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Here is the list of the top ten movies of all time.

1) The Shining
2) The Godfather
3) One Flew over the Cukoo's nest
4) Fargo
5) A Clockwork Orange
6) Resovoir Dogs
7) Goodfellas
8) Carrie
9) Fear and Loathing in LasVegas
10) The Naked Lunch

73
NEO

According to whom?  

What about Citizen Kane; Philadelphia Story; From Here to Eternity; The Searchers (or anything directed by John Ford);  to name just a few?

Hmmmm... WHO came up with THAT list?   :D

Maybe not the best of all time, but here's a few I can watch
over and over without boredom:

1) The Godfather I and II
2) Midway
3) The Partridge Family and Cowsills Reunion - Live
4) Winnie the Pooh goes to Harlem
5) The Best of Barney and his gay friends, IV
6) Gozilla Ass Kicking by Motha, Part I
7) Masters and Johnson Live
8.) Hulk Hogan's Greatest Hits in Concert - LIVE
9) The Three Stooges Go To Provincetown, II
10) Lee DeForest - the  Swinging Years, Part I

Wait a minute; Where is Attack of the Killer Tomatoes??
Quote: It was made for less than $100,000 and has been recognized as ahead of its time, predating Airplane! and other films with the same concepts but with less money. USAToday named it one of the ten best titles of all time.


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And the last one in the series: Killer Tomatoes Eat France:

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And the Special Colllectors Edition:

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Tom, for the next Six Meter Gay Film Festival,
don't forget Men in Back and the ever
popular Shaving Ryan's Privates.

Anybody remember "Spinal Tap"?

A Rob Reiner low budget film that turned out to be a huge cult sucess!

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You have to add "Plan Nine from Outer Space" to the list. - Just Kidding...

I would honestly add:

Kelly's Heros
Independence Day

That is all I can think of at the moment.

Boy is THIS subject gonna start a flame fest.

My list:

1)  The Blues Brothers
2)  North by Northwest
3)  The Best Years of Our Lives
4)  Airplane!
5)  Animal House
6)  Fargo
7)  Citizen Kane
8)  Goldfinger
9)  Schindler's List
10) Duck Soup

Each one of these is a groundbreaking artistic masterpiece in one form or another (writing, cinematography, directing, etc).

Or so *I* think.

73 John

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

I must have missed those! But I read the books.

Now, a movie that was ahead of it's time and continues to
mesmorize people young and old - and we all watch over
and over.  [And everyone knows the lines by heart] .... Guess ?

T

Wizard of Oz !!

AND ... what about..

Rescue from Gilligan's Island.
The Brady Bunch Reunion
Ryan's Express
Stallag 17
Gray Lady Down
Sound of Music
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Adrienne Barbeau !!!)
House on Haunted Hill

Creature from the Black Lagoon (Adrienne Barbeau !!!)(http://www.giantsandgirls.com/images/laboratory/swampthing10.jpg)  YES!!! Swamp Thing????

I vote for:
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
Animal House

My vote is for, "I can remember; doing the time warp..."

Rocky Horror Picture Show


(Nice Tits Janet!)

Hey mates what about skippy and Crocodile Dundee (we hated that but you loved it)  :lol: and there's even Dame Edna Everage.
OOOHH!!! we've got it all downunder

The Greatest of all time, wow, that's a hard one.

Mine from 1962ish on Some That I liked but are not all time greats
NO ELVIS MOVIES.

The Great Escape.
The Odd Couple.
Night of the Living Dead.[Original].
Valley of the Dolls.
Easy Rider.
Rosmary's Baby
The French Connection.
The Good the Bad and The Ugly.
SuperFly.
SHAFT.
Vanishing Point.
The Omen.
Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry.
Fritz the Cat.
Aloha Bobby and Rose.
Tommy.

Or how about, "I'm gonna send you off to military school, with the god damn Finklestien shit kid!!!....."

Up In Smoke doesn't fall in there somewhere? Look at all the actors that starred in that movie.

MIDWAY

I need to start seeing more movies.  I thought Casablanca was the best, but whadda I know?

Ahh, Vanishing Point... what a great movie.  Nothing but Barry Newman blasting a Hemi Challenger thru the desert with a drug-hazed soundtrack!

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In no particular order...

Moonstruck
The Godfather
Jaws
Apocalypse Now
The Searchers
Bringing Up Baby
Citizen Kane
The Naked City
An American in Paris
Rear Window

Monty Python Search for the holy grail and
                          The meaning of life.
More people quote those than other flicks I know!!!

 Almost anything with John Wayne in it...
   Ya got a problem with that pilgrim???

The Good The Bad, and the Ugly...

Casa Blanca
The African Queen
Apocalypse Now
Citizen Kane
Gone with the wind  People are STILL saying that line!!!

Ohhh Man..... mention cars and ya gotta say:

Steve McQueen !!!

Bullitt

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Trivia: The director called for speeds of about 75-80 mph, but the cars (including the ones containing the cameras) reached speeds of over 110 mph. Filming of the chase scene took three weeks, resulting in 9 minutes and 42 seconds of footage. They were denied permission to film on the Golden Gate Bridge.

