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1) Princess Bride ("Inconceivable!" "You use that word so much, I do not think it means what you think it means..."
2) Ghostbusters
3) The Three Musketeers
4) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5) Independance Day

1) The Fifth Element
2) Aladdin
3) Pirates of the Caribbean
4) The Matrix
5) The Dark Knight

Bromsy wrote:Number One Greatest Movie of All Frikken Time

ah yes, back when Kim Catrall was hot

Remember what ole Jack Burton always says...

Anyway, my tops that i can think of of..

The dark knight
jaws
dumb and dumber (yes)
raiders of the lost ark
fight club

runner ups..

pans labrinth
pulp fiction
12 monkies
back to the future

1: Alien

2: Star Wars V

3: Aliens

4: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

5: Dr Who: Daleks Invasion of Earth 2150

I've been thinking about this all day and I can't get below about 20. I've got too much love to go around! Maybe I should be going by some kind of 'times viewed' statistic.

sebster wrote:
The Thin Red Line

The thin red line!? That was one of the most dull films Ive ever seen Sebster! I read the book when I was in Iraq though and enjoyed it a lot, so maybe my reading experience poisoned the film, but Jesus it sucked!

dogma wrote:1. Good Will Hunting
2. Blues Brothers
3. Richard III
4. Snatch
5. Animal House


Edit: Regained my senses.

I actually enjoyed all of the 4 I recognised, so I figured I'd look it up. I typed Richard the Third into Rotten Tomatoes and it received 95% on the trusty tomatometer.

Before I get a copy, you mean the 1995 one right? Not the 1955 one?

1. Valhall Rising
2. 13th Warrior
3. The LOTR movies
4. Master and Commander
5. Sigurd Dragedreper

htj wrote:I've been thinking about this all day and I can't get below about 20. I've got too much love to go around! Maybe I should be going by some kind of 'times viewed' statistic.

That's what I did Otherwise I'm stuck at a minium of about 30

1) The Unforgiven.

2) Enemy at the gates.

3) bill and teds excellent adventure

4) Beavis and Butthead do America.

5) Predator.

5: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4: Watchmen
3: Romeo and Juliet (The one with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes)
2: The Blues Brothers
1: The Lord of the Rings (The whole trilogy)

mattyrm wrote:1. Commando

Of course.


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mattyrm wrote:
I actually enjoyed all of the 4 I recognised, so I figured I'd look it up. I typed Richard the Third into Rotten Tomatoes and it received 95% on the trusty tomatometer.

Before I get a copy, you mean the 1995 one right? Not the 1955 one?

Yeah, but you have to get the version where this happens. Some of the DVD cuts are missing it.

I would say that I can't get as low as 5 too and that my lists of more than five would vary depending on mood, location, what kind of day I've had.

I could however watch Empire of the Sun over and over, the original, French, Taxi is also eminently rewatchable.

Soladrin wrote:

htj wrote:I've been thinking about this all day and I can't get below about 20. I've got too much love to go around! Maybe I should be going by some kind of 'times viewed' statistic.

That's what I did Otherwise I'm stuck at a minium of about 30

Hmm, very well. Probably something along the lines of this then.

Starship Troopers
Enemy at the Gates
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lost in Translation
The Big Lebowski

In no particular order, those are the films I have watched the most. I have films that are more dear to me, but I tend to watch them less frequently because either a) I have to be in the mood for them, as Sattamassagana said; or b) they are too precious to be watched casually, whilst I'm doing some painting or something.

Honourable mentions:

Gangs of New York, Gladiator, Airplane, The Time Traveller's Wife, Shaun of the Dead.


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Damnit, just saw the post above and there is no way I can leave this out...

You've got a broken image there Fifty.

Gladiator

Damn, how could I forget about this? I've watched it more than anything! Plus, both Dawn of the Deads. Infact, all of the Dead films. Argh, I can't do this!

Casablanca!!

Lost in Translation, ahh... yes.

Das Boot

The Unforgiven

The Seven Samurai

The Fog of War

Idiocracy

dogma wrote:
Yeah, but you have to get the version where this happens. Some of the DVD cuts are missing it.

Woah! Tanks, head shots, its like Arnold's films but with an actual actor.

Its ordered!

My list

1. Batman, the Dark Knight. Not just the best comic book adaptation made, it's the best action movie ever made. Kick ass story, super creepy villains...
2. Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back. Vader will kill a bitch. Second movie on the list with a downer for an ending.
3. The Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Version). While I enjoy all three movies, the first one is my favorite.
4. The Watchmen. I guess I like blue wang. Rorschack is a right bastard, but you have to love the guy.
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. If I catch part of this movie on TV, I will generally pull out my DVD and put it in so that I can watch it from start to finish (unless a ball game is on).

Now that I've made my list, I've scrolled back through other peoples. We seem to share a lot of the same tastes in movies. I'm not sure if it's the general over-lap in our ages (20s-30s), or that we're all on a message board for little plastic men.

Either way, I have a lot of DVD's to go buy now. I want to see some of my old favorites again.

A Clockwork Orange
Cloverfield
Dr Strangelove
The Inbetweeners Movie
Shaun of the Dead

My Top Five (in no order)

1. Wayne's World
2. Alien
3. Predator
4. Star Wars
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

--Honorable Mentions--

Dr. Strangelove
Die Hard series
Ace Ventura 1&2
Patton
Inglourious Basterds
Reservoir Dogs
Top Gun
Blues Brothers
3:10 to Yuma
Gladiator
The Departed
Batman Begins/The Dark Knight

...I could keep going, but I'll stop

1: Kingdom of Heaven
2: The Dark Knight
3: 300
4: The Return of the King
5: Star Wars episode III

Princess bride is one of my favorite movies as well.