What is your Mount Rushmore of movies?

[Agent11]

Stanley Kubrick's 2001 a space odyssey

Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai

Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver

Orson Welles' A Touch of Evil

 

[HendrixFan]

Tough to pick just four.

The Empire Strikes Back
The Fountain
Fight Club
Magnolia

The other movies in my top ten are just a hair or two away from these movies. The top four probably had the most impact on my life.

 

[BUTCH1]

Shawshank, best ending EVER
Midnight Cowboy-so weird but so good
Papillon-McQEEN and Hoffman just awsome
Star Trek2 wrath of Kahn-yea, I know 2001's a better sci-fi pick but this matched the unbelievable pre-release hype
Dr. Strangelove-had to get Krubrick in there and Peter sellers playing 4 roles perfectly, nod to Slim Pickens and George Scott, perfectly cast and awesome performances
Blade Runner- Rutger Hauer blows Ford off the screen, Sean Young looks so stunning it's how a lot of us would build a perfect female and most important the questions the film asks about artificially created life become ever closer to reality in medical technology, we will be able to do this one day within 50 yrs.

 

[BudAshes]

So are the people not putting 4 movies just being obtuse or are they retarded and don't know what mount rushmore is?

 

[zbalat]

1. Fight Club
2. Die Hard
3. Pulp Fiction
4. A Clockwork Orange

 

[darkewaffle]

The opening fight scene in the snow in Gangs of New York.

 

[dr150]

I never get tired watching these. Maybe that jawdrop wow factor of being a kid and watching ambitious film-making style has something to do with it.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Original Star Wars Movies
Godfather I/II
Back to the Future
Caddyshack
T2
Aliens
Die Hard

 

[zinfamous]

1: Raging Bull
2: 8 1/2
3: Godfather 2
4: ...it's either The Deer Hunter, or Dumb and Dumber :hmm:

 

[zinfamous]

Stanley Kubrick's 2001 a space odyssey

Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai

Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver

Orson Welles' A Touch of Evil

Tough to pick just four.

The Empire Strikes Back
The Fountain
Fight Club
Magnolia

The other movies in my top ten are just a hair or two away from these movies. The top four probably had the most impact on my life.

You guys are awesome.


...I feel like There Will be Blood has supplanted the Deer Hunter for my #4 spot, though. I also want to put Unforgiven up there.

 

[surfsatwerk]

You guys are awesome.


...I feel like There Will be Blood has supplanted the Deer Hunter for my #4 spot, though. I also want to put Unforgiven up there.

Milkshake srsly

 

[zinfamous]

The first time I watched Enter the Void was after signing up for Netflix Instant. I didn't get to see it in theaters, and that may have turned out to be the best simple coincidence in all of my movie watching career. Had I seen this in theaters I may have walked out just as I turned it off after 15 minutes. "Garbage!" "Film school dropout grade Z pretentious science fair project, sophomoric pile of shit."

nice write-ups.

you keep telling me to see this, and I guess I need to be more patient. This comment is exactly why I never made it more than 10 minutes into this one.

Though--I never leave the theater. It's always much easier for me to just shut off the tube.

 

[Legios]

1. Rudy
2. Mallrats
3. Memento
4. HalfBaked

 

[freakflag]

1) Apocalypse Now (the original studio cut, not the F-ing redux)

2) Aliens

3) The Outlaw Josey Wales

4) The Empire Strikes Back

 

[TwiceOver]

1. Spaceballs
2. Die Hard
3. Memento / Fight Club (Whichever, sculptor's choice)
4. Shawshank

 

[Zeze]

...I feel like There Will be Blood has supplanted the Deer Hunter for my #4 spot, though.

Milkshake srsly

What the hell did I miss about There Will Be Blood?

It was rather a boring movie. It didn't have a particular plot, nor was it artistically abstract. There was no major character development or some big unfolding of events.

It's just this angry bitter antisocial guy who gets oil and kills this idiot in the end. Okay? I did like the quiet, gritty style similar to No Country for Old Man. But at least that movie had a bad ass villain with an artistic underbelly.

 

[zinfamous]

What the hell did I miss about There Will Be Blood?

It was rather a boring movie. It didn't have a particular plot, nor was it artistically abstract. There was no major character development or some big unfolding of events.

It's just this angry bitter antisocial guy who gets oil and kills this idiot in the end. Okay? I did like the quiet, gritty style similar to No Country for Old Man. But at least that movie had a bad ass villain with an artistic underbelly.

well, you do have Shawshank Redemption far outside of it's deserved spot of maybe the top 500 films, at best...so this doesn't surprise me.

 

[Zeze]

well, you do have Shawshank Redemption far outside of it's deserved spot of maybe the top 500 films, at best...so this doesn't surprise me.

Uh.. my question was genuine. Maybe help me understand rather than ridiculing me?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

In no particular order

Tombstone (Kilmer was beyond robbed from that Oscar)
Star Wars (Episode IV, I saw it in the theater when it came out, too damn cool for skool)
Psycho (It was on the other day, and it is the benchmark for how horror movies are made, even 50 years later)
Inglorious Basterds (My favorite QT movie)

honorable mentions:
To Kill A Mockingbird (nearly a perfect movie, cast was perfection)
Silverado
Blazing Saddles
Schindler's List
Jaws

 

[surfsatwerk]

Uh.. my question was genuine. Maybe help me understand rather than ridiculing me?

I... drink... your... milkshake!

 

[nickbits]

life as a house
rocky balboa
hearts in atlantis
vanilla sky

 

[nickbits]

i really liked there will be blood. i need to watch that again.

 

[KeithTalent]

What the hell did I miss about There Will Be Blood?

It was rather a boring movie. It didn't have a particular plot, nor was it artistically abstract. There was no major character development or some big unfolding of events.

It's just this angry bitter antisocial guy who gets oil and kills this idiot in the end. Okay? I did like the quiet, gritty style similar to No Country for Old Man. But at least that movie had a bad ass villain with an artistic underbelly.

It's a fascinating character study of a horrible man. It is beautifully shot, directed, and acted, plus it has a fantastic score.

True, it is short on plot, but with everything else it has, who gives a crap. It's #3 on my list of all time favourites.

KT

 

[Zeze]

It's a fascinating character study of a horrible man. It is beautifully shot, directed, and acted, plus it has a fantastic score.

True, it is short on plot, but with everything else it has, who gives a crap. It's #3 on my list of all time favourites.

KT

Oh.

Meh, in the same vein, what are your thoughts of No Country for Old Man? Similar 'feel' and subtle story-telling, but (imo) far superior unfolding of events with awesome shots & dialogue.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Oh.

Meh, in the same vein, what are your thoughts of No Country for Old Man? Similar 'feel' and subtle story-telling, but (imo) far superior unfolding of events with awesome shots & dialogue.

Meh, shotgun with a silencer is cool and all but it ain't no milkshake.

 

[zinfamous]

Oh.

Meh, in the same vein, what are your thoughts of No Country for Old Man? Similar 'feel' and subtle story-telling, but (imo) far superior unfolding of events with awesome shots & dialogue.

I love it. took me a while to actually like it, though--I had many problems after first viewing it, but it's no TWBB imo.

TWBB is an acting/writing/directing master class. The Coens are likewise known for superlative writing, but PT Anderson has them beat when it comes to dialogue in probably all of his films to date.

TWBB is an extended character study--one rather evil man's descent into greater evil. I don't think there has been a better villain in American film, since perhaps Hannibal Lecter.