What's your top 5 favorite movies??

dankind · June 2017

RogueStoner said:

Not sure if they're my top 5, but they're movies I can watch over and over.

1. A Beautiful Life (must be in Italian with English subtitles, not the English version...loses its rhythm and poetry somehow).
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Dogma
4. Anything with Robin Williams...love the man, may he RIP.
5. This one's old and obscure...The Joy Luck Club. I love dramas that span multiple generations and show different cultures and historical periods.

At Christmastime, the must watch movies are A Christmas Story and It's A Wonderful Life (original black and white version). And sometimes Sound of Music (mostly watching obedient children in awe, lol)

Ah, The Sound of Music, the only time I've ever rooted for Nazis.

Unless you mean Life Is Beautiful, that one actually makes me root for the Nazis, too. Sentimental pap, that one is.

F Me In The Brain · June 2017

PJ_Soul said:

F Me In The Brain said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Since Rogue brought up Christmas, here are my top 5 Christmas movies.

5. Home Alone
4. The Family Man
3. Die Hard (Die Hard IS a Christmas movie, dammit!)
2. Bad Santa
1. Gremlins

Top 5 X-Mas Movies:

5) Scrooged
4) A Christmas Story
2) Lethal Weapon (if you are taking Die Hard, I am taking "All Dressed Up and No One to Blow" Die Hard as a X-Mas movie)
2) Bad Santa
1) Elf

My best friend's brother and my dad are in Elf.

https://youtu.be/PHEx7obg-yA

dankind · June 2017

F Me In The Brain said:

PJ_Soul said:

F Me In The Brain said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Since Rogue brought up Christmas, here are my top 5 Christmas movies.

5. Home Alone
4. The Family Man
3. Die Hard (Die Hard IS a Christmas movie, dammit!)
2. Bad Santa
1. Gremlins

Top 5 X-Mas Movies:

5) Scrooged
4) A Christmas Story
2) Lethal Weapon (if you are taking Die Hard, I am taking "All Dressed Up and No One to Blow" Die Hard as a X-Mas movie)
2) Bad Santa
1) Elf

My best friend's brother and my dad are in Elf.

https://youtu.be/PHEx7obg-yA

I've never seen Elf.

My five favorite Christmas movies have gotta be (in no particular order)

The Ref
Bad Santa
Lethal Weapon
Die Hard
Gremlins

Honorable mentions

Black Christmas
Scrooged
A Christmas Story
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Krampus

RogueStoner · June 2017

dankind said:

RogueStoner said:

Not sure if they're my top 5, but they're movies I can watch over and over.

1. A Beautiful Life (must be in Italian with English subtitles, not the English version...loses its rhythm and poetry somehow).
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Dogma
4. Anything with Robin Williams...love the man, may he RIP.
5. This one's old and obscure...The Joy Luck Club. I love dramas that span multiple generations and show different cultures and historical periods.

At Christmastime, the must watch movies are A Christmas Story and It's A Wonderful Life (original black and white version). And sometimes Sound of Music (mostly watching obedient children in awe, lol)

Ah, The Sound of Music, the only time I've ever rooted for Nazis.

Unless you mean Life Is Beautiful, that one actually makes me root for the Nazis, too. Sentimental pap, that one is.

Oh Dan, you're awful!

RogueStoner · June 2017

PJ_Soul said:

RogueStoner said:

Not sure if they're my top 5, but they're movies I can watch over and over.

1. A Beautiful Life (must be in Italian with English subtitles, not the English version...loses its rhythm and poetry somehow).
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Dogma
4. Anything with Robin Williams...love the man, may he RIP.
5. This one's old and obscure...The Joy Luck Club. I love dramas that span multiple generations and show different cultures and historical periods.

At Christmastime, the must watch movies are A Christmas Story and It's A Wonderful Life (original black and white version). And sometimes Sound of Music (mostly watching obedient children in awe, lol)

There is an English version of a Beautiful Life?? What do you mean, like just dubbed over, or an actual different movie with English-speaking actors? edit: now that I think about it, you must mean the latter... I have honestly never seen any movie with English language dubbing before. I know dubbing is more popular for other languages, but I thought it was always just English subtitles and no English dubbing, like just a cultural thing that English speakers don't do.

It's dubbed over, if I remember correctly, and rather annoying for me to watch. Not only does it look odd when the words you hear don't jive with the actors' movements, but it really loses something. Italian just sounds so much more romantic.

RogueStoner · June 2017

hedonist said:

Oh I love The Joy Luck Club. The book was even better. The film though - damn. It's relatable in many ways, plus just so beautiful and well-made.

Years ago, my mom gave me a little clip from Reader's Digest (yes, she still reads it! - large type version now) about Amy Tan, the author. How she was speaking about the book, her mother in the audience, stone-faced. After the speech, Amy asked her if she liked what she read. Her mom said, "All I could do was look at you and say, that's my daughter." I've kept that little piece of paper with me, in my wallet, for more than 25 years.

I still can't tell if her mother was giving her a compliment or slamming her. Much like my mother.

i read the book too and loved it.
Also used to read Reader's Digest. Small world.

Leathe?ma? · June 2017

Hard to pick just five.. let's say

Mulholland drive
Stalker
Easy rider
Point break
Dead poets society

WhatYouTaughtMe · June 2017

Yeah this is tough.

1 - The Shawshank Redemption
2 - Groundhog Day
3 - The Big Lebowski
4 - Pulp Fiction
5 - Ex Machina

After number 1 the other four are pretty much interchangeable in my order of preference.

PJ_Soul · June 2017

RogueStoner said:

PJ_Soul said:

RogueStoner said:

Not sure if they're my top 5, but they're movies I can watch over and over.

1. A Beautiful Life (must be in Italian with English subtitles, not the English version...loses its rhythm and poetry somehow).
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Dogma
4. Anything with Robin Williams...love the man, may he RIP.
5. This one's old and obscure...The Joy Luck Club. I love dramas that span multiple generations and show different cultures and historical periods.

At Christmastime, the must watch movies are A Christmas Story and It's A Wonderful Life (original black and white version). And sometimes Sound of Music (mostly watching obedient children in awe, lol)

There is an English version of a Beautiful Life?? What do you mean, like just dubbed over, or an actual different movie with English-speaking actors? edit: now that I think about it, you must mean the latter... I have honestly never seen any movie with English language dubbing before. I know dubbing is more popular for other languages, but I thought it was always just English subtitles and no English dubbing, like just a cultural thing that English speakers don't do.

It's dubbed over, if I remember correctly, and rather annoying for me to watch. Not only does it look odd when the words you hear don't jive with the actors' movements, but it really loses something. Italian just sounds so much more romantic.

Yeah, absolitely. Weirdly, I just happened to stumble upon the first English dubbed show I ever saw the night after I posted this (this series called 3%... great premise, not too well executed). It sucked much more than it should have because if the dubbing. The vocal expression of the voiceover was crap.

Wobbie · June 2017

rocky 1-5

brianlux · June 2017

Had I been asked last night, I would have said my five favorites are:
1. K-PAX
2. K-PAX
3. K-PAX
4. K-PAX
5. K-PAX

What's your top 5 favorite movies??

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