I was going to take this thread seriously, but then you rated iRobot as #1.

Seriously, my faith in humanity is just GONE now, I can't go on with such opinions existing in society.

BUY THE DAMN TRAINERS, JVC STEREO, MOTORBIKE... VINTAGE 2004!!!!

They made item placement a PLOT-POINT! The movie is self-contradictory, and a mockery of Isaac Asimov.

Hell... I didn't think you COULD get the bland and lifeless Asimov characters more wrong... but, there we have it.

I, Robot was okay.

But definitely not great.

*replaces I Robot with Donnie Darko, then removes the Incredibles/Finiding Nemo, replaces with Fight Club/Gladiator*
NOW people can take it seriously.

For the number one, I'd have to say from what I've seen is "Heat" this is a long ass movie, and a classic facing off Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. I may replace this with a better movie later. Buit it stands.

Heat.

Number two? Soylent Green. Charlton Heston was great in this, and the noir style of film always kept me in my seat.

"IT'S PEOPLE!"

Number three? I'd have to say... Leon: The Professional. =P 'nuff said.

Nuimber 4 and 5 are pending.

Hey come on guys. Everyone has their own viewpoints, and I didn't post this to be bashed. I know people won't agree with me, and that's fine, but I'm curious to see what other people think, and I don't just mean think of my choices.

Mentioning in passing that you weren't as keen on I Robot as me, fine, but going off topic by saying nothing but the fact that you didn't like it? (The topic is about your top five, not mine!)

I'm sorry if I've upset someone here unknowingly, but please at least try to understand other's viewpoints...

Wraith

These are just some movies I liked.
12 Angry Men- this is a very moving, and serious piece. The twelve jurors personalities, prejudices, and motivations are all so-clearly defined. I liked Jack Klugman (juror who is more interested in seeing the Yankees play than determining whether a man lives or dies) and John Fiedler (the meek juror) performance's best.
Flashdance/Footloose/Grease: I liked the music and dance sequences for all three.
Star Wars (original trilogy)- They are really inspiring. My big brother introduced me to these films at the tender age of three. We watched them back-to-back-to-back (he says it was the longest I'd ever sat still in my life, I was that absorbed)
Back to the Future Part II- Marty McFly is cool, but I like Doc better and this was more his movie so, um, yeah. I thought it was cool.
Jurassic Park- This was the first film I saw in theatres without supervision (well, technicaly I had my big bro with me but still I felt very grownup). I was very much into dinos at the time and I loved the music too.

I love how you just TOTALLY insulted this person's taste.

Sheesh.

Two Movies I WANT to see in the top 100 list:

Jurassic Park - the original was just classic, perhaps the most recent classis aside from Schindlers List, which was Spielbergs project after this one...
Still, it's got the very essenceof horror and imagination, and leaps and bounds of special effects that still look amazing. The modern standard of Dinosuars....

Fight Club - If you want something dark and disturbing that asks the questions you usually only gloss over and forget about, that can be immensely funny at the same time as being horrible and DOES in it's own demented kid of way make sense, then this i for you. Complete with Bradd Pitt and Ed Norton at their best, just dont be scared of seeing blood

In no particular order.

Heat
Goodfellas
John Carpenter's The Thing
City Of God
Big Lebowski

Thread's over. I win.

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I love how you're a total hypocrite. <3

Anyway, my top five

5. Fight Club
4. Phantom of the Opera
3. Aladdin
2. Rocky Horror Picture Show
1. Nightmare Before Christmas

I have a warped taste, I know.

Definetly in no particular order, here they are:

1)Anchorman (FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER, PERIOD)
2)Gladiator
3)Saving Private Ryan (Hate to admit, but this movie was the closet movie to make me close to tears...close =P)
4)War of the Worlds (2005 version)
5)Jurrasic Park (The first one mind you, not it's shallow sequals =0 )

Runner Up: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

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someone likes story butchering! 😀

I'd have to say the number one would be Star Wars: A New Hope, due to its revolutionary effects for the times, and besides, light sabers and a wookie. A WOOKIE.

2. Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Timeline
4. Shrek
5. (due to the fact it hasn't aged well) Monty Python and the Holy Grail

WRAITH! C'MON! No Star Wars?! Besides, this is a kind of strange list. Did you actually really truly think about it or did you just come right up with them? iRobot was okay but come on. Here's my list(s), 5 worst, 1 best

Best sci-fi
5. Spawn
4. Starship Troopers
3. The Matrix Trilogy
2. Star Wars Trilogy # 2 (episodes 1, 2, and 3)
1. Star Wars Trilogy # 1 (episodes 4, 5, and 6)

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After much brainhurts, I've come up with my top 5. However, these are in no particular order, and I missed a lot of movies in doing this, so bleh.

Fight Club
The Sixth Sense
Resoiviour (sp?) Dogs
The Wedding Singer
Uh... the original Toy Story. 😀

Gawd, I can't put them in order... ;___;

The Iron Giant - Always been a favorite of mine. Excellent tearjerker. I see a poorly written sequel in the future.

Star Wars Episode 3 - Don't bash me here; this is the episode that finally got me into Star Wars. Plus, I'm a sucker for special effects and especially insanely fast and furious lightsaber battles. And John Williams's Anakin vs. Obi-wan is one of the best orchestra pieces I've ever heard. I went and bought the soundtrack right after I got out of the theater.

Nightmare Before Christmas - I've never been more in love with a movie for so long. I have the VHS, DVD, bootleg computer file, and the CD. Tim Burton + Danny Elfman = Perfection.

Aladdin most definitely deserves a mention. ^^ He was Disney's first bishounen.

I keep finding myself wanting to put down Kingdom Hearts and Digimon 01, but unfortunately neither of those are movies. >< I seem to have much more loyalty to games and TV series. Those are hours and hours and hours long, allowing for maximum absorption, while movies are only two hours on average.

*snicker* I said absorption.

1) Citizen Kane (Welles)
2) 2001: A space odyssey (Kubrick)
3) Pierrot le fou (Godard)
4) Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
5) Les enfants du Paradis (Carn)

6) Apocalypse Now (Coppola)

Top five but not fave ! My heart belongs to Star Wars Hexalogy and THX 1138 !

Aladdin most definitely deserves a mention. ^^ He was Disney's first bishounen.

Ooookay.

>_O Really, Wesu, must you poke at the Shoe at every opportunity? Ask just about any girl if Aladdin was good-lookin', and she'll say yes. I know guys that liked Jasmine, too.

Being attracted to Disney characters is just a bit weird to me.

And for the record, I "poke" at everyone. sry

In no particular order:

1.) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
2.) Mulan
3.) Iron Giant (SUCH an underrated film)
4.) Kill Bill series
5.) Spirited Away

And a bunch of runner-ups that I don't feel like naming.
~Neo

My list of favorite movies (in order of release):

The Lion King
Twister
Independence Day
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Spirited Away
8 Mile

Others high on the list: Indiana Jones series, Lilo & Stitch, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Bambi, Short Circuit

1) Citizen Kane (Welles)
2) 2001: A space odyssey (Kubrick)
3) Pierrot le fou (Godard)
4) Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
5) Les enfants du Paradis (Carn)

Ok, I will agree that Citizen Kane is in my top ten and is probably the best movie ever made, period. Personally, though, it is not in my top five yet since I admittedly haven't seen it enough. 2001, however.....I will explain myself as to why I dislike that movie. Battleship Potemkin I've always wanted to see, but have never been able to get a copy of the thing. The other two? Never heard of them, so no comment.

And now, for my top five:

5. Lord of the Rings - Fellowship/Towers/King
4. Spaceballs
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1. Forrest Gump

Well, seeing as though this seems more favorite than top, I guess Ill do that.
I've seen a f**king uncountable number of flicks in my life. I love movies more than video games and wanking off, so that says something.

