List your TOP 5 favorite movies of all time!

[Kat]

List your TOP 5 favorite movies of all time!

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Thought this might be fun and innteresting.
All u gotta do is list ur top 5 favorite movies of all time: ok ill start

1. Pulp Fiction
2. French Connection
3. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. Clockwork Orange
5. Easy Rider

Gota post this before l change my mind...so many good movies out there.

[jhar26]

Will be interesting. Have to think long and hard before I'll be able to decide.

Gaston

[walt]

nice idea

all about eve
rosemary's baby
the maltese falcoln
midnight cowboy
valley of the dolls

[bluesron]

The Searchers
My Darling Clementine
Grapes of Wrath
Casablanca
Duck Soup

for today anyway

Ron

[Kathy ~]

my choices:
1. DREAMER
2. BLUES BROTHERS
3. THE QUIET MAN
4. THE CINCINNATI KID
5. GONE WITH THE WIND

LONG MAY YOU RUN ~

KATHY ~

[Kathy ~]

I GOT KARMA !! THANKS

I DON'T EXCITE OR SMITE THOUGH !!

[Kathy ~]

** WITH KAT, WALT & RON.. I WOULD ADD THESE TO MY LIST ( IF IT WERE A TOP 50)...

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Grapes of Wrath
midnight cowboy
valley of the dolls

[arjan]

Something like:

1 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2 Natural born killers (1994)
3 Amores Perros (2000)
4 The Exorcist (1973)
5 Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain (2001)

[erik]

For purposes of limiting it to five, here are mine.

1. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY[/color]



2. DUEL
3. THE WILD BUNCH
4. DR. STRANGELOVE
5. JFK

[jhar26]

This is impossible! ....but it's fun

-THE WIZARD OF OZ
-CITY LIGHTS
-CASABLANCA
-WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
-BOMBSHELL

And as is probablt the case for everyone else....If you ask me tomorrow this will be a completely different list. Good thread, Kat!

Gaston

[Andrew]

In no particular order...

Beautiful Thing
2001: A Space Odyssey
Magnolia
Fight Club
The Matrix

Andrew

[walt]

once again
a beautiful list mr gaston

[robertaxel]

As of today (in no particular order)

Citizen Kane
Dr. Strangelove
Chinatown
Lawrence of Arabia
The Wanderers (this requires some explanation, as it is by no means a ‘classic’ film. However, it has such strong personal ties for me (depicting an era which was strongly part of my adolescence – and perfectly too, that I have to include it)

Honorable mention:

Annie Hall (Woody at or near his best – Marshall McLuhan scene alone worth watching)
Somewhere in Time – The genres of time travel and romance have never been mixed nearly this well before or since)
JFK – My favorite Oliver Stone film, and an amazing job of directing. In addition, this movie also was invaluable in influencing the government to release many previously classified documents (what were they hiding decades after the assassination?)
Airplane – pure lunacy, and my favorite sight gag movie by far
Time Machine (1960) - A prime example of how characters and storytelling trump empty special effects by far – the remake does not even begin to compare. Besides being a beautifully made sci-fi movie, George Pal did not neglect H.G. Wells’ social commentary (Wells used the story as a vehicle to voice his outrage at society’s shortcomings)

Robert

[erik]

Quotes by robertaxel:

Dr. Strangelove

I agree with this one most certainly--it is probably the single greatest political black comedy ever made.

honorable mention
JFK – My favorite Oliver Stone film, and an amazing job of directing. In addition, this movie also was invaluable in influencing the government to release many previously classified documents (what were they hiding decades after the assassination?)

Another excellent film--especially, in my opinion, for showing how much more likely it is that there were multiple shooters in Dealey that day and, even more, for plausibly explaining why it was that the assassination was carried out in the first place.

[jhar26]

walt said:

once again
a beautiful list mr gaston

Thanks. Great movies, but looking at that little list again I realize now that I'm a bit old fashionned.

Gaston

[Kathy ~]

GASTON, I NEVER WOULD HAVE PEGGED YOU FOR AN "OZ" FAN.

I KNOW IT'S JUDY & CO. THE MUSIC AND THE SCENERY ETC.. BUT I NEVER THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE ON YOUR LIST.. NUMBER ONE TOO..

MANY AROUND HERE HAVE RAVED ABOUT THE PLAY "WICKED".. KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT? GLAD TO GIVE A REVIEW.. IT'S ABOUT HOW THE WITCHES CAME TO BE..

( OF COURSE, MY WELSH WITCH IS NOT INCLUDED)..

[jhar26]

nicksred said:

GASTON, I NEVER WOULD HAVE PEGGED YOU FOR AN "OZ" FAN.

I KNOW IT'S JUDY & CO. THE MUSIC AND THE SCENERY ETC.. BUT I NEVER THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE ON YOUR LIST.. NUMBER ONE TOO..

You shouldn't take the ranking too seriously. They are just five movies that I think are masterpieces. Next week my list might consist of five other movies that I love just as much. But nevertheless, The Wizard Of Oz is brilliant, Kathy. Hard as they may try with their special effects and computer animation today, no other movie comes close in creating the fantasy wonderland that we got with Oz. The story, the dialogues, the music, the make-up, Dorothy, the scenery, the acting, everything about The Wizard Of Oz is absolute perfection.

Gaston

[dave]

My top 5

1. Annie Hall - it is watchable over and over again

2. In the Company of Men - cruelty without violence

3. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - so well acted

4. American Beauty - all that is cracked up to be

5. The Godather - the epitome of an epic


Wanderers is a legendary film, I can watch that over and over. Much like Valley Girl and Saturday Night Fever, such social statements of their time period.

[robertaxel]

dave said:

My top 5

Wanderers is a legendary film, I can watch that over and over. Much like Valley Girl and Saturday Night Fever, such social statements of their time period.

absolutely.. with the criminally underrated and unappreciated Karen Allen.. I hope to post in the movies group about her soon..

robert

[dave]

Gosh Karen Allen, wasn't she given away in the poker game in that movie, prior to having a fling with professor Donald Sutherland in Animal House, she was a pretty understated actress.

[robertaxel]

dave said:

Gosh Karen Allen, wasn't she given away in the poker game in that movie, prior to having a fling with professor Donald Sutherland in Animal House, she was a pretty understated actress.

Karen Allen was in the famous strip poker scene in The Wanderers, yep...maybe my favorite Karen Allen scene was her decking Harrison Ford in 'Raiders' .. of course, her drinking the natives under the table was cool also.

Robert

[dave]

I liked her best in Starman a very underrated John Carpenter movie

[robertaxel]

dave said:

I liked her best in Starman a very underrated John Carpenter movie

Yes, I have to revisit that one.. Jeff Bridges solid as always.. a bit of a change for Mr. Carpenter

[erik]

Quote by robertaxel:

Yes, I have to revisit that one.. Jeff Bridges solid as always.. a bit of a change for Mr. Carpenter

Yes, and I think he got away from simply doing truly great stuff like that to where he became a B-grade goremeister, in my opinion. THE THING, as gruesome as it was, was a very good movie; so too were THE FOG, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, and, of course HALLOWEEN. But I don't think Carpenter did anything truly special anymore after STARMAN.

[Antonio]

1. The forbidden planet
2. 2001: a space odissey
3. Schindler’s List
4. Le trou (don’t know an English title, the translation would have been “the hole”)
5. So Close to Life (UK) aka Brink of Life (USA)

Antonio