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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 5:26 pm

I thought this might be a fun topic (albiet a bit off topic), I am a movie guy, who enjoys the mental gymnastics of ranking movies into top five's... I would be interested in hearing of other movies I could netflix. Remember, these movies are ranked on enjoyability not neccessarily quality of plot, acting, etc.

Top 5 Favorite General

Terminator
Jaws
Aliens (with an S)
Matrix
Pulp Fiction

Top Five Favorite Comedies

40 Year Old Virgin
Tommy Boy
Hangover
Monty Python Holy Grail --------- Edit Brain Cramp
Zombieland

Top Five War Movies

Enemy at the Gate
Saving Private Ryan
We were Soldiers Once
Patriot
Gladiator (squeezed this one in the war category)

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
Star Trek Wraith of Khan
Silent Running
District 9
Blade Runner

Top 5 Guy Movies

Top Gun
Hunt For Red October
Rambo
Fight Club
Die Hard

Top 5 Comic Book Based

Avengers
Watchmen
300
Unbreakable
Sin City

Just thought this would be fun... PDT_Armataz_01_03

Disco

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:58 pm

I am a huge movie buff. Difficult for me to select a few favorites because there are so many! But:

All-time: Forrest Gump

Thriller/Suspense: Alien (without the S)

Action: Shogun Assassin, Excalibur

War: Full Metal Jacket

Comedy: Airplane!

Serials: Indiana Jones, Star Wars, LOTR, The Godfather

ANYTHING by Clint Eastwood (yes, including Any Which Way but Loose and company)

and: I like...Conan the Barbarian starring The Governator. I was a kid when it came out, I hadn't read Howard, and it defined D&D for me. Smite me at will!!

There are probably others, but these come to mind readily. I like a lot of yours, too.

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:03 pm

Disco are you 25?????

Couldn't find many oldies on those lists. It's impossible for me to make a top five all time, but I can do the categories thing. Warning: The 80s will be fully represented here!

Top Five War Movies:
1. The Great Escape
2. The Dirty Dozen
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. A Midnight Clear
5. Apocalypse Now

Top Five Comedies:
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Animal House
3. Ghostbusters
4. Caddyshack
5. Airplane

Top Five Sci-Fi:
1. Aliens
2. Bladerunner
3. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
4. Terminator
5. The Road Warrior

Top Five Guy/Buddy/Testosterone flicks:
1. Die Hard
2. 48 Hours
3. Lethal Weapon
4. The Blues Brothers
5. The Wild Bunch

Top Five Cop Flicks (a new addition):
1. Dirty Harry
2. The French Connection
3. The Departed
4. Year of the Dragon
5. The Killer

Top Five Comic Book:
1. The Avengers (by a mile)
2. The Dark Knight
3. Spiderman
4. Kick Ass
5. Unbreakable

Top Five Westerns (another new list):
1. The Magnificent Seven
2. Unforgiven
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
4. Once Upon a Time in the West
5. Rio Bravo

Any of these lists could change depending on the time of day and the mood I am in.....

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:19 pm

Chucho68 wrote:I am a huge movie buff. Difficult for me to select a few favorites because there are so many! But:

All-time: Forrest Gump

Thriller/Suspense: Alien (without the S)

Action: Shogun Assassin, Excalibur

War: Full Metal Jacket

Comedy: Airplane!

Serials: Indiana Jones, Star Wars, LOTR, The Godfather

ANYTHING by Clint Eastwood (yes, including Any Which Way but Loose and company)

and: I like...Conan the Barbarian starring The Governator. I was a kid when it came out, I hadn't read Howard, and it defined D&D for me. Smite me at will!!

There are probably others, but these come to mind readily. I like a lot of yours, too.

Hector.

Conan was in my top 5 for the longest time... but needed room for Matrix and Pulp fiction something had to go.... Forrest Gump is classic but can't categorize it... Some honorable mention: Slumdog Millionaire, Rob Roy (came out same year as Braveheart) and should have won Movie of the Year IMHO, Strange Brew.

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:30 pm

Badmike wrote:Disco are you 25????? :D Couldn't find many oldies on those lists. It's impossible for me to make a top five all time, but I can do the categories thing. Warning: The 80s will be fully represented here!

Mike B.

The oldies tend to get bumped as time goes by... for instance Saving Private Ryan changed everything in the war movie category for me... My Favorite War Movies pre Saving Private Ryan are:

The Battle for the Bulge
A Bridge Too Far
Platoon
Apacalypse Now
Das Boot

I did edit the Comedy Category Monty Python is absolutely there... just had a brain cramp.... Lets say pre Tommy Boy Comedies would be:

Caddyshack (try golfing without at some point saying a quote from this movie... its impossible)
Stripes (or is this a war movie PDT_Armataz_01_01

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Strange Brew
Monty Python Holy Grail
Animal House

I am older than I look

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:37 pm

Okay, I'm game, if only to find out if I can come up with Top Five lists in all of those categories... (EDIT: I can't, so I'm just listing what came to mind:)

War Movies:
1. Lawrence of Arabia (they don't have to be American wars, do they?)
2. Apocalypse Now
3.
4.
5.