My two favorite movies of all time ever, which I cant decide between, are Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Big Lebowski.

They're both perfect gems, and Lebowski is so... me. I'd love to enlgihten you all, but Lady Time is gone.

In no particular order, and more than five:

Star Wars
The Lord of the Rings
Hero
The Princess Bride
Pirates of the Caribbean (maybe not the greatest film in the world but one of the ones I've enjoyed the most)
Adaptation
Princess Mononoke
Mel Brooks' History of the World Part 1
Napoleon Dynamite
Lawrence of Arabia
Gone with the Wind
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn yo!) <-- So bad it's good!
Oh hell... Gladiator.

Oh, and haters, I defy you... Kingdom of Heaven.

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Ok, I will agree that Citizen Kane is in my top ten and is probably the best movie ever made, period. Personally, though, it is not in my top five yet since I admittedly haven't seen it enough. 2001, however.....I will explain myself as to why I dislike that movie. Battleship Potemkin I've always wanted to see, but have never been able to get a copy of the thing. The other two? Never heard of them, so no comment.

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Well, for 2001, you like or dislike it. There never really was a middle opinion. I found it fascinating. Pure Art. As Pierrot le Fou. I don't ever love Godard, but this one is probably... I call it "poetry on celluloid".

I have to say Stephen King's The Green Mile has to be up there. I loved that movie. Star Wars has recently been redeemed by ROTS. Most of the Superman movies rocked. I liked the 3rd one the most, despite being funny on the silly side. Spiderman 2 deserves a mention, as well, because of better story, character development, etc. It was much better than the first one. Bloody stupid green dude...
I, personally, happen to like Sci-fi movies, super hero movies, and comedies, but it all depends on your tastes.

..whoa. I haven't posted here in... forever. o.o Huh.

Anywho, top five, in no order. o.o

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Iron Giant
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the new one)
Not Another Teen Movie
Nightmare Before Christmas

..yeah. I'm not very original at all. But I'm a fan of Elfman and Tim Burton, which explains two of the movies. XD

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I dunno, I far prefer Shawshank Redemption to The Green Mile. That's a classic film by any means of the imagination.

I also nominate "Run Lola Run" for best like, short-ish film.

It's a German film about various alternative scenarios. It's teh awesome.

Yesh! Run Lola Run rocks!

*goes to fish out her VHS copy of it now* >>;

1) Scarface
2) Godfather
3) Princess Mononoke
4) The Lion King (That's right)
5) Boyz N Da Hood

I'm going to cheat a little in this topic: not all of this is exactly new. Some of it is just cut-n-pasted from other comments I've written elsewhere. And there's a little bit more than my top 5 here. I hope you don't mind.

1a. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
1b. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
1c. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
This series easily equalled my expectations, and surpassed them. The films can't match the book for depth of backstory, but I find watching it a more enjoyable experience than reading it. They're not entirely flawless (Blue Galadriel in FOTR and the close up of Sam's "I could carry it for a while" being the low points of the series), but are just about as close as I could ever want it.

I am, however, in the minority in that I prefer the theatrical edition of Fellowship to the Extended Edition - for the earliest part of the film, anyway. While the additions to the action scenes and the Council of Elrond are good (and just about all the changes to the second disc), I prefer the original introduction to Hobbiton and Bilbo, and can understand why most of the other sequences were not included originally.

2. The Matrix
A comic book brought to life (due in large part to the storyboards of former Spiderman and X-Men artist Steve Skroce). Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee and Jet Li films may have faster and technically better fight sequences, but to date I haven't seen any that are as tightly choreographed (in other films, I find that they often outstay their welcome) or as well-shot (the first rule of action sequences: always make sure the viewer can tell what's going on).

