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02 September 2007

What are your five favorite films? Obviously, I'm a film geek.

I'm interested in Metachat's choices. What are your five favorite films?
post by: filmgeek at: 21:13 | 60 comments
I'll go first:

Now, on any given week these could change...this week:
Shawshank Redemption. The whole message of hope resonates powerfully for me. Next up: Wings of Desire - there was an American Remake called City of Angels...but the original version is infinitely better. Yojimbo is an Akira Kurosawa masterpiece - if you're not familiar with him, then I should mention that it's likely, that Kurosawa has had a greater influence on American Film than any other foreign filmmaker. A guilty pleasure - Raiders of the Lost Ark; every scene is memorable. And number five? This week? Garden State. It could have equally been The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction or a bunch of other films.
posted by filmgeek 02 September | 21:14
The Royal Tennenbaums - Wes Anderson (great story/sentimental value)
Rope - Alfred Hitchcock (awesome cinematography)
Sandlot - David Evans (sentimental classic)
Delicatessen - Marc Caro Jean-Pierre Jeunet (i dunno, i just love it)
Schizopolis - Steven Soderbergh (indescribable greatness, amazing depth, fake languages, etc...)
posted by Schyler523 02 September | 21:29
Today:
Princess Bride
Wings of Desire
Doctor Strangelove
Cool Hand Luke
Baraka

See also.

And a previous post.
posted by arse_hat 02 September | 21:32
Iron Giant - Beautiful and simple and sad and optimistic and for serious, my favorite movie ever.
Unforgiven - The best film I've ever seen to cover both the urge for redemption and the human potential for violence.
Pootie Tang - Comedic masterwork that plays with comedy-film convention like James Joyce plays with language -- constantly shifting between intelligent and ridiculous with no real value judgement on which is the more desirable.

Those are my top three; for the remainder, I'm going to throw in two more that have lots of perfect moments but kind of fall apart in places:

Office Space - The perfection is in the simple day-to-day conversation. The falling apart is the attempt to shoehorn a plot about a hypnosis-induced deus ex machina and crazy white-collar heist into the otherwise easygoing lack of narrative structure.
A Fistful of Dynamite, aka Duck You Sucker - The perfection is in the cinematography and editing, which is some of the most boldy cartoonish, over-the-top stuff you can find outside of Bollywood. The falling apart is that it drags on for way longer than it should without ever recapturing the same kind of intensity that characterizes the first five minutes.


Shit. On preview, I realize I forgot about how much I liked Schizopolis.
posted by Greg Nog 02 September | 21:33
Apocalypse Now, The Big Lebowski, Godfather I&II, Chinatown, Reservoir Dogs...to pick five off the top of my head.

And props to Greg Nog for Pootie Tang. Definitely underrated.

Which reminds me of this article I read on the A/V Club recently: My Year Of Flops Case File #61 Freddy Got Fingered. I saw this movie in an early pre-screening given to a bunch of students at my university. It was quite a bit longer than what was eventually released and had no sound track. It was mind blowing.
posted by mullacc 02 September | 21:44
This is not a fair question, as my answer changes too frequently. But okay:

1. When Harry Met Sally
2. Almost Famous
3. Lost in Translation
4. Sixteen Candles
5. Pillow Talk

I dunno. Left out a bunch of stuff, like "Don't Look Back," which isn't a proper movie but a documentary, or "Roman Holiday," or "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (too much of a college freshman choice). Also there's "His Girl Friday" and "Broadcast News" and -- yes, this is a terrible choice -- "The American President."

Oh, and "The Royal Tenenbaums." And "Amelie." And "The Red Violin," which nobody ever lists even though it's very good. And the thing is, there are too many movies to list. Like, what about "Better Off Dead" and the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"? Or "It's a Wonderful Life"? Because that really is a great movie, regardless of whether they show it every Christmas Eve like clockwork.

I mean, it's just an awesome movie.

Oh, and by the way I'm drunk.
posted by brina 02 September | 21:48
The Big Lebowski - I've never known a film that gets better each viewing like this one.

Swingers - I think it's just about perfect.

Godfathers I & II - Yeah, brilliant.

The Razor's Edge - The Bill Murray version. I just saw this again after years of remembering it well. I still think it's fucking great. I can't understand how it wasn't valued when it was released.

