PSU's Unofficial Best Movies Ever Poll

[TRF]

Okay, so everyone can vote for ten movies, the ten best movies ever in their opinion, and at some point in the future I'll tally everything up and make a definitive list a la Sight & Sound magazine. So for me, I'm only doing one film per director, so you won't see any directorial repeats.

Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese | 1976)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola | 1972)
8½ (Federico Fellini | 1963)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino | 1994)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles | 1941)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder | 1950)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick | 1968)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock | 1958)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen | 1977)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz | 1943)

How about you guys?

[newf_52]

Post deleted...after seeing Gladiator come out on top you people don't deserve to know the actual greatest movies of all time....

[Ixion]

These are all blockbusters, I know, but these are my ten favorite films in no particular order...




The Matrix (1999 | The Wachowski Brothers)




Back To The Future (1985 | Robert Zemeckis)




The Godfather (1973 | Francis Ford Coppola)




The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001 | Peter Jackson)




The Truman Show (1998 | Peter Weir)




Jurassic Park (1993 | Steven Spielberg)




Alien (1979 | Ridley Scott)




Gladiator (2000 | Ridley Scott)




Jaws (1975 | Steven Spielberg)




Rocky (1976 | John G. Avildsen)

[DreDayDetox]

In no order

Gladiator, by Ridley Scott

The Big Lebowski, by The Coen Bros.

The Matrix, by The Wachowski Bros.

Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott

Terminator 2: Judgement Day, by James Cameron

Into The Wild, by Sean Penn

Se7en, by David Fincher

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, by Irvin Kershner

Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarentino

The Shawshank Redemption, by Frank Darabont

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Very honorable mentions,

There Will Be Blood, by Paul Thomas Anderson

Clerks, by Kevin Smith

Lethal Weapon, by Richard Donner

The Last Boy Scout, by Tony Scott

The Departed, by Martin Scorsese

Training Day, by Antione Faqua

Pan's Labyrinth, by Guillermo Del Toro

Fight Club, by David Fincher

Shame, by Steve McQueen

Watchmen, by Zack Snyder

Hot Fuzz, by Edgar Wright

Superbad, by Judd Apatow

Oldboy, by Park Chan-wook

Office Space, by Mike Judge

[newf_52]

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, by George Lucas

I think you mean Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, by Irvin Kershner

[MATRIX 2]

Pulp Fiction

Jurassic Park

SW Empire Strikes Back

Goldeneye

The Godfather

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Bridge on the River Kwai

How to Train Your Dragon

The Princess Bride

The Pianist

I may edit this list later, after some more consideration.

[Blacksite]

Gladiator
The Prestige
Cloverfield
District 9
Goodfellas
Inception
Hard Boiled
Star Trek (2009)
The Departed
Blade Runner

[DreDayDetox]

I think you mean Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, by Irvin Kershner

ahh shit, that's right, my bad...

[RedDragon7]

Gladiator
The Prestige
Cloverfield
District 9
Goodfellas
Inception
Hard Boiled
Star Trek (2009)
The Departed
Blade Runner

I'm a little disappointed that I prefer TRF's list more than yours, and I generally agree with you more.

Note to everyone: Listing any movie past 2005, I will hurt you. Not that there isn't great movies, but none that should objectively be considered Best in context to "all time."

Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Indiana Jones
Back to the Future
Star Wars: Originals
The Bourne Identity
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Memento
Jurassic Park
Pulp Fiction (I need to put Quentin in there somewhere)
Se7en (for Fincher and the movie)
A Clockwork Orange
Aladdin
The Lion King
Akira
Gladiator

A few of those are childhood favorites. They deserve to mentioned for shaping me and giving me some great memories. That's what a great movie does, right?

[newf_52]

Note to everyone: Listing any movie past 2005, I will hurt you. Not that there isn't great movies, but none that should objectively be considered Best in context to "all time."

Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Indiana Jones
Back to the Future
Star Wars: Originals
The Bourne Identity
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Memento
Jurassic Park
Pulp Fiction (I need to put Quentin in there somewhere)
Se7en (for Fincher and the movie)
A Clockwork Orange
Aladdin
The Lion King
Akira
Gladiator

Now narrow this down to 10...

[Dave-The-Rave]

This is completely impossible..out of the hundreds (probably thousands) of movies I have seen over the years. There is too much choice. Same as choosing your favorite song.

[Tutankhamun]

The Godfather (Coppola)
The Godfather II (Coppola)
Raging Bull (Scorsese)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Goodfellas (Scorsese)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
Casino (Scorsese)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
Mean Streets (Scorsese)
A Bronx Tale (De Niro)

(This is all based on my personal preference in movies, which as you can see, happens to be gangster life stories type of movies)

[Kuro]

Shit this is hard.
Princess Mononake
Sprited Away
The NeverEnding Story
The Goonies
Stand By Me
Cloverfield
Back to the Future Part 2
Gladiator
Unleashed
Rush Hour 2
No particular order.

