My Top 500 Flicks Of The Century

[Brock Landers]

My top 500 flicks of the century that was (subject to change)…in stream-of-conciousness order (I was bored this morning, so I decided to think of all the films I love and wrote them down)…

1. Boogie Nights
2. Carlito's Way
3. Donnie Brasco
4. The Seven Samurai
5. Yojimbo
6. Cinema Paradiso
7. My Life As A Dog
8. Fight Club
9. Seven
10. American Psycho
11. East Of Eden
12. The Bridge On The River Kwai
13. Spartacus
14. Barry Lyndon
15. Lolita
16. Last Tango In Paris
17. Magnolia
18. Hard Eight
19. The Godfather
20. The Godfather Part II
21. Apocalypse Now
22. The Shining
23. Platoon
24. Born On The Fourth Of July
25. U-Turn
26. Rushmore
27. Hard Boiled
28. A Better Tomorrow
29. A Better Tomorrow II
30. The Killer
31. This Is Spinal Tap
32. City On Fire
33. The Graduate
34. The Deer Hunter
35. Midnight Cowboy
36. Deliverance
37. Serpico
38. The Long Good Friday
39. Get Carter (original)
40. Casino Royale
41. Annie Hall
42. Manhattan
43. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
44. The Third Man
45. Touch Of Evil
46. Rashoman
47. Princess Mononoke
48. Othello (Orson Welles version)
49. Henry IV (Laurence Olivier version)
50. Macbeth (Roman Polanski version)
51. Chinatown
52. Rosemary's Baby
53. Halloween
54. Evil Dead
55. Dream with the Fishes
56. Johns
57. The Hustler
58. Hud
59. Henry & June
60. Bad Lieutenant
61. Mean Streets
62. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
63. Dracula: Prince Of Darkness
64. Night Of The Living Dead
65. The Doors
66. BackBeat
67. Harold & Maude
68. Farinelli
69. The Seduction Of Mimi
70. Swept Away
71. Kalifornia
72. Remains Of The Day
73. The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan version)
74. Still Crazy
75. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
76. Stir Crazy
77. Silver Streak
78. Blazing Saddles
79. Young Frankenstein
80. Death Wish
81. Young Guns
82. Jurassic Park
83. Schindler's List
84. A Simple Plan
85. Scream
86. A Nightmare on Elm Street
87. Edward Scissorhands
88. Sleepy Hollow
89. Ed Wood
90. Another Day In Paradise
91. The Boost
92. The Dogs Of War
93. Heaven & Earth
94. Pulp Fiction
95. Reservoir Dogs
96. Vertigo
97. Psycho
98. Rear Window
99. Frenzy
100. Romper Stomper
101. L.A. Confidential
102. Night Shift
103. Batman
104. Superman
105. Blade
106. Nurse Betty
107. Glory
108. Kiss The Girls
109. Ride With The Devil
110. The Ice Storm
111. My Name Is Joe
112. Orphans
113. The Hudsucker Proxy
114. Trees Lounge
115. Raising Arizona
116. Fargo
117. Miller's Crossing
118. The Freshman
119. House Of Games
120. The Spanish Prisoner
121. Birth Of A Nation
122. Homicide
123. Glengarry Glen Ross
124. The Truman Show
125. After Dark, My Sweet
126. The King Of Marvin Gardens
127. Rush
128. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
129. The People Vs. Larry Flynt
130. Primal Fear
131. Rounders
132. American History X
133. Man On The Moon
134. The Longest Yard
135. North Dallas Forty
136. The Thin Red Line
137. Days Of Heaven
138. Badlands
139. Summer Of Sam
140. Do The Right Thing
141. Malcolm X
142. The Limey
143. Ghost Dog:Way Of The Samurai
144. Sex, Lies & Videotape
145. Quills
146. Jungle Fever
147. Hurly Burly
148. At Close Range
149. The Dead Zone
150. Bad Boys (Sean Penn version)
151. Lost Angels
152. Dead Man
153. Stranger Than Paradise
154. Wild At Heart
155. The Elephant Man
156. Blue Velvet
157. Lost Highway
158. The Lord Of The Flies
159. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
160. The Milagro Beanfield War
161. The Chocolate War
162. The Long, Hot Summer
163. Slap Shot
164. Body Heat
165. Robocop
166. Run Lola Run
167. The Terminator
168. T2: Judgement Day
169. The Seduction
170. Dirty Harry
171. The Outlaw Josey Wales
172. The Beguiled
173. The Disappearance (French Version)
174. Dona Flor & Her Two Husbands
175. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
176. The Basketball Diaries
177. Fear
178. Beavis & Butthead Do America
179. Office Space
180. On The Waterfront
181. School Daze
182. Kindergarten Cop
183. The Goonies
184. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
185. Clue
186. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
187. Last House On The Left
188. White Zombie (Bela Lugosi)
189. Dracula
190. Bride Of Frankenstein
191. Mr Majestik
192. The Hunter
193. Le Mans
194. Bullitt
195. The Getaway (Peckinpah version)
196. Enter The Dragon
197. The Usual Suspects
198. Apt Pupil
199. American Beauty
200. Amadeus
201. Immortal Beloved
202. Leon: The Professional
203. Mission Impossible
204. The Rock
205. The Ninth Gate
206. Who's Eating Gilbert Grape
207. Benny & Joon
208. Ran
209. Escape From New York
210. Stargate
211. Coming Home
212. Public Enemy
213. Juice
214. Dead Presidents
215. Mother Night
216. The Perfect Storm
217. Three Kings
218. Anaconda
219. Boyz In The Hood
220. Tomb Of Ligeia
221. House Of Wax
222. Cleopatra
223. The Red Violin
224. The Tao Of Steve
225. Clerks
226. In The Line Of Fire
227. The Fugitive
228. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
229. MASH
230. The Odd Couple
231. Some Like It Hot
232. The Apartment
233. Pink Flamingos
234. Buffalo '66
235. Leaving Las Vegas
236. Internal Affairs
237. Sleeping With The Enemy
238. Mountains Of The Moon
239. Vincent & Theo
240. The Mechanic
241. The Lost Boys
242. Die Hard
243. The Last Boyscout
244. Beverly Hills Cop
245. In The Name Of The Father
246. Last Of The Mohicans