And, for good measure, Dig!.
posted by richat 02 September | 21:53
I am too brina.
posted by filmgeek 02 September | 21:53
Oh jesus, mullacc, I forgot about Freddy Got Fingered. In fact, I think I may have consciously blocked it from my memory. Wow.
posted by Greg Nog 02 September | 21:54
You know what else I like? The 1996 version of "Sabrina" starring Harrison Ford, Greg Kinnear and Julia Ormond.

I would say I liked the Bogart/Hepburn version, but the problem with that film is that the Sabrina character comes off as hapless and ditzy, whereas Julia Ormond's version is -- eventually -- sassy and smart and a bit sarcastic. She's, you know, challenging. It's the classic reverse fairytale. She saves him. Also like in "Ever After," which is not a wonderful film even though I own it and like it and also think Drew Barrymore is awesome.

Anyway, I have to like "Sabrina" because even though I told everyone in IRC that I was named "brina" because that's the sound I make when I run into a wall, really, I'm named Sabrina. And sadly not after Audrey Hepburn, but after Kate Jackson's character in "Charlie's Angels."

And so it was.
posted by brina 02 September | 21:58
Today's five favorites (in no particular order). I'm sticking to only picking five, but I might be able to name fifty movies that I've liked as much as these. Anyway:

Fanny and Alexander (d. Ingmar Bergman)
A.I. (d. Steven Spielberg)
Siegfried (d. Fritz Lang)
Heat (d. Michael Mann)
The Thin Red Line (d. Terrence Malick)
posted by Prospero 02 September | 22:17
Oh man, if you go back through my previous posts, then they change, but...

The Graduate
Sunset Boulevard
Best in Show
Maltese Falcon
Big Lebowski
posted by gaspode 02 September | 22:23
Five? Only five?

Let's see...
Annie Hall Seeing it for the first time was like realizing what was wrong with all of my relationships all at once.

This is Spinal Tap Seeing it was like learning a secret comedy password. I knew I had found something amazing, because when I tried to explain it to people, their eyes glazed over.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail I almost didn't include this one, because it's such a cliche, but I had it committed to memory when I was ten years old.

The Big Lebowski Everytime I see it, something new makes me laugh. Like someone pointed out to me the other day that you never actually see The Dude bowling in the entire movie.

Hands on a Hard Body A team of Hollywood screenwriters couldn't put together a better cast of characters than this documentary. It's fucking lightning in a bottle.

Some Honorable mentions:
Shortbus
Waiting for Guffman
Bullets Over Broadway
The Hudsucker Proxy
Rushmore
Junebug
posted by ColdChef 02 September | 22:35
Well, I'm not very good with remembering which movies I've liked best, but here's what I can remember liking...

Léon
Romeo + Juliet
Amelie
City of Lost Children
Before Sunset (Before Sunrise was also very good, but not as good.)
posted by philomathoholic 02 September | 22:50
A slight sidetrack - no one I know who lives in Japan likes the film Lost in Translation. There was much eye rolling and comments of "Get over yourselves" from us.
posted by gomichild 02 September | 23:16
Heavenly Creatures
The Sweet Hereafter
The Third Man
Miller's Crossing
Betty Blue

Close runners-up:
The Crying Game
Fargo
Children of Men
Closer
Fitzcarraldo

And some genre fare:
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Dark Star
Where Eagles Dare
Buckaroo Banzai
Brazil
posted by stilicho 02 September | 23:21
The Hustler
Fargo
Atlantic City
True Stories
Tampopo

(The first three were easy. The last two are on the list, but not necessarily in the top five. They're just what I could come up with right now.)
posted by mudpuppie 02 September | 23:22
Chinatown
Sleeper
Diva
Casablanca
The Lives of Others
posted by danf 02 September | 23:23
Chicago
A Clockwork Orange
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Shining
posted by mischief 02 September | 23:32
Sunset Boulevard
Spinal Tap
The Thin Man
Young Frankenstein
Breakfast at Tiffany's
posted by miss lynnster 02 September | 23:35
Changes constantly, but at the moment:

