New Poll: Name 10 "Must Have" Movies

[tygrus2000]

Just so you know, I personally dont believe that it is worth the time and effort to rip any old DVD to (S)VCD nor to even back them up to DVDR. The reason? There isnt enough good movies out there to justify doing this let alone even owning the original. I am as much a video fan as the next guy, but c'mon, Hollywood has not put out many movies that I can watch over and over and over again. So why own or copy them?

That being said, here is my list of top 10 movies worthy of owning of devoting time to copy and that I have seen many times.

1.) Terminator 2
2.) Indiana Jones Series
3) Lord Of the Rings Series
4.) Original Star Wars Series
5.) Good Fellas
6.) Star Trek - First Contact & Wrath of Khan
7.) Alien
8.) Gladiator
9.) Matrix
10.) Pulp Fiction

** And honorable mention to Eagles - Hell Freezes Over DVD. The single best music dvd on the planet bar none. **

[housepig]

all right, I'll bite...

- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
- Phantasm
- Seven Samurai
- Yojimbo
- Spider Baby
- Putney Swope
- Night of the Living Dead
- The Haunting (1963)
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Harvey

I could go on and on....

- housepig

[alenhard]

I'm gonna have to go with:

Happy Gilmore
Billy Madison
BRAVEHEART
Karate Kid
The Natural
Groundhog Day
Tommy Boy
The Edge
Goonies
Rat Race

[dusted]

I reckon the following and in no particular order:

Aliens
Gladiator
The Matrix
American History X
Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Once Were Warriors
Lord Of The Rings series
American Pie 1
Young Guns

It's a bit hard, I reckon there's just too many good movies available.

[Kubrick]

I'll never DVD-R backup these babies...you'd have to kill me (in cold blood) to pry them from my dying hands...

(in no particular order)

- KOYAANISQATSI
- THE THING: SPECIAL EDITION
- OLIVER STONE BOX SET (Highlights are NIXON and TALK RADIO),
also SALVADOR and PLATOON
- STANLEY KUBRICK BOX SET
- COMBAT SHOCK
- BRAZIL (Criterion Edition)
- STAR TREK II & VI (Nicholas Meyer changed the face of Trek)
- ALIENS
- ROBOCOP
- TERMINATOR
- TRON (Disney Special Edition)

(Alright, 11 movies)

I noticed however...that they are all pretty much 80's films in my list. I guess I'm getting old!

- Kubrick

[dcsos]

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
BLOW-UP
REPO MAN
CITIZEN KANE
FARENHEIT 451
STAR WARS
ZARDOZ
BARBARELLA
TRANS-EUROP EXPRESS
MATRIX

[Nitemare]

I'm not sure all of these are available on DVD yet but here is the list of films that I watch over and over again;

Phantasm (entire series)
War of the Worlds
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Lady in White
Scanners (1 and 2)
It's a Wonderful Life
Wizard of Oz
King Kong
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Of course everyone's answers will be different due to varying tastes but I couldn't resist participating.

[Bob W]

Groundhog Day
Knotting Hill
Aliens
Father Goose
Star Wars (Not on DVD yet)
Barbarella
It's a Mad Mad World
1201 (Not on DVD yet)
High Road To China (Not on DVD yet)
Ever After

[Hardcoreruss]

Goonies
Matrix
Explorers
First Contact
Gladiator
Star Wars (trilogy)
Back to the Future (trilogy)
Indiana Jones (trilogy)
Dead Poet's Society
Highlander

[Will Hay]

It's A Wonderful Life
Ask A Policeman
Shawshank Redemption
Oh Mr Porter
Indianna Jones Trilology
Star Wars Trilogy
Dumb and Dumber
Shakespear in Love
Pulp Fiction
Hobson's Choice
--
no particular order
Will

[pacmania_2001]

Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix (hopefully the sequels will be as good as the first)
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Planet of the Apes (1969 version)
Mr Hollands Opus
The Castle
Psycho (Hitchcock version, not the remake)
Jaws
America Beauty
Saving Private Ryan

[kas187]

1 Matrix (Trylogy)
2 Terminator 2
3 Predator (Double disk edition)
4 Scarface
5 American History X
6 Monsters inc
7 The thin red line
8 Shawshank Redemption
9 The Mummy (1 and returns)
10 Blade (1 and 2)

[TwIZzlEr]

1. Friends Seasons Packs
2. Groundhog Day (Don't have it yet, but I'm gonna!)
3. Mortal Kombat
4. The Fifth Element
5. Armageddon
6. Godzilla
7. Tombstone
8. Lord of the Rings
9. Almost Famous
10. Meet the parents

[Marco33]

I'm only picking real DVD's NOT imports.


