Top 30 favorite movies

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Cheesy, I know. I was just somewhat frustrated with the "top 5 favorite movies" thread because I couldn't include everything I wanted to. I'm a serious movie fan and my favorite films each have a deep and powerful resonance to me. So post your top 30 (less, if you can't think of that many, or more, if it simply must be longer). I think mine might be:

King Kong (1933)
Evil Dead 2
Being John Malcovich
Heavy Traffic
Taxi Driver
American Beauty
Conan the Barbarian
Deliverance
Ninja Scroll
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Last Temptation of Christ
Road Warrior
Robocop
Wizards
Ed Wood
Aliens
Unforgiven
La Femme Nikita
The Last Exit to Brooklyn
Princess Mononoke
Rob Roy
A Clockwork Orange
Quills
Akira
LoTR (does this count as one movie, or three?)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Chinatown
Pulp Fiction
Adaptation
Donnie Darko

That about wraps it up for me . . .

The Wizard of Oz
Nightmare on Elm Street 1-9
Freddy's Dead (10)
The Mask
Dumb and Dumber
Independence Day
Jurassic Park
Donnie Darko
Willy Wonka (the fisrst one)
i am sam
A Beautiful Mind
The Silence of the Lambs
The Shining (TV Series Version)
Rose Red
Chicago the Musical
The Phantom of the Opera
Monty Phython and the Holy Grail
Nosferatu
Spaceballs
Halloween: H20
IT
Amityville Horror

1. Taxi Driver
2. Star Wars
3. Aliens
4. To Kill A Mockingbird
5. Casino
6. Say Anything
7. Silence Of The Lambs
8. The Matrix
9. The Shining--Actual Movie
10 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
11. The Wizard Of Oz
12. Halloween
13. A Nightmare On Elm Street
14. The Green Mile
15. 2001
16. The Passion Of The Christ
17. When Harry Met Sally
18. Wargames
19. The Goonies
20. Sixteen Candles
21. Jurassic Park
22. E.T.
23. Empire Strikes Back
24. Rosemary's Baby
25. Shakespeare In Love
26. The Talented Mr. Ripley
27. Elizabeth
28. Far From Heaven
29. Casablanca
30. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Here are some of my favorite movies in no particular order.

1. Colour of Pomegranites
2. Au Hasard Balthazar
3. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. A. I. Artificial Intelligence
6. A Condemned Man Escapes
7. Pickpocket
8. Blow Up
9. Andrei Rublev
10. Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban
11. Aguirre the Wrath of God
12. The Mirrors
13. My name is Ivan
14. Spirited Away
15. Princess Mononoke
16. Floating Weeds
17. Tokyo Story
18. Dreams
19. Rashoman
20. Iron Ladies
21. Tampopo
22. Wings of Desire
23. Y Tu Mama Tambien
24. The Dreamers
25. Far Away So Close
26. Paris Texas
27. Bend it like Beckham
28. Germany, Pale Mother
29. 1936(?) Berlin Olympics
30. LotR

My favorite directors are Bresson and Paradjanov.

My top 30 films

1. Star Wars IV: A New Hope
2. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
3. Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
4. Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Airplane!
7. Forrest Gump
8. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
9. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Kahn
10. Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad
11. Mrs Doubtfire
12. The Running Man
13. Terminator 1+2
14. Top Secret
15. Star Trek: Nemesis
16. Fletch
17. The Goonies
18. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
19. Happy Gilmore
20. Star Trek: First Contact
21. Return Of The Jedi
22. Drop Dead Fred
23. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
24. Billy Madison
25. Caddyshack
26. National Lampoons Vacation
27. Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
28. BASEketball
29. Last Action Hero
30. Monty Python & The Holy Grail

1.Seabiscuit
2.Princess Bride
3.Pride & Prejudice(with Jennifer Ehle)
4.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
5.The Apostle
6.Princess Mononoke
7.Sense & Sensibility(With Kate Winslet)
8.Emma(with Gwyneth Paltrow)
9.Emma(A&E version)
10.Pride & Prejudice-A Latter-Day Comedy
11.Star wars(the original 3!)
12.LOTR
13.Monty Python and the Holy Grail/And Now For Something Completely Different.
14.Anchorman
15.Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
16.Phantom of the Opera
17.Dodgeball
18.Watership Down
19.Galaxy Quest
20.You've Got Mail
21.Hitch
22.Veggie Tales' A Snoodle's Tale
23.Veggie Tales' King George and the Ducky
24.Two Week's Notice
25.Nightmare Before Christmas
26.Bride and Prejudice
27.Bend it like Beckham
28.Blues Brothers/Blues Brothers 2000
29. Miss Congeniality/ Miss Congeniaity 2
30.Secondhand Lions

I'm sure I forgot a ton...there's a lot of movies I absolutely adore.

Movies coming out soon that will probably end up on this list
Corpse Bride
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Whatever that Johhny Cash movie is called....

DVDs that should be on the list but I can't pass them off in my mind as movies
Gilmore Girls-all seasons
Amy Grant-Greatest Videos
Great Big DVD-GBS live!!

Last edited by Mockingbird on 16 Sep 2005, 9:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My 30 favourite movies:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Apollo 13
Brazil
Castle in the Sky
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Donnie Darko
Dune
Edward Scissorhands
Hero
Howl's Moving Castle
The Lion King
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Princess Mononoke
Robin Hood
Spirited Away
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Wars episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Toy Story
Willow
Winnie the Pooh

Last edited by Yupa on 17 Sep 2005, 8:44 am, edited 1 time in total.

Not to be critical, but what are the reasons that you chose not to include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and instead had Winnie the Pooh?

TWOK is my favourite in my opinion

Thats why I put Wrath Of Kahn in the top ten at 9 in my top 30 films is my favourite and the best Star Trek film ever made.

I dunno, Star Trek II just didn't really appeal to me for some reason.