Top Five Favourite Movies

[CrazyGirl17]

Tough call, but here are 5 of my favorites:

The Back to the Future trilogy - This might be cheating a little, but I like all three movies equally. Yes, even the second one.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Probably the best of the movies, though that's pretty subjective...

Princess Mononoke - Beautifully animated and well-written, but what would you expect from Hayao Miyazaki?

The LEGO Movie - An odd choice to be sure, but it's a fun movie with lots of great moments and a surprisingly deep story. You know, for a movie about LEGO characters.

The Avengers - 'Nuff said.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

My favorite movies aren't as fluid as my favorite games but they still fluctuate a lot. Anyway, here are my top-5 at the moment.

1: The Punisher: War Zone
2: Pulp Fiction
3: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
4: 12 Angry Men
5: Clerks

 

[Starbird]

If you liked Punisher: War Zone, you absolutely have to pick up the Punisher: MAX series by Garth Ennis (inspired the movie). Except that it's far better, more brutal and...yeah, just read it .

Oh and if you like 12 Angry Men, do yourself a favour and watch Judgement At Nuremberg.

For me, my movies change constantly. But if I had to choose of all time:

1. Guardians of the Galaxy. This will change I'm sure, but I've watched this multiple times already and just can't seem to get sick of it. Almost makes me want to start reading this stuff in the Marvel books.

2. Judgement at Nuremberg. A movie that I'm fairly sure almost nobody watched, but it's absolutely brilliant if you like old style courtroom movies and really, really challenging philosophical stuff. They do not make movies like this anymore sadly. If you enjoy this, also give Breaker Morant a look.

3. Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. Probably the best movie(s) on this list overall.

4. The Lego Movie. Another that I will probably get tired of eventually, but this one made me laugh harder than almost any movie yet - and shed some serious man tears. If I hadn't seen this, this spot would probably belong to Nightmare Before Christmas.

5. A two way tie between Pain and Gain (again, will likely tire of it) and Hot Fuzz. The latter is essentially my sense of humour distilled down into a movie.

Honorable mentions:
12 Angry Men
Terminator 2
In Bruges

 

[Remus]

Based on the fact that I could watch these repeatedly and never tire of them -
Centurion
Dredd
The Time Machine - Guy Pierce's remake
Nightwatch
Dark City

 

[Zannah]

1. Bunraku
2. Fightclub
3. Watchmen
4. War, Inc.
5. Map of the sounds of Tokyo

 

[Nazulu]

I remember a time when many people would attack these threads for just being list threads. They must be all dead, which is good, because I like these threads every now and again. Talking about death

5- Terminator 2: Judgment Day - The ultimate action film, full of many great bang bang, pow pow, boom, woosh, slice and dice, and little stab here moments, and my favourite death scene ever. Though some parts are corny, and I hate the directors cut, I can watch it many times.

4- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - I prefer the first a lot more. I love it's charming intro, how it uses filters and it's distant shots of great scenery, and how it doesn't have the main action constantly interrupted with a not so interesting survival tour.

I like the whole trilogy, but there are certain moments I don't always feel like seeing again in the other 2.

3- 2001: A Space Odyssey - I would've put this higher if I didn't find half of it boring. It's the first and last 30 minutes I love about this film, but it's mainly about the last. I remember watching this the first time and nearly falling asleep, then suddenly I was blown away. The most powerful scene I reckon.

2- Poltergeist - I don't get it. It's a very well known film that I usually see get low scores, but I still love it. The execution in this is brilliant, and it becomes really intense. The special effects are out-dated but still work wonders on the imagination, especially with the amazing music and great acting.

It's how you use it, dammit!

1- Fantasia - A film like no other. While some see it as just a large music video, I haven't seen many others as creative and as beautifully animated. And it just about covers everything; abstract, comedy, documentary, horror, spiritual, etc. It inspired a lot of things in me, including the motivation to find other great music pieces.

