Top ten movies

[LHWBelt]

I didn't learn this period specifically in school either, but I am sure proximity (and having studied history at uni, though not this period specifically) means I am more sensitive to/easily annoyed by it. But honestly, there is so much wrong with Braveheart. I am sure coming in completely ignorant (don't mean that as an insult) about the country/history means you can enjoy it more, almost as a work of fantasy like Game of Thrones or something.

That's kinda what i took it as lol. If you see it from that angle it's much better mate.

 

[LEWIS540]

I don't take it as a history lesson, but being that it is supposed to represent real people and real events (on some level, of course you allow for some degree of looseness in a film) the fact that it is woefully inaccuate does seriously detract from the film as a whole. It is supposed to be a depiction of a real period of history. And no, they didn't use facepaint. That is a minor complaint; that was the point though, it was one of many little things which are inaccurate which detract from the film for me (the costumes/kilts, the paint, there being no bridge at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, even the fucking date being wrong - when combined with the complete bullshit that is the portrayal of Wallace, and the plot of the film in general.

Each to their own of course.

That's kinda what i took it as lol. If you see it from that angle it's much better mate.

Well worth a watch if you have a spare 10 minutes.

 

[MrFeeny]

Back to the Future
Forrest Gump
Inception
Gladiator
Shawshank
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Sandlot
The Big Lebowski
Rudy
Saving Private Ryan

 

[machidafan99]

Curious to see a list of everybody's top 10 and see what kind of overlap there is. Here's mine:

Braveheart
The departed
Training day
Saving private ryan
Sin city
Pulp fiction
Lord of the rings the two towers
Cindarella man
Gladiator
Inception

May have missed one or two but that's pretty close to what my list would be.

wow that's a narrow period of time in film

 

[Rimbaud82]

That's kinda what i took it as lol. If you see it from that angle it's much better mate.

Could be, but then I think our tastes and outlook on films might just be diametrically opposed haha. You're in the movie club and hated Stalker right?

 

[LHWBelt]

Could be, but then I think our tastes and outlook on films might just be diametrically opposed haha. You're in the movie club and hated Stalker right?

Didn't love it lol

 

[LHWBelt]

wow that's a narrow period of time in film

You aren't wrong. Most of my favorites were my favorites growing up and im 28. If we expanded to top 20 dr strangelove and the holy grail would probably make the cut though lol. Maybe a few more but that's just tge top of my head.

 

[Rimbaud82]

Oh gotcha yeah most movie before the 60’s don’t hold up. NCFOM tho... it good.

 

[Canned Tuna]

These are my favorite, not what I believe to be the greatest works of cinematography. They're in no order and many could be swapped in and out on any given day.

-Captain Blood
-LotR Trilogy with Return of the King being the best, but Fellowship is my favorite
-Secondhand Lions
-Braveheart
-Godfather pt 1 and 2
-The Departed
-Reservoir Dogs
-Wedding Crashers
-Thirteenth Warrior
-Megamind

Gangs of New York was hard to leave out.

 

[cottagecheesefan]

Don't really have an order to them

Infinity War
Gladiator
The Count of Monte Cristo
Crimson Tide
Fallen
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Sister Act
Fearless (Jet Li)
The Killer (John Woo)

 

[HaulParris]

No particular order:

Pulp Fiction
Taxi Driver
Heat
Casino
Goodfellas
Requiem For A Dream
Carnage
Birdcage
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Coco*

*This may seem like an odd choice, but I think it did a masterful job of tying together themes of family, life and death, and memory, in a way that wasn’t preachy or over-wrought. It hit me right in the feels.