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Today’s question:
If you had to pick your top 5 favorite movies of all time, which ones would you choose?
Talk about it….
I can’t possibly name only 5.
Grand Torino, Castaway, Sling Blade, Forest Gump, The Green Mile, Road House, Overboard, Training Day, Pulp Fiction, The Notebook, American History X, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, Titanic, Coach Carter, Man On Fire, Mask, Speed, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Rocky, Django Unchained, There’s Something About Mary, What About Bob, Blow, Labyrinth, Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Good Morning Vietnam, Phone Booth, lethal Weapon, The Sandlot, Misery, Pretty Woman, Erin Brockovich, The Italian Job, The Indian in the Cupboard, Hook, The Banger Sisters, Inside Man, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Free Willie…Just watched Man On Fire again last night. The ending pulls a tear out of my eye every time.
Gone With the Wind, Ben Hur. Dirty Dozen, Singing in the Rain, and the original Wizard of Oz. There are more but these are the ones that come to mind right off.
Coming to America
Blues Brothers
Goodfellas
Yours, mine, & ours (original version)
undecided on the fifth
Space Balls
Pirates of the Caribbean
Star Wars
Liar Liar
Mean Girls
Goodfellas.
My Cousin Vinny
American Graffiti
Tombstone
Jackie Brown.
Not necessarily in that order.
I can think of several others, but I’m only limited to five.
1. Always
2. By the Sea
3. Pee Wee Herman’s Big Adventure
4. Walk Hard, The Dewy Cox Story
5. The Jerk
saving private Ryan……shawshank redemption………gladiator……..Gran Torino…….honorable mention..forest Gump
Well,…
MARVEL Movies,…pick one.
Disney Animation Movies,…pick one.
Harry Potter Movies,….pick one.
Star Wars Movie,….pick one.
Avtar,….waiting for the next one too.
O.K., I cheated.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Star Wars – Shawshank Redemption -Caddyshack- Airplane are my personal faves
Sgt. York
Shane
Day of the Jackal
The Grapes of Wrath
&
The Flim-Flam Man
The Shawshank redemption.
No country for old men
A few good men
Beverly Hills Cop
Caddyshack or Animal House (tie)
shawshank redemption
for the love of the game
God Father
The Fugitive
Remember the titans
Rear Window
Psycho
Goodfellas
American Graffiti
12 Angry Men
Godfather I & II – should be considered 1 movie
My Man Godfrey – favorite William Powell role. Carole Lombard ain’t bad either. Great supporting cast.
North by Northwest – Hitchcock, Cary Grant, James Mason. Nuff said
Lord Of The Rings – the entire trilogy should be considered 1 movie
Rocky I – was going to pick a Capra movie but couldn’t decide on just one, so I went with a Capra esque imitation.
Star Wars
Ragnarok
Pirates of the Caribbean
God Father
Godfather
Too many good movies our there to limit it to 5. But I’ll try.
The Godfather. A perfect movie. Great story. An All-star cast. A great director.
Saving Private Ryan. The best war movie ever made (sorry Patton).
Rocky. The best sports movie ever.
Alien. Still scary after all these years. Terrifying when it first came out.
Animal House. Not necessarily a “great” movie. Just one of the funniest ever made.
BTW, I just watched “Nobody” this past weekend. If you liked John Wick or The Equalizer, then you will like this one. Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad) is not your usual action hero, but he kills it.
You have 2 of my 5. People with discerning tastes think alike. 🙂
In no particular order:
Jaws
All About Eve
White Christmas
Star Wars
Field of Dreams
Finally, a shout out for Jaws! Some of the best acting on film.
Slaughter House Five, Sid and Nancy, My Chauffeur, They Shoot Horses dont they, Jacob’s Ladder.
Dersu Uzala
Kagemusha, The Shadow Warrior
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Aliens
Prometheus
Tight Little Island
Dicken Christmas Carol starring Alistair Sims
Lavender Hill Mob
Tunes of Glory
Zulu
Diary of a Mad House Wife
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Blues Brothers
Harvey – can’t help but walk away smiling with this one
We’re No Angels (1950) – same, the movie ends and I have a happy smile.
1)there will be blood
2)goodfellas
3)under siege
4)Robocop
5)lethal weapon 2
Amadeus
Wings of Desire
Ben Hur
Vertigo
Forrest Gump
High Plains Drifter
Spirited Away
Big Trouble in Little China
Blazing Saddles
The Best Years of Our Lives
I have a hard time remembering the name of the movie I watched last night let alone favorites.
