What's your top 5 favorite movies??

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Gah!  I love Gran Torino.  And Ratatouille =)
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    the 1970s pete's dragon
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    dankind said:
    Can't narrow it down to five, but I know that Boyhood sits up top.
    Boyhood dethroned Casablanca, so I guess that's in here, too.
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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,915
    Almost Famous
    The Dark Knight
    Midnight Run
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    Goodfellas
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,498
    Feel like I should add my 10 thru 6:

    10) Moonrise Kingdom
    9) Tron
    8) Forrest Gump
    7) A Clockwork Orange
    6) Clerks
    HesCalledDyer said:
    5) Back to the Future
    4) There Will Be Blood
    3) Pulp Fiction
    2) Inglourious Basterds
    1) Field of Dreams

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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,382
    1. Fight Club
    2. Empire Strikes Back
    3. Ferris Beuhlers Day Off
    4. Christmas Vacation 
    5. Tombstone
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    dimitrispearljam said:

    dimitrispearljam said:
    APOCALYPSE NOW
    CONTROL
    SEVEN
    USUAL SUSPECTS
    OUTSIDERS
    And KRAMER VS KRAMER  in different category for personal reasons
    Dimi, I missed this post.  I LOVE this film, maybe the book moreso.  It is one of those I must watch whenever I come upon it.
  • InMyInnerSense
    InMyInnerSense Posts: 58
    edited June 2017
    Fun post - thank you!  I just don't see how there can be any doubt about #1, it's the rest of them that are rather vexing :)

    1) Empire Strikes Back
    2) The Burbs (seriously) - when you're stressed out, plow through a bag of frosted circus cookies and watch this movie, you'll see what I mean
    3) The Big Lebowski (can't pass up the single greatest dialogue-driven movie of all time)
    4) Unforgiven (Tombstone and True Grit, the original, are pretty great too!)
    5) The Goonies (I grew up in Astoria where it was filmed, while it was filmed... can't help it)

    Close calls: Shawshank, Caddyshack, LotR: Return of the King, The Shining, No Country for Old Men (so good!), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (my cat's name is Ferris, my first dog's name was Cameron, and my current dog's name is Gracie, after the receptionist... she earns it daily... Grace... GRace... GRACE!!!!)
    Post edited by InMyInnerSense on
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,615
    Abe Froman said:
    1. Fight Club
    2. Empire Strikes Back
    3. Ferris Beuhlers Day Off
    4. Christmas Vacation 
    5. Tombstone
    How could the Sausage King of Chicago NOT like Ferris Beuhlers Day off?

    1- Empire Strikes Back
    2- The Quiet Man, this John Wayne flick cracks me up.
    3- The Princess Bride
    4- Dodge Ball, sorry but Steve the Pirate kills in this.
    5- The Matrix
  • erocshifty
    erocshifty Posts: 1,170
    The Jerk
    Empire Strikes Back
    Goodfellas
    Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage
    PJ20

    "It's best to live in grace before you're forced to." EV- 10/09/2014 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,674
    Repo Man
    Cast Away
    Quest For Fire
    The Quiet Earth
    Lion

    The #5 slot is always open to change but we just saw "Lion" last night and it just simply blew me away..  Great story!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNI9o06vqo

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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,961
    Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    Stripes
    The Hangover
    White Men Can't Jump
    A Few Good Men
  • Annafalk
    Annafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited June 2017
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Abe Froman said:
    1. Fight Club
    2. Empire Strikes Back
    3. Ferris Beuhlers Day Off
    4. Christmas Vacation 
    5. Tombstone
    How could the Sausage King of Chicago NOT like Ferris Beuhlers Day off?

    1- Empire Strikes Back
    2- The Quiet Man, this John Wayne flick cracks me up.
    3- The Princess Bride
    4- Dodge Ball, sorry but Steve the Pirate kills in this.
    5- The Matrix
    1 Also Dodge Ball - This movie is so bad it's good :)
    2 Office space
    3 The never ending story 
    4 Inside out
    5 The back to the future movies
    Post edited by Annafalk on
  • ed243421
    ed243421 Posts: 7,744
    Mine:

    the shawshank redemption
    the blues brothers
    the big lebowski
    caddyshack
    blazing saddles


    to watch with the kids:

    elf
    up
    wall-e
    school of rock
    kicking and screaming 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,615
    Annafalk said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Abe Froman said:
    1. Fight Club
    2. Empire Strikes Back
    3. Ferris Beuhlers Day Off
    4. Christmas Vacation 
    5. Tombstone
    How could the Sausage King of Chicago NOT like Ferris Beuhlers Day off?

    1- Empire Strikes Back
    2- The Quiet Man, this John Wayne flick cracks me up.
    3- The Princess Bride
    4- Dodge Ball, sorry but Steve the Pirate kills in this.
    5- The Matrix
    1 Also Dodge Ball - This movie is so bad it's good :)
    2 Office space
    3 The never ending story 
    4 Inside out
    5 The back to the future movies
    Yessssssssss!!!!
  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,224
    1. Animal House
    2. Clerks 
    3. Office Space
    4. Silence of the Lambs 
    5. Fight Club 
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,882
    ed243421 said:
    Mine:

    the shawshank redemption
    the blues brothers
    the big lebowski
    caddyshack
    blazing saddles


    to watch with the kids:

    elf
    up
    wall-e
    school of rock
    kicking and screaming 
    Blazing Saddles.  Nice inclusion!
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    F Me In The Brain said:
    ed243421 said:
    Mine:

    the shawshank redemption
    the blues brothers
    the big lebowski
    caddyshack
    blazing saddles


    to watch with the kids:

    elf
    up
    wall-e
    school of rock
    kicking and screaming 
    Blazing Saddles.  Nice inclusion!
    Give the @ed243421 a harrumph!
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,760
    edited June 2017
    In order (but it got really really tough after the first 2... I figure there are at least 20 other movies that I could easily switch into the last 3 spots, many of which others have already listed):

    1. Last Night (1998, Don McKellar)
    2. Goodbye, Lenin! (2003, Wolfgang Becker)
    3. Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
    4. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
    5. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    PJ_Soul said:
    4. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
    Oh, no you didn't!
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