What are your top five favorite movies?

The ones that come to mind, ones that I can watch over and over and over and over and over again...

Office Space
Steel Magnolias
When Harry Met Sally
What About Bob?
Finding Nemo
Dirty Dancing
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Lord of The Rings (Trilogy)

and...I'm thinking of this one movie where 2 couples go to Vegas...Billy Bob Thornton is in it?? Can't remember what it's called but it's freakin' hilarous

Ok so that was more than 5, and i have many more, those were just the first ones that came to mind.

Clockwork Orange
Fight Club
The Crow
Apocalypse Now redux
Kissed/Boxing Helena tied for 5th

Here's five, no particular order (except the first is and always will be by first), subject to change:
1) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
2) Dawn of the Dead (the original though I enjoyed the sequel)
3) 8 1/2
4) Fox and His Friends
5) Polyester
These are my favorite in the sense that I can watch them many times and never fail to enjoy or get something new out of them.

I'm not much into movies

Kissed! I loved that movie.

Angle Heart
The Usual Suspects
Jacob's Ladder
The Remains of the Day
Johnny Brasco

oh and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Requiem for a Dream was really good too...
And all the Back to the Future movies

The Indiana Jones movies, the Back to the Future Movies, The Subspecies movies and Vampire Journals.

1.) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2.) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
3.) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
4.) Back to the Future
5.) Bill and Ted's Execelent Adventure

Well, I think they are...

Episode I
WWilly Wonka
Bourne Identity
LotR: TTT
City Slicker II

Chasing Amy
Out of Sight
Pleasantville
Carlito's Way
Shakespeare in Love

Office Space is great, and I love When Harry Met Sally. Labyrinth I need to own.

I just never got the appeal of Clockwork Orange. Never jived for me. Fight Club, however, gets Honorable Mention in my Top Five. It was in my Top Five for a while, but Carlito's Way edged it out. I never saw The Crow (it's on my list!) and I didn't much care for Apocalypse Now. I'll add Kissed and Boxing Helena to my list since it's on your Top Five.

Fox and His Friends and Polyester - have never seen these. Quick synopsis?

If you liked Jacob's Ladder, what'd ya think of Vanilla Sky? Not the same, but similar.

We Were Soldiers
Forrest Gump
Lonesome Dove
Godfather
Gone With the Wind

Boondock Saints, Fight Club, Gangs of NY...ummm, Tarantino fliks

The odd part of this is that none of these fall into my favorite category of Psychological Horrow / Thrillers

Fox and His Friends - Fassbinder directed and also performed the lead as the ironically named Fox, a carnival worker who wins the lottery and is used up by his new bourgeois friends.
Polyester - I think of this as John Water's Job story; Divine stars as an extremely put-upon suburban housewife. A twisted homage to Douglas Sirk (long before Todd Haynes' "Far From Heaven").

So many to choose from. I decided to choose one from each genre. These choices are subject to change at any time.

Action: Hidalgo, anything Viggo
Comedy: Harold & Maude, The Royal Tanenbaums
Drama: Rules of Attraction, A Walk on the Moon
Family: Labyrinth, Willy Wonka
Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy: Rosemary's Baby, The Shining, Legend, I couldn't decide.

I know it's more than 5 but I have alot of movies.
I watch Rosemary's baby everytime it comes on TV. I don't know why but I have to watch it everytime.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Lion In Winter
Bladerunner
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Crash
Fellowship of the Ring
Fight Club
Apocalypse Now

sorry, I can't pick the top five

Moonraker
Live and Let Die
In The Company of Men
Grease
The Beach

In alphabetical order:

Dancer in the Dark
Donnie Darko
Festen
Xieh Lo (Cyclo)
Requiem for a Dream.

Happiness, Blade Runner, Alien, Ravenous, Jacob's Ladder

ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It was Hawt!

Ravenous is in my top 10

Yeah, I love Office Space. I have a pin stuck in the visor of my car that say's "This Is My Piece Of Flair"

Here they are, but not necessarily in this order. And I couldn't stop with just 5.

1. A Beautiful Mind
2. Wit
3. Digging to China
4. Pirates of the Caribbean
5. Sixth Sense
6. Desert Hearts
7. Boys on the Side
8. High Art
9. Claire of the Moon
10. It's in the Water

Yeah, I probably would have listed Fight Club, it just slipped my mind... I saw a lot of great movies listed here that I just didn't think of.

1. Lolita (1998 remake)
2. Smokey and the Bandit
3. My Girl
4. Mrs. Doubtfire
5. Viva Las Vegas

Of course, there are tons of others. But since you asked me to name only five, those were the first five out of all my favorites that came to mind.

