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I have never been able to decide on a top 10 list of my favourite films. Usually I’d get to number 3 and then get stuck. But now I think I’ve done it. My top 10 list of all time favourite films is as follows.
10) Rush Hour – Only saw this a few months back when the sequel was out in cinemas and I absolutely loved it. Jackie Chan's fighting along with Chris Tucker’s hilarious remarks made it overall, a great film. I’ve seen it so many times in such a short space of time and I still haven’t got remotely tired of it. Rush Hour 2 was slightly disappointing as I was expecting it to be a better-than-the-original sequel. It wasn’t but it was still a great film with good action and hilarious moments. “I’m gonna pretend you a man. A very beautiful man with the perfect body, who I’d like to take to the movies.”
9) Carlito’s Way – The first Pacino film I ever saw. Or at least part of film. I remember seeing the beginning of this when I was very young. It came on TV just before I went to bed. The black and white bit at the beginning is what I saw, and the following night my dad was watching it. I was a bit too young back then to see it, so he taped over it. I wanted to see it for years and years but could never see it in any video shops. Eventually, I saw it in a HMV whilst on holiday for only 5.99. So I bought it and I was not disappointed. It is an amazing film, one of Pacino’s best. The entire end sequence has got to be one of my all time favourite endings. I think I’ll just add that Sean Penn is unrecognisable. :-D
8) Glengarry Glenross – One of the few films that is actually funnier when you quote the lines yourself rather than watch it. There are so many memorable scenes in this. The motivation scene with Alec Bladwin (who is actually very good in it, however hard it is to believe). The scene in the bar with Ed Harris and Alan Arcin. Jack Lemmon describing his close to Pacino. Oh this film is so good. And its so funny too. Plus, the cast is fantastic and everyone plays a very good part. Jack Lemmon has got to be the best even though it was Al Pacino who was nominated for the oscar. Everybody should watch this.
7) Jaws – Still the best shark/crocodile/monster movie ever in my opinion. The shark looks remarkably good bearing in mind it was 1975. Personally, I’d much prefer watching the model shark in Jaws to the horribly unrealistic CG sharks in Deep Blue Sea. And one of my favourite scenes in any film is in Jaws - the Indianapolis speech with the singing and comparing scars before hand. Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw are brilliant in this scene. Roy Scheider isn’t bad but the other 2 make him look bad. Three sequels I believe. Jaws 2 wasn’t bad. Jaws 3 was one of the worst films I’ve ever seen with effects that couldn’t even put up a fight against thunderbirds, and don’t get me started on the Michael Cain one. The first was undoubtedly the best. Deep Blue Sea is awful in comparison regardless of how cool Sammy L Jackson is. :-D
6) Terminator 2 – Watched this for about the 50th time last night and still loved it. Much better than the original in my opinion. Even if T2 were released in cinemas for the first time tomorrow, people would still say the special effects were brilliant. But it’s not released tomorrow, it was released 10 years ago. And the special effects are still brilliant. The action scenes are amazing. Arnie IS the Terminator. Big guns, lots of killing, a really cool way to reload a shotgun, a big human looking robot on a motercycle and a smaller liquid metal person who can change shape. What more could you ask for? Sean Bean? Ahh yes, of course. :-D
5) Ronin – This film has some of the best car chases I’ve ever seen. High speed through the extremely narrow streets of Nice. Fantastic. It’s about a case basically. Some people are hired to retrieve a stolen case. A few twists in the story stop it from being too simple. In fact, there is only 1 problem with Ronin. The bad guy. Well, more of who plays the bad guy. Jonathon Pryce!!! What is it with him playing the bad guy in films? Don’t people realise that he isn’t threatening in the least? He should be playing the measly, small person who is lead by the nose all the time. He does in Glengarry and he was great in that. But you can’t have everything, right? And Ronin is still one of the best films I’ve ever seen and it is SO under-rated. So, brilliant car chases, an unintentionally hilarious Stellan Skarsgard, Bob De Niro, and a mysterious case. What more could you ask for? Sean Bean? AHA! He IS in it. And he plays a damn fine part too. “Almost a bit of rasberry jam back there ay lads? Bit of rasberry jam back there!”
