top 5 of your favrotie films

Cafe Society
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no particular order:

The Jerk
Fargo
Forest Gump
Straight Outta Compton
Animal House

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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.

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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

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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.

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[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]

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  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.

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May I substitute “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)” for “Airplane!”?

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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

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Which one? The original John Wayne movie, or the Coen Brothers remake with Jeff Bridges?

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The Double Life of Veronique
Natural Born Killers
12 Monkeys
Josie and the Pussycats
Irma Vep

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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.

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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

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To Be or Not to Be (1942 version)
Metropolis
My Brilliant Career
Housekeeping
The Awful Truth

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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)

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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.

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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

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Groundhog day
Bad boy bubby
The butterfly effect
The Truman show
Neverending story

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I did; post #12.

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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

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(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…