And of course, who can forget, "The Exorcist":
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Anybody remember "Wild Women of Wongo", a teenage cult film released in 1959? It's campy and hysterical, and has a (then) 16 YO Adrienne Barbeau in it. I think it was her first film.

It was rated the WORST film ever made.

The 1950s had a lot of bad sci fi and
monster movies. Today when they talk
about a bad movie they say it went
straight  to video.  Back then the
schlock went to the drive-in
or the double feature matinee down at
the local theater.   I miss drive ins
and independently owned,
single screen theaters.  Each place
had its own character and that added
to the fun of going the movies.  
Such places are getting rare.  We have
two left in this area.  One shows first
run movies in an old vaudeville theater.
The other one shows second run movies
in an old movie theater and tickets
are under $3.  I'd rather go to them
than the cookie cutter multiplexes.

From a "1993 Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever"
Partial Lists - These lists were not published in the book per se, only mentioned in movie by movie reviews.  I have gleaned these so far:

10 Best American Films of All Time
1. Gone With the Wind
2. Citizen Kane
3. Casablanca
4. African Queen (not a gay movie)
5. ?
6. ?
7. Singin' In The Rain
8. Star Wars
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Wizard of Oz

Best Films of All Time
1. Citizen Kane
2. ?
3. Singin' In The Rain
4. ?
5. Grand Illusion
6. Battleship Potemkin
7. Vertigo
8. ?
9. ?
10. ?

Tom, I wonder if under the second category
they included the Fritz Lang movie Metropolis?
It was a silent movie made in the late 1920s
depicting life in 2026.  Much later movies
like Bladerunner seemed to owe
something to Lang's vision of the future.

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Paul,
      Metropolis always was one of my favorite movies. The Weimar era German expressionism is quite prolific with black and white distinctions between the working class and the Bourgoisie!

Have you seen Birth of a City? (German silent film - 1927) The Director gives you a tour of 1927 Berlin. Quite a fabulous film and you can see how much different the Weimar German culture was from that of American culture at the time. Things that were acceptable to Europeans, were'nt here.

I guess the best part of the film is viewing pre-WWII Berlin in all of it's Mideaval Teutonic splendor. The architecture was fairy-tale and streets squeaky clean. It's (in the movie) inhabitants all had definition and purpose. These was quite a distinction between the classes, especially during the introduction to the movie.

The movie opens up on the train from Potsdam to Berlin, where you can see the ramshackle tents and dwelings of the poor right outside of the Brandenburg Gates! I for one, never knew such a thing existed in Weimar Germany; but guess it did. I wasn't alive in 1927 - hi!

If you get a chance to see it I think you'd find it enjoyable.

How come no one mentioned Caddy Shack?

I was trying to think of movies that incorporated
amateur radio in them and I could only
come up with two: Frequency and
Phenomenon.  Anyone come up with
any others? (No, The Strapping Young Men
of P-town doesn't count.)

Hi Paul,

My 1993 movie book did not have the movie Metropolis in it surprisingly.  It is reviewed in my other 2 movie books.

My 1998 "Time Out Film Guide" has a list of 100 Best Films in the back of the book.  In 1995, Time Out polled directors, producers, actors, programmers and critics.
The top ten from this list are:
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. La Regle du Jeu
4. Vertigo
5. Seven Samurai
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. Raging Bull
8. Touch of Evil
9. Tokyo Story
10. L'Atalante

Hi Tom.  That's a good list!  I don't know how many
time's I've seen Lawrence of Arabia -- a lot.
We have it on VHS and DVD.  

Seven Samurai is another great movie and I'd not
even thought of it.  We had our own American version
of it with Magnificent Seven

Funny how when people start talking about movies
they bring up titles that you can't believe you forgot
to include.  

After this discussion started yesterday, I went home
and asked my wife and oldest daughter who's visiting
what their top 10 movies were.  It was chick flick
film festival time, let me tell you!  

Thanks Bob NEO for starting this!  Really enjoyable.
Keep it rolling.

A famous Hollywood screen writer just died, Ernest Lehman, K6DXK.  He wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest, among many others.  Remember the plane strafing Cary Grant?  He wrote a novel called "The French Atlantic Affair" which featured a boy on a cruise ship with a ham radio.  The ship gets hijacked by terrorists as I recall.  The TV movie version IIRC with Chad Everett (father) and Michelle Phillips very greatly downplayed the ham radio part however.

I think one of Brando's last films "The Island of Dr. Moreau" had a Yaesu? HF transceiver in it.  (Haven't seen it.)

Pump Up The Volume with Christian Slater - an FM bootlegger.  I remember seeing an HP608 rf signal generator but don't recall ham rigs.

And let's not forget the biographical movie about the patriot from Liberty Corner. (Haven't seen it.)

....."It's just a jump to the left.."

:D ... BLAZING SADDLES.... :D

I thought I was the world's only fan of "The Naked Lunch."  For the record I think the book was hard to read but the movie was well done.  I can understand why Kerouac and crew like the guy because the ideas are so out there.  Ed

lots of good movies mentioned.  i liked some of the older ones, and
new. i mostly like sci fi.

war of the worlds - old and new is good
time machine
forbidden planet
contact
titanic
alien
fargo
french connection
grudge - creepy
matrix

Okay, I'll bite...

