Thread: All time top 5 favourite movies

Originally Posted by slim

We have a lot in common, Abe.

The scenes with Bruce Willis and his dumbass girlfriend are soooooooooooooooo boring.

Originally Posted by Northman

Is that the one with Robert Duvall?

Indeed. Several outstanding performances. This movie had something you don't see often in movies anymore - character development. People change their view of the world or of themselves from the beginning of the film to the end. Duvall/Santini doesn't change but his family, each in their own ways, learn first to adapt to life with this overbearing man and then adapt to being without him.

Yea, that is a good flick. Havent seen it in years though.

Saw "West World" the other night (the Yul Brenner one). Saw it in the theatres when I was 17 or 18. Sure had a different feel to it now.

No way I can come up with a list - I like too many, and have several that I'd watch numerous times.

Kill Bill 1 & 2 were on the other day - that was a fun afternoon of movie watching.

Originally Posted by aberdien

The scenes with Bruce Willis and his dumbass girlfriend are soooooooooooooooo boring.

There are a lot of boring scenes mixed in with some pretty cool scenes....so not that much different than any other BS Hollywood pumps out.

Tarantino always has quirky dialogue in his films, some times he nails it other times it is a bit weird - like the Bruce Willis thing in pulp fiction. But even some of those lines were iconic

Whose motor cycle is this
That's not a motor cycle baby that's a chopper
Whose chopper is this
Zeds
Whose zed
Zed's dead

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

No way I can come up with a list - I like too many, and have several that I'd watch numerous times.

Kill Bill 1 & 2 were on the other day - that was a fun afternoon of movie watching.

Yeah I feel the same way, which is why I went with the top 5 movies that set the template for movies I like. For example there are movies that came after Die Hard that looked better, had better action, etc. but that movie is timeless to me and had the perfect balance of what makes a good modern action flick. Plus its a personal list so I also tried to make them movies I could watch over and over again.

Originally Posted by aberdien

The scenes with Bruce Willis and his dumbass girlfriend are soooooooooooooooo boring.

You don't like blueberry pancakes?

Originally Posted by wcben

Lawrence of Arabia
Apocalypse Now
Jeremiah Johnson

All three of theseakey top ten. Kudos to you.

Off the top of my head. Top five:

-Jeremiah Johnson
-Unbreakable
-the good the bad and the ugly
-It's a wonderful life
-Unforgiven

Originally Posted by AGap

your taste in movies suck, no offense. but I did wonder about the Perks of being a wallflower as I've seen it in my DTV menu

mine are ( in no particular order)


1. Lonesome Dove
2. Bull Durham
3. Breathless ( the remake with Richard (I like gerbils in my ass) Gere)
4. Gladiator
5. Shawshank Redemption

Lonesome Dove, eh? You aren't complete asssauce after all.

In a vacuum:

Good Will Hunting
Alien
Gladiator
Being There
Razor's Edge

Because of the circumstances of when I saw the movie:

Star Trek IV - Saw this when I was young and on welfare and rarely went to theater; it was Christmas day or thereabouts, a holiday. Saw it with best friend.
Terminator 2 - Same friend, same circumstances.
True Grit - Saw with dad in theater, I go to cinema maybe once per 5 yrs
Explorers - Movies meant much more then than now.
Tombstone - saw with dad

I have a hard time not putting Fargo, Res Dogs, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine, Akira, and The Descent on a list somewhere. And Fight Club.

Dammit I left off No Country for Old Men. It replaces Being There.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Lonesome Dove, eh? You aren't complete asssauce after all.

wait, whut? is that what you were thinking?

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

In a vacuum:

Good Will Hunting
Alien
Gladiator
Being There
Razor's Edge

Because of the circumstances of when I saw the movie:

Star Trek IV - Saw this when I was young and on welfare and rarely went to theater; it was Christmas day or thereabouts, a holiday. Saw it with best friend.
Terminator 2 - Same friend, same circumstances.
True Grit - Saw with dad in theater, I go to cinema maybe once per 5 yrs
Explorers - Movies meant much more then than now.
Tombstone - saw with dad

I have a hard time not putting Fargo, Res Dogs, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine, Akira, and The Descent on a list somewhere. And Fight Club.

Razor's edge is a great story. I liked the movie too with Bill Murray, only saw some of the original

I have to add that I like Deliverance alot