4) Point Break – After I watched this for the first time, I thought how great it would be to just rob banks and surf, and do nothing else. Problem is, the first time I watched it was the last night of the Summer Holiday where the next day was back to school. I felt terrible. But the film was still ace. :-D It had the most perfect ending it could have possibly had. Of course, Keanu Reeves was in it. The man who can’t act to save his life. Then again, his ‘surfer-dude’ voice was needed for the part. And this makes it that much better as it adds a LOT of humour to the film. You’ll find yourself cracking up listening to his dialog and his complete incompetance at acting. “Excellent I’m loving.” “Oh yeah, skip to the greatest hits!” His poorness though, is more than made up for by Patrick Swayze. He is truly excellent in this film. And Gary Busey is great too. Overall, this is one of the best action films I’ve ever seen. Great feel film with the perfect ending. Point Break is ‘the ultimate ride’. (It was completely copied recently by The Fast and the Furious which mimicked it in every way except for the surf boards. Even the guy who played Keanu Reeves’ character talked like a ‘surfer-dude’. And the ending was attempted too but failed miserably. Even the final camera angle and the way the music ‘whooshed’ in was copied. Still, this made FatF good, but Point Break was so much better.)
3) Pulp Fiction – Samuel L Jackson makes this film 100 times better than it is and it’s already brilliant. There are so many lines that NEED to be quoted. It’s just so funny. Another thing. Samuel L Jackson’s hair has only ever been rivalled by one other person in one other film. The film - Unbreakable. The person - Samuel L Jackson. The cast is amazing. Bruce Willis, John Travolta (who is actually very good in it believe it or not), Ving Rhames, Uma Therman, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel and plenty of others too including the man himself Quentin.
2) Gladiator – “Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” This is the film probably most quoted by myself among friends. German lessons sometimes prove so boring that I find myself writing Gladiator quotes on my folder. In fact, I have pretty much the whole script on my German folder. But anyway, you don’t care about that. :-D The battle scenes are outstanding and it has the best movie soundtrack ever in my opinion. And then the acting. Richard Harris, regardless of how long he is in it, is great. His sigh adds the perfect ending to the first battle scene. I don’t like Jaquoin Pheonix in it at all and therefore he did a great job of making you not like him. Russell Crowe isn’t as good as in LA Confidential. But Oliver Reed is amazing. “Rises up like a…..like a storm. As if you were the thundergod himself.”
And here it is. My top film of all time. Those of you who are regulkars to this forum should not be surprised. Yes! It is……
1)Spaceballs – Mel Brooks’ vision of a far away galaxy is brought to life in Spaceballs, an epic tale of love, honour and sacrifice. This is perhaps one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. The acting is outstanding. Rick Moranis’s portrayal of Dark Helmet, the evil lord torn apart by the love that does not want him, is so good that I think he should have been awarded an oscar. Bill Pullman too, is utterly fantastic. And John Candy’s interpretation of Barf, the half-man half-dog character, remains his best. Quite simply, Spaceballs is one of the grandest films I have ever had the honour of watching. A masterpiece.
Right, I think (or at least I hope) that you have all realised I’m joking. The real number 1 film is of course, Heat. I did think for a while that Gladiator may have displaced it at the top but then I watched it again and realised just why it is my favourite film. There are so many sub plots and so many good performances. I love Heat. And don’t anyone say that Michael Mann is a poor director, especially you Gaz. Last of the Mohicans – Excellent film. The Insider – Excellent film. Manhunter- Good film. Thief – A brilliant film for a debut film.
A few people may ask where Lord of the Rings is, namely Gaz and that Smeagol guy. The answer. I have only seen it once and I can’t say it is one of my favourite films if I have only seen it once. I need to see it again to see how good it is a second time. But I’m fairly sure it will come quite high. I just don’t know where yet. Still, I’m going to see it tomorrow and I’ll decide where it should be placed afterwards.
So there it is. My top 10. No doubt it’ll change again very soon. Probably tomorrow in fact, when I see Lord of the Rings again. But it’ll still likely change soon after that too. It always happens. I can’t seem to keep a lasting top 10. The top 3 or 4 are usually constant for ages but get far past that and they swap around all over the place. Plus I’ve probably left out at least one very important film that I love. But hey, “THAT’S LIFE!”