And oh, that lobby scene. Ignoring the slightly disturbing idea of killing the people the rebels are trying to save, it's certainly the best-constructed action sequence I have ever seen, with memorable images (there's that comic book influence again), camera angles that are ever-changing and don't repeat, yet always linger long enough to make it clear what's going on. And the variation of camera speeds is perfect: it's mostly in slow-mo, to enhance Neo and Trinity's spectacular actions and demonstrate their heightened awareness; the guards are filmed at full speed, which makes their surprise at Neo and Trinity's attacks more alarming; and when Neo does something "boring", like chuck away an assault rifle, filming at full speed gets that mundane moment it out of the way quickly, so we can spend as long as possible on the cool stuff. That bit's actually quite humourous, just like the top and tail of the scene. And it's all set to a very funky soundtrack.

There's a story there, too. While it may not be the most original thing ever written, what's important is that it combines its myriad influences in an incredibly effective way. The story is good enough to provide a credible excuse for all that comic-book action, and, on first viewing at least, to provide a decent mystery to sustain interest between fight scenes.

And whether or not the Wachowskis intentionally put all that "philosophy" in there, the fact that people who are interested in that sort of thing are able to read so much into the series is surely a good thing, and more than most Hollywood action flicks manage, even if it obviously doesn't go into as much depth as a specialist book on the subject. And while some bits are a bit heavy-handed, they certainly finds their way into the script far better than in the sequels, where the Big Ideas were shoehorned in.

Even Keanu's acting style and monotonous voice are appropriate for this film, where he's required to do little more than go "what?" like Arthur Dent.

The only things I don't like about the film are its breaking of the laws of thermodynamics (apparently the original idea was for humans to form a massive parallel neural network rather than a power sourace, which would have been much better and would have avoided all those cow jokes) and its "love conquers all" ending, which is the first hint of the sequels' move away from cyberpunk and towards more mystical and spiritual aspects.

I can't really do a numbered list beyond that, so here's a large number of honourable mentions, in no order:

Being John Malkovich
Very funny, and an extremely haunting ending. I don't really know if I prefer this or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Ahh, let's just say that they're both utterly brilliant mind-warp flicks and leave it at that.

Yellow Submarine
I first heard of the Beatles when I was about 3 or 4, and I heard my mum playing the Revolver LP. The one song that stuck in my mind was, of course, "Yellow Submarine". Not long after, she noticed that this was being shown on TV, so she taped it for me (this would be about 1990-ish). It instantly became my favourite film (well, this and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) and I watched it over and over again. And then again. And then a few more times.

Then I didn't see it at all for years. Not until I was 18, when I re-watched it, and I loved it just as much as ever, only this time I got more of the jokes (oh, so THAT'S what a "born lever-puller" is!). Another thing that changed was my opinion of the music: originally the extremely simplistic "All Together Now" was my favourite song in the film; later my liking of the "Only A Northern Song" sequence increased (admittedly partly due to the brilliant animation in that scene). Though of course, other songs, like "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Eleanor Rigby" remain equally brilliant no matter how old you are. Though I happen to prefer the Reprise version of Sgt. Pepper on the album of that name...

With a charming story, a brilliant visual style, and of course incredible music (which goes for George Martin's score as well as the Fab Four's songs), every child should watch this film. I think the only thing that could make it better would be some "I Am The Walrus" animation!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
At the moment, I prefer Life of Brian, mainly because I'm slightly less familiar with it (best bit? The Latin graffiti). But if we go by how much impact they had on me on first viewing (which is when most comedies are at their best), Holy Grail is king.

Memento
If it's a gimmick, it's an extremely effective one. I was hooked all the way through - and long after.

The Incredibles
Just like Aardman (can't wait for the Wallace and Gromit film!), it is scientifically impossible to dislike anything Pixar produce. The Incredibles works as both a brilliant comedy and a brilliant action film. What's not to like?

From Russia With Love
An interesting plot that, you know, actually involves spying? Check!
A script that fits both exposition and humour into the story at just the right places? Check!
One of the best fight scenes in cinema history? Check!
The best Bond film? Easily. (It's also a great book.)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
An amazingly shot film. Features a huge number of memorable moments, including the tortuous walk through the desert.

