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My top 50 movies

Postby blade » Fri Aug 01, 2014 8:47 pm

Blog post here with updates: http://harshmode.com/50movies/

One of the reasons why I stick around this community and mirc for a game I no longer play is for great discussions with a lot of cool people in this community. There was a long discussion of must watch movies couple weeks ago in irc between phr/blackout/lineage/me/couple others. I am bringing the discussion to the next level to the forums so it's less chaotic here. Also, I am not simply doing this for you guys. It’s for me when I finish my website/blog, but I will put it up here for you to check out.

It took me a few hours to compile from my complete saved imdb list (from 600 movies I have seen so far). Feel free to disagree or comment as you please. I would appreciate it if you guys recommend other must-watch movies. I will check them out. Enjoy.

Note: I’m limiting this list to my favorite 50 English movies (I would add about 4-5 Indian movies & couple other foreign language movies from the multiple languages I know) and only from movies I have seen thus far. That means this list is a work-in-progress.





Movies are the literal expressions of human thought and their importance to our culture is often underplayed. When I'm watching a movie, I pay attention to 4 primary categories in this order:
1) Story - This is often an underrated aspect of movies. Without a well written story and/or well told story, what's the point?

2) Acting - Facial expressions, body movement, presence, personality, emotion, instincts, everything that an actor does you will notice. The masters of acting to me are those that mastered method acting where they prepare for weeks and essentially become the person they’re acting (there are different types of method acting) – Legendary Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Daniel Day Lewis, etc

3) Directing – The captain of the ship. This is usually either overrated or overlooked. Overlooked because the average person does not pay attention to the shots or small details that directors spend days working on. I.e. in any scene, good directors literally spend days figuring out exactly how to place each individual item down to the individual book/pen/anything else. Average fan doesn't pay attention to that. Overrated sometimes because directing is only one aspect of a movie – you don’t need groundbreaking directing for a movie to be very good. If the other categories are great, you might be able to overcome average director. Ofc, great director will make things easier and can overcome weaknesses in other categories (Citizen Kane is one example).

4) Inspiration - What can you take away from the movie? Whether it's something personal or something that expresses/defines some aspect of your philosophy that you live by, etc. At the end of the day, you will remember this most about the movie.



Based on these 4 categories, this is my list of favorite movies I have seen thus far:

Image -- 9.5 (In my eyes, no movie EVER is or ever will be 10..
ordered from my favorite to least favorite)













- You might ask why is this up here? Truth is this movie was marvelous and has awesome sentimental value. It’s a story of growing up & facing whatever obstacles you face and coming out a better person. What makes it magical is it brings out of the kid in everybody regardless of age, gender, and any other factor. Be a kid for life.


Image -- 9 (not in order)






























Image – 8.5 (not in order)

-- Many say this was the greatest movie ever but the story is somewhat good & low inspiration value unless if you’re planning on studying the film/directing. Directing is EXTREMELY top-notch and acting very good.
-- NOT a 10, sorry ph34r














-- Not well-known movie. Average directing and average acting. GREAT story & pretty good takeaway value

Work in progress for life. To be continued..

I leave you with this because I am fucking awesome: http://youtu.be/AFa1-kciCb4?t=5s
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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby Einfari » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:02 pm

What about Pulp Fiction? Requiem for a Dream? The Shinning? A Clockwork Orange? Jacob's Ladder? Simply asking for personal opinion.
Also, no anime, e.g. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi?

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby Chadwixx » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:20 pm

I have all my media in the living room, my old movie folder is impressive. Probably easier to take a pic than to type.

I will say one of my favs in recent years was the intouchables.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/

Its in french so you have to read but a great story and music.

