Rating - Perfect 10 Movies

[Mog Elffoe]

-Zatoichi (The Takeshi Kitano version, I haven't seen the other ones)

Toedels

Beat Takeshi's Zatoichi was great. I just bought an import DVD and watched it last week. I would have loved to have seen it on the big screen. I currently own about a dozen of the Shintaro Katsu Zatoichi films but have yet to get around to watching them.

 

[CCamfield]

I am very happy The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939 w Errol Flynn) is getting the respect it deserves. It's somewhat dated, but a true classic (and better than ALL later attempts at the Robin Hood story).

Very true. I hope that everyone voting for it has the beautiful restored Special Edition DVD of the movie... truly the way that old movies deserve to be treated.

Here's my try at a list, partly helped by films that others have mentioned who I agree with. (Arsenic and Old Lace! YES! "No, no Johnny, not the Australian method!")

- Captain Blood
- Casablanca
- The Maltese Falcon
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Charade
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Hard Boiled
- Drunken Master II
- Fist of Legend

 

[NiTessine]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, as a whole.
The original Star Wars trilogy, as a whole.
Battle Royale. Rating this one a 10 probably qualifies me for mental treatment, but damn, that psychological punch in the gut...
Brotherhood of the Wolf. So sue me.
Pirates of the Caribbean.
The Last Samurai. One of the few movies that ever got me weeping in a good way. The opposite end of this scale would be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which also wins my personal Most Wasted Potential Award.
Saving Private Ryan. Best. WW2 flick. EVAR.
Tuntematon sotilas. It's a Finnish movie about the Continuation War. In English, the title would translate as The Unknown Soldier.
Braveheart.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Godfather & Godfather II.

Everything else is crap.

 

[barsoomcore]

From my shelf, films that

1. Have nothing, not a frame or a line or a look, that I would change
2. I watch regularly and am constantly finding new joys within

Akira
Alien
Aliens
Apocalypse Now: Redux
The Big Sleep
Brazil (Director's Cut)
Casablanca
Charlie's Angels
The Commitments
Dawn of the Dead
Drunken Master II
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club
Hercules (Disney)
His Girl Friday
Ikiru
In The Mood For Love
Irma Vep
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Jesus of Montreal
Lawrence of Arabia
The Little Mermaid
The Maltese Falcon
Mary Poppins
Miller's Crossing
The Mummy
Night of the Living Dead
Out Of Sight
Peking Opera Blues
The Princess Bride
Princess Mononoke
Rashomon
Rosemary's Baby
Sense and Sensibility
Seven Samurai
Singin' In The Rain
Sleeping Beauty
Snatch
Some Like It Hot
Supercop
Sword of Doom
The Thin Red Line
Versus
Volcano High
Wages of Fear
Wild Zero
Yojimbo
Young Master

Clearly my shelf is missing some key items, but that's what I've got. My tastes should be pretty clear from that lot.

I recommend all the films on this list very highly indeed.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Ozu's Tokyo Story
Kurosawa's Seven Samurai
Kurosawa's Ran
Hitchcock's Psycho (especially perfect when view as a black comedy--as Hitchcock did)
Hitchcock's Vertigo
Cox's Repo Man
Jackson's LotR trilogy
Waters' Female Trouble
Scott's Alien
Bergman's The Seventh Seal
Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc
Lang's M
Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi
Mankiewicz's All About Eve
Huston's The African Queen
Wilder's Stalag 17
Cukor's A Star is Born
Romero's Night of the Living Dead

 

[Chain Lightning]

The Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
Momento
Pulp Fiction
Amadeus
Ran
Clockwork Orange
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, of course
M

Oh geez, Milotha....you just reminded me of a movie I forgot to put on my list. Actually, two movies . . . both Fincher's.

Add both : "Fight Club" & "Seven" to my list!

 

[NotNew@Enworld]

Beat Takeshi's Zatoichi was great. I just bought an import DVD and watched it last week. I would have loved to have seen it on the big screen. I currently own about a dozen of the Shintaro Katsu Zatoichi films but have yet to get around to watching them.

In the theater it's awesome. The scene where Ichi kills every1 underscored by the song "House on fire and massacres all over" is very impressive in a theater. Even the third time I saw it . In fact, I think I'm gonna listen to it right now.

And if I may ammend my list (I can't believe I forgot this):

-Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"

 

[Thanee]

Interview with a Vampire also should be considered, I think.

That movie has such an intense atmosphere.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Mister Underhill]

A few that have escaped notice that are easy 10's on my "I never get tired of watching them" scale:

Gunga Din
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston from a Kipling story, starring Caine and Connery -- they don't make 'em like this anymore)
The Wind and the Lion (Connery again)
Cool Hand Luke