General Chat / TOP 5 FAVORITE MOVIES EVER

post here your top 5 fav movies ever. no particular order, just the top 5 greatest of all-time

mine:

A Clockwork Orange-a trippy and bizzare cult film like no other

Fight Club-amazing and deep movie with great twist

Scarface-a classic, pacinos most explosive role, the most controversial movie ever

The Shining-a masterpeice thriller with amazing and memorable images and characters

Goodfellas-timeless gangster movie

Pretty sure this topic has surfaced before. But whatever.

Garden State
There Will Be Blood
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
No Country For Old Men
Little Miss Sunshine

Meh. Not necessarily the best movies, but my favorites:

*2001: A Space Odyssey
*Hellboy
*Minority Report
*Spirited Away
*Indiana Jones (1st or 3rd)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
This is England
24 Hour party people
It's all gone Pete Tong
The Dark Crystal

I dunno if I can give a top 5, but I'll just list 5 that are really good:

-Shawshank Redemption
-Lord of the Rings (I consider it one movie as it's one story)
-Pirates of the Carribean (all 3)
-The Matrix (again all 3)
-hell, all three again Indiana Jones Trilogy

Yeah not a lot of depth in most of them (not that I have anything against that), but I like movies with a good art direction. SR is one of the best movies ever. In the IMDb it rates as the 2nd best movie of alltime created and with reason.

For the reference: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top

National Treasure series - Perfect blend of history, mystery and comedy. My three fav things in movies.
Shawshank Redemption - Most awesome ending ever. I did not think it was possible to grin uncontrollably when a man blows his brains out, but I did.
Lord of the Rings series - Just amazing, tho the ending was not a surprise in any way.
Naked Gun series - Funniest movies ever
Borat - Funniest single movie ever

I'm not much of a movie watcher but. . .(in no particular order):

A Clockwork Orange
Pulp Fiction
12 Angry Men
Pan's Labyrinth
American History X

I guess I'll list my favorites, rather than what I view to be the best...

1) Jurassic Park
2) It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
3) Saving Private Ryan
4) Rescue Dawn
5) Indiana Jones-The Last Crusade

The Ring
Super Bad
Clover Field
Castaway
Grandma's Boy
-JDP

1. Serenity (by a very long shot)



2. Airplane (best comedy ever made)
3. Ocean's 11
4. James Bond: The Living Daylights
5. The Bourne Identity

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
American Beauty
Walk the Line
The Count of Monte Cristo
Hitch

Purple Rain
This is Spinal Tap
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Science of Sleep
The Jerk
City of God

6, sorry.

Oh god. There Will Be Blood, Pulp Fiction, Children of Men, V for Vendetta, and Hot Fuzz. Just what I could come up with off the top of my head. If I thought harder, I'd probably come up with different results.

Edited by tracidEdge, 25 February 2008 - 11:12 PM.

Good call on Science of Sleep, Frank. Going to see Be Kind Rewind when it's out?

and Hot Fuzz.

You guys over there enjoy the British humour?

These are my personal favourites, which nobody else will probably agree with.

300
Doom
Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift
Jet Li's Unleashed
Waterboy

WOW great topic! im not sure i could ever pick 5 without changing later on especially since there are so many old movies i havnt seen, but my top 5 as of now are

-Halloween
-Jurrasic Park
-Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
-Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi
-Gladiator


Fk

god I hate trying to do things like this. but I suppose:

Groundhog Day
Hot Fuzz
Fight Club
Snatch
and eh... any trilogy/series that other people have mentioned: matrix, lotr, potc etc etc

You guys over there enjoy the British humour?

^ Ha ha for the most part. I just loved how that movie started out so serious and slow. Then after you get to know all of the characters it stays serious but with the stupidest shit happening. It was a great movie. Shawn (Sean?) of the dead was real funny too. They're good funny actors.
-JDP

Good call on Science of Sleep, Frank. Going to see Be Kind Rewind when it's out?

yes sir!

I heard be kind rewind pretty much sucks, just fyi. Like they show all the good parts during the trailer and the rest is p mediocre.