What are your top 5 movies of all time?
What are your top 5 movies of all time?
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
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:
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
In no particular order.
In no particular order
I guess I just have three.
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.
In no particular order:
All but one have Tim Curry, hmm... I never noticed that before.
The Dark Knight
The Shining
LOTR Trilogy (ROTK if I have to pick one)
The Nice Guys
Gladiator
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,
Honorable mentions, and depending on my mood, any of these might sneak into the list:
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
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
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
The Thing
Gattaca
Memento
2001 Space Odyssey
Seven
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