Most popular films of all time.

American film and TV reviewers Rotten Tomatoes, have compiled a list of the 10 most popular cinematic films...

Orsen Wells  classic film Citizen Cane has now been surpassed in popularity by the 10 films listed below.
Do you agree? and what would be on your own list of the best films of all time?


The Terminator (1984)

Toy Story (1995)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

Pinnochio (1940)

Modern Times (1936)

Man on Wire (2008)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Frankenstein (1931)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)


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I'm the last person to ask because I don't really do movies anymore..

I was drained after I watched Saving Private Ryan.

I was depressed after watching Sophie's Choice, to the point I wouldn't watch Schindler's list when it came out.

The Wizard of Oz held such a special place as a child for me amd so many others that I think it deserves a mention.

Maddog wrote:I'm the last person to ask because I don't really do movies anymore..

I was drained after I watched Saving Private Ryan.

I was depressed after watching Sophie's Choice, to the point I wouldn't watch Schindler's list when it came out.

The Wizard of Oz held such a special place as a child for me amd so many others that I think it deserves a mention.

They are all brilliant films.
I refused to go to the cinema to watch Schindler's list because I knew I would be traumatised, I watched it on video at home when it was released.

Some films may not be considered classics, but they leave a big impression on you.
I loved...
A summer place.
ET.
Dont look now.
Brief encounter.
Ryans daughter.
Dr Zhivago.
To kill a mocking bird.

We just rewatched The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Both excellent films.

Syl wrote:American film and TV reviewers Rotten Tomatoes, have compiled a list of the 10 most popular cinematic films...

Orsen Wells  classic film Citizen Cane has now been surpassed in popularity by the 10 films listed below.
Do you agree? and what would be on your own list of the best films of all time?


The Terminator (1984)

Toy Story (1995)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

Pinnochio (1940)

Modern Times (1936)

Man on Wire (2008)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Frankenstein (1931)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/10-films-that-are-now-better-than-citizen-kane-%e2%80%93-according-to-rotten-tomatoes/ar-BB1g8GrG?ocid=msedgdhp

None of these would make my top 20.

Cass wrote:

Syl wrote:American film and TV reviewers Rotten Tomatoes, have compiled a list of the 10 most popular cinematic films...

Orsen Wells  classic film Citizen Cane has now been surpassed in popularity by the 10 films listed below.
Do you agree? and what would be on your own list of the best films of all time?


The Terminator (1984)

Toy Story (1995)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

Pinnochio (1940)

Modern Times (1936)

Man on Wire (2008)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Frankenstein (1931)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/movies/10-films-that-are-now-better-than-citizen-kane-%e2%80%93-according-to-rotten-tomatoes/ar-BB1g8GrG?ocid=msedgdhp

None of these would make my top 20.

Me neither. I haven't even heard of a couple of them.

I'm surprised Forrest Gump didn't make it.

Maddog wrote:I'm surprised Forrest Gump didn't make it.

I love Tom Hanks, but he really irritated me in that film.

Syl wrote:

Maddog wrote:I'm surprised Forrest Gump didn't make it.

I love Tom Hanks, but he really irritated me in that film.

I love that movie.

I was watching a film this afternoon called Gallow Walkers. The amount of stabbing to death that went on in it was so bad I turned it off. I mean...no wonder we've got all this bloody knife crime.

HoratioTarr wrote:

Syl wrote:

I love Tom Hanks, but he really irritated me in that film.

I love that movie.

He had the innocence of a child that we all lose at some point.

Maddog wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:

I love that movie.

He had the innocence of a child that we all lose at some point.  

His voice really grated on me.

Syl wrote:

Maddog wrote:

He had the innocence of a child that we all lose at some point.  

His voice really grated on me.

Well, he was from the South.

Lets not forget he was named after the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.

It appears Quill is making headway with you.

