5 all time favorite Movies- name them

[Bills4everNY]

12 hours ago, Pete said:

The General

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

The Blues Brothers

Nanook of the North

Apocolypse Now

bonus- every Coen Brothers film

 

these 5 films- if they are ever on- I have to watch them.

 

Name your personal 5 favorite films.

"The General" would have made my list if it was top 10. Also love Buster Keaton's "The Cameraman."

[SinceThe70s]

 

This is an impossible task so I'll reserve the right to change my choices, but after scanning this thread and giving this a little thought:

 

Godfather II

Pulp Fiction

Midnight Run

Dr. Strangelove

Repo Man

[Simon]

Saving Private Ryan

Pulp Fiction

Cyrano de Bergerac (w/ Jose Ferrer)

The Big Lebowski

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

 

Damn, 5 is a tough number. No Butch and Sundance, No Paper Moon, no Apocalypse Now, no Secondhand Lions, no Dances with Wolves, no Jaws, no No Country for Old Men. That's a brutal chopping block.

 

 

8 hours ago, Augie said:

I’d add Contact to that list, not because it’s a great cinematic masterpiece but some things just speak to you more than others. 

 

Jodie Foster really nailed Sagan's Ellie Arroway character.

Great book, wonderful film. 👍

[Doc Brown]

Passion of the Christ

12 Years a Slave

All Quiet on The Western Front

Schindler's List

Dude Where's My Car

[US Egg]

5 hours ago, Bills4everNY said:

Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

👍

Russ Meyer movies, like Ed Wood movies, truly unique and unto themselves.

57 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

All Quiet on The Western Front

The 1930 version hits hard still. 

[Mark Vader]

1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:

Passion of the Christ

12 Years a Slave

All Quiet on The Western Front

Schindler's List

Dude Where's My Car

No love for Back to the Future? Great Scott!

[Doc Brown]

55 minutes ago, Mark Vader said:

No love for Back to the Future? Great Scott!

Poor attempt at a joke with four super serious critically acclaimed movies and then Dude Where's My Car.

 

My real list does of course include BTTF and four other random movies that I thought were well done and just kind of stuck with me over the years.  Honorable mentions would be Inglourious Basterds, Before Sunset, and Fargo.  Gangs of New York if done correctly could've been right up there as it painted an interesting time in US History that not many films have touched.  It was just too scattered and Daniel Day Louis was the only stand out actor with Dicaprio (who I usually like) and Diaz as miscast. 

 

Back to the Future

Prisoners

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

About Schmidt

Notorious

Edited yesterday at 06:06 AM by Doc Brown

[Doc Brown]

4 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

This is an impossible task so I'll reserve the right to change my choices, but after scanning this thread and giving this a little thought:

 

Godfather II

Pulp Fiction

Midnight Run

Dr. Strangelove

Repo Man

Damn.  I forgot about Midnight Run.  Excellent choice.  There's just so many good damn movies to consolidate it to 5.

[Uncle Monkeyhead]

Goodfellas

No Country for Old Men

Sling Blade

The Godfather (1 and/or 2)

The Exorcist

 

[ComradeKayAdams]

My top 5 (double asterisks for movies that have already been mentioned in the thread):

 

The Last of the Mohicans

L.A. Confidential**

Mulholland Drive

Rear Window

The Silence of the Lambs**

 

Honorable Mention #1: The Godfather**: It should probably be my #1 movie of all time, but I’m such a fan of Puzo’s book that it’s tough for the movie to live up to my super high standards.

 

Honorable Mention #2-3: The Big Lebowski**, The Notebook: I’ve probably seen these movies TOO many times, to the point of fatigue.

 

Honorable Mention #4-6: Saving Private Ryan**, Terminator 2, The Thing: I’m normally not a fan of the war, action, and horror movie genres. The fact that I enjoyed these movies so much means they’re worthy of a mention.

[eSJayDee]

I don't maintain a list, but off the top of my head -

V for Vendetta

Blues Brothers

Ferris Bueller

Shawshank

Wizard of Oz

[Steve O]

Ordinary People

Shawshank Redemption

Field of Dreams

Pulp Fiction

My Cousin Vinny Good Will Hunting

 

Edit: No one mentioned Good Will Hunting, so I replaced My Cousin Vinny with it. Both are great.

Edited yesterday at 12:31 PM by Steve O

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

 

 

The Deer Hunter 

 

Braveheart

 

Dances with Wolves

 

The Shootist

 

Uncle Buck

[BillsfaninSB]

Goodfellas

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Fight Club

Arrival

The Zone of Interest 

[Low Positive]

So, modern(ish) American movies:

1. Dazed and Confused
2. Big Lebowski
3. Annie Hall (I feel wrong for posting this, but I really love the movie)
4. French Connection
5. Royal Tenenbaums 

[Jauronimo]

Dark Knight

Ghostbusters

Gladiator

Braveheart

Toss-up between Avengers: Infinity War/Endgame, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

[Mark Vader]

16 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

Poor attempt at a joke with four super serious critically acclaimed movies and then Dude Where's My Car.

 

My real list does of course include BTTF and four other random movies that I thought were well done and just kind of stuck with me over the years.  Honorable mentions would be Inglourious Basterds, Before Sunset, and Fargo.  Gangs of New York if done correctly could've been right up there as it painted an interesting time in US History that not many films have touched.  It was just too scattered and Daniel Day Louis was the only stand out actor with Dicaprio (who I usually like) and Diaz as miscast. 

 

Back to the Future

Prisoners

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

About Schmidt

Notorious

Prisoners is an incredible movie. Hugh Jackman is great. That movie should have gotten more recognition from the Oscars.

 

Nice pick of Notorious to.

[Doc Brown]

4 hours ago, Mark Vader said:

Prisoners is an incredible movie. Hugh Jackman is great. That movie should have gotten more recognition from the Oscars.

 

Nice pick of Notorious to.

There were a lot of decent films that year and the subject matter is sometimes too dark for the Oscar voters.  A early year release hurt it too.  I thought Hanks deserved an Oscar nom for Captain Phillips that year too.

[major]

Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, All the Presidents Men, Halloween, Die Hard

[Mark Vader]

3 hours ago, Doc Brown said:

There were a lot of decent films that year and the subject matter is sometimes too dark for the Oscar voters.  A early year release hurt it too.  I thought Hanks deserved an Oscar nom for Captain Phillips that year too.

As I recall it was released in September, not too early, oh well. Denis Villenueve's movies have all been home runs, from what I've seen.