Vote in the "50 Greatest Movies of All Time" thread!

[Sinny McGuffins]

This might not work or might have been done before so this could make me look like an idiot. But i'm going to do it anyway.

I'm stealing this way of voting from Empire Magazine. This thread will determine The 50 Greatest Movies of All Time According to the members of MovieForums.com.

Here's what you do...

Vote by listing your top 10 movies of all time. Your number 1 choice will get 10 points and your number 10 choice will get 1 point. Like so...

1. Your 1st choice (10 points)
2. Your 2nd choice (9 points)
3. Your 3rd choice (8 points)
4. Your 4th choice (7 points)
5. Your 5th choice (6 points)
6. Your 6th choice (5 points)
7. Your 7th choice (4 points)
8. Your 8th choice (3 points)
9. Your 9th choice (2 points)
10. Your 10th choice (1 point)

When enough votes have been casted I will add up the points and list...

The 50 Greatest Movies of All Time
(According to the members of MovieForums.com)

[The Taxi Driver]

this thread might work.

1) Taxi Driver
2) Halloween
3) Goodfellas
4) The Shining
5) The Godfather
6) Raging Bull
7) Pulp Fiction
8) City of God
9) Dawn of the dead(1979)
10) Aliens

im seeing new films everyday and my 4-10 favorite films are always changing so i edited it

[uconjack]

1. Godfather
2. Godfather 2
3. Casablanca
4. Citizen Kane
5. The Searchers
6. The Adventures of Robin Hood
7. Gunga Din
8. Seven Samurai
9. Unforgiven
10. North by Northwest

[Garrett]

1. 8 1/2
2. Once Upon A Time In The West
3. Seven Samurai
4. Life Of Brian
5. Aguirre, Wrath Of God
6. Raging Bull
7. North By Northwest
8. the Godfather
9. the Godfather, Part 2
10. Chinatown

I'll probably change my mind right after posting this, but whatever.

[Ezikiel]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey [Directed by Stanley Kubrick - 1968]
2. Raging Bull [Directed by Martin Scorsese - 1980]
3. Amadeus [Directed by Milos Forman - 1984]
4. Goodfellas [Directed by Martin Scorsese - 1990]
5. A Clockwork Orange [Directed by Stanley Kubrick - 1971]
6. Taxi Driver [Directed by Martin Scorsese - 1976]
7. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly [Directed by Sergio Leone - 1966]
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark [Directed by Steven Spielberg - 1981]
9. Once Upon A Time in the West [Directed by Sergio Leone - 1969]
10. Throne of Blood [Directed by Akira Kurosawa - 1957]

[Ash_Lee]

1.The Empire Strikes Back
2.A New Hope
3.Jurassic Park
4.Pulp Fiction
5.Ben Hur
6.Pirates of the Caribbean
7.Beauty and the Beast
8.Jurassic Park: The Lost World
9.Shawshank Redemption
10.Star Trek: First Contact

[Tolstoy]

1) Godfather
2) Manchurian Candidate
3) Chinatown
4) Network
5) Eraserhead
6) Seven Samurai
7) Dr. Strangelove
8) The Seventh Seal
9) Straw Dogs
10) Singin In The Rain

Would be nice to be able to put more than 10 movies, but time constraints are an issue. 20 movies could easily replace 6 or 7 on my list, and most have been mentioned already.

[Ash_Lee]

I think we need a few more votes...

[Sinny McGuffins]

Yeah, I think so to. Give it some time, it might catch on.

[Montrose]

1) The Godfather
2) Jaws
3) Rocky Horror Picture Show
4) It's a WOnderful Life
5) Ferris Buellers Day Off
6) Shawshank Redemption
7) Back to the Future
8) Star Wars
9) Moonstruck
10) Airplane

[Godsend]

1. Boondock Saints
2. Good Will Hunting
3. American History X
4. Underworld
5. Face/Off
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Shawshank Redemption
8. Scarface
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Snatch

[SamsoniteDelilah]

1. The Princess Bride (1987)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
4. Lost in Translation (2003)
5. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
6. Harold and Maude (1971)
7. Withnail and I (1988)
8. Rebecca (1940)
9. L.A. Confidential (1997)
10. The Usual Suspects (1995)


argh... it's so hard to stop at 10!

[Anonymous Last]

1. Boondock Saints
2. Fight Club
3. Goodfellas
4. The Usual Suspects
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Dogma
7. Blues Brothers
8. The Silence of the Lambs
9. Se7en
10. LOTR Fellowship of the Ring

[Sinny McGuffins]

Raging Bull
Once Upon A Time In The West
Brazil
The Treasure of The Sierra Madre
Chinatown
Ikiru
The Big Lebowski

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Eyes Wide Shut

The Conversation

[susan]

inherit the wind
brazil
ever after
princess bride
raiders of the lost ark
a little romance
the music man
1776
dances with wolves
man without a face

[Eyes]

Nightmare Before Christmas
Halloween H20
Spaceballs
Halloween II
Halloween
Halloween 6
Halloween 5
Stargate
Die Hard With a Vengeance
Jurassic Park

[SamsoniteDelilah]

There are some great lists here!

[Sinny McGuffins]

Do you think I should add up the points and make a list now? I don't think anyone else is gonna post their top 10.

[nebbit]

Wait Wait.

1. Lawerence Of Arabia

2. Citizen Kane

3. The Godfather

4. A Clockwork Orange

5. Blade Runner

6. North by North West

7. Star Wars

8. The Big Lebowski

9. Some Like it Hot

10. Brazil

Done :D

[Pyro Tramp]

Wait till theres at least a few pages, i dont think there's nearly enough to get a good average.

[Richard Hell]

1)Gangs of New York
2)Princess monoke
3)Interview with a Vampire
4)Clerks
5)Silverstreak
6)Halloween
7)Starwars
8)Godfather
9)Double Whammy
10)Blazeing Saddles

[Sedai]

Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)

Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)

Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)

Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)

12 Monkeys (Gilliam, 1995)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1969)

Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1982)

Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)

I had a difficult time putting this together, and there are a number of films that almost made it. Alien, Brazil, Goodfellas, Psycho, Kiss Me Deadly... the list goes on ;)

[Pyro Tramp]

1) Evil Dead 2
2) Big Trouble in Little China
3) Drunken Master
4) Leon
5) Hard Boiled
6) The Crow
7) Oldboy
8) Infernal Affairs
9) The Killer
10)Shaun of the Dead

[Pyro Tramp]

they're my favourite, is that ok?

[2wrongs]

1. American Beauty
2. LOTR the whole trilogy
3. Braveheart
4. The Princess Bride
5. Amelie
6. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
7. High Fidelity
8. Rushmore
9. The Usual Suspects
10. To Kill A Mockingbird

[Sinny McGuffins]

they're my favourite, is that ok?It's fine.

[Dejavu]

Ok.. heres my list

1. The Usual Suspects
2. Seven
3. Super Troopers
4. Boondock Saints
5. Resivior Dogs
6. Star Wars Series
7. Frailty
8. LOTR Series
9. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
10. PI

*Note* i decided rather to list out the movies in a series i liked just to put them there as a whole. Which is why star wars is lower than it would have been if 1 and 2 never came out >.< Also i noticed the absence of comidies which is my reasoning for the inclusion of South Park

[Rjoepenk]

1.The 39 steps (Hitchcock, 1935)
2.The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
3.A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
4.The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
5.The Godfather pt. 2 (Coppola, 1974)
6.Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
7.Once Upon A Time in America (Leone, 1984)
8.Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
9.Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
10.The Last Metro (Truffaut, 1984)

More a personal list really but all would realistically find themselves in the top films ever made. Give it a few pages before you calculate a top fifty.

[Sinny McGuffins]

I've added up the scores and calculated a top fifty of the votes so far. I'm going to wait and see if this bump can generate some more votes.

If anyone wants to change their top 10 before I add up the final score, then feel free to do so. But please make sure you make it clear to me that you've edited your post. :)

[The Taxi Driver]

i edited mine i didnt like my list

[Lance McCool]

1) The Godfather, Part II
2) Life is Beautiful
3) Goodfellas
4) The Godfather, Part I
5) Taxi Driver
6) Schindler's List
7) Jaws
8) Almost Famous
9) Raiders of the Lost Ark
10) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[7thson]

1) Braveheart
2) The Breakfast Club
3) Flash Gordon.....1980
4) Blade Runner
5) Princess Bride
6) Aliens
7) Unforgiven
8) The Shining
9) Jaws
10) The Thing

[kaisersoze]

1) The Usual Suspects
2) LOTR (specfically The Two Towers if I must choose)
3) Hero
4) Remember the Titans
5) The Shawshank Redemption
6) Gattaca
7) Identity
8) Adaptation
9) Kill Bill vol.1
10) Memento

[nebbit]

3) Flash Gordon.....1980

:yup: :yup: :yup: ;)

Love the new Avatar :yup:

[Aniko]

I keep changing my mind, but today's list is....

