Top 5 fav movies of all time
 

My fav movies of all time are:

1. Jurassic Park and Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(tied for first)
2. A Lifeless Ordinary
3. The Matrix
4. Memento
5. Spider-Man

My fav movies
 

My fav. movies are:

1. The Fifth Element
2. The Virgin Suicuides
3. :rotfl: No Idea :rotfl:
4. :rotfl: No Idea :rotfl:
5. :rotfl: No Idea :rotfl:

My fav movies are as follows:

1. The Remains of the Day
2. The Matrix
3. Spider-man
4. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
5. The Shining

I own all these bad boys on VHS and DVD and I have signed DVD cases from Keanu Reeves, Jack Nicholson and Willem Dafoe.

You have Spider-Man on VHS and/or DVD? Huh?

1. Instinct
2. The Terminator
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Star Wars
5. Seven

My mistake, My mistake!!!!!:laugh:
Bootleg version.

1. Chinatown (1974)
2. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
4. BladeRunner (1982)
5. Casablanca (1942)

I'm still yet to see Chinatown!
It's infuritating!!

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Hana-bi
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. Fight Club

This is always the sorts of threads i hate because as soon as i right my fav's of all time i go and see a movie that instantly gets into this catergory ok so my CURRENT top five of all time would be in no particular order:

1. The Matrix
2. Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring
3. The Fifth Element
4. Highlander (any of them)
5. Little Nicky

I'm not going to say a word...

Whats wrong with little Nicky?, sure it hasnt got an amazing plot and a pretty bad story line but i sort of love the humour that hardly ever stops

I'm not going to say a word either...

Another really good movie that i just saw a little while ago, i could of put on my list. It was Interview with the Vampire, it was a really good movie.

Great Merciful Zeus, this is a tough question to answer. Five movies that I REALLY REALLY enjoy watching and that I can think of off the top of my head are...
1. LOTR:FOTR (But of course...)
2. In and Out (Kevin Kline's scene where he's trying to get in touch with his inner man never fails to have me rolling on the floor.)
3. The Shining (I first saw it when I was 12, at 1 in the morning, and when I was alone in the house for the night with only my 4 year old brother for company...creeped me the hell out. I slept with all of the lights on that night.)
4. Jurassic Park (Ahhh...fond memories.)
5. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (This is on here simply because it is one of my favorite movie scores ever and I liked the martial arts stuff.)

If I thought about it long enough, probably most of this five would be replaced, but these are ones that I like.

The Manchurian Candidate
Young Frankenstein
The Jerk
Psycho
The Usual Suspects

What?? We are supposed to be movie lovers and no one has mentioned The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Rear Window, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Citizen Kane or Schindler's List?? What is wrong with this site???

I thought I would just say that before someone else did. hehehe :)

Granted those movies you mentioned, firegod, are very good movies, but, personally, i dont always find the best movies to be the most enjoyable

My message was kind of tongue-in-cheek. I wanted to beat anyone to the punch who felt like telling us what uncultered slobs we are. I personaly don't think those movies I mentioned are among the best; I just realize that most big movie buffs feel that they are.

Sorry, it's sometimes difficult to pick up on tone through a message board :laugh:

anyway, you're right, i think a lot of the time people are pressured into likeing what's considered sophisticated, etc

I think Silver Bullet's movies are just fine. Granted I haven't seen Run Lola Run or all of Lawrence of Arabia. Its really, really hard to choose just five movies. I think I can only state my favorite movie of all time: The Wizard of Oz

lol I no, silver bullets choices were all valid contenders.

I know that after i post this, im gonna thionk of SO many better movis to put on but ne way... btw, these are no paticular order, just by top 5 movies

1) LoTR
2) Boiler Room
3) Goodfellas
4) Scarface
5) Lost and Delirious

other honorable mentions: Requiem For A Dream, Braveheart, LA Confidential, American Beauty, and Reservoir Dogs

Mine aren't valid 'contenders', although, sure, I'm glad you think that I've got relatively good taste.

This is a favorite films thread, not 'best' films thread.
It's completely opinionated. No competition at all.

There is a thread around here somewhere called "Best and Favorite", which might interest some of you.

I happen to think that "best of" lists are completely opinionated as well.

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Moulin Rouge!
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. Ghost World

Yeah, but you could say that the movies mentioned in 'best of' lists are contenders.

