Top Ten Themes

Updated. (Although I had to include my second-favorite Sayles film because my favorite isn't in the database for some reason).

Okay, I'll join in this time. This wasn't easy, but I changed my faves to match this week's theme. Some of my favorite movies from my favorite directors were already listed in my previous faves, so I went with my second favorite movie from those directors.

Maybe I jest, maybe not Just figured I'd throw ya'll for a loop

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Thanks goodness you put in Dawn of the Dead instead. That's a great work of cinema, not just great horror.

You are a hater, and you should be ashamed.

Horror theme now please. Swan and I seem to be ahead of the game. I went with 10 foreign horror's I've watched/rewatched recently and enjoyed the most.

I wasn't even participating. But I feel like having an all-horror top ten, so I will join.

participating

I could go for this. What's the theme now?

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

Well it didn't take you long to get back to horror movies.

Since I don't like horror movies, I changed mine to ten of my favorite guilty pleasure movies.

Alright, I went for the "ten favourite directors" thing.

i'll join in the top ten horror list (lot of overlap with my 80s horror list).

I'll try favorite directors

Changed mine to my top ten if I had joined Mofo at 15.

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I'm in.

This was a hard but interesting exercise. Difficult because I wasn't making best-of lists then. I'm not positive I saw all of these by the time I turned 16 but they should be pretty close. Tetsuo in particular I'm not positive when I saw. I definitely knew about it: my best friend's dad would synopsize weird movies that were too "mature" to show us yet (The Holy Mountain is another, but that one I'm pretty sure I didn't actually see till I was 18 and a high school senior) and I remember me and my friend discussing Tetsuo during farming class in Waldorf school, which would have been around 13 or 14, after we had been told about it but before we had seen it. By summer 1997 - when I turned 17 - I had definitely seen it, since that's when I made the trip to NYC to see Tetsuo II in it's theatrical release (in a single tiny, and very seedy theater). Wings of Honneamise I think I had got on vhs when it came out, but it might have been a bit later. I had been at the height of my Vonnegut fandom for a couple years by the time I was 15, so it seems plausible I would have seen Slaughterhouse-five, but I'm not positive. Either way, all three of these should just about be eligible. The rest I'm sure I had seen.

Akira
The Shining
Wings of Honneamise
Tetsuo: the Iron Man
The Fly
Slaughterhouse-five
The Thing
Aliens
Alien
Die Hard

Very cool. We were watching much different film at 15.

There should be at least a couple of top tens from when I was fifteen somewhere on this site, but for this thread's purposes I decided to change it up a bit and offer an approximation. Feels very filmbro to me.

I'm not sure what my top 10 would have been at 15. Sadly the movie Life would be on there and possibly Happy Gilmore.

To be honest I was mostly just watching Akira repeatedly.