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What Are Your Top 5 Favorite Films?
Posted by askcherlock • 2/25/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: favorites, films, movies
I admit it. I am a shameless lover of films, but I'm driven to strong characterizations. My top 5 can change periodically as I discover a new one but here are my current picks:
Magnolia
The Ninth Configuration
Harold and Maude
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Dark Knight (only because of Heath Ledger)
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The Godfather 1
The Silence of the Lambs
The Bridges of Madison County
Jaws
Amores Feroz-
Loved Godfather and had a party in my home with the sountrack playing. I served gnocchi's, canoli and Chianti. I also had a red and white checkered tablecloth. Great fun!
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1) facing the giants - i hope more people get to see this film and be inspired by it
2) the passion of the christ - really moving
3) gladiator - i never get tired watching this film-
I will definitely check out Facing the Giants. Thanks for the tip.
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Pulp Ficton
Almost Famous
The Godfather
Chinatown
Casablanca-
I will watch any film in which John Travolta dances. Since you liked Pulp Fiction, did you see Reservoir Dogs?
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Like you my favourites change over time and I probably have a list of a 100 must see films but I'm just going to chose five films I could watch any time and still enjoy even though I have seen them countless times.
1/ Life of brian
2/ Spinal tap
3/ Casablanca
4/ La cage aux folies
5 Taxi driver-
Dark Deniro in Taxi Driver---compelling.
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I thought DeNiro blesses pretty much anything he touches. Recently saw Awakenings and was impressed yet again. I'm not quite sure how he does it. -
Taxi Driver: Dark De Niro in one of his best films.
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Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Princess Bride
Reservoir Dogs
Dusk 'Til Dawn-
Reservoir Dogs and Dusk 'Til Dawn. Cool!
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You have such awesome taste in movies!
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I love cartoon film which has meaning value. Here's my list (not ordered)
1/ Wall-E : Their imagination of the future is great, and it's love story - touchy
2/ Kungfu Panda : We can get many valuable word from this film
3/ The Greatest Game Played : this true story full of meaning
4/ Miss Congeniality : Just love to watch William Shatner
5/ The Matrix Trilogy : It's philosophic film. I like it. I can't understand the film until I see the supplement-
I could see Shatner in anything. He is like a caricature of himself.
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1) Braveheart - I'm a big fan of his work and this one is his best
2) Last of the Mohicans - Daniel Day Lewis running with a long rifle in one hand and a gunstock club in the other... that's insanely hot & macho AND heroic
3) Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves - i love Kevin Costner in this movie
4) Transformers - my fav cartoon when I was a kid, so seeing this on the big screen & it was so well done, that was just magic.
5) At the moment, it's a toss between Iron Man and Dark Knight-
Haven't seen Iron Man, but Ledger was pure artistry in Dark Knight. My toss for you would be that!
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1. Armageddon
2. The Day After Tommorrow
3. The Pursuit of Happyness
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. The Passion Of The Christ -
In my way
Apacalipto
Sulaga enu pinisa(Srilankan movie)
Machan(Srilankan film)
And Maliena,
Trade
are the other best movies
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And Maliena,trade are the other best movies
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1. Red Cliff
2. Underworld
3. X-Men
4. Thomas Crown Affair
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Citizen Kane
An Affair to Remember
Vertigo
His Girl Friday
Casablanca-
His girl friday is hilarious, I love those screwball comedies especially bringing up baby and my man godfrey.
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You, my friend, have good taste.
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The best part about His Girl Friday is the dialogue. No one has such snappy dialogue these days.
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Yeah that's very true the last time I can remember them trying to make that sort of film and failing spectacularly was the M Pffifififififier and G Clooney film "One fine day"
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Classy choices!
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I am going with the movies I can watch over and over, rather than movies that I think were the best ever made.
1. Groundhog Day
2. Emma
3. Garden State
4. The Haunting (b/w)
5. All About Eve-
Just ordered Three Faces of Eve. Anyone seen it?
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I love All About Eve! Bettie Davis is the greatest! Best line ever: Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!
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I just watched All about Eve for the first time the other night and it was brilliant, love Bette Davis.
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Back To The Future 1
Back To The Future 2
Back To The Future 3
True Romance
Pulp Fiction
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I liked Back to the Future 1 and loooved Pulp Fiction.
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Since you asked 5, here they are are in no particular order.
Twelve Angry Men
Dr. Zhivago
Papillon
Now, Voyager (Claude Raines and Bette Davis. If you haven't seen it, do.)
and because of the story and the sweeping geography,
Dances with Wolves-
OMG! I love, love, love Now, Voyager! I think it's one of the most romantic movies I have ever seen.
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I love the complexity of the story, that the ending doesn't tie up nicely. Life and love are so often about compromise.
