The 20 greatest Films of all Time

**eoinh** · 16/11/2004, 11:44 AM

I wonder what people thought of my 20 greatest films of all time.

Comments, suggestion, welcome!

What would other peoples top 20 be?

1. Its a wonderfull Life
2. The Life and Death of Col. Blimp
3. The Third Man
4. Donnie Darko
5. A Matter of Life and Death
6. The Life of Brian
7. City of God
8. Star Wars
9. The Godfather
10.The Godfather 2
11.The Magnificent Ambersons
12.American Beauty
13.Lost Horizon
14.Alien
15.Saving Private Ryan
16.The Dead
17.Three Colours Red
18.Three Colours White
19.Three Colours Blue
20.Burnt by the Sun

**Roo69** · 16/11/2004, 12:23 PM

a wonderfull Life
Star Wars
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
American Beauty

Would have these in mine as well, but its all a matter of taste really. because i love comedy and horror i would put in the likes of........

Dumb and Dumber, King Pin, Harlem Nights, 28 Days Later, The Exorsist etc....

Also Goodfellas, The Apartment, Gladiator, chinatown, Mean Streets, Pulp Fiction, Leon, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Sacrifice, Taxi Driver, Schindler's List, The Marathon Man, The Quiet Man, Night of the Living Dead, Highlander, Devils Advocat would all be some where on my list

**gustavo** · 16/11/2004, 3:06 PM

only ones i can think off that arent there would be truman show , 10
Clockwork Orange,
Elephant Man, Memento Shawshank Redemption, Truman Show, Usual Suspects,

**jebus** · 16/11/2004, 3:20 PM

changes everyday but at the mo would be

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Vanilla Sky, Some Like It Hot, Casino, Platoon, Love Liza, Akira, Truman Show, Kill Bill Vol:1, Seven Samurai, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, AI, Withnail & I, Life is Beautiful and Basketball Diaries.

Although City of God should be in there somewhere by rights

**dortie** · 16/11/2004, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Elephant Man

Was John Merrick that good ?

**Thomo** · 16/11/2004, 5:10 PM

i can't do a list of 20 in order, so i'll just list a few favourites:

A clockwork orange
momento
waynes world 1 +2
goodfellas
scarface
The Life of Brian
City of God
Star Wars
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
monty python and the holy grail
American Beauty
Alien(S)
Saving Private Ryan
finding forrester
cool runnings
apocalypse now
the village
taxi driver
silence of the lambs
manhunter
red dragon
intermission
one flew over the cookoos nest
the quiet man
casino
jurassic park
straw dogs
the wicker man
lotr trilogy
bugsy malone
boys don't cry
the battle of algiers

if i think of any more i'll add them

**Terry Phelan** · 16/11/2004, 5:24 PM

Shawshank Redemption without a shadow of a doubt!!!!!

**harry crumb** · 16/11/2004, 5:29 PM

Anything with john candy.

**harry crumb** · 16/11/2004, 5:32 PM

Originally Posted by eoinh

I wonder what people thought of my 20 greatest films of all time.

Comments, suggestion, welcome!

What would other peoples top 20 be?

1. Its a wonderfull Life
2. The Life and Death of Col. Blimp
3. The Third Man
4. Donnie Darko
5. A Matter of Life and Death
6. The Life of Brian
7. City of God
8. Star Wars
9. The Godfather
10.The Godfather 2
11.The Magnificent Ambersons
12.American Beauty
13.Lost Horizon
14.Alien
15.Saving Private Ryan
16.The Dead
17.Three Colours Red
18.Three Colours White
19.Three Colours Blue
20.Burnt by the Sun

It's all a bit Empirsh if you ask me. They are all the usual suspects for the top 20. Lost Horison..whats that?

One of my favourites is 12 Angry Men. Simple but brilliant.

Star Wars is a bit ****e. Saving p. ryan is pretty ****e. Life of brian is good.

**eoinh** · 16/11/2004, 5:56 PM

Originally Posted by harry crumb

Lost Horison..whats that?

The story of a group of people who find themselves in an enchanted paradise when their plane crashes somewhere in the Himalayas. Known as Shangri-La the place provides an escape from the rest of the world where World War II is starting. Its old (1937) but very good. Its a Frank Capra film.

**dortie** · 16/11/2004, 6:17 PM

Saw is one of the best Ive seen in the last year or two.

**atfconline** · 17/11/2004, 12:26 AM

tut tut tut, no sign of Blazing Saddles!

**Thomo** · 22/11/2004, 8:05 PM

Saw is one of the best Ive seen in the last year or two.

i agree, fantastic idea for a movie, but i can't help that feel that it would have been even better with better quality of actors in it.

**Longfordian** · 23/11/2004, 1:55 AM

Originally Posted by atfconline

tut tut tut, no sign of Blazing Saddles!

"Where's all the White women at?"..

**SouthCroydon** · 29/11/2004, 12:26 PM

outlaw joesy whales
the searchers
magnificent seven

**Dublin12** · 29/11/2004, 12:44 PM

Eraserhead
The Big Sleep
Festen
Brazil
Man bites Dog
Once Upon a Time in the west
Spartacus

**pete** · 03/12/2004, 3:01 PM

While not in top 20 would add Adaptation (really annoying movie to watch but way too clever to be left out) & Eternal Sunsine of the Spotless Mind (really surprised me, who would have Jim Carrey could act?) to favs now.

**Aberdonian Stu** · 03/12/2004, 3:11 PM

Jim Carrey can act but not in that.

Initially liked it only to realise once I'd left the cinema that it was in fact rubbish. It's called the Charlie Kaufman-writes-annoyingly effect.

**Dublin12** · 03/12/2004, 3:17 PM

I forgot to add Quadrophenia to my list

**Babysis** · 03/12/2004, 3:38 PM

Cat Ballou
The Quiet Man
Darby O'Gill and the Little people
Im with "Thommo" on Cool Runnings & Intermision was very good
Wizard of Oz
Don't Look now
Gangs of New York
Shawshank Redemption.
Dirty Dozen