Impossible to pick just 5. In no particular order, some of my favorites include:
Bridges of Madison County
Forrest Gump
Heathers
Chicago
Ted
Three Amigos
Clue
Jerry McGuire
Anne of Green Gables
A League of Their Own
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias was a fantastic movie, very well acted and realistic view of life in central Louisiana. I have probably watched this movie 100 times and cry every time.
Death Wish
Death Wish 2
Death Wish 3
Death Wish 4
Death Wish 5
Only ones with Charles Bronson
The Evil That Men Do, and The Mechanic, are a couple of good Bronson films.
Hard Times – 1975
Saving Private Ryan
Godfather
Star Wars
Jaws
The Exorcist
1. Blazing Saddles
2. Down Periscope
3. Blues Brothers
4. Star Wars (the original)
5. Jurassic Park (the original)
Raising Arizona
The Shining
Godfather 1, 2
Goodfellas
Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
Klute, THXI138, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Silent Running and Vanishing Point.
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It’s very hard to just pick five:
Spinal Tap (Always cracks me up)
The Last Waltz (A moment in time, captured)
Sunset Boulevard (Could watch William Holden all day)
Vertigo (Jimmy Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, what’s not to like?)
Rear Window (See Above)
Bonus, if any of those weren’t available, would
substitute one of these:
Blues Brothers
What About Bob and/or Caddyshack
LA Confidential
Forgot The Usual Suspects as a bonus.
Love the music from Big Pink, slipped my mind, and I put it more in the music category, but it was a movie so you are right. The Band one of my all time favorite music groups.
This is like asking what your top favorite songs of all time are.
– Dragonwyck
– The Longest Day
– The Godfather
– No Way Out
– Animal House
It’s hard to pick just 5, so here are my top 10, with the first one the GOAT:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Blazing Saddles
Sleeper
Space Balls
Star Wars
Top Gun
Le Mans (the original 1970 version)
The Great Escape
The Italian Job (the original 1969 version)
The Martian (great book too)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. All time favorite
Tombstone. Val Kilmer should have an Academy award for Doc Holliday
Dances with Wolves. Sad Movie
Waterworld. Smokers!
Mary Poppins. The original
Yes, Kim…It’s a Mad(4) World one of my favorites! Also, original Wizard of Oz, The Ten Commandments, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Mad World is one of the funniest movie ever made. Back in the 70’s, I was with a friend, we were driving down Highway 1 through Oxnard, when we saw the big W, at that time it was in a mobile home park.
In no particular order:
This Is Spinal Tap
The Shawshank Redemption
Team America World Police
Borat
A Time To Kill
I’m sure I left out some great ones.
I can’t believe I forgot my all-time favorite, The Hunt For Red October.
I used to really love Shawshank, Morgan Freeman stole the show as his character, as it were, which is no small thing with the other great characters…
Well….. this is a tough one…but here they are, not necessarily in any kind of order:
Troy
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (11963)
It’s a tie – Disorder In The Court & Men In Black (the only 3 stooges film ever nominated for an Oscar was “Men in Black” 1934)
The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)
Tombstone (1993)
Rio Grande (1950)
Lots of others for honorable mention …Patton, 1941, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Right Stuff, Primary Colors, Chinatown, Ford vs Ferarri,
Unforgiven, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Was there a movie “Disorder in the Court?’ I certainly remember the short (“you wasted five good slugs on a divot” or “what comes after 75? 76. That’s the spirit!”). I could easily look it up, but hoped to garner a chuckle citing those lines…
It was a “short” movie…. but hysterical !
“Take the stand” “Drop the vernacular” “take off your hat!”
LoL! I’m dying here!
It’s only 18 minutes, but it’s still a movie…
https://tinyurl.com/ypedz355
A Plumbing We Will Go!!! “This house sho gone crazy!” “We HAD to forget something or we wouldn’t be plumbers!!” “Oh, left over from New Years, eh?!”
Dr. J, I agree It’s a Mad, Mad Mad, Mad World, just hilarious with an all star cast, didn’t include in my list because I had to stop somewhere.
Ups, also agree about Patton and the Right Stuff.
And not one mention of “Motel Hell”….Rory Calhoun is great as Farmer Vincent.