The original Manchurian Candidate
The Graduate
Les Enfants du Paradis
A Room with a View (Daniel Day Lewis plays an uptight nerd, but I still wanted to snatch off his pince-nez, yank off his collar, mess up his hair and kiss him senseless)
Notorious
posted by brujita 02 September | 23:36
Rushmore (My high school baseball coach saw this when it was just out and said he thought it was exactly the kind of thing I'd like, and that Max reminded him of me. I saw it a few years later, and couldn't believe how happy the movie made me.)
Field of Dreams (Sentimental to perfection)
The Incredibles (When we saw it in the theater, it took my breath away. Bought the dvd the day it came out. Wear the t-shirt. Will show it to my children.)
Rain Man (Even though I own it, I'll always watch it on cable just for the slow dance in the high-roller suite.)
Zoolander (I could do a top five comedies, but this would always be at the top.)
posted by kyleg 03 September | 00:00
The Fast and the Furious. This is my "I hate myself for liking this film" film. I intentionality don't own it but I can't tear myself away when it's on TV. Some people want to be princesses, I want to be Dominic Toretto.

Lord of the Rings/Two Towers/Return of the King. Anytime I'm up for blowing an entire day in these go.

Chasing Amy. Best of the Jersey "trilogy" by a wide margin.

Hackers. The computer geeks win and Angie gets naked, what not to love. Right after Ghost Busters it's my most quotable movie.

The Fifth Element. It has a decadent, decaying future setting without being all depressing like say Bladerunner or the Matrix.

So are you all embarrassed you let me post here now?


posted by Mitheral 03 September | 00:04
Godfather I/II: Oddly, it reminds me of my extended family in a lot of ways. Minus the mafia crime stuff.

A Streetcar Named Desire: Marlon Brando looking hotter than any man before or since. Some of the finest acting ever to grace cinema, done by one of the finest writers to ever come out of the US. Oh, and that scene where they throw him in the shower, and then he goes outside and screams for her and his shirt's all torn up and she walks soooo sllllooooowwwwwllly down the stairs? Yeah, that's about a thousand times sexier than anything Hollywood's putting out these days.

Richard III: The 95 version with Ian McKellen. Just wonderful. The acting is so spot-on, and they do such a good job making the dialog work even with the change of era. And setting turning Richard into a Hitler-like figure, how clever is that??

Equilibrium: I know, it's cheesy. I can't help but love it in the most base "the gun stuff is cool looking and christian bale is super hot" sort of monkey-brain way.

Secretary: If you know and love this movie I don't have to explain it.
posted by kellydamnit 03 September | 01:41
I’m very much not a film geek, but five movies that have left an impression on me are:

The Beast with Five Fingers
Casablanca
Badlands
Happy, Texas
Mulholland Drive
posted by misteraitch 03 September | 01:58
I can never pick favorites, but:

After Life
Princess Mononoke
Manhattan
A Summer's Tale
Blade Runner
Existenz

forgive me for posting an extra
posted by DarkForest 03 September | 02:03
They change, but...
Hour of the Wolf "Now you are yourself, but not yourself; an ideal state for a meeting between lovers."

Bliss (no, not that one, this one.)
"I am not going to spend...
             I'm not going to spend the rest of my life hating you."

Touch of Evil
  (Orson Welles and Marlene Dietrich)
    Quinlan: Come on, read my future for me.
    Tana: You haven't got any.
    Quinlan: What do you mean?
    Tana: Your future is all used up.

The Third Man "We should have dug deeper than a grave.

The Quiet Earth. Reguardless of the obvious plot errors, etc. etc...
[recording his audio log] "Zac Hobson, July 5th. One: there has been a malfunction in Project Flashlight with devastating results. Two: it seems I am the only person left on Earth."

Tetsuo: The Iron Man "Together, we can turn this fucking world to rust!"

Videodrome "Of course, "O'Blivion" was not the name I was born with. That's my television name. Soon, all of us will have special names — names designed to cause the cathode ray tube to resonate. (...)
The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena — the videodrome. The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television. (...) After all, there is nothing real outside our perception of reality, is there? You can see that can't you?"
and what is your internet name? and what are you looking at right now?

