It's a Wonderful Life - truly fighting back the tears at the end every time. Taste of Honey - one of the great things listening to The Smiths put me on to The Godfather - no words needed some other greats there too
On the subject of tear jerkers, think Cinema Paradiso does it for me. So much so, there's no point in me watching it anymore.
Damn wanted to be the first to say, Planes Trainsand automobiles. Absolutely love that film, love watching it with my kids. John Candy was just brilliant. Between two pillows.... The Searchers. Brought up on westerns and this was the best. When my lad was two I watched it with him. He watched it every day for a bout a year, I got a bit worried in the end. Once Upon a Time in America. If James Woods wasn't such a Nightmare and impossible to work with he'd have had a much bigger.... It's a Wonderful Life. Jimmy Stewart at his best. Cool Hand Luke. Gonna be some world shaking going on
ID2 Shadwell Army Downfall Assassination of Jessie James by the coward Robert Ford Inglourious Basterds Scum
Being a child of the 80s.... Ghostbusters (the 1984 original of course) Back to the Future Gremlins Pulp Fiction Leon Close to top 5.... Shawshank Redemption Reservoir Dogs The Terminator (yep I'm one of the few to prefer the first over T2) Love the first two Monty Python films and I have to give an honourable mention to the sort of Monty Python spin-off - Time Bandits. They don't make kids films that dark and surreal these days!
It's not as overrated as ... drum roll............. ...........Clockwork Orange........... What a sack of 'MASSIVELY' overrated pile of ****e that is! If ever I've seen and read so many artsy fartsy critics ****ing about absolutely anything, it's this utter ****. Just my opinion though.
General impression I've always got is that Terminator 2 is more popular - I've had many conversations trying to justify why I prefer the first, but IMDB ratings put T2 ahead. I think it's a very entertaining sequel in its own right but once you strip out the special effects and stunts from it, the original stands out as being far more darker, grittier and menacing.
