top 5 movies... [Archive]

n0mad

10 Feb 2005, 02:27 AM

I just need to profile you guys just a bit more. Could you please bump your top 5 movies all time. Actually, u don't need to bump five of them 2, 4, 10, any number. It is practically impossible to devise such a list, so just bump couple of movies you like. I'll bump mine later, not to influence your decisions.

mgb

10 Feb 2005, 02:34 AM

Amores Perros
Memento
Garden State
Citizen Kane
City of God
Requiem for a Dream
Seven Samurai
Fight Club

I picked 9, that's hard.

edit: I forgot the Matrix series. I really enjoyed all three and got something out of all of them.

Last Song

10 Feb 2005, 02:35 AM

My Sassy Girl
Donnie Darko (Director's Cut was good, too)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Lost In Translation
I recently watched and enjoyed Full Metal Jacket

That's just a quick list without attempt to make it one I'd agree with later. They are movies I can think of now that I like, in no particular order. I'm sure there's others I'd love to add to the list if only they came to mind. Meh.

Last Song

10 Feb 2005, 02:39 AM

Amores Perros
Memento
Garden State
Citizen Kane
City of God
Requiem for a Dream
Seven Samurai
Fight Club

I picked 9, that's hard.

Memento was good
I love Fight Club
Requiem for a Dream ... hmm ... I gave it a chance after friends built it up to be a huge mindfuck, but it didn't live up to it. Attempts to be very in-your-face, particularly the ending, but I don't think it was good enough to make me want to watch it again. Wasn't terrible, just nothing I'd put in my top list.

I haven't seen the others. I might use this thread as a list of movies to check out if I ever want to watch something.

n0mad

10 Feb 2005, 02:43 AM

Fight Club
Memento
Se7en
The Big Lebowski
Casablanca
Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
One Flew Over zhe Cuckoo's Nest
Apocalypse Now

Just to name a few.
Why I titled this thread top 5? :)

Oh yeah, Trainspotting and Requiem For A Dream are both good films.

mgb

10 Feb 2005, 02:51 AM

I hate Humphrey Bogart, I don't know why, I just don't like his movies. Just thought I'd throw that in.

I haven't seen Pat Garrett, but the other ones are great. Actually Apocalypse Now has my favorite scene ever, the Napalm in the Morning scene, I can watch it over and over.

mgb

10 Feb 2005, 02:52 AM

n0mad

10 Feb 2005, 02:55 AM

U should really see Pat Garret (Bob Dylan did the soundtrack and did some acting in it). Probably best western ever made (i exclude spaghetti westerns as a genre itself).
And The Doors doing The End and helicopters at the start of Apocalypse. A muste-see for everyone.

n0mad

10 Feb 2005, 02:58 AM

Last Song

10 Feb 2005, 03:03 AM

Do you like all of Kubric's movies besides Full Metal Jacket? I think he is one of my favorite directors.

I think Full Metal Jacket is the only one of his movies I've seen so far.

mgb

10 Feb 2005, 03:04 AM

Kubrick did some amazing stuph. I watched Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Space Odyssey and Dr Strangelove. Very nice movies. Really high rewatchability factor.
I especially like how he does not conclude his films but raises questions and lefts issues hanging. A bit annoying though.

I don't think he feels it's his place to solve the issues.

Paths of Glory was fantastic too, I highly recommend it, probably over The Rules of the Game or Grande Illusion.

mgb

10 Feb 2005, 03:05 AM

I think Full Metal Jacket is the only one of his movies I've seen so far.

Did you see AI? It was his with Spielberg, you can almost tell where he ends and Spielberg begins.

n0mad

10 Feb 2005, 03:08 AM

I don't think he feels it's his place to solve the issues.
I never said it was. That's the beauty. Some things are impossible to rationalize (not that they are not rational - everything is rational).

Last Song

10 Feb 2005, 03:31 AM

Did you see AI? It was his with Spielberg, you can almost tell where he ends and Spielberg begins.

I saw it once a while ago, can't really remember much about it.

