Are there any on your list (I have included some of them), that would knock off any from my ten?
Cheers,
Philip
You have a point. Should have read the whole post first.
In that case, I’d have to say replace Aliens with Alien. Alien was a cumulative effort by a number of people (in the wake of Jodorowsky’s failed attempt at filming Dune). Some of the design work by Giger had come from that. Dan O’Bannon reportedly embeds egg references in everything he makes (eggs in Alien are obvious, in 1941 they are a bit more subtle, can’t recall the others).
It certianly brought outsiders into the film business and let the graphic designers take a more active roll in the movies we saw.
Aliens was just Rambo in outer space (as opposed to a haunted house in outer space). That, and a Reboks shoe ad campaign.
The suspense was gone because now there were hundreds of these things.
Back to some of the other suggestions that people offered,
I’d have to say that these are very well crafter films that begin with A and movies that I have returned to many times (not just watching something “because it was on” but making a conscious decision to put it on).
After Hours, Almost Famous, Apocalypse Now, Apollo 13