What are your top 5 movies of all time?

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What are your top 5 movies of all time? - Lemmy.world

I'll throw my hat in the ring and give my list in no particular order:

Seven Samurai

Borat

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

War of the Worlds (2005)

The Godfather

Seven Samurai is an amazing movie. It set the groundwork for so much more to follow.
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I want to know more about why you would put War of the Worlds in your top 5. I am not hating on you. Purely perplexed because I've never seen anyone mention this movie since it came out. I rewatched it last year, but I don't remember much to write home about.

I was 8 years old when I first saw the film and it scared me so much it left in me a permanent fear of aliens and once I got older I grew to love the film and aliens in general.

Tbh the battle on the hill is enough to make it a great film for me because it involves the ultimate dilemma: which child do you save?

It's a choice no parent should ever have to make and the entire scene in general shows how hopeless it was against the Tripods.

I much prefer "so far" vs "of all time" because all time has not yet elapsed, but I'll shut up and list the current roster:

  • Werckmeister Harmonies
  • Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Dreamers
  • The Wind Rises
  • L'eclisse
  • Interstellar 2-5. Napoleon dynamite, Wayne's World, arrival, Scott pilgrim vs the world
  • Oh I forgot about Arrival. That was such an intense slow-burner, I loved every second. Definitely an all-time fave as well.
    • Clue
    • Death to Smoochy
    • Wizard of Oz
    • Mary Poppins
    • Drop Dead GorgeoussGorgeous
    • Kids in the Hall - Brain Candy

    Sorry...I know that's 6 but I just remembered the last one.

    Madeline Kahn was so good in Clue

    Sometimes I'll watch it just for her part in that film

    Flames... on the side of my head...
  • I Origins (2014)
  • Return of the Jedi (1983)
  • The Boondock Saints (1999)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • Interstellar (2014)
  • In no particular order.

    The premise for Interstellar was maddening. Just plant fucking beans and squashwitht the corn and stop using petrochemicals. Boom, end of movie.
  • Morbius
  • Morbius: Crimson Redemption
  • Morbius: Dark Descent
  • Morbius: Nightfall Chronicles
  • Morbius: The Immortal Hunger
  • In no particular order

  • Starship Troopers
  • Peter Jackson's Trilogy is one movie. Fight me.
  • Speed Racer
  • I guess I just have three.

    I love that you have room for the entire LOTR trilogy but you still fought to keep it in one bullet point.

    Harold and Maude Silence of the Lambs Thor: Ragnarok Singing in the Rain Unforgiven

    Silly to hold us to five but those were the first to come to mind.

    Interstellar and both the spiderverse movies
    In no particular order: The Mission Children of Men Passport to Pimlico Ben Hur My Name is Nobody
  • Back to the Future
  • Wall-E
  • Into The Spider-verse
  • Interstellar
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Star Wars: A New Hope
  • Blade Runner
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Jurassic Park
  • Back To The Future
  • In no particular order:

    • Clue
    • Muppet Treasure Island
    • Lord of the Rings
    • The Hunt for Red October
    • Oscar

    All but one have Tim Curry, hmm... I never noticed that before.

    Dazed and Confused Jurassic Park Fellowship of the Ring The Royal Tenenbaums The Matrix
    In no particular order: -Contact -The Matrix -Inglourious Basterds -Spirited Away -Moonrise Kingdom
    Dark Crystal Pump up the Volume Babette’s Feast Elvira Kika

    The Dark Knight

    The Shining

    LOTR Trilogy (ROTK if I have to pick one)

    The Nice Guys

    Gladiator

    In Bruges!! I forgot to put that one on my list. Such a good fucking movie.
    That movie made me obsessed with Martin McDonagh and permanently cemented my love for Colin Farrell.

    In no particular order

    Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Hunt for Red October The Abyss Master and Commander

    Such a hard thing to do.

    In no particular order, and this is only my mind right now,

    • Grave of the Fireflies
    • LOTR
    • The Mummy (Brendan Fraser)
    • Fifth Element
    • The Northman

    Honorable mentions, and depending on my mood, any of these might sneak into the list:

    • Empire Strikes Back
    • Spirited Away
    • Hotel Rwanda
    • The Lives of Others
    • Princess Bride
    • White Christmas
    • Blade Runner / Blade Runner 2049
    • Dune
    • Your Name
    • Alien
    • The Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le pacte des loups)
    • Arrival
    • Children of Men
    • Pretty much any Mel Brooks movie, but particularly Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood MIT, Dracula dead and loving it
    • Kubo and the Two Strings
    • In Bruges
    • A fish Called Wanda
    • The Life of Brian
    • Some Like it Hot
    • Arsenic and Old Lace
    • Wrath of Khan
    • Best in Show
    • Them
    • Something Wes Anderson, likely Grand Budapest Hotel or Royal Tenenbaums
    • Hot Fuzz
    • There will be Blood
    • 1917
    • The Color of Money
    • The Godfather Part 1
    • Master and Commander
    • Tropic Thunder
    • The Sting
    • Burn After Reading
    • A River Runs Through It
    • Star Trek: First Contact
    • Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
    • October Sky
    • 12 Angry Men
    • It's a Wonderful Life