Star

10 Feb 2005, 03:35 AM

You're better off not remembering AI; the movie was just horrible. Unless you are interested in the maternal longings of the pathetic housewife of the future.

mgb

10 Feb 2005, 03:40 AM

You're crazy :). It was about the evolution of man. At least from my perspective.

libertarianjim

10 Feb 2005, 08:02 AM

1. Army of Darkness
2. Clerks
3. Slap Shot (also #1 sports movie ever)
4. Adventures of Ford Fairlane
5. Pulp Fiction

Fight Club, Boondock Saints, Shaun of the Dead, Bubba Ho-Tep, and Reservoir Dogs round out the top ten.

Ckyzxr

10 Feb 2005, 10:49 AM

Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now
Memento
Se7en
Gladiator
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

These are the ones I can think of right now (most with help from previous posts).

Salad

10 Feb 2005, 10:59 AM

i've always avoided top 5 movie lists... but i think i'm ready now.

1.punchdrunk love
2.lost in translation
3.life aquatic
4.amelie
5.eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

more importantly however...
top 5 writer/directors-

1.paul thomas anderson (magnolia, punchdrunk love, boogie nights)
2.wes anderson (rushmore, royal tenenbaums, life aquatic)
3.stanley kubrick (take your pick...)
4.jean-pierre jeunet (amelie, city of lost children)
5.charlie kaufman even though he doesn't direct (eternal sunshine, adaptation, being john malkovich)

honorable mentions-

6.tim burton (nightmare before christmas, big fish, ed wood...)
7.lars von trier (dancer in the dark, dogville)
8.akira kurasawa (take your pick...)
9.david lynch (mulholland drive, blue velvet)
10.terry gilliam (brazil, monte python...)
10b.woody allen (take your pick...)

and finally, favorite movies that don't fall under my writer/director net-

fight club
shawshank redemption
baraka
american beauty
crouching tiger, hidden dragon
grosse point blank/ high fidelity (for some reason i consider these as almost the same movie)
the incredibles
waking life
super troopers
requiem for a dream

i'm sure i missed some

Salad

10 Feb 2005, 11:15 AM

anyone seen the brothers quay collection? it's a series of insanely good/disturbing stop-animation sequences. i highly, highly, highly recommend getting your hands on the dvd if you have the chance. i can gaurantee it won't be at any hollywood video or blockbuster though, you'll have to search.

n0mad

10 Feb 2005, 11:50 AM

Anyone watched Cowboy Bebop anime series (and The Movie)? What do u think what type is Spike?

Last Song

10 Feb 2005, 12:27 PM

I've just started watching Cowboy Bebop, borrowed the box set from a friend. I'll see when I get further into it.

Have you seen Azumanga Daioh? I wonder if Sakaki is an intp. Also Roronoa Zoro in One Piece.

FixingAHole

10 Feb 2005, 04:06 PM

Godfather parts 1-2
City of God
Tarantino movies
Amelie
The Incredibles
Fight Club
American History X
American Beauty

not the best, just the first few that came to mind

glassmoon

10 Feb 2005, 04:52 PM

There's too many movies to choose from, so I don't see how I can choose only five, but I'll list what comes on my mind now:

Lord of the Rings ( an illustration to my favourite fiction )
Twin Peaks (the TV series, probably doesn't count but I realy liked it)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
Back to the Future ( ;P 3 movies in one )

My favorite directors are Lynch, Kubrick and Burton, as was mentioned by others, and Spielberg and Coen Brothers, all their movies worth watching many times.

kruT

12 Feb 2005, 10:05 PM

Cabaret.

I'll just contribute that one. It's a great movie.

Sugaraddict2702

13 Feb 2005, 02:39 PM

Pulp fiction
Mulholland drive
2001, a space odyssey
lord of the rings
sideways

Edmond Zedo

13 Feb 2005, 05:03 PM

Did you see AI? It was his with Spielberg, you can almost tell where he ends and Spielberg begins.
If I'm Not Mistaken, Kubrick intended to direct, having it all lined up, but Spielberg ended up directing it by himself. I didn't see any Kubrickian shots in the film, per se.

mgb

13 Feb 2005, 06:58 PM

If I'm Not Mistaken, Kubrick intended to direct, having it all lined up, but Spielberg ended up directing it by himself. I didn't see any Kubrickian shots in the film, per se.

