OT: G.O.A.T Movies

Submitted by MichiganFan1984 on
So last night my family and I got bored because the basketball game was a blowout so we watched Forrest Gump. This in my opinion is the best movie ever made. It also led to the discussion of what are the best movies ever made. So I’m curious what are your top 3 greatest movies of all time. My top 3 in order are 1. Forrest Gump. 2. Saving Private Ryan. 3. The Dark Knight. Im basing this on the following criteria, the movies should make you think about life, entertain the heck out of you and make you appreciate the characters from a real world perspective. So my questions are.. do you think my 3 are legit or am I crazy? And... what are your top 3 in order. Enjoy the rest of the weekend and hopefully this is the last crap weekend of weather for a while.

south875

May 20th, 2018 at 8:04 PM ^

No order

 

Drive

The Godfather

Jackie Brown

Casino Royale

Alien

Fargo 

Boogie Nights

Meet the Parents

Empire Strikes Back

Blade Runner

 

bluesmoke93

May 20th, 2018 at 8:10 PM ^

Planes Trains & Automobiles
Office Space
Caddy shack
Good, Bad & Ugly
The last Crusade... best Indy movie
A Christmas story... I know overplayed, but deserves mention with given criteria



An Angelo's Addict

May 20th, 2018 at 8:23 PM ^

3. The good the bad and the ugly 2. Princess Bride 1. Dark Knight/Gladiator. Also just because, I personally think the best acting I’ve ever seen in a film was Daniel Day Lewis in there will be blood

Boom Goes the …

May 20th, 2018 at 8:30 PM ^

Gettysburg

Platoon

Patton

Meet the Parents

Dumb and Dumber

Godfather

Jurassic Park

Rocky

Die Hard

Chris S

May 20th, 2018 at 8:31 PM ^

Subjectively the OP's list would pass a lot of polls. Probably with Shawshank in there. As for mine:

 

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 2

2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 1

3. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

4. The Shawshank Redemption

5. 8 Mile

6. Saving Mr. Banks

7. Moneyball

8. The Departed

9. The Dark Knight

10. The Social Network

 

Categories make this difficult. Tommy Boy, Happy Gilmore, Wedding Crashers, and American Pie all are great. Then you got The Lion King, Emperor's New Groove, Mulan, Madagascar, Dispecable Me, and the rest of the animated ones.

 

And, of course, the Human Centipede.

ILL_Legel

May 20th, 2018 at 9:03 PM ^

So many great movies listed. The 3 I’ve watched the most in my life. 1.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 2. Eternal Sunshine 3. Adaptation

ndekett

May 20th, 2018 at 9:09 PM ^

My wife laughs at me, but I too think Forrest Gump is the best movie ever made. Every time I watch it, I laugh, I cry, and I learn and think about a different time in my life and the human experience in general. We are of a mind, 1984.

MichiganFan1984

May 20th, 2018 at 10:52 PM ^

Haha yeah my wife actually hates it and tells me I’m dumb for liking it. I agree with you 100%. Emotional movie.

chatster

May 20th, 2018 at 9:11 PM ^

Always too hard to choose one movie that I consider to be the greatest of all time. Top three favorites for each decade of my life (with some add-ons), based on if I'd watch the film until the end if I came across it while channel surfing, regardless of the point of where the film that's showing when I come across it:
  • 1940s: Casablanca; It’s A Wonderful Life; Citizen Kane
  • 1950s: North by Northwest; The Bridge on the River Kwai; On the Waterfront
  • 1960s: Dr. Strangelove; The Graduate; Psycho
  • 1970s: The Godfather; One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; American Graffiti; BONUS: The Exorcist; Animal House; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Star Wars: Episode IV and Woodstock
  • 1980s: Back to the Future; Field of Dreams; Raiders of the Lost Ark; BONUS: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; The Princess Bride, The Breakfast Club, The Right Stuff; The Big Chill and The Shining
  • 1990s: Goodfellas; The Shawshank Redemption; Fargo; BONUS: Schindler's List; The Big Lebowski and Forrest Gump
  • 2000s: The Dark Knight; Children of Men; The Departed
  • 2010s (so far): Django Unchained; Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri; Argo

chatster

May 21st, 2018 at 8:01 AM ^

I’m probably as “unhip” as anyone I know, but I like movies, even if it means that I have to wait until my local library gets the DVDs or they come on one of the movie channels or Netflix to see them.  There are lots of movies from this millennium that I’ve seen and enjoyed, that I’d watch again and that also could’ve received mention.  
 
