Asklemmy

Big Lebowski for 1-5

1. Dead Man: A film by Jim Jarmusch starring Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer and an all-star cast. Beautiful acid western about friendship in harsh circumstances. Wonderful original soundtrack by Neil Young.

2. The Fall: A film by Tarsem. This films story isn't necessarily amazing, but this is a love letter to classic cinema. It has a plot about classic cinema, and it uses all classic techniques to achieve the effects. Tarsem famously went out of their way to ensure there wasn't any CGI in this film. It's one of the most vividly colorful and visually stunning films I have ever seen.

3. Dreams: A film by Akira Kurosawa. A montage of short films inspired by dreams experienced by filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. In partnership with Lucasfilm. Almost as visually stunning as The Fall but much more cohesive stories for being inspired by dreams. Come for "The Peach Orchard," and stay for "Village of the Watermills."

4. Brazil: A film by Terry Gilliam starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro, Kim Greist and Michael Palin. A treatise on dreams in a totalitarian society. The only cut worth watching is the Directors Cut. The film was famously butchered by the studios to give it a "happy ending" because the original was considered too bleak.

5. Sneakers: A film by Phil Alden Robinson starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, and Ben Kingsley. One of the only films that ever presented a semi-realistic portrayal of hacking. Good plot, good pacing, and arguably prescient considerations.

1. The Godfather.
2. Blade Runner.
3. Scarface.
4. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
5. The fight club.

No particular order, these are some of my favorites.

Alien and Aliens could be there too.

And a bunch of animates movies like Ghost in the Shell, Akira, A silent voice, Grave for the Fireflies, The Tale of Princes Kaguya, Princess Mononoke, Howls moving Castle.

Also Toy Story 2, Shrek 2, The Prince of Egypt, Fantasia, Klaus, Into the Spiderverse.

I don't have something like that, but every time this kind of question is asked, City of God (2002) always comes to mind.

The Dark Knight

The Shining

LOTR Trilogy (ROTK if I have to pick one)

~~The Nice Guys~~ swapping for In Bruges

Gladiator

1. I Origins (2014)
2. Return of the Jedi (1983)
3. The Boondock Saints (1999)
4. The Matrix (1999)
5. Interstellar (2014)

In no particular order.

I'll throw my hat in the ring and give my list in no particular order:

Seven Samurai

Borat

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

War of the Worlds (2005)

The Godfather

1. Back to the Future
2. Wall-E
3. Into The Spider-verse
4. Interstellar
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

• Young Frankenstein

• The Princess Bride

• Blazing Saddles

• The Matrix

• The Shawshank Redemption

It's a toss-up on a couple of those. The Blues Brothers could easily make the list, as could Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Alien, Interstellar, and I'm sure there are many others. I will abandon what I'm doing to watch any one of these, if they come on, probably 90% of the time.

1. Interstellar 2-5. Napoleon dynamite, Wayne's World, arrival, Scott pilgrim vs the world

I'll do "so far" instead of "all time" because all time has not yet elapsed, but I'll shut up and list the current roster:

• Werckmeister Harmonies
• Fellowship of the Ring
• The Dreamers
• The Wind Rises
• L'eclisse

Honorable mentions go to Casino Royale, Ashes and Diamonds, The Empire Strikes Back, Paprika, and Vanilla Sky.

Blade Runner // Apocalypse Now // Goodbye, Dragon Inn // Guardians of the Galaxy 2 // Any Bourne film

• Star Trek: First Contact
• Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
• October Sky
• 12 Angry Men
• It's a Wonderful Life

1. Star Wars: A New Hope
2. Blade Runner
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Jurassic Park
5. Back To The Future

Runners up: Empire Strikes Back, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, ET, Close Encounters, Alien(s), Ghostbusters, Stand By Me, Full Metal Jacket, A Bronx Tale, Good Will Hunting

It's too hard to pick just 5!

Akira
Fight Club
The Matrix
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
But I guess my firsty firstingly forever first is Blade Runner 2049

My cat is sitting on my lap so you get both of ours combined together

• The Fifth Element
• The Matrix
• Dark City
• The Big Lebowski
• Burn After Reading
• Fargo
• Lost In Translation
• Snatch
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• Thor: Ragnarok

• Jurassic Park
• Lord Of The Rings (prefer Two Towers)
• Back to The Future (1 but 3 rocks too)
• Blade Runner 2049
• Gladiator

Monty Python and the holy grail

DnD movie

And all three LOTR movies. Extended of course.

I actually sat down a coworker years ago and did this. It was surprisingly easy once I realized something - I'll sit down and watch a lot of movies on TV, but there are a few I refuse to. Too many commercials and edits just make me furious... those are my favorites. Getting down to 10 was hard enough, so top 5 are in no order. Some changed how I thought about things, some just entertained me for years:

The Matrix

Interstellar

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Fight Club

Schindler's List

And because it was so hard, here are a few more that just as easily could be top 5:

Silence of the Lambs, Inception, V for Vendetta, OG Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Kung Pow, Blair Witch Project

Edit: Forgot one - Arrival. Probably in top 5, no idea which to demote. Fight Club maybe

Such a hard thing to do.

