Your Top Five Favorite Movies Of All Time

[uskthunder]

In no particular order:

Midnight Cowboy

Seven Samurai

Airplane!

The Empire Strikes Back

Casablanca
Also like Kevin Smith's films (at my age, for shame) and anything by Kurosawa. I don't mind a good western. The wife and I decided to fill in the blanks on the IMDb top 250 that we hadn't seen. Fellini's 8 1/2 nearly put us off watching another film ever again. It's a darling of many film buffs I know, but by thunder, I found it incomprehensible.

 

[saint007]

@ Sablebrush regarding Gone With The Wind;
Certainly an epic movie of its day that had worldwide acclaim and was a dear movie for most Southerners at the time of its release. An accurate depiction of Northern aggression and insurgent terror waged by one of the worst Presidents in our History. Hollywood has been very kind to Lincoln whereas the real Lincoln opposed the 13th Amendment in the late 1850's and only supported it in 1863 to keep European powers out of our Civil War. As always, the victors get to write the History books.
Today, the movie is mostly forgotten by those under 60 years of age.

 

[ssjones]

We have Gone with The Wind on DVD but to tell the truth, I've never been able to make it the whole way thru that one (the wife and daughters love it).

 

[sablebrush52]

We have Gone with The Wind on DVD but to tell the truth, I've never been able to make it the whole way thru that one (the wife and daughters love it).

I have that problem with all of the LOTR films and The Hobbit. They're absolutely gorgeous films, made with passion, care, and love. And they knock me out quicker than Temazepam.

 

[doctorthoss]

LOTR trilogy (Tolkien always said it was one book split into three parts, so I say this is one movie split into three ).

Drugstore Cowboy

The Blues Brothers

The Return of the Living Dead

The Unforgiven
There are many, many others that could make this list, such as the Alien franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pulp Fiction, Casino Royale, Rocky Horror, etc. etc. This is like picking 5 desert island tobaccos. It's kind of an exercise in always shifting futility!

 

[docrx]

Deer Hunter
Sound of Music
Who Killed Liberty Valence
Pretty Woman
The Verdict
Honorable mention:
March of the Wooden Soldiers
Dirty Dozen
Jim Thorpe All American
Dog Day Afternoon
Stripes

 

[sallow]

How could I forget Arthur?
Arthur, a real woman could stop you from drinking.
It would have to be a real big woman.

 

[sfsteves]

sablebrush52 said:

I have that problem with all of the LOTR films and The Hobbit.

They're absolutely gorgeous films, made with passion, care, and

love. And they knock me out quicker than Temazepam.

Barry Lyndon is one that matches that description for me ... stunning cinematography, but otherwise a real snoozer ... to me, it looked as if Kubrick and Alcott discovered some beautiful locations, then manipulated the script to include the locations ... "look, there's a great looking lake ... let's put someone in a boat and get a shot of him on the water."

 

[irish]

In Harms Way

The Searchers

Rio Bravo

Big Jake

Rooster Cogburn

 

[dryseason91]

The Thin Red Line

Goodfellas

There Will Be Blood

Let the Right One In

And I know it only came out recently, but 12 Years A Slave absolutely knocked my socks off.

 

[sablebrush52]

+1 on the soporific qualities of Barry Lyndon. But it was a groundbreaking film for its use of a then new high speed film stock, coupled with Zeiss super fast Planar f.07 lenses developed for NASA that made it possible to shoot interiors under candlelight and garnered cinematographer John Alcott the Oscar for Best Cinematography.

 

[condorlover1]

Deadlier Than The Male
Some Girls Do
Diamonds Are Forever
Spy Maker - The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
The Ipcress File
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins! Lol

 

[docwatson]

Love Song for Bobby Long
the Usual Suspects
Planes, Trains and Automobiles ( funniest movie ever)
The General's Daughter
Cool Hand Luke
That's just a start of 5 that came to mind and I realize it's about movies and not actors but just about anything with Kevin Spacey, Robert Duval, Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster, Paul Newman or Cate Blanchett could be listed as well.

 

[warren]

Gotta add "Lilies of the Field." It's wonderful time waster.

 

[ssjones]

Did anyone mention "The Third Man"? An Orson Welles masterpiece.

 

[jaxon]

Top 5 favorite films, in no real order.
Rashomon

Blazing Saddles

Magnificent 7

Star Wars (Original version, Han shot first!)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I can also never pass up a Vincent Price or Marx Brothers film when it's on TV.

 

[ssjones]

No on has mentioned "Pappillion", McQueen and Hoffman were outstanding. What an epic. (I need to get that one on Blue-Ray)
Update: Blu-Ray ordered!

 

[houndstooth]

ssjones, yes, that is a great film. Easily could have been in my top 5 list.

 

[andrew]

Salo

 

[sfsteves]

ssjones said:

No one has mentioned "Papillon"

Actually, pitchfork listed it in the 5th post in this thread (first page).
But, you're spot-on with your assessment that it was uber-fine work from McQueen and Hoffman in an epic film.