247. Camille Claudel
248. Slums Of Beverly Hills
249. Citizen Kane
250. Permanent Midnight
251. Meet The Parents
252. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
253. The Matrix
254. Speed
255. Carrie
256. Body Double
257. Ghost Story
258. The Purple Rose Of Cairo
259. Sweet & Lowdown
260. Jesus' Son
261. Waking The Dead
262. Bringing Out The Dead
263. Almost Famous
264. Maverick
265. Affliction
266. The Great Escape
267. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
268. The Wild Bunch
269. Once Upon A Time In America
270. High Noon
271. Once Upon A Time In The West
272. Network
273. Stalag 17
274. From Here To Eternity
275. Rebel Without A Cause
276. Twin Falls Idaho
277. Stir Of Echoes
278. The Sixth Sense
279. Out Of Sight
280. Eve's Bayou
281. The Bad & The Beautiful
282. Poltergeist
283. House On Haunted Hill
284. Ghost
285. Indecent Proposal
286. The Sting
287. Havana
288. The Last Emperor
289. The Fire Within
290. Beetlejuice
291. The Addams Family
292. Menace II Society
293. Amongst Friends
294. Crossing The Bridge
295. Shakespeare In Love
296. Elizabeth
297. Orlando
298. The Thirteenth Floor
299. Full Metal Jacket
300. Female Perversions
301. Ghostbusters
302. Jaws
303. The Boys Next Door
304. That Was Then, This Is Now
305. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
306. Brazil
307. 12 Monkeys
308. Monty Python & The Holy Grail
309. Tommy Boy
310. The Blues Brothers
311. Animal House
312. The Silence Of The Lambs
313. Manhunter
314. Payback
315. The Road Warrior
316. Say Anything
317. Revenge Of The Nerds
318. Bad Influence
319. The Music Of Chance
320. GoodFellas
321. Caddyshack
322. Fletch
323. Tootsie
324. In The Heat Of The Night
325. The Asphalt Jungle
326. My Bodyguard
327. Waking Ned Devine
328. Trainspotting
329. Ravenous
330. Detroit Rock City
331. American Heart
332. The Fabulous Baker Boys
333. When Harry Met Sally
334. Sleepless In Seattle
335. Walking & Talking
336. Lenny
337. Little Big Man
338. The Marathon Man
339. Straw Dogs
340. Chariots Of Fire
341. Nosferatu
342. Aguirre Wrath Of God
343. Tales From The Crypt
344. Double Indemnity
345. The Night Porter
346. Sunset Boulevard
347. King Kong
348. Mommie Dearest
349. Dr. Strangelove
350. White Heat
351. Alien
352. Friday The 13th
353. In the company of men
354. Your Friends & Neighbors
355. A Hard Day's Night
356. The Wall
357. Casablanca
358. The Beast With Five Fingers (Peter Lorre)
359. M
360. Key Largo
361. The Maltese Falcon
362. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
363. The Man With Two Brains
364. Parenthood
365. Everybody's All American
366. Brian's Song
367. Piranha
368. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
369. The Wizard Of Oz
370. The Jazz Singer
371. A Few Good Men
372. The Firm
373. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
374. The Krays
375. Sixteen Candles
376. All About Eve
377. Laura
378. Dial M for Murder
379. Wall Street
380. The Game
381. Boiler Room
382. Magic
383. Dressed To Kill
384. Mary Reilly
385. Being John Malkovich
386. The Indian Runner
387. Dead Man Walking
388. Sisters
389. Foxy Brown
390. She's Gotta Have It
391. Medium Cool
392. Exotica
393. Last Night
394. Felicia's Journey
395. The Thing
396. Breathless
397. The 13th Warrior
398. Easy Rider
399. The Shawshank Redemption
400. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
401. Top Gun
402. The Crow
403. Casino
404. Good Will Hunting
405. Dead Poet's Society
406. Scent Of A Woman
407. Sea Of Love
408. The Exorcist
409. Highlander
410. The Hunt For Red October
411. My Own Private Idaho
412. Shortcuts
413. Drugstore Cowboy
414. A River Runs Through It
415. The Cincinnatti Kid
416. From Dusk Til Dawn
417. Judgement At Nuremberg
418. Mansfield Park
419. Angels & Insects
420. The Lover
421. Carnival Of Souls
422. Sanjuro
423. Reality Bites
424. Joe Gould's Secret
425. The Adventures Of Sebastian Cole
426. The Crying Game
427. American Gigolo
428. Strange Brew
429. S.F.W.
430. Antonia's Line
431. The Legend Of Drunken Master
432. Tom Jones
433. The Insider
434. Boy's Don't Cry
435. American Movie
436. Crumb
437. Guinevere
438. Claire's Knee
439. Autumn Tale
440. My Night At Maud's
441. Love & Anarchy
442. Limbo
443. The Emperor & The Assassin
444. Dark City
445. Metropolis
446. Election
447. National Lampoon's Vacation
448. Stripes
449. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
450. Quadrophenia
451. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
452. To Kill A Mockingbird
453. The Guns Of Navarone
454. Duel In The Sun
455. Peeping Tom
456. Blood Simple
457. Swingers
458. GO
459. Chaplin
460. The Outsiders
461. Tex
462. They Shoot Horses Don't They?
463. Klute
464. Point Of No Return
465. Les Diabolique
466. Dead Ringers
467. Interview With The Vampire
468. Superfly
469. Sid & Nancy
470. Shoot The Piano Player
471. Midnight Express
472. The 400 Blows
473. Das Boot
474. The Nightmare Before Christmas
475. Never Cry Wolf
476. Repo Man
477. Dead Again
478. Unforgiven
479. The French Connection
480. An American Werewolf In London
481. Killing Zoe
482. The Omen
483. Melvin & Howard
484. Stand By Me
485. North By Northwest
486. Reflections In A Golden Eye
487. Kingpin
488. Sleuth
489. Richard III
490. Rocky
491. At Play In The Fields Of The Lord
492. Conan The Barbarian
493. The Ref
494. Judgement Night
495. Thief
496. The Corrupter
497. Catch-22
498. Bustin' Loose
499. SLC PUNK!
500. The Falcon & The Snowman

