Top 10

**SelfMadeMMAn** · 06-27-2011, 05:04 AM

These do not necessarily have to be in order. Everyone has a list of movies you call great. What is your top 10 of all time. Mine go like this,
Full Metal Jacket [My opinion of the best movie ever!]
Sweet Home Alabama [My wife drug me to see this, and I loved it. So what if it is a chick flick]
Halloween [The most awesome horror movie, the one that started everything, I even love Rob Zombies take on this classic]
Soul Surfer [A great movie about a great girl and one that has a very positive message. Plus Carrie Underwood can act every bit as good as she sings]
My Bloody Valentine [Awesome slasher film. Hated the remake, but Larry Warden will always hold a special place in my heart]
Tombstone [A great modern day version of the old west]
Friday [Yes, there was a time when I got high, and drunk, alot. First time I saw this I was probably high. But I have since straightened up, and I still say this is the funniest movie ever]
Outlaw Josey Wales [Greatest western and greatest Clint Eastwood movie]
Malovence [Always love slasher movies, however, this put a new spin on the genre]
Red Riding Hood [Keeps you guessing through the entire movie, I loved that]

**IdolEyes787** · 06-27-2011, 12:25 PM

I like The Outlaw Josey Wales but I think calling it either "the greatest Western" or "the greatest Clint Eastwood movie" is reaching more than a little.I mean it isn't even the greatest Clint Eastwood Western

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The original Halloween is definitely class though with Carpenter doing double duty on (if you want to talk soundtracks) soundtrack.Overlaying of two disconcert themes one over the other .Brilliant.
Great "modern" take on the classic Western Little Big Man.

Sorry I can't make a top ten list as I constantly forget half the really good movies that I've ever seen .
I do like A Man for All Seasons ,Raiders of the Lost Ark, Casino Royale, Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner and The Man Who Would be King though not that anyone else is likely to.

**clocker** · 06-27-2011, 12:37 PM

I just watched The Man Who Would Be King last night.
Caine/Connery are the British Butch/Sundance (oh, come on, it's not that much of a stretch...).

**IdolEyes787** · 06-27-2011, 12:49 PM

They could have used Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head in The Man who Would Be King as well.

**clocker** · 06-27-2011, 01:13 PM

Had they better drugs, I'm sure they would have.

As long as I'm not talking about my Top 10 favorites- fer crissakes, I can't remember my favorites from last year, much less my whole life- two things struck me about TMWWBK.

First was the whole approach to an exotic culture...the film starts with a montage of Indian street culture that shouts, Hey look! Exotic, weird, different!.
It's like a National Geographic travelogue spliced before the opening credits.

A current film would be much less obvious in the locale setup, maybe because we're much more familiar with the milieu (after all, we've been bombing it for a decade now...).
A contrast would be HBO's Game of Thrones which presented a whole new world in a much more matter of fact, offhanded way.

Secondly, a more trivial question occurred...
How many times can you hit a head in a leather sack with a mallet before it no longer functions as a ball?
Seems like after a while, it'd be like playing polo with a baggie full of jello.
Just askin...

**IdolEyes787** · 06-27-2011, 03:25 PM

Eight or six if you use a graphite mallet.

Originally Posted by SelfMadeMMAn

Halloween [The most awesome horror movie, the one that started everything, I even love Rob Zombies take on this classic]

Rob Zombie totally missed the point of Halloween that being the killer is supposed to be basically undefined not some overgrown adolescent with Mommy issues. Not surprising as his movies are all basically the same one note brutality.I'm guessing he was seriously bullied as a child and having large cretins exact revenge on relatively normal people is a form of adolescent wish fulfillment.

Anyway if you notice in the credits of the original Halloween the character is simply referred to as The Shape . Carpenter knew enough about horror to understand that senseless brutality is the most disturbing.The Shape is inhuman ,remorseless,unstoppable.No amount of reasoning or pleading effects his actions.That besides better film-making is what separated the original Halloween from inferior pretenders like Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street.
To understand the monster is to humanize it and so render it less scary.