What are your Top 5 movies?

[DFWJC]

Too many actual movies for me to come up with just a top five.

However I will list some of my favorite made for tv miniseries movies (even if it meant being on paid channels like HBO.

1. Shogun
2. Band of Brothers
3. Roots
4. Lonesome Dove
5. The Stand

You left out the Hatfields and McCoys

 

[viman96]

Absolutely nothing from today's Hollywood scene

How far back does "today's Hollywood scene" go? 5 yrs? 10 yrs? 20 yrs?

 

[DFWJC]

Please...….don't.

 

[Corso]

The finest movies I've ever seen?
That's difficult:

Leon: The Professional
Chinatown
Apocalypse Now
Duck Soup
Hopscotch

 

[9darter]

Have you ever watched LVT's The Kingdom?
Very creepy...

Oh yeah, I have the DVDs. Needless to say it's one of the most successful series in Danish television history. I won't agree with everything Mr. von Trier stands for, but I think his oeuvre speaks for itself. Great artist.

 

[9darter]

How far back does "today's Hollywood scene" go? 5 yrs? 10 yrs? 20 yrs?

Easily 10 years. You might be able to find lots of good stuff, but I've given up.

 

[Corso]

Yeah, I could make up stuff 'til the cows come home (whatever that means) but that doesn't make them good movies!

Hey! What's wrong with being a fan of terrible movies?

 

[CouchCoach]

I am going to cheat.

Comedies, and not in order
The Pink Panther
1941
Airplane
Caddyshack
Animal House

 

[Corso]

I am going to cheat.

Comedies, and not in order
The Pink Panther
1941
Airplane
Caddyshack
Animal House

I so very much love Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark.

 

[CouchCoach]

I so very much love Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark.

I have always loved the Pink Panther but after reading about Peter Sellers lack of a sense of humor, that catapulted it to #1 for me. David Niven said the production people and fellow actors would be cracking up after a Sellers' scene and he would just look at them. A true genius comedic actor.

 

[Corso]

I have always loved the Pink Panther but after reading about Peter Sellers lack of a sense of humor, that catapulted it to #1 for me. David Niven said the production people and fellow actors would be cracking up after a Sellers' scene and he would just look at them. A true genius comedic actor.

Fully agreed. One of the All-Timers.

 

[FloridaRob]

1-One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
2-Scent of a Woman
3-My Cousin Vinny
4-As Good as it Gets
5-Rainman (and I hate Tom Cruise)

 

[Big_D]

Goodfellas
The Shawhank Redemption
Back to the Future
Jaws
Platoon

 

[CouchCoach]

1-One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
2-Scent of a Woman
3-My Cousin Vinny
4-As Good as it Gets
5-Rainman (and I hate Tom Cruise)

"Yutes, did you say yutes"? Classic line and delivered by a real pro. His facial expressions in that cracked me up every time I saw them.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

1-One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
2-Scent of a Woman
3-My Cousin Vinny
4-As Good as it Gets
5-Rainman (and I hate Tom Cruise)

On the movie 'One Flew over...', you know the scene when they are on the road driving, and they pass a sign that says "Duck Xing"? That is down in Salem, Oregon...not too far from where I lived (late 80s-90s) when I was much younger and clearly remember the sign everytime we passed thru that area. When I saw it in the movie, I was kinda of set back, like wow! Cool.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

1. The Outlaw Josey Wales
2. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Jurassic Park
5. The Hangover

5 is tough to do. I had to kind of break it down to Western, Action, War, Sci Fi, and Comedy and take the top off all of those. Man it sure leaves out a lot of good films though.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

The Shining
Jaws
Shawshank
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Zulu

 

[CyberB0b]

Prince of Space
Space Mutiny
The Final Sacrifice (Rowsdower!!!)
The Psychotronic Man
and
R.O.T.O.R.

I could go on...

No 9th gate?

 

[Corso]

No 9th gate?

Haven't watched that in years...
I re-read the book constantly though - Le Club Dumas. Great novel.

Speaking of Roman Polanski films... Rosemary's Baby is way up there on my list also, but I already had Chinatown in there.

 

[jsb357]

Five favorite movies?

1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

gotta think about the other four.