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Rate/Recommend My Top Ten

When I first joined I really wanted to make one of these but was too shy, and then I just forgot about it. Better late than never. Try to give recommendations based on my choices that I might not have seen before, and give me any general thematic thoughts about my list or what it reveals about me as a person.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Godfather
3. The Graduate
4. Citizen Kane
5. The Apartment
6. A Man For All Seasons
7. A Few Good Men
8. Voyage of Time
9. United 93
10. American History X

Honorable mention for Full Metal Jacket since I know a lot of people haven't seen Voyage of Time.

Re: Rate/Recommend My Top Ten

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey = 9* Great novel. Great movie, music and photography.
But the colorful special effects of traveling inside the monolith don't pass the test of time.
2. The Godfather = 10* What can one say. Outstanding drama.
3. The Graduate = 8*
4. Citizen Kane = 10* Some innovative camera work. A biography in flashback.
5. The Apartment = 8*
6. A Man For All Seasons = 10* Outstanding actors and dialogue.
7. A Few Good Men = 8.5* A few intense scenes.
8. Voyage of Time = NS Great photography.
9. United 93 = NS
10. American History X = NS
...
Your first five films are on many best films lists.

A 'cut and paste' list of my 15 top rated films from several years ago:

A Man for All Seasons (UK, 1966) = 10*
Run Lola Run (Germany, 1998) 9.5* Innovative, existential drama.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) = 10*
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) = 10*
Out of the Past (1947) = 10*
Once Upon a Time in the West (Italy-Spain, 1968) = 9*
Broken Blossoms (silent, 1919) = 9*
Nikita (France, 1990) Adults only = 9*
The Winslow Boy (UK, 1948 and UK, 1999) = 9*, 9*
Greed (silent, 1924) = 8*
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) = 10*
Nights of Cabiria (Italy, 1957) = 9.5*
Young Frankenstein (1974) = 9.5*
Sunrise (silent, 1927) = 9*, innovative camera technique

Re: Rate/Recommend My Top Ten

Nice list, I can see where your coming from but none of these would not make my top 500 personally, your welcome to look through my lists on my profile such as http://www.imdb.com/list/ls058963815/

Re: Rate/Recommend My Top Ten

A lot of 6*, 7*, and 8* movies on your list.
#65 and #66, Sister Act and The Matrix, you rate them both 8*/10* ???
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