Forums > Social Chat > The Top 10 thread #1: Films

This one is for all the geeky and anal people like me out there who love making completely meaningless lists of stuff they like. I reckon you can tell a lot about a persons personality from the type of stuff they like. I love being obsessive about details and getting really involved in in-depth discussions about minor details in movies (don't even get me started on lord of the rings)



The best part is, if we spot a post by someone with a similar list that has a film that we haven't seen, it's a fair bet we'll like it. But think carefully: there are a lot of films. Choose the ones that have affected you, influenced you or touched you the most over the years. And if it's a film no-one will ever have heard of, give a very brief outline!



Thread #2 will be albums, #3 will be sexual positions



So without further ado, here are my top 10 movies.



1. A Flight of Dragons (animation from 1982 feat. James Earl Jones. As a kid, I loved it as a magical adventure. As an adult, it's fascinating allegory on science vs. religion, and how ultimately they're two sides of the same coin)

2. Lord of the Rings trilogy. (Blinding soundtrack, amazing visuals, totally nailed Tolkiens world. Geek alert!)

3. Pi (Again, great soundtrack feat Aphex Twin etc, great cinematography, fantastic concept about patterns emerging in nature)

4. Evil Dead 2 (Bruce Campbell's best ever performance, so funny but so ingenious at the same time)

5. Shawshank redemption (One of the most uplifting films ever made. An inspiration, and one of the best demonstrations of why never to let go of hope I've ever seen)

6. Donnie Darko (As a mood piece this works like no other film I've ever seen. Brilliantly ambiguous, Jake Gylenhall is blinding as donnie)

7. Akira (Best anime ever. Full stop. Needs repeated viewings, but the denoument is mind-blowing if you understand what happened!)

8. Aliens (One of the great action movies. The Alien queen fight at the end is absolute cinema legend)

9. Hero (purely for the artistry that went into the cinematography and choreograhpy, especially the scene where the two heros are fighting over the lake. Easily the most beautiful film I've seen, and I loved the concept of even the bad guy is trying to do something good)

10. City of God (pure realism. One of the most authentic films I've seen in ages, and incredibly shocking and moving. Great film)



I may edit this list at some point when I think of movies I've missed that should have been there.



Feel free to rip the out of me for being sad. I'm just interested in what other people like, I might learn something....

My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean

If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

 Written by: coleman


maus - la heine that film.
possibly has my favourite tracking shot in any film ever (inside to outside the flat, over the dj and off the balcony...)

"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

My Mind is a Ship
Emotions become the Waves
Soul is the Ocean

If a quizz is quizzical, what is a test?

"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock

"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."

"Do you know what the Phantom is??"
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Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

 Written by: Neon_Shaolin


Would you believe or say I was crazy if I managed to figure out 'Mullholland Drive' within the first viewing? (or at least form a possible theory on what it was about)

 Written by: Neon_Shaolin


'Sympathy for Mr Vengeance' and 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance' ARE on my list!

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

 Written by: maus



Leon.... How could i have forgotten that one!

"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."

"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock

 Written by: strugz

 Written by: maus


Leon.... How could i have forgotten that one!

Gary Oldman is wicked in that film............(so is Reno mind, and young miss Protman)........

........ "you dont like Beethoven".........

 Written by: maus





I still want the plant!



And i'm actually that young that when it first came out, i actually loved leon so much I wanted to be a cleaner....and started drinking a lot more milk!!

 Written by: Gary Oldman

You Don't Like Beethoven!

"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock

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but lord of the rings cant be there for simply being a cheesy pile of sheeyat. its alrite, and the way they made middle earth in film form is amazing, but with weak soundtrack, and uber cheesiness, made something that was potentially incredible a bit crap really,

Chief adviser to the Pharaoh, in one very snazzy mutli-coloured coat

'Time goes by so slowly for those who wait...' - Whatever Happend To Baby Madonna?

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock

"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock