Top 10

I was trying to make my Top 10 favourite bands list when I thought it could be a bit of fun to see everyone else's Top 10 (or Top 5, Top 3, whatever... ). Not only for bands, but also films or whatever you want (related to Media and Entertainment forum of course). Here are mine..

Top 10 Bands
1. The Clash
2. The Jam
3. Ride
4. The Verve
5. Blur
6. Stiff Little Fingers
7. Ramones
8. The Kinks
9. The Beatles
10. The Who

Top 10 Movies
1. Once upon a time in America
2. The good, the bad & the ugly
3. High noon
4. Straw dogs
5. Mystic river
6. There will be blood
7. Once upon a time in the west
8. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
9. Unforgiven
10. 12 angry men

Top 10 LOST characters
1. Desmond Hume
2. James Ford (Sawyer)
3. Hugo Reyes (Hurley)
4. John Locke
5. Sayid Jarrah
6. Benjamin Linus
7. Charlie Pace
8. Richard Alpert
9. Daniel Faraday
10. Mr Eko

It's so difficult I'll probably have changed my mind tomorrow, but right now these are my choices! Will think of more later.

Top 10 LOST characters
1. Desmond Hume
2. John Locke
3. Daniel Faraday
4. Charlie Pace
5. Frank Lapidus
6. Hugo Reyes
7. James Ford
8. Richard Alpert
9. Mr. Eko
10. Ben Linus

Top 10 Comedy Films
1. Shaun of the Dead
2. Hot Fuzz
3. Zombieland
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
5. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
6. The 40 Year Old Virgin
7. Eurotrip
8. Pineapple Express
9. Role Models
10. I Love You, Man

Top 10 TV Series I Watch(ed)
1. LOST
2. How I Met Your Mother
3. Modern Family
4. Community
5. Fringe
6. House
7. Friends
8. The Big Bang Theory
9. Dexter
10. Lie To Me

Wow, hard.

Top 10 Musicians/Bands
1. Coldplay
2. The Game
3. Muse
4. Kanye West
5. Eminem
6. Jay Z
7. Lil Wayne
8. The Killers
9. The Presets
10. Lupe Fiasco

Top 10 Films
1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Kingdom of Heaven
3. The Message
4. The Hurt Locker
5. Borat
6. The Departed
7. Blood Diamond
8. Anchorman
9. Paranormal Activity
10. Zoolander

Top 10 Shows
1. Seinfeld
2. The Office (US)
3. Everybody Loves Raymond
4. Supernatural
5. Two and a Half Men
6. The Simpsons
7. Summer Heights High
8. Da Ali G Show
9. My Wife and Kids
10. The Ultimate Fighter

Top 5 Video Games
1. Modern Warfare 2
2. Fifa 10
3. UFC Undisputed 2010
4. GTA IV
5. Need for Speed Underground 2

Top 10's are F***ing hard, from the top of my head:

Film Top 10:

1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Fight Club
3. The Pianist
4. Oldboy
5. The Sting
6. Papillon
7. Garden State
8. Das Leben der Anderen
9. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
10. North by Northwest

Bands Top 10:

1. Led Zeppelin
2. The Clash
3. Bob Marley and the Wailers
4. Tool
5. Nirvana
6. Joy Division
7. Radiohead
8. Rammstein
9. Sigur Ros
10. The Shins

Top 10 Musicians/Bands
1. Green Day
2. Rilo Kiley
3. American Hi-Fi
4. Avril Lavigne
5. Blink 182
6. 3 Doors Down
7. The Coral
8. Switchfoot
9. The Dandy Warhols
10. Jerry C.