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1. Paprika
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Waking Life
4. Amelie
5. Mulholland Drive
extra: (Blair Witch Project 1 and Donnie Darko)-
I haven't seen any of these yet! Now you have my curiousity going. Which one first...?
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Waking Life! Seriously, watch Waking Life first!
A friend showed it to me in high school, you will never look at a clock the same way again!
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Ripley's Game
Glengary Glenross
Dark Knight
Godfather trilogy
25th Hour-
Really, you liked Ripley's Game better than The Talented Mr. Ripley? I thought "Talented" was haunting and disturbing.
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Actually I liked the entire series. Ripley Underground which happened in between was direct to video and starred Barry Pepper. Check it out too. I think Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, and John Malkovich all did Ripley's character justice on screen--and the different actors were good in bringing out Ripley's varying tastes as he grew older.
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I'm happy to see that someone else liked Glengary Glenross. Great acting. You folks have made me want to check out Ripley's Game.
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Because of these replies, we ordered and watched The Talented Mr. Ripley. It was excellent! Now we have to try the others.
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Office Space
Slingblade
Silence of the Lambs
Dead Man Walking
Rain Man-
Much of Silence of the Lambs was filmed here in Pittsburgh. Anthony Hopkins was chilling. Also loved Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man.
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1 - Brazil
2 - Dead Man
3 - El Topo
4 - Idiocracy
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Million Dollar Baby
Training Day
Rocky 1
Casino
Rambo 1-
Rocky 1 is a classic. Agreed!
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dracula bramstoker
forest gump
resrvoir dogs
heat
perfume(parfum)-
Just put Reservoir Dogs on our rental list. Great film. I love Harvey Keitel.
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We just watched Godfather 1 again and enjoyed it as much as the first time we saw it. Canoli, anyone?
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is no set order and subject to chage:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Rear Window
3. Citizen Kane
4. Dogma
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So, you really love Citizen Kane? I used to live with a bunch of film students and they were all forced to watch it for class. You've never heard such complaining! I tried to remind them they were watching a movie for homework but all of them kept going on about how it was a supposed "classic" but they couldn't stand it. I don't really have an opinion on it.
Why do you love Citizen Kane?
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Cuckoo's Nest was maybe Nicholson's finest film. I saw 2001 twice. The first time I "watched it" I kinda was feelin' good so we all stayed and saw it again. Sins of my youth! Loved Dogma too...
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1. The Godfather 1 & 2
2. Save the Tiger
3. The Heiress
4 Some Like it Hot
5. 12 Angry Men (thr original)
There are 3 more favorites but you only asked for th top 5-
Please add them! Great top 5 so please go on.
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1) vozvraschenie (the return)
2) color of pomegranates
3) edukators
4) piano teacher
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To Kill a Mockingbird
The Godfather I & II (GF III was the worst movie ever made)
Gone With the Wind
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
{P.S. I am greatly disturbed by anyone who lumps that litter box of a movie, Godfather III, in with Godfather's I & 2. What were you watching?}-
Excellent, all--and I agree that GF 3 was awful.
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While The Godfather I & II are my all time favorite movies, I have to say that like you I think sequel III is way off base. Sometimes Hollywood has to stop making sequel after sequel and quit while they're ahead.
And I also agree One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is right up there with the best of them. Too bad we only had 5 choices.
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Ooo! I love Top Five lists!
1. The Boondock Saints
2. American Psycho
3. Caffeine
4. Death Proof
5. Lucky Number Slevin-
I thought I knew a lot of films, but you sure seem like an expert. Start me off with the best one here, since I've not seen any of them.
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Boondock Saints is my favorite. I've seen it god knows how many times and it never gets old. But I recommend all of them on my list.
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Taxi Driver: Dark De Niro in on i all so think this is best flim-
I love dark films. Not quite sure what that says about me. I especially like them with De Niro and just watched Hide and Seek. It was dark with a twist. Taxi Driver is one of the best.
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Looks like Waking Life will be my next request! Going to the queue now....
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I agree with you ASKCHERLOCK, I think Taxi Driver was DeNiro's best and loved Hida and Seek. Never saw the ending coming. Total suprise.
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The Godfather 1&2
Scarface
An officer and a gentleman
Dirty Dancing
Heat
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Off the top of my head, here's four:
Jacob's Ladder
Cutter's Way
Raging Bull
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Jacob's Ladder with Tim Robbins, right? Terrific film and I am glad you reminded me of it. Raging Bull---another De Niro classic and so compelling.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Corporation
Saw
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Amelie-
Oh god I hate Amelie soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much, it's my girlfriend's favourite film. First time I saw it I didn't like it, second time I really didn't like it, tenth time I have really started to hate it with a passion I had previously reserved for Manchester utd, Carling lager and Marzipan.
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aningeniousname; To each their own, of course. It came along in my life just when I needed it.
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No I can see why people would like it but something about it just winds me up intensely. As you say to each their own, I think a lot of people would pick it as a favourite.
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