[Kal]

.....and I thought I had too much time on my hands

[NomoPutzy]

Why, PinchMyDiscos, Brock, you forgot CHINESE GHOST STORY! And TAMPOPO! Sex & food, how can anyone not love a funny movie about sex & food? You hear that, young'uns? Yes, there are subtitles but you won't need to look at them when the director, the brilliant Juzo Itami, shows what can be done with a raw egg.

SLEUTH. It's been years since I've seen that one. Brilliant brilliant.

[DaN]

SWEET MOTHER OF GOD! Jesus! How the hell can you think that up!? I honestly don't recall seeing 500 great films. That is a fucking good list! I'm really amazed at it. Good job dude! Damn...

[filmdude]

Bloody good list Brock.....

[cow]

i havent seen 500 movies

[idealdiscountdude]

Since Brock Landers came up with this wicked idea...here are my Top 250 films of the century!!!!!!!(The rest is to come) And by the way Brock, I have yet to see most of the films on your list.

These are in no particular order.

1.Eve's Bayou
2.Bounce
3.Jurassic Park
4.The Birds
5.BenHur
6.Psycho (Hitchcock)
7.Cape Fear (The Original)
8.Goodbye Mr.Chips
9.The Insider
10.The Patriot
11.Oliver and Company
12.Footloose
13.Bambi
14.Carrie
15.Die Hard
16.Maximum Overdrive
17.ET The Extra Terrestrial
18.Raiders Of The Lost Arc
19.The Green Mile
20.Set It Off
21.Rosewood
22.The Matrix
23.Vertigo
24.Singin In The Rain
25.Thelma and Louise
26.Sense and Sensibility
27.Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
28.Porky's
29.Dead Ringers
30.When A Stranger Calls
31.To Kill A Mockingbird
32.Chicken Run
33.The Color Purple
34.Election
35.Being John Malkovich
36.A Bug's Life
37.Run Lola Run
38.The Goonies
39.Legends of The Fall
40.The Net
41.Pretty Woman
42.10 Things I Hate About You
43.Quills
44.Broken Arrow
45.Face/Off
46.That Thing You Do!
47.Almost Famous
48.X-Men
49.Grumpy Old Men
50.The Odd Couple
51.Marnie
52.Halloween
53.Halloween 2
54.Enemy Of The State
55.The Firm
56.The Pelican Brief
57.A Time To Kill
58.The Client
59.The Saint
60.Rush Hour
61.Men In Black
62.Traffic
63.Deep Impact
64.Boys Don't Cry
65.All About My Mother
66.Tommorow Never Dies
67.Octopussy
68.The Living Daylights
69.Gorillas In The Mist
70.Wall Street
71.In Dreams
72.Scream
73.The Perfect Storm
74.Bowfinger
75.Erin Brockovich
76.Happiness
77.Some Like It Hot
78.The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills)
79.The Truman Show
80.You Can Count on Me
81.Unbreakable
82.Network
83.Airport
84.Frenzy
85.I Know What You Did Last Summer
86.Ghost
87.Mary Reilly
88.Copycat
89.Seven
90.The Usual Suspects
91.Sybil
92.Norma Rae
93.A Christmas Story
94.Boogie Nights
95.The Talented Mr.Ripley
96.Girl, Interrupted
97.Rear Winsow
98.Blood Simple
99.Fargo
100.The Gift
101.Fist Of Legend
102.The Legend Of Drunken Master
103.The Lost Boys
104.Saving Grace
105.Beauty and the Beast
106.Peter Pan
107.The Rescuers
108.Fear
109.Sliver
110.Dead Calm
111.Single White Female
112.Speed
113.The Shawshank Redemption
114.Schindler's List
115.Bliss
116.The Virgin Suicides
117.Bring It On
118.Jaws
119.Deep Blue Sea
120.Leaving Las Vegas
121.A Thousand Acres
122.Driving Miss Daisy
123.Das Boot
124.The Wizard Of Oz
125.Curly Top
126.Miracle On 34th Street
127.It's A Wonderful Life
128.The Cell
129.Fight Club
130.What Lies Beneath
131.Married To The Mob
132.The Godfather
133.Four Weddings and a Funeral
134.Extreme Measures
135.A League Of Their Own
136.Elizabeth
137.Casablanca
138.The Thin Man
