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Plus it's a sci fi action movie that doesn't take itself too seriously. And that's rare in sci fi.

(One could argue that it's actually an action comedy dressed up to look like sci fi, and maybe that explains why it doesn't take itself too seriously).

EDIT: Plus... Gary Oldman!

And Julie T Wallis.

Stuff also gets blown to bits which is always a bonus.

Whoever created Leeloo's language deserves a medal.

Bill X

At last!

I knew I wasn't alone.

It really is a pile of over blown old toss.

Bill X

There's a problem here. There are movies that are great, but difficult and one viewing is enough ("Raging Bull", "Saving Private Ryan", "Full Metal Jacket", "The Godfather II", "Schindler's List", "Pulp Fiction", etc.)

Then there are movies I enjoy so much, I will watch them (even parts of them) over and over when they're available, I guess Desert Island flicks:

These movies are:

Galaxy Quest (The best Star Trek movie ever, simply perfect)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie one, not the the Black & White oldie)
The Fifth Element
This is Spinal Tap
Life of Brian

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To Kill A Mockingbird
Apocalypse Now
Rear Window
Little Big Man
The Shining

In no particular order, but very difficult to narrow down. Fun to wonder over and I'm sure I'll think of others that should be on the list.

And...."Where Eagles Dare."

My favorites are a mix of movies and series..
I agree some movies are very well made and hard to watch- Full metal jacket, saving private Ryan, God father

My favorites that I can watch over and over.

Movies...
Galaxy Quest
Fifth element
Idiocracy
Searching for Sugarman - Documentary
Gods must be crazy

Series...
Deadwood
Dexter
Game of thrones
Breaking Bad

Plus Opera! I'm not a big opera fan, but that blue alien chick really has a set of pipes. It made for some great background music for the fight scene too.

I would classify these as the ones I have to watch regularly and will sit down to watch whenever I come across them while channel surfing:

Princess Bride
Grace of My Heart
Bugsy Malone
Fifth Element
Fried Green Tomatoes/Steel Magnolias/Love Actually (tied-cause you need a good chickflick/tearjerker)

Deja Vu

Bourne (any of the 4 Bourne films)

Die Hard 4.0

Quantum of Solace

Hudson Hawk

Yes! This is perhaps my favorite part of the movie.

Shawshank
Groundhog day/Lost in translation (tie)
Ip Man (Chinese with subtitles)
Men with guns (Spanish with subtitles)
Departures (Japanese with subtitles)

I just like the bit when Corbin blows the shit out of the upper floor of the Casino while Ruby Rhod screems like a girl.

It never fails to amuse.

Dot.

1. Public Enemy ( Absolute Favorite)
2. 300
3. Star Wars (all)
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Lord of the Rings (all)

Damn this is too hard to do. This is my third top five.

There Will Be Blood

Schindler's List

Django Unchained

Natural Born Killers

The Wizard of Oz

Harold and Maude
Bullitt
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Dirty Harry
The Music Man

Had to change the list again...

1 Monty Python's The Life of Brian

2 The Good the bad and the ugly

3 Angel Heart

4 Pulp Fiction

5 Withnail and I

and where do I put Blackhawk down?

Wow. It's no surprise to see truly exceptional movies come up often but there are some diamonds in the rough here that blind-sided me and many of you (strangers to a man/woman) have earned my respect if not my life-long friendship.

Joe vs. the Volcano. The oppressive basement bunker office with the flickering, buzzing, sickly green overhead fluorescents and that annoyingly repetitive conversation by Joe's boss. And the Steamer Trunk Salesman?... classic. If you like Meg, check out Addicted to Love. Schmutzie ending but a great little movie.

Pierce in the Thomas Crown Affair. When he piloted the GT-500 up that island road to his mountain top retreat I died a little inside knowing I'll never own such a place to "..never bring anyone here." And by the way, Denis Leary is one hell of an actor.

Fifth Element. "Where did he learn to negotiate like that?" Plus, a Gary Oldman villain. NOBODY comes unglued as well as Gary.

The Russians Are Coming? Dood... I just about shit myself. In a million years I wouldn't have guessed this movie to make ANY list. Well played. If you like obscurity search out "Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe".

Since many of my favorites have been listed already I'll mention a few as yet unmentioned since there is a lot of slippage in such a discussion.

In no real order...

Heaven Help Us
I went to Catholic school and this HILARIOUS comedy bookends the experience well. The good times, the bad times, the self-discovery, the friendships. Some moments you never want to end, others you can't forget fast enough.

