The Top 100 English Language Films of All Time (With Commentary)

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The Five Movies I Watch Most Often:

1. Rounders
2. Dave
3. All the President's Men
4. Raising Arizona
5. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Apu Trilogy is not boring! And some of those movies would definitely be laughed out of any "serious film school" discussion.

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

sorry mark, i wussed out of going to imdb and looking up the french

anyway, i really hate movies and it's an effort to even get me to watch most of them

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Your list just reminded me of someone shooting their dad in the eye with a squirt gun to get attention.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

anyway, i really hate movies and it's an effort to even get me to watch most of them

this, more than any other reason you may bring up, is why spending $80K on film school was a bad idea.

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fletch and Fletch 2. I watch them constantly.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

jess, I think there's a fertile middle ground between your list and 'amateurist's' list. Such as, Raising Arizona, Airplane, Trading Places, Mr. Mom, etc.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

it wuz film school whut did this to me!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

and REAL GENIUS!

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

And how the hell could you leave off Airborne? Studly surfer comes to Ohio and teaches the bullies to love through rollerblading. C'mon now.

(Yes, hstencil, YES)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

naw, jess, it's not film school's fault. Hell, I know people who work in the film industry who still love movies, and the industry's like a bazillion times more exasperating/depressing than film school.

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

(hoops, are you about to show your o face?)

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Right so my squirt gun scenario is about accurate.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

except that that is a funny and interesting list of films (the first one) (the second one is so-so)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

YES HSTENCIL YESSS!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I really have no excuse for posting this, but, well...)

http://www.virtualurth.com/pages/cez/lebowski2.gif

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think I'm gonna add a letter to my name ea week until CAN'T THINK/ NICK'S POST PUT ME IN A TRANCE

― hoops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

anyway i am off to watch peewee and xu: warriors (#3 and #2 in a sane world)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I didn't debate that, Mark. (It being funny that is.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

hoops, I just now had this funny idea: what if ILXors had sex, then called out each other's ILX handles during orgasm?

mebbe that's more appropriate for the orgasm thread.

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

hstencil: WORST. IDEA. EVER.

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's rude to call someone out on having love handles during intercourse.

― hoops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

fin du cinema

― s woods, Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

rosemary, I wasn't thinking of any ILXors in particular.

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

i am most pleased with this thread

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

has a deaf person ever played a person that can hear in a movie?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm still waiting to find out where "Barb Wire" places on Jess's list.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

except that that is a funny and interesting list of films (the first one) (the second one is so-so)

especially the "English language" part

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

jess can we add to the list, cause i've got some.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

especially the "English language" part

Felicity Ikiru was a placeholder--Jess is awaiting the remake with Tom Hanks.*

*I am not making this up.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey we should totally remake "Rules of the Game" as an 80's North suburban Chicago period piece where they go skiing in Wisconsin for a weekend! Let's do it!

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anything with Billy Zabka must be recognized. He was the best bully on film evah! I loved when he and the Cobra Kai kicked Ralph Macchio's ass.

Here he is out of villian mode with Joey Lawrence in 1985.

http://www.kvflipside.org/images/16-nov85-10.jpg

― Cub, Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

felicity: it would have to have all the cusacks.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

yanc3y's list is better.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

That would be awesome! We should do it! You can play the Jean Renoir character if you like.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm going to mention Logan's Run like I do on every other film thread.

Logan's Run.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

it would have to have all the cusacks.

...which means Jeremy Piven is on board, too, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

21. Cruel Intentions - scrumptiously overwrought teen drama where adults attempt to play kids attempting to be adults, this movie takes itself so seriously you can see them trying not to giggle
22. Changing Lanes - Affleck recants his chauvinist entitlement mindset as a dress rehearsal for dating Jenny-from-the-block
23. Friday - "all day long, foot up the ass, cause that's my PLEJZ-AH!"
24. Reanimator - he kills people. when he reanimates them in his lab, they keep trying to kill HIM, but he's almost perfected the formula, he's almost got it right, so... (repeat.) hilariously disgusting catalogue of compulsion in the face of disaster
25. Young Doctors in Love - St Elsewhere lampoon, should have been a TV series!!
26. Sorry, Wrong Number - every scene takes place on the telephone, memories and stories telescoped and sent thru the phone wire; silence isn't golden, it's DEATH—like dead air on the radio the chatter reminds our irritating protagonists they're still alive.
27. To Live and Die in L.A. - I can't remember a single thing about this movie except that it freaked the hell out of me. And it made me want to be a counterfeiter.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

jeremy piven can play gaston, renamed "gary" in our version.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

(otm re Cruel Intentions: Selma Blair's perfomance as sexmad 14 y/o is nearly mime-like in its seamlessness.)

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

What's Up Doc?

written/directed: Peter Bogdanovich

Remake of Bringing Up Baby, sort of. One of all time five best comedies.

― Skottie, Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait a minute, Rosemary's Baby!!!!! Surely this takes all prizes.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Top Ten Most Underrated Supporting Actors of the 80's & 90's:

1. Billy Zabka
2. Jeremy Piven
3. Valeria Golino
4. Jack Nance
5. Keith David
6. Jeffrey Jones (very creepy)
7. Michael Rooker
8. David Patrick Kelly ("Warriors, come out and play!")
9. Illeana Douglas (the definitive saucer-eyed actress)
10. Brad Dourif (of Raymond in Blue Velvet fame)

― Cub, Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

No Curtis Armstrong?

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Top Five overrated supporting actors/actresses of the 80s & 90s:

1. Christopher Walken
2. Kathy Bates
3. Judi Dench
4. Steve Buscemi
5. Harvey Keitel

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, shit. I left out Lance Hendrickson and Ernie Hudson.

― Cub, Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's Sir Judi Dench to you, Mr. Yanc3y!

― Skottie, Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thank god someone motherfuckin mentioned Billy Zabka. He was also the bully in "just one of the guys."

Movies I watch a lot

1. Career Opportunities
2. The Stoned Age
3. Making Mr. Right
4. Super Fuzz

I think Jess's list is okay. But it's missing 'CAN'T BUY ME LOVE.'

― Mandee, Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I know, Billy Zabka even carried around some weightlifting gloves to kick some nerd ass in Just One of the Guys.

But Zabka always lost in the end. Tis' a pity.

― Cub, Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Can't Buy Me Love is AMAZING!!! Patrick Dempsey needs more love! CBML and Loverboy were the two most important movies to me when I was 12. I wanted to be a pizza delivery guy cuz of Loverboy ("and extra anchovies!").

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 17 April 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

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― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 January 2004 06:03 (twenty years ago) link

“Vhy em I dreeping vit goo?”

"Janusz," Ghostbusters 2

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 January 2004 06:06 (twenty years ago) link

"On Our Own" = better than anything on the GB1 sdtk. (... except "Magic").

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 January 2004 06:59 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Coming back to this one (God help me). I don't care if this list is ironic (which it is, and I need to see you make a list of Top 100 Non-English Language Films before I'll think otherwise), genuine, anti-amateurist or what-evah. All I can say with total and utter honesty is:

Anyone who thinks Poltergeist II is better than Poltergeist = one dumb fucking bitch.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago) link

this thread just keeps on giving.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

this thread is classic.

yanc3y, who does yr friend play in 'ed'? they show tht during half-term here, ch4, I remember enjoying it.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:23 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

enemy mine is a wierd, heavy movie.

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Henry & June

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

“Vhy em I dreeping vit goo?”

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 April 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link

"oh, pussywillow..."

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link

My anger over Poltergeist II has surprisingly not muted one bit in the interim.

― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:13 (nineteen years ago) link

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