139.Casino Royale
140.As Good As It Gets
141.Kalifornia
142.Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
143.Matilda
144.Fly Away Home
145.When Harry Met Sally
146.Fast Times At Ridgemont High
147.Notting Hill
148.Higher Learning
149.Dazed and Confused
150.The Godfather 2
151.Casino
152.Hamlet (2000)
153.Final Destination
154.American History X
155.The Legend Of Bagger Vance
156.Wild Things
157.Gossip
158.Timecode
159.The Contender
160.Big Daddy
161.Out To Sea
162.Shaft (Original)
163.Coffy
164.Foxy Brown
165.The Accused
166.Dick
167.Dial M For Murder
168.A Perfect Murder
169.The Vanishing (Original)
170.Poltergeist
171.Top Gun
172.Bastard Out Of Carolina
173.Die Hard 2
174.Nurse Betty
175.State and Main
176.The Long Kiss Goodnight
177.The Man On The Moon (1991)
178.The Contender
179.Spartacas
180.Leaving Las Vegas
181.Kramer Vs. Kramer
182.Tootsie
183.Midnight Cowboy
184.Wag The Dog
185.Nixon
186.The Ghost And The Darkness
187.Ruby In Paradise
188.Twelth Night
189.Sunshine
190.Sleeping With The Enemy
191.Forrest Gump
192.Airplane!
193.Goldeneye
194.Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
195.What Lies Beneath
196.Grumpier Old Men
197.Father Of The Bride (Spencer Tracy)
198.Sex,Lies and Videotape
199.Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrells
200.BIG
201.Raging Bull
202.Out Of Africa
203.Don't Be A Menace While Drinking Your....
204.Austin Powers
205.The Last Of The Mohicans
206.St.Elmo's Fire
207.The Thin Red Line
208.Platoon
209.The Bridge on The River Kwai
210.Blink
211.The Opposite Of Sex
212.Cookie's Fortune
213.28 Days
214.The Underneath
215.Pi
216.The Godfather 3
217.True Grit
218.Two Mules For Sister Sarah
219.Around The World In 80 Days
220.Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
221.The Towering Inferno
222.All About Eve
223.Jackie Brown
224.From Dusk Till Dawn
225.Glory
226.Austin Powers 2
227.Hook
228.Black Christmas
229.Shortcuts
230.The Sweet Hereafter
231.Beloved
232.The Haunting (The Original)
233.Toy Story
234.Toy Story 2
235.Titan A.E
236.The Secret Of NIMH
237.101 Dalmatians (Animated)
238.Chuck and Buck
239.Rocky
240.Terminator 2:Judgement Day
241.Out of Sight
242.Anaconda
243.The Deer Hunter
244.Oscar And Lucinda
245.Brian's Song
246.King Of The Hill
247.The Inkwell
248.Born On The 4th Of July
249.Disclosure
250.The 13th Warrior
251.One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
252.The American President
253.Roots (TV Miniseries)
254.Waiting For Guffman
255.This Is Spinal Tap
256.My Left Foot
257.In The Name Of The Father
258.12 Monkeys
259.Fletch
260.Beverly Hills Cop
261.Coming To America
262.2 Days In The Valley
263.The Devil's Advocate
264.The Crow
265.Absolute Power
266.Menace 2 Society
267.Do The Right Thing
268.What's Love Got To Do With It
269.When A Man Loves A Woman
270.The Breakfast Club
271.Jungle Fever
272.The Hand That Rocks The Craddle
273.Blade Runner
274.Selena
275.Tron
276.The War
277.On Golden Pond
278.A River Runs Through It
279.Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me
280.Free Willy
281.Clerks
282.The Ten Commandments
283.Hotel
284.The Remains Of The Day
285.The Mambo Kings
286.Serpico
287.Spartacus
288.At Play In The Fields Of The Lord
289.The Moon Spinners
290.Malcolm X
291.Chaplin
292.Dangerous Liaisons
293.Happy,Texas
294.The Accidental Tourist
295.Serial Mom
296.O Brother,Where Art Thou?
297.Juice
298.The Sunshine Boys
299.Mash
300.Mystic Pizza


