[Film] Your Top 12 Films of all time

[jimhigham]

So hard to call and could change by the day depending on mood. Today it’s something like this...

Sleuth
Withnail & I
Gattaca
Tampopo
Jaws
The Usual Suspects
Sleeper
Life of Brian
The Straight Story
Delicatessen
X+Y
Blade Runner 2049

...and if you asked again tomorrow I could probably give a different 12 entirely. Great thread already.

 

[LlcoolJ]

In time is ok not a bad film at all but for a brit film the present finding your feet is a very decent film, far better for me

I can't pick the bones out of this US. In Time isn't a British film. Or are you saying that a British film is better called "present finding your feet"? I am confused.

 

[jimhigham]

So hard to call and could change by the day depending on mood. Today it’s something like this...

Sleuth
Withnail & I
Gattaca
Tampopo
Jaws
The Usual Suspects
Sleeper
Life of Brian
The Straight Story
Delicatessen
X+Y
Blade Runner 2049

...and if you asked again tomorrow I could probably give a different 12 entirely. Great thread already.

Get rid of Delicatessen and sub in Alien. Changed my mind already.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

A very hastily compiled 12, but if any of these came on the box now, I wouldn't be able to turn it off........

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. - Favourite ever film
Rear Window - Favourite Hitchcock by a long long way.
Citizen Kane - Not just because it is a critic's favourite
Some Like it Hot - just love Tony Curtis's Cary Grant bit
Cabaret - great music and choreography and a fascinating historic background
The French Connection - Best car chase ever and Gene Hackman brilliant
The Producers (original version) - My own personal funniest film ever.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Very Clever and very funny at the same time
To Kill a Mockingbird - For Gregory Peck's voice, if nothing else.
Midnight Cowboy - first film that brought tears to my eyes, and Dustin Hoffman's best ever in my view.... and great music.
Gone With the Wind - went in to a cinema in 1975 to watch it, thinking I ought to have something to base my "it's sentimental garbage" judgement on, and it wasn't.
Arsenic and Old Lace (original Alec Guinness version) - Alec Guinness possibly my favourite ever actor.

 

[desprateseagull]

In Time?

I don't normally slag off other people's film choices as it's so subjective. But In Time?!

I remember watching it. I do. Because it's possibly the worst film I've ever seen. The concept was great, everything else about it was truly terrible. Plot, acting, storyline (hey, great concept let's not have a clue what to do with it). So so excruciatingly bad which is why I remember it so well.

And I usually like Timberlake as well.

I thought it was an interesting take on life, in the not too distant future.. first time i'd seen JT in an acting role.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Once upon a time in America
Goodfellas
Godfather
Godfather 2
Godfather 3
Ferris Beullers day off
Breakfast Club
A good year
In Bruges
AI

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

In time is ok not a bad film at all but for a brit film the present finding your feet is a very decent film, far better for me

Saw Finding Your Feet last week - Excellent stuff. Avoids being too schmaltzy and with some very good performances from some fine actors. I thought Timothy Spall was superb - a fine actor.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I can't even think of 12 films ffs

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[Weststander]

Once upon a time in America
Goodfellas
Godfather
Godfather 2
Godfather 3
Ferris Beullers day off
Breakfast Club
A good year
In Bruges
AI

Great selection, love them all.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Saw Finding Your Feet last week - Excellent stuff. Avoids being too schmaltzy and with some very good performances from some fine actors. I thought Timothy Spall was superb - a fine actor.

I thought it was really good myself

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Saw Finding Your Feet last week - Excellent stuff. Avoids being too schmaltzy and with some very good performances from some fine actors. I thought Timothy Spall was superb - a fine actor.

I thought it was really good myself

I've spoken to a number of people whose opinions I would respect over the last few days who would agree enormously.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I can't pick the bones out of this US. In Time isn't a British film. Or are you saying that a British film is better called "present finding your feet"? I am confused.

finding your feet on now, not loved critically but I thought it was very good

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I've spoken to a number of people whose opinions I would respect over the last few days who would agree enormously.

The whole cast were excellent imo. Really loved this film. Put in the " very underrated " draw

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

There have been some wonderful films this year. The Shape of Water which is really in a different orbit to anything else, three billboards which was superb with magnificent acting, darkest hour with one of the finest acting performances for a long time, the post which was great after a slow start, phantom thread which was weird but another tour de force from day lewis, and finding your feet a really fantastic film. What a start ! All of them are an 8 or more

 

[Oscar]

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Empire Strikes Back
Blade Runner
Star Wars
Return of the Jedi
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Terminator
E.T
Jaws
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Outsiders
The Big Lebowski

I do like modern films too but nostalgia always makes me favour the ones I grew up watching.

 

[Easy 10]

Impossible to accurately list 12 films in order of preference, but this lot stand up to repeated viewings:

Casino
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Gladiator
12 Angry Men
Terminator 2
Sexy Beast
3 Billboards
Fargo
The Big Lebowski
Snatch
Planes, Trains and Automobiles

On another day, there'd be others.

 

[Acker79]

My top list changes with my mood, so I have more than 12...

The Prestige
The Shawshank Redemption
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Clue
Leon
The Blues Brothers
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Little Shop of Horrors
The Princess Bride
Moulin Rouge
Superman (richard donner)
Batman Begins
Scream
Das Boot
12 Angry Men
M
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Audition
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Battle Royale
The Little Mermaid
The Handmaiden
The Usual Suspects
LA Confidential
Muppet Christmas Carol

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Six for a starter:

It's a Wonderful Life
Bad Santa
Fargo
The Greatest Showman
Field of Dreams
Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan

 

[seagulls4ever]

Sharknado.

 

[Meade's Ball]

These are the ones that spring to mind today:

A Separation
The Conversation
Psycho
Toni Erdmann
The Lives of Others
Evil Dead 2
Being There
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Chinatown
The Third Man
Sideways
Once Upon a Time in the West