Consider these from the 2000s (alphabetical order):  Almost Famous; Black Hawk Down; Cinderella Man; Collateral; Frost/Nixon; Good Night, and Good Luck; Inglourious Basterds; Little Miss Sunshine; Munich; Mystic River; No Country for Old Men; Shrek; Sideways; The Hurt Locker; The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; The Pianist; The Wrestler; Traffic; Up.  Among those from the decade of the 2000s that I didn’t enjoy as most others did were: Avatar; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Gladiator; Slumdog Millionaire; There Will Be Blood
 
Consider these from the 2010s (alphabetical order): 13th; American Hustle; Boyhood; Bridge of Spies; Captain Phillips; Drive; Dunkirk; Get Out; Gone Girl; Hell or High Water; Hidden Figures; Inception; Lincoln; Mad Max: Fury Road; Manchester By The Sea; Miss Sloane; Moneyball; Moonlight; Nebraska; O.J.: Made in America; Silver Linings Playbook; Skyfall; Spotlight; The Avengers; The Dallas Buyers Club; The Descendants; The Revenant; The Social Network; The Wolf of Wall Street; True Grit; Wonder Woman; Zero Dark Thirty

Greg McMurtry

May 20th, 2018 at 9:37 PM ^

Good list. I like how you’ve shown the movies by decade. 12 Angry Men is one of my faves from the 1950’s. Lee J Cobb has a great performance. I also like Shawshank and Godfather I and II (Part III is awful), but these are all listed numerous times. Another from the 50’s, Rear Window, is a favorite of mine. Oh yea, and I’ll add Stand By Me from the 80’s.

Matte Kudasai

May 21st, 2018 at 8:07 AM ^

It might be an age thing.

But the movie did spawn the whole Mrs. Robinson thing.  The Older woman fantasy or in this case reality.

The soundtrack from Simon & Garfunkel definitely is important.

Dustin Hoffman's breakout performance.

And then there's some classic lines like "Plastics"

It's not all about the Plot with this film, it's everything else.

