name your top 5 favorite movies of all time

huw ginnit · 08-25-2007

Sunset Boulevard, seen it about 12,000 times

Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

Auntie Mame....who here doesn't love it????

Connie and Carla- flip on the Some like it hot idea

anything by Jean Pierre Jeunet- watch A Very Long Engagement, and was blown away again. He is a GENIUS!

I could go on, five is way too stingy!

naughty · 08-25-2007

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Kurosawa: Rashomon, Seven Samurai (Classic), The Hidden Fortress (One of the blueprints for Star Wars), Yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune is outstanding here, as always), Dersu Uzala, Ran, Dreams...to name a few. I love his films and you can see his influence throughout movies

Also have to agree with b.c. about Peter Sellers. Especially Being There, another one of my favorites

Absolutely! There would be no "MAgnificent Seven" without "Seven Samurai". I so miss his work.

Stretch · 08-25-2007

I've got the whole collection on dvd...I guess our weekend is planned then Naughty...

Osiris · 08-25-2007

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Originally Posted by b.c.

I'll look for it.

Sellers was at his best when the comedy was more subtle. That's what made the first Pink Panther pure genius. The sequels became farces... caricatures of the character (Clouseau).

Other Sellers favs of mine are, After the Fox, Being There, and The Party.

The Party actually bombed when it came out. I think it's classic. Peter Sellers as Hrundi V. Bakshi.

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Originally Posted by Stretch

Wow...only 5??? No such thing as my 5 favorites because there are just too many films that are great for too many different reasons. Just off the top of my head:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Almost perfect in every facet
Shawshank Redemption: Maybe even better
Rashomon: Love all Kurosowa, chose this one
Goodfellas: Scorsese at his best arguably
Unforgiven: Reinvented an entire genre

lol...it's really impossible. I could give ten more top 5 lists and never repeat a film. Nice thread...I'll bring some choice red wines btw.

p.s...what about top 5 Drama, top 5 comedy,top 5 Musicals, Animated (traditional and computer) Epic, Sci-fi, non-Hollywood, Top 5 Hitchcock, Spielberg, Disney, sport themed, courtroom, love story, western, top 5 Rob Schneider films...that could take 3 lifetimes alone lol.

Anyway, didn't mean to ramble...I'll get started on my lists

Have fun

Goodfellas launched a genre. You can't forget Casino either.

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Originally Posted by Stretch

Kurosawa: Rashomon, Seven Samurai (Classic), The Hidden Fortress (One of the blueprints for Star Wars), Yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune is outstanding here, as always), Dersu Uzala, Ran, Dreams...to name a few. I love his films and you can see his influence throughout movies

Also have to agree with b.c. about Peter Sellers. Especially Being There, another one of my favorites

Kurosawa influenced so many directors. Also, see the HBO movie about Peter Sellers starring Geoffrey Rush, it was excellent.

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Originally Posted by huw ginnit

Sunset Boulevard, seen it about 12,000 times

Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

Auntie Mame....who here doesn't love it????

Connie and Carla- flip on the Some like it hot idea

anything by Jean Pierre Jeunet- watch A Very Long Engagement, and was blown away again. He is a GENIUS!

I could go on, five is way too stingy!

"Life is a smorgasbord and most poor suckers are starving!" Ros at her best in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by naughty

Absolutely! There would be no "MAgnificent Seven" without "Seven Samurai". I so miss his work.

Or Star Wars, or Coppola's Dracula... Kurosawa's reach into filmdom runs very deep.

SpoiledPrincess · 08-25-2007

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Farewell My Concubine, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Cabaret, Aliens, they might not be my top five favourite films, they were just the first five favourite films I could think of.

Stretch · 08-25-2007

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest was first on my list Princess. Mine were also off the top of my head. Like I said...I think we could come up with plenty of top 5 lists and never repeat...

chavous · 08-25-2007

1.casablanca,2gone With The Wind,3terms Of Endearment,4trainspotting,5.ferris Beuler-day Off

fortiesfun · 08-25-2007

Babette's Feast

Witness (The Harrison Ford one)

Dr. Zhivago

Sophie's Choice

Shortbus (My current fave...)

ScaredLittleBoy · 08-25-2007

Five is quite a small number but here you go:

Goodfellas
Full Metal Jacket
Little Shop of Horrors
Psycho
Inner Space

I tried to get a good mix

conchis · 08-25-2007

- Amores Perros
- Requiem for a dream
- Fight Club
- Summer of Sam
- Magnolia

Osiris · 08-25-2007

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Originally Posted by SpoiledPrincess

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Farewell My Concubine, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Cabaret, Aliens, they might not be my top five favourite films, they were just the first five favourite films I could think of.

Not a slouch list though. Cabaret and Farewell My Concubine are excellent.

fortiesfun · 08-25-2007

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Originally Posted by conchis

- Fight Club
- Magnolia

Great films, as are so many on this thread.

Stretch · 08-25-2007

Hey Fortiesfun...If your current fave is Short Bus then I'm assuming you must have loved Hedwig and the Angry Inch also. Great music...

SpoiledPrincess · 08-25-2007

I have a grudge against Fight Club and Magnolia, they were two of my ex's favourite films and we watched them time and time again, he knew the script off by heart and often he'd say to me 'what film does this quote come from' before he'd even finished his quote I'd say Fightclub or Magnolia and I had a 50% chance of being right on my first 'guess'.

huw ginnit · 08-25-2007

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Originally Posted by fortiesfun

Babette's Feast

Witness (The Harrison Ford one)

Dr. Zhivago

Sophie's Choice

Shortbus (My current fave...)

Babette's Feast almost made my 5, a beautiful film,

name your top 5 favorite movies of all time

Sunset Boulevard, seen it about 12,000 times Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. Auntie Mame....who here doesn't love it???? Connie and Carla- flip on the Some like it hot idea anything by Jean Pierre