I think the movies that I have enjoyed the most in the last few years
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Green Book
The Favorite
Any Avengers or Star Wars
Bohemian Rhapsody
Yesterday
Knives Out
I, Tonya
The Post
Black Panther
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Judy
Joker
Darkest Hour

Haven’t seen any of the nominations for this year’s award season but I’m most looking forward to Nomadland, Sound of Metal, Minari and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

TV wise The Queen’s Gambit has been the best thing since Game of Thrones. That show was pretty damn near perfect.

Maddog wrote:

Syl wrote:

His voice really grated on me.

Well, he was from the South.

Lets not forget he was named after the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.

It appears Quill is making headway with you.

I don't mind a soft southern drawl, I think it was the gormless way he delivered it that got on my nerves.

Cass wrote:I think the movies that I have enjoyed the most in the last few years
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Green Book
The Favorite
Any Avengers or Star Wars
Bohemian Rhapsody
Yesterday
Knives Out
I, Tonya
The Post
Black Panther
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Judy
Joker
Darkest Hour

Haven’t seen any of the nominations for this year’s award season but I’m most looking forward to Nomadland, Sound of Metal, Minari and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

TV wise The Queen’s Gambit has been the best thing since Game of Thrones. That show was pretty damn near perfect.

I loved The Queens Gambit too, Eddie recommended it to me...it was gripping.

Frances McDormand, from your first favourite film is still on top, she has just won another two Oscars.

Maddog wrote:

Syl wrote:

His voice really grated on me.

Well, he was from the South.

Lets not forget he was named after the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.

It appears Quill is making headway with you.

I think Forrest Gump was a sympathetic metaphor for the south. Dumb as a stone, Gump lucks his way through incident after incident, which brings him to full restoration in a normal son...thank god for Jenny.

The south, with no real talent, has lucked its way, since the civil war, through episode after episode, narrowly avoiding fire, fracture and failure. Its agrarian roots have been kicked out from under it. It has no raison d'être, no local support, as it just...well, RUNS. It has swerved and weaved through life, largely through the tolerant benevolence of the north—in reality, Jenny—and landed unscathed in a senseless patch of turnips.

The south's one downfall is its racism and tendency toward violence, which, unlike Forrest Gump, removes it from the realm of innocence—and is about to pull Jenny's memory, the boy, and all of Greenbow, Alabama, into the pits of hell. But that's the postscript that Winston Groom avoided telling.

Syl wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Well, he was from the South.

Lets not forget he was named after the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.

It appears Quill is making headway with you.

I don't mind a soft southern drawl, I think it was the gormless way he delivered it that got on my nerves.

Well, he was a bit "touched" as some say.

Maddog wrote:

Syl wrote:

I don't mind a soft southern drawl, I think it was the gormless way he delivered it that got on my nerves.

Well, he was a bit "touched" as some say.  

Yeah, he would do well on forums.

Original Quill wrote:

Maddog wrote:

Syl wrote:

His voice really grated on me.

Well, he was from the South.

Lets not forget he was named after the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.

It appears Quill is making headway with you.

I think Forrest Gump was a sympathetic metaphor for the south.  Dumb as a stone, Gump lucks his way through incident after incident, which brings him to full restoration in a normal son...thank god for Jenny.

The south, with no real talent, has lucked its way, since the civil war, through episode after episode, narrowly avoiding fire, fracture and failure.  Its agrarian roots have been kicked out from under it.  It has no raison d'être, no local support, as it just...well, RUNS.  It has swerved and weaved through life, largely through the tolerant benevolence of the north—in reality, Jenny—and landed unscathed in a senseless patch of turnips.

The south's one downfall is its racism and tendency toward violence, which, unlike Forrest Gump, removes it from the realm of innocence—and is about to pull Jenny's memory, the boy, and all of Greenbow, Alabama, into the pits of hell.  But that's the postscript that Winston Groom avoided telling.

I will say something to this effect every time you post such nonsense -- what you don't know or understand about the American South could fill a library.

Maddog wrote:

Syl wrote:

Maddog wrote:

He had the innocence of a child that we all lose at some point.  

His voice really grated on me.

Well, he was from the South.

Lets not forget he was named after the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.

It appears Quill is making headway with you.

Let's also not forget that Tom Hanks doesn't do a very good Southern accent.