What's on your top five list of favorite movies?
Forrest Gump has shared his top five list of favorite movies, and it's pretty solid: "2001," "The Godfather," "Fargo," "Boogie Nights" and, strangely, "Elephant."
Not that I need an excuse to make another meaningless list, but this is as good occasion as any to share my top five list. These kind of lists always change for me, but I feel pretty good about these choices.
1. "Taxi Driver," dir. Martin Scorsese
2. "The Godfather Parts I and II," dir. Francis Ford Coppola
3. "E.T.," dir. Steven Spielberg
4. "This is Spinal Tap," dir. Rob Reiner
5. "Annie Hall," dir. Woody Allen
Honorable mention(s): "Mulholland Drive," "Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2," "Dr. Strangelove," "Goodfellas," "Sideways," "MASH," "Boogie Nights," "His Girl Friday," "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
So I showed you mine. Show me yours.
posted by Steve Hyden @ 3:43 PM
14 Comments:
personally, i'm a fan of anything by robin williams. haha, just messin'. off the top of my head, i'd pick from a pool of, "fight club," "adaptation," "reservoir dogs," "clockwork orange," "taxi driver," "thin red line," "full metal jacket," "trainspotting" and both "toy story" movies. i also know that whenever "the burbs" is on TV, i watch every damn minute of it.
I have the viewing habits of a 75 year-old, so bear that in mind.
Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story (I just realized I also have, apparently, a Cary Grant fixation), Chinatown, and, since I will always be that stoner I was in collge, The Big Lebowski. I feel I should work Dazed and Confused on there, too, as well as Sense and Sensibility, but I'm not sure what to drop.
If we are counting documentaries as well as fiction, I'd add Fog of War. And, my ultimate feel-good movie since it is the equivalent of porn for the disenchated political hack like myself: Dave.
I also saw Good-bye Lenin in the theatre three times and have an affinity for it that I can't quite articulate, but I don't think I can reasonably get rid of Chinatown for that. Speaking of movies, way to make us go all Sophie's Choice. Apparently, when I am given instructions to choose only 5 things, I willfully disregard them. No wonder I was the suck/lame troublemaker.
Pulp Fiction, Bullitt, All the President's Men, High Fidelity, The Godfather.
am I going to get beat up by skiny emo dudes in tight pants because I'm over 30 and commenting?
in no partivcular order
Godfather Part II
The Station Agent
High Fidelity / Almost Famous (if you rolled them into one)
Harvey
Heck, of all the films I've seen, to narrow it down to a top 5... tough call.
Let's just say top 2 are "Mallrats" and "A Walk to Remember". Not that they're great movies fro ma critical point of view, but they both hit me in the gullet in a way no other film has. Well, except maybe "Kids".
Taxi Driver
Office Space
Clerks
Return of the Jedi
American Beauty
high fidelity and lebowski. how could i forget you?
Garden State, Closer, Crash, The Life of David Gale and Anchorman - also based solely on movies I could watch repeatedly. Clearly you don't see Anchorman winning any Academy Awards, but it's damn funny, and that's what matters.
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Full Metal Jacket
Scarface
Clerks
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Pulp Fiction
High Fidelity
Manhattan
Amelie
Notorious
and ... Sleeping Beauty. I'm sorry. I have to admit it.
The long hot summer
One flew over the cuckoos nest
HUD
Imitation of life
To Kill a Mockingbird
Can't make a list, but the best movie I've seen recently is "The Station Agent," and the movies I can watch over and over without taking a breath are "American President" and "French Kiss."
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