Risky Business
The gravitational pull this movie has on me... it is without question the one I struggle most with to explain. It has this surreal, 4th dimension feel - I get completely lost in it. A large part of that has to do with the Tangerine Dream soundtrack and how well it mates to the visual impact. The Love On a Real Train scene is a time portal. The only other movie that matches the almost crippling emptiness as the credits begin to roll and the room around me comes back into focus is Blade Runner.

Gold Finger
The Gold Standard by which I measure all other Bond movies and possibly excluding Caddyshack, the Fletch series and Slap Shot the movie I can quote most fluently. I'll stop everything to watch it, again and again.

The Pink Panther
Peter Sellers was a God. His supreme characterization of Inspector Clouseau can only be rivaled by Sean Connery as Bond. I'm a big Steve Martin fan but he should've respected the completeness of Peter's legacy and left it alone.

WALL-E
This movie. This movie snuck up behind me in a dark room and ripped me up and tore me down. I was between relationships and actually quite happy about it until that little compactor found a love as big as the Universe itself. And the social commentary punches WAY above its kiddie flick wrapper.

in no order

Apocalypse Now
In the Heat of the Night
Blue velvet
Raging Bull
Glen Gary Glen Ross

Schindler's List - it makes me cry every time I watch it !!!

All you youngsters sadly missed out on some of the REAL classics:

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman

Shane - Alan Ladd (my most watched movie)

On the Waterfront - Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger

From Here to Eternity - Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Montgomery Clift

Rebel without a Cause - James Dean (A shame he had to die so young)

OK, those are my all time old favorites, but since others have broken Jess' rules, allow me to mention my somewhat newer favorites which for some reason I haven't seen mentioned so far in this thread:

Assasination Tango - Robert Duval

Once upon a time in America - Robert Di Nero

The Rock - Sean Connery,

Ransom - Mel Gibson

A Quantum of Solace - Daniel Craig

This is a great thread, which has given me a good list of movies to watch!

Cheers,

Bob

So many movies that I watch over and over but since I had to pick just five:

In no particular order:

Shawshank Redemption
Almost Famous
Forrest Gump
Raider's of the Lost Ark
Sneakers

Glengarry Glen Ross
The Red Desert (Antonioni)
Sunshine (that's just 'Sunshine', not 'Little Miss Sunshine')
Melancholia

picking the last one is always difficult. it's like eating the final bites of a delicious meal in a restaurant to which you'll never be able to return - so i will get back to you on that.

The Passenger
Mulholland Drive
Night of the Hunter
The Conversation
Royal Tenenbaums

12 Angry Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Strangers
The Terminator
Star Wars(all)

Fantastic flick!

Aargh! Forgot about that one.

Great little low-budget, non-Hollywood (South African) flick. Never laughed so hard...

Too many secrets! I had forgotten about this one; will have to dig it out again. It is a great movie.

Forrest Gump
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Man From Earth
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/
12 Angry Men
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Right Stuff
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
A Time to Kill
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Very hard to pick five, but here goes:

Gone with the Wind

The Sound of Music

Diner

Rain Man

Stand by Me

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In no particular order:

Pulp Fiction
Fifth Element
Princess Bride
Robin Hood Men in Tights
Pixar Movies (...cheated)

(Runners up....hehe)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Happy Gilmore
Training Day
HEAT (Pacino, Deniro)
And think I've seen Larry Crowne about 6 times within the last 3 weeks, lol

Gah too many to remember and list!!!

TV Series that I'm watching for now: American Pickers and Big Cat Diary

Series that I'll pick back up when they begin again: Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Justified plus whatever my wife drags me into, lol (hey, those dancing shows she likes with half naked women dancing around on stage aren't quite bad).

Sorry to dredge this old thread, but I just added a movie to my list of movies.

If you get the chance to see "What We Do in the Shadows" see it. How can't you like a Vampire comedy.

As others have noted, very tough to come up with just five...

North By Northwest

Patton

Local Hero

Amelie

Princess Bride

(Honorable mention:

To Kill a Mockingbird

Casablanca

For a Few Dollars More

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence)

And, of course I'll reorder and add to these as my mood changes....

Syd, good call. I just saw a movie called "Bronson" starring Tom Hardy. It's not for everybody, for sure. I was mostly struck by the fact that this young actor is extremely talented. It also has a cool soundtrack. I'll leave you with a clip.
You people from the UK should be well aware of this movie and main character. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Salvador

one flew over the cuckoos nest. gotta love Jack
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Clint is the man
Brave Heart, tie with The Gladiator
The Great Escape. Steve's best
On Any Sunday, I think this is the best M/C movie ever

Comedy

-Brain Donors
-Oscar
-MP quest for the holy grail
-MP Life of Brian
- National Lampoon Loaded Weapon 1

that was the "easy category", I have to really work on the others. Of course many are missing but these I will/have/can watch over and over till I'm old n tired.