# top 5 of your favrotie films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511 "2016-08-01T23:02:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/41 "2016-08-02T18:23:46Z")
no particular order: The Jerk Fargo Forest Gump Straight Outta Compton Animal House ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/42 "2016-08-02T18:29:49Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > I would say the message is that finding your true self is good for you. What caused a character to change from black-and-white to color was different in each case: love, painting, books, music. . . It’s an argument against conformism. Good point. Reese Witherspoon didn’t turn color even after having “ten times more sex” than anyone else. Only after she read the D.H. Lawrence novel. Question: when did the hotsie-totsie oatmeal-cookie-baking blonde change? And what did it to her? I noticed she was B&W a lot longer than most of the others. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/43 "2016-08-02T18:43:31Z")
1776 The Lord of the Rings (all three, because it’s really one big movie) Silk Stockings Singing in the Rain The Mark of Zorro ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/44 "2016-08-02T18:48:28Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I don’t see it as “corruption,” although the Don Knotts character did! > > More that “sex is good for you,” “books are good for you,” “fine art is good for you,” “rock n’ roll and jazz are good for you.” These are all sentiments I can heartily endorse. > > I was so happy to see the teenagers and the oldies – living in that circumscribed, monochromatic world – BOTH discovering and enjoying boinking, _Huckleberry Finn_, Cezanne, and Miles Davis. I meant corruption in the biblical sense, eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge. I can’t think of another movie that basically says that Eden wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/45 "2016-08-02T18:53:33Z")
[ul] [li]_Local Hero_ (1983)[/li][li]_The Commitments_ (1991)[/li][li]_Star Wars_ (1977)[/li][li]_This Is Spinal Tap_ (1984)[/li][li]One of five Coen brothers movies but let’s use _Raising Arizona_ (1987) for the purposes of this list[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![GunnarFranz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@GunnarFranz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GunnarFranz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/46 "2016-08-02T18:57:29Z")
1. Pulp Fiction 2. Birdman 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 4. Lost in Translation 5. Dr. Strangelove I have a top 1000 list running but yeah that’ll do, LOTR gets an honorable mention. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/47 "2016-08-02T21:48:29Z")
May I substitute “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)” for “Airplane!”? ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/48 "2016-08-03T22:45:35Z")
In no particular order, here are the ones that come to mind: Dead Man Walking High Anxiety One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Quigley Down Under The Silence of the Lambs ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/49 "2016-08-04T01:56:50Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > True Grit Which one? The original John Wayne movie, or the Coen Brothers remake with Jeff Bridges? ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/50 "2016-08-04T02:26:37Z")
The Double Life of Veronique Natural Born Killers 12 Monkeys Josie and the Pussycats Irma Vep ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/51 "2016-08-04T02:30:37Z")
Ooo, toughie. Today I’d have to say: _Casablanca Breaker Morant Notorious Limitless The Incredibles_ Ask me again in a week, or a month, and it might change. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/52 "2016-08-04T02:37:58Z")
There are lots already listed that I love, but if I could only watch 5 movies for the rest of my life, these would probably be them (in no particular order): Breaker Morant A Room With a View Bottle Shock Wallace & Gromit - Curse of the Were Rabbit Almost Famous ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/53 "2016-08-04T02:46:02Z")
To Be or Not to Be (1942 version) Metropolis My Brilliant Career Housekeeping The Awful Truth ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/54 "2016-08-04T02:56:15Z")
Hard to pick exclusively favourite movies by titles only so I will do title/ categorry: 1-frequency 2-all Bourne movies 3-all die hard movies 4-my name is nobody 5-all dirty Harry movies (honourable mention to the death wish movies) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/55 "2016-08-04T04:03:11Z")
So far, the following films have had more than one vote (film name followed by number of votes): The Maltese Falcon - 3 Casablanca - 5 The Godfather - 4 The Godfather II - 2 Airplane! - 3 A Clockwork Orange - 2 Goodfellas - 2 Aliens - 2 Unforgiven - 2 The Big Lebowski - 4 The Seven Samurai - 2 North by Northwest - 3 Pulp Fiction - 2 Jaws - 2 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - 2 Dr. Strangelove: 3 Miller’s Crossing - 3 Raiders of the Lost Ark - 2 Star Wars: A New Hope - 2 Dances with Wolves - 2 Fargo - 5 The Lion in Winter - 2 The Shawshank Redemption - 4 The Blues Brothers - 2 Animal House - 2 The Empire Strikes Back - 2 Lord of the Rings (any of the three or all three) - 2 I didn’t try to enforce any rules about how many movies someone could name. If it was mentioned in this thread as a selection, it got counted. The one exception is Pleasantville - we talked about it here, but it’s not clear to me that anyone intended to count it as one of their favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/56 "2016-08-04T04:10:17Z")
I should have known better. Some people posted new selections while I was posting my summary. Here’s an update: The Maltese Falcon - 3 Casablanca - 6 The Godfather - 4 The Godfather II - 2 Airplane! - 3 A Clockwork Orange - 2 Goodfellas - 2 Aliens - 2 Unforgiven - 2 The Big Lebowski - 4 The Seven Samurai - 2 North by Northwest - 3 Pulp Fiction - 2 Jaws - 2 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - 2 Dr. Strangelove: 3 Miller’s Crossing - 3 Raiders of the Lost Ark - 2 Star Wars: A New Hope - 2 Dances with Wolves - 2 Fargo - 5 The Lion in Winter - 2 The Shawshank Redemption - 4 The Blues Brothers - 2 Animal House - 2 The Empire Strikes Back - 2 Lord of the Rings (any of the three or all three) - 2 Breaker Morant - 2 ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/57 "2016-08-04T04:50:15Z")
Groundhog day Bad boy bubby The butterfly effect The Truman show Neverending story ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/58 "2016-08-04T04:51:58Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > The one exception is Pleasantville - we talked about it here, but it’s not clear to me that anyone intended to count it as one of their favorites. I did; post #12. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/59 "2016-08-04T06:15:42Z")
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Monty Python’s Holy Grail 2001 A Space Odyssey Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Big Lebowski ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511/60 "2016-08-04T07:08:36Z")
(Covering my eyes so as not to be influenced…) 1. Lawrence of Arabia 2. Casablanca 3. The Lion in Winter 4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 5. Chinatown Hmm, nothing after the early '70’s. I sense a regularity here… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-of-your-favrotie-films/761511.md?page=4)