Your Top 5 GOAT Films?

[raty tat tat]

Star Wars: A New Hope
King Kong '33
Aliens
Enter The Dragon
The Incredibles

 

[INTERL0PER]

Citizen Kane and Blade Runner are two of most disappointing movie experiences. Not because they were bad, but because they were just good.

I love movies in general and in both cases I sat down and was like, "Okay, I'm ready for greatness.", and at the end of both I thought, "I enjoyed it. But really???"

Honestly, the best thing about seeing either of them is that understanding the Blade Runner world helped me enjoy Blade Runner 2049, IMO far better movie, even more.

Part of the problem with a film like Citizen Kane is that it was so incredibly influential that it's practically impossible to truly appreciate it without a very, very deep knowledge of film history. It was ground breaking, but it's so hard to see that now as most of it's ground breaking features have become integral parts of modern movie making.


My list, for what it's worth...

- Godfather
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- There Will Be Blood
- No Country For Old Men
- ... I cannot put a fifth film here, because it suddenly means I can't write something else here. Which is the problem I always have with trying to make definitive lists like this. Fargo, The Master, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Casablanca, Dog Day Afternoon, The Incredibles, Wall.E... there are SO many films I could put here. Even the four I wrote down could easily be replaced with other films.

I could probably make ten Top 5 lists that would all be as valid as each other.

 

[Tol]

IMO These films are perfect, each in their own way. The long lasting effect these movies have had can not be overstated.

1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3. The Matrix
4. Predator

For the fifth film I'm going to throw a curve ball and say:

5. Conan the Barbarian

At first glance, it's just a cheesy Arnold movie. There was a great review I was going to link, but it has since disappeared. So I will try and keep this justification short.

• The movie plays to its strengths, Arnold doesn't speak a lot. Instead the best lines and important dialogue are reserved for its best actors and orators... James Earl Jones and Max von Sydow.
• It boasts a diverse cast, and avoids the typical 'damsel in distress' female archetype. Instead, the heroine saves Conan's life... twice.
• The score, by Basil Poledouris is superb at setting the tone.
• And the climactic ending is not a typical battle of strength or clash of swords. Instead it's a battle of minds and wills.

Thulsa Doom tries to hypnotize Conan, and convert him into a follower. He brings the movie full circle, back to the beginning and Conan's singular goal and motivation in life.

"For who now is your father if it is not me? Who gave you the will to live? I am the well spring from which you flow. When I am gone you will have never been. What will your world be without me?"

Conan struggles with this truth. His whole life has been about revenge, and for a moment he almost succumbs to Doom's snake-like charm, before he snaps himself out of it and hacks off Thulsa Doom's head with the broken sword of this father.

See for yourself...

Spoiler: Some of the Best Scenes

 

[Synadil]

The Silence of the Lambs
The Lord of the Rings
Alien
2001
Titanic

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Fast and Furious 2
Chronicles of Riddick
XXX return of Xander Cage
Babylon AD
A man Apart

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

5 random movies that are amazing start to finish.


Cool Hand Luke
Pulp Fiction
Out of Africa
Social Network
Annie Hall

 

[Nimrod]

Taxi Driver
These Final Hours
First Blood
Suspiria
Easy Rider

 

[cincymma79]

Princess bride
Snatch
Predator
Unforgiven
Shawshank


Honorables
Alien
Saving private ryan
Apocalypse now

 

[Strange King]

oldboy
fight club
braveheart
kill bill 1
gladiator

 

[Sir Galahad]

Dad?

GOAT.

 

[tonysmasseuse]

Hero
In the mood for love
Reservoir dogs
1984 (w. Hurt and Burton)
2 years at sea

 

[tonysmasseuse]

• Seven Samurai (1954)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• Network (1976)
  
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

Great list!

Network is one of my all time faves, too - want the 'mad as hell' speech on my tombstone.

Kung Fu Hustle is really in a league of it's own, can it even be categorised into any known genres? Can't decide whether it's awesome or just so strange that it's good, like a physical sensation that tickles, hurts and feels good at the same time.

 

[Rizzo]

Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
Goodfellas
Legends of the Fall


Honorable mention to Green Mile and Godfather 1/2

 

[CodeBreaker]

Man you guys don't get the difference between objective quality of craft and "I like this"

Fight Club might be in my top 25, and is an excellent EXCELLENT film but when we're narrowing down the 5 best films every made in terms of craft and achievement? Nah.

SE7EN was better than Fight Club

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

Kung Fu Hustle is really in a league of it's own, can it even be categorised into any known genres?

Comedy

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

1)Point Break
2)Gattaca
3)Avatar
4)The Terminator
5)Infernal Affairs 2

 

[NinjaSpider]

1. Pans Labyrinth
2. Fargo ( the movie from the 90s )
3. City of God
4. Mad Max Fury Road
5. American Beauty

HMs : Shawshank Redemption , Gladiator , The Dark Knight

 

[Yunes]

One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Clockwork
Easy Rider
Saving private ryan
boogie nights

 

[Hotora86]

Great list!

Network is one of my all time faves, too - want the 'mad as hell' speech on my tombstone.

Kung Fu Hustle is really in a league of it's own, can it even be categorised into any known genres? Can't decide whether it's awesome or just so strange that it's good, like a physical sensation that tickles, hurts and feels good at the same time.

Kung Fu Hustle looks like it doesn't belong there among those other legendary movies - but only to the people who haven't seen it. Best martial arts / comedy / action / drama / multi-genre film ever.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Part of the problem with a film like Citizen Kane is that it was so incredibly influential that it's practically impossible to truly appreciate it without a very, very deep knowledge of film history. It was ground breaking, but it's so hard to see that now as most of it's ground breaking features have become integral parts of modern movie making.

To make a jazz comparison its like Charlie Parker, doesn't seem so special compared to Coltrane or other hard bop big name sax players but the latter obviously built on the former.

Honestly though I tend to think people are setting themselves up for disappointment expecting to appreciate a film fully on first viewing, I mean yes something like Raiders of the Lost Ark delivers a lot first time around but something like Blade Runner has really built is following based on its rewatchability, I certainly wouldn't have rated it in my top 5/10/20 first time I watched it.