Movies What 5 movies should everyone see in their lifetime?

[Doughie99]

The Usual Suspects
Back To The Future
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Empire Strikes Back
L.A. Confidential

L.A.Confidential is fantástic. A favorite of mine.

 

[Madmartigains]

Wrong Turn 1-5

 

[tank666]

The Usual Suspects
Back To The Future
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Empire Strikes Back
L.A. Confidential

Damn I should have included BTTF which is a masterpiece and probably my favourite movie ever. It's one of those movies where everything that happens is for a reason.

 

[tank666]

The Wizard of Oz
Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
The Godfather
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Big Trouble in Little China/Star Wars V/Apocalypse Now/Excalibur/Flash Gordon/Dr. Strangelove/Jaws/Planes, Trains and Automobiles/National Lampoon's Vacation/Chinatown/The Naked Gun/The Princess Bride/The Dirty Dozen/Touch of Evil/Blade Runner/Aliens/Dirty Harry/This Is Spinal Tap/The Elephant Man/Ghostbusters/Young Frankenstein/Goldfinger/Galaxy Quest/In the Heat of the Night/Dick Tracy/Papillion/Midnight Cowboy/MASH/Rocky/Grumpy Old Men/Coming to America/Star Trek The Motion Picture/Casablanca/Escape From New York/The Thing/Bullitt/Titanic/Conan The Barbarian/The Rocky Horror Picture Show/Clue/The Burbs/Labyrinth/The Dark Crystal/A Boy and His Dog

So like about 90 movies then, instead of 5? You have good taste though I love most of those.

 

[frankmorris1]

Goodfellas
Terminator 2
Die hard
The dark knight
The matrix

 

[The Big Babou]

Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Naked Gun
Naked Gun 2 1/2
Naked Gun 33 1/3

Almost identical to TS

 

[The Big Babou]

Oldboy
City of Lost Children
Pan's Labyrinth
Eyes Wide Shut
Dumb and Dumber

 

[Ima5starman]

Casablanca
It's a wonderful life
Jaws
Field of dreams
Star Wars a new hope

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

1) Groundhog Day


Almost everyone could learn a lot from it

 

[Gene Tunney]

So like about 90 movies then, instead of 5? You have good taste though I love most of those.

My 5th choice could be any of those films.

The top 4 for sure though, I think.

 

[Natural Order]

The Godfather
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Straw Dogs
Bullitt
A Shot in the Dark

 

[Captain Tenneal]

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Soul Man
Gone with the Wind
Memento
Birth of a Nation

 

[HavenMess]

Goodwill Hunting
Boondocks Saints
The Untouchables
Caddyshack
Jurassic Park

 

[Bia]

Fast and Furious 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

 

[koquerelle]

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Lawrence of Arabia
Ran
The Godfather
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

 

[rustledjimjams]

Predator
Jurassic park
Terminator 2
Indiana Jones 2 temple of doom
Avatar

Demolition man
Superman man of steel
Xmen days of future past

 

[Scheme]

The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
Godfather
Requiem for a Dream - mostly as a warning against drugs
Shrek
The Matrix

 

[lakersfan45]

Jaws sucks let’s just stand around for an hour talking about a shark

 

[BFoe]

8 1/2
Life Is Beautiful
2001 A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
The Wizard of Oz

These aren’t my top 5 faves necessarily, just films that I think do a good job of capturing the human experience.

 

[djacobox372]

2001 A Space Odyssey
Rocky
Jaws
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future