I think the whole robots loving, and the interaction of robots with humans (both positive and negative, especially the robot thunderdome) has strong Kubrick tones, while the end with robots ruling the frozen world seemed more like Close Encounters of the Third Kind to me.

Warrior413

13 Feb 2005, 07:10 PM

Anyone watched Cowboy Bebop anime series (and The Movie)? What do u think what type is Spike?
Yeah, both. I'd say... ESTP maybe? Possibly I... he's hard to figure out.

Anyway, some favorites that come to mind...
The original Star Wars movies
Dr. Strangelove
Monty Python and the Holy Grrrail
Bourne Identity/Supremacy
Last Samurai
Collateral
Matrix, first one of course
And... um... 1941.

Edmond Zedo

13 Feb 2005, 07:21 PM

I think the whole robots loving, and the interaction of robots with humans (both positive and negative, especially the robot thunderdome) has strong Kubrick tones, while the end with robots ruling the frozen world seemed more like Close Encounters of the Third Kind to me.
I haven't really tried to type Kubrick or Speilberg before, but at a glance I'd put Kubrick as ENTP and Speilberg as....NF at least. The movie seems totally NF to me, keeping in mind that I believe Spielberg tried to emulate Kubrick's intent (unsuccessfuly, as he's a hack in comparison).

Edmond Zedo

13 Feb 2005, 07:25 PM

And my top 5, just now, maybe same as last time:

Star Wars
Mad Max
Master & Commander
Tron
Good/Bad/Ugly

nobarcode

13 Feb 2005, 09:42 PM

Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
The Labrinth
Brazil
The Shining

mgb

13 Feb 2005, 10:16 PM

And my top 5, just now, maybe same as last time:

Star Wars
Mad Max
Master & Commander
Tron
Good/Bad/Ugly

I can see the other ones, but I really don't get Master and Commander.

booyalab

13 Feb 2005, 10:28 PM

I can see the other ones, but I really don't get Master and Commander.
this was already discussed, go see for yourself. (in another thread though, I think)

mgb

13 Feb 2005, 10:58 PM

this was already discussed, go see for yourself. (in another thread though, I think)

post the link or let zedo respond.

C.J.Woolf

14 Feb 2005, 12:28 AM

Casablanca (A film with everything. My favorite by far.)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Star Wars is supposed to have more spectacular special effects, but I still prefer the SFX in this. A note to Lucas: Sound does not travel in space!)
Waking Life
Before Sunrise (Falling in love happens in the course of a long conversation.)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater is my favorite director working today.)
Little Big Man
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Three Musketeers
The Four Musketeers (The ones with Michael York, Oliver Reed, etc.)
The Assassination Bureau (Limited) (Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg!)

glassmoon

14 Feb 2005, 01:09 AM

I haven't really tried to type Kubrick or Speilberg before, but at a glance I'd put Kubrick as ENTP and Speilberg as....NF at least. The movie seems totally NF to me, keeping in mind that I believe Spielberg tried to emulate Kubrick's intent (unsuccessfuly, as he's a hack in comparison).Kubrick is INTJ. A photographer, chess player, analytic... Surly not E, he's very non-ENTP anyway.

2001: A Space Odyssey (Star Wars is supposed to have more spectacular special effects, but I still prefer the SFX in this. A note to Lucas: Sound does not travel in space!)You bet right! How do the laser guns can be audible in space?!? I never liked the Star Wars double trilogy, it isn't worth many watches...

Edmond Zedo

14 Feb 2005, 01:29 AM

post the link or let zedo respond.
Yeah, I did explain for booya, somewhere in Entertainment. Anyway,

I like its style, and have liked it more with each viewing. I've seen it about five times. All of my favorites except perhaps Star Wars emphasize style over story: Visuals, Sound & Music, Acting, Poetic Dialogue, et al. Star Wars excels at these too, but has a more important plot.

s0978

14 Feb 2005, 01:37 AM

If I'm Not Mistaken, Kubrick intended to direct, having it all lined up, but Spielberg ended up directing it by himself. I didn't see any Kubrickian shots in the film, per se.