Matrix
Star Trek 2
Star Trek 6
Alien
Aliens
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Casino
Batman
Them

How about your least favorite dvd that you just happen to own.

For $20 I bought Enemy of the State that was a dual pack with Pearl Harbor. I liked Enemy of State, so I took a chance. I use Pearl Harbor as a door stop. Why do we need a love story to make the events of Pearl Harbor watchable.

[tgpo]

The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Back to the Future
Dark City
Evil Dead
Ghostbusters
Heathers
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Trading Places
Weird Science
Man on the Moon
Die Hard
Naked Gun

More than 10, but these are the favorites from my DVD collection.

[racer-x]

My picks are:

Mad Max (the original)
Road Warrior
Predator
Terminator (all)
Star Wars (all)
Lord of the Rings
Mummy
Meet the parents
Happy Gilmore
Harry Poter ( all)

[DVWannaB]

Ok, I'll play along:

- The Godfather (I & II)
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Dr. Zhivago
- Goodfellas
- Star Wars set
- The Matrix
- The Producers (not well known - Mel Brooks' directorial debut - Zero Mostel stars - really funny - 1968)
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Rush Hour (i & II)
- The Green Mile

[tjtoed]

-LOTR Trilogy
-Braveheart
-Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls
-Star Wars Trilogy
-Alladin, Disney's (if/when it comes to DVD)
-Goonies
-Three Kings
-The Fifth Element (awesome movie)
-Indy Trilogy
-Bad Boys
-Gladiator

There are 11, couldn't put just 10...

[vidkid®]

This is tough, but the criteria that tygrus2000 put was movies that you'd watch again and again. There are some that I consider better than these, but I wouldn't want to watch them again and again (Clockwork Orange, Schindler's List and Blue Velvet come to mind)

Enough lip-flapping, here they are in the order that I tought of them and typed them in:

Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
The Godfather
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Wizard of Oz
2001: A Space Odyssey
Gone with the Wind
Amadeus

[Tech44]

Star Trek: First Contact
Terminator 2
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Star Wars (trilogy)
Air Force One
Them!
Quatermass and the Pit
An American President
War of the Worlds
Everything StarGate SG-1

[mkelley]

I think VidKid hit it on the head -- have to be movies you'd watch again and again.

There are lots of terrific movies in the world that I *never* particularly want to see again ("Memento" and "Sixth Sense" are two that immediately leap to my mind -- nowhere near as fun after you've seen them once). There are also quite a few "guilty pleasures" I have that, although not what I'd even consider three star movies are movies that are just plain fun to watch over and over.

That said:

Terminator 2 (was there ever a more perfect action film?)

Jaws (Spielberg at his best with manipulating audiences -- better than E.T. because of the superior cast)

OHMSS (The best James Bond film ever made. Period. Not, however, the best James Bond -- and those who are fans understand me perfectly).

Galaxy Quest (One of the most underrated comedies out there, this is also a terrific SF film in its own right)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (The absolute best film of both Martin and Candy's career, and one that never fails to bring tears of laughter to my eyes at the car rental scene)

GroundHog Day (Unlike Murray's day, we *like* seeing this happen again and again)

Little Mermaid (the most perfect Disney animated film of all time. "Aladdin comes close, but with a gun to my head I have to go with the redhead).

Lord of the Rings: FOTR (obviously TT ain't out yet, but this one I can watch again and again)

Aliens (Geeze, does Cameron get *two* top ten films and Speilberg only one? But it's hard to argue with this terrific gut retching action film)

Toy Story (3D animation at it's best, with two superstars providing a whole lot of laughs).


Honorable mention (Special Edition only available on laser disc or it would be right up there bumping out another film) "1776". My wife and I watch this terrific musical every July 4th. If it didn't happen this way it should have.

[wot_fan]

In no particular order

• Shawshank Redemption
  Star Wars (trilogy)
  Indiana Jones (trilogy)
  Apollo 13
  Dogma
  Excalibur
  Goodfellas
  Lethal Weapon
  Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
  Matrix

Hard to keep it to just 10

wot_fan

[ZippyP.]

Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
The Godfather
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
.....

Loved the first 6, they're on my list. Add:

Dr. Stangelove (My Kubrick pick!)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Blues Brothers (Toss-up over Animal House)
The Maltese Falcon

Music movies: Woodstock-The Movie, The Last Waltz

[vidkid®]

I almost put the Blues Bros. and just about anything by the Coen bros., but I was limited to 10.

[Bluez]

gosh, some people have NO taste

but ehm... rewatchable...

- Aliens (oh yes! another dose of aliens 2, gotta' love that elevator scene)
- Big trouble in little China (why does everybody forget this one?)
- The Matrix (hope 2 and 3 are even better)
- Blade Runner (classic)
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Farscape (I'm cheating, it's not a movie, but it's soooo goooood)
- any Indiana Jones
- Back to the future
- Terminator 2
- LOTR (yeah, well, no choice)

what should be in the top 10 but didn't fit in there (damn limits)

- Harry Potter (the two movies were actually surprisingly good)
- The Mummy
- Highlander

now stuff that i saw mentioned and absolutely loathe...

- Little Mermaid (you gotta be kiddin'!)
- Star Trek (any, bwoargh)
- Mortal Kombat (seriously?!?)
- Dumb and Dumber (see this more than once?!?)
- Phantasm ?!?
- Scanners ?!?!?!?
- Karate Kid ?!?!?!?!?!?!?

going to be sick now...



just kidding, there's no accounting for taste, but there are limits to what i can see 'over and over again'

[i-on-s]

Let see so many to choose...this is in no order so...

1: Godfather (Box Set)
2: Platoon
3: Salo The 120 Days of Sodom
4: Taxi Driver
5: Deer Hunter
6: Akira
7: Dogma (but all Kevin Smith Movies own)
8: Jackie Chan's Drunken Master (Classic movie)
9: Evil Dead
10: Ichi the Killer

Some that should be listed but arent (doesnt make them less enjoyable)

Hero
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dead or Alive Trilogy
Dead Alive
Meet the Feebles
Starwars
A Clockwork Orange
From Hell
Lord of the Rings (Either)
Matrix
Rocky Horror
and the list goes on.....so i will stop.

[birdygal]

Drama's,Comedy and my favorite Sci-fi are the only movies I can watch over and over again without waiting to forget part of the story the rest just aren't as good the 2nd time around

#1 Man from Snowy River Tom Berlinson riding a horse down a mountain I can watch that scene a million times without getting bored
#2 Jack and Sara the only foreign film I ever watched and liked it enough to own it.
#3 Spitfire Grill
# 4 Jurasic Park 3
# 5 Jurasic Park 1
#6 Vertical Limit
#7 Lost World 2000 tv version
#8-40 Stephen Kings novels made into movies only 3 of his I didn't like even though I still own them

[marvel2020]

Ok, here go's

1.. All Star Trek Related DVD's and Babylon 5 as well.

2.. Lord Of The Rings Trilogy <-- Have Extended Box Set Of FOTR, also have TT on DVD-R < Don't ask where i got it, if i tell ya, i'll have to kill ya.

3.. Terminator 2 Special Edition

4.. Shogun Assassin and the rest of the Babycart series

5. Alien + Aliens Special Edition

6.. Shawshank Redemption

7.. The Itailian Job

8.. Animal House

9.. Maximum Overdrive

10.. Where Eagles Dare



Well there ya go that's my so called 10 must have movies, although some are more than 10

[HamishT]

1. Alien Saga
2. Armargeddon Special Edition
3. Robocop Special Edition
4. Rambo Trilogy Special Edition
5. Lord Of The Rings FOTR
6. Zombie Special Edition
7. The Thing Collectors Edition
8. Taxi Driver Collectors Edtion
9. Star Wars Trilogy

Bad Taste should be somewhere between robocop and Zombie

[ChrisX]

The must have 10 movies in my collection are:

- James Bond 007 (20 film Box Collection)
- Star Trek movies (all)
- Star Wars Trilogy (the orginal series)
- Terminator and Terminator 2 Special Edition
- Harry Potter 1 + 2
- Lord of the Rings 1 + 2
- Alien and Aliens Special Editions
- Max Max and the Road Warrior
- Gladiator
- Apocalypse Now

Not in order of preference though

Chris