:-D
10) Rush Hour – Only saw this a few months back when the sequel was out in cinemas and I absolutely loved it. Jackie Chan's fighting along with Chris Tucker’s hilarious remarks made it overall, a great film. I’ve seen it so many times in such a short space of time and I still haven’t got remotely tired of it. Rush Hour 2 was slightly disappointing as I was expecting it to be a better-than-the-original sequel. It wasn’t but it was still a great film with good action and hilarious moments. “I’m gonna pretend you a man. A very beautiful man with the perfect body, who I’d like to take to the movies.”
9) Carlito’s Way – The first Pacino film I ever saw. Or at least part of film. I remember seeing the beginning of this when I was very young. It came on TV just before I went to bed. The black and white bit at the beginning is what I saw, and the following night my dad was watching it. I was a bit too young back then to see it, so he taped over it. I wanted to see it for years and years but could never see it in any video shops. Eventually, I saw it in a HMV whilst on holiday for only 5.99. So I bought it and I was not disappointed. It is an amazing film, one of Pacino’s best. The entire end sequence has got to be one of my all time favourite endings. I think I’ll just add that Sean Penn is unrecognisable. :-D
8) Glengarry Glenross – One of the few films that is actually funnier when you quote the lines yourself rather than watch it. There are so many memorable scenes in this. The motivation scene with Alec Bladwin (who is actually very good in it, however hard it is to believe). The scene in the bar with Ed Harris and Alan Arcin. Jack Lemmon describing his close to Pacino. Oh this film is so good. And its so funny too. Plus, the cast is fantastic and everyone plays a very good part. Jack Lemmon has got to be the best even though it was Al Pacino who was nominated for the oscar. Everybody should watch this.
7) Jaws – Still the best shark/crocodile/monster movie ever in my opinion. The shark looks remarkably good bearing in mind it was 1975. Personally, I’d much prefer watching the model shark in Jaws to the horribly unrealistic CG sharks in Deep Blue Sea. And one of my favourite scenes in any film is in Jaws - the Indianapolis speech with the singing and comparing scars before hand. Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw are brilliant in this scene. Roy Scheider isn’t bad but the other 2 make him look bad. Three sequels I believe. Jaws 2 wasn’t bad. Jaws 3 was one of the worst films I’ve ever seen with effects that couldn’t even put up a fight against thunderbirds, and don’t get me started on the Michael Cain one. The first was undoubtedly the best. Deep Blue Sea is awful in comparison regardless of how cool Sammy L Jackson is. :-D
6) Terminator 2 – Watched this for about the 50th time last night and still loved it. Much better than the original in my opinion. Even if T2 were released in cinemas for the first time tomorrow, people would still say the special effects were brilliant. But it’s not released tomorrow, it was released 10 years ago. And the special effects are still brilliant. The action scenes are amazing. Arnie IS the Terminator. Big guns, lots of killing, a really cool way to reload a shotgun, a big human looking robot on a motercycle and a smaller liquid metal person who can change shape. What more could you ask for? Sean Bean? Ahh yes, of course. :-D
5) Ronin – This film has some of the best car chases I’ve ever seen. High speed through the extremely narrow streets of Nice. Fantastic. It’s about a case basically. Some people are hired to retrieve a stolen case. A few twists in the story stop it from being too simple. In fact, there is only 1 problem with Ronin. The bad guy. Well, more of who plays the bad guy. Jonathon Pryce!!! What is it with him playing the bad guy in films? Don’t people realise that he isn’t threatening in the least? He should be playing the measly, small person who is lead by the nose all the time. He does in Glengarry and he was great in that. But you can’t have everything, right? And Ronin is still one of the best films I’ve ever seen and it is SO under-rated. So, brilliant car chases, an unintentionally hilarious Stellan Skarsgard, Bob De Niro, and a mysterious case. What more could you ask for? Sean Bean? AHA! He IS in it. And he plays a damn fine part too. “Almost a bit of rasberry jam back there ay lads? Bit of rasberry jam back there!”
