Your Top 5 movies

[Pelado]

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

[Commando]

I tell people that the script to GWH was so good that even Robin Williams couldn't screw it up!

Crazy that a couple of college students wrote that script. I wonder how much of it was changed once they got a studio contract after 4 years of shopping it around.

Netted himself a Best Supporting Actor while he was at it, too. I think comics make the best 'serious' actors-- Sandler, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, etc. They work so hard and grind just to get their delivery just right on stage while matching audience energy, that delivering straight lines to another actor in front of a director and film crew is child's play.

[falafel]

With all due respect, the correct answer is Sons of Provo.

With all due respect, Singles Ward is the best.

[Bo Diddley]

With all due respect, Singles Ward is the best.

With all due respect, you haven't even listed your top five, so how do we know we can even put any stock in your opinion?

[falafel]

With all due respect, you haven't even listed your top five, so how do we know we can even put any stock in your opinion?

With all due respect, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!

[Bo Diddley]

With all due respect, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!

With all due respect, watch your back!

[Non Sequitur]

• Godfather II
• Raging Bull
• Taxi Driver
• There Will Be Blood
• No Country For Old Men

[Art Vandelay]

• Godfather II
• Raging Bull
• Taxi Driver
• There Will Be Blood
• No Country For Old Men

I’m surprised we are the only two to mention No Country. Godfather 1/2 are the pinnacle of cinema. NCFOM is the best movie of the last 30 years, IMO.

[SeattleUte]

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 not revered as it should be because it humanizes Hitler. He loved his dog, was civil, even kind to his secretary, suffered. Not surprising. He was human. Maybe the real lesson of Nazis is the evil that man can do. How do you know you're not immune in different circumstances?

If you want to see what Hitler was really like, rather than the abstract personification of evil, watch it. That actor, Bruno Ganz, was highly accomplished, but ultimately made to play Hitler.

Can you imagine anything harder than plausibility dramatizing Hitler? Himmler, Goebbles, etc, also brilliant.

The fall of Berlin, the real life Götterdämmerung, also an amazing story, alongside the Bunker. Great battle scenes, and the horror on German faces hearing guttural Russian shouted in the smoke and mist, many hands going to the temple and blowing out brains, is awesome in a way.

I would have said such a film is impossible. But they did it, flawlessly.

Of course it's only 90 percent on rotten tomatoes because of the controversy and dark content.

Hitler's biggest tirade is great fodder for some very funny memes. But kind of detracts from the film's greatness abd grandeur.

By far the greatest film ever made.

[Pelado]

The Sting
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
Back to the Future
The Usual Suspects

Like others, I don't typically consider my "favorites". But these are some that I've watched and enjoyed several times.

[Art Vandelay]

Downfall is not revered as it should be because it humanizes Hitler. He loved his dog, was civil, even kind to his secretary, suffered. Not surprising. He was human. Maybe the real lesson of Nazis is the evil that man can do. How do you know you're not immune in different circumstances?

If you want to see what Hitler was really like, rather than the abstract personification of evil, watch it. That actor, Bruno Ganz, was highly accomplished, but ultimately made to play Hitler.

Can you imagine anything harder than plausibility dramatizing Hitler? Himmler, Goebbles, etc, also brilliant.

The fall of Berlin, the real life Götterdämmerung, also an amazing story, alongside the Bunker. Great battle scenes, and the horror on German faces hearing guttural Russian shouted in the smoke and mist, many hands going to the temple and blowing out brains, is awesome in a way.

I would have said such a film is impossible. But they did it, flawlessly.

Of course it's only 90 percent on rotten tomatoes because of the controversy and dark content.

Hitler's biggest tirade is great fodder for some very funny memes. But kind of detracts from the film's greatness abd grandeur.

By far the greatest film ever made.

Thanks for taking the time to type that. I’m sold. I’m flying to Hawaii tomorrow morning at 5:30. I’ll see if I can download it and watch it over the Pacific.

[Northwestcoug]

I’m surprised we are the only two to mention No Country. Godfather 1/2 are the pinnacle of cinema. NCFOM is the best movie of the last 30 years, IMO.

Huge fan of it. It's their most accomplished film and deserves the awards it got. Not my favorite Coen brothers film to watch, but I agree it's one of the best in the last couple of decades.

I still don't think I can narrow down my all time favorites to five. I'll have to weigh that.

[jadesroom]

True. Ben Hur has absolutely no humor in it.

[SeattleUte]

Huge fan of it. It's their most accomplished film and deserves the awards it got. Not my favorite Coen brothers film to watch, but I agree it's one of the best in the last couple of decades.

I still don't think I can narrow down my all time favorites to five. I'll have to weigh that.

I'm a Cormac McCarhy devotee. Next to his greatest narratives, no country is weak tea, tge novel and especially the film.

[Moliere]

Love seeing O, Brother on some lists. I love that movie. Not a top 5 for me but I still love it.