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[screamer581]

Dear god Brock! I mean it was a great list (though there was some movies to high or to low), but damn! How long did that take you?!?

[Tuukka]

Brock, I must assume that the order of the films wasn't exact. Some films were definitely too high and some too low.

Anyway, it was an impressive list, but where were all the foreign and silent films?

A film like Birth of a nation might have had a huge influence on filmmaking, but is it really one of the greatest silent films of all time? I don't think so...

Also there was a lack of foreign cinema in your list. I don't know how available foreign film are in states, but it was a bit sad that only about 1/10 or 1/15 of the films were outside USA...

[Brock Landers]

Thanks for the feedback fellas...

...just remember that I did that list "stream-of-consciousness"-style in about an hour or so..."stream-of-conciousness" meaning "to brainstorm" or "off-the-top-of-my-head"...I mean, the films are in no particular order and the numbering is only there to keep track of how many films...that is why some may seem a bit high or low on my list...

These are only films that I really enjoyed...I mean, after I posted it I kept typing and have a little over 1000 films (films that I like) now...there are just so many great films out there...I have added lots more foreign films (ex: "Aguirre: Wrath Of God", "The Tin Drum") and some more silent films I enjoyed (ex: "The Kid", "Napolean")...thanks for the thought though fellas...

Admittedly, being an American, I do tend to list a lot of American Films, but that's what's great about this board...diversity...good call on those films NomoPutzy I will definitely have to add Chinese Ghost Story to my TOP 5000 OF THE CENTURY...often when I list or talk about foreign, silent, etc...nobody shows any interest...too bad.

Anybody can make one of these lists, it's really no big deal, when all you watch is films and all you talk about is films and when you sleep, you dream about films and you eat food from a certain film and you drink when the characters drink and you fuck how the characters ...um...er...well, you catch my drift...Tyler Durden rubber gloves monkey-love style...(sly smirk)...more later...

(Note: ya know, sometimes I wonder just how many films I have seen, I mean I remember watching films when I was a toddler...damn...the good ol' days...)

[Will]

ideal discount dude ummm what the fuck is bounce doing up there u have balls right?

[Raena]

#161 THE CHOCOLATE WAR
#429 S.F.W.


And here I thought I was the only one who has seen flicks like the two above. You chose an interesting five hundred. [img]/ubb/smile.gif[/img]

Question: # 498 BUSTIN' LOOSE wouldn't happen to be that movie with Richard Pryor and a bus-load of disturbed kids would it? Just wondering. Admittedly, I always get sucked into the version with Richard Pryor when it is on.

You also had three flicks that had great performances by three actors that seem to have no trouble getting work:

#250 PERMANENT MIDNIGHT--Ben Stiller
#499 SLC PUNK--Matthew Lillard
#176 THE BASKETBALL DIARIES--Leonardo DiCaprio

#7 MY LIFE AS A DOG--Man, I love that movie!