In no order:

- Bad Boy Bubby
- Audition
- The Big Lebowski
- Evil Dead 2
- Requiem for a Dream

1, Fight Club
2, Princess Mononoke
3, Usual Suspects
4, Bridge of the river Quai
5, Clerks

mine are........
1) Saving Private Ryan
2) Back to the Future
3) Lord of the Rings
4) Unbreakable
5) The Godfather Part II

The Godfather
Rocky
Boiler Room
Goodfellas
Raging Bull

Boiler Room = :laugh:

dude your crazy that movie rocked bro.

Quadruple :laugh:

I don't care what anyone says, you're a funny guy, Raziel!

dude you are a little tipsy time to pass out :yup: :yup: :yup:

YEAH GO JURASSIC PARK!
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
CTHD
Brotherhood of the Wolf

pulp fiction it's a must have. along with any other quinten tarentino movie. that guy is great.

My top 5 in no particular order:

Shawshank Redemption
Memento
Good Fellas
Say Anything
Rushmore

Your reading my mind man:yup:

1) Sling Blade- this movie is in a league of its own. It is at once poetic, religious, subtle, riveting, Shakespearian, funny, and totally realistic. 'Extraordinary things happening to ordinary people' has never been so well-portrayed.

2) GoodFellas- an epic good time. So much is going on, for such a long time, that you can watch the film a dozen times in one month, and not be bored. The best combination of quality and entertainment of any existing film.

3) Raging Bull- a flawless character study of a fascinating, yet tragic, historical figure. The performances are breathtaking, and the B&W mode makes it even more realisitic and gripping.

4) True Romance- the greatest modern American crime drama. Contains the most intense scenes of any movie I have witnessed. Controversial, gut-wrenching and politically incorrect all at once. Don't let the idea of Christian Slater as the lead steer you away. This movie is an American original. It is brutal and pure attitude-- without wallowing in MTV, over-the-top, stylized-garbage imagery that infects most of today's efforts.

5) Cool Hand Luke- so this is the tale of a born loser? I love it. Very, very few soul searing dramas this good have ever been made. The subtle Christ motifs throughout the film add a great dimension to an already poignant and dark tale. The 'man with no eyes' has become an all too recognizable figure of silent authoritarian brutality. Kennedy won an Oscar for best supporting actor. A must see that fails to look dated.

my top five are:

1. meet joe black
2. unbreakable
3. moulin rouge
4. girl interupted
5. the long kiss goodnight

also recently i got all the godfather films...they are cooool. and i love american beauty. got vertigo the other day too and was impressed by that.

i dont think a top five is enough. definatly need 10.

omg i forgot a beautiful mind. i got it two days ago and thought it was great!

My Top 5 of all time
 

1. Office Space
2. The usual Suspects
3. Forest Gump
4. The Game
5. October Sky

close top 5
ferris buellers day off
Remember the titans
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (The old Frank Capra Film)
Shawshank redemption

Re: My Top 5 of all time
 

:yup:

The Five Favorite movies of Monkeypunch: (It's so weird to refer to myself as a silly nickname....)

:rotfl:

1. Man on The Moon
2. Fight Club
3. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
4. Batman Returns
5. Saving Private Ryan

and honorable mention goes to Howard the Duck, which I know isn't a GOOD movie, but I've seen it more times than anything by Martin Scorese or any of the acknowledged classic movies out there. It's fun, in a weird, Meet the Feebles, Plan Nine from Outer Space way. And I totally love Lea Thompson and her big 80's hair...

Howard the Duck Rulez
 

Howard the Duck Rules, I made my girlfriend watch that movie once back in college, it is pretty cheezy but it still a classic. It was one of the first movies I remember watching.

You know what else is a great movie, but they end up playing it way to much on tv is "A Christmas Story" that was the first film I remember seeing in the theatre. and the first one I saw in the drive in was E.T.

"Tin Cup" another great movie that gets played to much

yes!!! great movie :: goes humming "shut your f*cking face uncle fukka...." ::

Some of us have too many favourites.
Ok, the top 5 for me (for sci-fi anyway)
1.Starwars(all of them)
2.Matrix
3.Aliens
4.T2
5.Fifth Element

ok u b*tches heres some real movies:
1. SLC Punk
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. American History X
4. Animal Room (see it!! its got matthew lillard! so does slc punk)
5. Donnie Darko

runner ups: fight club and requiem for a dream

!!!THE DEFINITIVE TOP FIVE!!!
 

