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What are your top 10 favorite movies? (Original Post) bif Dec 2018 OP
In no paricular order... TJKatd Dec 2018 #1
I keep thinking about ones I missed... TJKatd Dec 2018 #9
Trouble with Harry, Our Girl Friday,Our Man Godfrey, just some old classics juxtaposed Dec 2018 #2
Ok...not easy, but...top 12! NRaleighLiberal Dec 2018 #3
a hard day's night nt msongs Dec 2018 #4
Here they are in no particular order. It usually depends on my mood: catbyte Dec 2018 #5
Off the top of my head but not necessarily in this order: The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2018 #6
My Top 10 SeattleVet Dec 2018 #7
I can only pick 10? akraven Dec 2018 #8
All mine are oldies Polly Hennessey Dec 2018 #10
I want to know what happened to all the Sonia Henie movies. dhol82 Dec 2018 #11
Here goes in no particular order. brush Dec 2018 #12
In no particular order (except for #1) Stonepounder Dec 2018 #13
Bayard's Best Bets Bayard Dec 2018 #14
Here are mine bif Dec 2018 #15
 

TJKatd

(73 posts)
1. In no paricular order...
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 10:26 PM
Dec 2018

Hunt for Red October
The Caine Mutiny
Blazing Saddles
Napoleon Dynomite
Airplane
History of the World
Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Vacation
Skyfall

 

TJKatd

(73 posts)
9. I keep thinking about ones I missed...
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 11:10 PM
Dec 2018

Best in Show
Godfather
Godfather 2
Psycho
Blair Witch Project
The Queen
Silence of the Lambs
Departed


 

juxtaposed

(2,778 posts)
2. Trouble with Harry, Our Girl Friday,Our Man Godfrey, just some old classics
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 10:29 PM
Dec 2018

Trouble with Harry is just like the town I grew up in.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)
3. Ok...not easy, but...top 12!
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 10:31 PM
Dec 2018

Lost in Translation
Remains of the Day
Babette's Feast
Bread and Tulips
Koyaanisqatsi
Room with a View
Howard's End
Amelie
The Sting
Out of Africa
English Patient
Babel

catbyte

(34,386 posts)
5. Here they are in no particular order. It usually depends on my mood:
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 10:33 PM
Dec 2018

1. All About Eve
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. To Have and Have Not
4. The Ten Commandments
5. A Room with a View
6. Kundun
7. Sixteen Candles
8. Holiday
9. Double Indemnity
10. Romancing the Stone

Honorable Mentions:

Key Largo
Bringing Up Baby
Arsenic and Old Lace
Animal House
School of Rock
Dark Passage
Mildred Pierce
North By Northwest
Dial "M" for Murder

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,693 posts)
6. Off the top of my head but not necessarily in this order:
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 10:41 PM
Dec 2018

Amadeus
The Year of Living Dangerously
A Man for All Seasons
Gallipoli
Dr. Strangelove
The Manchurian Candidate
This Is Spinal Tap
Airplane
The Silence of the Lambs
Fargo

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
7. My Top 10
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 10:48 PM
Dec 2018

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Dark Star
3. Harold and Maude
4. Koyaanisqatsi (and Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi)
5. Endless Summer
6. Murder, He Says
7. Blazing Saddles
8. Dr. Strangelove
9. Suicide Squad
10. The Groove Tube

akraven

(1,975 posts)
8. I can only pick 10?
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 11:00 PM
Dec 2018

Star Wars III, IV, V
Star Trek - all of them
Blazing Saddles
Mama Mia
Animal House
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Shawshank Redemption
Gone With the Wind
Annie Hall

Do I pass the quiz?




Polly Hennessey

(6,796 posts)
10. All mine are oldies
Sat Dec 29, 2018, 11:49 PM
Dec 2018

1. Wuthering Heights
2. Rebecca
3. Wizard of Oz
4. My Man Godfrey
5. Bringing Up Baby
6. Casablanca
7. The Maltese Falcon
8. Key Largo
9. Gone With The Wind
10. Jane Eyre

Have to add, Arrival. Loved that movie and Amy Adams.

dhol82

(9,353 posts)
11. I want to know what happened to all the Sonia Henie movies.
Sun Dec 30, 2018, 12:14 AM
Dec 2018

They disappeared a while ago.
Also, what happened to all the Esther Williams movies? They disappeared too.
Those were the go to films of my youth.

brush

(53,778 posts)
12. Here goes in no particular order.
Sun Dec 30, 2018, 01:22 AM
Dec 2018

Godfather
Godfather ll
Pulp Fiction
Blazing Saddles
Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
Good Fellas
Fences
Apocalypse Now
Shawshank Redemption

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
13. In no particular order (except for #1)
Sun Dec 30, 2018, 02:19 AM
Dec 2018

1. The Princess Bride
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Flashback
The African Queen
Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original)
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Third Man
Citizen Kane

Bayard

(22,071 posts)
14. Bayard's Best Bets
Sun Dec 30, 2018, 02:24 AM
Dec 2018

--Benny & Joon
--Dances with Wolves
--All the Star Wars (is that cheating?)
--All the Star Treks (still cheating)
--Legends of the Fall
--Buckaroo Bonzai
--Silverado
--Avatar
--Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis version)
--Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

Bonuses: The Princess Bride, Grosse Point Blank

bif

(22,702 posts)
15. Here are mine
Sun Dec 30, 2018, 07:31 PM
Dec 2018

2001: A Space Odyssey
Amaracord
The Station Agent
Spinal Tap
Wayne's World
My Dinner With Andre
The Way
Aguirre The Wrath of God
Mr. Nobody
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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