Top 5 movies

Really too many excellent movies to fit into a top 5 so here is my top 10. If I had to pick it would be:

1. Interstellar
2. Gladiator
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Back to the Future
6. Life is Beautiful
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8. Jurassic Park
9. Toy Story
10. The Dark Knight Rises

Still so many all-time greats out there!
 
No particular order top 5...

- The Magnificent Seven
- The Green Berets
- Breakfast Club
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- Red Dawn

Favorite actors
- Patrick Swayze
- Harrison Ford
- Steve McQueen
- Robert Downey Jr
- Chris Helmsworth
 
Am I too late to play along? I totally want to go to a movie fest with @Capt MJ and am totally curious as @Devil Doc 's appreciation of Wonder Woman (who is awesome BTW).
Top 5 in no particular order:
From Here to Eternity
Out of Africa
Star Wars (the original trilogy--all of them--too hard to pick just one)
Love Actually
Apocalypse Now

And, if we can do more--all of the other Star Wars movies--including Episodes l-lll and the latest trilogy & Rogue 1.
I feel like I forgot Gone with the Wind, Sound of Music, and Sense & Sensibility.
 
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Every year my wife and daughter do an Oscar watch at a local theater. We were at her house today and they hammered out the final plans for the day. The only movie I know up for the statue is Joker which I’ve seen.
 
Devil Doc said:
Every year my wife and daughter do an Oscar watch at a local theater. We were at her house today and they hammered out the final plans for the day. The only movie I know up for the statue is Joker which I’ve seen.
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My mother and sister do the same thing.

As it happens, my wife and I who usually don't see a lot of first run movies have seen 4 of them this year
Little Women, Irishman, Marriage Story and Joker.

Hard to figure this but probably Marriage Story from among that group of four.
 
1. Breakfast Club
2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3. Blues Brothers
4. The Princess Bride
5. Stripes

Honorable mentions: Top Gun and The Sixth Sense

Edited to add: 1917 was fantastic!
 
SCubb said:
This genre has had some great ones - Godfather, GoodFellas, Donnie Brasco, even Pulp Fiction
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Growing up I wanted to enter law enforcement and read every book based on true events, watched every cop show and movie, and even checked out exam study guides from the Gadsden library. But, the USN got in between being and not being physically qualified. I thought being a New York city cop would be the ultimate in a law enforcement career. I was particularly interested in the five families of the Italian mafia. The Gambinos, Bonannos, et. al. I'm still unsure to this day I found more appealing, the life of a police officer or the life of a mobster.
 
fav army movie: All Quiet on the Western Front
fav navy movie: Das Boot
fav marines movie: Megan Leavey
fav air war movie: 12 O'Clock High
fav bad movie I like: Guns of Navarone
 
Chockstock said:
Really too many excellent movies to fit into a top 5 so here is my top 10. If I had to pick it would be:

1. Interstellar
2. Gladiator
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Back to the Future
6. Life is Beautiful
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
8. Jurassic Park
9. Toy Story
10. The Dark Knight Rises

Still so many all-time greats out there!
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Yeah I came back just to say that I have to add two more. You just cant fit everything into a top 10. I have to add Alien and Rambo: First Blood. Alien for obvious reasons, fantastic thriller set in space. First Blood...I remember watching with my father back in high school and the final scene of the movie left such a profound impression. The later Rambo flicks turned out to be just run and gun movies, which is fine but when it came to plot and emotional impact regarding a controversial period in American history, I really think First Blood is one of the best films out there.
 
Chockstock said:
Yeah I came back just to say that I have to add two more. You just cant fit everything into a top 10. I have to add Alien and Rambo: First Blood. Alien for obvious reasons, fantastic thriller set in space. First Blood...I remember watching with my father back in high school and the final scene of the movie left such a profound impression. The later Rambo flicks turned out to be just run and gun movies, which is fine but when it came to plot and emotional impact regarding a controversial period in American history, I really think First Blood is one of the best films out there.
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It was ALL Sheriff Teasle’s fault!!
 
Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Casablanca
Captain Blood
Mr Roberts
Blazing Saddles
Unforgiven (at least the last 5 minutes)
 
Chockstock said:
Yeah he wasnt the sharpest tool in the shed. The big irony is that in one of the scenes, he is revealed to also be a Vietnam vet and have been combat wounded.
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As many times as I have seen that movie I missed that. I guess I will have to watch it for the 157th time and watch for that scene
 
TexasAggie204 said:
On the topic of movies (classic and others), my wife and I are always amazed by how much movie content from the past few decades would now be perceived as inappropriate. So many movies (obviously heavily weighted towards comedies), would never be made in today's "Cancel Culture".

Happened onto "The Bad News Bears" the other evening (the original one, of course, not that terrible remake), and watched almost the whole thing. Great move...likely would have made my Top 25 of all time. I would estimate over 50% of the dialog (and activities by adults) in the movie would be labeled as very offensive by some individual or group today.

Not a political statement, or even saying that these changes weren't needed, but some things are inherently lost with progress...
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I was my son's little league baseball coach. One year we had a year-end party at a parent's house, and she had one of those blow-up movie screens for the backyard. We thought Bad News Bears would be a great movie for the kids to watch. I decided to watch the movie ahead of time, since it was years that I've seen it. That's when I realized there was NO WAY I could show that to a bunch of ten year old boys and their families! I'd be kicked out of my coaching gig! I laughed a lot, though. Forgot just how funny that movie was!

Mel Brooks did a meet-and-greet a few years back at a local theater. It was a live talk about the making of Blazing Saddles along with a viewing of the movie, and then a reception afterwards. I had tickets, and then I found out it was the same time as my youngest son's middle school school concert. Guess which one my wife wanted me to be at...
 
Yeah, seems like I've spent years of my life at kids' concerts...always interferes with a game I want to watch, etc.

Bad News Bears IS really funny for sure. Interesting how my 2 youngest boys though, sort of laughed and squirmed at the same time first time seeing it. It truly has every single one of the inappropriate and "un-PC" topics that could be captured in a single piece of cinema. Offhand, I can think of racism, sexism, racial stereotypes, underage drinking, drunkenness, delinquency, physical abuse, profanity, bullying, even a mild shot at the Catholic Church (over the used of protective equipment). Perhaps Blazing Saddles is the only movie that surpassed BNB in its level of "current" inappropriateness (throw in the Nazi's).

Damn they're funny though!
 
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