In no particular order, and this is only my mind right now,

• Grave of the Fireflies
• LOTR
• The Mummy (Brendan Fraser)
• Fifth Element
• The Northman

Honorable mentions, and depending on my mood, any of these might sneak into the list:

• Empire Strikes Back
• Spirited Away
• Hotel Rwanda
• The Lives of Others
• Princess Bride
• White Christmas
• Blade Runner / Blade Runner 2049
• Dune
• Your Name
• Alien
• The Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le pacte des loups)
• Arrival
• Children of Men
• Pretty much any Mel Brooks movie, but particularly Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood MIT, Dracula dead and loving it
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• In Bruges
• A fish Called Wanda
• The Life of Brian
• Some Like it Hot
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Wrath of Khan
• Best in Show
• Them
• Something Wes Anderson, likely Grand Budapest Hotel or Royal Tenenbaums
• Hot Fuzz
• There will be Blood
• 1917
• The Color of Money
• The Godfather Part 1
• Master and Commander
• Tropic Thunder
• The Sting
• Burn After Reading
• A River Runs Through It

For now, anyway;

• Sorcerer; confusingly about 4 men driving volatile dynamite through the jungle, no wizards present

• Manhunter; I literally stand up out of my chair during the tiger scene every time

• Body Double; Brian de Palma is a weird perv and it's great

• Threads; it's the scariest movie ever made

• Annihilation; more upsetting bear than The Edge, only slightly less upsetting lighthouse than The Lighthouse

Super hard to limit to just 5 but here's the first that came to mind: Star Wars: A New Hope The Matrix Delicatessen The Science of Sleep The Fifth Element

Any of the following could easily go somewhere on the above list :) Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brazil, The Hudsucker Proxy, Groundhog Day, Dark City, Inception & Intersteller (if only it didn't have the whole love is a force that transcends dimensions and can be used to communicate across time and space stuff?!)

• Dazed and Confused
• Jurassic Park
• Fellowship of the Ring
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Matrix

In no particular order: The Mission, Children of Men, Passport to Pimlico, Ben Hur, My Name is Nobody

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Fabelmans
3. Gangs of New York
4. Memento
5. The Dark Knight

This is an incredibly difficult question for me, so I have to list my runners up:

• The Prestige
• Shawshank Redemption
• Pulp Fiction
• Spirited Away
• 2001: A Space Oddysey
• Dallas Buyers Club

I'm probably an idiot for not including The Godfather but it's been a long time since I saw it so I probably need to watch it again.

In no particular order:

• Clue
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Lord of the Rings
• The Hunt for Red October
• Oscar

All but one have Tim Curry, hmm... I never noticed that before.

• Clue
• Death to Smoochy
• Wizard of Oz
• Mary Poppins
• Drop Dead Gorgeouss

No way I can do all time, because my tastes change. However, I guess right now it's:

• My neighbour Totoro
• Grave of the Fireflies, even though I can't watch it
• into the spider verse
• knives out
• everything everywhere all at once

The top two there never really shift but the other three do all the time.

1. LOTR: For staying close to the book while still being amazing.
2. The Matrix: Still can't forget walking out of the theater, everyone so silent with their minds collectively blown.
3. Cinema Paradiso: For the way it shows the love for cinema.
4. Life is Beautiful: For showing that only we control how we live our lives.
5. Children of Heaven: For its depiction of love in its purest forms.

Interstellar

Inception

About Time

Arrival

The Green Mile

Idk if I'd say these are the top 5, but ones that come to mind:

Team America World Police Airplane Fargo Apollo 13 Apollo 13 a second time

In no particular order

1. Starship Troopers
2. Peter Jackson's Trilogy is one movie. Fight me.
3. Speed Racer

I guess I just have three.

In no particular order: -Contact -The Matrix -Inglourious Basterds -Spirited Away -Moonrise Kingdom

Jurassic Park

The 5th Element

Brazil

Joker

Life of Brian

Harold and Maude Silence of the Lambs Thor: Ragnarok Singing in the Rain Unforgiven

Silly to hold us to five but those were the first to come to mind.

Thats really hard to decide, i guess off the top of my head:

1. LotR Trilogy
2. Spiderman into the Spiderverse
3. Interstellar
4. Dune 2022
5. Your Name

Some more neccessary mentions:

• Akira
• star wars Ep1-6
• Avatar
• The Batman
• Fight Club
• Bladerunner

• LOTR (it may be 3, but let's just call it a single movie)
• Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
• Jean de Florette
• The Matrix
• Top Gun

Honourable mentions: anything Monty Python, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Alladin, Indiana Jones (up to and including Last Crusade), any Bond film with Sean Connery, Die Hard, Rocky, Rambo: First Blood, The Passion of Christ, Cross and the Switchblade, The Godfather, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park

• LOTR trilogy
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• A Midnight in Paris
• The Matrix
• Howl's Moving Castle

1. The Princess Bride
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. The Thing
4. Pan’s Labyrinth
5. Requiem for a Dream