Your top 5 favorite movies

[Nash]

Enemy at the Gates lost me with English speaken Russians, that shit bothers me to no end.

You have awful reasons for disliking movies.

[Doc Holliday]

I'm lovin' all the western and samurai <3 <3 in this thread!

[YellerDog]

OH SHIT. That reminds me. I just remembered I bought Hidden Fortress and have not yet watched it!

Buying some sake and watching some Kurosawa tonight.

[Rem]

You have awful reasons for disliking movies.

I expect war movies to be as accurate as possible, since they are showing actual events from history. And shit like English speaking Russians just pulls me right out of the movie. If DownFall had been done with a French cast it just wouldn't be the same. Enemy sucks for a myriad of other reasons though, but this just bothers me.

[gir]

lotr trilogy
john carpenter's the thing
blade runner
indiana jones: the last crusade
the crow

aliens, batman begins, ferris bueller's day off, revenge of the nerds, and monty python and the holy grail are all awesome, too. die hard 3, shaun of the dead, who framed roger rabbit?, and disney's beauty and the beast also deserve mention.

edit: battle royale belongs in here somewhere.

[SapphirePhoenix]

Spirited Away
Farewell, My Concubine
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
9 1/2 Weeks
Lilo and Stitch

I had too many to choose from. But, if I could only watch these five for the rest of my life, I'd still be okay.

[BerringerX]

In no particular order.

High Noon
T2
3 way Coen tie here: Fargo, Lebowski, No Country.
Manhunter
Night at the Opera

[Doc Holliday]

This man spits on your list.

[OMGrich]

In no particular order:

The Royal Tennenbaums
Lost in Translation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Barton Fink
The Big Lebowski

[The_Meach]

1. Heat
2. Hunt for Red October
3. Last of the Mohicans
4. Fight Club
5. The Matrix

Okay. I'm re-doing my list.

No particular order:

Heat
Hunt for Red October
Training Day
LA Confidential
Last of the Mohicans

Fight Club, Lock/Stock, and Mallrats (!?) all used to be locks for this list but they just don't speak to me anymore. This is not to say that I don't enjoy them, but they used to be perfect "Meach" movies, if you will.

But I've outgrown them, for lack of a better phrase.

When I first saw it, Fight Club was the ultimate movie. Not only was it immensely entertaining, it perfectly summarised being a white, drifting, 20-something male in US society. In 1999, there was no Great Battle, no reason for being, and online shopping via IKEA seemed the height of existence.

There's that great scene where Tyler and Ed Norton are sitting in squalor, pulling out their rotted teeth and Tyler's talking about how his dad told him to go to college, then get a job, then get married and Tyler muses whether another woman is really a solution to his (their) problem. That resonated with me back in '99. Today? Not so much.

Lock/Stock is another good example.

The movie is all dudes, all the time. The lone chick is a zoned-out hopper whose major contribution is unloading on the bad guys with an ancient (cool) MG but fails to hit the real bad guys (pathetic AND incompetent = Woman).

Mallrats, like Clerks (still a classic) is all about Gen X slackers failing to do anything with their lives.

Today, these themes just don't connect with me. I'm not buying nihilism (Fight Club), high risk Dude-ism (Lock/Stock), or Slackerism (Mallrats/Clerks) as much as I used to.

Maybe I should keep these types of films on my list to recognize my history, but today, my list stands on its own.

Sry for the overly-long, ultra-introspective, nerdtastic post.