Top 10 Films
1. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Pirates of the Carribean Trilogy
3. Fast and Furios Quadrilogy
4. Goal! Trilogy
5. Black Hawk Down
6. King Kong
7. Jurassic Park Trilogy
8. The Spy Next Door
9. Spiderman Trilogy
10. Dead or Alive

Top 10 Comedy Films
1. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2. Couples Retreat
3. Zombieland
4. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
5. American Pie 1-4
6. Yes Man
7. Eurotrip
8. Bruce and Evan Almighty
9. Role Models
10. Superbad

Top 10 Shows
1. The Simpsons
2. My Wife and Kids
3. Drake and Josh
4. CSI - Miami
5. CSI
6. Archie's Weird Mysteries
7. Ghost Whisperer
8. Zack and Cody
9. Life With Derek
10. Hannah Montana

Top 5 Video Games
1. Call of Duty
2. PES
3. GTA
4. FIFA
5. Tony Hawk Series

Top 10 Musicians:
1. Eminem
2. David Cook
3. Kanye West
4. Alter Bridge
5. Linkin Park
6. The Killers
7. Rise Against
8. Disturbed
9. Paramore
10. Kevin Rudolf

Top 10 Video Games
1. Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2)
2. Final Fantasy X (PS2)
3. Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (PS2)
4. Pokemon Red (GBC)
5. WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain (PS2)
6. Mario Kart DS (DS)
7. Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
8. Sonic Adventure DX (GCN)
9. FIFA 10 (360)
10. Tony Hawk's Underground (PS2)

Top 10 TV Shows
1. South Park
2. Scrubs
3. Friends
4. Simpsons
5. Glee
6. Peep Show
7. Six Feet Under
8. Family Guy
9. The Wire
10. Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Top 10 Bands
1. Iron Maiden
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Rainbow
4. Metallica
5. Black Sabbath
6. Pink Floyd
7. Saxon
8. Deep Purple
9. Judas Priest
10. Scorpions

Top 10 Films
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Braveheart
4. Terminator 2
5. Fight Club
6. The Green Mile
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8. Goodfellas
9. American History X
10. LOTR Trilogy

Top 10 TV shows
1= LOST
1= The Wire
3. Deadwood
4. Breaking Bad
5. Carnivale
6. Dexter
7. Supernatural
8. Spartacus: Blood and Sand
9. Only Fools and Horses
10. House

Top 5 LOST Characters
1. Jack Shephard
2. John Locke
3. Desmond Hume
4. Hurley
5. Sawyer

Top 10 TV shows
1= LOST
1= The Wire
3. Deadwood
4. Breaking Bad
5. Carnivale
6. Dexter
7. Supernatural
8. Spartacus: Blood and Sand
9. Only Fools and Horses
10. House

Nice! I'm a big fan of this show (Deadwood) too, but not many people know it.

It's obvious from my Top 10 films that I'm a big fan of westerns. So now I'll try to pick my Top 10 films from that genre.

Top 10 Western Films
1. The good, the bad & the ugly
2. High noon
3. Once upon a time in the west
4. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
5. Unforgiven
6. The Wild Bunch
7. High Plans Drifter
8. The Searchers
9. The Outlaw Josey Wales
10. A Fistful of Dollars


I was wondering wheter The Treasure of the Sierra Madre could be considered a western or not, cause it's an amazing film. It was also difficult to choose between A Fistful of Dollars and For a few Dollars More, not to mention leaving Django out of the list.


EDIT: sh*t, I forgot The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Top 10 lists make my brain hurt. I'll give it a go later.

Matt, our tastes in films and tv are ridiculously alike. I still haven't watched the finale, btw, thus I haven't weighed in in that thread (absolutely no time), but I'm wondering (without spoiling it for me), was your Top 5 Lost characters influenced by the finale or would that have been pretty much it all along?

Dexter, what's Requiem for a Dream like? Is that your favourite film of all time?

I've just read up on it. It sounds really disturbing.

Dexter, what's Requiem for a Dream like? Is that your favourite film of all time?

I've just read up on it. It sounds really disturbing.

Great film, Ross. Yeah, it's kinda disturbing...more so when you know people like that.

I can imagine.

It's the orgy scene that's putting me off watching. Not sure if I wanna see that.

I'm gonna have to bend the rules a bit on the whole Top 10 thing. I hope you're happy, Diego. This nearly killed me!

Top 20 - Music
1. Rocket From The Crypt
2. Superchunk
3. Hot Snakes
4. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
5. Fugazi
6. Quicksand/Rival Schools (Walter Schreifels' works)
7. Husker Du/Sugar/Bob Mould (Bob Mould's works)
8. Jawbox
9. Dan Sartain
10. Hot Water Music
11. Elvis
12. Smiths/Morrissey
13. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
14. Hank Williams Sr.
15. Clash
16. Pogues
17. Cash
18. Damien Dempsey
19. James Brown
20. Misfits

God, I'm not even sure that's right! So many I want in there...  