Hmm. That's 7. Oh, well they change. "I am large; I contain mutitudes."
posted by Zack_Replica 03 September | 02:28
It's hard to pick a top list. Here's five that I adore:
2001
Million Dollar Baby
Donnie Darko
Hawaii Oslo
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Special mention: Mostly anything involving Sarah Polley (The Secret Life of Words, My Life Without Me, Away From Her, Dawn of the Dead)

Special mention II: The entire Linklater catalog (A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life, Tape, The School of Rock, Before Sunrise, ...)

I purposefully left off comedies, they are just too many to mention -- stuff like The Big Lebowski kinda goes without saying for me.
posted by Rhomboid 03 September | 02:33
Blade Runner
City of God
2001
Casablanca/The Big Sleep/The Maltese Falcon
The Godfather 1/2
-----
The Seven Samurai
The Thin man
MASH
Blazing Saddles
The Philadelphia Story
posted by doctor_negative 03 September | 02:59
kellydamnit: yeah, Equilibrium was a very cool flick - quite underrated, IMHO. I had Secretary, but my harddrive went the way of all things, so I only saw part of it, but it was very... interesting.

Also, dr_neg: I loves me the film noir, and The Maltese Falcon was is just amazing.
posted by Zack_Replica 03 September | 03:09
Mine:

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Raising Arizona
Dead Man
Schizopolis
The House of Yes
posted by black8 03 September | 03:21
The Beast With Five Fingers
Casablanca
Funny Face
Badlands
Mulholland Drive
posted by misteraitch 03 September | 03:28
I can't do this properly... for some reason, I just don't have the sort of head that can keep favorites lists, so I'll just mention some that I love, trying not to repeat too much from upthread:

All Coen Bros. films cheating, I know - sorry.

Princess Bride

Blade Runner

The Usual Suspects

Dark City

and one maraschino cherry on top: Bull Durham
posted by taz 03 September | 03:59
I was going to make a list of 5 x 5 favorites (British, American, Continental European, Russian, Other), but it was too much of an effort, so I'm just going to reproduce bits of this list.

Withnail & I
Mike Leigh's Naked
Donnie Darko
Hable con ella (Talk to Her)
My Life as a Dog
Mononoke

That makes six, I think.
posted by Daniel Charms 03 September | 04:07
Oh, heavens, I need to put "To Kill a Mockingbird" in there, and "Don't Look Now". And "Lolita". And I'd like to mention that before I started hating Mel Gibson (years before the whole sugar-tits anti-semitic drunken rant thing), I really did adore "The Year of Living Dangerously".
posted by taz 03 September | 04:26
Dude, I can't do five.

Life of Brian (1979) may be the bravest, most prescient political film ever made. Yeah, the People's Front of Judea hate the Romans... but they hate the other splinter groups MORE. "SPLITTERS!" If this film doesn't make you laugh at religion, you're taking yourself way too seriously. See also: Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda.

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is the funniest anti-war film ever made. (Full Metal Jacket (1987) is a close second) If these films don't make you take a fresh look at warfare, you probably stopped thinking long ago. See also: The State Department, DOD, MOD, Iraq, Afghanistan.

City of God (2002) is a stunning film about the gritty lives of child gang members in Rio's favelas. Tsotsi (2005) is a close second here. If these films don't make you question man's love affair with the gun, you've gone dead inside. See also: Smith, Wesson, etc.

Blade Runner (director's cut) (1982) is one director's singular vision of the quintessential story from science fiction's greatest author. Dark, rainy, compelling, paranoiac, clausterphobic, nightmarish... I'm not sure that anyone will never film its equal. If this film doesn't make you see why Harrison Ford used to matter, you may have seen that last Indiana Jones film too many times. See also: Vangelis.

Memento (2000) is Nolan's magnum opus. Best editing, ever. If this film doesn't make you question the nature of your own temporal existence, you didn't watch it properly.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) is the most compelling film (so far) from visionary director Michel Gondry as well as being Charlie Kaufmann's greatest screenplay and Jim Carrey's greatest performance.

Requiem for a Dream (2000) is the greatest anti-drug film of all time. It should mandatory viewing for every high-school age kid in the world. Yes, even the gang bang scene.

Koyaanisqatsi (1982) contains the most powerful and compelling photography I've ever witnessed.

