If you could only watch ten films for the rest of your life, what would they be?

[General Dryness]

11 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

Fuck, thought I'd struggle thinking of 10 seeing as I rarely watch films at the moment. Then I ended up with 10 that I wasn't totally happy with (because 10 wouldn't feel like enough), then another 10 if I could choose 20. Now I'm not sure what films would actually go in the final 10 apart from the first 5 or 6.

 

They're not all my favourite films ever and surely I've forgot some, it's more about what I'd think of as a decent variation of sci-fi and fantasy films seeing as I'd not get to watch anything else.

 

The Matrix
Underworld
Dark City
Contact
Ghost In The Shell (1995 anime)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Inception
The Dark Knight
The X-Files: Fight the Future
Avengers Age of Ultron

 

The other 10 would be something like :

 

Lord of the Rings 1, 2, 3
A Scanner Darkly
Captain Marvel
Winter Soldier
Doctor Strange
Return of the Jedi
Avatar
The Fifth Element

 

If it was 20 I'd be reasonably content, 10 I'd be gutted!

Cant rep right now, but Dark City is a fantastic film. Underrated.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

52 minutes ago, General Dryness said:

Withnail & I 

Donnie Darko 

Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction

Casino

Platoon

The Matrix

The Empire Strikes Back

The Usual Suspects 

Snatch

 

Theres a bunch of others that could slot into that list on any given day, but right now this is my ten.

Damn, I forgot Withnail and I. My list is already redundant, as that and Spinal Tap should've been on there.

[aws]

The Big Lebowski is well worth a mention. 

[polymerpunkah]

The Wild Bunch

The Good the Bad and the Ugly (extended version)

Life of Brian

The Thing (Kurt Russell Version)

Ben Hur

Apocalypse Now

The Night of the Hunter

It's A Wonderful Life

The Sting (or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance King)

All the President's Men

 

 

[Elite]

I forgot to add Donnie Darko, very rewatchable with an amazing soundtrack.

[mars]

In no particular order:

 

The Seventh Seal

Spirited Away

Once upon a time in the West

The Matrix

The Third Man

Zatoichi

Forbidden Planet

The Maltese Falcon

North by Northwest

Miller's Crossing

 

[thegreatelephant]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Escape from New York

This is Spinal Tap

Blues Brothers

Get Carter - original

Mona Lisa

Porridge - TV series film

Letter to Brezhnev

Rollerball - original

Apocalypse Now

[KMD7]

For a few Dollars more.

Once upon a time in the West.

The Goonies

Jackie Brown

Gaslight

Big Trouble in Little China

Mississippi Burning

Unforgiven

The Searchers

The Quiet Man.

 

Not all necessarily my favourite films. A Lot of Westerns!

 

 

[KMD7]

5 minutes ago, thegreatelephant said:

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Escape from New York

This is Spinal Tap

Blues Brothers

Get Carter - original

Mona Lisa

Porridge - TV series film

Letter to Brezhnev

Rollerball - original

Apocalypse Now

 

Spinal tap rep. 

[polymerpunkah]

12 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

For a few Dollars more.

Once upon a time in the West.

The Goonies

Jackie Brown

Gaslight

Big Trouble in Little China

Mississippi Burning

Unforgiven

The Searchers

The Quiet Man.

 

Not all necessarily my favourite films. A Lot of Westerns!

 

 

"The Searchers" almost made my list. Great movie.

[johnsusername]

Great topic. Always enjoy seeing other people's choices.

 

The Godfather 1 & 2 (what?)

Back to the Future

Raiders of the lost ark

Apocalypse Now

Ghostbusters

Lost Highway

Drive

Spring Breakers

Interstellar

Mad Max 2

 

[KMD7]

On 08/05/2019 at 17:06, Gruntfuttock said:

Star Wars (1977 version)
Raiders of the lost Ark
The Good,the Bad and the Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
High Plains Drifter
Where Eagles Dare
Carry on Camping
Carry on up the Khyber
The Great Escape
Get Carter (1971 version)

High Plains Drifter is a great shout. 

[Guest]

I haven't seen a lot of these films. I think I might need to go find a desert island somewhere and pick ten of the films I haven't seen, watch them and jump off a cliff.

[Remmie]

That'd be an odd but interesting topic, top 10 films you haven't seen.

[SasaS]

Or top 10 films you pretend you've seen (but have no intention of ever seeing because life's too short).

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Remmie said:

That'd be an odd but interesting topic, top 10 films you haven't seen.

Followed by the top ten cliffs you would love to jump off with a camera and a parachute.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Blazing Saddles

Life of Brian

Way Out West

Airplane

Arsenic and Old Lace

Dr Strangelove

Goodfellas

It's A Wonderful Life

Pulp Fiction

Oh Brother Where Art Thou

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 08/05/2019 at 17:06, Gruntfuttock said:

Star Wars (1977 version)
Raiders of the lost Ark
The Good,the Bad and the Ugly
For a Few Dollars More
High Plains Drifter
Where Eagles Dare
Carry on Camping
Carry on up the Khyber
The Great Escape
Get Carter (1971 version)

Some very good shouts there.

 

Who's up for piling round to Gruntfuttock's house with some beers and snacks?

[littletedwest]

The Godfather 1

Godfather 2

Good fellas

Casino

Once upon a time in the west

Rocky 3

Rocky 4

Superman 2

Transformers the movie (cartoon one)

American beauty 

[Special K]

The Godfather

This is Spinal Tap

The Matrix

Star Wars

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Pulp Fiction

Thor Ragnarock

Mad Max - Fury Road

Aliens

The Goonies

 

[Josef Svejk]

Wild Strawberries

La Strada

Three Colours: White

The 400 Blows

A Man Escaped

Tokyo Story

My Night at Maud's

Knife in Water

Weekend at Bernie's

Weekend at Bernie's 2

[Captain Howdy]

Angels with dirty faces

White Heat

The roaring twenties

The treasure of the Sierra madre

Manhattan

Annie Hall

Godfather

Godfather 2

Inglorious basterds

Manhunter

 

[cochyn]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Dead Man's Shoes

Life of Brian

Mesrine 1 & 2

Network

Where Eagles Dare

American Movie

Interstellar

High Plains Drifter

Team America

 

 

 

[KMD7]

20 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Angels with dirty faces

White Heat

The roaring twenties

The treasure of the Sierra madre

Manhattan

Annie Hall

Godfather

Godfather 2

Inglorious basterds

Manhunter

 

Good list Captain. A James Cagney fan I take it? 

[Captain Howdy]

Love him mate, Bogey as well