Top five movies?

[Eracer]

What are the best five movies of all time?

My choices:

Schindler's List
The Dirty Dozen
Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail
Pale Rider
Casablanca

[DouginGA]

The Sand Pebbles
Steve mcqueen and candice bergan in their youthful finest in a movie that dares to discuss personal choice in most dire of situations First rate!

Clerks Loads of laughs

Last Temptation of Christ- thought inspiring even for an agnostic like me

the African Queen Great acting by two of the finest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest AHHH juicy fruit

EDIT: might add Gladiator

[SiberianDVM]

Tough to pick just 5, but:

Ben-Hur. My all time favorite.
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Deer Hunter
Raiders of the Lost Ark
It's a Wonderful Life

[Davebud]

Blazing Saddles
Stripes
Caddyshack
Jaws
Empire Strikes Back

[golfman2760]

very hard to pick

but the Star Wars movies are good

Total Recall

Predator 1 and 2

nearly any movie directed by Kevin Smith

and even though I quit smoking the cheech and chong movies are still good

except for get out of my room

[VtDivot]

Shawshank
SW EP4 (I don't buy into the Empire hype)
Godfather
Goodfellas
Usual Suspects

[IrishGolfer]

Originally Posted by VtDivot

Shawshank
SW EP4 (I don't buy into the Empire hype)
Godfather
Goodfellas
Usual Suspects

A man of good taste Vt. However I would replace SW with LoTRs. Here's some others:

Genre - American Beauty
Plot - Seven
Horror - The Shining or Silence of the Lambs
History (Hollywood style anyway) - Braveheart
Drama - The Green Mile
Animation - Shrek or The Incredibles
Road movie - Rain Man
War - Saving Private Ryan or Apocoloyse Now
Random scene - The Matrix - Gunflight scene in the lobby had me in hysterics!

[bdcrowe]

Go ahead Rock, put down, "The Notebook" and "Pride and Prejudice". I dare ya.

[VtDivot]

Originally Posted by IrishGolfer

A man of good taste Vt. However I would replace SW with LoTRs. Here's some others:

Genre - American Beauty
Plot - Seven
Horror - The Shining or Silence of the Lambs
History (Hollywood style anyway) - Braveheart
Drama - The Green Mile
Animation - Shrek or The Incredibles
Road movie - Rain Man
War - Saving Private Ryan or Apocoloyse Now
Random scene - The Matrix - Gunflight scene in the lobby had me in hysterics!

IG - I like your style! Great choice on Rain Man!

Here's a few on my list that you might like also:

Spy Game
Memento
The Game
Sideways
Catch me if you can

For you and Mrs IG:
The terminal
Something's gotta give (Diane Keaton should have won the oscar for this one)

[Rockford35]

Working Girl
The Net
9 to 5 with Dolly Parton
Shakespear in Love
Moonstruck



Top 5? Hard to say.

Jaws
Major League
Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption
Indiana Jones Trilogy (minus Temple of Doom...sucked..)
Usual Suspects

Shit, there are lots of good movies...5 is tough to narrow down..

R35

[Farquod]

OK, how about 5 movies I can watch over and over, at any time? So maybe not the best, but the most mindless, fluffy, and entertaining.

Empire Strikes Back (I do buy into this one, VT. I've probably seen it 50 times. Hell, I saw it 5 times in the theater when it was released....)

Major League (Great pick, Rock. Hey Rook, what happened to your head? Veg-A-Matic?)

Silverado (You're wearing my hat....)

American Flyers (Cycling flick circa 1984 by John Badham. "I have a dual major, Eastern Philosophy and Cowboy movies. The Yin, the Yang, and the Bang Bang!)

A Knight's Tale (I'm a writer. I give the truth SCOPE!)

[Rockford35]

Originally Posted by Farquod

Major League (Great pick, Rock. Hey Rook, what happened to your head? Veg-A-Matic?)

"What language is this?"
"French..."
"They got chili dogs over there?"
"Forget it, I'll order..."

R35

[Farquod]

"Hey, big guy, what's your handicap?"

"Hats. Hats for bats. To keep them warm. Gracias."

"Hey, uh, you can't..... Okay!"

[ualtim]

Originally Posted by Rockford35

"What language is this?"
"French..."
"They got chili dogs over there?"
"Forget it, I'll order..."

R35

and of course, the famous teaser that never made the movie (until one of sequels)

"That ball wouldn't have been out of most parks."

"Oh yah? Name one."

"Yellowstone"


and another one of my favorites.

"Coming in to pitch is Rick Vaughn. Vaughn is a juvenile delinquint in the off season."

[Farquod]

"Willie Mays Hayes. Run like Hayes, hit like Mays...."

"Well you may run like Mays, but you hit like shit!"