Top 15 - TV
1. Lost
2. Six Feet Under
3. Arrested development
4. Kids in the Hall
5. Deadwood
6. 30 Rock
7. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
8. Carnivale
9. Little Britain
10. Seinfeld
11. The Office (US)
12. Northern Exposure
13. Star Trek TNG
14. Father Ted
15. The Young Ones

Jeez...I'm not happy with this at all. I'll have to get back to you on the movies and such.

Edit: Good idea, _ingo, qualifying films as comedy. that will make it easier.

@ Diego, have you seen 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' yet? It's a bit style over substance that one, but enjoyable western nonetheless.

Dexter, what's Requiem for a Dream like? Is that your favourite film of all time?

I've just read up on it. It sounds really disturbing.

It's at times quite a disturbing movie, very dramatic, but it's very very good. Based on a novel actually. I own the movie, yet I haven't seen it that many times because it's not an easy movie to watch. It follows the life of a guy, his mother, his girlfriend and a friend and how their lives spiral into doom. After watching it for the first time it was stuck in my head for quite a while. The orgy scene you're referring to isn't that bad however, and it certainly isn't the worst scene in the movie. Here's the trailer.

Is it my favourite movie? That's a very hard question, but I think so. Requiem for a Dream isn't the kind of movie I love to watch frequently. But for me at the time it came out it was a movie that changed how I looked at movies, in that way it's been the best movie I've seen. Before that movies were mostly just entertainment to me. I still enjoy easy going entertaining movies at times, but the movies that really touch me and I can admire for the workmanship are mostly more original movies and movies with some substance and depth. And I think Darren Aronofsky is an extremely talented director.

That said, I never really recommend Requiem to people, because I know it's a hard movie to enjoy. Have you seen Garden State though Ross? Also in my top 10, that's a movie I would recommend to you. Touched me as well, could really relate to the main character when that movie came out somehow, it really stuck with me, but at the same time it's easy going and feel good. Brilliant first movie for Zach Braff as a director.

@ Diego, have you seen 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' yet? It's a bit style over substance that one, but enjoyable western nonetheless.

No, but now I want to!

Film Top 10:

1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Fight Club
3. The Pianist
4. Oldboy
5. The Sting
6. Papillon
7. Garden State
8. Das Leben der Anderen
9. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
10. North by Northwest

Have you ever read the book (Papillon)? I know it will sound cliché, but the book is so much better. It's a great film (couldnt be bad with Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen), but the book is probably the best I ever read. Such a fantastic life story, with so many details that the film ignore - and it couldnt be different, or else it would need to be 20 hours long.

Have you ever read the book (Papillon)? I know it will sound cliché, but the book is so much better. It's a great film (couldnt be bad with Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen), but the book is probably the best I ever read. Such a fantastic life story, with so many details that the film ignore - and it couldnt be different, or else it would need to be 20 hours long.

Haven't no, I forgot it was based on a book, put it on my book list now, sounds awesome!
Just noticed you have There Will Be Blood in your list, was actually strongly considering that one for mine too. Daniel Day-Lewis' performance in that movie might just be the best I've ever seen, incredible.

Great reply Dexter, thank you. I haven't seen Garden State either. I'll look into watching both.

Just noticed you have There Will Be Blood in your list, was actually strongly considering that one for mine too. Daniel Day-Lewis' performance in that movie might just be the best I've ever seen, incredible.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. Another film with him that I love is In the Name of the Father. Also, it made me realise it should of been There Will Be Blood in front of Mystic River on my Top 10, as I usually say that TWBB is my favourite film from the 00's.

Like Brooklyn said, this makes my brain hurt There's so many i could put in, so im gonna think about this and get back to ya. Boss idea for a thread though.

BUMP

Seeing how this keeps coming up.

I knew it was out there.

I just looked over mine and I'm gonna have to re-do it.

Time to get my head down and start making a list. 1 Pearl Jam. That's the easy one. Now it's time to sort out the rest