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What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« on: August 12, 2022, 04:27:46 PM »
For me, in no particular order:

1. The Godfather
2. Terminator 2
3. The silence of the lambs
4. The Crow
5. The Matrix


How about you guys?

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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2022, 05:17:31 PM »
Off the top of my head...

1- Shawshank Redemption
2- LOTR Trilogy (no, I'm not separating them)
3- Star Wars
4- The Green Mile
5- Good Will Hunting (probably could be switched out with Dead Poet's Society at will, seriously...I can watch the Oh Captain scene and it's Dead Poets, watch the Your Move Chief scene and it's Good Will...both outstanding flicks with two of Robin's best performances)
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2022, 05:35:25 PM »
1.  LA Confidential
2.  In Bruges
3.  Dead Poets Society
4.  The Usual Suspects
5.  The Nice Guys
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2022, 06:02:03 PM »
5 is very tough but something like this:

1. The Godfather Part 2 (Coppola)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
4. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)

Continuing...

6. The Exorcist (Friedkin)
7. North by North West (Hitchcock)
8. JFK (Oliver Stone - factually this film is deranged lunacy but it's exhilirating film-making and entertainment)
9. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
10. Dial M For Murder (Hitchcock)

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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2022, 06:04:41 PM »
The first 2 posts mentioned three of my favourites - Terminator 2, The Matrix and LOTR. I've never been able to pick an absolute favourite, but those are the three that always come to mind when I think about it.

I'll have to think a bit more about another couple for a top 5 and maybe take some inspiration from other posts in this thread ;D
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2022, 06:23:16 PM »
1- Blade Runner
2- Star Wars (A new hope)
3- Angel Heart
4- The Shawshank Redemption
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2022, 07:52:32 PM »
1- Blade Runner
2- Star Wars (A new hope)
3- Angel Heart
4- The Shawshank Redemption
5- The Player




Awesome movie, it's been a while since I saw it, has similar vibes to Jacob's Ladder.


I don't think I can even begin to have a top 5 movie list. There would be soo many top tier movies that I enjoy for a plethora of reasons.
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2022, 08:05:58 PM »
1) Avatar
2) Back to the Future
3) Titanic
4) Gladiator
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2022, 09:05:21 PM »
I don't think I can even begin to have a top 5 movie list. There would be soo many top tier movies that I enjoy for a plethora of reasons.

I hear ya...Shawshank and LOTR are a firm 1-2 for me, but if I gave thought to it, I'd scramble on the rest for weeks on end.

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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2022, 09:13:46 PM »
1. Ghost World
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. Caddyshack
4. Trading Places
5. Synecdoche, NY

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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2022, 09:31:03 PM »
In no particular order - though the Top 3 would be the constants. After that, it gets murky.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Godfather (I favor this one over II, and by more than a slim margin).
The Usual Suspects
The Shawshank Redemption

I feel like Star Wars should be represented somehow - it was the defining franchise of my youth - but I just don't rank any of the films this high.
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2022, 09:55:47 PM »
1. Big Fish
2. High Fidelity
3. Magnolia
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Breakfast Club
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2022, 10:01:03 PM »
1. Big Fish
2. High Fidelity
3. Magnolia
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Breakfast Club

I'll never forget seeing Big Fish in the theater, when the movie ended and the lights came up, I turned around and looked at fellow patrons, and I swear half the men were in buckets of tears being consoled by their SO's. Probably the only time I've seen that.

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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2022, 10:04:08 PM »
1. Big Fish
2. High Fidelity
3. Magnolia
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Breakfast Club

Not my top 5 but I’ve never wanted to hug you more.
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« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2022, 10:19:17 PM »
1. Big Fish
2. High Fidelity
3. Magnolia
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Breakfast Club

I'll never forget seeing Big Fish in the theater, when the movie ended and the lights came up, I turned around and looked at fellow patrons, and I swear half the men were in buckets of tears being consoled by their SO's. Probably the only time I've seen that.

I had taken my (then) 11 year old son because I *thought* it was going to be a light hearted fantasy.

