What are you favorite Top 5 Movies of all time?

Started by Thecowgoooesmooo, January 23, 2003, 05:03:10 PM

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polkablues

Here's my five (say it with me), "IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER":

1) Magnolia
2) Waking the Dead
3) 8 1/2
4) Amelie
5) End of the Affair
or
   Last Year at Marienbad
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Redlum

It changes all the time (apart from Magnolia)  but...

Magnolia
Wonder Boys
Bottle Rocket
Back to the Future
Boogie Nights

honorable mentions..
Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Big Lebowski, One flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Fellowship of the Ring.
\"I wanted to make a film for kids, something that would present them with a kind of elementary morality. Because nowadays nobody bothers to tell those kids, \'Hey, this is right and this is wrong\'.\"
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Jeremy Blackman

1. Magnolia
2. 2001

That's all I can stomach.

probably somewhere in there: Boogie Nights, Full Metal Jacket, Dancer in the Dark, Godfather I & II, Mulholland Drive, more Kubrick stuff

ksmc

In no particular order:

The Apartment
The Godfather
Magnolia
The Royal Tenenbaums
This is Spinal Tap
The Castle
All the President's Men
Carnal Knowledge
The 400 Blows
Paths of Glory
Philadelphia
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Rudie Obias

10.  THREE KINGS
*The visual style is so fresh and clean but at the same time it's gritty.  David O. Russell is a good up-and-coming director to lookout for.*

09.  JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS
*From the writers/directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan that brought you CAN'T HARDLY WAIT.  The production design alone is worth the view.  It is very good and it's very clever for a teen movie.  Not too many people would agree with me about how great this movie I but my taste are my own.*

08.  NORTH BY NORTHWEST
*My favorite Alfred Hitchcock film.  It has the best action sequence in film history.  The last big production film from Hitchcock.

07.  BEFORE SUNRISE
*The cutest romantic comedy/drama out there from writer/director Richard Linklater.  It's so smart and cool!*

06.  CHUNGKING EXPRESS
*This film tuned me on to foreign art films.  Director Wong Kar-Wai is brilliant, it's very fresh and stylish, simply cool.  It's put out by Quentin Tarantino's rolling thunder pictures.*

05.  ZERO EFFECT
*The most unappreciated movie of the 90s!  It's one of the best mystery/crime films to come out of Hollywood.  Director Jake Kasdan also directed ORANGE COUNTY and TVs UNDECLARED.  If you liked the USUAL SUSPECTS (which is the most overrated movie of the 90s) then you should check this one out. *

04.  JACKIE BROWN
*This is my favorite film from Quentin Tarantino.  It has the sharpest dialogue and the most focused style out of his films.  It has the one thing Jean-Luc Godard said about making a good film, "all you need to make a good film is a girl and a gun".  The soundtrack kicks fuckin' ass with "Across 110th Street".*

03.  MAGNOLIA
*WOW!  Such a smart and well written film.  From the one and only Paul Thomas Anderson.  Genius!  This is an example of how film is definitely art.  It is a classic.*

02.  RUSHMORE
*An enjoyable film with one of the best written characters in films.  In my opinion, the best character in film, Max Fischer played by Jason Schwartzman.  Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson are very clever writers and Wes Anderson is a colorful American director.*

01.  CITIZEN KANE
*I know, but it's sorta cop-out.  It is the best film ever made and I really can't put anything at #1 because I know CITIZEN KANE is good.  Orson Wells was a revolutionary writer/director.*

honorable mention:

ADRENALINE DRIVE by Shinobu Yaguchi
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Sofia Coppola
BAND OF OUTSIDERS by Jean-Luc Godard
DONNIE DARKO by Richard Kelly
GHOST WORLD by Terry Zwigoff
FALLEN ANGELS by Wong Kar-Wai
WAKING LIFE by Richard Linklater
PERFECT BLUE by Satoshi Kon
THE 400 BLOWS by Francois Truffaut
BUFFALO 66 by Vincent Gallo
CHASING AMY by Kevin Smith
BATTLE ROYALE by Kinji Fukasaku
\"a pair of eyes staring at you, projected on a large screen is what cinema is truly about.\" -volker schlöndorff

SHAFTR

my derivative list....

Chasing Amy
Pulp Fiction
Good Will Hunting
The Usual Suspects
Star Wars


this list always changes (with the exception of Chasing Amy) so ask me tomorrow and it will be different.
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Quote from: rudieob10.  THREE KINGS...

am i going crazy, or did you post this before...   :?

Quote from: xerxesi believe you did.

Rudie Obias

\"a pair of eyes staring at you, projected on a large screen is what cinema is truly about.\" -volker schlöndorff

life_boy

Sorry, it's a bit long.

2001: A Space Oddyssey
Barry Lyndon
Being John Malkovich
Being There
Boogie Nights
Clockwork Orange, A
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Fish Called Wanda, A
Heat
JFK
Jungle Fever
Leaving Las Vegas
Lenny
Magnolia
Midnight Cowboy
Naked
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Out of Sight
Peeping Tom
Primary Colors
Secrets & Lies
Traffic
Wall Street
Wonder Boys

Raikus

Jesus. You can't just limit it to 5. I'm going to begin rambling...

Donnie Darko
Titus
Full Metal Jacket
Patton
Chasing Amy
Spirited Away
Das Boot
Almost Famous
Seven Samurai
Rushmore
Dark City
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Trainspotting
Pi
Clerks
The Man Who Wasn't There
Ghost World
Quills
Fight Club
High Fidelity
American Beauty
True Romance
Pulp Fiction

There's tons I'm forgetting, but I'd better stop for the sake of bandwidth.
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Ghostboy

Wow, it's great to see so many great movies listed here. Here's my own top five, as it stands right now this morning, in no order.

Do The Right Thing
Buffalo 66
The Empire Strikes Back
The Shining
Punch Drunk Love


Man, I never realized how limited five was. I'm going to now instigate the use of an alternate number system in which the contents of lists are doubled while still retaining the original value. Thus, my top five films are:

Do The Right Thing
Buffalo 66
The Empire Strikes Back
Raising Arizona
The Shining
Taxi Driver
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Punch Drunk Love
2001
Rushmore

budgie

Magnolia
                  Fight Club
                The Red Shoes

         This Sporting Life  

          L'Atalante  
                                                          Taxi Driver

  Imitation of Life  
                               Eraserhead              

                   Vertigo
                                              The Wizard of Oz


and a Kurosawa, the choice too tough really, but I suppose

                                                       Rashomon.

phil marlowe

Quote from: life_boySorry, it's a bit long.

2001: A Space Oddyssey
Barry Lyndon
Being John Malkovich
Being There
Boogie Nights
Clockwork Orange, A
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Fish Called Wanda, A
Heat
JFK
Jungle Fever
Leaving Las Vegas
Lenny
Magnolia
Midnight Cowboy
Naked
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Out of Sight
Peeping Tom
Primary Colors
Secrets & Lies
Traffic
Wall Street
Wonder Boys

Wow! Aphabeticly!

Film Student

My list changes literally from week to week, but here's as of now, my favorites (in no particular order)

Magnolia
The Long Goodbye
Straw Dogs
Carnal Knowledge
The Apartment
Dr. Strangelove
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Touch of Evil
Blue Velvet
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Almost Famous
Network
Dancer in the Dark
Waking Life
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Exotica
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xerxes

Quote from: rudieobi probably did.  i'm a nerd!

*rudie*

aren't we all???