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[00Twelve]

Rocky
Jaws
The French Connection
The Conversation
The Godfather
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Young Frankenstein
Alien
Dirty Harry
Star Wars

[Ambler]

Alien (1979) (Scott) (O’Bannon)
Carrie (1976) (De Palma) (Cohen)
Charley Varrick (1973) (Siegel) (Riesner)
Get Carter (1971) (Hodges)
Last Picture Show, The (1971) (Bogdanovich) (McMurtry)
Obsession (1976) (De Palma) (Schrader)
Solaris (1972) (Tarkovsky) (Gorenshtein)
Suspiria (1977) (Argento) (Nicolodi)
Taxi Driver (1976) (Scorsese) (Schrader)
Wickerman, The (1973) (Hardy) (Shaffer)

[Judo chop]

I’m not counting Bond. Bond is a different creature.

Relieving myself from those sentimental ties, finding a top 7 was easy. After that it got a little tough. And I’m not sure about the order.

1. Jaws
2. Rocky
3. Young Franky
4. Alien
5. Superman
6. Taxi Driver
7. Godfather
8. Star Wars
9. Outlaw Josey Wales
10. Exorcist

[tdalton]

In no particular order:

• THE EXORCIST
• THE GODFATHER
• THE GODFATHER PART II
• HALLOWEEN
• JAWS
• THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
• CARRIE
• THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
• THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
• ROCKY

[Safari Suit]

Not including any bawnds, and in vague chronological order:

A Clockwork Orange
A film that manages to provide both visceral terror and an intellectually and emotionally engaging narrative.

The Last House on the Left
While it has some depth and is rather subversive this one more or less just provides visceral terror. Poorly made and with a clearly out of step soundtrack and comic relief, but these elements just add to the overall odity of the experience. Far more disturbing than The Exorcist.

Sleuth
A compelling and witty thriller (it's a hard film to pin down actually) with only two actors in the whole cast!

Death Wish
What can I say? I'm an unabshed action fan and this is one of the archtypes.

Dog Day Afternoon
Tight, brilliantly tense and, again, witty thriller with Pacino at it's best.

Monty Python and the Holly Grail
It amuses me

Jaws
Ditto

Taxi Driver
I remember sitting down to see this as a young naive film fan. Sure, I'll watch this film, but only to prove those snotty critics wrong. This wont be good. It will be terrible. I'll be bored out of my skull. Who do those critics think they are? I wasn't bored.

Rocky
A thaw in some buff's sides. Did it deserve to beat Taxi Driver? Maybe not. But I'll stick up for it over Network any day.

Saturday Night Fever
Not only an invaluable slice of pop culture history, but a great urban drama too.

I probably forgotten something, but I'm happy with this list as it is.

[Santa]

Leaving out Bond again:

Star Wars
Foul Play
Alien
The Godfather
Rocky
Smokey & the Bandit
Death on the Nile
The Sting
Saturday Night Fever
Enter the Dragon

[Kilroy6644]

Let's see if I've even seen ten.

No particular order.

Smokey and the Bandit
Kelly's Heroes
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Alien
Star Wars
Jaws
Kentucky Fried Movie
The Jerk
The Day of the Jackal
King Kong

[Mr. Blofeld]

Don't Look Now
Giù la Testa
The Conversation
Jaws
The French Connection
Monty Python's Life of Brian
The Sugarland Express
Frenzy
THX 1138
The Spy Who Loved Me

[Harmsway]

ALIEN

APOCALYPSE NOW

CABARET

CHINATOWN

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

THE CONVERSATION

THE GODFATHER PART II

LAST TANGO IN PARIS

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

SOLARIS

[Tybre]

Again no Bonds and in no particular order

The Anderson Tapes
Dirty Harry
The Wind and the Lion
Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Jaws
Star Wars
A Clockwork Orange
Dog Day Afternoon

[DamnCoffee]

The Spy Who Loved Me
Live And Let Die
Jaws
Alien
Moonraker
and The Excorcist are about the only ones I can think of at the moment.

[Tarl_Cabot]

Star Wars
Superman
Spy who loved me
Jaws
Rocky
Godfather 1/2
the Deer Hunter
Apocalypes Now
Enter the Dragon
Alien

Honorable mention: Logan's run, Three days of the Condor,Outlaw Josy Wales,The Omega Man,The Eiger Sanction,Dirty Harry