A Sea Of Red

Name off your 5-10 favorite movies of all-time

good will hunting
before sunset
before sunrise
lost in translation
pride and prejudice - keira knightley version
the fountain
the curious case of benjamin button
a beautiful mind
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
requiem for a dream

Ok, I'll bite:

Hoosiers
Where the Heart Is
Resident Evil
Titanic
Thirteen Days
Serenity
Contact
Apollo 13
Rocky IV
The Departed

Uh, shuk. Be glad Haze hasn't been around in awhile because your list would likely be fodder for one of his epic posts.

My list is always changing but here are a few of mine:

Shane, Charade, Life is Beautiful, the searchers, 12 angry men, in the heat of the night, ground hog day, Harvey, Andy hardy..., the shop around the corner.

Great call on Shane ... I haven't seen that one in many years.

Sly Fox wrote:Uh, shuk. Be glad Haze hasn't been around in awhile because your list would likely be fodder for one of his epic posts.

Why do you say that?

My top 10 is subject to change frequently but here's what I came up with for now:

Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
The Godfather I and II
The Big Lebowski
Sling Blade
The Deer Hunter
Office Space
The Usual Suspects
Scent of a Woman
Memento

No one has mentioned The Patriot yet.... well here's mine...

The Patriot
U-571
The Sandlot
The Miracle
The Dark Night
Blind Side
Tommy Boy
Ferris Buhler's Day Off
Groundhog's Day

Sly Fox wrote:Uh, shuk. Be glad Haze hasn't been around in awhile because your list would likely be fodder for one of his epic posts.

Why? That'd be a really jerky thing to do on a post about favorite movies. He didn't say best movies. He said favorite movies.

El Scorcho wrote:

Sly Fox wrote:Uh, shuk. Be glad Haze hasn't been around in awhile because your list would likely be fodder for one of his epic posts.

Why? That'd be a really jerky thing to do on a post about favorite movies. He didn't say best movies. He said favorite movies.

Exactly, and on the purely movie basis, some of those on my list are the ten best movies I've ever seen. Some had a particular impact of some sort that other better movies didn't, and I place greater importance on that.

"Flight of the Navigator" would be on my list and I certainly don't think it's one of the best movies ever. It's just one of my favorites.

I'm an old guy, so I chose a dozen instead of just ten:

1. Sports movies--We Are Marshall, A Field of Dreams, & Bull Durham
2. Military movies--Officer and a Gentleman, A Few Good Men, & Men of Honor
3. Southern movies--A Time to Kill, The Blind Side, & Ghosts of Mississippi
4. Prison movies--Silence of the Lambs, Instinct, & Shawshank

Honorable mention: Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, Contact, Tommy Boy, Con-Air, In the Heat of the Night, MASH, A League of Their Own, & On Golden Pond

Disclaimer: all of these are the edited TV versions.

For the record, I was just making an observation and based on past posts of Haze I expected him to have a field day with shuk's selections. Of course everyone is entitled to their favorites. I certainly have some that most of you wouldn't likely list anytime soon like the National Lampoon Vacation series and A River Runs Through It.

I have to admit I am shocked to not have seen the films that usual top most of the lists on here when we periodically do this such as Braveheart, Gladiator and The Natural.

Cider Jim wrote:I'm an old guy, so I chose a dozen instead of just ten:

1. Sports movies--We Are Marshall, A Field of Dreams, & Bull Durham
2. Military movies--Officer and a Gentleman, A Few Good Men, & Men of Honor
3. Southern movies--A Time to Kill, The Blind Side, & Ghosts of Mississippi
4. Prison movies--Silence of the Lambs, Instinct, & Shawshank

Honorable mention: Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, Contact, Tommy Boy, Con-Air, In the Heat of the Night, MASH, A League of Their Own, & On Golden Pond

Disclaimer: all of these are the edited TV versions.

Dead Poets Society would have been a good call!

Evil Alien Conquerors
step brothers
the dark knight
star wars 1-6
the count of monte cristo (cj i like the book better dont worry)
les miserables
fiancee has it very ingrained into me that i like it : pride and prejudice

rueful wrote:fiancee has it very ingrained into me that i like it : pride and prejudice

Which version?

I've seen four different versions. If I had to choose one that im most ok watching its the Knightly version of it, simply because the actors are decent and its shorter. The six hour version is too much. I had to do that last year because "theres so much more details in the story" , details that I really didnt care to know.