4) Point Break – After I watched this for the first time, I thought how great it would be to just rob banks and surf, and do nothing else. Problem is, the first time I watched it was the last night of the Summer Holiday where the next day was back to school. I felt terrible. But the film was still ace. :-D It had the most perfect ending it could have possibly had. Of course, Keanu Reeves was in it. The man who can’t act to save his life. Then again, his ‘surfer-dude’ voice was needed for the part. And this makes it that much better as it adds a LOT of humour to the film. You’ll find yourself cracking up listening to his dialog and his complete incompetance at acting. “Excellent I’m loving.” “Oh yeah, skip to the greatest hits!” His poorness though, is more than made up for by Patrick Swayze. He is truly excellent in this film. And Gary Busey is great too. Overall, this is one of the best action films I’ve ever seen. Great feel film with the perfect ending. Point Break is ‘the ultimate ride’. (It was completely copied recently by The Fast and the Furious which mimicked it in every way except for the surf boards. Even the guy who played Keanu Reeves’ character talked like a ‘surfer-dude’. And the ending was attempted too but failed miserably. Even the final camera angle and the way the music ‘whooshed’ in was copied. Still, this made FatF good, but Point Break was so much better.)
3) Pulp Fiction – Samuel L Jackson makes this film 100 times better than it is and it’s already brilliant. There are so many lines that NEED to be quoted. It’s just so funny. Another thing. Samuel L Jackson’s hair has only ever been rivalled by one other person in one other film. The film - Unbreakable. The person - Samuel L Jackson. The cast is amazing. Bruce Willis, John Travolta (who is actually very good in it believe it or not), Ving Rhames, Uma Therman, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel and plenty of others too including the man himself Quentin.
2) Gladiator – “Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” This is the film probably most quoted by myself among friends. German lessons sometimes prove so boring that I find myself writing Gladiator quotes on my folder. In fact, I have pretty much the whole script on my German folder. But anyway, you don’t care about that. :-D The battle scenes are outstanding and it has the best movie soundtrack ever in my opinion. And then the acting. Richard Harris, regardless of how long he is in it, is great. His sigh adds the perfect ending to the first battle scene. I don’t like Jaquoin Pheonix in it at all and therefore he did a great job of making you not like him. Russell Crowe isn’t as good as in LA Confidential. But Oliver Reed is amazing. “Rises up like a…..like a storm. As if you were the thundergod himself.”
And here it is. My top film of all time. Those of you who are regulkars to this forum should not be surprised. Yes! It is……
1)Spaceballs – Mel Brooks’ vision of a far away galaxy is brought to life in Spaceballs, an epic tale of love, honour and sacrifice. This is perhaps one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. The acting is outstanding. Rick Moranis’s portrayal of Dark Helmet, the evil lord torn apart by the love that does not want him, is so good that I think he should have been awarded an oscar. Bill Pullman too, is utterly fantastic. And John Candy’s interpretation of Barf, the half-man half-dog character, remains his best. Quite simply, Spaceballs is one of the grandest films I have ever had the honour of watching. A masterpiece.
Right, I think (or at least I hope) that you have all realised I’m joking. The real number 1 film is of course, Heat. I did think for a while that Gladiator may have displaced it at the top but then I watched it again and realised just why it is my favourite film. There are so many sub plots and so many good performances. I love Heat. And don’t anyone say that Michael Mann is a poor director, especially you Gaz. Last of the Mohicans – Excellent film. The Insider – Excellent film. Manhunter- Good film. Thief – A brilliant film for a debut film.
A few people may ask where Lord of the Rings is, namely Gaz and that Smeagol guy. The answer. I have only seen it once and I can’t say it is one of my favourite films if I have only seen it once. I need to see it again to see how good it is a second time. But I’m fairly sure it will come quite high. I just don’t know where yet. Still, I’m going to see it tomorrow and I’ll decide where it should be placed afterwards.
So there it is. My top 10. No doubt it’ll change again very soon. Probably tomorrow in fact, when I see Lord of the Rings again. But it’ll still likely change soon after that too. It always happens. I can’t seem to keep a lasting top 10. The top 3 or 4 are usually constant for ages but get far past that and they swap around all over the place. Plus I’ve probably left out at least one very important film that I love. But hey, “THAT’S LIFE!”
:-D
Heheheh, Rush Hour 2...
We could have? You agree? You'd better not be lying! I'll slap you all the way back to the Ming Dynasty. I'll b****-slap you back to Bangkok!
