Your Top 5 Favorite Movies Of All Time.

[Jodorowsky]

The most pretentious top 5 would have consisted of:

12 years of slave

schindler's list

selma

freedom writers

the pianist

 

[Bobby Boulders]

The most pretentious top 5 would have consisted of:

12 years of slave

schindler's list

selma

freedom writers

the pianist

That's not true, dummy... The Artist would have been included. Pretty close though.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

ah gotcha haha hell yeah


^GOAT moment in a comedy for me

Sadly, Ed Lauter recently just joined Satan in Hell. Satan rest his soul.

 

[Mastoness]

1. Shawshank Redemption

The rest of the best in no particular order:

The Godfather 1

Inception

Goodfellas

The Silence of the Lambs

 

[grecobjj]

First 5 that came to mind
Rocky
on the waterfront
Donnie brasco
no country for old men
old school

 

[grecobjj]

5 more after a little coffee
American history x
die hard
clerks
chasing amy
good will hunting



5 more 'cause fck picking just 5
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
saw
happy gilmore
batman begins
repo man
breakfast club

 

[LEWIS540]

It's also the #1 movie in the IMDB top 250. I think it's a pretty undisputed opinion that the oscar should have went to Shawshank.

Of the best movie nominations that year, imo:

Pulp Fiction > Quiz Show = Shawshank Redemption > Forrest Gump > Four Weddings and a Funeral



Was a really strong year, granted.

 

[HenryFlower]

First 5 that came to mind
Rocky
on the waterfront
Donnie brasco
no country for old men
old school

Just watched this for the first time the other day. Great film. Brando really sold the role well. Boris Kaufman established himself as one of the great "simple but effective" black and white cinematographers here as well. Although, I guess I would have to consider Kaufman's work as "a palette of greys with stark white contrasts" instead of a simple b&w delegation. His gritty b&w cinematography work always grabs me. And I will be damned if Tarr hasn't pulled inspiration from Kaufman's work on On the Waterfront due to all the shots that have the fog, mist, steam, and frozen breath of characters swimming through the scenes.

 

[spaghettilegs]

Evil Dead 2
Shaun of the Dead
The Descent
Versus
The Prestige

 

[TheCanadianGuy]

Back to the Future
Inglorious Basterds
Pulp Fiction
Midnight in Paris
Dazed and Confused

 

[Wrath621]

Tough to choose 5

This is subject to change because there are too many

In any order

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather: Part II
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Heat
5. Goodfellas

 

[TrainInVain]

Snatch
Big Trouble in Little China
The Thing
Aliens
Predator

 

[CO68]

I'll do it by decade, but in no particular order:

'20s
Metropolis
The General
The Gold Rush
Sherlock, Jr.
Nosferatu

'30s
City Lights
M
The Invisible Man
The Wizard of Oz
Modern Times

'40s
The Great Dictator
Citizen Kane
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
White Heat
The Third Man

'50s
Seven Samurai
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Paths of Glory
North by Northwest
Rear Window

'60s
Psycho
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2001: A Space Odyssey
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

'70s
Enter the Dragon
Up in Smoke
Jaws
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Wars

'80s
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Goonies
Aliens
Predator
Die Hard

'90s
The Silence of the Lambs
Reservoir Dogs
Tombstone
Se7en
Rounders

'00s
Boiler Room
LOTR movies (yeah, I'm going to cheat)
Bourne movies (and cheat again)
Beerfest
Iron Man

'10s
Guardians of the Galaxy
Gone Girl
The Hangover Part II
The Avengers
The Wolf of Wall Street

 

[scrubido]

This thread has made me realize how much time I've spent watching movies...

 

[scrubido]

This thread has made me realize how much time I've spent watching movies...

 

[llperez22]

my top 4 in no order, not sure what would be my fifth but this is my mount rushmore of film.

the dark knight
full metal jacket
tombstone
donnie darko

 

[HUNTERMANIA]

#1 - Black Swan
#2 - The Wrestler
#3 - The Fountain
#4 - Predestination
#5 - Collateral/Heat/Godfather I & II - all tied hahahaha I couldn't pick one.

Out of the #5's I've watched Collateral the most though.


Oh shit I left out Good Will Hunting... Honorable Mention? I really love Gangs of New York too ... Pi and Requiem for a Dream as well. Aronofsky >

That list is probably both in order of preference and in # of times watched, although I don't think Predestination has caught up with the others.. but it will.

I've watched Black Swan far more than any other movie, The Fountain and the The Wrestler had similarly profound effects on me in different ways and I've watched them both 50+ times... but Black Swan was like a spiritual experience watching it in theater that stayed with me for a long time - what happened that night, the sunrise the next morning is still the most amazing thing I've ever seen visually... I don't think it's ever left me. It was a life-changing experience, or, a life-realizing experience, anyways.

Spoiler

I could literally watch Black Swan every single day if I had to for a year and I would enjoy all 365 viewings.

 

[HUNTERMANIA]

If you haven't watched Black Swan I guess these are spoilers so:

Spoiler

^^ this moment followed by this scene:



Was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in theater. From 0:50 - 1:35, ESPECIALLY the scene from 1:15-1:26 gives me chills even now... it's like the perfection, she's feeling it move through her body and YOU can feel it and you can see it and it feels so good, omg, I can feel it now. Don't even get me started on Black Swan -- that scene is what life is about to me. THAT MOMENT. She felt it. I felt it. I know that feeling, and I want it back, lol.

I've never been so absorbed in a movie as I was watching the last 45 minutes of that movie. I sat in my theater seat stunned for the whole credits... I couldn't even move

 

[CO68]

It's also the #1 movie in the IMDB top 250. I think it's a pretty undisputed opinion that the oscar should have went to Shawshank.

It's pretty damn disputed. Pulp Fiction > Shawshank

 

[dissolved]

Dumb & Dumber
Austin Powers
The Big Lebowski
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
The Naked Gun

I like a man who likes comedies.