Post your top 5 favorite movies, they don’t have to be what you consider the best ever, just the ones you’ve watched time and time again yet still enjoy.
My picks (not necessarily in order):
--Fight Club
--Lord of the Rings (Extended Edition)
--Pulp Fiction
--Snatch
--Kingdom of Heaven (Director’s Cut)
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Lost Boys
The Mummy & The Mummy Returns (I generally watch them together)
13th Warrior
Star Wars (New Hope)
Serenity
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Lord of the Rings gets an honorable mention, I love the movies, almost as much as the books but they are too long to view too often without cutting into other pleasures.
13th Warrior
The Princess Bride
Highlander
Tombstone
A Christmas Story
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Star Wars (Empire is my Fav)
Lord of the Rings Extended (Fellowship was my Fav)
Big Trouble in Little China
Evil Dead Series (Hard to pick a Fav, but if I had to then Army of Darkness)
Last one is a toughie because I have a few that I would class equally. These include:
Princess Bride
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Indiana Jones Series (Last Crusade is my Fav)
Pirates of the Carribean Series (Black Pearl is my Fav)
The Usual Suspects
Se7en
The Thing (John Carpenter version)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Fight Club
Harry Potter Series (Stone or Chamber were Favs)
I have included a series as being 1 movie, but have listed my favourite of the series.
Lord of the Rings extended cut (Two Towers favorite)
Transformers the Movie (animated)
Spaceballs
Spider-man
Bruce Almighty
If we're counting anime, then add the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex to the total (Season 1 favorite)
Star Wars "aka A New Hope"
Stripes
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shawshank Redemption
Caddyshack
Star Wars "aka A New Hope"
Stripes
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shawshank Redemption
Caddyshack
Raiders
Stripes
A Man for All Seasons
The Sting
Holy Grail
* Office Space
* Tron
* The Royal Tenenbaums
* Donnie Darko (original, not director's cut)
* High Fidelity
- Chris Shadowens
Falling Down
Strange Brew
Dark City
UHF
Star Trek 2
Falling Down
Such a great great movie...
"Does this look like the picture...?"
Addams Family Values ("I'll get you and your little hand too!")
Appleseed (the Remake of the anime)
Donnie Darko (Pre-Director's Cut)
Harvey
Magnolia
With honorable mentions to these 'superhero' films,
Sky High
Spider-Man 2
The Incredibles
This list is subject to change, but as it currently stands:
The Matrix
The Sixth Sense
Unforgiven
The Princess Bride
Diary of a Lost Girl
Honorable mention:
Lord of the Rings
Braveheart
Pandora's Box
Old Heidelberg
Heat
Tombstone
North by Northwest
The Trouble with Harry
Edit - Forgot to add Alien and Aliens
pulp fiction
apocalypse now
crouching tiger, hidden dragon
dr. strangelove
spaceballs
messy :-)
Star wars
Pirates of the Carribean
LOTR
Transformers
Princess Bride
Not in any specific order:
Lord of the Rings
Indiana Jones
Serenity
Star Wars (IV to VI)
Die Hard
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Big Lewboski
Blade Runner
Runner-ups: Star Wars, Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing (the John Carpenter version), Vertigo, the Breakfast Club, the Spy Who Loved Me
.... gah the list goes on
Shaun of the Dead
The Matrix
Star Wars Ep. VI
Citizen Kane
Co-ed Lesbian Werewolves Get Naked at Spring Break Vol. XXIII
Top 5 Movies for the Warehouse Monkey:
House of 100 Corpses
The Secretary
Yojimbo
Elf
500 Blows
Wow, only five? Lesseee...
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: A New Hope
Total Recall
One, Two, Three
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of The Ring
daedel, el azote.
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I'll go with some more than 5...
However, I could have a 50+ list of favourite movies.
- Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1922),
- M [the murderer] / die spionen [the spys] Metropolis / the big heat (Fritz Lang, 1931, 1928, 1926, 1953),
- Rio Bravo / bringing up baby / his girl friday / only angels have wings (Howard Hawks, 1959, 1938, 1940, 1939),
- My darling clementine (John Ford, 1946)
- It's a wonderful life / Deeds goes to town (Franck Capra, 1946 / 1938)
- the mortal storm / seventh heaven (Frank Borzage, 1940 / 1927)
- to be or not to be / trouble in paradise / ninotchka / shop around the corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942 / 1932 / 1939 / 1940)
- Unforgiven / million dollar baby / honky tonk man (Clint Eastwood, 1992 / 2005 / 1982)
- the mummy (Karl Freund, 1932)
- the unknown / unholy three / freaks (Tod Browning, 1927 / 1926 / 1932)
- Halloween / the thing (John Carpenter, 1978 / 1982)
- the navigator / seven chances (Buster Keaton, 1927 / 1926)
- Victor, Victoria (Blake Edwards, 1982)
- High sierra (Raoul Walsh, 1941)
- Toy story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999)
- Wallace & Gromit : the wrong trousers (Nick Park, 1999)
- the seven samurais (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
- the red shoes / the spy in black / 49th parallel / peeping tom / gone to earth / the black narcissus / a matter of life and death... (all movies by Michael Powell with Emeric Pressburger, to the exception of Peeping tom, 1948 / 1939 / 1941 / 1960 / 1950 / 1947 / 1946...)
OK, I should stop now !
Even if I'd like to throw in movies by Mankiewicz, Billy Wilder, Murnau, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Welles, Soderbergh, Tim Burton, Robert Aldrich, Anthony Mann, Jacques Tourneur, Kubrick and so on...
Did I ever mention that movies are my 1st hobby before RPG ?