We could have, but nobody understand the words that are coming out of your mouth.
I know you were only joking but its the fact that we could've had something special. :-D
I was only joking, but you one CRAZY AS,S B***H!
Grrrrrr.....
Michael Mann is a crap director. :-D
I have never been able to decide on a top 10 list of my favourite films. Usually I’d get to number 3 and then get stuck. But now I think I’ve done it. My top 10 list of all time favourite films is as follows.
10) Rush Hour – Only saw this a few months back when the sequel was out in cinemas and I absolutely loved it. Jackie Chan's fighting along with Chris Tucker’s hilarious remarks made it overall, a great film. I’ve seen it so many times in such a short space of time and I still haven’t got remotely tired of it. Rush Hour 2 was slightly disappointing as I was expecting it to be a better-than-the-original sequel. It wasn’t but it was still a great film with good action and hilarious moments. “I’m gonna pretend you a man. A very beautiful man with the perfect body, who I’d like to take to the movies.”
9) Carlito’s Way – The first Pacino film I ever saw. Or at least part of film. I remember seeing the beginning of this when I was very young. It came on TV just before I went to bed. The black and white bit at the beginning is what I saw, and the following night my dad was watching it. I was a bit too young back then to see it, so he taped over it. I wanted to see it for years and years but could never see it in any video shops. Eventually, I saw it in a HMV whilst on holiday for only 5.99. So I bought it and I was not disappointed. It is an amazing film, one of Pacino’s best. The entire end sequence has got to be one of my all time favourite endings. I think I’ll just add that Sean Penn is unrecognisable. :-D
8) Glengarry Glenross – One of the few films that is actually funnier when you quote the lines yourself rather than watch it. There are so many memorable scenes in this. The motivation scene with Alec Bladwin (who is actually very good in it, however hard it is to believe). The scene in the bar with Ed Harris and Alan Arcin. Jack Lemmon describing his close to Pacino. Oh this film is so good. And its so funny too. Plus, the cast is fantastic and everyone plays a very good part. Jack Lemmon has got to be the best even though it was Al Pacino who was nominated for the oscar. Everybody should watch this.
7) Jaws – Still the best shark/crocodile/monster movie ever in my opinion. The shark looks remarkably good bearing in mind it was 1975. Personally, I’d much prefer watching the model shark in Jaws to the horribly unrealistic CG sharks in Deep Blue Sea. And one of my favourite scenes in any film is in Jaws - the Indianapolis speech with the singing and comparing scars before hand. Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw are brilliant in this scene. Roy Scheider isn’t bad but the other 2 make him look bad. Three sequels I believe. Jaws 2 wasn’t bad. Jaws 3 was one of the worst films I’ve ever seen with effects that couldn’t even put up a fight against thunderbirds, and don’t get me started on the Michael Cain one. The first was undoubtedly the best. Deep Blue Sea is awful in comparison regardless of how cool Sammy L Jackson is. :-D
6) Terminator 2 – Watched this for about the 50th time last night and still loved it. Much better than the original in my opinion. Even if T2 were released in cinemas for the first time tomorrow, people would still say the special effects were brilliant. But it’s not released tomorrow, it was released 10 years ago. And the special effects are still brilliant. The action scenes are amazing. Arnie IS the Terminator. Big guns, lots of killing, a really cool way to reload a shotgun, a big human looking robot on a motercycle and a smaller liquid metal person who can change shape. What more could you ask for? Sean Bean? Ahh yes, of course. :-D
5) Ronin – This film has some of the best car chases I’ve ever seen. High speed through the extremely narrow streets of Nice. Fantastic. It’s about a case basically. Some people are hired to retrieve a stolen case. A few twists in the story stop it from being too simple. In fact, there is only 1 problem with Ronin. The bad guy. Well, more of who plays the bad guy. Jonathon Pryce!!! What is it with him playing the bad guy in films? Don’t people realise that he isn’t threatening in the least? He should be playing the measly, small person who is lead by the nose all the time. He does in Glengarry and he was great in that. But you can’t have everything, right? And Ronin is still one of the best films I’ve ever seen and it is SO under-rated. So, brilliant car chases, an unintentionally hilarious Stellan Skarsgard, Bob De Niro, and a mysterious case. What more could you ask for? Sean Bean? AHA! He IS in it. And he plays a damn fine part too. “Almost a bit of rasberry jam back there ay lads? Bit of rasberry jam back there!”