[MATRIX 2]

I'm a little disappointed that I prefer TRF's list more than yours, and I generally agree with you more.

Note to everyone: Listing any movie past 2005, I will hurt you. Not that there isn't great movies, but none that should objectively be considered Best in context to "all time."

Blade Runner
2001: A Space Odyssey
Indiana Jones
Back to the Future
Star Wars: Originals
The Bourne Identity
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Memento
Jurassic Park
Pulp Fiction (I need to put Quentin in there somewhere)
Se7en (for Fincher and the movie)
A Clockwork Orange
Aladdin
The Lion King
Akira
Gladiator

A few of those are childhood favorites. They deserve to mentioned for shaping me and giving me some great memories. That's what a great movie does, right?

Letters from Iwo Jima, The Departed, 3:10 to Yuma and How to Train Your Dragon all came out post 2005.

[UberZman]

Man, I have no idea...10 of my favorite movies:

The Matrix
Gladiator
The Avengers
The Princess Bride
The Incredibles
The Book of Eli
Inception
Iron Man
UP
How to Train your Dragon

[DreDayDetox]

Ooops, I have Into the Wild in my top 10, which was a 2007 movie. Please don't hurt me. I am so scared.

Since when did you become the dictator of the entertainment forum?

[Blacksite]

I'm a little disappointed that I prefer TRF's list more than yours, and I generally agree with you more.

Note to everyone: Listing any movie past 2005, I will hurt you. Not that there isn't great movies, but none that should objectively be considered Best in context to "all time."

With all due respect, you're in no position to tell others what movies they shouldn't add to their top ten lists. If I wanted to impress you, I'd probably namedrop Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa or some other world-renowned director with one of their movies but at the end of the day, I really don't care.

A few of those are childhood favorites. They deserve to mentioned for shaping me and giving me some great memories. That's what a great movie does, right?

A few of the movies I listed are like that. Gladiator was a movie I first watched when I was younger with my dad. Cloverfield was the first real movie that I followed and still loved after seeing it in theaters. The rest I just really enjoyed.

[TRF]

I'm a little disappointed that I prefer TRF's list more than yours, and I generally agree with you more.

(This is all based on my personal preference in movies, which as you can see, happens to be gangster life stories type of movies)

Gangster movies are my favorite genre as well. There's always a certain family element to them and even the ones that glamorize the lifestyle almost always act as a cautionary tale.

[RedDragon7]

With all due respect, you're in no position to tell others what movies they shouldn't add to their top ten lists. If I wanted to impress you, I'd probably namedrop Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa or some other world-renowned director with one of their movies but at the end of the day, I really don't care.

A few of the movies I listed are like that. Gladiator was a movie I first watched when I was younger with my dad. Cloverfield was the first real movie that I followed and still loved after seeing it in theaters. The rest I just really enjoyed.

I find it really sad when people list recent action films that are entertaining to an extent but not at all what cinema should be known for. i.e Transformers, expendables, avengers... and to be frank, district 9 and inception. District 9 just looks great because every other alien film is shit. Inception is not Nolan's masterpiece, it's just a better action film than most blockbusters.

Btw, I'm not seriously coming down on you... this is a forum, consider it more of a debate.

[Wrath]

I find it really sad when people list recent action films that are entertaining to an extent but not at all what cinema should be known for. i.e Transformers, expendables, avengers... and to be frank, district 9 and inception. District 9 just looks great because every other alien film is shit. Inception is not Nolan's masterpiece, it's just a better action film than most blockbusters.

Btw, I'm not seriously coming down on you... this is a forum, consider it more of a debate.

That's just complete, utter, nonsense.

[keefy]

Not bothering to name directors because it doesnt matter a good film is a good film regardless of who directed or starred in it.

Die Hard (the first one which is over 20 years old is it old enough?)

Shawshank redemption

Rear window

Gladiator

Dial M for murder

two hands

The Naked gun

Bullitt
Do me a favour when you watch bullitt count the number of times you see a green beetle car.

Aslo why in every American movie is there always either a VW car or a Volvo?

[RedDragon7]

That's just complete, utter, nonsense.

Why?

[Wrath]

Why?

Because people have different opinions and might value newer movies higher than some of the older classics. Only because you're stuck in the past doesn't mean that newer generations are forbidden to nominate their favourites as the best movies out there.

This cliché of movies supposedly not coming close to their 1960s counterparts is just mind-blowingly retarded.

[DarkVincent07]

cbf writing directors & years, but these are my top 11 ( I couldn't get rid of one) favourite movies of all time and in no particular order:

Pulp Fiction
Ponyo
Blade Runner
Pan's Labyrinth
Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Princess Mononoke
The Crow
Alien
Underworld
The Godfather Part II

Also...we all have different tastes and I don't see how every individual can objectively pick from all of the movies that ever existed.. of course there will be a lot of recent movies in our top 10 lists. Lets just play nice and share opinions without criticizing other peoples choices

[DeviousOne]

This is my unofficial pick...Forrest GUMP!