The Big Lebowski
Trainspotting
Amalie
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Amores Perros
Snatch
Fight Club
The Usual Suspects/The Departed (too close to call)
Cidade de Deus
Se7en
honarble mention: Lock Stock, Memento, American History X, Forrest Gump
Not in any particular order:
City of God
The Great Escape
Papillion
Sunshine
Star Wars (New Hope)
There are many more I wanted to list. These are the the ones I could watch over and over and not get bored
Not sure if these are the GREATEST ever made, but they are my top 5 favorites.
In no particular order:
Fight Club
Pollock
Rocky 1
Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
Serious List…
Braveheart
Star Wars
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Return of the King
Fun list…
Boondock Saints
Snatch
300
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rambo First Blood
My favorite western is The Searchers with John Wayne and High Plains Drifter with Clint Eastwood.
The Good the Bad and the Ugly and Unforgiven are classics as well.
No particular order
Pulp Fiction
American History X
The Lion King
Dazed and Confused
Donnie Darko
Honorable Mentions:
Elf
Wet Hot American Summer
Requiem for a Dream
That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
[quote]SSC wrote:
Elf[/quote]
SSC
That film is so funny, we watch it several times throughout the year. One of Will Farrell’s best, IMHO.
Since this is T NATION I’ll post 5 manly movies not movies that make you laugh or think but just kickass action, sex, ext.
- Braveheart
- Gladiator
- Conan the barbarian
- Rocky IV
- First blood part II
300
Seven Samurai
The Fountain
Revolver
Indiana Jones (all three)
Another one I forgot: Eastern Promises
1 John Rambo
2 John Rambo
3 John Rambo
4 John Rambo
5 John Rambo
There are the udisputed top five movies ever made.
Good thread idea, but you chaps have forgotten a few good ones (in no particular order):
- Pulp Fiction
- Forrest Gump
- Office Space
- Star Wars Trilogy (I know, that’s 3)
- The Big Lebowski*
*Not entirely sure about this one; definitely a favorite, but might not make my top five. American History X might replace it for that last spot.
Heat
Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Star Wars
[quote]eic wrote:
Good thread idea, but you chaps have forgotten a few good ones (in no particular order):
- Pulp Fiction
- Forrest Gump
- Office Space
- Star Wars Trilogy (I know, that’s 3)
- The Big Lebowski*
*Not entirely sure about this one; definitely a favorite, but might not make my top five. American History X might replace it for that last spot. [/quote]
Damn, I forgot all about Forrest Gump!
And yeah Iron Dwarf, Elf is just one of those movies that’s probably going to end up being a timeless classic. Just give it time, give it time…
Hard one
Braveheart
zulu
Rocky (all 6 of them)
Armour of god (jackie chan fans will know it)
Godfather all of them
untouchables
Also I would like to bring up
Zoolander
All the rambos
And every no story line people being smashed type of move for example the comando ever made
Star Wars
Godfather
Casablanca
Good, Bad the Ugly
The Longest Day
Cant do just 5, but here are my top few:
We Were Soldiers
American History X
Shawshank Redemption
Higher Learning
Requiem for a Dream
Boondock Saints
Band of Brothers (not really a movie, but still…)
What about Bob
Fellowship of the Ring
And some good recent flicks that we’ll have to wait and see how good they really are:
3:10 to Yuma
No Country for Old Men
American Gangster
Bad of brothers was mint!
So was boondock saints
Can’t do it, maybe best fifty.