1: Urban Cowboy
2: An Officer and a Gentlemen
3: Saturday Night Fever
4: The Breakfast Club
5: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
but I also like Resevior dogs and Pulp Fiction and the Godfather and the FIRST Grease movie with Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

Kind of wierd aren't they?

The Last Temptation of Christ is my all-time favorite.
Anne of Green Gables
Who's That Knocking at My Door (Martin Scorsese's first feature-length film, not widely known)
Wild at Heart
Legally Blonde

Roughly:

American Beauty
Chocolat
Frida
Labyrinth
Secretary

me and my kids (they are teens) still watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory all the time. We own it so we watch that one and An Officer and a Gentlemen, and also The Breakfast Club. I make them watch the last two because I like those.

Raiders of the Lost Ark, LA Story, Fantasia, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Dead Poets Society.

how could I forget Ravenous???

Halloween
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Anne of Green Gables
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Actually, this is hard. I don't watch movies much, and once I watch one that's it, don't care anymore about it. Halloween is the only movie I've watched repeatedly.

Your choices are NOT weird. All of them would be at the top of my list.

but the bodies were so cold!

Pulp Fiction, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Forest Gump, The Big Chill, and Fight Club.

These are off the top of my head.. I'm sure there are some that I like better.

What a cool job you have!!

Thanks cereal, I thought I was wierd. They are good movies, though. Great Minds think Alike?

Y Tu Mama Tambien
Run Lola Run
Happy Gilmore
Tommy Boy
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Now that I've seen everyone elses.. Anne of Green Gables and American Beauty must be added.

You got it. I always like the Ten Commandments too. Kinda strange since Halloween is my all time favorite movie.

Naw--Halloween is a classic. Jamie Lee Curtis was the bomb in it. I have watched the original Halloween more times than I can think. The Ten Commandments was good, the actors--Yul Brynner (Spelling?) was great and one handsome dude back then. Who was the actor that played Moses? I can see the face but the name escapes me. Was it Burt Lancaster?

I was surprised to see Kill Bill vol.1 on your list... you must be psyched for vol 2....

Angela's Ashes
Trainspoting
Madness of King George
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Essex Boys

I'm also a huge fan of long, historical epics, like Gladiator, Vercingetorix (I saw the whole movie - on fastforward though - despite the fact that it sucked so badly), Attila the Prince of Huns, etc.

Requiem for a Dream is one of the movies that recieved virtually no advertisement (I happened to know about it when it came out because I walked passed a local movie theatre and saw its poster) and still everyone knows about it and everyone saw it.

Vanilla Sky? The one with Tom Cruise? I didn't see it - didn't hear enough about it to want to rent it but if you're making a vague parallel with Jacob's Ladder; you've just peeked my interest!

It's true what you say about the lack of advertisement for that film - it was good enough to just go along with the word of mouth! I saw the movie right after, what I thought was a really good movie about drugs; "Traffic" I liked the way the scenes in NY were filmed with a blue filter and the scenes in Mexico filmed with an orange filter. What I didn't like was the choice of "sweet little girl corrupted by the drug trade" to illustrate the movie's point. It wasn't credible. But Requiem for a Dream was shockingly real - the young woman convincing herself the she was not addicted and yet went pretty low just to get her fix - that seemed much more real! I liked the way they filmed the effects of getting high too - the close up of the dilating eye, pill popping and etc.. It was a really good movie and had a stronger impact on the cause and dangers of drug addiction.

1. Un Chien Andalou
2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
3. Nosferatu
4. Tales from the Gimli Hospital
5. La Dolce Vita

very psyched!

The Matrix trilogy.
Cruel Intentions
Finding Nemo
Good Will Hunting
Ice Age

I loved Vanilla Sky!

all absolutely great movies. do you have the spec. ed. of Fight Club? The directors commentary is really cool.

Blade
Interview With The Vampire
Crash
Bound

Of course My SO is a little bit obsessed with our dvd collection.. if there is a special edition of anything... that's the one we have.

Did traffic even have any scenes in NY?

I know that a good part of the movie was filmed in my hometown, Cincinnati.. some in DC.. and some in Mexico.. I'm not sure about NY though.

I liked yours too... particularly The Royal Tennenbaums and Rosemary's Baby.. the thing I liked about Tennenbaums was that it was like reading a book.

Pretty cool. Willy rocks!

he sure does

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston--thanks cereal. Did you see the Ten Commandments this year? I didn't

1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. Sixteen Candles
3. Gone with te Wind
4. Moonstruck
5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

No, I didn't see it. I've seen it so many times since a kid I must have it memorized.

Imagery of the movie was just plain beautiful. It is very hard to potray drug effects on the screen, and yet they did it.

Traffic was good, but yes, I agree, Erike Christiensen's character was too archetypical. Too predictable.