So there I am…at Big Fish…at the end….with MY SON! And on top of that, my father is 14 years into his Parkinson’s Disease (he would pass 4 years later)

The ending scene is happening and I am INCONSOLABLE. My 11 year son puts his arm around me and whispers, “are you ok dad?”

All I could get out was, “you’ll understand someday, son.”
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2022, 10:23:49 PM »
1. Big Fish
2. High Fidelity
3. Magnolia
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Breakfast Club

Not my top 5 but I’ve never wanted to hug you more.

Was there something in particular? Or just all of it?

Consider yourself hugged.  :hat
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2022, 11:01:14 PM »
1. Big Fish
2. High Fidelity
3. Magnolia
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Breakfast Club

Not my top 5 but I’ve never wanted to hug you more.

Was there something in particular? Or just all of it?

Consider yourself hugged.  :hat

All of them. Just great picks. I showed my fiancée Magnolia a few weeks ago. She didn’t quite appreciate it.
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #17 on: August 12, 2022, 11:22:38 PM »
The only time I ever came remotely close to walking out of a movie was Magnolia.
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2022, 11:27:31 PM »
The only time I ever came remotely close to walking out of a movie was Magnolia.

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« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2022, 11:33:08 PM »
1. Big Fish
2. High Fidelity
3. Magnolia
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Breakfast Club

Not my top 5 but I’ve never wanted to hug you more.

Was there something in particular? Or just all of it?

Consider yourself hugged.  :hat

All of them. Just great picks. I showed my fiancée Magnolia a few weeks ago. She didn’t quite appreciate it.

Magnolia was one of those movies where:

Act 1/Hour 1: “OMG…WHY am I watching this …this is the worst movie ever! I hate every one of these characters! I feel like I’m a lesser person for subjecting myself to this level of awful!”

Act 2/Hour 2: Um…ok. I guess things are at least getting interesting. I guess I may as well finish since I’m this far in already.

Act 3/Hour 3: :jawdrop: [uncontrollable crying] This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen!!
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #20 on: August 13, 2022, 12:25:11 AM »
1. Big Fish
2. High Fidelity
3. Magnolia
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Breakfast Club

I'll never forget seeing Big Fish in the theater, when the movie ended and the lights came up, I turned around and looked at fellow patrons, and I swear half the men were in buckets of tears being consoled by their SO's. Probably the only time I've seen that.

I had taken my (then) 11 year old son because I *thought* it was going to be a light hearted fantasy.

So there I am…at Big Fish…at the end….with MY SON! And on top of that, my father is 14 years into his Parkinson’s Disease (he would pass 4 years later)

The ending scene is happening and I am INCONSOLABLE. My 11 year son puts his arm around me and whispers, “are you ok dad?”

All I could get out was, “you’ll understand someday, son.”

Yeah...you get it. I was definitely choked up, though I did hold my shit together somehow. Such a great flick, and like Adami said, great pics. Breakfast Club could've easily made my list, I always felt it was one of the defining movies of our generation. And Dead Poets Society will always be in the discussion for me, great film.

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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #21 on: August 13, 2022, 02:06:13 AM »
I'm going to leave Star Wars and Lord of the Rings out of my list, because they're entire universes/cultures. So with that...

1. Ghostbusters
2. Tombstone
3. Hook
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Goodfellas

Numbers 2 through 5 change constantly, but those are the most consistent ones I can think of.
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« Reply #22 on: August 13, 2022, 02:07:47 AM »
Off the top of my head...

5- Good Will Hunting (probably could be switched out with Dead Poet's Society at will, seriously...I can watch the Oh Captain scene and it's Dead Poets, watch the Your Move Chief scene and it's Good Will...both outstanding flicks with two of Robin's best performances)
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #23 on: August 13, 2022, 04:50:50 AM »
Uh, this is difficult, especially since I tend to not watch films more than once. Here's some that made a lasting impression in some way:

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Alien
3. The Deer Hunter
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. The Usual Suspects

and there's a lot I left off..
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« Reply #24 on: August 13, 2022, 06:46:21 AM »
Update:

1- Blade Runner
2- Star Wars (A new hope)
3- Angel Heart
4- Forbidden Planet
5- The Shawshank Redemption

Honorable mention:

6- The Terminator
7- The Player
8- Mistress
9- Buffalo '66
10- The Cement Garden
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #25 on: August 13, 2022, 07:21:16 AM »
I don't want to attempt to rank these in order but these would probably make the 5:

The Matrix
Mulholland Drive
Spider-Man 2
Terminator 2
Memento

(I would have put the LOTR trilogy in there but it might be cheating to count them as 1, if not then totally put that in there)
A few very close honorable mentions like Jurassic Park, Die Hard, Heat, The Thing.