Oh, I also love "the Princess Bride", movies by Peter Jackson ("forgotten silver" and "bad taste" as much as the LOTR trilogy...).
In no particular order:
-Conan the Barbarian
-Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn
-Star Wars Episode 5: Empire Strikes Back
-Aliens
-13th Warrior
In order from most favorite to fifth most favorite:
-Legend (Ultimate edition with the UK cut). Best movie ever made!!!
-Willow
-Temple of Doom
-Stardust
-Heat
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Why does there have to be 5? How about 10?
10. Ravenous
9. Serenity
8. The Big Lebowksi
7. The Thing
6. Army of Darkness
5. Bowling for Columbine
4. Pitch Black
3. A Clockwork Orange
2. Man With A Screaming Brain
1. ZEITGEIST
Add the following to the list:
- The Boondock Saints
- Crash
- Stargate
- This Is Spinal Tap
- Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings'
- Willow
- Princess Mononoke (the only anime I've ever enjoyed)
- The Bone Snatcher
- Dagon
A lot of the movies listed here are all in my big, messy, "Top Fifty Or So In No Particular Order" list.
My all time top three are in a deadlocked tie for first place:
Blade Runner
Brazil
Fight Club
The Lord of the Rings movies are not allowed to be considered with other movies, and are set apart from the rest of the list. They are, in my book, their own, unique entity, that can be praised or critiqued on their own merits, but are not judged against other movies.
If I had to add two more movies to round out the top five, they would like be:
Memento
and.... I don't know. Can't pin one down. Right now, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Alien, and a couple of others are all vying for that last top five spot. Aske again in a couple of weeks, and the movies vying for the spot would probably be completely different.
Hmm.... I think it would have to be Dr. Strangelove right now. I would want to double represent a director in the top five.
1 - Ran
2 - Barry Lyndon
3 - Empire Strikes Back
4 - Once Upon A Time In The West
5 - Howl's Moving Castle
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The Lord of the Rings (the extended edition, and all three taken as a single film)
The Thing
The Ninth Gate
Excalibur
Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (or Episode V, even though none of us who saw it in the theater in 1980 ever called it that...)
You might laugh, and some people will hate and deride my choices, but, hey, they're mine-- out of hundreds of DVDs collected over some ten years, True Lies, Gattaca, Roxanne, Dead Poets Society, Wolf, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Witches of Eastwick, and the entire collection of Fawlty Towers, The X-Files, The Twilight Zone, ER, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Monty Python's Flying Circus make up the balance of what I took with me for a two year assignment overseas. It's interesting to me because before I left the States for Korea, I would have answered very differently; I guess my truthful answer is what I actually chose to bring with me.
Oh, I know I cheated by including all three LotR films as one Great Movie, so if I had to pick one, it would be--wait for it...here it comes...intake of breath...
The Two Towers.
While I really don't care for Legolas shieldboarding at Helm's Deep; and while the original battle resonates more with me (and I was actually a little pissed sitting in the middle-back of the theater on Wednesday, the 18th of December 2002, because the elves went where they never went and the Ents stayed away from where they should have been), I realize Jackson made a tough choice and conducted changes as necessary for the flow of the movie. As a film, TTT starts perfectly, has an appropriate level of build through the middle (despite Elves killing Orcs where it was so much cooler for Ents to simply rise up out of the ground and swallow the whole army back into the earth, leaving nothing behind), and I absolutely love the end, which is understandably the end of the movie and an appropriate level of denouement. Finally, I love Sam's speech toward the end. I'm usually very stony in temperament when it comes to watching movies or tv programs; films don't tend to make me cry. Nonetheless, Sam's speech was the moment in the film where I remember catching my wife peeking over at me to see my reaction; she knows me better than anyone else in the whole world, and she knew that moment would get me.
Sam: "It's in the great stories, Frodo. The one's that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?
"But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. These were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something."
Frodo: "What are we holding on to Sam?"
Sam: "There's some good in this world. And it's worth fighting for."
Only five will be tough. I've got lots of movies I like. But to name my top five favorites is very hard. Here goes (in chronological order):
Star Wars (the original, Episode IV: A New Hope), 1977
Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981
Ghostbusters, 1984
Heathers, 1989
The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001
There are too many honorable mentions to list, but many are referenced in posts above mine.
Creative Director
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1: Alien
2: The Thing (1982)
3: Jaws
4: Seven Samurai
5: Gojira (1954)
(and because I'm terrible at following directions, the next 15, in no particular order!)
6: The Exorcist
7: Schindler's List
8: Halloween (1978)
9: Pulp Fiction
10: Cloverfield
11: Yojimbo (and pretty much any Kurosawa movie, actually)
12: The Blair Witch Project
13: King Kong (1933)
14: Jurassic Park
15: Psycho
16: Lilo & Stitch
17: Aguirre, the Wrath of God
18: Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
19: Lord of the Rings (all three count as one movie!)
20: Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Of course, the exact list changes every time I write it out... but the first five are pretty solid. The first 3 are Rock Solid.
- The Castle of Cagliostro
- Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
- Yojimbo
- Run Lola Run
- Pi
Here we go:
1. BladeRunner
2. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship
3. Alien
4. The Thing (John Carpenter's)
5. The Godfather 1 & 2 (sorry, I couldn't pick one...)
And then:
- Almost anything by Alfred Hitchcock
- The Green Mile
- The Matrix
- Jaws
- The Exorcist
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Silence of the Lambs
- Saving Private Ryan
- Memento
Hurm.
Madadayo
Spirited Away
The Dead
Rankin/Bass The Hobbit (I know it's cheesy, but I love it)
Smoke Signals
Did my movie choices just totally bring the thread down? I knew I should have put Ernest Goes to Camp in there.
:-(