Unforgiven
Due to its length, this is slightly more accessible than TGTBATU, but it's almost equally brilliant. Gene Hackman is wonderfully vile, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman wonderfully weary, and the guy who plays the young 'un wonderfully eager. And all over the place, the legendary reputations and myths of the Wild West get torn down, including Richard Harris's "English Bob".

The Blues Brothers
Great music, great comedy and a great car chase. Just generally great, y'know?

The Killer
Better than Hard-Boiled and Bullet in the Head in just about every respect. Action scenes don't drag out for as long as Hard-Boiled's, and it's got better characters, music and story. BITH has the best better DVD release, though, which considering how good The Killer's is, is saying a lot. Unfortunately, I have an awful DVD edition of Hard-Boiled: Tartan Asia Extreme's version is in its correct aspect ratio, unlike Prism's budget 4:3 release, but the dark picture is actually worse than one I videotaped off TV a while ago!

X-Men 2
While I'm not too keen on Magneto's plot that eventually comes to the fore towards the end of the film, the fact that this is otherwise such a great depiction of the classic mutants on screen far outweighs that flaw. Unfortunately, from what I hear of X-Men 3, these images sum up my expectations.

Pulp Fiction
It's the brilliantly quotable script that grabs you the first time, but being a deeper film, it also stands up to further viewings better than Reservoir Dogs.

Apollo 13
No matter how many times I see this, the incredible tension always gets to me. It's also impeccably acted, of course. Not as much humour as The Right Stuff, though.

The Shawshank Redemption
This is an extremely emotional and powerful film, whose only flaw is that, despite a lot of nasty moments, it does seem to romanticise the prison experience somewhat, with it a stint in Shawshank coming across like the most effective way for a man to Build Character. This happens particularly in the scenes where Andy helps the guards fiddle their taxes and earns a decent library, where it doesn't seem that bad a place to be after all (as long as you're weren't spending your entire life there, anyway).

Fortunately the brilliant far outweighs the imperfect.

The Terminator
The first sequel has superior action sequences, but this is a lot tenser and even better. I don't really know what to say, except to point you in the direction of these posts by Chujo the Silent. They explain it pretty well.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Not as good as the first (it slows right down during the desert scenes), and the ending of the original version is better than the extended one, but still an excellent film. Cameron's Aliens is brilliant too (I haven't seen Ridley Scott's Alien yet).

Belleville Rendezvous
Fantastic animation - my favourite visual gags being the waiter who literally bends over backwards to help, the chair-like gangsters, and the French lady being the only one who doesn't want to eat frogs' legs!

Goodfellas
The Godfather bored me to death, Road to Perdition was an excellent alternative to its graphic novel. But neither is as good as this, the best of the (few) gangster films I've seen.

Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Like the choice between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 and Knuckles, I can never decide which I prefer; it changes every time I watch them. Anyway, it's obvious why they belong in this list.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
I haven't seen House of Flying Daggers yet, but for me CTHD is better than Hero. I'm not a huge fan of the "lighter than air" stuff, but otherwise the fight scenes are as stunning as The Matrix. And there's a touching love story in there somewhere, too...

Batman Begins
The Bat is at his best in this film. He's a half-glimpsed shadow, scaring the living daylights out of baddies before picking them off one by one like Sam Fisher on fast-forward. That scene at the docks was probably my favourite of the film.

Unfortunately, the last act of Batman Begins is probably the weakest, going for a pyrotechnic "city in peril" climax which doesn't work as well as those smaller scenes. And the comic relief is, for some reason, taken away from where it works well (Michael Caine's brilliant Alfred) and put where it doesn't belong (making James Gordon a hapless buffoon). The "origin" and characterisation sequences are also far more interesting and successful than the main plot, which takes a while to get going and isn't entirely convincing, a flaw which was also present in Spider-Man and X-Men 2.

