The Top 10 Films Of All Time

[Food Mane]

*doesn't see Killa Season*

*dismisses list*

*comtemplates one star, neg rep, dap/undap*

 

[ExodusNirvana]

it does to me. better acting and more creativity pre-1970. star wars pretty much ruined movies for ever

Why are you on so many drugs?? So many DRUGS.

 

[Dr.HannibalLecter]

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[Jello Biafra]

The 70s was the most creative and best decade of Hollywood/american cinema.

Straight up...the 70s gave us Scorsese, Coppola, DePalma, Lucas, Friedkin, Carpenter and Spielberg. How can you hate on that?

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

this is completely subjective.

this.

and

I'd take Terminator 1 or 2 over any of those movies

 

[StatUS]

I can't disagree with Vertigo, you could watch that on Blu Ray today and it's still a crazy and visually pleasing movie.

Hitchcock

 

[Type Username Here]

Vertigo and Citizen Kane are AMAZING films. Vertigo is way too high though. Citizen Kane sounds about right.

You should definitely watch Kane if you haven't yet.

 

[up in here]

these lists is

If your top 10 aint got City Of God, your top ten aint shyt.

 

[BAMBINO]

No Brazil?

 

[VerbalIntercourse]

The 70s was the most creative and best decade of Hollywood/american cinema.

There were some good films, but I have to respectfully disagree.

Chinatown is a top ten film in my opinion. It's probably the only film worth mentioning from the 70's.

 

[DalMem]

I saw Vertigo in college while taking film class.

 

[THE 101]

The 1970s were a renaissance time for filmmaking. In that decade we got The Godfather 1 & 2, Apocalypse Now, All The President's Men, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Deer Hunter, A Clockwork Orange, The Sting, Last Picture Show.
I could on and on with the movies from the 1970s that revolutionized the way movies were made and still influence filmmakers today.

Not really.

The majority of the American filmmakers in the 1970s were just following the lead of the European filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s.

Without Bergman, Godard, Bresson, Fellini, Bunuel etc there would be no new Hollywood.

I don't expect most Coli posters to feel this list. But those are some great films. But I see lists like this more as a collection of not just great films, but important historical films that changed everything. Critics also love films that reflect on filmmaking itself, so that's why Vertigo is #1, and you have things like Man With a Movie Camera.

There's probably people in this thread that are shytting on this list that have seen some weak ass top 10 rappers of all time list and complained that there's so Rakim or KRS. This is the same thing. It's inarguable that early cinema was more important simply because filmmakers were still writing the rules as they went along. By the 70s, give or take everything had been done. But these films took cinema to new boundaries.

So you don't have to enjoy them, but you have to respect their importance on filmmaking as an art.

 

[Turenne]

The only old movie I thought was incredible was Bonnie & Clyde.

 

[Turenne]

I don't believe that the 10 best movies every made were all made before 1970. Makes ZERO sense to me

Well most modern films are utter shyt, particularly over the last couple of decades.

However, I'd guess and say this is a list largely based on influence, artistically, technically and culturally, more then anything else. 'Godfather' had huge cultural influence but maybe didn't do anything new from a technical point of view?

 

[Turenne]

The majority of the American filmmakers in the 1970s were just following the lead of the European filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s.

Indeed, but very few people are going to accept or care about this.

Without Bergman, Godard, Bresson, Fellini, Bunuel etc there would be no new Hollywood.

I've only watched a couple of movies from the above list of filmakers. I've been enjoying Fassbender and Truffuat's works however, although I assume they are a slightly later generation.