1. Star Wars Episode V : The Empire Strikes Back
= Bullet (Both Equal)
3. Rest Of Star Wars Trilogy
4. Mallrats
5. Goodfellas

If there was a 6. Bring It On / Cruel Intentions

(Oh Common SMG & Kirten Dunst look TOO hot in these flims)

What you think?
Snoochy Bootcies!

The El Man

The rest of the original Star Wars trilogy is two films. And if you mean the entire saga, well, still it's not one spot on the table, right...?

:rolleyes:

lets see...

the order aint right, but in top five there are

AMELIE, of course.
everybody knows how good this film is. and cute

GODFATHER(PART1), best of them all, great gangster movie and
soft of love story.

BIG LEBOWSKI, this is so funny movie , my favourite coen
brothers movie.

LA CITTA DEL DONNE, favorite fellini movie.

DR STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING
AND LOVE THE BOMB, do i have to explain, i think not.
;)

I meant Ep 4 and 6. I know they are 2 films, but some people just class them as one to save writing them all. They are all quality.

And yet, not one film, but two. One film equals one of the top five, two equals two, two does not equal one.

does it really matter.

By the way AMILIE is wa[]\[]k.

what??????????


sorry man but didnt understand what you meant.
amelie is wa?k

Yeah, like I'm going to take the judgment of someone who thinks that two films are one...

lets have a see. the top 5 films of the ginger one

1.back to the future
2.star wars empire
3.terminator 2
4.one flew over the cukoos nest
5,the rock

but then again there is still some amazin films to be put in

se7en
fight club
mars attacks
platoon
grosse point blank



theres toooooooo many

I HAVE A SH*T LOAD....

1.) FACE OFF
2.) GONE IN 60 SECONDS
3.) FAST AND THE FURIOUS
4.) AMERICAN PIE 1 AND 2
5.) INDEPENDENCE DAY

My Top 5 in order:

1:Leon:Integral Version
2:The Shawshank Redemption
3:Terminator 2
4:Aliens
5:12 Angry Men

First time posting
 

Sorry, 5s not enough, but neither is 10 :)

Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
Blair WItch
Papillion
Cool Hand Luke
The Great Escape
Glory
Schindlers List
The Royal Tennenbaums
The Star Wars Trilogy


ack!!! I can't stop...

Blade Runner
Raiders of the lost ark
Jurrasic Park
Close Encounters
Jaws
Godfathers I & 2
Dogma
Being John Malcovich
Memento
LotR:FotR
Excalibur
Dances with Wolves
Strange Days
John Carpenters The Thing
Taxi Driver
Rain Man
As Good as it Gets......
sorry, got carried away, I could go on and on and on

1, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2, New Dragon Gate Inn
3, The Patroit
4, Lord Of The Rings : TFOTR
5, The Hitman

I need to see more films, I'm new:yup:

Never heard of it. It's one of your top five?! I must know more!

I too needed more films.

I forgot

Way of The Gun
Gross Point Blank
Mallrats
Gone In 60 Seconds
Enemy At The Gates
Traffic
Road Trip
Leon
The Way Of The Dragon
Blade Runner

etc
etc
:yup: :yup: :yup:

Foreign film: Xin long men ke zhan

Looks interesting.

Side-note: this thread has lost all meaning. :D

What are you on about, Chris? People are still posting their top 5 and even 10, favs! :p

Pfft. This has become a "just list a bunch of movies you like" thread. :D

Need I say why?
Need I leash out intolerance towards people who don't understand numbers?

:scream:

Re: First time posting
 

Glory, eh? :sick: :rolleyes:

Glory, eh?
 

ok, ok... I'm sorry:(

My top 5 are:

Saving Private Ryan
Schindlers List
Braveheart
Glory
The Blair Witch Project

I won't get carried away again;)

YES GLORY!!!

I think it's perhaps Brodericks best work. I'm also a HUGE fan of Freeman. I love a good war movie, and this one also has a good message for truth, equality, and respect. I love the part where the racist union soldier yells, "Give 'em hell 54th!" Great movie, I've seen it at least 10 times.

Re: Glory, eh?
 

