It's time: What are your 5 favorite movies of all-time?

[cyclist]

Good Nigh and Good Luck = totally overrated IMO.

Scene 1:  guy wants to report on Air Force guy who got kicked out but CBS isn't sure.
Scene 2:  guy reports, Air Force guy gets back in.
Scene 3:  guy reports on McCarthy not being in seat during a hearing.
Scene 4:  McCarthy attacks guy on guy's show.
Scene 5:  McCarthy is told to STFU.

The End

It's the first time I walked away from a movie thinking about how great the cinematography.  I loved pretty much every shot.  Plus, that guy does an awesome job as Murrow.

This is the best smokers movie !

[PoetWarrior]

Funny you mention The New World, which was awesome to look at, movie was terrible.

Thin Red line was the same way, visually awesome but what a terrible movie.

Got to disagree there man, The New World (and to some extent Thin Red Line) puts me into a hypnotic state not easily recovered from.

It is the most beautiful film ever made (visually and otherwise)

[cireksu]

Maybe you were hypnotized by how boring the dialogue was.

I agree though, both were truly visually mesmorizing.

[Kat Kid]

Best Movies (not 5)

Pretty New Ones

American Beauty>>>I &@#%ing love Kevin Spacey/Annete Benning/Peter "Eyebrows" Gallagher/Mena Suvari does a great "popular girl really more insecure than the akward 'emo' couple"/Chris Cooper (the Marine dad) absolutely makes your skin crawl
Match Point>>>>grows on me everytime I watch it still has some serious shortfalls but the plot is just so good but not really thrilled with Scarlett's performance
Lost in Translation>>>>Bill Murray in a perfect Bill Murray role Scarlett's best work so far
Royal Tennanbaum's>>>> great characters who are all very type-cast but who someone still have enough room to be real
Y tu mama tambien>>>>>the best teen coming-of-age/travel/comedic drama evar!  Makes American takes on the subject (American Pie et. al. look as juvenile and MTV-ized as they are)
Little Miss Sunshine>>>>>Steve Carrel shows he has a range beyond variations of Brick Tamlin and Greg Kinnear nails the motivational speaker circuit for the bullsh1t that it is
Traffic>>>>>great washed out cinematography (got copied to hell) plot and acting.  Makes you really paranoid if you are stoned.
Garden State>>>>Zach Braff, good job.


90s Movies
1. Silence of the Lambs single handedly made the song "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazzarus instantly give people nightmares the minute it is played.  Kevin Smith does a hilarious take on it in Clerks 2
2. SLC Punk
3. Clerks
4. Fight Club
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Magnolia>>>>>>best Tom Cruise role ever GREAT cast
7.  Boogie Nights>>>>almost the same cast as above
8.  Hoop Dreams
9.  Run Lola Run>>>>basically only good once or twice and totally dependent on the plot but very original/music video like
10.  Shawshank>>>totally over the top drama but most memorable epics aren't very subtle
11.  The Matrix>>>>Had the potential to be a Star Wars-esque triology but it became quickly apparent that wasn't going to happen when 2 came out
12.  Mighty Aphrodite>>>great Woody Allen comedy

Old ones
1.  2001: A Space Odyssey>>>except for the last time-travel (or whatever) scene looks like it was shot in the 90s at the earliest
2.  Woody Allen's Annie Hall>>>>extremely dated but did rom-com at its best Harry Met Sally even falls short of its master.  Now I have to suffer through Maid in Manhattan and Hitch and I think I am going to throw up
3.  Full Metal Jacket>>>>best/most haunting Vietnam movie  Apocolypse now good but too paranoid and we're already in the sh1t/Platoon meh.
4.  Casablanca>>>>great lines, just superb, Humphery Bogart, killer
5.  It's A Wonderful Life>>>>a good man-cry guaranteed

[michigancat]

Lost in Translation>>>>Bill Murray in a perfect Bill Murray role Scarlett's best work so far

That's one I forgot that would definitely move into my top 5.

GNAGL stays in, though. 

[PoetWarrior]

I haaaaaaate Lost in Translation.

One of my least favorite films.

Soooo pretentious.

[michigancat]

A guy that has a list like this thinks "Lost in Translation" is pretentious?

The best visual movies of all time are:

Nostalghia (1983)
The Sacrifice (1986)
Mirror (1976)
Stalker (1979)
L'Avventura (1960)
La Notte (1961)
L'Eclisse (1962)
The New World (2005)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Satantango (1994)

Mirror is probably my favorite film.

[Kat Kid]

I haaaaaaate Lost in Translation.

One of my least favorite films.

Soooo pretentious.

Bill Murray made fun of all the pretentious assholes in the movie.  Remember that part?

[PoetWarrior]

A guy that has a list like this thinks "Lost in Translation" is pretentious?

Exactly.

The films on my list actually are important.

Translation just thinks it is.

 

And Garden State is probably second in this category.  No offense.

Two of my least favorite movies.

[Kat Kid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6BvfTcjr8

[chum1]

No movies are important.  Sorry.

[greasd up deaf guy]

Since I completely missed out on this thread earlier:

1. The Royal Tenenbaums. Like another poster said, you either get him or you think he's pretentious. I could watch it on a loop.

2. Citizen Kane. I pity anyone who hasn't seen this film. The most parodied film of all time. The best film of all time based on its era of production.

3. Godfather II. Its exclusion here makes all your lists incomplete.

4. The Shining. Innovative cinematography, Jack at his best. Got to love it more as I grew older.

5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Top shelf hilarity.


honorable mention:L'Avventura. I'm sure I'm the only one that's heard of this.

[PoetWarrior]

Bump.


Rocky is easily my favorite film of all-time.

It transcends.

[KSt8er]

Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Citizen Kane - greatest movie ever - parody and slam of the life of William Randolph Hearst and his girlfriend/wifes private part named rosebud. 
Shawshank Redemption
Apocalypse Now
Northern Exposure - oh wait, thats a series, ......oh well

[tdaver]

in no particular order:

Rounders
Shine
Hoosiers
Field of Dreams
Unforgiven