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In no particular order:
- Clue
- Muppet Treasure Island
- Lord of the Rings
- The Hunt for Red October
- Oscar
All but one have Tim Curry, hmm… I never noticed that before.
Clue is a surprisingly great ‘chick flick’ for anyone to watch. Watching it is like reading a novel like Sense and Sensibility.
I actually sat down a coworker years ago and did this. It was surprisingly easy once I realized something - I’ll sit down and watch a lot of movies on TV, but there are a few I refuse to. Too many commercials and edits just make me furious… those are my favorites. Getting down to 10 was hard enough, so top 5 are in no order. Some changed how I thought about things, some just entertained me for years:
The Matrix
Interstellar
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Fight Club
Schindler’s List
And because it was so hard, here are a few more that just as easily could be top 5:
Silence of the Lambs, Inception, V for Vendetta, OG Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Kung Pow, Blair Witch Project
Edit: Forgot one - Arrival. Probably in top 5, no idea which to demote. Fight Club maybe
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
- October Sky
- 12 Angry Men
- It’s a Wonderful Life
The Thing Tropic Thunder Doctor Sleep Top Gun: Maverick Requiem for a Dream
Very hard to choose a top five. Here were my runner ups: Cold Pursuit Ace Ventura (both) The Devils Rejects Halloween 2018 The Loved Ones Train to Busan Tucker & Dale vs Evil Zoolander
Rush Valkyrie Are definitely can’t really decide on the other 3 right now
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Dead Man: A film by Jim Jarmusch starring Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer and an all-star cast. Beautiful acid western about friendship in harsh circumstances. Wonderful original soundtrack by Neil Young.
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The Fall: A film by Tarsem. This films story isn’t necessarily amazing, but this is a love letter to classic cinema. It has a plot about classic cinema, and it uses all classic techniques to achieve the effects. Tarsem famously went out of their way to ensure there wasn’t any CGI in this film. It’s one of the most vividly colorful and visually stunning films I have ever seen.
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Dreams: A film by Akira Kurosawa. A montage of short films inspired by dreams experienced by filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. In partnership with Lucasfilm. Almost as visually stunning as The Fall but much more cohesive stories for being inspired by dreams. Come for “The Peach Orchard,” and stay for “Village of the Watermills.”
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Brazil: A film by Terry Gilliam starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro, Kim Greist and Michael Palin. A treatise on dreams in a totalitarian society. The only cut worth watching is the Directors Cut. The film was famously butchered by the studios to give it a “happy ending” because the original was considered too bleak.
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Sneakers: A film by Phil Alden Robinson starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, and Ben Kingsley. One of the only films that ever presented a semi-realistic portrayal of hacking. Good plot, good pacing, and arguably prescient considerations.
Sneakers was my favorite movie when I was like 12. Which is a weird age for that and yet. (my other fav was The Hunt for Red October, so I was kind of a weird tween…)
The Fall is such an eye feast.
I love Brazil so much. De Niro has such a fantastic role in that film, never fails to make me smile.
And the Kafkaesque/Orwellian tone is just sublime.
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Akira
Fight Club
The Matrix
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
But I guess my firsty firstingly forever first is Blade Runner 2049Thats really hard to decide, i guess off the top of my head:
- LotR Trilogy
- Spiderman into the Spiderverse
- Interstellar
- Dune 2022
- Your Name
Some more neccessary mentions:
- Akira
- star wars Ep1-6
- Avatar
- The Batman
- Fight Club
- Bladerunner
- LOTR (it may be 3, but let’s just call it a single movie)
- Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
- Jean de Florette
- The Matrix
- Top Gun
Honourable mentions: anything Monty Python, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Alladin, Indiana Jones (up to and including Last Crusade), any Bond film with Sean Connery, Die Hard, Rocky, Rambo: First Blood, The Passion of Christ, Cross and the Switchblade, The Godfather, Blade Runner
Die Hard, First Blood, True Lies, Lethal Weapon and Point Break.
Ohh, this is tough. I guessss they’re:
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Step Brothers
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Jurassic Park
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Wet Hot American Summer
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Pulp Fiction
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Evil Dead 2
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5 of my top 10
Withnail and I
Mad Max Fury Road
Casino Royale
It’s A Wonderful Life
Synecdoche, New York
The other 5 are predictably The Matrix, Fight Club, Inception, Blade Runner 2049, and LOTR 😅
- oldboy
- Memento
- Blade Runner, more for its influence than anything else
- In Bruges
- ex machina
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
American Psycho
Hot Fuzz
Reservoir Dogs
Snatch
Idk if I’d say these are the top 5, but ones that come to mind:
Team America World Police Airplane Fargo Apollo 13 Apollo 13 a second time