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[Brock Landers]

Raena..."The Chocolate War" was what got me through a year of boarding school...man, I mean, it's like a David Mamet flick for young confused kids...the writing is superb, the direction is magnificent and the actors are simply kick-ass...It's like every "School Ties"-style film gone perfect...I love it...

Yes, that was the Pryor/Busdriver flick. I tried to fit in every Richard Pryor flick I could remember, I just love the guy, even though he's all messed up now...I only left off "Jo Jo Dancer"...which is the autobiographical flick of his life, performed by him. By the way, Eddie Griffin ("The Walking Dead" and that new flick with Orlando Jones [the Sprite commercial guy and "Magnolia"]) was recently hand-picked by Richard Pryor to do a new full-length feature film of Richard Pryor's life...

"S.F.W." was the first flick I remember seeing Stephen Dorff in after he was a child star...my favorite performances rom him are definitely "BackBeat", "City Of Industry" "Blade" & "Cecil B. Demented"...

I thought DiCaprio was good in "The Basketball Diaries" and really love it for introducing P.T. Anderson to the talent that is Mark Wahlberg...P.T. Said that "The Basketball Diaries" and "FEAR" proved to him that Mark could act...

"Permanent Midnight" is great for me cause I dug "Alf" as a kid and has great performances all around...including another solid bit part from Owen Wilson...

"SLC PUNK!" is such a great film...the best ever acid trip filmed ever except for the New Orleans graveyard sequence in "Easy Rider". Lillard is another talented actor who gets wrangled into playing the same "hyper" role...think "The Curve" which I personally dug and has some cool film references like the "Russian Roulette" scene in "The Deer Hunter"...

"My Life As A Dog" is the first foreign film I remember seeing and liking (ok..the second...the first was "The Red Balloon"). It is pretty much a perfect retelling of my life, my mother's death, puberty, etc...

thanks for the input...

[idealdiscountdude]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Will:
ideal discount dude ummm what the fuck is bounce doing up there u have balls right?</font>

Uh...dude.....have you even seen Bounce?

It's a brilliant drama with great performances. It's sad and very honest.

By the way, I do have balls, most guys wouldn't have the balls to even list it, like you!!!!!!

[Raena]

Thanks for the explanation, Brock.


#181 SCHOOL DAZE--Is my favorite Spike Lee Joint. Sad, but true (Unless you are talking about a different flick, which is quite possible.).

#420 THE LOVER--I have the book from Marguerite Duras (Unless again you are talking about another movie. Is this the movie about the French girl and the Chinese Businessman?).

Ever see a flick with Stephen Dorff called ENTROPY? It's about this young director (he directs videos for U2--or something along those lines) who scores a job shooting a flick in New York where he meets a girl. I don't know why this flick comes to mind. . .

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[Will]

Hey ideal i dont wanna see bounce in my opinion it looked like it blew ass. i didnt wanna see it is a chick flick dude, yeah i would see it with a girl but i would rather see another one, will i rent when it comes out on dvd or payperview? probably it wouldnt be one id see in theatres ok. SO FUCK YOU!

[Brock Landers]

As they say in "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" (8.5/10)..."Chill Win...ston." No need to get pissed off about a mediocre mainstream flick that cashed in on the notoriety of the relationship between the stars..."Bounce" (6/10)

Raena..."School Daze" (7.5/10) was definitely the Spike Lee Joint about the black college experience. It does get mixed up with the less ideal flick starring Ben Affleck titled "Glory Daze" (5/10) sometimes. Spike Lee really did a great job portraying the cliches that form in college surrounding...ex: fratboys, serious students, slackers, etc...I like to think of it as a predecessor to films like John Singleton's "Higher Learning" (6.5/10) and an important step in Spike Lee's convaluted career...

"The Lover" (9/10)...I've never read the book, but I have fallen in love with the amazing cinematography and story in the film, I will have to check out the book. It is indeed about the chinese businessman and the young french girl...If memory serves me correct, the chinese businessman is played by Tony Leung (I remember he was in John Woo's Hong-Kong gangster epic "A Better Tomorrow" (7/10) and the first film from the director of the recent flick "The Emperor & The Assassin" (8/10), I mean, he was in "Farewell My Concubine" (9/10)...of course my memory is not so great these days). The young French girl is a vision of beauty and the story of her loss of innocence reminds me of the Joan Chen movie "Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl" (9.5/10), where the lead female character becomes disillusioned after breaking the mythical barrier between romance and sex, meaning simply that she learns that sex is just sex, not love... Very sad and very beautiful...

I have seen "Entropy" at my local video store a few times (the box is blue with Stephen Dorff sitting in a director's chair), but sometimes those boxes just look cheap if you catch my drift, like it was a straight-to-video release or something (after buying videos and browsing shops for years, I can usually tell the difference). I would be interested to know if it is any good, since I dig Dorff and didn't give it a chance yet.