50 is a lot, will have to get back to you.
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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby blade » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:43 pm

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby tigerclaw1987 » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:51 pm

Off the top of my head

Akira
Logan's run
Once upon a time in the West
Peter Pan
Metropolis
The land before time
Clockworld Orange
Trainspotting
Human traffic
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
The breakfast club
The longest day
blah runner
Gattaca
Ghost in the shell
Nausicaa of the valley of wind
As far as my feet will carry me
Where eagles dare
Secretary
From dusk till dawn
V for Vendetta
The butterfly effect
Bullitt
The shawshank redemption
Fight club
Alien
Sin city
The silence of the lambs
Memories
Kill bill
Django unchained
The good, the bad and the ugly
Star Trek 2

Or for Manga i'd go for the work of Naoki Urusawa, like Monster or Pluto

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby tigerclaw1987 » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:58 pm

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby blade » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:00 pm

Chris, that's some very good movies you listed. A lot of them I have on my 'have to watch' list and some I added. I liked where eagles dare, butterfly effect, bullitt, django unchained, v for vendetta, -- I would rank them all 8
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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby Einfari » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:40 pm

Donnie Darko
21 Grams
Dancer in the Dark
Amores Perros
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Stand by Me (my personal favorite for so many reasons)
The Sixth Sense
Oldboy
Amélie
Big Fish
Pi: Faith in Chaos
The Fountain
Leon: The Professional
La vita è bella
Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
The Pianist
Hotaru no Haka

I could go on and on...

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby Chadwixx » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:51 pm

Boyz in the hood
Her
dallas buyers club
here comes the boom
zookeeper
dr dolittle (love the talking animals)
fire walk with me
greencard
groundhog day
happy gilmore
berry gordons last dragon (bruce leeroy)
Hoodwinked (maybe goat for cartoons)
mr deeds
leon the professional
major league
mr destiny
tales from the hood (black creepshow but amazing)
the doctor
the waterdance

Alot of great movies from the past, too bad current stuff isnt so good
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Re: My top 50 movies

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby Chadwixx » Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:21 pm

Didnt expect to see rain this thread, thought he would still be playing 4d and banning pugs for chasing
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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby blade » Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:14 am

Einfari - that's a good list man. Wow, I forgot all about Stand by me. That movie was wonderful. I would definitely add that to this list if I were to go back through it. not many great movies from that sort of genre so it stands out

chad - you lost me at 'here comes the boom', dr dolittle.. :shock: are those really some of your fav movies??
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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby Shotman » Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:22 am

My list

Wizard of Oz
The Great Gatsby
Titanic
The Expandables
Godfather
Goodfellas
Dr. Strangelove
It's A Wonderful Life
Rocky
Indiana Jones
Hotel Rwanda - such a sad movie
To Kill a Mockingbird
Forrest Gump
Nightmare of Elm Street
The Day after Tomorrow
Remember the Titans
Terminator
Die Hard
Fist of Fury
Airplane
The Avengers
Ferry Buellers Day Off
The Silence of the Lambs
Apocalypse Now
Wall Street
Casino Royale
The Exorcist


For Foreign Films
Battle Royale
The Eye
Tales of Terror from all over Toyko
Slumdog Millionaire
Ju-On series
City of God




There are so many classic good movies out there.
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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby ph34r » Sat Aug 02, 2014 8:36 am

you ranked jurassic park over memento and dead poets society. i refuse to comment any further
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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby InfamousRaider » Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:08 am

blah, if you are serious about movies you really need to watch Pulp Fiction.

50 is a lot, I don't think I could do that many.

This is a pretty good watch:
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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby Hermione » Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:46 am

Heres my list of movies, you should watch all of these:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2
Twilight
Twilight: New Moon
Twilight: Eclipse
Twilight: Breaking dawn 1 and 2
Ong Bak
The Green Mile
Face Off
Forrest Gump
Aashiqui 2
REC series
The Breakfast Club
Fast Times at Ridgmount High
The Crazies
Man of Steel
The Prestige
Namesake

I have many more but these I could rewatch over and over. I dont watch anime/cartoons cause its fake and weird
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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby InfamousRaider » Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:31 am

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Re: My top 50 movies

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby kud » Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:07 pm

dat mutation scene in akira
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Re: My top 50 movies

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby tigerclaw1987 » Sat Aug 02, 2014 2:36 pm

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby ph34r » Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:11 pm

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby exixt » Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:28 pm

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby blade » Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:11 pm

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Re: My top 50 movies

Postby Hinata » Sat Aug 02, 2014 7:45 pm

The Silence Of The Lambs
The Orphanage
Seven
Triangle
Kill List
The Murderer
The Chaser
I saw the devil
Old Boy
Lady Vengeance
The Others
Dark Water
Shutter (spirits)
Drag me to hell
Bedevilled
Insidious
Saw 1
The woman in black
Rinne
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Mostly my favorite movies. (They aren't all listed yet...)
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