Top Five Comedies:
1. The Big Lebowski
2. The Breakfast Club
3. The Wedding Singer
4. Creator (not sure if this counts as comedy, but what the hey)
5.

Top Five Scifi/Fantasy:
1. Bladerunner
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. Serenity
4. The Lord of the Rings
5. A Clockwork Orange

Top Five Westerns:
1. Unforgiven
2. For a Few Dollars More
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
4. High Plains Drifter (I guess I like Eastwood)
5. The Quick and the Dead

Unclassifiable/Miscellaneous/Just Plain Weird:
1. Fight Club
2. The Big Chill
3. Being John Malkovich
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Mary and Max

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 10:23 pm

God this is hard!!! 8-O

Top 5 Sports: :bball:

1. Hoosiers
2. The Natural
3. Invincible
4. American Flyers
5. Victory

Top 5 Comedies: :jocolor:

1. The Blues Brothers
2. Monty Python & The Quest for the Holy Grail
3. Tommy Boy
4. Role Models
5. This Is Spinal Tap

Top 5 Westerns: :pig:

1. Tombstone
2. Pale Rider
3. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
4. Dances With Wolves
5. Appaloosa

Top 5 Sci-Fi: :alien:

1. The Terminator
2. Aliens
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4. Blade Runner
5. (tie) The Empire Strikes Back/Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Top 5 War: PDT_Armataz_01_36

1. Enemy at the Gates
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. A Bridge Too Far
4. Platoon
5. (tie) The Longest Day/The Duellists

Top 5 Crime: :clown:

1. Heat
2. No Country For Old Men
3. L.A. Confidential
4. The Usual Suspects
5. (tie) The Untouchables/Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

Top 5 Espionage/Spy:

1. The Bourne Identity
2. Casino Royale
3. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
4. Marathon Man
5. Munich

Top 5 Horror: :shaking:

1. Halloween (original John Carpenter)
2. The Thing (John Carpenter version)
3. 28 Days Later
4. The Shining
5. Poltergeist

Top 5 Animated: :bounce:

1. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
2. Toy Story
3. Ghost in the Shell
4. Heavy Metal
5. Akira

Top 5 Fantasy: :king:

1. The Return of the King
2. Time Bandits
3. The Princess Bride
4. Conan the Barbarian (original version)
5. Highlander

Top 5 'B' Movies: :thumbdown:

1. Escape From New York
2. The Sword & The Sorcerer
3. Clash of the Titans
4. Equilibrium
5. The Beastmaster

Five movies I can watch any given day at any time:
1. The Prestige
2. Iron Man
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
4. Tron: Legacy
5. Apollo 13

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 11:46 pm

Top Five War Movies:
1) A Bridge Too Far
2) The Longest Day
3) Platoon
4) Saving Private Ryan
5) Glory
6) Full Metal Jacket

Top Five Fantasy/Sci Fi Movies:
1) The 13th Warrior
2) Bladerunner
3) Excalibre
4) Lord of The Rings
5) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
6) Conan the Barbarian
7) Highlander

Top Five Comic Book Movies:
1) The Watchmen
2) Kick Ass
3) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
4) The Suck
5) The Suck

Top Five Novel Adaptation Movies:
1) Lord of the Rings
2) The Stand
3) The Green Mile
4) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
5) Dune (Yeah, I know. Wierd, aye?)

Top Five Low Budget/Project/Wierd Movies:
1) Pulp Fiction
2) Troll Hunter
3) Donnie Darko
4) The Big Lebowski
5) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Top Five Crime Dramas:
1) The Godfather
2) Goodfellas
3) Snatch
4) Pirates of the Caribean
5) No Country for Old Men
6) I, The Jury

Top Five Movies With Vikings:
1) The 13th Warrior
2) Eric the Viking
3) The Viking
4) Beowulf
5) The Warlord

Top Five Movies that Became TV Series:
1) Highlander
2) Stalag 13
3) In the Heat of the Night
4) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Help me here, guys!)

