Greatest Movies of all time

**Night Train** · 08-15-2008, 06:57 AM

My brother just ask me to name the ten best movies I have ever seen. I have a list of about 200 films, but for me, there are certain films where there are characters who are SO strong, you cannot wait for them to get back onto the screen again. Each scene they appear in makes you sit up in your seat wondering what they will do next. And so, I started naming films with characters like this. I came up with 20.

Batman the Dark Knight had Heath Ledger as the Joker

Al Pacino as Scarface or Dog Day Afternoon

Geoffrey Rush in Shine

Jack Nicholson in The Shining

Daniel Day-Lewis is There Will Be Blood

Clint Eastwood in Pale Rider, Unforgiven, or the Outlaw Josey Wales

John Wayne in True Grit

Robert DeNiro in Cape Fear or Raging Bull

The Nerd in Napolian Dynamite

The Creepy guy in No Country for Old men

Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump

Morgan Freeman in just about anything but I would go with Shawshenk Redemption or Unfinished Life

Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs

Leonardo DeCaprio in the Departed

James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces

Jim Carey in the Truman Show

Kevin Spacey in American Beauty

Robert Duvall in Apocolypse Now

Marlon Brando in The Godfather or teahouse of the august moon

Robert Downy Jr. IN Chaplin

Am i missing anything here?

**For-Life** · 08-15-2008, 07:05 AM

Edward Norton in Fight Club

Ray Liotta in Goodfellas

Tim Robbins in Shawshank Redemption

**chip anderson** · 08-15-2008, 07:10 AM

The Wake of The Red Witch

Every Religious Picture Cecil B. Demille ever did.

Dirty Harry

Most but not all of Bogart's work. Including the Maltise Falcon, The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, Casa Blanca, etc.

**Jacqui** · 08-15-2008, 08:25 AM

Why are there only men on the lists??

**Judy Canty** · 08-15-2008, 08:40 AM

OK, how about:

Katherine Hepburn in anything she ever did

Judy Garland in Judgement at Nuremburg

Lucille Ball in The Big Street

Queen Latifah in Chicago

Vivian Leigh in Gone With the Wind

**For-Life** · 08-15-2008, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by Jacqui

Why are there only men on the lists??

you're right

Demi Moore in Strip Tease

**Jacqui** · 08-15-2008, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by for-life

you're right

demi moore in strip tease

omg !!!

**DragonLensmanWV** · 08-15-2008, 09:01 AM

Stacey Keach in Up In Smoke.

Jack Palance in Hawk The Slayer

Genevieve Bujold in Swashbuckler

Ray Harryhausen's skeletons in Jason & The Argonauts.

**Night Train** · 08-15-2008, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Jacqui

Why are there only men on the lists??

Good point, and while I laughed out loud at the Demi Moore suggestion (I would have said Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls) I would say how about
Melora Walters in Magnolia

**specti-wolf** · 08-15-2008, 10:04 AM

Queen Latifah in Chicago

Oh yeah! (I was gonna say "heck yeah", but scared of rules! :cheers:

**DragonLensmanWV** · 08-15-2008, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by Night Train

Good point, and while I laughed out loud at the Demi Moore suggestion (I would have said Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls) I would say how about
Melora Walters in Magnolia

I have a video called Deja View which is the Power Of 60's Music with The Power of 80's Video.
Basically it's a bunch of old songs with new videos in collaboration with the original artists.Excellent!
Anyway, one of the videos, The Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby" features a young Melora Hardin (different Melora ) and there's one spot where they have a tight closeup of her and she breaks into a slow grin that will just melt you.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090923/combined

**Steve Machol** · 08-15-2008, 11:08 AM

Casablanca.

**optirep** · 08-15-2008, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by For-Life

Edward Norton in Fight Club

Ray Liotta in Goodfellas

Tim Robbins in Shawshank Redemption

Ed Norton In Primal Fear Was way better than Fight Club. Fight Club still good though!

**optirep** · 08-15-2008, 11:33 AM

How many times have you watch Cadyshack!!!

**optirep** · 08-15-2008, 11:34 AM

Clint Eastwood The Outlaw Josey Wales!

**hcjilson** · 08-15-2008, 11:36 AM

Bourne Identity had me for a couple of hours....as did The Kingdom.......and recently, Zodiac!

**k12311997** · 08-15-2008, 11:50 AM

Sigourney (sp) Weaver - Alien

**FullCircle** · 08-15-2008, 01:26 PM

Ed Norton In Primal Fear Was way better than Fight Club. Fight Club still good though!

I totally agree. He blew me away in that role.

For me, my favs would be

True Romance - Everyone was great. though I would've cast Chris Isaac as Elvis rather than Val Kilmer

Godfather - Any of them. Yes, even the 3rd.

Reservoir Dogs

Happy Gilmore - makes me laugh every time I see it

**Fezz** · 08-15-2008, 01:35 PM

Cheech and Chong-Up in Smoke!

(Dragon alluded to this, but Srgt. Stadanko can't outshine the true heroes of the film)

**Fezz** · 08-15-2008, 01:37 PM

Clint Eastwood-The Good, The Bad, The Ugly!

**Fezz** · 08-15-2008, 01:56 PM

Anthony Hopkins-The Silence of the Lambs!

Brilliant!

:cheers::cheers::cheers:

**bob_f_aboc** · 08-15-2008, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by Fezz

Cheech and Chong-Up in Smoke!

(Dragon alluded to this, but Srgt. Stadanko can't outshine the true heroes of the film)

Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

George Carlin in Dogma

**Uncle Fester** · 08-15-2008, 02:13 PM

Jack Lemmon + Tony Curtis.

Some Like it Hot (Marilyn in sheer chiffon (yumm!!) and The Great Race (with Natalie Woods in a merry widow--wowzaah woo-woo!!).

Also a vote for Cassablanca.

War movies- Saving Private Ryan and Platoon.

Foreign- My Left Foot and Cinema Paradiso.

**DragonLensmanWV** · 08-15-2008, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by bob_f_aboc

Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

George Carlin in Dogma

My former uncle played Lincoln in Bill and Ted. He also wrote a few Bonanza episodes (Hoss & The Leprechauns) and played a variety of roles, such as Red Ranger on Night Court.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057715/

Some of you younger anime fans might also recognize some of his work.

Funny note: In "Destiny's Child" on Bonanza, he wrote that episode with the lead in mind for his friend Richard Kiel. Dick was unavailable at the time it was shot so they got another actor for the lead role. My uncle had a small part with one line in the episode.
Setup: A mentally challenged man (Dick KIel originally) has been hassled by the town and the huge guy goes on a rampage.
My uncle is lying beside a fallen log across the trail, moaning. Dan Blocker (Hoss) rides up, steps over the log, and asks my uncle if he's OK. My uncle's line is "I think I have a couple of broken ribs!"
OK - take one.
Dan blocker rides up steps over the log, slips and falls on my skinny uncle actually breaking two ribs.
Take two. Uncle Bob really put feeling into his line due to his actual broken ribs.

Oh, and his pen name was Christian Anderson, so he could say "Look ma, No Hans!"
Humor like that runs deep in our family.

**Judy Canty** · 08-15-2008, 02:53 PM

I have my "sewing room" movies so I can time how long I've been sitting at my machines. For instance, my daughter's senior prom dress took Star Wars IV, V and VI (the first three) to complete. Among my other favorites are Gone With the Wind and The Sound of Music. I can do dialogue(or sing along) and they have an intermission for food. Casablanca is good for short projects, as is Chicago and any of the original James Bonds with Sean Connery.