Your Top 5 movies

[Art Vandelay]

I know this is being discussed in another thread but I would like a dedicated one I can search for in the future.

What are your top 5 favorite movies?

Random order for me:

• No Country For Old Men
• Heat
• Godfather 1&2 (cheating. I know)
• Good Will Hunting

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• Bourne Identity or Caddyshack. These are nowhere near the caliber of the top 4, but I love rewatching both of these.

[Bo Diddley]

I don't see a ton of movies, so take that into consideration.

1. What About Bob?
2. True West
3. The Matrix
4. Forrest Gump
5. LOTR

Honorable mention: Hunt For Red October, Braveheart, Toy Story, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

[SeattleUte]

1) Downfall
2) There Will be Blood
3) The Godfather I
4) Apocalypse Now
5) Crimes and Misdemeanors
5) (tie) The Lives of Others

[Northwestcoug]

Impossible for me to say my top 5 now. However in the 90's when I was the resident movie critic on our myfamily.com site (anyone remember that one?), my list was:

Shawshank Redemption
Lion King
Quiz Show
A Perfect World
Unforgiven

Of these, probably Shawshank and Lion King would remain in any top ever movie list of mine. The other three are still great, but they were probably more important to me back then due to different life circumstances, etc.

[Pelado]

Impossible for me to say my top 5 now. However in the 90's when I was the resident movie critic on our myfamily.com site (anyone remember that one?), my list was:

Shawshank Redemption
Lion King
Quiz Show
A Perfect World
Unforgiven

Of these, probably Shawshank and Lion King would remain in any top ever movie list of mine. The other three are still great, but they were probably more important to me back then due to different life circumstances, etc.

I have no recollection of "A Perfect World". It wasn't during my mission and it's not rated R, so I don't know how I missed that one.

[jadesroom]

1. The Great Escape
2. Cool Hand Luke
3. Ben Hur
4. The Dirty Dozen
5. Miss Congeniality

[falafel]

Impossible for me to say my top 5 now. However in the 90's when I was the resident movie critic on our myfamily.com site (anyone remember that one?), my list was:

Shawshank Redemption
Lion King
Quiz Show
A Perfect World
Unforgiven

Of these, probably Shawshank and Lion King would remain in any top ever movie list of mine. The other three are still great, but they were probably more important to me back then due to different life circumstances, etc.

Lion King???

[Copelius]

Quiet Man
Outlaw Josey Wales
Shawshank
Casablanca
The Shootist or Cowboys, depending on the day

[Art Vandelay]

1) Downfall
2) There Will be Blood
3) The Godfather I
4) Apocalypse Now
5) Crimes and Misdemeanors
5) (tie) The Lives of Others

I've never seen Downfall. Is that the Hitler movie all the memes are made from?

There Will be Blood was one of my honorable mentions along with Goodfellas and Almost Famous.

[Commando]

No idea what my 'top 5 of all time' are. I've seen way too many movies. I could name 5 movies that I'd drop everything to watch, though...


-- The Shawshank Redemption
-- Good Will Hunting
-- Pee Wee's Big Adventure
-- Rocky
-- Friday

[Jeff Lebowski]

No idea what my 'top 5 of all time' are. I've seen way too many movies. I could name 5 movies that I'd drop everything to watch, though...


-- The Shawshank Redemption
-- Good Will Hunting
-- Pee Wee's Big Adventure
-- Rocky
-- Friday

Good Will Hunting is one of my faves. Watched it with the wife a couple of days ago.

[Clark Addison]

I am terrible with favorites. I always have a hard time with password recovery questions because I don't have favorites. I am also not much of a movie guy. So here is a list of my top 5 today which may change at any time. These are in no particular order.

Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
O Brother, Where Art Thou
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wall-E

Honorable Mention:
Fletch
Termors

[Jeff Lebowski]

I've never seen Downfall. Is that the Hitler movie all the memes are made from?

There Will be Blood was one of my honorable mentions along with Goodfellas and Almost Famous.

Downfall is fantastic. A very worthy contender. And yes, the source of the video memes.

[Northwestcoug]

I have no recollection of "A Perfect World". It wasn't during my mission and it's not rated R, so I don't know how I missed that one.

I don't think it's widely known. I loved the acting and story. I'm not sure how it's held up thought. I haven't seen it since my Provo days.

Lion King???

Oh yeah. Beautiful (and I mean beautiful) score. Tight concise plot. LOL and poignant moments. What's not to love?

[PaloAltoCougar]

Depends on my mood, and there are probably twenty that could vie for my top five. But at the moment, I'll go with:

Crimes and Misdemeanors
Patton
Ordinary People
Diva
Shawshank

And an honorable mention to Goldfinger. My parents took me to see it when I was twelve, having no idea what the movie was about, and they were mortified as the movie unfolded. When Shirley Eaton turned onto her back and gave Bond the "come hither" look, I became a man that day my friends. By no means a top five movie, and yet that cinematic experience remains unsurpassed.