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Top 10 Films

So I was at a gathering with some friends and we were talking about films, when they asked what are my top 10 films are I couldn't think!. So here is my top 10 films!

  1. Alien (1979)
  2. The Italian Job (1969)
  3. The Thing (1982)
  4. Jaws (1975)
  5. Die Hard (1988)
  6. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  7. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
  8. Fistful of Dollars (1964)
  9. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
  10. The Usual Suspects (1995)

Top 10 Film sets

So, when I was compiling my list of top 10 films I started cheating and putting in sets of films, so here is a different top 10!

  1. A Fistful of Dollars, For a few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly
  2. Alien & Aliens
  3. Back to the Future
  4. Lethal Weapon
  5. The Lord of the Rings
  6. Jason Bourne
  7. Star Wars, only films 'A New Hope', 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Return of the Jedi' (Can't do with the others)
  8. 'of the Dead' = Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of The Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985)
  9. Resident Evil
  10. John Wick
  11. The Hobbit (I'm having a bonus one here)

Top 10 Film Westerns

Looking through my film collection it was hard to miss some of the films from my top 10 list, so here are a top 10 of Westerns

  1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  2. Once Upon a Time in The West (1968)
  3. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
  4. Unforgiven (1992)
  5. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
  6. True Grit (1969)
  7. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  8. The Shootist (1976)
  9. The Cowboys (1972)
  10. Blazing Saddles (1974)

Top 10 Film Comedies

Want to have a laugh? Try these films that I find funny

  1. Life of Brian (1979)
  2. Die Hard (1988)
  3. Sleuth (1972)
  4. I Sell the Dead (2008)
  5. Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
  6. Clue (1985)
  7. The Italian Job (1969)
  8. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
  9. Trading Places (1983)
  10. Time Bandits (1981)
  11. Scrooged (1988)

Top 10 Film Musicals

Films always have music, this list are those I like that are Musicals, and No I'm not including animated Disney / Pixar films

  1. The Blues Brothers (1980)
  2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
  3. Grease (1978)
  4. Bugsy Malone (1976)
  5. Oliver! (1968)
  6. A Knights Tale (2001)
  7. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
  8. Billy Elliot The Musical (2014)
  9. Little Shop of Horrors (1987)
  10. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Top 20 Bands

Now Bands

  1. Toto
  2. Electric Light Orchestra
  3. Meat Loaf
  4. Dire Straits
  5. Asia
  6. Muse
  7. Fleetwood Mac
  8. Jethro Tull
  9. Genesis
  10. AC/DC
  11. The Jam
  12. David Bowie
  13. Rainbow
  14. Madness
  15. Marillion
  16. Whitesnake
  17. Japan
  18. Iron Maiden
  19. Florence and the Machine
  20. Earth, Wind & Fire
  21. Dexy's Midnight Runners
  22. The Boomtown Rats
  23. ABC

Top non-comedy TV Series

I've done films, so better do my favourite TV shows. I've decided to split comedies into a different list.

  1. Stargate SG1
  2. The X-Files
  3. Breaking Bad
  4. The Prisoner
  5. Sapphire and Steel
  6. Black Sails
  7. Blakes 7
  8. Dalziel and Pascoe
  9. Inspector Morse
  10. Jonathan Creek
  11. The Last Train
  12. MASH
  13. The Man from U.N.C.L.E
  14. Quantum Leap
  15. The Rockford Files
  16. Sharpe
  17. Star Trek
  18. The Sweeney
  19. Twin Peaks
  20. MacGyver

Top TV Comedy Series

Not a top 10 because there are too many, there are some you've probably not heard of

  1. Still Game
  2. Bottom
  3. Blackadder
  4. Red Dwarf
  5. The Young Ones
  6. Gavin and Stacey
  7. The Good Place
  8. Nightingales (1990)
  9. The Office
  10. Father Ted
  11. Citizen Smith
  12. Private Schulz
  13. Porridge
  14. Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister
  15. Filthy, Rich and Catflap
  16. Goodnight Sweetheart
  17. The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy
  18. Men Behaving Badly
  19. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin