What are your Top 5 movies?

[cowboyec]

5 Favorite Sci-Fi Movies
1.day the earth stood still...original 50s version...GREAT story.
2.close encounters of the third kind...I believe its based on a true story.
3.war of the worlds...original 50s version...great story telling.
4.earth vs the flying saucers...again....based on a true story.
5.the thing from another world....the REAL truth about the artic.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Some solid movies there.

I would have loved to include...

Forbidden Planet
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Young Frankenstein

On my list but couldn't muscle them into the top 5.

How could I have forgotten Young Frankenstein?

It crossed my mind that another topic regarding movies might be "What's your most quoted movie?"

I've found movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("Merely a flesh wound..."), Austin Powers ("Yeah, baby"), Young Frankenstein ("Could be worse... could be raining..."), Caddyshack ("Cinderella Story....used to be a caddy..."), and the Pink Panther ("Does your dog bite?") among others.

 

[Xelda]

I liked the newer True Grit with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon better than the original version with John Wayne.

Me too, but you don't say that out loud here without raising some eyebrows. I bought that version of True Grit. The girl is amazing in it.

 

[Xelda]

ah....the hell with being "fair"...."inclusive"...."objective".

gotta be me.
gotta do it.

5 ALL-TIME FAVORITE MOVIES:
1.Thats The Way It Is-Elvis.
2.Elvis On Tour-Elvis.
3.Jailhouse Rock-Elvis.
4.G.I. Blues-Elvis.
5.Charro-Elvis.

I feel better.

I'm proud of you, cowboyec! I had to scoot my chick flicks off to the side so I could appear tough. Also had to leave off the Nutty Professor, which hurts!

 

[cowboy_ron]

Me too, but you don't say that out loud here without raising some eyebrows. I bought that version of True Grit. The girl is amazing in it.

Yea, she was really good, especially when she was bartering.

 

[Xelda]

How could I have forgotten Young Frankenstein?

It crossed my mind that another topic regarding movies might be "What's your most quoted movie?"

I've found movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("Merely a flesh wound..."), Austin Powers ("Yeah, baby"), Young Frankenstein ("Could be worse... could be raining..."), Caddyshack ("Cinderella Story....used to be a caddy..."), and the Pink Panther ("Does your dog bite?") among others.

I thought you said your dog doesn't bite!
THAT is not my dog.

 

[Silver Surfer]

I thought you said your dog doesn't bite!
THAT is not my dog.

Remember, you have to say it with the bad french accent.... "Du yu ave a hrrrume?" and "Duz yur doug baht?

 

[CyberB0b]

Yeah, I love Chris Nolan and his movies always seem to have some good depth to them. There were some really good underlying tones in Interstellar.

Also, I have a technical question. Do movie trilogy's or series count as one movie or do they have to count as one spot in the top 5. For example, I love the Back to the Future trilogy. Can I count that as "one movie" or would all 3 take up 3 spots?

Probably pick one, since others have already picked Raiders and Empire.

 

[jsb357]

3. Cool Hand Luke

gotta think about the other two.

4. BladeRunner (orig w/ orig ending)

gotta think about the last one.

 

[jsb357]

4. BladeRunner (orig w/ orig ending)

gotta think about the last one.

5. Well this was a tough one. Last one on the top 5 list scratches some great movies.

Including...

Any other Clint Eastwood movies.

Any movie with Tom Hanks and there were a few great ones.

Any John Wayne movie.

Any other war movies and I'm a big fan of the genre.

Any other westerns and I'm a big fan of the genre.

And it ended up being a toss up between...

The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur (both w/ Heston)

I've seen The Ten Commandments many more times as most have but...

5. Ben Hur

In closing I really wish the list was top 10 but as adults we gotta play by the rules.

So in closing and in order...

#1 The Good the Bad and The Ugly
#2 Apocalypse Now
#3 Cool Hand Luke
#4 BladeRunner
#5 Ben Hur

 

[Runwildboys]

How could I have forgotten Young Frankenstein?

It crossed my mind that another topic regarding movies might be "What's your most quoted movie?"

I've found movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("Merely a flesh wound..."), Austin Powers ("Yeah, baby"), Young Frankenstein ("Could be worse... could be raining..."), Caddyshack ("Cinderella Story....used to be a caddy..."), and the Pink Panther ("Does your dog bite?") among others.

Tommy Boy ("Tommy likey! Tommy want wingy!!")

 

[Runwildboys]

Me too, but you don't say that out loud here without raising some eyebrows. I bought that version of True Grit. The girl is amazing in it.

Plllluuuyghhhhhhh!!!!! The girl was better in the new one, but John Wayne IS Rooster Cogburn...and the shootout between him and the four other guys is (imo) the greatest shootout in movie history.

"Fill your hands, you SONUVA*****!!!!"

 

[Idgit]

Don't have a top-5, but a hat tip to the Usual Suspects and to In Bruges, which is a great movie hardly anybody has actually seen.

 

[Xelda]

Plllluuuyghhhhhhh!!!!! The girl was better in the new one, but John Wayne IS Rooster Cogburn...and the shootout between him and the four other guys is (imo) the greatest shootout in movie history.

"Fill your hands, you SONUVA*****!!!!"

Gotta be careful around those John Wayne fans. They might be more hard core than Elvis fans. Get around them drunk and they'll dot your eyes for speaking against The Duke. Elvis fans would just slap you for speaking against The King. We need some good nicknames like they've got. Runny, you can be The Duke Defender. Can I call you Dukey? Just kidding!

 

[Runwildboys]

Gotta be careful around those John Wayne fans. They might be more hard core than Elvis fans. Get around them drunk and they'll dot your eyes for speaking against The Duke. Elvis fans would just slap you for speaking against The King. We need some good nicknames like they've got. Runny, you can be The Duke Defender. Can I call you Dukey? Just kidding!

I'm not so much a John Wayne defender as I am someone who sees that the Duke had infinitely greater charisma and machismo than the lesser Fabulous Baker Boy.

And no offense taken, BTW. That was clever...ish.

 

[Blackrain]

First off this needs to be a top 10 too many good movies to just have 5 .

Dirty Harry
Animal House
Last Man Standing
Rocky
Rambo
Outlaw Josie Wales
Young Guns
Godfather
Jaws
Cool Hand Luke

And when Im in the right mood Bill and Teds Excellent adventure , Fast times at Ridgemont high and the Black knight

 

[CouchCoach]

First off this needs to be a top 10 too many good movies to just have 5 .

Dirty Harry
Animal House
Last Man Standing
Rocky
Rambo
Outlaw Josie Wales
Young Guns
Godfather
Jaws
Cool Hand Luke

And when Im in the right mood Bill and Teds Excellent adventure , Fast times at Ridgemont high and the Black knight

So, Black Rain isn't one of yours?

 

[GMO415]

Doesn't the movie need to have a universal scene that most people could quote?

 

[Corso]

Aw man... nobody mentioned All The President's Men.
That's a great movie and really hit how the press used to work.
It was more honest and tons of elbow grease.
I'm proud to have... well I interned, while they had me in college, and saw, for a brief moment, I how real news worked. Before things became all op-ed for ratings, money and influence.
It was too short an experience.

I weep for the altruistic teens who want to get into journalism right now. There's no place for the naive in that spectrum anymore.

 

[Corso]

Doesn't the movie need to have a universal scene that most people could quote?

In my top 5.
Every scene is sumptuous to almost every sense. It's darn near a perfect war movie, projecting the theme it's getting at.

And you would be even more amazed after reading the source material: Heart of Darkness.