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Films that rocked me audio wise

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1977
    George Lucas
    Fantasy, Family, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Coming of age, Space western More
    Don Henderson, Phil Brown, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, James Earl Jones, Jack Purvis, Richard LeParmentier, Alex McCrindle, Shelagh Fraser, Carrie Fisher, Paul Blake, David Prowse, Anthony Daniels, Harrison Ford, Eddie Byrne, Mark Hamill, Denis Lawson, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing More
  2. 2
    1978
    John Carpenter
    Thriller, Horror, Teen, Slasher, Indie, Cult
    Nancy Stephens, Kyle Richards, Charles Cyphers, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P. J. Soles, Brian Andrews, Nancy Kyes, Nick Castle, John Michael Graham, Sandy Johnson More
  3. 3
    1981
    Steven Spielberg
    Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Airplanes and airports, New Hollywood More
    Anthony Higgins, William Hootkins, George Harris, Pat Roach, Bill Reimbold, Vic Tablian, Denholm Elliott, Don Fellows, Ronald Lacey, Alfred Molina, Karen Allen, Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler, John Rhys-Davies More
  4. 4
    1982
    Ridley Scott
    Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction, Crime Thriller, Dystopia, Cult, Film noir, Existentialism, Future noir, Cyberpunk, Neo-noir More
    Joanna Cassidy, Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, John Edward Allen, Edward James Olmos, Kevin Thompson, James Hong, M. Emmet Walsh, Morgan Paull, William Sanderson, Rutger Hauer, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Hy Pyke More
  5. 5
    1984
    Miloš Forman
    Drama, Costume drama, Period piece, Biography, Music, Biographical film, Drama Film More
    Elizabeth Berridge, Christine Ebersole, Nicholas Kepros, Simon Callow, Richard Frank, Roderick Cook, Roy Dotrice, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Charles Kay, Jeffrey Jones, Barbara Bryne, Cynthia Nixon More
  6. 6
    David Lynch
    Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction
    Dennis Hopper, J. Michael Hunter, Ken Stovitz, Jack Harvey, Priscilla Pointer, Jack Nance, Dick Green, Hope Lange, George Dickerson, Isabella Rossellini, Frances Bay, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern More
  7. 7
    1987
    Paul Verhoeven
    Thriller, Science Fiction, Action, Action/Adventure, Crime Fiction, Superhero movie, Stop motion, Satire More
    Miguel Ferrer, Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith, Ronny Cox, Dan O'Herlihy, Del Zamora, Paul McCrane, Felton Perry, Robert Doqui, Ray Wise More
  8. 8
    1991
    James Cameron
    Thriller, Science Fiction, Action, Action/Adventure, Time travel, Doomsday film More
    Danny Cooksey, Ken Gibbel, Castulo Guerra, Robert Patrick, Arnold Schwarzenegger, S. Epatha Merkerson, Joe Morton, Jenette Goldstein, Earl Boen, Pete Schrum, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Xander Berkeley, Leslie Hamilton Gearren, Nikki Cox More
  9. 9
    1999
    David Fincher
    Drama, Psychological thriller, Thriller, Action, Action/Adventure, Black comedy, Cult, Satire, Airplanes and airports, Existentialism More
    Rachel Singer, Edward Norton, Richmond Arquette, George Maguire, Meat Loaf, Ezra Buzzington, Jared Leto, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Eugenie Bondurant, Zach Grenier, David Andrews, Christina Cabot, Bob Stephenson, Tim De Zarn More
  10. 10
    1999
    Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
    Thriller, Science Fiction, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Doomsday film, Existentialism More
    Laurence Fishburne, Marcus Chong, Anthony Ray Parker, Belinda McClory, Julian Arahanga, Paul Goddard, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano, Matt Doran, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Gloria Foster More
  11. 11
    2002
    Sam Raimi
    Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Superhero movie, Coming of age More
    Jack Betts, Joe Manganiello, Gerry Becker, Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Bill Nunn, Randy Savage, K. K. Dodds, Randy Poffo, Rosemary Harris, Cliff Robertson, Bruce Campbell, James Franco, Ted Raimi, Lindsay Thompson, Lucy Lawless, Stan Lee, Kirsten Dunst, Michael Papajohn, Ron Perkins, J. K. Simmons, Stanley Anderson, Elizabeth Banks More
  12. 12
    2007
    Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
    Drama, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Suspense, Gangster, Film adaptation More
    Josh Brolin, Rodger Boyce, Woody Harrelson, Barry Corbin, Javier Bardem, Kelly Macdonald, Beth Grant, Tommy Lee Jones, Tess Harper, Stephen Root, Garret Dillahunt, Ana Reeder More

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  1. logblobo
    My Favorite Films for Sound Design at 7/30/2011 2:23 PM
    I love Blue Velvet and Amadeus being on here. I'm accepting of No Country for Old Men being so low. Heck, I wouldn't even put it on mine. Do you not have the taste for Apocalypse Now?
  2. Desertrat89
    My Favorite Films for Sound Design at 8/09/2010 12:17 PM
    How can No Country not be #1? Not to knock the films ranked higher, but the sound in that movie was like its own character.
    1. youdiejoe [List Creator]
      My Favorite Films for Sound Design at 8/10/2010 7:14 AM
      Iz callz itz likez Iz seez itz... This is where superlatives/ranking and I fall apart, looking at this list that I made months ago, I couldn't tell you why I placed some films where they are. All of these films rock sound on their own level and I placed them in an order that effected me as an artist and not as a overall ranking of their merits. The top 2 in the list were films that I saw early in life that pointed me towards ideas of what film sound could be, after that each of the following films impacted me in different ways at different points in my life but equally added something to the collective card index in my mind of good film sound.
      1. youdiejoe [List Creator]
        My Favorite Films for Sound Design at 8/10/2010 7:20 AM
        And now after writing all that, I deiced to go back and list them in chronologically order, so my list is not ranked so much as it is listed...if that makes sense.
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