4) Point Break – After I watched this for the first time, I thought how great it would be to just rob banks and surf, and do nothing else. Problem is, the first time I watched it was the last night of the Summer Holiday where the next day was back to school. I felt terrible. But the film was still ace. :-D It had the most perfect ending it could have possibly had. Of course, Keanu Reeves was in it. The man who can’t act to save his life. Then again, his ‘surfer-dude’ voice was needed for the part. And this makes it that much better as it adds a LOT of humour to the film. You’ll find yourself cracking up listening to his dialog and his complete incompetance at acting. “Excellent I’m loving.” “Oh yeah, skip to the greatest hits!” His poorness though, is more than made up for by Patrick Swayze. He is truly excellent in this film. And Gary Busey is great too. Overall, this is one of the best action films I’ve ever seen. Great feel film with the perfect ending. Point Break is ‘the ultimate ride’. (It was completely copied recently by The Fast and the Furious which mimicked it in every way except for the surf boards. Even the guy who played Keanu Reeves’ character talked like a ‘surfer-dude’. And the ending was attempted too but failed miserably. Even the final camera angle and the way the music ‘whooshed’ in was copied. Still, this made FatF good, but Point Break was so much better.)
3) Pulp Fiction – Samuel L Jackson makes this film 100 times better than it is and it’s already brilliant. There are so many lines that NEED to be quoted. It’s just so funny. Another thing. Samuel L Jackson’s hair has only ever been rivalled by one other person in one other film. The film - Unbreakable. The person - Samuel L Jackson. The cast is amazing. Bruce Willis, John Travolta (who is actually very good in it believe it or not), Ving Rhames, Uma Therman, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel and plenty of others too including the man himself Quentin.
2) Gladiator – “Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” This is the film probably most quoted by myself among friends. German lessons sometimes prove so boring that I find myself writing Gladiator quotes on my folder. In fact, I have pretty much the whole script on my German folder. But anyway, you don’t care about that. :-D The battle scenes are outstanding and it has the best movie soundtrack ever in my opinion. And then the acting. Richard Harris, regardless of how long he is in it, is great. His sigh adds the perfect ending to the first battle scene. I don’t like Jaquoin Pheonix in it at all and therefore he did a great job of making you not like him. Russell Crowe isn’t as good as in LA Confidential. But Oliver Reed is amazing. “Rises up like a…..like a storm. As if you were the thundergod himself.”
And here it is. My top film of all time. Those of you who are regulkars to this forum should not be surprised. Yes! It is……
1)Spaceballs – Mel Brooks’ vision of a far away galaxy is brought to life in Spaceballs, an epic tale of love, honour and sacrifice. This is perhaps one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. The acting is outstanding. Rick Moranis’s portrayal of Dark Helmet, the evil lord torn apart by the love that does not want him, is so good that I think he should have been awarded an oscar. Bill Pullman too, is utterly fantastic. And John Candy’s interpretation of Barf, the half-man half-dog character, remains his best. Quite simply, Spaceballs is one of the grandest films I have ever had the honour of watching. A masterpiece.
Right, I think (or at least I hope) that you have all realised I’m joking. The real number 1 film is of course, Heat. I did think for a while that Gladiator may have displaced it at the top but then I watched it again and realised just why it is my favourite film. There are so many sub plots and so many good performances. I love Heat. And don’t anyone say that Michael Mann is a poor director, especially you Gaz. Last of the Mohicans – Excellent film. The Insider – Excellent film. Manhunter- Good film. Thief – A brilliant film for a debut film.
A few people may ask where Lord of the Rings is, namely Gaz and that Smeagol guy. The answer. I have only seen it once and I can’t say it is one of my favourite films if I have only seen it once. I need to see it again to see how good it is a second time. But I’m fairly sure it will come quite high. I just don’t know where yet. Still, I’m going to see it tomorrow and I’ll decide where it should be placed afterwards.
So there it is. My top 10. No doubt it’ll change again very soon. Probably tomorrow in fact, when I see Lord of the Rings again. But it’ll still likely change soon after that too. It always happens. I can’t seem to keep a lasting top 10. The top 3 or 4 are usually constant for ages but get far past that and they swap around all over the place. Plus I’ve probably left out at least one very important film that I love. But hey, “THAT’S LIFE!”
