What's Your Top 5 All Time Favorite Movies ??

[Wetanut]

Lonnie...I'm totally with you on this. I see a lot of pretty recent (post 80's) movies and the title mentions "all time." I'm thinking thru, and I just can't pick just 5. I'm an old movie lover myself. So, I'll go with the favorites of each era as well.....be back.

No matter what though, my favoritist movie of all time is Casablanca.

 

[lcummins]

It's interesting that almost all of us can easily pick our "all time favorite" movie, but then have trouble picking the next 4!

Can't wait to see your picks Rumi!

 

[The Josh]

I know a lot of you guys grew up in the 80's and 90's, but you really have to do yourself a favor and watch some movies made before 1977!!!!

...and good for those with at least one movie before 1969 on their list!!!

See because of my Dads age I've seen lots of movies well before 1977. So thats why for me I have two of my top 5 from years before I was born. I could probably name several from that era that are in my tops list.

 

[Darth Caedus]

See because of my Dads age I've seen lots of movies well before 1977. So thats why for me I have two of my top 5 from years before I was born. I could probably name several from that era that are in my tops list.

Yea, I used to watch old movies with my Grandma when I was little. One on my list is from 1934

 

[The Josh]

The music I listen to is the same. I got to listen to everything growing up.

 

[Giant Chicken]

I have many many movies that I love from the 30-70's... I just simply put my top 5 favorite. I own around a 1,000 dvds and I would guess that atleast 2/5 of them were made before '75.

 

[LOTRFan]

I couldn't possibly name just five, but there are a few that come to mind:

LOTR and Star Wars of course - but beyond ...

1) Saving Private Ryan

2) The Bride of Frankenstein

3) Bridge on the River Kwai

4) Forrest Gump

5) To Kill a Mockingbird

6) King Kong (Original)

7) Braveheart

8) Patton

9) Apocalypse Now

10) The Godfather I and II

11) Platoon

12) Good Will Hunting

13) Shawshank Redemption



I'll Stop.

 

[lcummins]

I couldn't possibly name just five, but there are a few that come to mind:

LOTR and Star Wars of course - but beyond ...

1) Saving Private Ryan

2) The Bride of Frankenstein

3) Bridge on the River Kwai

4) Forrest Gump

5) To Kill a Mockingbird

6) King Kong (Original)

7) Braveheart

8) Patton

9) Apocalypse Now

10) The Godfather I and II

11) Platoon

12) Good Will Hunting

13) Shawshank Redemption



I'll Stop.

Good list! Several people have put Mockingbird on their list. I really wanted to, but there were just others I liked even more.

 

[LOTRFan]

Good list! Several people have put Mockingbird on their list. I really wanted to, but there were just others I liked even more.

Thank you my good man, but I seem to have forgotten Memento --- a real gem!

 

[Kabukiman]

1) Terror Firmer
2) Halloween
3) The Empire Strikes Back
4) Return of the King
5) Uh, I'll have to get back to you on that

 

[barryo]

holy cow................all these lists are starting to jog my memory:

little big man
great waldo pepper
butch cassidy & the sundance kid
the unforgiven
the good, the bad, the ugly
the cowboys
true grit
jeremia johnson
cool hand luke
one flew over the cuckoos nest
dirty harry

and on and on and on...................5 is way too short a list

 

[lcummins]

holy cow................all these lists are starting to jog my memory:

little big man
great waldo pepper
butch cassidy & the sundance kid
the unforgiven
the good, the bad, the ugly
the cowboys
true grit
jeremia johnson
cool hand luke
one flew over the cuckoos nest
dirty harry

and on and on and on...................5 is way too short a list

Man, I didn't think about most of those either!!! Especially "Little Big Man", "Good, Bad and Ugly", "Jeremiah Johnson", "Cuckoos Nest" and "Dirty Harry"! Some of those might actually make it into my list... this is just too hard to pick the top 5!

 

[Mesa]

Thank you my good man, but I seem to have forgotten Memento --- a real gem!

true... true

 

[Polylord]

Some good movies were made in the 70's and 80's, and quiet a few made it into AFI's Top 100 of all time, but there are an awful lot of really, really, really great movies made in the 5 decades before 1970!

Black/white movies are boring

 

[Reinhardt]

the good, the bad, the ugly

 

[Vince]

Black/white movies are boring

So many great B/W movies !

Sin City
Schindler's list
Black Dahlia

to name of few recent ones


and so many older movies !

Sunset Boulevard
The Maltese Falcon
Night of the Hunter
Touch of Evil
The Day the Earth Stood Still !
Jekyll & Mr Hyde
King Kong
Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Black Cat
The Black Room
The Raven
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Wolfman
The Invisible Man
The Mummy

... ... ...

 

[Adoptedscot]

Ooo, another couple I forgot:

Zulu
Cromwell
Pit and the pendulum- I used to sit and watch these 3 with my dad, I loved them.

Also..
Edward Scissorhands
Practical Magic

I don't really have an 'all time favourite' cos my taste is diverse but I have many that I will watch over and over, the ones mentioned so far are but a few.
x

 

[Vince]

Pit and the pendulum-

All those Corman - Price movies are great !!!

 

[lcummins]

Black/white movies are boring

Color movies go all the way back to the 1920's!! Phantom of the Opera's Masque Ball sequence was done in Technicolor!

And besides, just being B&W has nothing to do with whether a film is boring or not...

 

[choopie]

What about Lord of the Rings?

oops Yeah that too.