Favourite 5 movies

[Doc Dan]

Now, if the OP has asked by genre, for Sci-Fi I would pick, in no particular order:

The Invisible Man (1933)
Alien
Forbidden Planet
The Thing From Another World
Them!
Jurassic Park
Prometheus

Best Westerns: (all originals, not remakes)

Shane
Rio Grande
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Outlaw Josey Wales
High Noon
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
True Grit
The Searchers

[ImageX]

I've been collecting movies for years. It's hard to pick favorites but some that come to mind are:

Shawshank Redemption
There Will Be Blood
Into The Wild
Braveheart
The Hurt Locker
Traffic
The Last King Of Scotland
Casino
Goodfellas
Sicario
The Accountant
Boogie Nights
Studio 54



DVDs


Blurays(old pic showing about half of current Bluray collection)

[GoldenSpydie]

Dr. Strangelove--a wonderful Cold War comedy with some great characters

Full Metal Jacket--a classic portrayal of the Vietnam War from the viewpoint of a marine

Caddyshack--a complete comedy centered on a country club

Network--an eerie prediction of the future and some great quotes

Dances With Wolves--a different take on the Western theme

Honorable Mentions: Starwars, The Matrix, Thin Red Line, Being There, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Groundhog Day, The Planet of the Apes, Interstellar

[Mushroom]

One of my cousin's got me into collecting movies years ago, but when blue ray started to phase out DVD's, I kind of slowed down and haven't put as much time into watching them like I used to. I have an odd taste in movies and really am not a huge fan of action movies.

The Boondock Saints - All time favorite (Forever! Cant be beat IMO)
Fight Club
Donnie Darko
Shawshank Redemption
Good Will Hunting

and some more that I love and I feel need mention are A Beautiful Mind, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, Rain Man, Forest Gump, The Green Mile, Mystic River, American History X, Se7en, The Departed, Truman Show, Almost Famous, and I'll stop there but could definitely keep recommending :D

[bh49]

1. Schindler's List
2. Forrest Gump
3.My cousin Vinny
4. Million dollars baby
5. English patient

Honorable mention:

Life is beautiful, Shine, Saving privet Ryan, Ususal suspects,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Good, Bad and Ugly, Commando, Terminator, First Blood, Soldier, Braveheart, Godfather, Groundhog day, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,Overboard, Scent of woman, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo and many of blind swordsman movies.

[paladin]

I'm a child of the 70's and I love that era of moviemaking, and my choices relfect this.

I have tons of movies I love from that time, but I had to ask myself...if this movie is on <as a rerun> on regular programming TV with commercials, etc., will I sit thru it again? These are the ones which made my cut:

1. March or Die
2. Scarecrow
3. Electra Glide in Blue
4. They Call Me Trinity
5. Godfather & Godfather II

[gingerninja]

Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
Silence of the Lambs
Slumdog Millionaire

[clovisc]

1. Siberiade -- Konchalovsky
2. Fitzcarraldo -- Herzog
3. The Mirror -- Tarkovsky
4. Dersu Uzala -- Kurosawa
5. The Shining -- Kubrick

Embrace of the Serpent is probably the best new movie I've seen in the last decade. The Revenant also impressed me.