Top 5 Favorite movies of all time

[SaintMort]

Yes yes I know that this is a very very tough question. I've always had the same top 2 but the other 3 change insane amounts of times in such cases I'll allow...3 Honorable Mentions.

1) Harold and Maude
2) Clerks
3) Garden State
4) Say Anything
5) American Psycho

(honorable Mentions: Big Lebowski, Holy Grail and Donnie Darko)

[Ellie]

1. The Matrix
2.  Jurassic Park
3.  Aliens
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5.  Elizabeth

Honorable Mentions: The Mummy, Sleepy Hollow, and  True Lies.

[k]

brazil
elemen of crime
eraserhead
santa sangre
tetsuo

runners up: sleepy hollow - das cabinet des dr. calligari - the unknown - hana bi - alien

k

[Deej]

1) Gunga Din
2) High Sierra
3) Tombstone
4) My Favorite Year
5) Shane

[Scott H.]

1. Tokyo Story
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Bicycle Thief
4. Annie Hall
5. Blade Runner

Honorables to The Godfather, The Graduate, and Dr. Strangelove

Give it style, and give it class, and you got a winner.

-Scott H.

[Evan3]

SaintMort wrote:


> 5) American Psycho
>


Are you serious... this is tied for worst movie I have ever seen with Darkness Falls. UGH! This movie was an hour and a half of drek. I am wary of seeing the new Batman flick only because I know Christian Bale was in American Psycho AND Riegn of Fire... both awful... Here are my top 5 though.

1) Memento
2) American Beauty
3) Indiana Jones trilogy
4) Life Is Beautiful
5) Annie Hall
Honorable Mention: Spider Man 2, All About Eve, Lion King, Land Before Time, Night and Fog



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[dudeman]

1.Dead Alive
2. tie between Postman Blues & Unlucky Monkey (both same director)
3. Tetsuo
4.  Riki-Oh
5. Deadbeat at Dawn

I liked American Psycho but I think it needed more violence than nudity, the sick violence was what defined Bateman in the book....which I still haven't got to finishing

[Master Blaster]

My opinion probably isnt worth a crap when it comes to what movies are actually good as I have little to no taste, but here it goes.

Citizen Cane - Everybody says it's the best film ever made so I'll go with the flock on this one. Besides, It's a good movie.

Alien - Changed the face of horror forever. Cant sing the praises of this one enough.

Stalker - Russian flick that got destroyed and had to be reshot with literally no budget. This guy was so freakin good he made a convincing and fascinating sci fi flick with no special effects whatsoever. Forget the Ruski's name though, he also did the original Solaris.

The Seventh Seal - I cant get enough of this flick. Dont know what I think is so good about it, but I've loved it since I was a kid and it's one of those movies that makes you think about stuff.

Hmm, crap #5. How about 2001. Gotta give props to Kubrick. Nutter genious of our century.

[k]

that would be tarkovski you are talking about.. gonna see that movie in a couple of weeks on the big screen on restored copy.

k

[dean]

I really hate these kinds of questions, mainly because I am a lover of all things, [yeah right!] So I'll just give in no particular order, 7 honorable mentions:

1.  Zoolander: Me and many similar minded friends of mine quote this movie quite often.  In my opinion, one of the best comedies I have ever seen.

2.  Ghost in the Shell:  Quite a film.  Akira may be more critically reknowned, but this film ignited my love for Anime.

3.  Masters Of the Universe: Um, I don't want to explain it...

4.  Fight Club: Thought it was fantastic, both book and movie, from start to finish, had me engaged totally.

5.  Unbreakable: Yes I know, many people hate M. Night Shymalan, but this movie and Signs were fantastic, despite the occasional plot hole.

6.  Shadow of a Vampire: Great film, with brilliant acting from Malkovich and Dafoe, I loved how they played on the myth that Max Shreck was a real vampire.

7.  Hairspray: John Waters really had the whole wierd 50's musical vibe going on!

And I guess a few which cannot be helped but be mentioned, since their impact on me was quite profound:

Nosferatu: the original Silent film

Metropolis

A Clockwork Orange

Blade Runner

Double Indemnity

An Andalusian Dog [or Un Chien Andalou]: 1928 film and very nutty if you see it.

Videodrome

Night Of the Ghouls [first Ed Wood Film I saw]

Aliens

Anything by Kaufman [Adaptation, Being John Malkovitch, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind]

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

*sigh* I could go on for hours, but I think I better leave it at that before I get too carried away [though I suspect I'm too late on that one]

I also thought American Psycho was a great film, very much to my tastes.

[blkrider]

I can really only do these by genre...I can't give you an absolute list of my 5 favorite movies of all time.  I've watched and loved too many movies over the years to narrow it down to just five, or probably even 10 if you're talking about every movie I've ever seen.   A lot of times it takes years for me to decide if a movie is going to be one of my all-time favorites, and in many cases, as years pass films fall from favor--when I was a teenager my favorite movies were DAWN OF THE DEAD, BLADE RUNNER, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, etc....but none of those would probably be my all-time top 5 favorite films of any kind today.  NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, on the other hand, might be there now, even though I liked DAWN better when I was younger.  

So, horror films only, it would be:

1- NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
2-THE EXORCIST
3-THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
4-FREAKS
5-probably one of the Universal horrors but I can't narrow it down to which....see how hard this is for me?