*OSM's TOP 45 Movies Contest - THE COUNTDOWN*
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#10 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY [2012]
Director: Peter Jackson
Summary: Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) lives a simple life with his fellow hobbits in the shire, until the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) arrives and convinces him to join a group of dwarves on a quest to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor. The journey takes Bilbo on a path through treacherous lands swarming with orcs, goblins and other dangers, not the least of which is an encounter with Gollum (Andy Serkis) and a simple gold ring that is tied to the fate of Middle Earth in ways Bilbo cannot even fathom.
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy#9 FORREST GUMP [1994]
Director : Robert Zemeckis
Summary: Slow-witted Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) has never thought of himself as disadvantaged, and thanks to his supportive mother (Sally Field), he leads anything but a restricted life. Whether dominating on the gridiron as a college football star, fighting in Vietnam or captaining a shrimp boat, Forrest inspires people with his childlike optimism. But one person Forrest cares about most may be the most difficult to save -- his childhood love, the sweet but troubled Jenny (Robin Wright).
Genres: Comedy, Drama#8 BRAVEHEART [1995]
Director : Mel Gibson
Summary: Tells the story of the legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero named William Wallace (Mel Gibson). Wallace rallies the Scottish against the English monarch and Edward I (Peter Hanly) after he suffers a personal tragedy by English soldiers. Wallace gathers a group of amateur warriors that is stronger than any English army.
Genres: Biography, Drama, History#7 THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION [1994]
Director: Frank Darabont
Summary: Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn't commit the crimes. While there, he forms a friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), experiences brutality of prison life, adapts, helps the warden, etc., all in 19 years.
Genres: Crime, Drama#6 TROY [2004]
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Summary: Based on Homer's "Iliad," this epic portrays the battle between the ancient kingdoms of Troy and Sparta. While visiting Spartan King Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson), Trojan prince Paris (Orlando Bloom) falls for Menelaus' wife, Helen (Diane Kruger), and takes her back to Troy. Menelaus' brother, King Agamemnon (Brian Cox), having already defeated every army in Greece, uses his brother's fury as a pretext to declare war against Troy, the last kingdom preventing his control over the Aegean Sea.
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Here we go guys, we oficially entered "Top 10"
Tomorrow I start with the "Top 5", posting one movie per day i9n order to make it more interesting and so that we can have more discussion about 5 wonderfull movies that were picked as best by OSM Managers all over the world 
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Seen 4 of the 5, only Shawshank Redemption i never seen. The 4 others are pretty amazing.
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TROY ahead of so many great movies?
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#5 PULP FICTION [1994]
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Summary: Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. In this ultra-hip, multi-strand crime movie, their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) ; his actress wife, Mia (Uma Thurman) ; struggling boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) ; master fixer Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel) and a nervous pair of armed robbers, "Pumpkin" (Tim Roth) and "Honey Bunny" (Amanda Plummer).
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@Majstor-Matt Good to see my picks; Troy and Braveheart. Well deserved.
Now bring on Gladiator as Number 1!!!
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@Amirpes Agree
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#4 GLADIATOR [2000]
Director: Ridley Scott
Summary: Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies.
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I would comment more on these films, and I respect the efforts you have made to orchestrate this thread so successfully Matt. To my embarrassment, there'a probably 35-40 of the aforementioned films that I haven't seen, hence my lack of comments.
Pulp Fiction deservedly scored highly. Its my kind of film. It's not a far fetched film, it's very straight talking, subtle humour and cleverly written.
Theres a lot of classics on the list, but would have been nice to see different genres. Maybe even musicals, e.g. Grease which is brilliant in its own way but was never really going to be the Shawshank Redemption type that is brilliant in a very different way.
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#3 THE DARK KNIGHT [2008]
Director: Christopher Nolan
Summary: Eighteen months after swooping dramatically off of a roof at the finale of Batman Begins, everyone's favorite brooding vigilante (Christian Bale) is hard at work making life safer for Gotham City. The bad guys are running scared… until they get a visit from the Assassination Fairy, wearing a purple suit and calling himself the Joker (Heath Ledger). He promises to get rid of the Batman in exchange for a literal mountain of money, as well as putting the kibosh on crusading district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart).
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Good list so far.
But Troy and The Hobbit, wow didn't see that coming
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Good that Gladiator isn't number one. It's a nice movie with some good images and nice music, but besides that the story is very very dissapointing: no suprises whatsoever, cliché bad and good guys and the school example of predictable.
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I am sorry but where is the real list? The Hobbit at number 10 and not a single Lord of the Rings movie so far, is just utterly stupid :S Not to mention Now You See Me Above The Godfather 2...............
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@Glennevire_NL Maybe Lord of the Rings is on place 1?
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@Majstor-Matt My number 1 pick finishes at 4th place. I am happy with that, and looking forward to see which once finish above this legendary movie.
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Well since nobody is comenting on #3 on its day and everyone are preocupied with everything else, I'll do it then, its my favourite movie after all
So, Im very glad that The Dark Knight got so far, even though if it was up to only me it would be even bit higer
Fantastic movie that surpassed its superhero genre and made such impact that many are calling it as one of the modern classics. Simply phenomenal direction by Nolan, movie filled with nicely paced action scenes and brilliant acting done by one and only Heath Ledger as The Joker. Rest of the cast did well as well, but lets be realistic, it is obvious that ledger stole the show, even from Batman in many ways Also, when it comes to this trilogy it must be said that every movie in it has brilliant ending that very well encompasses the whole story, and the ending of TDK is my fave 1.
"He's a Silent Guardian, a Watchfull Protector, a Dark Knight!"
Oh yeah, and I must not forget brilliant soundtracks as well. Basically this movie has everything for me
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@Majstor-Matt Heath Ledger performance was great so I don't mind it being in top 3.
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@King-Noel That performance was one of the greatest movie creation ever! I don't really like a batman series but Ledger as a Joker... That was masterpiece
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@Michal_ACM Yup, pure masterpiece. They say that he locked himself in hotel room for a whole month and was preparing the role of The Joker doing some crazy sh...
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@Majstor-Matt Too bad he died so young...
But this role made him immortal.
