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Which 10 movies are indispensable in your collection or opinion (weather or not you own them not an issue)?



Obviously I love Tim Burton movies, I also love horror, movies that make me think. My 10 are (in NO order)

1. Shaw shank Redemption
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Phone Booth
3. The Wall
4. A Beautiful Mind
5. Jacobs Ladder
6. Se7en
7. The Ring
8. Mask
9. Network
10. The Collector (ASA The Butterfly Collector)

Woah, that's a hard question. There are so many wonderful movies out there.
These 10 will never cease to amaze me:

1. Amelie of Montmartre
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Fight Club
4. C.R.A.Z.Y
5. Into The Wild
6. Donnie Darko
7. Persepolis
8. Dancer in the Dark
9. Bin-Jip
10. Me and You and Everyone We Know

I love Edward Scissorhands too. I've cried to it many, many times..

supersonic wrote:Woah, that's a hard question. There are so many wonderful movies out there.
These 10 will never cease to amaze me:

1. Amelie of Montmartre
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Fight Club
4. C.R.A.Z.Y
5. Into The Wild
6. Donnie Darko
7. Persepolis
8. Dancer in the Dark
9. Bin-Jip
10. Me and You and Everyone We Know

I love Edward Scissorhands too. I've cried to it many, many times..

Oh cool that you like it too! Speaking of which I need to see fight club, everyone keeps telling me it's a very good movie I'll try to get it soon.

cat on the wall wrote:

supersonic wrote:Woah, that's a hard question. There are so many wonderful movies out there.
These 10 will never cease to amaze me:

1. Amelie of Montmartre
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Fight Club
4. C.R.A.Z.Y
5. Into The Wild
6. Donnie Darko
7. Persepolis
8. Dancer in the Dark
9. Bin-Jip
10. Me and You and Everyone We Know

I love Edward Scissorhands too. I've cried to it many, many times..

Oh cool that you like it too! Speaking of which I need to see fight club, everyone keeps telling me it's a very good movie I'll try to get it soon.

You really should! It's one of a kind. And it definitely makes you think

Only 10! Oh man this is though. Can I make mine 20? haha.

Ok at the top of my head and in no particular order:

1. Amelie
2. Poltergeist
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Jurassic Park
5. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
6. Alien
7. Wall • E
8. Fantasia
9. Aimee and Jaguar
10. The Color Purple

Honorable mentions: Bridge To Terabithia, Dangerous Liasons, Volver, Fatal Attraction, Finding Nemo....ok I'll stop.

1. Girl, Interrupted
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Pirates of the Caribbean (but only first movie!)
4. Rent
5. Habana Blues
6. Swimming Pool
7. Blow
8. Jeux d'enfants
9. Chocolat
10. The Illusionist

No order:

1. Amelie
2. The Graduate
3. Stranger Than Paradise
4. Ghost World
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. The Fountain
7. Memento
8. Girl, Interrupted
9. Gummo
10. Casablanca

kids that didn't get picked for the team: Coffee & Cigarettes, Annie Hall, Moulin Rouge, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Requiem For A Dream, Angels In America (not a theater movie, but for tv so it counts )

everyone has such good lists

Damn, I forgot Ghost World! AND Requiem For A Dream...
Great taste, yarn

1. Chinatown
2. Come and See (Idi i smotri)
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
4. Some Like it Hot
5. Afterlife (Wandâfuru raifu)
6. Get Carter (the original!)
7. The Vanishing (Spoorloos)
8. His Girl Friday
9. Withnail and I
10. Life of Brian

Can we add another 10 later, cat? There are too many good ones that deserve a mention.

supersonic wrote:Damn, I forgot Ghost World! AND Requiem For A Dream...
Great taste, yarn

you too supersonic! i love me and you and everyone we know. have you read miranda july's book "no one belongs here more than you"? simply lovely.

))<>(( forever HAHAHAHA

Wow, a lot of stuff I hadn't heard of cool! Sure sau, add as many on as you like I only said 10 because I wasn't sure how interested people would've been in making longer lists. I'm going to have to order that movie fight club because they only carry brand new stuff (mostly crap) at my local dvd shop. It has brad pitt so he's usually in great movies LOVED his performance in Se7en with morgan freeman! I'll add more to mine now

March of the penguins
The Bell Jar
Romy and Michelle's Highscool reunion
We were soldiers
The Birds
Dog Day Afternoon
Sweeny Todd
Gothicka
Room 408
The Terminal
The Dark Knight
This could take a while..........

Well, this is just the first 10 I thought of...

1. The Unforgiven
2. Chinatown
3. Citizen Kane
4. There Will Be Blood
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Barton Fink
7. 2001 A Space Odyssey
8. Lawrence of Arabia
9. L.A. Confidential
10. The Usual Suspects

Oh, and American Beauty, just about anything by Alfred Hitchcock, English Patient, more Kubrick, Lean, Lynch movies...

yarnforhair wrote:

supersonic wrote:Damn, I forgot Ghost World! AND Requiem For A Dream...
Great taste, yarn

you too supersonic! i love me and you and everyone we know. have you read miranda july's book "no one belongs here more than you"? simply lovely.

))<>(( forever HAHAHAHA

Funny you should mention it, I actually read it only a few weeks ago! Miranda July is one gifted lady. I haven't seen any other film of hers though, have you?

(And that has to be the best movie quote ever.)

supersonic wrote: Funny you should mention it, I actually read it only a few weeks ago! Miranda July is one gifted lady. I haven't seen any other film of hers though, have you?

(And that has to be the best movie quote ever.)

i read it about a year ago and then bought it for a friend for her birthday cause i loved it so much i haven't seen any other full lengths of her (does she have any others?) but i've seen one of her short films, "are you the favorite person of anybody?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t-5PLQgcSA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

what a clever, funny idea.

and this: http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; if you haven't seen it; sadly the project's over but it was a great idea; brought complete strangers together.
and about the quote: my friend katherine used to text me that some times and i'd just start cracking up where ever i was; instant day brightener.

From the top of my head:

Requiem for a Dream
Magnolia
2001
Manhattan
The Silence of the Lambs
Memento
Fight Club
Amores Perros
Amadeus
Persepolis