:-D
10) Rush Hour – Only saw this a few months back when the sequel was out in cinemas and I absolutely loved it. Jackie Chan's fighting along with Chris Tucker’s hilarious remarks made it overall, a great film. I’ve seen it so many times in such a short space of time and I still haven’t got remotely tired of it. Rush Hour 2 was slightly disappointing as I was expecting it to be a better-than-the-original sequel. It wasn’t but it was still a great film with good action and hilarious moments. “I’m gonna pretend you a man. A very beautiful man with the perfect body, who I’d like to take to the movies.”
9) Carlito’s Way – The first Pacino film I ever saw. Or at least part of film. I remember seeing the beginning of this when I was very young. It came on TV just before I went to bed. The black and white bit at the beginning is what I saw, and the following night my dad was watching it. I was a bit too young back then to see it, so he taped over it. I wanted to see it for years and years but could never see it in any video shops. Eventually, I saw it in a HMV whilst on holiday for only 5.99. So I bought it and I was not disappointed. It is an amazing film, one of Pacino’s best. The entire end sequence has got to be one of my all time favourite endings. I think I’ll just add that Sean Penn is unrecognisable. :-D
8) Glengarry Glenross – One of the few films that is actually funnier when you quote the lines yourself rather than watch it. There are so many memorable scenes in this. The motivation scene with Alec Bladwin (who is actually very good in it, however hard it is to believe). The scene in the bar with Ed Harris and Alan Arcin. Jack Lemmon describing his close to Pacino. Oh this film is so good. And its so funny too. Plus, the cast is fantastic and everyone plays a very good part. Jack Lemmon has got to be the best even though it was Al Pacino who was nominated for the oscar. Everybody should watch this.
7) Jaws – Still the best shark/crocodile/monster movie ever in my opinion. The shark looks remarkably good bearing in mind it was 1975. Personally, I’d much prefer watching the model shark in Jaws to the horribly unrealistic CG sharks in Deep Blue Sea. And one of my favourite scenes in any film is in Jaws - the Indianapolis speech with the singing and comparing scars before hand. Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw are brilliant in this scene. Roy Scheider isn’t bad but the other 2 make him look bad. Three sequels I believe. Jaws 2 wasn’t bad. Jaws 3 was one of the worst films I’ve ever seen with effects that couldn’t even put up a fight against thunderbirds, and don’t get me started on the Michael Cain one. The first was undoubtedly the best. Deep Blue Sea is awful in comparison regardless of how cool Sammy L Jackson is. :-D
6) Terminator 2 – Watched this for about the 50th time last night and still loved it. Much better than the original in my opinion. Even if T2 were released in cinemas for the first time tomorrow, people would still say the special effects were brilliant. But it’s not released tomorrow, it was released 10 years ago. And the special effects are still brilliant. The action scenes are amazing. Arnie IS the Terminator. Big guns, lots of killing, a really cool way to reload a shotgun, a big human looking robot on a motercycle and a smaller liquid metal person who can change shape. What more could you ask for? Sean Bean? Ahh yes, of course. :-D
5) Ronin – This film has some of the best car chases I’ve ever seen. High speed through the extremely narrow streets of Nice. Fantastic. It’s about a case basically. Some people are hired to retrieve a stolen case. A few twists in the story stop it from being too simple. In fact, there is only 1 problem with Ronin. The bad guy. Well, more of who plays the bad guy. Jonathon Pryce!!! What is it with him playing the bad guy in films? Don’t people realise that he isn’t threatening in the least? He should be playing the measly, small person who is lead by the nose all the time. He does in Glengarry and he was great in that. But you can’t have everything, right? And Ronin is still one of the best films I’ve ever seen and it is SO under-rated. So, brilliant car chases, an unintentionally hilarious Stellan Skarsgard, Bob De Niro, and a mysterious case. What more could you ask for? Sean Bean? AHA! He IS in it. And he plays a damn fine part too. “Almost a bit of rasberry jam back there ay lads? Bit of rasberry jam back there!”