I'm no film connoisseur, but thought that the scene where the kid robot gets abandoned was more Kubrickish. Kind of dark/ morbid, drawn out, visual symbolization of mom inside (car) and kid outside, scene played out with glass inbetween them and kid looking in from outside... too powerful a scene to be done by Spielberg!

mgb

14 Feb 2005, 01:51 AM

I'm no film connoisseur, but thought that the scene where the kid robot gets abandoned was more Kubrickish. Kind of dark/ morbid, drawn out, visual symbolization of mom inside (car) and kid outside, scene played out with glass inbetween them and kid looking in from outside... too powerful a scene to be done by Spielberg!

I agree. I found the character depth and interaction to be above Spielberg's level.

Spielberg will tend to use devices to create empathy rather than the characters themselves. Example, Shindler's List, having the red jacket.

I also find Kubrick's human interactions to much more adult. Even the kids in AI seemed to have lost their innocence.

The film was based on an idea by Stanley Kubrick, but when he died in 1999, Speilberg took charge of the project. I could spend pages discussing the techniques of Kubrick's intentions and Spielberg's decisions, but I will not.

Edmond Zedo

14 Feb 2005, 02:01 AM

Kubrick is INTJ. A photographer, chess player, analytic... Surly not I, he's very non-ENTP anyway.
I know an ENTP who likes photography, plays chess, and analyzes. Kubrick doesn't seem INTJ to me. Arnold Schwarzenegger is INTJ.

mgb

14 Feb 2005, 02:31 AM

I know an ENTP who likes photography, plays chess, and analyzes. Kubrick doesn't seem INTJ to me. Arnold Schwarzenegger is INTJ.

Kubrick did live a pretty solitary life though. I mean, outside of work.

I would have thought Arnold was an E.

glassmoon

14 Feb 2005, 01:09 PM

I know an ENTP who likes photography, plays chess, and analyzes. Kubrick doesn't seem INTJ to me. Arnold Schwarzenegger is INTJ.
Kubrick is obviously xNTx (Conceptualist). There was a documentary film about him which was made shortly after his death in which Kubrick appears as calculated and private, I think that's I. He also looked self confident and generally INTJ...

INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type.He used to work on every project for many years... That's not ENTP or INTP behaviour (Da Vinci finished very few works in his life and INTP's can't work on the same thing like that for that long...).

INTrPosr

14 Feb 2005, 03:29 PM

Not sure about a top 5'er, but anyone who enjoyed the movie Seven, with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitts, will enjoy the thriller Saw which comes out Tuesday on video. You may have to stomach some of the graphic scenes.

LuridLemur

14 Feb 2005, 04:48 PM

Brazil
Brick
Cowboy Bebop (the show)
The City of Lost Children
Oldboy
Harold & Maude

crule81

14 Feb 2005, 04:54 PM

1. Police Academy
2. Police Academy 2
3. Police Academy 3
4. Police Academy 4
5. Police Academy 5

sammyburbank

14 Feb 2005, 05:18 PM

Leprechaun
Leprechaun 2
Leprchaun 3
Leprechaun 4:in space
Leprechaun in the hood
Leprachaun: back 2 tha hood

-(i had to put leprechaun in the hood because the guy that directed it lives down the street from me)

Claverhouse

14 Feb 2005, 06:35 PM

Golly, although both jewish, Kubrick was by way of being a holocaust denier, whereas Spielberg... Interesting discussions they must have had.

Although not even faintly favourite, particularly as there were some horrific scenes in it ( gratuitous and unattractive nudity ), I saw '1984' last night for the first time ( the 1985 version ), and found it not bad at all, despite having an allergy to anything with Richard Burton in it. John Hurt was pretty tortured as Winston Smith and managed the necessary transition to loving Big Brother excellently. The patriotic music was marvellous too: much like hearing the Red Army Choir singing 'America The Beautiful'.