How can the message be for "truth, equality, and respect" when the movie presents itself as the story of the black soldiers, but focuses mainly on the white characters? I don't mind that it's historically dishonest, but I think it's hollywood grandstanding of the worst kind - a movie that's ostensibly liberal in its purpose, but displays the type of conservatism unparalleled in war movies from other countries. And perhaps the real reason the racist union soldier yells "Give 'em hell 54th!" is because he, like many other soldiers, regarded the blacks as cannon fodder so the "real" forces could move in and take the base. Perhaps.

Re: Glory, eh?
 

:nope:





"If you say Ferris Bueller, you lose a testical."
"Oh. You know em'?"

I don't think that was the directors or screenwriters intent when having that gent yell that line. Remember that was not real footage of the war, but a representation of what the director wanted, a moment where the audience can get a good goosebump or two. I didn't look that deeply into it, I'm sorry...maybe I'm too simple. As far as it being conservative, I'm not sure what you mean. About it being viewed through a white's perspective, you're right. Ebert complained about that also, as for me...I'm not that picky. So it was through a white mans eye, it could have been better seen through Washingtons' character, but it wasn't done that way. As far as I can tell, most of the actors got equal screen time. Does that mean its a bad movie? Broderick, Elwes, Washington, Freeman, and Braugher, were all exceptional. They were all very believable, and the war footage was excellent. I even love the score that was written and performed for this film. Most of all for me though, was that it made me feel something. That's why I go to the movies.
Anyway, I respect your opinion, because there are plenty of movies others have loved that I saw as total trash. Case in point: Adam Sandler movies:sick:

BTW, I'm bummed because I won't be able to chat in real time with you guys because even though my post says 2:49AM 8-1-02, it's actually 6:49PM 7-31-02 for me, I guess thats better than 7-31-84:p

I thought Glory told the story from more than one perspective. I also think there was every bit as much focus on the Washington and Freeman characters as the Elwes character, so I don't see how the movie focused mainly on the white characterS, with emphasis on the s, there. Would it be nice to have a real good civil war movie with the biggest character being black? Sure, but it is also pretty damn nice to have Glory, if you ask me.

Top 5...or whatever
 

Absolute top 5 movies....

1. Interview With a Vampire. (It totally mauled (har har) the book but it was still good....and Brad Pitt looks good in black.....uhm..what was I saying?)

2. Fight Club. (That rolling ball with the frowny face cracked me up)

3. Blade (Coolness factor 5, and the only movie fully capable of almost entirely masking the lack of a good plot line).

4. The Matrix (Hard not to like it when you're stoned).

5. The Usual Suspects (Kevin Spacey is good. Enough said).

New Dragon Gate Inn

Cast:
Tony Leung Ka Fai, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen, Lawrence Ng

Director:
Raymond Lee, Ching Siu-Tung

The film, which is a remake of the 1966 King Hu movie Dragon's Gate Inn, tells a simple, yet interesting story. An evil eunuch named Tsao (the always entertaining Donny Yen) wields great power in China. As the film opens, we learn that he's holding two small children hostage, hoping to use them to lure an enemy out of hiding. However, the children are saved from the villainous Tsao by Chow Wai-on (Tony Leung Kar-fai) and Yau Mo-yan (Brigitte Lin). After a fierce battle, our heroes then take off into the hostile desert with Tsao's men in hot pursuit.

All eventually wind up at the Dragon Inn, a desert hotel run by Jade (Maggie Cheung), a woman with her own agenda (which includes getting Chow Wai-on into bed, robbing various guests at her establishment, and turning some of them into the main ingredient of the hotel's meat buns) who plays both sides for her own profit.


And the end fight scene is the amazing..

1/Aliens
2/The Thing
3/Alien
4/Fellowship of the Ring
5/Spiderman

Top 5 in no specific order...
John Carpenter's The Thing
Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
The Game
Terminator 2

1: Shawshank Redemption

2: True Romance

3: Jerry Maguire

4: The Matrix

5: Cannibal the Musical

6: Orgazmo

I have never thought about this before and it is so hard to try and compile a definative top five.

ouch my head hurts, there is so many. But I wont post any more here. The above were the first five that came in to my head.

OMG there is six there. Oh well, cant be bothered to edit it now. Doh

1. Spiderman
2. Tomb Raider
3. Attack of the Clones
4. Goldmember
5. Pepsi Soft-drink happy meal..

Oh wait....

nevermind...

