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[Robthe1st]

What is your top five favorite movies of all time?

Just for fun.

[Ratty Randnums]

Hm, perhaps to avoid invoking the dreades list thread (and to keep people from narrowing it down to five, which would be subjective as heck depending on how they felt that day) maybe change the topic to something like.
"What are some of your favorite films and why?" ?

[Shadow]

My top five eh?

Count Dracula
Freddy Krueger
Jason Voorhees
The Predator
Cthulhu

[Vlad Yvhv]

1: The Thing. The ultimate life-form. Capable of assimilating other life-forms and playing around with its own genetic structure to create things like mouths in an imitation's torso, a spider-thing from a severed head, or a "flower" made of dog tongues and teeth. So long as one cell is alive, it can assimilate others. And the hero is rather badass, himself.
2: The Friday the 13 movies. Love to see Jason kill people. Most of them deserve to die, anyway...
3: The Evil Dead trilogy. Gotta love a movie series that involves the hero chopping off his own hand and replacing it with a chainsaw... Plus, Ash's shotgun seems to have unlimited ammo.
4: The Phantasm movies. The Sentinel Spheres are the ultimate multitools. Name a purpose or method of death and there's likely a sphere to do the job. Plus, our heroes have a Quad-Barrel shotgun made from 2 sawed-off double-barrel shotguns, with the barrels forming a V, for maximum spread. Also has a chainsaw fight. And who doesn't love that beautiful black Hemi Cuda?
5: The Die Hard movies. John McClane is perhaps even more durable than Ash... Plus, he's got one of the most badass catchphrases out there.

[Chaosmaster8753]

I don't know what I'd put for my all-time favorites, but here are 5 of my favorite films from 2008-2009:

- The Dark Knight
- Gran Torino
- Coraline
- WALL-E or Up
- Star Trek 09

[GamemasterAnthony]

Let me think...

Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Dark Knight
Gladiator
Transformers
Young Frankenstein

Oh...and for an honorable mention, since I don't think a documentary might count...

The Aristocrats

[An7imatt3r]

Heh, KorbenDallas, only makes sense that Fifth Element is right there at the top. That would defiantly show up on my top 10. Glad to see we agree on Blade Runner though.

1) Blade Runner
2) No Country for Old Men
3) Pulp Fiction
4) Memento
5) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

[Ratty Randnums]

My top five eh?

Count Dracula

That's a little vague? Which movie? Or do you just mean the monster in general?

Cthulhu

I take it here you just mean the monster/mythos. Or are you referring to the "Call of Cthulhu" silent film from a few years back?



And who, me? I could never narrow it down to 5. I used to be a film buff until a few years back.

[Shadow]

Yeah I read the title wrong.I'm a retard.Thought it said favorite five movie monsters. - -;

1.)Ed Wood
2.)Phantasm
3.)Freddy vs Jason
4.)Star Trek III The Search for Spock
5.)Nosferatu

[Ratty Randnums]

Yeah I read the title wrong.I'm a retard.Thought it said favorite five movie monsters. - -;

1.)Ed Wood
2.)Phantasm
3.)Freddy vs Jason
4.)Star Trek III The Search for Spock
5.)Nosferatu

Nah don't beat yourself up it's an easy enough mistake to make.

Yeah I read the title wrong.I'm a retard.Thought it said favorite five movie monsters. - -;

1.)Ed Wood
2.)Phantasm
3.)Freddy vs Jason
4.)Star Trek III The Search for Spock
5.)Nosferatu

Nah don't beat yourself up it's an easy enough mistake to make.

[Robthe1st]

Check out mine, top 5... I'll go with top 10, instead!

1.) The Dark Knight
2.) The Godfather
3.) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
4.) Casablanca
5.) Citizen Kane
6.) The Seven Samurai
7.) Dr. Stangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love the Bomb
8.) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9.) Rear Window
10.) 12 Angry Men

That's it

[FreakyFilmFan4ever]

My top 5 will change often. That is the nature of film.

1. The Lovely Bones
Not out yet, I know. But the imagery from the trailer just looks amazing! And Peter Jackson's more recent films (LOTR, King Kong) show he has a grasp on character development. So The Lovely Bones will be on my top list as soon as I see it.

2. The Fugitive
Well paced story, an actual train was wrecked during the making, and almost all of the lines were ad-lib from really good actors.

3. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Visually beautiful experimentation of animation in filmmaking. Just amazing.

4. Run, Lola Run
A German film where the same 20 minute story is told occurring three different ways and resulting with three different endings.

5. Gojira (1954)
A sci-fi monster movie is finally written to be serious and emotional; with a more realistic, almost documentary style of cinematography.

[MistressAli]

1. The Lovely Bones
Not out yet, I know. But the imagery from the trailer just looks amazing! And Peter Jackson's more recent films (LOTR, King Kong) show he has a grasp on character development. So The Lovely Bones will be on my top list as soon as I see it.

Huh. I read the book some time ago. Didn't know there was going to be a movie, and by Peter Jackson too? This should be interesting.

It's hard for me to pick top faves and stuff... but hey.

1. The Fifth Element. Yep, I'm another fan of this I just love it.
2. LotR films... I think my favorite is TTT cuz I like that sneaky lil Gollum.
3. Face/OFF. Crazy plot concept, sure, but I like the action and the idea of the hero and villain swapping places.
4 The Rock. Another with Nic Cage that doesn't suck (I like Nic but he makes bad movie choices to act in ) Also, more action!
5 All Dogs Go To Heaven. This movie is nostalgic to me, but I still find it very good. I like the 'grittiness' this 'kid's film' has.

[The Man]

Too many to narrow it to 5. Like them equally for the same reason but there is a top category here far from obvious.

1. Sci-Fi
2. Sci-Fact
3. Action/Adventure
4. Fantasy/Mystery
5. Drama/Anime

Depends what it is. My lack of participation in Anime discussions clearly shows it's weak and last on the list. The fact I had about 450 posts here and some on other Sci-Fi boards shows Sci-Fi's top spot.