Your Top 5 Movies Ever.

In no particular order

Empire Strikes Back- Vader is lukes father, Hoth, the bummer ending, the saber fight in the misty carbon freezing chamber. This is an incredibly visceral experience.

King Kong (1933) - This movie blew my mind into a thousand pieces when I was a child. Quite possibly the greatest film ever made, imo. To a 7 year old boy this is like porn for the imagination.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - The opening music and credits still give me goose bumps. The detached, almost dreamlike way this story moves forward is matched only by the sheer ball shrinkingly bad ass performance of Van Cleef & Eastwood.

Yojimbo - A masterpiece. One of the first true spaghetti westerns. This movie is like watching a painting. Every shot, every transition, every set piece and character is painstakingly put in exactly the right place and in exactly the right way. Kurosawa is an artist in the true sense of the word.

Jurassic Park - Effing dinosaurs. Real, effing dinosaurs. This is another one that's stuck in my mind from childhood. At the time I first saw this, I was convinced I was going to be a paleontologist who was also a T-Rex when I grew up. The CGI (with the exception of maybe the Brachiasaur) has not aged a day. The animals still look completely real and believable.

*Comedies omitted due to making the OP request impossible

Traitorfish said:
The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Possibly demanding of the greatest emotional investment of any film I've seen, but, then, that may just be because I'm a Red with Nationalist sympathies.
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Good call. The dialogue in this flick is incredible. The stuttering, halting etc is unequivocally realistic.
 
Seven Samurai - Epic. I like all of Kurosawa's films, but like most people, think this is best. My sleeper would be Hidden Fortress.
Lord of the Rings - the first one only. Really brought Tolkien to life. I didn't like the others as well as the first - more action later but he sense of wonder was missing for me.
Maltese Falcon - always worth a laugh or three, good plot and the greatest ending. Don't have to endure silly romantic ending.
Fantasia - probably the best of Disney's first 5 (animation went downhill after Bambi due to the strike).
Once Upon a Time in the West - I prefer this to the three Eastwood spaghetti westerns.
 
1) Gladiator - I'm a nut for Romans and I loved the battle scenes along with an awesome musical score.
2) The Shawshank Redemption - nothing needs to be said - just an amazing film
3) Inception - a really clever film which I tried to hate but ended up loving it
4) Casino Royale - the true revival of the Bond franchise with a needed reduction of gadgets and a surprisingly believable relationship between Vesper & Bond instead of the usual 'use-em and lose em' bond girls.
5) Charlie Wilson's War - I am a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin's writing and Philip Seymour Hoffman is superb!
 
Dachs said:
Also considered and sometimes making appearances in this list depending on when people ask me the question: The Longest Yard (1974), Jurassic Park (1993), Gettysburg (1993), O Brother Where Art Thou? (2001), The Dark Knight (2008), Jaws (1976), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and WALL-E (2008).
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How do you feel about Gods and Generals? The recycled footage of the same female slave running through the streets struck me as stupid though.
 
At some point we could probably build an average out of these, and it looks like The Lord of the Rings, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and The Empire Strikes Back are all shoe-ins. Kurosawa probably deserves a place, too, although his vote seems to split between Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Rashomon. (I mean, if you insist on making masterpiece after masterpiece, it's going to happen. ;))
 
I'll go with (in no particular order):

1) Apocalypse Now
2) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3) Citizen Kane
4) The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
5) Casablanca
 
My faves in no particular order:

The Player
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Dr. Strangelove
Goodfellas
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
 
Without thinking too terribly much about it...

In no particular order.

The Godfather
Fight Club
Clerks II
Beerfest
Goodfellas
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


six works for me
 
Traitorfish! Don't forget Kagemusha lol

GoodGame said:
How do you feel about Gods and Generals? The recycled footage of the same female slave running through the streets struck me as stupid though.
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MO: I like those movies because I like all historical epics despite how wildly inaccurate they can be (gladiator, braveheart, hell, I even like the Patriot). These two bug me though a lot of the time when I'm watching them because of the characters tendency to speak in looooooong ass monologues.
 
Communisto said:
MO: I like those movies because I like all historical epics despite how wildly inaccurate they can be (gladiator, braveheart, hell, I even like the Patriot). These two bug me though a lot of the time when I'm watching them because of the characters tendency to speak in looooooong ass monologues.
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That seemed to be a more prominent problem in Gods and Generals than in Gettysburg; in the latter, at least, the speechifyin' was mostly in an appropriate context, but in the former they kept letting Stonewall Jackson go off on long-winded proclamations of his Honour, Anti-Racism and Very Clear and Prominent Lack of Craziness, For Real You Guys.
 
GoodGame said:
How do you feel about Gods and Generals? The recycled footage of the same female slave running through the streets struck me as stupid though.
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Not a fan; as Traitorfish already alluded, the movie ends up being a kind of half-Lost Cause homage, romanticizing the great heroes of the Confederacy and little else. I don't really have time for that. I mean, there was some of that in Gettysburg, but that's ameliorated by, among many other things, lolchamberlain.
 
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Wars (A New Hope)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

rough order too. Lot of other great movies here I'd put near the top of their respective genres or eras and so on. ESB is also very good but I might as well go with the original Star Wars for me. Also, if I thought a little longer I might have another choice for a more original movie than the LOTR trilogy - which is absolutely great still, it's just the majority of credit by far to the books and the movie's just that much more for being a solid adaptation instead of a failed Hollywood adaptation like many other things.
 
I dunno how Gods and Generals can pride itself for historical accuracy when it portrays Jackson as it does. In real life, Jackson thought black people were inherently cursed and was a strong proponent of slavery. Contrast this to, say, Longstreet, who after the war was over became the only former Confederate general to support both the Republican Party and African-American rights -- but oh wait, Lost Causies say Longstreet was a traitor to the revolution.
 
In no order, and doubtless will change over time:

Patton - A friend of my father's who was a (very junior) member of Patton's staff said that Scott
didn't play Patton, he was Patton.

A Fish Called Wanda

Dr. Strangelove

North By Northwest

Blazing Saddles

@LightSpectra - You left out that those folks also made Longstreet the scapegoat for
Lee's mistakes at Gettysburg.
 
Earthling said:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Star Wars (A New Hope)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

rough order too. Lot of other great movies here I'd put near the top of their respective genres or eras and so on. ESB is also very good but I might as well go with the original Star Wars for me. Also, if I thought a little longer I might have another choice for a more original movie than the LOTR trilogy - which is absolutely great still, it's just the majority of credit by far to the books and the movie's just that much more for being a solid adaptation instead of a failed Hollywood adaptation like many other things.
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To be fair, Star Wars was originally going to be a Flash Gordon adaptation, and still is in many ways. LOTR already failed twice before as an animated adaptation--once in an unfilmed screenplay that Tolkien hated, and again as the Ralph Bakshi film (let's not talk about Rankin/Bass). What sells LOTR as a film for me is that Jackson/Walsh/Boyens were able to make the story their own while still staying true to the books.
 
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