North By Northwest
Killer Clowns From Outer Space
Ice Pirates
Spaceballs
Time Bandits
2001: A Space Oddysey
Natural Born Killers
Failsafe
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (tied with The Holy Grail)
Caligula

...in no particular order.

--Thom
Kerolene Apparatus One Zooming Golf Cart

Contact with Jodie Foster harbored a seen with amateur radio

:D..History of the World Part One.. :D

Isn't this the movie where we found out there were actually 15 Commandments? Moses dropped one of the stone tablets coming down off the mountain.

I think that is already in a Mel Brooks movie Pete.

It is the Mel Brooks movie, History of the World Part One

I really like the cute chick in your avatar! Besides being an Ultraconservative, do you think she'd like to see my big triodes????

Thom,
      Caligula? I remember that, they hack off the balls of a guy.
I remember the ballsack in the soldiers hand and tossing them to a
dog who scarfed them down. well at least the dog was
happy!! ;;;

Wasn't that the movie where Caligula was invited to a wedding and after the reception had sex with the groom????

It was too much for me!

:D .. Young Frawnk-En-StEin.. :D

Lessee In no particular order

1. Dr Strangelove
2.Shadow Of The Vampire (Willem DaFoe)
3.The Pawnbroker
4.On The Beach
5.Catch 22
6.Anything by Monty Python
7.The French Connection
8.The Blues Brothers
9.Das Boot
10.Lost Weekend

jeepers I almost forgot the GREATEST MOVIE EVER(http://www.bijouflix.com/goods/Killdozer_DVD.jpg)

Don't forget "the Deer Hunter" .

How about "Dog Day Afternoon" Al Pacino Great Actor.

What about Taxi Driver with De Niro. "You talkin to me"

Some of my favorites in no particular order

The Natural
Ground Hog Day
Blazing Saddles
Con Air
1941
What about Bob
Stripes
Duel
It's a wonderful Life
Badlands
Smokey And The Bandit
Office Space
A League of their Own
Money Train
Airplane
Hot Shots
The Sting
Sting2


And now some of the worst

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Caddy Shack 2
Airplane 2
Rhinestone
Dirty Dancing
Cobra
Anything with Barbra Streisand in it.
The Jerky Boys Movie
The Replacements
Smokey and the Bandit 3
Rocky 5
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Stroker Ace
Dune

Midway
Apollo 13

Which line? "They says if you puts a knife under
de pillow it cuts de pain."  Or "I don't know
nuthin' 'bout birthin' no babies."

Here's a few of my favorites:

1) The Enforcer (Humpry Bogard)
2) DOA  (Edmond O'Brian)
3) La citta Delle Donne (italian)
4) Dimanche et Cybele (French)
5) Ms. 45 (rare 1980's cult film)
6) Bad Lieutenant (Harvey Kietel)
7) Almost anything with Bette Davis in it
8) Almost anything with Joan Crawford in it
9) Almost anything with the Marx Bros in it
10) Roman Scandals (Eddie Cantor)
11) Underworld USA (Cliff Robertson)
12 Shane
13) Gods Gun (Jack Palance)
14) One Eyed Jacks  (Brando)
14) The Magnificent 7
15  Reefer Madness (faster faster faster)
16) Marijuana
17) the Blob
18) The Dead Poets Society (R.. Williams)

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Worst films I ever saw...

1) Beetlejuice (1990's)
2) The World According to Garp. (R. Williams)

Ever see the 1958 Italian movie I Soliti Ignoti released abroad with the title Big Deal on Madonna Street? Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, etc.  Really funny and the cinematography (b&w, of course) is first class.

George Clooney helped produce a remake of that movie a few years ago titled Welcome to Collinwood.   It is a gem of an indie film filmed around Cleveland.  It was one of the last, if not the last, movie Michael Jeter was in before he died.  William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, Luis Guzmán and Patricia Clarkson are in it, too.    

Speaking of William H. Macy, he was in another movie I like that I'd meant to mention earlier: State and Main written and directed by David Mamet.  

An indie film for those who like pool is Poolhall Junkies.  Last movie Rod Steiger was in before he died.  Shot in and around Salt Lake City with loads of poolhall action.  Someone on IMDB called it Rounders with pool cues.  It's got Christopher Walken in it, too.

Christopher Walken has always been one of my favorite actors.
So under rated and has not gotten the recognition he deserves.
I like his mannerisms when jiving with people.

He was a goof in "Communion" doing his classic facial gestures
when he was dancing with the aliens to the commercials.

Once on Johnny Carson he was axed why some fans said he was
seen talking to himself in a restaurant for over an hour.  His
answer was quite simple: "I was practicing my lines for a movie."... :D

T

William H. Macy is one of my favorites.  He wuz robbed of an Acadamy Award for his portrayal of the car salesman in Fargo.  

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Omega Man with Charlton Heston. Ah heck anything with Charlton Heston in it

What a persona.