chatster

May 21st, 2018 at 5:58 PM ^

After further review, I've realized that there are dozens of films that meet the criteria I'd mentioned for choosing my top three of each decade of my life. There probably are several that I've inadvertently left of these lists
  • 1940s: All the King’s Men; And Then There Were None; Double Indemnity; Key Largo; Rope Spellbound; The Grapes of Wrath; The Maltese Falcon; The Third Man; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • 1950s: 12 Angry Men; Anatomy of a Murder; Ben-Hur; Dial M for Murder; High Noon; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; Paths of Glory; Rear Window; Rebel Without A Cause; Singin’ in the Rain; Strangers on a Train; The Day the Earth Stood Still; The Searchers; The Ten Commandments; Witness for the Prosecution
  • 1960s: 8-1/2; 2001: A Space Odyssey; A Hard Day’s Night; A Man for All Seasons; Bonnie and Clyde; Bullitt; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Cape Fear; Charade; Cool Hand Luke; Easy Rider; Goldfinger; Help; In Cold Blood; In the Heat of the Night; Judgment at Nuremberg; Lawrence of Arabia; Lord of the Flies; Midnight Cowboy; Planet of the Apes; Rosemary’s Baby; Spartacus; Take the Money and Run; The Bad News Bears; The Dirty Dozen; The Great Escape; The Guns of Navarone; The List of Adrian Messenger; The Magnificent Seven; The Pink Panther; The Wild Bunch; The Wronmg Box; To Kill A Mockingbird; Wait Until Dark
  • 1970s: Alien; A Clockwork Orange; All the President’s Men; Annie Hall; Apocalypse Now; Badlands; Being There; Blazing Saddles; Carrie; Chinatown; Coming Home; Deliverance; Dirty Harry; Don’t Look Now; Five Easy Pieces; Jaws; Kelly’s Heroes; Klute; Manhattan; Marathon Man; M*A*S*H; Mean Streets; Midnight Express; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Network; Paper Moon; Patton; Rocky; Saturday Night Fever; Serpico; Shampoo; Straw Dogs; Taxi Driver; The Conversation; The Deer Hunter; The Exorcist; The French Connection; The Godfather, Part II; The Last Picture Show; The Omen; The Parallax View; The Sting; Three Days of the Condor; Young Frankenstein
  • 1980s: A Fish Called Wanda; Airplane; Atlantic City; Beverly Hills Cop; Big; Blood Simple; Blue Velvet; Body Heat; Broadcast News; Bull Durham; Caddyshack; Chariots of Fire; Crimes and Misdemeanors; Das Boot; Die Hard; Dirty Dancing; Do the Right Thing; E. T. The Extraterrestrial; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Fatal Attraction; Full Metal Jacket; Ghostbusters; Glory; Hannah and Her Sisters; Hoosiers; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Local Hero; Once Upon a Time in America; Platoon; Poltergeist; Raging Bull; Rain Man; Raising Arizona; Scarface; Sex, Lies and Videotape; Stand By Me; Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; Star Wars: Episode V - Return of the Jedi; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; The Blues Brothers; The Elephant Man; The Karate Kid; The Killing Fields; The Terminator; The Untouchables; This Is Spinal Tap; Tootsie; When Harry Met Sally; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Witness
  • 1990s: A Few Good Men; American Beauty; Apollo 13; Bottle Rocket; Boyz n The Hood; Braveheart; Clerks; Dazed and Confused; Dead Man Walking; Donnie Brasco; Election; Fight Club; Get Shorty; Glengarry Glen Ross; Good Will Hunting; Groundhog Day; Heat; Jackie Brown; Jerry Maguire; JFK; Jurassic Park; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Miller’s Crossing; My Cousin Vinny; Office Space; Philadelphia; Pulp Fiction; Quiz Show; Reservoir Dogs; Rounders; Saving Private Ryan; Se7en; The Fugitive; The Green Mile; The Insider; The Silence of the Lambs; The Sixth Sense; The Usual Suspects; There’s Something About Mary; Three Kings; Titanic; Trainspotting; True Romance; Wag the Dog
  • 2000s: A Mighty Wind; Almost Famous; An Inconvenient Truth; Batman Begins; Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead; Best in Show; Black Hawk Down; Casino Royale; Charlie Wilson’s War; Cinderella Man; Collateral; Frost/Nixon; Good Night, and Good Luck; Gran Torino; I’m Not There; In Bruges; Inglourious Basterds; Iron Man; Inside Man; Little Miss Sunshine; Match Point; Michael Clayton; Miracle; Munich; Mystic River; No Country for Old Men; Shrek; Sideways; Star Trek; Thank You for Smoking; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas; The Hurt Locker; The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; The Pianist; The Wrestler; Traffic; Up; Up in the Air; V for Vendetta; Wedding Crashers; Zodiac
  • 2010s: 12 Years A Slave; 13th; American Hustle; Baby Driver; Black Mass; Boyhood; Bridesmaids; Bridge of Spies; Captain Phillips; Contagion; Creed; Drive; Dunkirk; Fruitvale Station; Get Out; Gone Girl; Hell or High Water; Hidden Figures; Inception; Inside Job; Inside Llewyn Davis; Juno; Last Flag Flying; Life Itself; Lincoln; Loving; Mad Max: Fury Road; Manchester By The Sea; Midnight in Paris; Miss Sloane; Molly’s Game; Moneyball; Moonlight; Nebraska; O.J.: Made in America; Selma; Seven Psychopaths; Silver Linings Playbook; Skyfall; Spotlight; Sully; The Adjustment Bureau; The Avengers; The Big Short; The Dallas Buyers Club; The Descendants; The Help; The Revenant; The Social Network; The Theory of Everything; The Wolf of Wall Street; Thor: Ragnarok; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; True Grit; War Horse; Wind River; Wonder Woman; Zero Dark Thirty

chatster

May 21st, 2018 at 8:41 PM ^

LINK to my first post on this topic where Casablanca was listed as the first movie from the 1940s.

As I was compiling these lists, I was thinking of all the quotes and clips from these films that often make their way into comments on MGoBlog.

Lawyer12

May 20th, 2018 at 9:23 PM ^

Based on the title I’m pretty sure, “The Men who Stare at Goats” is the right answer.

turtleboy

May 20th, 2018 at 9:29 PM ^

Greatest? Casablanca, Seven Samurai, 2001 a space odyssey, ET. All 4 revolutionized how films are made. Favorite? Pride and Prejudice (1940), Alien, Spirited Away. Could re-watch endlessly. Bonus: Guilty Nerd Pleasure? Arsenic and Old Lace, Friday, Master and Commander, Robin Hood: Men in Tights