Thanks for asking me about some of my favorites, it brings back lots of memories and makes me want to dig back through my movie-closet for some repeat viewings. I am willing to go into great detail about any one of the flicks on my list...if anyone gives a damn...



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[idealdiscountdude]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Will:
Hey ideal i dont wanna see bounce in my opinion it looked like it blew ass. i didnt wanna see it is a chick flick dude, yeah i would see it with a girl but i would rather see another one, will i rent when it comes out on dvd or payperview? probably it wouldnt be one id see in theatres ok. SO FUCK YOU!</font>

I didn't think that Bounce was a chick flick at all. Saying that Bounce is a chick flick is like saying What Women Want is a chick flick which it is not.

And saying "So Fuck You" is very very mature now. I may only be 18 but at least I'm mature enough not to curse at someone.

Bounce isn't even a romance, it's more of a drama if anything. It may have romantic elements but it is by no means a chick flick in my opinion. A chick is like Fried Green Tomatoes.

Seriously, it's ok to like tell me to mess off which is well immature to say the least but to state to me "So fuck You" is just very very well I'll be blunt stupid.

[Brock Landers]

I don't know if "What Women Want" or "Bounce" are technically "chick flicks", but I would have to be really P-whipped or castrated to be dragged to either one...

"Fried Green Tomatoes" on the other hand is a lesbian chick flick...just like "If These Walls Could Talk 2"...

[Will]

Idealdiscountdude i have something for you.

[Crynot]

FYI,


If you take the average length of a movie - around 2 hours - and you watched 2 movies a day (so 4 hours a day) - it would take you almost 7 years to watch 5000 films.

Crynot

[Brock Landers]

I have been known to watch up to eight films a day on free days (weekends, holidays, etc...) Also I have been watching films since I was a child and I am 26 years old. Not to mention that I spent 1998 doing nothing but living off of my savings and investments and watching films all day, no work, no nothing...except a marriage, a kid, and a divorce...I promise you, that I love films and have seen them all. I still haven't completed my Top 5000 anywho...I'm only to # 2,857...it's taking a while because I forget the ones I already put on and have to go through the list to make sure I don't put the same one on twice...

[retardinAz]

#399: The Shawshank Redemption


Now I understand the way you did the list, but come on. This movie, an I think many if not most would agree, belongs AT LEAST in the top 100, if not the top 50 or top 25. No grudges or anything, because I couldn't make a list like that of people I know(which is a lot). You know your movie shit, which has never been in dispute, and I know that you have a lot of time on your hands, so how about going back over the list to make some revisions, considering how you keep saying it was just the order they came to you. Great list, otherwise(except for Magnolia).

[Brock Landers]

I appreciate the input retard...I will definitely go back and try to make some sense of the numbering when I get a chance...although, I still don't think I would put "The Shawshank Redemption" in my Top 100 let alone Top 50 or 25...I truly don't believe, in my opinion...and this is MY Top 500 list, that it deserves to be one of the top 100 films of the past 100 years...no way...still, I liked it and I appreciate that you think so highly of it. Thanks for the suggestion anyway bra...

[idealdiscountdude]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Will:
Idealdiscountdude i have something for you. </font>

Real cool Will, real mature now.

[retardinAz]

What the hell is that face thing supposed to be? Oh, and by the way, I will almost guarantee you that Jo is gonna close down this string.

[Brock Landers]

retardinAz...since you mentioned "The Shawshank Redemption", which Stephen King prison story do you prefer..."The Green Mile" or "The Shawshank Redemption"...Personally, I would have to go with Shawshank, but that is only because I thought it was less cheery and better characters...which I like...

[Caleb]

I am extremely pleased to see The Boys Next Door (#303) on your list. More people need to see this masterpiece.

[daddiefatsacks]

458. GO

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This was one of the best movies of the 90s!

"My motha's motha's motha was black"

"This aint roots muthafucka"

[Brock Landers]

All I can say about "GO" is..."Tantra Baby"...Tantric sex rules...gotta be like some Obi-Wan Kenobi mofo...dig?

[Jon Lap]

Ideal discount dude -

BLISS, with Craig Shaeffer, Terrence Stamp & Sheryl Lee? If so, good for you, as this film's subject matter is superb, but meant for a selective audience. Though the film is a bit one-dimensioinal at times, and elliptical, it's impressive handling of difficult, marginalized content overrides it's defects.

Will -

Uh oh, I foresee another sparring match... in the near future... in your head... the next time you try and formulate a thought... "in this corner we have the brain-cell in red shorts"... in this corner is the one remaining brain-cell in blue shorts."

BOUNCE wasn't very good by my standards, but if you got your two brain-cells to shut the fuck up for a second, and put them to good use, you would have taken the intelligence to read the complete list, and find that his other selections were smart, and well-chosen.