The Three Burials of Melquiadas Estrada (2005) is terribly underrated. See also: The Proposition (2005).

O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000). It's not often that a single film revives an entire genre of music. If you can find a funnier script or a better soundtrack, you'd better fucking email me.

Some great lists in this thread, rabbits.
posted by chuckdarwin 03 September | 05:23
and... LAST TIME, I promise, just so I can be perfectly honest about films that I would stay home for, and even lie to a friend about, saying so sorry I can't do X - I'm just not feeling well, once I found out it was going to be aired on TV that night - "Dune". There, I've said it.
posted by taz 03 September | 05:48
taz, we all have our dirty little secret loves.
posted by chuckdarwin 03 September | 05:54
Nthing Blade Runner, and the Big Lebowski, 2nding Brazil, and City of Lost Children, and firsting Naked Lunch!
posted by Citizen Premier 03 September | 06:54
Too many on the list, but here ya go, & these are probably repeats from previous threads:

The Station Agent
Apollo 13
Office Space (seconding! great pick me up during a shitty work week!)
Barbershop (freaking hilarious. Favorite line: "Dayumnnn, Dayumnnn, Dayummn!" exasperated moron unsuccessful at opening a stolen atm)
Local Hero I can't remember where I first saw this one, but I loved how it transformed the main dude when he was unaware of it.

I'm excited that Iron Giant is in our Netflix queue! And Pillow Talk is indeed a classic.
posted by chewatadistance 03 September | 08:28
Crimes and Misdemeanors

Groundhog Day

Secrets and Lies

The Shawshank Redemption

Junebug
posted by LoriFLA 03 September | 08:43
I forgot to add in some documentaries that I really like:

Dogtown and Z-boys I dig Stacy Peralta and how he came out of the whole 70's revival skate scene as a documentary maker. And to think I was skating lamely all by my lonesome in my driveway at the same time these guys were hitting pools in LA.

Riding Giants I dunno - just something honest about the whole early surfer throngs that did it for the love of the wave and little technology, living on the beaches in Hawaii off of purloined pineapple from the nearby fields, and an occasional chicken. Something very simple about those times doesn't seem to exist nowadays.

Rivers and Tides I'm a big admirer of Goldsworthy's work, how it's nature back to nature & pure. I liked this one so much I bought it, even though it drags in parts and isn't the most structured thing.

One Giant Leap Totally dig the 'Time' and 'Mask' pieces and the observations of societies and perceptions. This got me into the whole ambient music thing, too. There are some draggers on the dvd, but I just skip 'em.
posted by chewatadistance 03 September | 08:49
O Brother Where Art Thou.

Times five.
posted by bunnyfire 03 September | 09:13
kellydammit, I hear ya on Equilibrium, and pretty much for the same reasons. And, I'm hetero...but that Christian Bale! Wowie.
posted by richat 03 September | 09:36
I'm really hard-put to pick out five favorites, but here it goes:

Remains of the Day - pitch-perfect low-key story with heart-breaking performances by Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - probably my favorite all-time comedy.

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain - I can watch this again pretty much anytime, and I'll have a silly grin on my face the whole time.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Version) - I'm sure a lot of people will shake their heads at this one, but I'm sticking with it. The sections dealing with Edoras and the people of Rohan to me feel somehow more real than anything else in the three movies.

Tokyo Story - Another low-key story with perfect acting and a heart-breaking ending.
posted by deadcowdan 03 September | 11:41
Oh! I forgot Baraka!

Wait, that would make six.

Oh well, I guess my five favorites will number six for the moment.
posted by deadcowdan 03 September | 11:43
Strictly Ballroom
Waiting for Guffman
Cool Hand Luke
Donnie Darko
Jaws
posted by rainbaby 03 September | 12:49
Ooh, 5 is not enough!

Edward Scissorhands Beautiful in every way. Tim Burton is a genius.
The Talented Mr. Ripley Also very amazing. People can be so fascinating, and this movie is a feast for they eyes, too.
American Beauty Quite a good movie, makes you think a bit.
The Fifth Element A hilarious and well-put-together masterpiece. Both hero and villian are amazing.
Fargo Dark and funny, and very very good.