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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #26 on: August 13, 2022, 10:17:26 AM »
Oh boy this is tough.

1. Any Avengers movie
2. Jurassic Park
3. Groundhog Day
4. Aliens
5. Terminator 2

After number one, really any of at least 15 movies could be in the top 5. More Marvel stuff, Predator, 12 Angry Men, some Audrey Hepburn flicks, Casablanca, Return of the Jedi, Naked Gun . . .

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« Reply #27 on: August 13, 2022, 11:18:12 AM »
The only time I ever came remotely close to walking out of a movie was Magnolia.

No hugs for you!

I loved Magnolia. Brilliant and hard to classify like

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Adaptation
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Donnie Darko
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #28 on: August 13, 2022, 11:32:39 AM »
Update:
9- Buffalo '66

not in my top 5-10, but I have always loved this movie. As much of a douche as Vincent Gallo is, this along with Palookaville I have always loved.

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« Reply #30 on: August 13, 2022, 12:33:18 PM »
Well, thanks to this thread I'm diving into Dead Poet's Society for the first time since the day after Robin passed.

Ugly cry face in a bit less than 2 hours in the lonestar household.



On a side note, while not a top 5 for me, Fish Called Wanda should definitely get a mention for being one of the greatest comedies ever.

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« Reply #31 on: August 13, 2022, 12:37:33 PM »
Well, thanks to this thread I'm diving into Dead Poet's Society for the first time since the day after Robin passed.

Ugly cry face in a bit less than 2 hours in the lonestar household.

A memory came up on Facebook the other day. Day before yesterday was eight years since Robin passed.
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« Reply #32 on: August 13, 2022, 12:38:45 PM »
Dead Poets Society fell a bit flat for me, but that My Captain scene at the end is aces.

I am by no means the film aficionado I wish I was, but I am a little shocked there are films on these lists I have never even heard of.
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« Reply #33 on: August 13, 2022, 12:49:25 PM »
Dead Poets Society fell a bit flat for me, but that My Captain scene at the end is aces.

I am by no means the film aficionado I wish I was, but I am a little shocked there are films on these lists I have never even heard of.

When I was 16, it was my favorite film. But my adult self…while still being sympathetic to the hopelessness that one can feel…just thinks Neil’s suicide is just sheer stupidity.

I’m reminded of that line from The Pass by Rush, “someone set a bad example. Made surrender seem alright. The act of a noble warrior who lost the will to fight.”

When I was a kid, I bought into that “bad example” and thought of Neil as a “noble warrior who lost the will to fight.” In my mind he became this amazing martyr.  But now his act seems so selfish and childish and shortsighted and stupid that it takes me out of the whole film.

But Robin Williams performance as Keating will always be one of my favorite movie characters of all time.
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Re: What are your top 5 favorite movies?
« Reply #34 on: August 13, 2022, 12:58:47 PM »
Dead Poets Society fell a bit flat for me, but that My Captain scene at the end is aces.

I am by no means the film aficionado I wish I was, but I am a little shocked there are films on these lists I have never even heard of.

When I was 16, it was my favorite film. But my adult self…while still being sympathetic to the hopelessness that one can feel…just thinks Neil’s suicide is just sheer stupidity.

I’m reminded of that line from The Pass by Rush, “someone set a bad example. Made surrender seem alright. The act of a noble warrior who lost the will to fight.”

When I was a kid, I bought into that “bad example” and thought of Neil as a “noble warrior who lost the will to fight.” In my mind he became this amazing martyr.  But now his act seems so selfish and childish and shortsighted and stupid that it takes me out of the whole film.

But Robin Williams performance as Keating will always be one of my favorite movie characters of all time.

Definitely a valid criticism, almost to the point of romanticizing the act.