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It's been awhile since we've had a thread like this.

What are your top 5 favorite movies? Please provide links via amazon or imdb so we can take a look and possibly even add them to our collections.

Here's my list...picking 5 isn't easy.

[edit] Picking five is impossible...pick five from each genre[edit]

In no particular order.


DRAMA
1) Gandhi
2) Patton
3) Apocalypse Now
4) Raging Bull
5) The Godfather

COMEDY
1) A Fish Called Wanda
2) My Cousin Vinny
3) Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
4) Amelie
5) The Royal Tenenbaums

SCI-FI
1) The Lord of the Rings
2) Alien
3) Terminator 2
4) Somewhere in Time
5) The Matrix

HORROR
1) The Ring
2) The Silence of the Lambs
3) Rosemary's Baby
4) The Changeling
5) The Exorcist III

CLASSICS
1) The Man With The Golden Arm
2) Suddenly
3) Sunset Blvd.
4) The Manchurian Candidate
5) Double Idemnity

WESTERNS
1) The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
2) Once Upon a Time in the West
3) Unforgiven
4) The Outlaw Josey Wales
5) Dances With Wolves

ANIMATED
1) My Neighbor Totoro
2) Spirited Away
3) Castle of Cagliostro - Lupin III
4) The Triplets of Belleville
5) South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut

Hey, Five, THIRTY-FIVE, whatever

Good idea, Craig. I'm not sure if it will be harder or easier to compile segmented lists, though. I'll have to ponder it a bit.

I think you're a stifled database administrator at heart.

Drama: Resevoir Dogs, Godfather, Apocalypse Now (It was a good surfboard Lance, and I liked it)
Comedy: The Big Lebowski (BEST movie EVER)
Sci-Fi: Aliens, Blade
Horror: Evil Dead II, Maximum Overdrive! lol
Classics: Bullitt
Westerns: EVERY CLINT MOVIE
Animated: Ninja Scroll, Spirited Away, Secret of the Nimh
Action: Hard Boiled, Die hard
Adventure: Indiana Jones-Raiders of the lost ark

good lord spiff... this one is WAY too hard, and i have signed on WAY too late to try and do it. heres the best i can do off the top of my head.

DRAMA
1) Shawshank Redemption
2) Pulp Fiction
3) As Good As It Gets

COMEDY
1) Mel Brooks- History of the World, Part 1
2) Dumb and Dumber(i hate myself for liking this movie so much)
3) anything with john candy

SCI-FI
1) Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
2) Star Wars
3) 12 Monkeys

Horror
1) The Exorcist
2) Jaws
3) The Exorcist(it is so damn scary, it deserves to be on here twice!)

SPORTS
1) Field of Dreams
2) Rudy
3) Hoosiers

short list, i know.. hey, its late..

bigjohn

Wait a minute! The guy who finds baseball boring, likes "Field of Dreams"? What's wrong with this picture?

I love that movie, John. I always weep at the end. I'd give ten years of my life, and heaven knows I may not have that much left, to have a game of catch with my Dad. Or, better yet, to just watch an Indians, or Browns game with him (we could both curse them together ). He used to take me out of school to attend the Indians opener each year. He just thought sharing that with me was a little more important than a few hours of school. He died 35+ years ago when I was 23. Miss him, to this day.

trust me, the irony is not lost on me either...

its the emotions of that movie that get to me.. for me, it has nothing to do with baseball. just a very well written piece of film. every single character has depth. from the old lady at the small town newspaper, to doc graham. i just cant say enough good things about this movie. maybe i am just a sucka for it? who knows..

bigjohn

Don't feel bad for liking Dumb and Dumber. The movie is ingenious. Very underrated movie.

Forrest Gump
She's the One (starring Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, and the dad from Frasier)
Dumb and Dumber
Office Space

I love all of those movies. Can't really pick a favorite.

One word of warning worth repeating: Do not try to light your own farts.

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The Last Seduction, Red Rock West, Fargo
Heat, Rob Roy, Saving Private Ryan, Patton, Cool Hand Luke
The Lord of the Rings (all three), Aliens, Matrix
Eraserhead, Return of the Living Dead, Repo Man
Quest For the Holy Grail, All of Me, Home Alone
The Long Riders, The Magnificent Seven, Sons of Katie Elder

Red Rock West is possibly my favorite right now. There's a scene where Nick Cage is trying to get away from J.T. Walsh and Dennis Hopper. He ends up on the roof of the bar, and using a 2x4 climbs onto the roof of a small moving van. Dwight Yoakum comes out of the bar, gets into the truck and drives off. Along an empty stretch of Montana 2 lane, Cage tries to signal him to stop by waving his arm alongside the driver's window. Yoakum jams on the brakes, stops the van, and gets out with a .357 pointed at Cage's nose. Cage says something like "Sorry, man, I didn't mean to scare you", whereupon Dwight steps in close with the pistol still pointed right at Cage's head and asks "Do I look scared to you?" I laugh every time I even think of that scene.