Finding Nemo and Ice Age are great. I love that new breed of cartoon comedies.

Yeah, I've got the Criterion Collection on that one too.

1. Thelma and Louise
2. South Park - The Movie
3. Butterfly Kiss (you won't have heard of this one)
4. 12 Monkeys
5. X-Men

um,

Fight Club, Office Space, Matrix, South Park the Movie (if that counts), thats all I can think off at the top of my head.

oh yeah, I forgot to mention all the Kevin Smith movies I saw. The Clerks, definatly on my list.

Way too many to choose from.

1.Dirty Dancing
2.Halloween
3.ET
4.American Pie
5.save the last dance

My top five documentaries:
1. Unchained Memories
2. American Hollow
3. True Meaning of Pictures, Shelby Lee Adam's Appalachia
4. The Big One
5. Naked States

I also LOVE:

Monica in Black and White
An Evening with Kevin Smith

I'll rent it this weekend!

OK Not NY... Look, I don't live in Montreal but I tell people who are as far as you that I do. So when I travelled to NY, I often had to go to Baltimore and Washington so after 7 hours driving; it's all in the same neighbourhood to me!! (It was Washington, remember Douglas' role?)

Requiem for a Dream does rate among my favourites... For many reasons; the story, the effects, the poignancy, the sadness, the hurt, the harm of addiction. It must certainly have struck a cord in many people... I hope it was a positive influence. I had my daughter rent it and she was really disturbed by it and asked me why I recommended it...

Nope.. even though it was filmed partly in my city, I didn't pay much attention.. It was mostly filmed in an upscale area (Indian Hill), and I'm not familiar with it.

I just didn't care for that flick at all.. despite all the hype and reviews.

I like the blue and orange filters a lot though... It was a good cinematic idea.

hmm...5 movies I love...

miller's crossing
strange days
big lebowski
the sixth sense
seven

the first is my favorite, the others are always in my top 25, but it depends...I have many others, sometimes I like them even more than those I listed, it depends on my mood.

I can't just choose 5.
LOTR - all three, Edward Scissorhands, Willow, Princess Bride, Legend, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Nightmare Before Christmas, American Beauty, From Dusk till Dawn, Dawn of the Dead.

Now I've seen what everyone else put I have to add Cruel Intentions, Thelma and Louise, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Big Lebowski, Sliding Doors, Shakespeare in Love....

I love many of those you listed...

From Dusk till Dawn is a riot!

I thought American Beauty was kind of overrated though.

What did you think of James and the Giant Peach (one of my daughter's favorites!)

ah, I loved Strange Days!

and I loved From Dusk Till Dawn!

I forgot Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

I didn't think I'd like American Beauty at all - but I really did. Probably because I just love Kevin Spacey!

James and the giant Peach is another great one! I was obsessed with the book when I was little and only saw the film of it a few months ago.

When I first saw it I had no idea what it was about - so the whole vampire thing came as a huge surprise!

I didn't even know it was a book until a few months ago.. I saw something about it on an old rerun of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? or some other similar show.

I'll have to get that for my daughter.. I tend to think Tim Burton's movies are pretty icky.. something about them bugs me.. but my daughter loves them. Did you also like Sleepy Hollow? My favorite of his would have to be Beetlejuice.

I had the same experience with From Dusk till Dawn.

Yes, it's good.

Annie
The Neverending Story
Monsters, Inc.
Silence of the Lambs
Seven

Top 5 of the top of my head, give me time to think about it and I'd change a few.

Here are my top 5 favorites, off the top of my head:
Just Married
Independence Day
Thirteen Ghosts
The Ring
Mermaids

I'm a big horror fan, so that's why you see the Ring and 13 Ghosts. I think Just Married is so hilarious. Looking through other people's lists, I see ones that I love that I forgot about, such as the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Labyrinth. I'm sure I'll think about many more, but that's just what popped in mind right away.

I absolutely adore Tim Burton and I loved Sleepy Hollow (presence of Johnny Depp helps). There's just something so clever about the way he explores the world of the weird without making it pathetic and cliche. I think he's a genius! I haven't actually seen Beetlejuice - so that's on my 'must watch' list.

Ever After (great take on the Cinderella story), Fried Green Tomatoes (lesbian love at it's finest), Charlie's Angels (chicks kicking butt, gotta love it!), The Sum of Us (Russell Crowe playing a strong gay man) and Xanadu (can't explain that one, just love it!)

Absolutely - although I think a lot of the appeal for me is the adult humuor intermixed with the kiddies stuff. Like The Simpsons!

How old is your daughter?

Yes, the adult stuff give us a good excuse to watch it.

And I watched Nemo after having to write an essay on personality types - the assorted creatures in the tank at the Dentist's office demonstrated just about all of them!