Top five films

[wizekrak]

My favourite in no particular order:

The Fifth Element
12 Monkeys
American Beauty
Fargo
The Silence of The Lambs

 

[tribal girl]

1. Meet Me In St. Louis
2. American Beauty
3. Lost In Translation
4. Magnolia
5. Dolores Claiborne

 

[Phy]

Bagdad Café
Twelve Monkeys
Trainspotting
Pulp Fiction
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

 

[DarthMom]

the matrix trilogy (to me, the entire series of this, and star wars...should be considered as one!!)
star wars, all of them
donnie darko
boondock saints
chocolat this had to be one of the most enjoyable movies i have ever seen, i just thought it was beautiful, magical.


i am sure there are a few more, but these are the first 5 that come to mind as tops

 

[Ranch100]

No order

To Live (China)
Brother from Another Planet
K-Pax
Blow
High Plains Drifter

 

[Mysterier]

Vertigo
Koyaanisqatsi
The Squid And The Whale
Big Fish
I Huckabees

 

[L2R]

Koyaanisqatsi

nice call

 

[alasdairm]

^ indeed. do you own a copy of moby's 'i like to score'? if so, try this and report back

alasdair

 

[L2R]

wow. my brother has a copy. does it really work?

man, i wish i put the time in to that trilogy back in my offguts daze.

 

[alasdairm]

it depends on your definition of 'work'.

i'm not suggesting anything beyond a nice alternative soundtrack which fits the visual imagery, in my opinion, very well. i've watched it straight and stoned and enjoyed it in both states...

alasdair

 

[motiv311]

no order

12 monkeys
Donnie. Darko
the 5th Element
training day
and now BORAT! yay

 

[basix]

Zoolander
Casino
Goodfellas
Snatch
Trainspotting

 

[E-llusion]

Heat
GoodFellas
Matrix
21 Grams
Airplane

 

[c0k3]

Trainspotting
Braveheart
Requiem for a dream
lord of war
fight club

 

[BNR]

lock stock and two smoking barrels
snatch
city of god
braveheart
office space

 

[Paskis]

Man Without Past
Traffic
The Constant Gardener
Blow
Old Boy

 

[keiths31]

1. Shawshank Redemption (great movie, enough said)

2. Last Night (Canadian end of the world drama/comedy)

3. Suicide Kings (Walken is great as usual)

4. Slap Shot (I am Canadian...cut me some slack)

5. The Princess Bride (hey...it has Andre the Giant and it's a freaking good movie)

 

[jiggaboo]

these are my top 5 in no particular order,man theres alot of great movies out there

1 - Vanilla sky
2 - Fight club
3 - jesus' son
4 - fear and loathing in las vegas
5 - scareface

these need a mention
amelie,lord of war,city or god,deuces wild

 

[Belisarius]

I consider my favorite movies to be those I could watch over and over, and never get tired...

Here are mine--except for the first, in no particular order:

1.) Aliens
2.) Ghostbusters
3.) Jaws
4.) Star Trek II
5.) Galaxy Quest

 

[onetwothreefour]

okay, it's been a while, and i thought i'd do this again - i've seen a whole bunch of new films, and reconsidered on some others. all of these, again, are films i've given ten-out-of-ten to (something i don't do often - i've got about six hundred and twenty total films on my list...only a few with ten ).

[edit: the films marked in red are those which reside in the imdb top 250 as of today's date ]

belle de jour
edward scissorhands
le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain (amelie)
fight club
full metal jacket
lost in translation
mulholland drive
requiem for a dream
se7en
twelve monkeys
the usual suspects
yume (dreams)

also, alphaville, rope, sympathy for the devil, and lolita (lyne, 1997) are *damn* close...sitting on nine

well here's me again, my imdb 10s:

All About Eve (1950) 10 8.4
Belle de jour (1967) 10 7.7
Cut (2005/I) 10 8.7
Do the Right Thing (1989) 10 7.7
Donnie Darko (2001) 10 8.3
Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 10 8.6
Fight Club (1999) 10 8.6
Flowergirl (1999) 10 5.9
Full Metal Jacket (1987) 10 8.2
Lost in Translation (2003) 10 7.9
Mépris, Le (1963) 10 7.7
Mulholland Dr. (2001) 10 7.9
Pulp Fiction (1994) 10 8.8
The Virgin Suicides (1999) 10 7.2
Yume (1990) 10 7.6

looks like i dropped a few, and added some too. i'm happy with that list: almost all of them i could watch on infinite repeat. i think i've seen most of them - bar, say, cut, and flowergirl (both shorts) and yume (translation: dreams, by kurosawa; it's hard to find) more than four or five times.

and i want to watch them all again.

i'm curious: how many people have read eugenides' book of virgin suicides? i've tried to track it down but been so far unsuccessful. it's one of those "i'll only buy it if i see it" things for me. i want to read it because i'm told it's brill and i obviously adore the film, but i'm half-worried that it'll ruin it. thoughts?