Your Top 5 GOAT Films?

Godfather
Godfather II
Fast Times at Ridgemount High
Taxi Driver
GoodFellas
 
Hotora86 said:
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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.
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It's something else, isn't. I actually felt like i was on some kind of hitherto unknown drugs when i watched it the first time. It's transcendent.
 
tonysmasseuse said:
It's something else, isn't. I actually felt like i was on some kind of hitherto unknown drugs when i watched it the first time. It's transcendent.
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Fo sho. I cry at the end with every viewing...
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tonysmasseuse said:
It is overwhelming.
Betrayal! Reunion! Spectacle! Romance! Dragon claws!
This movie's got it all.
Time for a rewatch i think
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Never a bad idea. :D

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Silence of the Lambs
LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
Saving Private Ryan
Dirty Harry
My Cousin Vinny
 
The Chaser
The Departed
The Prestige
Apocalypto
13 Assassins
 
moreorless87 said:
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.
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Couldn't agree more.

People are often very willing to listen to music over and over to let it grow on them, but don't hold the same attitude towards film. And to be fair, music is kind of designed for repeated listens. Far more so than films.

I think that's often because people view films as stories, and once they've heard the story, the film loses it's appeal. It's only if you're interested in the craft/art of filmmaking do you really get a lot out of multiple viewings.

Taxi Driver and No Country For Old Men, two of my absolute favourite films, completely underwhelmed me first time through. Many great films have. It's only upon repeat viewings has their true greatness revealed itself to me. And sometimes the opposite is true. A film blows me away first time through, but then diminishes when I watch it again. Weaknesses become more obvious, or even just that some films are "designed" for one time viewings, relying on suspense/surprise/twists for effect.
 
Zer said:
Man, I guess right now

1. Ran
2. Aguirre, The Wrath of God
3. Army of Shadows
4. The Wages of Fear
5. Chungking Express
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I took a "film study" class as an elective in college and I brought in Aguirre, the Wrath of God when it was my turn to bring in a film. A few of my classmates were not happy and said the movie was "openly racist" (whatever that means). Then when Klaus chucked the monkey in the water a few students left the classroom, they tried to get me in trouble for "making them watch that". It was a fucking 2 credit course, I just withdrew because I liked the teacher and didn't want her to get in trouble.
 
INTERL0PER said:
Couldn't agree more.

People are often very willing to listen to music over and over to let it grow on them, but don't hold the same attitude towards film. And to be fair, music is kind of designed for repeated listens. Far more so than films.

I think that's often because people view films as stories, and once they've heard the story, the film loses it's appeal. It's only if you're interested in the craft/art of filmmaking do you really get a lot out of multiple viewings.

Taxi Driver and No Country For Old Men, two of my absolute favourite films, completely underwhelmed me first time through. Many great films have. It's only upon repeat viewings has their true greatness revealed itself to me. And sometimes the opposite is true. A film blows me away first time through, but then diminishes when I watch it again. Weaknesses become more obvious, or even just that some films are "designed" for one time viewings, relying on suspense/surprise/twists for effect.
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Sadly I think were seeing that become more and more prevalent today with blockbusters designed for a one time cinema viewing, JJ Abram's career is based on it.

Honestly part of the reason I'v stuck to DVD/BR rather than streaming(although ironically streaming has made it far cheaper) is that I generally take the view that anything worth watching once is worth watching more than once.
 
Kuwabara377 said:
I took a "film study" class as an elective in college and I brought in Aguirre, the Wrath of God when it was my turn to bring in a film. A few of my classmates were not happy and said the movie was "openly racist" (whatever that means). Then when Klaus chucked the monkey in the water a few students left the classroom, they tried to get me in trouble for "making them watch that". It was a fucking 2 credit course, I just withdrew because I liked the teacher and didn't want her to get in trouble.
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your college is some pussified special snowflake bullshit.
 
Godfather 1
Godfather 2
Godfather 3
Casino
Matrix
 
CodeBreaker said:
Why is Godfather so overrated?
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Don't think it is anymore than say Led Zeppelin, the Beatles or James Brown are overrated, its just a case of two excellent films that are very widely known.

Again though I think going as low as a top 5 seems next to impossible for me, more like a top 20-30 at least(probably more like 50+) before I can definitely say I preffer a film on it to one off it.
 
Off the top of my head, subject to change in 5 minutes:

1. Solaris
2. Citizen Kane
3. Chinatown
4. Alien
5. Children of Men
 
6. Pans Labyrinth
7. Let the Right One In
8. Kids
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Stalker
 
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