Your all time top five films?

[MYOB]

Shawshank Redemption
Schindler's List
The Godfather
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
12 Angry Men

[The Surveyor]

In no particular order:-

Layer cake
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
5th Element
Pans Labyrinth

[Clockwork Cupcake]

andy_s said:

2001 - the best film ever, for me. Look at the shape of that obelisk...look at the shape of your phone...

I said it at the time I first saw it, and I still hold with the opinion, that Interstellar is the 2001 of the modern generation.

[Halb]

viggyp said:

TIGA84 said:

In no particular order:

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells
Pulp Fiction
Back to the Future
Duel
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Great list. I was literally just chatting to someone about Pulp Fiction, Duel and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

I watched The Goonies a week Sunday, Shawshank Redemption the Sunday just gone and tonight I'm thinking of watching something with a 60's or 70's flavour and it's going to be either Duel or It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Love IAMMMMW. It’s been remade twice but neither have captured that original epic craziness. It’d be perfect for a true remake with a full Alist cast in the same vein,but egos being what they are, it’ll never happen

[Supersam83]

Die Hard
Licence to Kill
Back to the Future
Teminator 2
Ferris Buellers Day Off

[viggyp]

Halb said:

viggyp said:

TIGA84 said:

In no particular order:

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells
Pulp Fiction
Back to the Future
Duel
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Great list. I was literally just chatting to someone about Pulp Fiction, Duel and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

I watched The Goonies a week Sunday, Shawshank Redemption the Sunday just gone and tonight I'm thinking of watching something with a 60's or 70's flavour and it's going to be either Duel or It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Love IAMMMMW. It’s been remade twice but neither have captured that original epic craziness. It’d be perfect for a true remake with a full Alist cast in the same vein,but egos being what they are, it’ll never happen

Did they really remake it twice? The original is just so funny, quirky and colourful. Absolutely love it.

[andy_s]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

andy_s said:

2001 - the best film ever, for me. Look at the shape of that obelisk...look at the shape of your phone...

I said it at the time I first saw it, and I still hold with the opinion, that Interstellar is the 2001 of the modern generation.

Interstellar is certainly a good film, and deals with some deeper issues, but the subtlety, depth, range and obliqueness of 2001 is rich and very clever, far beyond that of Interstellar I would say. 2001 is possibly the most over-interpreted films ever, but when you look at how Kubrick worked on Shining, you see that trivial details are as much waypoints as the overt grand scheme. A small example is the 'continuity error that isn't', when on the spacestation two shots of the group talking show a coat on a chair in one scene and it's gone in the next - you amateur Kubrick - but when you listen, you can hear the PA asking about the missing coat [maybe it's a jumper] that hasn't yet been lost, like the film is self-aware to its error... Also in the subconscious you have a constant reference to symmetry, rectangles [screens] and the right-angled view. There's a single break in the 4th wall - deliberate again. The emotion and technology - the only character that shows emotion to any degree is HAL himself, Dave and Frank are cold and professional. The evolution of man - referenced in Strausses 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' theme, referencing Nietzsche's work [my favourite book] which itself deals with the overcoming of man by himself to become the 'ubermench', like the star-child at the end. Birthdays are referenced 4 or 5 times during the human banal conversations on those rectangular screens telegraphing the rebirth of Dave as the starchild.
I could go on and on and on - the other beauty of the film is that you can choose your own interpretation, even beyond the obvious - as it is there - also bear in mind Clarke's book was written at the same time the film was being shot, and Kubrick deliberately added things in or changed things that Clarke wasn't aware of - he wanted it to be subtly yet profoundly different and not just a tale of astronauts.

Note, during the whole film, as far as I can tell, there is no mention of aliens, again, deliberately...

Sorry - am off on one!

Edited by andy_s on Tuesday 13th August 14:39

[Pvapour]

Superman (1st christopher reeve)
Shawshank
Terminator
Highlander
Philadelphia

[wjb]

Pvapour said:

Superman (1st christopher reeve)
Terminator

Love those two, but both sequels are superior films, surely?

[K Stand Ken]

Halb said:

yes
one of the fave scenes, 'you're not only wrong you're wrong at the top of your voice.' I'e quoted that a few times



Withnail and I
Terminator
Jaws
The Wicker Man
when harry met saly
lost in translation
fantastic mr fox
the jacket
back to the future
condorman
Zulu
Where's that Fire
Smokey and the Bandit
sons of the desert
at the races
the intelligence men
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
road to Morocco
road to utopia
road to bali
cannonball run
12 Angry men
The swimmer
this is spinal tap
the green mile
Midnight Run
fargo
miller's crossing
the naked spur
ride the high country
stand by me
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
jackie brown
reservoir dogs
one flew over the cuckoos nest
the road
whenthe wind blows
grave of the fireflies
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
castle in the sky
the man who knew too little
the man who knew too much
scrooged
muppet christmas carol
groundhog day
stripes
big hero 6
wreck it ralph
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Beau Chumps
babes in toyland
the music box
way out west
being there
the pink panther
shot in the dark
i'm alright jack
lucky jim
the 7 faces of dr lao
the battle of the sexes
the early bird
murder by death
sneakers
rope
rear window
the thin man
the philidelphia story
best lil wehouse in texas
the rocky horror picture show
little shop of horrors
destry rides aagin
son of paleface
the princess and the pirate
darby o gill and the little people
winchester '73
harvey
big country
little big man
the man who came to dinner
the man who shot liberty valance
dirty dozen
eagle has landed
where eagles dare
the omen
the medusa touch
forrest gump
office space
Deliverance
southern comfort
night of the living dead
dawn of the dead
land of the dead
shaun of the dead
the good the bad and the ugly
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
Falling Down
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Princess Bride
Leon
the killing fields
layer cake
goodfellas
LA confidential
silence of the lambs
starship troopers
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Forbidden Planet
the jungle book
Stir Crazy
Field Of Dreams
silver streak
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
the odd couple
the sunshine boys
king of comedy
full metal jacket
get carter
long good friday
north by borthwest
brazil
tremors
Went the Day Well
the green man
an inspector calls
beverly hills cop
trading places
clerks
local hero
chitty chitty bang bang
mr kiss kiss bang bang
home alone
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Producers
westworld
the ipcress file
the odessa file
Day of the Jackal
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
school for scroundels
the happiest days of your life
laughter in paradise
dirty rotten scoundrels
the man who haunted himself

