Everybody's Top Ten Favorite Movies — Page 4

Dek Rollins said:

You’re right about some of those. New list, now top 35:

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Star Wars (1977)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Return of the Jedi (1983)

Robocop (1987)

The Evil Dead (1981)

Evil Dead II (1987)

The Medieval Dead (a work-in-progress fanedit of Army of Darkness that I’m trying to get done)

Batman (1989)

Batman Returns (1992)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Spider-Man (2002)

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Die Hard (1988)

ALien (1979)

Head (1969)

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Rocky (1976)

Back to the Future (1985)

Jaws (1975)

Jurassic Park (1993)

The Terminator (1984)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

I wouldn’t consider The Voyage Home quite good enough for a list like this, though I don’t dislike it. I do dislike Aliens, though.

ALIEN was greatness and ALIENS was great entertainment. TVH was the most entertaining of the STs, imo.

NOPE doesn’t necessarily mean bad, just doesn’t rate at the top.

Are we talking favorite or best? Don’t think they’re necessarily the same.

Jay said:

I enjoy Aliens for what it is, but it’s barely a sequel to Alien.

barely???

Can’t give you an order but I can give my favorite films by decade.

1920s: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1930s: The Wizard of Oz
1940s: Casablanca
1950s: The Ten Commandments
1960s: The Sound of Music
1970s: The Godfather Parts I and II
1980s: The Empire Strikes Back
1990s: Schindler’s List
2000s: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

And since you asked for ten: STAR WARS!

You’re missing a decade.

It’s not over yet.

Warbler said:

Jay said:

I enjoy Aliens for what it is, but it’s barely a sequel to Alien.

barely???

In terms of tone Aliens is more in line with films like Predator and the Terminator (no surprise considering James Cameron made that one) than the first film.
Alien is filmed in a matter of fact sort of way with a more consistent visual effects quality and with superior score and a more epic looking aspect ratio. Aliens is in places very tatty (like ROTJ and Temple of Doom), it’s quotable and fun action, rather than grim cosmic horror in vein of H.P. Lovecraft or the Demeter sequences of Dracula.
The Queen is amazing in Aliens and Sigourney plays it straight but then you have balance that against possibly the most annoying child actor performance in a major motion picture (Jake Lloyd’s antics are actually more tolerable than Carrie Henn’s mostly painful line delivery… mostly and her awful screeches) and James Horner recycling his other score (kept expecting the Klingons to turn up) and John Williams’ (as the atmosphere processor goes boom you can almost see Tarkin stroking his chin).
I like Aliens but it’s a very different film and yes barely feels like a sequel.

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Jay said:

I enjoy Aliens for what it is, but it’s barely a sequel to Alien.

barely???

In terms of tone Aliens is more in line with films like Predator and the Terminator (no surprise considering James Cameron made that one) than the first film.
Alien is filmed in a matter of fact sort of way with a more consistent visual effects quality and with superior score and a more epic looking aspect ratio. Aliens is in places very tatty (like ROTJ and Temple of Doom), it’s quotable and fun action, rather than grim cosmic horror in vein of H.P. Lovecraft or the Demeter sequences of Dracula.
The Queen is amazing in Aliens and Sigourney plays it straight but then you have balance that against possibly the most annoying child actor performance in a major motion picture (Jake Lloyd’s antics are actually more tolerable than Carrie Henn’s mostly painful line delivery… mostly and her awful screeches) and James Horner recycling his other score (kept expecting the Klingons to turn up) and John Williams’ (as the atmosphere processor goes boom you can almost see Tarkin stroking his chin).
I like Aliens but it’s a very different film and yes barely feels like a sequel.

If you say so… * sigh *

Bingowings said:

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Jay said:

I enjoy Aliens for what it is, but it’s barely a sequel to Alien.

barely???

In terms of tone Aliens is more in line with films like Predator and the Terminator (no surprise considering James Cameron made that one) than the first film.
Alien is filmed in a matter of fact sort of way with a more consistent visual effects quality and with superior score and a more epic looking aspect ratio. Aliens is in places very tatty (like ROTJ and Temple of Doom), it’s quotable and fun action, rather than grim cosmic horror in vein of H.P. Lovecraft or the Demeter sequences of Dracula.
The Queen is amazing in Aliens and Sigourney plays it straight but then you have balance that against possibly the most annoying child actor performance in a major motion picture (Jake Lloyd’s antics are actually more tolerable than Carrie Henn’s mostly painful line delivery… mostly and her awful screeches) and James Horner recycling his other score (kept expecting the Klingons to turn up) and John Williams’ (as the atmosphere processor goes boom you can almost see Tarkin stroking his chin).
I like Aliens but it’s a very different film and yes barely feels like a sequel.

If you say so… * sigh *

Whatever

Newt was not good but I’ll take her over lil’ Annie any day.

Bingowings said:

If you say so… * sigh *

Bingowings said:

Bingowings said:

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Jay said:

I enjoy Aliens for what it is, but it’s barely a sequel to Alien.

barely???

In terms of tone Aliens is more in line with films like Predator and the Terminator (no surprise considering James Cameron made that one) than the first film.
Alien is filmed in a matter of fact sort of way with a more consistent visual effects quality and with superior score and a more epic looking aspect ratio. Aliens is in places very tatty (like ROTJ and Temple of Doom), it’s quotable and fun action, rather than grim cosmic horror in vein of H.P. Lovecraft or the Demeter sequences of Dracula.
The Queen is amazing in Aliens and Sigourney plays it straight but then you have balance that against possibly the most annoying child actor performance in a major motion picture (Jake Lloyd’s antics are actually more tolerable than Carrie Henn’s mostly painful line delivery… mostly and her awful screeches) and James Horner recycling his other score (kept expecting the Klingons to turn up) and John Williams’ (as the atmosphere processor goes boom you can almost see Tarkin stroking his chin).
I like Aliens but it’s a very different film and yes barely feels like a sequel.

If you say so… * sigh *

Whatever

*sigh*

TV’s Frink said:

Newt was not good but I’ll take her over lil’ Annie any day.

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Jay said:

I enjoy Aliens for what it is, but it’s barely a sequel to Alien.

barely???

In terms of tone Aliens is more in line with films like Predator and the Terminator (no surprise considering James Cameron made that one) than the first film.
Alien is filmed in a matter of fact sort of way with a more consistent visual effects quality and with superior score and a more epic looking aspect ratio. Aliens is in places very tatty (like ROTJ and Temple of Doom), it’s quotable and fun action, rather than grim cosmic horror in vein of H.P. Lovecraft or the Demeter sequences of Dracula.
The Queen is amazing in Aliens and Sigourney plays it straight but then you have balance that against possibly the most annoying child actor performance in a major motion picture (Jake Lloyd’s antics are actually more tolerable than Carrie Henn’s mostly painful line delivery… mostly and her awful screeches) and James Horner recycling his other score (kept expecting the Klingons to turn up) and John Williams’ (as the atmosphere processor goes boom you can almost see Tarkin stroking his chin).
I like Aliens but it’s a very different film and yes barely feels like a sequel.

To some extent, ALIEN is to ALIENS as TERMINATOR is to T2. But yeah, the Cameron films are of a piece. I love them all.

It’s odd, I’m usually a stickler for consistency in movie series’, but ALIENS was such fun it was given a great pass.

I thought all the characters but Ripley were intended to be slightly exaggerated and all were just as they should have been. Newt was terrific.

First time I ever heard someone say Newt was terrific…