Top Five TV Series that Became Movies:
1) Star Trek
2) Star Trek the Next Generation
3)

Top Five All-Time TV Series that were Movie-Like
1) Battlestar Galactica (You know which one...although, without the first you don't get the second)
2) The Walking Dead
3) The Stand
4) Game of Thrones
5) Lost

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:05 am

War Movies

1- The Longest Day
2 - Enemy at the gate
3 - A bridge too Far
4 - Das Boot
5 - Apocalypse Now (though for reasons known only to myself, I never class it as a war film)
Honourable Mention - Red Dawn

Comedy
1 - Life of Brian
2 - Uncle Buck
3 - Spinal Tap
4 - Caddyshack
5 - Wierd Science
5(and a bit) - Ferris Bueller

Horror/Crime/Westerns
Generally leave me utterly cold - sorry

Fantasy
1 - The Princess Bride
2 - Beastmaster
3 - Return of the King
4 - Labyrinth
5 - Highlander

Sci Fi
1 - Aliens
2 - Blade Runner
3 - The Empire Strikes Back
4 - Mad Max 1-3 (when watched as a set)(If its sci fi)
5 - Battlestar Galactica

And if you ask me tomorrow I'll probably give a totally different list!!!

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:16 am

Top Five Movies that Shouldn't Have Been Made:
1) Highlander II
2) Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
3) Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
4) Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
5) Batman, The Dark Knight
6) Roadhouse

Top Five Movies that Didn't Get Mentioned in Any of My Lists:
1) Zombieland
2) The Road Warrior
3) Army of Darkness
4) Big Trouble in Little China
5) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:26 am

Movies That Were Actually Better Than the Things They Spoofed:
1) Galaxy Quest
2) Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery
3) Robin Hood, Men in Tights
4) Meet the Spartans
5) Hot Shots!
6) Scary Movie

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 5:43 am

War Movies:

1) The Blue Max
2) Das Boot
3) Downfall
4) Gettysburg
5) All Quiet on the Western Front

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 8:10 am

gyg wrote:War Movies

Fantasy
1 - The Princess Bride
2 - Beastmaster
3 - Return of the King
4 - Labyrinth
5 - Highlander

And if you ask me tomorrow I'll probably give a totally different list!!!

Its 'INCONCEIVABLE' the Princess Bride is not in the comedy categoty. :batman:

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 8:46 am

DiscoDadda wrote:
gyg wrote:

Fantasy
1 - The Princess Bride

Its 'INCONCEIVABLE' the Princess Bride is not in the comedy categoty.

Disco

Don't start!!! - anyway, I'm not even sure you know what that word means

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:35 am

Not that I'm a big movie watcher. I'm sure if I thought hard enough it would change, and further still if I had seen a great deal of those missed. I seem to have somewhat different priorities than most folks. In no particular numerical order:

Comedy
Little Big Man
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Young Frankenstein
Smokey & the Bandit
Start the Revolution without Me

Sci-Fi
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2001: A Space Odyssey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Blade Runner

Drama
The Ten Commandments
Ben Hur
Robin Hood (Erroll Flynn)
The Green Mile
Passion of the Christ

Animation
Akira
Wings of Honneamise
Ninja Scroll
Ghost in the Shell
Grave of the Fireflies

Sports
The Natural
Field of Dreams
The Longest Yard (original)
Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings
Punch Lady (best primal scream EVAR!)

War/Military
Patton
The Patriot
Kelly's Heroes
The 300 Spartans
The Great Escape

Westerns
Silverado
The Magnificent 7
A Man Called Horse
Jeremiah Johnson
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Wuxia
Fearless
Enter the Dragon
Wu Xia
The Seven Samurai
The Kid with the Golden Arm

Fantasy
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Highlander
Big Trouble in Little China
Excalibur

Buddy Films
The Duelist (Korean)
48 Hours
Lethal Weapon
Indiana Jones & The Holy Grail
Enemy of the State

Documentary
Farmageddon
Global Warming? Or Global Governance?
Beyond Treason
Reflections & Warnings
The Obama Deception

Art of dragons doing what dragons do. Site of a friend. Dragonstuff

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 11:12 am

My Top 5:

1) Excalibur
2) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
3) The Dark Crystal
4) Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
5) Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Honorable Mention:

6) Master and Commander
7) Blackhawk Down

Kill Bill
9) Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai)
10) The Professional

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:20 pm

well ana:l nathrakh u:rth va:s bethud dokhje:l djenve to you Andy!

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:53 pm

Comedies:
Ghostbusters
Life of Brian
Zoolander
Labyrinth
The Princess Bride

War:
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Dances With Wolves?
Children of Men (close enough, I guess I don't like many war movies)
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Horror:
The Shining
Poltergeist
The Ring
The Thing
Beyond the Mouth of Madness

Fantasy/Sci Fi:
Star Wars
Fellowship of the Ring
Fantastic Planet
The Matrix
Dune

Guy Movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
300
The Godfather
Tombstone
Casino Royale

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