I trust you'll forgive me, although I like some of these this list is way too long as it only serves to muddy the waters.
On first reading this thread I concocted my own 50 movies in trying to narrow it down to the 5 originally asked for, but I wouldn't wish to propose this in full.
As the list includes a very wide range of genres, instead, might I suggest a list of five movies from each of the following categories: In no particular order:
Westerns,
Sci-Fi,
Murder Mystery and Suspense,
Comedy including Rom-com,
Musicals

[anonymous-user]

Pvapour said:

Superman (1st christopher reeve)
Shawshank
Terminator
Highlander
Philadelphia

You're not allowed to pick 5, there can be only one.

[Pvapour]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Aye blossom

[Pvapour]

wjb said:

Pvapour said:

Superman (1st christopher reeve)
Terminator

Love those two, but both sequels are superior films, surely?

The first time the world saw Superman and the real world saw in big flick format though, not just about the film itself, theres only ever one 1st time..

Terminator was an unreal advancement in film for 1984, it took 8 years for them to have enough advancement in technique to make a decent sequel, i think this in itself shows how special it was in 1984, i loved all the sequels but again.. watchng something like that for the first time! Unbeatable at 13 years old and started me on bodybuilding for the next 40 years, so quite special to me

[InductionRoar]

Murder by Death (1976) Childish humour, an all star cast and a country house murder mystery - ticks all of my boxes.

The Pink Panther (1964) As above, childish humour (but before it started to get "too" silly) an all star cast and a rather lovely Ferrari 250.

The Ninth Gate (1999) An underrated Johnny Depp film and as creepy as hell (pun intended)

A Tale of Tales (2015) Wonderful cinematography, costume and acting with some haunting scenes. Salma Hayek is quite simply the most beautiful woman ever and in 17th Century costume she just exudes elegance of an unprecedented scale.

The Gumball Rally (1976) This one shouldn't need explaining on PH but if it does "Gentlemen start your engines".

Edited by InductionRoar on Tuesday 13th August 20:47

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Pvapour said:

The first time the world saw Superman and the real world saw in big flick format though, not just about the film itself, theres only ever one 1st time.

The tagline was "You'll believe a man can fly"

I think we forget in this modern world of CGI, where literally anything is possible, that there was a time when we'd watch and ask "How on earth did they do that??!". The 1982 remake of The Thing is a case in point.

[SlimJim16v]

Pvapour said:

The first time the world saw Superman and the real world saw in big flick format though, not just about the film itself, theres only ever one 1st time..

Superman first appeared on the big screen in 1948, then on TV in 1952.

[Halb]

Love Murder by Death (also CLue), the wikipage has some really interesting snippets on the film, and the most obvious sleuth left out.
I recently watched Revenge of the Pink Panther, has some woeful bits, but then it also has some genius bits too, whoch the mark of the later Panther films. I think the best one, is Shot in the Dark.

Pvapour said:

Terminator was an unreal advancement in film for 1984, it took 8 years for them to have enough advancement in technique to make a decent sequel, i think this in itself shows how special it was in 1984, i loved all the sequels but again.. watchng something like that for the first time! Unbeatable at 13 years old and started me on bodybuilding for the next 40 years, so quite special to me

T2 and the Terminator are interesting, T2 is arguably the better film, but the Terminator is the better story, and a seminal and iconic sci-fi film. I can watch it easily, whenever it's on. WOuldn't mind seeing it on the big screen (I've seen The THing, Predator and a few other classics on-screen recently) thanks to ourscreen.

[thebraketester]

Big Fish.
The Shinning.
Anchorman
Laputa.
Charlie and the chocolate factory. (Gene Wilder)
Lion.


Sorry. I can’t count.

[anonymous-user]

Day of the Jackal
Ronin
Gone in 60 seconds (seriously) (Nicolas cage one, but I like the original too)
Goodfellas (or The Departed)
Inglorious Basterds (or The Hateful Eight)

[peterperkins]

1) The Ten Commandments.
Monumental mock up Egypt, Charlton (NRA) Heston, glamorous beauties, and thousands of extras (actual people) can't be bad..
Great score and award winning 70mm colour cinematography..

2) The Cruel Sea.
Classic WW2 man V the elements with some nasty Germans thrown in. Jack Hawkins with some tough choices and his finest performance.

3) I'm alright Jack.
British B&W comedy, workers v management with a huge smattering of our finest actors.

4) Hobson's Choice.
Another B&W Gem with Charles Laughton in his finest role, and a very young Prunella Scales.

5) 2001. A masterpiece in the SciFi genre, also filmed in 70mm with a wonderful score and HAL.
Reggie Perrin (Leonard Rossiter) even makes an appearance as a Russian Scientist.

The blu ray releases of these are excellent.
You just see so much more than we ever did on a saturday afternoon on our 405/625 line TV's
The magic of physical film chemistry captures so much detail that can be later enjoyed by us as film scanning and viewing tech improves.

Edited by peterperkins on Wednesday 14th August 21:31