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2. Singin' In The Rain (1952)
3. City Lights (1931)
4. To Live (Huozhe) (1994)
5. Sense and Sensibilty (1995)
6. The Princess Bride (1987)
7. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
8. Spirited Away (2002)
9. Some Like it Hot (1959)
10. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

[AboveTheClouds]

1.Evil Dead 2
2.Mallrats
3.Clerks
4.Army of Darkness
5.Night of the living dead
6.Dog Soldiers
7.The Shining
8.Gangs of New York
9.Weird Science
10.Ginger Snaps

This is for at this point in time.. but this IS my final list.

[Sinny McGuffins]

"Bump" is a funny word, isn't it?

[SpoOkY]

"Bump" is a funny word, isn't it?

heh yeah....... :p

1) Lawrence of Arabia
2) Bladerunner
3) The Godfather
4) Star wars: The empire strikes back
5) Indiana Jones and the last crusade
6) The Shawshank Redemption
7) Raging Bull
8) Fight Club
9) Psycho
10) The Shining

[Sinny McGuffins]

There's some pretty damn good films there, Spooky. :yup:

[IDigCereal]

My list for now:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Fight Club
3. Goodfellas
4. The Godfather
5. City of God
6. Annie Hall
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Apocalyspe Now
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
10. Once Upon A Time In The West

[Thursday Next]

My list...don't know if they are really 'greatest' but I've seen some of the other lists and am just putting my favourites...

1. The Matrix
2. Moulin Rouge
3. Lost in Translation
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Brief Encounter
6. American Beauty
7. Blade Runner
8. The Crow
9. Fight Club
10. Donnie Darko

[Thursday Next]

Not a list that will impress people and there are still so many films I need to see but these are my favorites so far. No order
If they are in no order how will the points work?

[Misirlou]

1. The Godfather
2. Raging Bull
3. Casablanca
4. Notorious
5. Pulp Fiction
6. City of God
7. Goodfellas
8. Double Indemnity
9. Magnolia
10. 25th Hour

[Strummer521]

If they are in no order how will the points work?

I dunno, just do it in the order I wrote 'em, I don't care. Actually I don't think this is ever going to be tallied up at this point anyway. This is an old thread.

Edit: On Second thought, There has been a bit of action in this thread lately and Sinny seems to be trying to get it going again, and my list was problematic and I didn't like it I deleted it. Problem solved.

[cutter]

Top 10 of all time? Naming that list is harder than it sounds. So instead of really thinking about it, I'll just name 10 off the top of my head:

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Breaking Away
3. Raging Bull
4. On the Waterfront
5. Sideways
6. 2001
7. The Graduate
8. Manchurian Candidate
9. Vertigo
10. Goodfellas

How much longer before we see the list?

[Pyro Tramp]

I think top 10 would be more feasible

[Sinny McGuffins]

Yup.

[cutter]

So where's the list? I think we have enough to determine a top 50 list.

[linespalsy]

So far this is just another "top ten" thread.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Woman in the Dunes
3. Limbo
4. My Dinner With Andre
5. Duck Soup
6. Akira
7. Singin' in the Rain
8. Rashomon
9. Vengeance is Mine
10. Seventh Seal

I narrowed it down to about 25 candidates, and aftter the first five this was more or less a random selection from that list.

[Sinny McGuffins]

So where's the list? I think we have enough to determine a top 50 list.We've had enough for a top 50 list for a long time now. I just wanted as many votes as possible.

I'll start adding up the scores. It'll take me a while.

[Tacitus]

Maybe I'm too late, just saw this thread.

1. The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
2. The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
3. The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Coppola)
4. The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
5. Once Upon A Time In The West (1968, Sergio Leone)
6. North By Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)
8. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
9. Sonatine (1993, Takeshi Kitano)
10. Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)

So many I had to leave out - Goodfellas, The Godfather, Miller's Crossing, The Wicker Man, Vertigo, Once Upon A Time In America, The Seventh Seal, Chinatown....

But unluckiest of all is my number 11. The Bridge On The River Kwai

[uconjack]

1.The Searchers (1956)
2. Godfather (1972)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Citizen Kane (1941)
5. The Seven Samurai (1954)
6. Unforgiven (1992)
7. North by Northwest (1959)
8. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
9. Godfather 2 (1974)
10. Blade Runner (1982)

[Carlito Brigante]

Goodfellas
The Godfather: PartII
The Shawshank Redemtion
American History X
Back to the Future
The Good the Bad and The Ugly
Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Deer Hunter
Green Mile
Brave Heart