    I actually sat down a coworker years ago and did this. It was surprisingly easy once I realized something - I'll sit down and watch work a few movies on TV, but there are a few I refuse to. Too many commercials and edits just make me furious... those are my favorites. Getting down to 10 was hard enough, so top 5 are in no order. Some changed how I thought about things, some just entertained me for years:

    The Matrix

    Interstellar

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Fight Club

    Schindler's List

    And because it was so hard, here are a few more that just as easily could be top 5:

    Silence of the Lambs, Inception, V for Vendetta, OG Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Kung Pow, Blair Witch Project

    *Young Frankenstein

    *The Princess Bride

    *Blazing Saddles

    *The Matrix

    *The Shawshank Redemption

    It’s a toss-up on a couple of those. The Blues Brothers could easily make the list, as could Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Alien, Interstellar, and I’m sure there are many others. I will abandon what I’m doing to watch any one of these, if they come on, probably 90% of the time.

    Super hard to limit to just 5 but here’s the first that came to mind: Star Wars: A New Hope The Matrix Delicatessen The Science of Sleep The Fifth Element

    Any of the following could easily go somewhere on the above list :) Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brazil, The Hudsucker Proxy, Groundhog Day, Dark City, Inception & Intersteller (if only it didn’t have the whole love is a force that transcends dimensions and can be used to communicate across time and space stuff?!)

    The Thing Tropic Thunder Doctor Sleep Top Gun: Maverick Requiem for a Dream

    Very hard to choose a top five. Here were my runner ups: Cold Pursuit Ace Ventura (both) The Devils Rejects Halloween 2018 The Loved Ones Train to Busan Tucker & Dale vs Evil Zoolander

    • LOTR (it may be 3, but let’s just call it a single movie)
    • Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
    • Jean de Florette
    • The Matrix
    • Top Gun

    Honourable mentions: anything Monty Python, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Alladin, Indiana Jones (up to and including Last Crusade), any Bond film with Sean Connery, Die Hard, Rocky, Rambo: First Blood, The Passion of Christ, Cross and the Switchblade, The Godfather

    Ohh, this is tough. I guessss they're:

    • Step Brothers

    • Jurassic Park

    • Wet Hot American Summer

    • Pulp Fiction

    • Evil Dead 2

    • oldboy
    • Memento
    • Blade Runner, more for its influence than anything else
    • In Bruges
    • ex machina
    • Everything all at Once
    • V for Vendetta
    • Matrix
    • Joker
    • Gladiator

    anime movie - Demon Slayer: Mugen Train

    The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

    American Psycho

    Hot Fuzz

    Reservoir Dogs

    Starship Troopers

    Idk if I’d say these are the top 5, but ones that come to mind:

    Team America World Police Airplane Fargo Apollo 13 Apollo 13 a second time

    • Fight Club
    • LOTR
    • The Matrix
    • V for Vendetta
    • Star Wars

    The Thing

    Gattaca

    Memento

    2001 Space Odyssey

    Seven

  • The Dark Knight
  • The Iron Giant
  • Forrest Gump
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Dumb and Dumber
  • Bring It On, Liar Liar, The Hot Chick, House Party 4, and Burn After Reading
    American Flyer Eurovision Texas Chainsaw Massacre All Rush Hours All Jphn Wicks
  • LOTR: For staying close to the book while still being amazing.
  • The Matrix: Still can’t forget walking out of the theater, everyone so silent with their minds collectively blown.
  • Cinema Paradiso: For the way it shows the love for cinema.
  • Life is Beautiful: For showing that only we control how we live our lives.
  • Children of Heaven: For its depiction of love in its purest forms.
  • I thought for a solid 5 minutes. Sorry, can’t decide on five.
    Back to the Future Raiders Of the Lost Ark
    Snatch Inglourious Basterds Children of Men There Will Be Blood Shaun of the Dead

    Back to the Future
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Interstellar
    Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
    Empire Strikes Back

    Honorable Mentions:
    Any LOTR, Star Trek: First Contact, Arrival, Dune (2021), Alien, Avatar, Inception, Die Hard

    • Cool Hand Luke
    • The Big Country
    • There Will Be Blood
    • Mortal Kombat
    • Maximum Overdrive