Your Top 5 Must-Watch Movies

• fan_from_texas

  What's on your list? We haven't seen a good movie lately, so I'm looking for suggestions.
  
  To start things off, I think my list would be:
  
  The Shawshank Redemption
  Slumdog Millionaire
  Schindler's List
  Lord of the Rings (I'll treat 'em all as one)
  Forrest Gump
  
  Honorable mention for:
  The Usual Suspects
  Zoolander
  Saving Private Ryan
  Life is Beautiful
  The Prestige
  Gladiator
  The King's Speech
  Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
• dlazz

  porn
• Manhattan Buckeye

  1) Chinatown
  2) Big Lebowski
  3) Fargo
  4) O Brother Where Art Thou
  5) Casablanca
  
  
  Needless to say, I'm a big fan of the Coen Bros.
• dlazz

  The Big Lebowski is the most over-rated movie I've ever seen. I was so disappointed by it.
  
  ib4 "that's just like, your opinion, man."
  
  also lol @ zoolander. you should feel bad for posting that.
• FatHobbit

  

  dlazz;857528 wrote:The Big Lebowski is the most over-rated movie I've ever seen. I was so disappointed by it.
  
  ib4 "that's just like, your opinion, man."

  Agree 100%. I think it was just too over hyped by the time I actually saw it.
  

  dlazz;857528 wrote:also lol @ zoolander. you should feel bad for posting that.

  
  That's just like, your opinion man.
• Jester

  

  Shawshank Redemption
  Saving Private Ryan
  Gladiator
  Inception
  The Green Mile
• Manhattan Buckeye

  You missed the best quote, it is:
  
  "I had a rough night, and I hate the $&#^ Eagles, man".
  
  The absurdity is genius. That film is as close to comedic perfection as we'll ever see.
• FatHobbit

  

  I can't narrow it down to 5. I tried this before and have a list of 75. I could cut that down a bit, but not anywhere close to 5. And I'm probably missing some.
  
  Also, I have not seen Schindler's list or Inception. Those are both on the list of movies I need to watch.
• fan_from_texas

  Manhattan Buckeye;857526 wrote:1) Chinatown
  2) Big Lebowski
  3) Fargo
  4) O Brother Where Art Thou
  5) Casablanca

  Okay, I give you 1-3 and 5, but O Brother Where Art Thou? That might go on my list of 5 movies I most hated, along with Garden State. I know a lot of people like it, but I just didn't.
  

  dlazz;857528 wrote:also lol @ zoolander. you should feel bad for posting that.

  
  Put a cork in it, dlazz! Zoolander is a classic, up there with Airplane, The Big Lebowski, and Blazing Saddles in my book.
  

  FatHobbit;857540 wrote:Also, I have not seen Schindler's list or Inception. Those are both on the list of movies I need to watch.

  Schindler's List is great, great, great. Moving, gut-wrenching, very visceral. I don't think I've ever been so physically moved by a movie like that--it was intense. I don't think I'd watch it again, but I'm glad I did once.
  
  We saw Inception last weekend. Good movie, but not great--it reminded me of Memento, where half the movie is just figuring out the details of what's going on. Cool idea, pretty good execution, solid movie and worth the money, but not in my top 10.
• dlazz

  Airplane is leaps and bounds better than Lebowski. You are going to hell for putting those two on the same level.
• fan_from_texas

  dlazz;857544 wrote:Airplane is leaps and bounds better than Lebowski. You are going to hell for putting those two on the same level.

  
  Surely you must be joking.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Coen Brothers are great. I like everything they have made. I have yet to check out two of their movies though. I believe they came out in the late 80's or early 90's.
• arnie palmer

  

  1. Rocky
  2. Goodwill Hunting
  3. Gladiator
  4. Slumdog Millionaire
  5. Hangover
• Manhattan Buckeye

  "Okay, I give you 1-3 and 5, but O Brother Where Art Thou? That might go on my list of 5 movies I most hated, along with Garden State. I know a lot of people like it, but I just didn't."
  
  Certainly a film that is controversial, and that gathers strong opinions. For me it is pure joy. The audacity to take Homer's Odyssey and translate it into a septia-laced Great Depression-era Mississippi background story is a bold endeavor. The film just makes me happy. I have two copies of the dvd (US and Aussie region) and when I get upset about something I just put it in and go to my favorite parts - the musical numbers themselves are enough to make me forget about any problems.
  
  I could go to this scene every day:
  
  "Pete: Well I'll be a sonofabitch. Delmar's been saved.
  Delmar O'Donnell: Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher's done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's my reward.
  Ulysses Everett McGill: Delmar, what are you talking about? We've got bigger fish to fry.
  Delmar O'Donnell: The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo.
  Ulysses Everett McGill: I thought you said you was innocent of those charges?
  Delmar O'Donnell: Well I was lyin'. And the preacher says that that sin's been warshed away too. Neither God nor man's got nothin' on me now. C'mon in boys, the water is fine.
  
  and still get uplifted by it.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  1) Full Metal Jacket
  2) American History X
  3) Seven
  4) Pulp Fiction
  5) Godfather
  5a) Fight Club
  
  *these are not ranks, just listed them as they came to mind.
• dlazz

  we're in a tight spot
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
  The Matrix
  Inception
  Avatar
  Toss up between: Point Break or Titanic or Gladiator
• thavoice

  Watched one of my favs last nigiht...
  
  The Rookie.
• Sonofanump

  In this order:
  
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  The Shawshank Redemption
  To Kill A Mockingbird
  Caddyshack
  Pulp Fiction
  
  Next Five:
  
  Saving Private Ryan
  Stand By Me
  It's A Wonderful Life
  Pride and Prejudice
  The Usual Suspects
  
  Hon Mention:
  
  The Empire Strikes Back
  Back to the Future
  Schindler's List
  Casablanca
  Dogma
  The Godfather
  LOTR: The Return of the King
  Star Wars
  Jaws
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  Goodfellas
  The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
  Fight Club
  Citizen Kane
• 4cards

  

  ...MyTop (5)
  
  The Godfather ( Parts 1 & 2)
  Shawshank Redemption
  Die Hard
  The Shining
  The Good the Bad and the Ugly
• End of Line

  

  Top 5:
  Pulp Fiction
  Casino
  Inception
  The Dark Knight
  The Empire Strikes Back
  
  Next 5:
  Raiders of the Lost Ark
  Halloween
  Fight Club
  Forrest Gump
  Saving Private Ryan
  
  Hon. Mention:
  LOTR: The Two Towers
  LOTR: Return of the King
  Star Wars: A New Hope
  Total Recall
  Rudy
  Back to the Future Part I
  Back to the Future Part II
  Caddyshack
  Terminator 2
  Friday Night Lights
  Backdraft
  The Natural
  Gettysburg
  JFK
  Schindler's List
  Batman Begins
  American Pie
  Spaceballs
  Gladiator
  Fargo
  Rocky IV
  Dumb and Dumber
• OneBuckeye

  

  My top 5 recent Movies that may not be on everyone else's list, in no particular order.
  
  Moon
  Into the wild
  Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy
  Zombieland
  Hot Fuzz
• FatHobbit

  

  I'm surprised nobody has listed the bourne movies yet. Everybody seemed to love them on another thread. I haven't watched any of them, but planned to just based on that reaction.
• Sonofanump

  The_Crosby_Show;857589 wrote:Top 5:
  Rudy
  The Natural

  
  I'll add these on my HM list.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
  
  A timeless classic (or is that an oxymoron?), at any rate a film that could be released in '11 and be the biggest hit of the year. A great, great film.