Top five favorite movies

[Jennywocky]

The Fountain is absolutely phenomenal stuff. I rewatch it on a regular basis.

Yeah, it's powerful for me -- I think mortality and how we grapple with loss is a theme that has always resonated with me. I think watching all the stars emerge during the closing credits is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a movie... truth and beauty are merged.

Cannot think of 5 good ones myself. I watched Grand Budapest Hotel on an airplane recently. It was actually very good.

It's been on my list a long time, especially with Fiennes cast in an unexpected way... I still need to watch it.

Ooh I got one:
Eyes Wide Shut

Saw it once. I need to watch it again. With Kubrick movies, I think the first viewing is just trying to take everything in. But I will need another pass to actually start assessing it.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Margaret (extended cut)
Memories of Murder
Synecdoche, New York
Blue Velvet
Dark Star

 

[OrganiceDevice]

Old thread, but I like the topic, so I'm going to reply.
For me, five standouts, in no particular order:
-Blade Runner
-Memento
-2001: A Space Odyssey
-Ghost in the Shell
- A Clockwork Orange

 

[OmniaOne]

At the top of my list there's only a movie: Knowing (2009) by Alex Proyas.

 

[birdsnestfern]

The Lady from Shanghai is so classic. You can watch this over and over and see something different in it - the conversation goes so fast, so there are a million things to pick up on. The Cerces is their boat and that represents a Greek Goddess. Many symbolisms and Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth are stellar in this Film Noir classic.

I like many older movies.

Meet me in St. Louis with Judy Garland is a favorite.

The Secret Garden because it has so many hidden truths from India in it, like the whole world is inside you, and growing from irritable wounded child to loving and open friends, its just really got a lot to it.

Feel good movies:
Ma and Pa Kettle movies
Herbie the Love Bug
The Ugly Dachsund
Any of Walt Disneys classics, Snow White and the 7 Dwarves
Jungle Book, Little Lost Dog, Thomasina, Moonspinners, all

Everything of Alfred Hitchcocks but especially Rear Window
7 faces of Dr. Lao
How to Steal a Million (darling)
Breakfast at Tiffanys
New one: Ghostbusters Afterlife (Pretty good!).
Harvey
Send Me No Flowers
Oliver
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Caddy
Caddyshack
Oklahoma
Fiddler on the Roof
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Annie Hall
Its a Wonderful Life
Period of Adjustment
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Any National Lampoon, Christmas, European or Vacation
Doctor Zhivago
Guys and Dolls
Houseboat
Bell Book and Candle
Arsenic and Old Lace
Tea and Sympathy
Yours, Mine and Ours (Fonda, Ball)
North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window, Psycho
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
On Moonlight Bay (Doris Day)
The Odd Couple (Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon)
Stagecoach
Rio Bravo and other Westerns
Comedy teams like Abbott and Costello
Road to Bali and all the others with Crosby and Hope
So many others

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

I've seen hundreds of movies and almost none of them were any good. There's a lot of things I would do differently in each of them and the characters are almost never portrayed the way I'd want them to be.

Bad script-writing and bad soundtrack ruins every film and tv show for me.

Anyway top 5:
1. Lord of the Rings, the whole trilogy. The Hobbit was shit. Sadly almost all fantasy movies are poorly written.
2. Dersu Uzala
3. Mysterious skin
4. The Man Who Sleeps
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. The Matrix, only the first movie, the remaining ones are shit

I get that there are probably a lot of difficult, melancholic and clever movies like Mysterious skin or the man who sleep that would be "good", but I don't want to ever expose myself to melancholy and negative emotions if I don't have to. I'd be melancholic for a week after another film like The Man Who Sleeps or such and I don't want to pay a week of my life in exchange for a compelling story.

 

[Drvladivostok]

5. Groundhog's Day
4. Blade Runner
3. Laputa: Castle in The Sky, probably the best Anti-War movie to ever exist.
2. Dark City
1. 12 Angry Men

 

[Puffy]

I studied modules on film and screenwriting at university and was really into it then. I've only watched a couple of films over the last 4-5 years though. I think I burned out my enthusiasm in that area as I don't have any motivation to watch films anymore.

Some of the ones that stood out from memory were:

1. The Mirror (1975) - an absolute masterpiece, easily a cut above any film I've seen. If you're into art house film at all you should watch this. Solaris and Stalker by the same director are noteworthy as well.
2. Vertigo (1958)
3. Don't Look Now (1973)
4. The Shining (1980)
5. Blue Velvet (1986)

I had a big interest in horror at the time, particularly more thoughtful ones, so my list reflects that.

Lots of notables: Rashomon, El Topo, The Devils, The Wicker Man (original), Fantastic Planet, Princess Mononoke, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Eyes Wide Shut

 

[KyleighRitchie]

My most favorite movie which is all time favorite 'Inside Out'.

Otherwise Death On The Nile, The Lion Ling, Ice Age one of my favorite.

 

[LOGICZOMBIE]

The Mirror (1975)

looks interesting