People who liked Brazil will like 1984.

Claverhouse :ph34r:

booyalab

14 Feb 2005, 07:00 PM

People who liked Brazil will like 1984.

I dont know.....I preferred having seen 1984 before seeing Brazil. It made me appreciate the satire (whether intentional or not)

Bluehaze

15 Feb 2005, 07:26 AM

Hmm...Well, there are only about three movie that I could consider favorites (many I enjoy quite well, but these are in a separate category).

The Shawshank Redemption
Blade Runner
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Other two, just make 5:

Wargames
Gladiator

ohnoaninfp

15 Feb 2005, 08:50 PM

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Michael Collins
The Matrix Trilogy
1941
The Moulin Rouge
Chicago
Indiana Jones Movies
The Pianist
Hero
Hot Shots 1 And Part Deux
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Sky Captain and The World of Tommorrow (Hey I love airplanes!, exspecially WW2 fighter craft.)
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Office Space
BraveHeart
Gladiator
Merlin
Those are some of my favorites

sammyburbank

15 Feb 2005, 09:07 PM

currently:

2001
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
dead alive
jules and jim
akira

Psiber

15 Feb 2005, 09:44 PM

Brazil (or any other Terry Gilliam)
Jacob's Ladder
The Deer Hunter
Blade Runner
Any David Lynch

Recent Favs:
Lost in Translation
The Butterfly Effect
National Treasure

Thermo

16 Feb 2005, 05:53 PM

Its amazing how many people can't count to five. :P

1.) Matrix
2.) Dr. No
3.) Godfather
4.) Apocalypse Now
5.) American Beauty

songbird36

16 Feb 2005, 07:44 PM

The Deer Hunter was great.

I'm surprised anyone here was old enough to remember it.

booyalab

16 Feb 2005, 07:51 PM

The Deer Hunter was great.

I'm surprised anyone here was old enough to remember it.

great acting...story was all right...I saw it in spite of being a youngun'...I see lots of older movies.

songbird36

16 Feb 2005, 08:16 PM

Yeah I'm really glad people are mentioning David Lynch now. He was one of the most avant garde, cutting edge film directors of his generation.

I will have vivid memories at the age of 16 of seeing "Blue Velvet" (one of my first "grown up" movies) and being totally blown away, and shocked, by the themes (especially the gratuitous voilence and sexual perversity shown between Denis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini).

Maybe Lynch became a bit normal after Twin Peaks though. I still enjoy watching Eraserhead (his earliest movie) for its absolute bizarreness. I understand that movie had to be edited lots of times before studios would even agree to release it.

songbird36

17 Feb 2005, 12:37 AM

I thought Twin Peaks was mainstream compared to his movies, and just a commercial opportunity to recycle the same actors and actresses (Kyle McLachlin etc)

But that's just my opinion.

Star

17 Feb 2005, 02:13 AM

My list :
1) Koyaanisqatsi
2) 2001: A Space Odyssey
3) The Piano
4) Magnolia
4.5) Amelie
5) Nurse Betty

Six

17 Feb 2005, 02:18 PM

Sam172

17 Feb 2005, 02:57 PM

Meet Joe Black
The Shawshank Redemption
Beverly Hills Ninja
Conspiracy (2001 - TV)
Cast Away
Nikogarsnja Zemlja

athman

18 Feb 2005, 10:42 AM

1. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
2. American Beauty
3. Empire of the Sun
4. Blade Runner
5. On Any Sunday

C.J.Woolf

19 Feb 2005, 05:26 AM

Before Sunrise
Before Sunsetabsolutely! if you hadn't mentioned them I definitely would have. great, great movies. though a lot of my friends thought them to be ultimatively boring...
Yeah, they are love-it-or-hate-it films, along with Waking Life and its predecessor Slacker.

Some romances are good stories, but none of them have any relevance to me. Before Sunrise is the only film I've seen that depicts how I fall in love. I watched it with a big goofy grin on my face.

Two more for my list! (I've way over five already)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
High Fidelity (a story about top five lists! among other things)