Get it together

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[idealdiscountdude]

Jon Lap, Yes that is the Bliss I listed. It was a very engrossing and at times disturbing film. Terence Stamp was great as always and Craig Sheffer and Sheryl Lee's performance's were surprisingly very good.

[JoBlo]

Just wanted you all to know that Will has been given a warning for his FUCK YOU comment and that I appreciate the rest of you (at least MOST of you!) NOT stooping down to that level in order to make your points.

I have two simple rules on this board and I think that one of the reasons why this all works so well, is because pretty much ALL of the schmoes respect one another and know how to keep things on a mature and diplomatic level.

Special tip of the hat goes out to Ideal for respecting the board, rather than lowering himself to another's level.

[Will]

i'm gonna be mature and apoligize to idealdiscountdude (what does your name mean) so im gonna say sorry and be mature. so im sorry if i was rude and blunt, sorry

[Will]

im gald you have gossip and happy texas up there 2 i really like those 2. sorry again

[Brock Landers]

"Gossip"...was a beautifully photographed film about excess drinking...pretty much. The soundtrack was great and there never was a shortage of liquor...Norman Reedus was fantastic and is a favorite of mine as of late. The rest of the cast including Joshua Jackson was sufficient if not competent. I only dig it because of the superficial brilliance...

"Happy, Texas"...I have one major reason I love this film...Steve Zahn. He is hilarious as Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr...a redneck sociopath who is dumber than a sack of wet hammers...Jeremy Northam makes a good leading man and William H. Macy as the gay sheriff is once again outstanding, proving what a great actor he is...The plot was a little strange but fun nonetheless...it was definitely a feel good flick...

[idealdiscountdude]

No prob Will, apology accepted. My name "idealdiscountdude" is from when I worked at The Ideal Discount Store in my old hometown, I worked there for 2 years.....by the way my real name is Ryan.

[Brock Landers]

Hey Caleb... thanks for mentioning the great 1986 film "The Boys Next Door"...it has been a favorite of mine since high school. I bet you didn't know that it was written by James Wong (director of "Final Destination") and Glen Morgan (co-writer of "Final Destination")...they sure made it all right. Hell, even the director of "The Boys Next Door" (Penelope Spheeris) went on to direct some nominal successes like "Wayne's World", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "The Little rascals" & "Black Sheep". I really like this film and think that Charlie Sheen and Maxwell Caulfield had some good performances overall...

[love broker]

I am gonna join the so called band wagon and go ahead and waste some time and list some movies that I really dig:

1 The Killer
2 Double Indemnity
3 Buffalo 66
4 Ed Wood
5 The Wrong Guy
6 FIGHT CLUB
7 About last night
8 Bottle Rocket
9 Meatballs
10 Coldblooded
11 Grosse Pointe Blank
12 Drive
13 Love to Kill
14 Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
15 Snatch
16 The Matrix
17 Better off Dead
18 Seven
19 Heat
20 Violent Streets
21 Casino
22 A Better Tomorrow
23 Downtown torpedoes
24 Sneakers
25 Judgment Night
26 My Best Friend Is A Vampire
27 Just Write
28 Cold Heart
29 No Code of Conduct
30 Crying Freeman
31 Donnie Brasco
32 Clerks
33 Mallrats
34 Chasing Amy
35 Dogma
36 The Breakfast CLub
37 Breakdown
38 MR Holland's Opus
39 The Dish
40 Happy Gilmore
41 The Rock
42 Orgazmo
43 Dead Man's Curve
44 Dead Man on Campus
45 The Shawshank Redemption
46 The Green Mile
47 Of Mice and Men (Sinese Version)
48 The Usual Suspects
49 The Replacement Killers
50 Remember the Titans
51 Rudy
52 The Natural
53 Hoosiers
54 The Replacements
55 Unforgiven
56 The Truman Show
57 The Big Lebowski
58 Big Trouble in Little China
59 No Man's Land
60 Halloween
61 Face/Off
62 Bullet In The Head
63 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
63 Low Down Dirty Shame
64 Dirty Harry
65 Mystery Men
66 My Bodyguard
67 The Fugitvie
68 Back To The Future
69 Deuce Bigalow - Male Gigalo
70 The Man Who Knew Too Little
71 Quick Change
72 L.A Confidential
73 American Beauty
74 The Whole Nine Yards
75 The Sixth Day
76 Total Recall
77 Suicide Kings
78 High Fidelity
79 Dragon -The Bruce Lee Story
80 The Jack Bull
81 Knocking on Heaven's Door
.................................

[playgames]

I was glad to see 119(house of games) listed.That is one of my favorites.The list was so long it almost crossed my eyes,but when you mention David Mamet I went back and looked closer.By the way,I didn't see "Behind the green Door" listed.