Author Topic: Your All-Time Favorite Top Ten Movies (Read 2035 times)

JB88 · « **Reply #90 on:** February 10, 2005, 10:33:53 AM »

almost forgot.

rushmore.

Mini D · « **Reply #91 on:** February 10, 2005, 11:24:44 AM »

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Originally posted by Halo
Interesting replies, and certainly some films new to me that I'll look for.

Comments about ranking are interesting too. Everything can be ranked, whether similar or dissimilar.

It's one thing if rankings are a supposed consensus of merit, and quite another if they are simply personal favorites, as the lists in this thread are.

As for difficulty of ranking, the deciding factor seems to be if the subject is important enough for the individual to take the time and effort to make the choices.

Yeah it's tough, yeah it might not be worth the effort, yeah it might change minute to minute or year to year. But it can be done.

For example, Miss America is relatively easy. Like the drama category in movies. 50 similar packages.

American Idol is a little tougher with both sexes.

Dog shows are still tougher -- category winners then best of show.

Hmmmm, which gives me an idea for another thread ... see ...
Personal Favorite Aces High II Aircraft or Vehicle ...

Bull****. Ranking is simply an attempt to impose one's own importance on a subject. There is no such thing as "10 best" when it comes to any expressive form of art. Expression is not quantifiable no matter how much snobs would like to insist it is.

Halo · « **Reply #92 on:** February 10, 2005, 05:51:45 PM »

This thread is for personal favorites, with one being "best" only on each personal favorites list.

Didn't mean to sidetrack anyone with the contest examples. I used them mainly to show that even with "experts" judging, there can be substantial disagreements among other viewers about the rankings.

Truly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #93 on:** February 10, 2005, 09:27:32 PM »

In no particular order, and I can't trim it down to ten. I don't think I can assign a "best", or a "favorite".

Dr. Strangelove
Patton
Band of Brothers
We Were Soldiers
The Great Escape
A Guy Named Joe
The Longest Day
Twelve O'Clock High
The Dirty Harry Series
The Lethal Weapon Series
The Magnificent Seven
The Green Beret
Field of Dreams
Saving Private Ryan
Bullit
Space Cowboys
The Enemy Below
The James Bond Series
Scrooged
A Christmas Carol/Scrooge (two versions, Alistair Sim and George C. Scott)
Grand Prix
Marlowe (James Garner version)
McQ
Ben Hur
Tombstone
Hour of the Gun
Payback (Mel Gibson)
Kelly's Heroes
The Dirty Dozen (and sequels that weren't as good as the original)
The Battle of the Bulge
Command Decision
The Professionals (Lee Marvin)
Wanted Dead or Alive (Rutger Hauer)
The Indiana Jones Series
Blade Runner
The Original Star Wars Trilogy
American Grafitti
Two Lane Blacktop
The Vanishing Point
Deliverance
Smokey and the Bandit
The Cowboy Way
Where Eagles Dare

At least 95% of the movies with eithe/and/or, John Wayne, Carry Grant, Steve McQueen , James Garner, Clint Eastwood, and Robert Mitchum.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #94 on:** February 10, 2005, 09:41:38 PM »

Personal top 10... movies I'd stay tuned to TBS for.

Star Wars Episode IV.
Star Wars Episode V.
The Thin Red Line
Glory
The Burbs
Snatch
Get Shorty
The Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heros
LOTR: The Two Towers