Top 10 OAT (1 Viewer)

[shady_03]

Not in any particular order.

Dr Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
American Beauty
The Usual Suspects
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
American History X
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Fantastic movie, great idea behind it

 

[artheterosexual]

There are some very nice lists here.

I mainly prefer more contemporary stuff (even those that are period films).

1. Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)
2. In the Mood for Love (Kar-Wai, 2000)
2. Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001)
4. American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
5. Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
6. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
7. Magnolia (Anderson, 1999)
8. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2002)
9. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
10. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Ritchie, 1998)

The runners up are from the likes of Princess Mononoke, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Godfather, Talk to Her, Adaptation, The Third Man and (i'm not sure if this counts) the Band of Brothers mini-series.

do you wear a beret

 

[Mojoman]

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
lock stock and two smoking barrels
memento
donnie darko
shawshank redemption
fight club
american beauty
pink floyd: the wall
fear and loathing in las vegas
and everybodys favorite movie... the castle

 

[nwatts]

do you wear a beret

Ahh.. beret?

I don't wear one now. But i'm sure I could.

 

[Benny_]

1. The Emperor and the Assassin
2. Lost in Translation
3. Talk to her / Hable con Ellas
4. Gone with the Wind
5. The Lion King
6. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
7. To Live
8. High Noon
9. Kieslowski's Blue White Red trilogy (don't make me pick!!)
10. Trainspotting
11. Fight Club (I'm generic, silly and easily amused, so shoot me - it's still a great film)

Sorry guys, it looked too painful to bring it down to 10.

Couple of interesting choices. For starters it's nice that someone included a Zhang Yimou film at last.. and nicer that it's not Hero or House of Flying Daggers.

2. In the Mood for Love (Kar-Wai, 2000)

Hate to nitpick.. but Wong Kar Wai's last name is Wong us Chinese do it the other way round

Also nice that someone's mentioned Three Colours.. although for me Red and White were far superior to Blue.

 

[nwatts]

Hate to nitpick.. but Wong Kar Wai's last name is Wong us Chinese do it the other way round

Hah, you anal bastard.

Just joking. I didn't know that's how the Chinese did it. Might just have to change it around.

 

[artheterosexual]

even dwarfs started small (werner herzog, 1970)

watched this tonight. it was... interesting


why does this qualify in your top 10?

midgets scare the fuck out of me.

 

[my sharona]

Couple of interesting choices. For starters it's nice that someone included a Zhang Yimou film at last.. and nicer that it's not Hero or House of Flying Daggers.

Also nice that someone's mentioned Three Colours.. although for me Red and White were far superior to Blue.

I'm not so much a fan of Zhang Yimou as i am of Gong Li.

And I thought Blue was the best one..? They're all excellent, but Juliette Binoche is absolutely delicious. Maybe i've been influenced by the media too much, who knows?

 

[icecreamdisco]

why does this qualify in your top 10?

midgets scare the fuck out of me.

i'll admit it isn't herzog's most accomplished film, but the idea is so inspired and the way it portrays all the extremes of human nature amongst dwarfs - of all types of people - makes it extra-unique. i love films that capture humanity reduced to a completely primitive state, and for all it's wierdness, this one actually seems believable once you forget the lack of background provided for the facility and the setting. the metaphoric images of the empty car driving endlessly in a circle, and the final shot of the dwarf laughing mindlessly at the horse taking a crap, suggests that the dwarfs are doomed to exist acting upon their most basic instincts without any civility or sense of direction. to me, this idea, along with the absurd sense of humour makes the film really funny and scary at once.

even so, it's 'freakshow' factor alone makes it worthy of placement in my top 10.

 

[Enoch]

Seven Samurai
Princess Mononoke
Fallen Angels (I also liked 2046, but it doesn't quite make the cut)
Fellowship of the Ring
Chinatown
Last Samurai
Return of the Jedi
Big Fish
The Meaning of Life
2001 : A Space Odyssey

Honourable Mentions : Les Diaboliques, Evil Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Romperstomper, The Name of the Rose and Kung Pow.

By the way art, did you get Fallen Angels and Aguirre: The Wrath Of God on DVD? If you did, where did you find them? I've been wanting to buy them both for a while.

OMFG ! im speechless all i can post is

 

[Benny_]

You can find Fallen Angels at Sanity, at least you could not long ago.

 

[artheterosexual]

is that the version with tarantino's face and name plastered all over the cover?

 

[Benny_]

I believe it's the version with Michelle Reis on the cover. Man she was fine in that flick. Not that I've seen her elsewhere.

 

[icecreamdisco]

michelle reis is too hot for words.

hell, all of wong's leading ladies are.

 

[nwatts]

is that the version with tarantino's face and name plastered all over the cover?

I'm quite sure you're talking about the Region 1 edition, that has the big "Presented by Quentin Tarantino" banner on it.

Here is the Australian version. I'm keen to get it, but i'm nervous spending $35 on a film i've never seen. Might go down to the videostore tomorrow and see if they have it though. Link - http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/228273

 

[artheterosexual]

hell, all of wong's leading ladies are.

:uhhuh: especially tony leung in happy together :uhhuh:

 

[icecreamdisco]

that's the only wong film i haven't seen yet. don't know why. maybe i'm a closet homophobe.

 

[Benny_]

Are you homophobic if you're put off by the idea of seeing a graphic gay sex scene?

 

[nwatts]

Are you homophobic if you're put off by the idea of seeing a graphic gay sex scene?

I hope not! I'm keen on Happy Together for Wong and Leung, but the apparent "intense gayness" turns me off.

I hired out Fallen Angels today, can't wait to watch.

 

[icecreamdisco]

it's rated M. the gayness can't be that 'intense'.