the rings (all three)
anything with ron jeremy in it.

American Gangster
Pulp Fiction
The Departed
Scarface
Seven
Taxi Diver
Godfather 1

Just for light hearted comedy nobody better than Adam Sandler

The Dark Knight
Max Payne
Mission Impossible 1, 2 & 3

Sports movies
Miracle
Remember The Titans
Invincible

In no particular order...

Slapshot
Dogma
Fargo
LA Confidential
The Incredibles
West Side Story
The Italian Job (the original, not the rubbish remake)
Field of Dreams

My favourites in no order:

Gran Torino
Step Brothers
Inception
The Social Network
The Hangover
Goodfellas
Die Hard
Happy Gilmore
Anchorman
Platoon
In Bruges
Full Metal Jacket
Pulp Fiction
The Departed
The Bourne Trilogy

There's quite a lot to mention here so I'll only mention a few
Road to Perdition
Looking for Eric
Starship Troopers
The Departed
From Dusk Till Dawn
Slumdog Millionaire
Con Air
The Beach
The Untouchables
I'm a fan of Studio Ghibli's work too, but not in pretentious anime geek fashion.

the hangover

Depends entirely on my mood.

If I'm in a "Switch off my brain and laugh" mood then it has to be: -
Dodgeball
Anchorman
The Hangover
Kick-Ass

If I'm in an action kinda mood: -
SWAT
Shooter
Bad Boys (1 or 2)
Man On Fire
Fight Club
The Bourne Trilogy

Just to add to the mix, as most of mine have been mentioned

Oldboy- In my mind one of the best twists in a film

Moon.

The Shawshank Redemption by far the favorite i've ever seen.
Towering Inferno is also another of my favorite's.

Have to agree with TheUnknownOne, you simply cannot look past The Shawshank Redemption for the absolute best film of all time.

To kill a mockingbird

Best Ever - Shawshank Redemption
Funniest - Anchorman
Scariest - Scream (what i was 9 when i seen it!)
Tear Jerker - Marly & Me (what i like dogs!)
Best Trilogy - Godfether

i found the scream films hilarious, mainly due to having watched scary movie first