Fortunately, this last bit is more than made up for by those wonderful earlier "intimidation" scenes (and generally most of the first two-thirds of the film), the presence of what I find one of the most intriguing Batman villains (the Scarecrow), and all-round brilliant casting.

Now if only someone would make a Daredevil film this good...

Now a few comments on a couple of the other films that have been mentioned but which didn't quite make it into the list:

Fight Club
I saw this for the first time very recently, and I wasn't really sure what to take away from it. It's very spectacular and memorable, certainly (and the theft of the liposuction fat has to be the grottiest thing I've seen since the eye operation in Minority Report). But I've heard extremely conflicting views on what it's Message is: is it an anti-consumerism film; is that idea hypocritical, considering that the Fight Club franchise has raked in loads of money from the book, various DVD editions and game; is it a film that didn't have the courage to go through with its anti-consumerism message to the end, instead doing an about-turn and making Tyler the enemy; is it a very shallow film, simplistic manufactured-angst for teens? And the Twist? (If that's the right word, since there are so many clues throughout the film.) Like The Usual Suspects and The Sixth Sense, I knew about it beforehand, but it seemed like putting a twist in for the sake of having a twist. But whatever it is, it's definitely a memorable film.

Donnie Darko
I enjoyed the film, but I wasn't too keen on the fact that it wasn't completely self-contained: to fully understand most of the explanations and theories you have to visit the official website and do other things outside the film, much more so than Memento. Going by the film alone, perhaps this explains too little. But on the other hand, when the Director's Cut (which I haven't seen) was released, people complained that it explained too much. You can't win!

2001: A Space Odyssey
I prefer the book.

10.)007 From Russia With Love- I'm a sucker for Bond films, and this one was probably the best.

9.)The Day After Tomorrow- A interesting plot mixed with awsome special effecs, it blew me away when I first saw it.

8.)Silver Streak- An excellent mystery/thriller, with a very original plot/location that you just don't see these days.

7.)The Hunt for Red October- Based on Tom Clancy's first novel of the same name, when you have a movie based on a novel by him, have an instant classic.

6.)Star Wars Trilogy 2#- This trilogy was awsome, I have to admit, but it just didn't have the beef like the orignal.

5.)Tommy Boy- This movie has comedy classic written all over it. There is no way you can count out Tommy Boy.

4.)Trains, Planes, and Automobles/Airplane- These two were hillarious comedies and I just can't chose between the two.

3.)Star Wars Trilogy 1#/Lord of the Rings Trilogy- so much to say, so little space. Special effects, plot lines, unique charecters, they had it all.

2.)3- Espn's movie about the late Dale Earnhart, it definatlly deserves this place. That is all I can say.

1.)Top Gun- I just don't know how to say it, this movie had action packed scenes with unbeateable special effects. I just can't beleive this movie wasn't mentioned before.

Independence Day sucked more cubic metres of ass per second than a ShopVac.

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5. Pearl Harbour- Ben Affleck certainly delivers a powerhouse performance in this completely historically accurate film.
4. I Robot- A complete masterpiece to top independence day and men in black. Better than the novel.
3. Superman 3- The best of this series. I wonder why Christopher Reeve hasn't done any films lately.
2. Gigli- One of the greatest movies of all time, a complete masterpiece. Another Ben Affleck movie, don't you think he's such a great actor?<3

And the number one is
1. Glitter- Without a doubt, the best film ever made. A lot of people don't like it, but that's because they can't appreciate the greatness of Mariah Carey's masterful acting.

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In case you have a learning disability, I am being sarcastic.

What, no love for 'House Of The Dead'?

Oh, anyone seen The Whole Nine Yards? That was an AMAZING movie... The character cast was good, and they could ACT, there were comic parts, action parts and just has something special about it. It deserved a mention.