4) Point Break – After I watched this for the first time, I thought how great it would be to just rob banks and surf, and do nothing else. Problem is, the first time I watched it was the last night of the Summer Holiday where the next day was back to school. I felt terrible. But the film was still ace. :-D It had the most perfect ending it could have possibly had. Of course, Keanu Reeves was in it. The man who can’t act to save his life. Then again, his ‘surfer-dude’ voice was needed for the part. And this makes it that much better as it adds a LOT of humour to the film. You’ll find yourself cracking up listening to his dialog and his complete incompetance at acting. “Excellent I’m loving.” “Oh yeah, skip to the greatest hits!” His poorness though, is more than made up for by Patrick Swayze. He is truly excellent in this film. And Gary Busey is great too. Overall, this is one of the best action films I’ve ever seen. Great feel film with the perfect ending. Point Break is ‘the ultimate ride’. (It was completely copied recently by The Fast and the Furious which mimicked it in every way except for the surf boards. Even the guy who played Keanu Reeves’ character talked like a ‘surfer-dude’. And the ending was attempted too but failed miserably. Even the final camera angle and the way the music ‘whooshed’ in was copied. Still, this made FatF good, but Point Break was so much better.)
3) Pulp Fiction – Samuel L Jackson makes this film 100 times better than it is and it’s already brilliant. There are so many lines that NEED to be quoted. It’s just so funny. Another thing. Samuel L Jackson’s hair has only ever been rivalled by one other person in one other film. The film - Unbreakable. The person - Samuel L Jackson. The cast is amazing. Bruce Willis, John Travolta (who is actually very good in it believe it or not), Ving Rhames, Uma Therman, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel and plenty of others too including the man himself Quentin.
2) Gladiator – “Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.” This is the film probably most quoted by myself among friends. German lessons sometimes prove so boring that I find myself writing Gladiator quotes on my folder. In fact, I have pretty much the whole script on my German folder. But anyway, you don’t care about that. :-D The battle scenes are outstanding and it has the best movie soundtrack ever in my opinion. And then the acting. Richard Harris, regardless of how long he is in it, is great. His sigh adds the perfect ending to the first battle scene. I don’t like Jaquoin Pheonix in it at all and therefore he did a great job of making you not like him. Russell Crowe isn’t as good as in LA Confidential. But Oliver Reed is amazing. “Rises up like a…..like a storm. As if you were the thundergod himself.”
And here it is. My top film of all time. Those of you who are regulkars to this forum should not be surprised. Yes! It is……
1)Spaceballs – Mel Brooks’ vision of a far away galaxy is brought to life in Spaceballs, an epic tale of love, honour and sacrifice. This is perhaps one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. The acting is outstanding. Rick Moranis’s portrayal of Dark Helmet, the evil lord torn apart by the love that does not want him, is so good that I think he should have been awarded an oscar. Bill Pullman too, is utterly fantastic. And John Candy’s interpretation of Barf, the half-man half-dog character, remains his best. Quite simply, Spaceballs is one of the grandest films I have ever had the honour of watching. A masterpiece.
Right, I think (or at least I hope) that you have all realised I’m joking. The real number 1 film is of course, Heat. I did think for a while that Gladiator may have displaced it at the top but then I watched it again and realised just why it is my favourite film. There are so many sub plots and so many good performances. I love Heat. And don’t anyone say that Michael Mann is a poor director, especially you Gaz. Last of the Mohicans – Excellent film. The Insider – Excellent film. Manhunter- Good film. Thief – A brilliant film for a debut film.
A few people may ask where Lord of the Rings is, namely Gaz and that Smeagol guy. The answer. I have only seen it once and I can’t say it is one of my favourite films if I have only seen it once. I need to see it again to see how good it is a second time. But I’m fairly sure it will come quite high. I just don’t know where yet. Still, I’m going to see it tomorrow and I’ll decide where it should be placed afterwards.
So there it is. My top 10. No doubt it’ll change again very soon. Probably tomorrow in fact, when I see Lord of the Rings again. But it’ll still likely change soon after that too. It always happens. I can’t seem to keep a lasting top 10. The top 3 or 4 are usually constant for ages but get far past that and they swap around all over the place. Plus I’ve probably left out at least one very important film that I love. But hey, “THAT’S LIFE!”
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