Der Untergang (Downfall)
Ostře sledované vlaky (Closely Watched Trains)
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
Dark Star
Shawshank Redemption, Platoon, Casablanca, The Man who Shot Liberty Valance, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Honorable Mention:
Some Like it Hot, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Last of the Mohicans, Chinatown, Captains Courageous.
All of the Stanley Kubrick movies I’ve ever seen, and The Silence of the Lambs. After seeing The Silence of the Lambs, the book crossed my path, and knowing how good I thought the movie was I thought I’d better read it, because 99.999% of the time the book is better than the movie. But it wasn’t. It was exactly the same, except that the movie was so well acted and produced that it was better than the book.
Oh, dear! On a lighter note, how could I have overlooked the Coen Brothers?!?!
Silva-
Totally agree on the Coen Brothers.
Blood Simple is a classic.
“Les Miserables”
“Avatar”
“City Slickers”
British “Secret Garden” (musical version)
“Mrs. Doubtfire”
(….and…. and ….. and…. don’t want to stop!)
Titanic
Forrest Gump
Mrs Doubtfire
I’m with Simonpure, impossible keep it to five. I wrote down what I thought mentioned most of my favorite movies. Then someone mentioned Stanley Kubric and I realized I forgot Dr. Strangelove.
Anyway here is my list: The top ones is movies that I liked from the very first time I saw them. I liked them because of the story they told and often also because of the actor or actors. Others because they spoke to my generation, some because they send a powerful message.
From here to Eternity (Montgomrey Clift and Deborah Kerr) In the heat of the night (Poitier and Steiger) Lion in the Winter (Hepburn and O’Toole)
The Big Chill, The Graduate, Casablanca, To Kill a Mockingbird (Peck) and Dr. Strangelove would be my top ones, others The Oxbow Incident, The Longest Day, The Long Hot Summer and Cat on hot tin roof (Newman).The Great Escape, Annie Hall, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Hepburn and Peppard) Born on the 4th of July, The Doors (love their music and Kilmer was great as Jim) Animal House, very funny, Belushi especially and Tim Matheson a dead ringer for an old boyfriend. West Side Story the music and the dancing
Almost forgot Dr. Zhivago, and Gone with the wind. I could go on, but better stop. I think I got the top ones on my list.
In no particular order:
Almost Famous
The Godfather
The Hunt for Red October
This Is Spinal Tap
The Sting
The Godfather (1-3)
Office Space
Iron Man (1-3)
The Aviator
Gotti w/ Armand Assante.
Also: Die Hard (all of them)
Anything w/ Clint Eastwood
The Dancer Upstairs
A lot of movies are about even to me, so I’ll just say:
Resolution
The Endless
Its simple to narrow down to just 5- start with your fav and then pick four more to go on the desert island.
Blade Runner
Master and Commander
Grapes of Wrath
Outlaw Josie Wales
Wall-e or Interstellar ( jury is still out…)
I forgot “The Ghost And The Darkness”
That is one of the scariest movies ever!
(it gave me nightmares about African Lions, really).
Singing in the Rain
On the Town
Flower Drum Song
Citizen Kane
His Girl Friday
-Pulp Fiction
-The Big Labowski
-Zodiac
-Foul Play
-Match Point
-Jackie Brown
-Made
The Wizard of Oz
Dances with Wolves
Star Wars
Blazing Saddles
Blue Lagoon (hahaha! just kidding!!)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Four that haven’t been mentioned:
–True Confessions (Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall in the late 1940s)
–Within the Whirlwind (Stalin’s Gulag/Russian sub-titles).
–No Time for Sergeants
–Genius (insight into self-absorbed writer, Thomas Wolfe)
Gosh…. I can hardly believe that nobody mentioned those.
Take a look. They are all good.
i could add Fargo, and definitely “In Cold Blood” black and white with Scott Wilson as Dick Hickock and Robert Blake as Perry, great movie based on Truman Capote’s book of the real murder of the Clutter family, and a great music score by Quincy Jones. For the holidays a total departure from the 2 above, but so uplifting “It’s a Wonderful Life”, James Stewart and Donna Reed.
Rain Man: A beautiful story about brotherhood, love and autism
Mrs Doubtfure: Robin Williams’s best performance IMHO
Oceans Eleven: Some of the best actors in Hollywood, with great twists and turns
Lion King: MacBeth meets Africa
Field of Dreams: Great Story, Actors and Mushy sentimentality about life, love and baseball