Top Five Movies

Atomic Postman

Atomic Postman

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Eh, why not. What's everyones top five movies? Talk about em if you like

1. For A Few Dollars More
2. Brazil
3. Withnail and I
4. Blade Runner
5. Fargo
 
I wont repeat any already listed. Here's mine:

1. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring.
2. Vanilla Sky (havent seen og spanish yet)
3. Life of Pi
4. Ex Machina
5. 13 Tzameti

Bonus: Trainspotting
 
I only got three, everything else I can think of has to fight equally for the spots of 4 and 5 so I can't decide on anything beyond this.

1. The Thing - Monsters in the arctic
2. Dawn Of The Dead - Zombies in a mall.
3. Dazed & Confused - Teens coming of age, with weed bro 420 blaze it yolo.
 
I don't consider myself well versed in cinema (nor literature) but;
'70s Edition I guess:
  1. Alien (1979)
  2. A Clockwork Orange(1971)
  3. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  4. Chinatown (1974)
  5. Phantasm (1979)
 
Oh and I just watched Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, good film. I like. It's about a western actor and his stunt double friend dealing with life in Hollywood. And they live next to Roman Polanski, in 1969.
 
When I pick top 5 movies I am meaning movies I like to rewatch all the time. Not what I perceive to be the best movies of all time.

Dawn of the Dead (og)
Donnie Darko
Tremors
TMNT (90's)
Escape From New York

I would have listed Phantasm but I think I rewatch the second one more and that is embarrassing.
 
I watched TMNT for the first time in forever since I really liked that movie as a kid, now as an adult I realized that Footclan Ninja died when he put his axe into that fuse box and set the apartment building on fire.

I think Phantasm 3 is the one I've seen the most. not that I like it better than the others but is the one I would always run into when it was on TV.
 
Speaking of favourite movies from childhood, I rewatched Jurassic Park recently and I actually think I like that movie more now as an adult than when I was running around as a five year old with a plastic tyrannosaur. I was expecting it to be a fun disaster romp but it has character arcs and themes and shiet

They really don't make popcorn blockbusters with that level of actual respect for the audience intelligence anymore (UNIX SYSTEM aside).
 
Atomic Postman said:
Speaking of favourite movies from childhood, I rewatched Jurassic Park recently and I actually think I like that movie more now as an adult than when I was running around as a five year old with a plastic tyrannosaur. I was expecting it to be a fun disaster romp but it has character arcs and themes and shiet

They really don't make popcorn blockbusters with that level of actual respect for the audience intelligence anymore (UNIX SYSTEM aside).
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Also this meme template. I can hear it in my head. I saw it in theaters as a kid and being a dumb kid I thought the birds at the end were Dodo birds since I just read a book on them and I said "LOOK DODO BIRDS" and the entire theater laughed. Best crowd I ever had.
 
All the stuff about Hammond being a cheapskate on the actual infrastructure and Nedry being an underpaid, crunched-out employee committing corporate espionage is all shit that just completely soared over my head as a kid. I was like neat this movie has real plot.
 
My favorite one is the second one because of uhhhhhhh the uhhhhh.....Goldblum. Real talk though Julianne Moore is a dumb bitch in that one.
 
TorontoReign said:
My favorite one is the second one because of uhhhhhhh the uhhhhh.....Goldblum. Real talk though Julianne Moore is a dumb bitch in that one.
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I haven't watched the second one again but I remember it pretty well. The aesthetic of all the park stuff being overgrown and the island being this wild preserve with big game hunters trying to poach dinosaurs was cool as hell. Best scene in the movie is when they're running through the tall grass at the end and get to the old park centre that has all the cheesy 90s safari art on it.

I never understood why they had a second island when the first one would have done fine.
 
The setup of the movie was good. The script was just pretty lame. Goldblum's daughter was pretty fucking annoying too. One of the worst.
 
In particular order
The Holy Mountain
Eraserhead
Old boy (2003)
Akira
The Big Lebowski

It's big brain time bois
 
In years to come when they legalize daddy fucking for minors Old Boy will be seen as a timeless classic to share with daughters. Haha.
 
Atomic Postman said:
UNIX SYSTEM aside
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That's a real GUI for a functional SGI workstation running Unix. The GUI may not have been practical, or widely adopted, but it was real. A lot of real stuff from the 1990's probably looks fake now.


Anyway, for me this is way too difficult to select a perfect Top 5 out of so many great films. But on the criteria of movies that I could watch over and over, (right now at least) I would narrow it down to:
1) Joe Versus the Volcano
2) Raising Arizona
3) The Matrix
4) The Ladykillers (1955)
5) Raiders of the Lost Ark​

Yeah, I know pretty tame selection, and yes I have watched most of the frequently touted genre fare in the sci-fi, film-noire, post-apo, horror, war, western, etc. Yet if I am going to watch something over and over again, I will usually need to entertained not just intrigued which usually relegates these favorites to action or comedy (or both).
 
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TorontoReign said:
My favorite one is the second one because of uhhhhhhh the uhhhhh.....Goldblum. Real talk though Julianne Moore is a dumb bitch in that one.
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Not only is she a dumb bitch but her stupidity gets people killed. She and Vince Vaughn are responsible for every single death in that movie.
 
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