Top Ten Movies

[austinjimm]

The Princess Bride
Brazil
The Fly
Mad Max 2 (and 1, but 2's slightly better)
Starship Troopers
Soylent Green
The Fifth Element
Escape from New York
Dark Star
Gattaca

Oooooo! I forgot Dark Star.

[Falconer]

Sleeping Beauty
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Three Musketeers (Michael York)
Romeo and Juliet (Michael York)
The Princess Bride
The Court Jester
Team America: World Police

[deathanddrek]

Footrot Flats: the Movie

[Matthew]

Tough question.

Seven Samurai
Star Wars (episodes 4-6)
Excalibur
Conan the Barbarian
Alien (and Aliens)
Julius Caesar (Brando)
The Seventh Seal
Blade Runner
A Fistful of Dollars
Flash Gordon(?)

This is too difficult.

[Stonegiant]

The Beast
Black Robe
Dr. Strangelove
Fullmetal Jacket
Tombstone
The Unforgiven
Omegaman
Enemy at the gates
The French Connection
Fido

[Stonegiant]

I would also have to say honorable mentions would have to go to

Chinatown
Pirates by Roman Polanski

[deathanddrek]

The Omen

(P.s. the Footrot Flats mention wasn't serious... it just has something in common with Mudguard, and was quite the 80s fad in Australia.)

[Terrex]

Ten good ones not mentioned yet:

Ben Hur (yeah, I know this one was mentioned, but it is my favorite film)
El Cid
The Agony & the Ecstasy
Spartacus
Doctor Zhivago
Magnificent Seven
The Great Escape
The Thing
Braveheart
Equilibrium

[Wheggi]

"The Thing" was on my list, Terrex.

On the lighter side:

Animal House
Caddyshack
The Forty Year Old Virgin
The Hangover
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Porky's
A Fish Called Wanda
There's Something About Mary
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke

- Wheggi

[Geoffrey]

Nosferatu (1922)
King Kong (1933)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935--and I also enjoy most of Universal's other 1930s horror films)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943--and I also enjoy most of Val Lewton's films)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963--and I also enjoy most of Harryhausen's films)
Star Wars (1977--and I also enjoy ESB and ROTJ)

The following three are not on my overall top 10, but represent some genre favorites:
favorite cartoon: "The Pastoral Symphony" from Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940)
favorite comedy: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
favorite musical: My Fair Lady (1964)
favorite comic book movie: The Dark Knight (2008--primarily for Heath Ledger's Joker)

[Mudguard]

Out of your suggestions, there's quite a few I haven't seen. So, thanks for that.

The Omen

(P.s. the Footrot Flats mention wasn't serious... it just has something in common with Mudguard, and was quite the 80s fad in Australia.)

I didn't realise it was popular in Oz too. I read a lot of the comic books, as a kid. I also saw the film when I was 9 or 10. I'm not sure how well the humour travels beyond the Antipodes.

Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke

- Wheggi

I watched that just last week. Hilarious.

Tonight might be checking out Alone in the Wilderness.

[Mudguard]

Alone in the Wilderness...that dude is fecking skilled. High level Ranger and living the dream.

[ThirstyStirge]

The Seventh Seal (an oldie, but a goodie), The Silence, Tinsel & Sawdust, Through a Glass Darkly, Persona. (I studied a great deal of Bergman in college. )
Conan the Barbarian (1982). Not really REH, but better than all else that followed.
Blade Runner. Holds up very, very well after over 30 years. I'd love to see a production company go back to Dick's novel and adapt it very strictly.
Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds (undoubtedly the two most solid 1950's "drive-in" classics).
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (w/ Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy). So creepy that it kept me awake for days afterwards!
Excaliber (sadly not aging as well as I had hoped, but still full of great scenes and lines).
Casablanca (it's a classic for a reason). I've been a Bogie fan for ages. You can't go wrong with The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, To Have and Have Not, Dark Passage, The Petrified Forest, The African Queen, among others.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Just saw this about a month ago for the first time. Very impressive given their lack of budget. A clear case of creativity and an unusual vision trumping big, later-day CGI effects.
2001: A Space Odyssey. 2010 is good but not a worthy successor to the first movie (I saw it on the big screen where it was impressive, though).
Star Wars (1977) and The Matrix were the only two effects-type movies that delivered the WOW Factor.
In the Name of the Rose was a passable movie with great atmosphere.
Beau Geste (1939) is a classic like Casablanca. The book has much, much more in it that was never adapted to the film, sadly. There is a later version from the 70s, IIRC, but I haven't seen it yet. There was a silent version from the 20s I have yet to catch.
Captain Blood with Erroll Flynn. THE quintessential swashbuckler.
The Naked Prey, shot on-location in Africa. A terrific film you should watch at least once in your life.
Flash Gordon (the serial from 1936 with Buster Crabbe). Great in its own right, but this and two sequel serials "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" and "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" are tons of fun too. Crabbe was also in a Buck Rogers serial from 1939, IIRC, but it pales compared to Flash Gordon, IMHO.
I could also go on at length about the catalogue of Hammer horror pics, but that's almost a thread in its own right.

[Steve]

What, no love for (the original) Clash of the Titans?

[deathanddrek]

I've got it on standby but haven't had a moment to watch it. One day!