1. It's a wonderful Life
2. Star Wars
3. Requeim for a Dream
4. Godfather 2
5. Raising Arizonia

mine are:

1.The Crow (the original with Brandon Lee not that other BS)
2.Snatch
3.Lock, Stock, and two smoking barrels
4.So I married an Axe Murderer
5.Mean Machine


Lord of the Rings beat them all but thats obvious so i tried to do my other movies

my favourite 5
 

Forest Gump
Gone With the Wind
Sword Fish
Far and Away

and.....................Ice Age!!!:love:

----Best Movies Of All Time----

--L.o.t.r -the fellowship of the ring--

-- Dogma--

--Evil Dead 1&2 (tie) --

--Jay and silent bob strike back--

--Mallrats--

--Evil dead 3-army of darkness--

Goodness. If those movies fit the requirement for Best Movies of all Time, why are we wasting our time watching anything but Kevin Smith Flicks? :rolleyes:

Sam Raimi too;)

:blush:
I knoooow. :p

My Top 5 Fav Films
 

1 - American Beauty
2 - Dawn Of The Dead
3 - The Godfather
4 - The Shawshank Redemption
5 - Man On The Moon

Anyhoo, mine has altered:

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Amelie
5. Dr. Strangelove OR: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Ever evolving...

Top 5 movies huh?
Well, that can be difficult because some of my favorites include those I saw as a child.

Oh well here goze:

"Jaws"
Terminator2"
"Aliens"
"Grand Canyon"
"Flashdance"


...yes Flashdance!

1) 'lawrence of arabia' (yay, best yaoi ever! heh.)
2) 'aguirre: the wrath of god' (kinski's monologue at the end is the best i've ever seen: 'i will marry my daughter, and we shall found the purest nation this world has ever seen', heh, redickaliss.)
3) 'modern times' (chaplin's best silent film is good enough for me)
4) 'atlantic city' (cool portrait of a city where i've lived, with excellent crime story thrown in for good measure.)
5) 'horus: prince of the sun' (miyazaki and takahata, their most epic animated work was done together, in the 60's and 70's, contrary to popular belief that 'princess mononoke' and 'grave of the fireflies' are their best.)

too many that didnt make the cut, how about a top fifty or 100 list?

I love that movie! My favorite Chaplin of all time. From what I've seen, either your a Keaton or Chaplin person. I like them both, but am partial to 'ol Charlie. :D

hmmm, i just cant decide which i like better, slayton. chaplin's more accessible, and i think his labor and purpose is a bit more, well, inclusive. not just for his talent, but also in that his message goes beyond the medium itself, i think chaplin was probably the greatest comedian of all time.

i think keaton's talent is more spontaneous, and he's definately the more talented physical commedian, though his stuff is far wierder, and doesnt hold up as long as chaplin's, not least because he was more obsessed with the medium itself. so it took a while, but i eventually came to see that keaton's passion is just less obvious, but no smaller, particularly after seeing 'the playhouse.'

o n l y f i v e . . . h m m m

-there are so many-
1. pulp fiction, lotr, star wars (broad , yes i know)
2. chasing amy, dogma, clerks
3. mallratts. jay and silent bob strike back
4. snatch, platoon, high crimes
5. monty python and quest for the holy grail, princess bride

Right Now......

01. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
02. 49th Parallel (Powell & Pressburger, 1941)
03. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
04. Bob Le Flambeur (Melville, 1955)
05. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)

1. Braveheart
2. The Natural
3. Rocky
4. Fearless
5. Without Limits
6. The Empire Strikes Back
7. Highlander
8. The Terminator
9. Star Wars: A New Hope
10. Godfather Part 2
11. The Last Of The Mohicans
12. Let It Ride
13. The Princess Bride
14. Young Frankenstein
15. Johnny Dangerously
16. Frequency
17. Army Of Darkness
18. Running On Empty
19. Glory
20. Lord of The Rings
21. And Justice For All
22. Aliens
23. Return Of The Jedi
24. StarTrek 6 The Undiscovered Country
25. Witness


Oh, My Bad, u said top 5...;)

1. Memento
2. Life is Beautiful
3. Primal Fear
4. The Game
5. The Little Mermaid

Oh, and Seven.

its amazing how many Newbies cant count :D, dont worry Mandy just kidding, good choices, welcome to the forums

Re: Top 5
 

1.. amelie
2.. dancer in the dark
3.. life is beautiful
4.. fight club
5.. magnolia