The others I had to think about: Shawshank Redemption, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Arc, 12 Angry Men (90s), Tron, Jurassic Park: The Lost World (yeah yeah, just shut up), Titanic (90s), The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and some others I forgot now.

1) Fantasia
2) ???
3) Uhh
4) I can't really specify beyond that
5) The Shawshank Redemption????

Nope. This isn't right. I've been the only person here placing Fantasia as my first since I joined. I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave.

 

[Dizchu]

Nope. This isn't right. I've been the only person here placing Fantasia as my first since I joined. I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave.

There can be only one.
*grabs sword and dons a kilt*

Amazing film though, I'm glad someone else appreciates it as much as I do because a lot of people find it pretty boring. Also it upset me that the recent Fantasia rhythm game strayed away from the classical music roots in order to "spice it up" for modern audiences. I would have loved a game that had a tracklist full of the classics.

 

[Nazulu]

Nope. This isn't right. I've been the only person here placing Fantasia as my first since I joined. I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave.

There can be only one.
*grabs sword and dons a kilt*

Amazing film though, I'm glad someone else appreciates it as much as I do because a lot of people find it pretty boring. Also it upset me that the recent Fantasia rhythm game strayed away from the classical music roots in order to "spice it up" for modern audiences. I would have loved a game that had a tracklist full of the classics.

*looks up when grinding axe*

Fantasia Rhythm Game! Spice it up! I'll have to go check that out.

Is this it?


It has many songs I like, but it doesn't have The Rite Of Spring which is my favourite, so it ultimately fails.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

1.Her(2014)
2.Drive(2011)
3.The Lord of The Rings Trilogy(2003)[footnote]Yes, I'm counting all three movies[/footnote]
4.Pulp Fiction(1994)
5.Apocalypse Now(1979)

Mostly contemporary stuff, but I'm moving through movies ever so often so that I can expand my knowledge of the medium. Her is kind of a guilty pleasure, but that movie was amazingly moving. I've yet to see Lost In Translation, but I get the feeling that I'll love it too.

Drive is just a damn good movie. It says and conveys a lot without over-explaining anything, with good scenes all round and superb acting. The Hotline Miami of film, essentially.

I don't think I need to qualify why LoTR is amazing. Finest movie trilogy ever made.

Pulp Fiction is great because Quentin Tarantino is great. Whilst I have favourite movies, he's my favourite director, as I've yet to see a movie of his that wasn't excellent.

Apocalypse Now is the Space Odyssey of War films to me. Like with Drive, a lot of the emotion and the atmosphere is told through visuals and sounds alone, without relying heavily on dialogue. It also has one of the finest end sequences(the assassination) I've ever seen in films. Brutal, unforgiving and mesmerising.

 

[Ambitiousmould]

Oh fuck let's see

1. Hot Fuzz
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Zulu
4. Aliens
5. Terminator

I'm not sure if that's right, so for those that didn't make the list:

Book of Eli
Predator
Star Wars original trilogy (goes without saying, but meh)
Alien
Shaun of the Dead, Paul, The World's End
Lord of the Rings/Hobbit trilogy
Monty Python (1.Holy Grail 2.Life of Brian 3.Now for Something Completely Different 4.Meaning of Life)
Airplane!

About the least original selection you could ever hope to see but fuck it, they're popular for a reason.

Captcha: "Skynet is watching".... Holy shite.

 

[McElroy]

2. Porco Rosso
2. Silent Running
2. Total Recall
2. Se7en
1. The Truman Show

With the exception of numero uno there are a dozen films I'd consider putting on an equal listing of something like top 20 favourite movies. (like: Hero, WALL-E, The Fountain, L.A. Story, Hot Shots!, The Naked Gun, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Amadeus, The Matrix, Big Trouble, Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, Die Hard with a Vengeance ...) A more recent addition could be Killer Joe which was quite the experience.