Schick I think this even harder than the top 5 games ever topic. Anway here we go:

5. Rush Hour(1&2) - I can't help it...I love them so much.

4. Vampire Effect/The Returner - Two japanese films I just fell in love with for some odd reason. *shrugs*

3. Mr. and Mrs. Smith - Being i've just recently seen this movie I can't help but put it on here, so basically my entire list is messed up. =)

2. Spider-Man(1&2)/Star Wars(I-III) - Yea...

1. Houseguest - My mom and I cry laughing everytime we watch this movie. We honestly love it.

So yea i'm a bit rushed tonight, and my list is no where near accurate at any rate. So for now...this is it.

Gotta say i agree with Musou Mugen's list (except for that Princess Mononoke-movie, havent seen it) those are real classics. My list would probably be:

Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
Scarface (Brian De Palma)
Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
Stand By Me Rob (Rob Reiner)
The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)

Up and runners are:
Dr.No (i think thats the best Bond-movie)
The Seven Samurai
The Godfather Pt.1 & 2
Taxi Driver
Leon
How High
Style Wars
And a couple of Alfred Hitchcock movies.

My favourite films are;

5. The Last Samurai

4. Snatch

3. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

2. Spiderman 2

1. Batman Begins

Hmm...in no particular order...

1) Die Hard Trilogy: Anybody who says "Yippie-Ki-Yay Motherf****r" deserves a pat in the back on my account. The whole trilogy is action movies personified. OK, the 2nd one was a little weak in comparison to the 1st and 3rd ones, but it still crapped on a lot of other action movies that were released in the 80's and 90's. The 3rd one really got me into movies, and I can watch it again and again!

2) Battle Royale: Anime aside, I don't watch much foriegn stuff, but this movie really opened my eyes. I couldn't believe what was going on in it, but it hit me - admist all this bloodshed and carnage, you felt for the characters. You hated them, You wanted them to survive, you wanted THAT one to die a particually horrible death...then it makes you think. WHAT IF it happened to you? Man alive. The sequel was very poor (but still OK) in comparison. This is a brilliant movie.

3) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barells: OK, Guy Ritchie was a one-trick pony, but he certainly got it right first time round. SO many quotable lines, and probably one of the finest British movies for quite some time. Heck it made Vinnie Jones look like he could act for goodness sake! This movie would probably come out of the top 5 to be replaced with something the most.

4) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: It would be silly to split them three up. Before seeing the movie, I had no interest in it whatsoever, and to be honest i'm not that bothered now, but whenever i watch the movies, i feel as though i'm whisked away to another world. Any movie that can do that to me gets a thumbs up.

5) Resivoir Dogs: Tough choice this one. I love ALL of Tarantino's films, so i may choose Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill instead. But R-Dogs is so good, because it gets so much out of so little. Much of the movie is in the same disused building - only relying on the dialogue instead of explosions or nudity. Tarantino excells at this - he makes brilliant scripts.

Other brilliant movies for me and can make the top 4 to replace something else include...

Clerks
Payback
Lethal Weapon series
Star Wars Episode 4
Dr. No/Goldfinger/From Russia With Love/GoldenEye etc
Akira
The Matrix
The Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Dumb and Dumber

If I told you my number 2 favorite, you would luagh...

Nah, we wouldn't. G'head.
Unless it's something REALLY atrocious like Gigli or Glitter, of course.

..It... ISN'T, is it?

0.0 ABSOLUTLEY NOT.

It's a Disney movie. A DCOM, even. A cartoon DCOM.

Due to various things, I come to this topic a little late Nonetheless...
My favourite films(in no particular order):
Spirited Away (+ all other Miyazaki)
Master and Commander
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
Nightmare Before Christmas
Ring (original)
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Dark Water (original)
The End of Evangelion
Shaun of the Dead
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
A Tale of Two Sisters
Eraserhead
Mulholland Drive
Lost Highway
Dawn of the Dead (original)
The Incredibles
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (new version)
Grave of the Fireflies

Too many to add reasons for all, but there's a fair bit of variety in there...