I have bunches more, but I play by the rules.
posted by bkudria 03 September | 12:56
On reading other's lists I realize I forgot to include Donnie Darko and Equilibrium. Awewsome movies. The Fifth element would have been on my list if it would have fit.

Yup, I'm a hetero dude and I like Equilibrium. He's just a great actor. See also American Psycho.
posted by philomathoholic 03 September | 13:21
1. The King and I. I was fortunate enough to see Yul Brynner on Broadway months before he died in the role. Loved it.
2. Second Hand Lions. I never even saw this advertised for the theaters, but watched it on cable.
3. L.A. Confidential
4. Spaceballs. (I can't help it, I love this and "Airplane".)
5. Clue.

1a. Anna and the King with Jodie Foster and Chou Yung Phat (sorry, poor spelling). More romance than the original "King and I".
posted by redvixen 03 September | 14:44
Yeah, Equilibrium was hot. I didn't like Donnie Darko much, I don't get what all the excitement is about. And yes, Bale was excellent in American Psycho - his character was just ... unhuman. You could see Bateman carefully study everything, picking up the smallest details to use. And Bale plays him brilliantly. It's true filmmaking, and true acting. My #6.
posted by bkudria 03 September | 14:47
I've seen American Psycho, and yeah, he's great in it. Not to mention, that if I could wake up tomorrow built like ANY DUDE ON EARTH, it would be Christian Bale in American Psycho.

P.S I've really enjoyed this thread. Lots of stuff will be added to my ziplist (that's Canuckian for netflix list).
posted by richat 03 September | 15:57
Heee redvixen - I love Spaceballs and Airplane too!
posted by chewatadistance 03 September | 17:20
The General
Casablanca
Duck Soup
The Seven Samurai
Wings of Desire

Color is over-rated.
posted by bmarkey 03 September | 17:55
This is really cool, and I need to chime in sorta surprised and pleased that Badlands appears twice above. I thought I was one of the only people who actually owns it. And like other people, can I mention one more, please please, because it hasn't been mentioned yet (Although Philadelphia Story has - yay!):

Bringing Up Baby.
posted by rainbaby 03 September | 19:06
In random order, having read none of the above posts:

Is this films I think are great and important, or films I couldn't live without re-viewing when the mood strikes? OK, "favorite", whatever that means:

North By Northwest
Repo Man
Love and Death
Gone With The Wind
Office Space

The last one was a toss-up. My desert island pick would have been Brazil, simply because I could have amused myself in my palm-thatched hut by breaking that movie down into single frames and parsing it all, but as I am not restricted to a desert island, I picked the one that made me the happiest.
posted by BitterOldPunk 04 September | 01:19
The whole Lord of the Rings series (one movie in three instalments, really)
The Wall
Star Wars (the original only)
MASH (either the original or the series-ending one, depending on mood)
Saw

This list could change at any time, though - I'm not good at favourites lists.
posted by dg 04 September | 17:59
Top Five of the Moment:

Thirteen Days
Fifth Element
Leon
Amelie
Second Hand Lions
posted by jjb 04 September | 23:36
Glengarry Glen Ross - Aside from everything else I love about this movie (the great lines, the amazing cast, the bleak simplicity of it all), Jack Lemmon's performance is nothing less than a masterpiece. Possibly my favorite performance in a movie, along with...

Malcolm X - Spike Lee at his best. That he managed to create such a unique take on the story, while at the same time doing justice to the story of a man's life is amazing. But really, this movie is all about Denzel Washington's performance. Brilliant

The Misfits(1961) - This movie is beautiful to look at, and mesmerizingly sad. Every time I watch it, i find a new backhanded lesson about life, mortality, and the dark underside of Beauty.

E.T. - Simply put, this movie is perfect in every way.

Pulp Fiction - Makes my top 5 for one reason only. Saw it opening night in a sold out theater, and was hands down the most fun I've ever had at a movie.

Five that depending on my mood could make the above list
The Good Thief
Slacker
Finding Nemo
Dog Day Afternoon
Rear Window
posted by billyfleetwood 05 September | 02:12
Brazil
Human Traffic
BladeRunner (director's cut)
Mad Max
Mad Max II

Honourable mentions:

Time Bandits
Bugsy Malone
posted by pompomtom 07 September | 00:41
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