Top 5 favourite movies

[Jenny, honorary mod - inactive]

What are your top 5 favourite movies?

Mine are:

Romeo & Juliet (the Baz Luhrmann version)
Pan's Labyrinth
The Holiday
Pulp Fiction
The Devil Wears Prada

This list is subject to change :P

[Alice]

Romeo and Juliet (the Baz Luhrmann one) is also one of my favourites Jenny! Along with

About a Boy
Stardust
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Shawshank Redemption.

[Heather]

1) Harry Potter (any of them, though I prefer the 5th)
2) Labyrinth
3) Stardust
4) Notting Hill
5) Enchanted

List is always subject to vast changes, but gee this list makes me look like a super nerd girl. *ashamed*

[Jenny, honorary mod - inactive]

Oh I forgot Enchanted I love that film!!!! Replace Pulp Fiction with that one. I don't need a manly film in there :) I have a major addiction to older Disney films but decided to keep them out of my list as I wouldn't have been able to choose :P

[Heather]

Jenny, that's why I love Enchanted. It's the best bits of every Princess Disney movie with a better moral than "find your man and be happy"

[Jenny, honorary mod - inactive]

Yeh I loved it! Such a cute film. I am also in love with James Marsden :P

[Jenny, honorary mod - inactive]

That reminds me I loved 27 Dresses!!

[Terri]

Oooh, my 5 faves!

Grease
Amelie
Pulp Fiction
Any Harry Potter film
Love Actually

I haven't seen Enchanted! Think I need to :)

[Alice]

Ooooo Love Actually. Love that!! It's too hard to pick 5! I like different films for different reasons.

[Mandy]

Wow, five is very hard. Let's see, I'll go at the moment:

Shawshank
Tombstone
Dirty Dancing
Dark Blue
Backdraft

Please note that I could easily list at least 20 here.

[Kipahni]

Enchanted! that is a good one!
Mine are in no particular order

Across the Universe
Almost Fameous
Amelie
August Rush
and it is a tie between; Annie and The little Princess (the newest one)

[Mads]

I've heard of some the movies mentioned above, but there are a lot I don't recognize! Maybe I should try some of those :)

Master and Commander
The Hunt for Red October
Sense and Sensibility
The Lion King
A Muppet Christmas Carol

I wish I had room for 50 First Dates and Ever After, but unfortunately for Drew, Sean Connery and Alan Rickman always come first. :D

[Jenny, honorary mod - inactive]

I love love love A Muppet's Christmas Carol, now that it's December I'm going to watch it over and over again :P

[Mads]

It's one of our traditions to watch it sometime during the season, I just love it so much :)

[Stephanie]

Truly, Madly, Deeply
Chicago
Shrek
Shakespeare in Love
Sense and Sensibility

[Kathy]

The Shawshank Redemption
The Painted Veil
Love Actually
Sliding Doors
Anna and the King (Jodie Foster)

[Ally]

My all-time favourites are...

1. Match Point (with Jonathan Rhys Myers and Scarlett Johansson...a Woody Allen Film).
2. The Thomas Crown Affair (...the new version with Renee Russo & Pierce Brosnan).
3. Keeping Mum (with Kristen Scott Thomas, Rowan Atkinson and Maggie Smith).
4. The Notebook (with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams)
5. The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood (with Sandra Bullock, Maggie Smith et al.)

I can't believe you're on;y allowing us 5! - If I had more choices I would have added Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Hours, The Painted Veil, Vicky Christina Barcelona, Dirty Dancing, Top Gun, Shawshank Redemption, Once upon a time in America, The Godfather trilogy...

Ally

[[deleted user]]

In no particular order...

+ Charlotte Gray
+ The Remains of the Day
+ Gosford Park
+ Withnail and I
+ Zwartboek / Black Book

(there are so many more! I agree with Allhug - so mean of you to limit us! :P)

extras are Four Weddings and a Funeral, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Muriel's Wedding, Borat.

[Terri]

Star Wars: A New Hope
Beetlejuice
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
LA Story
The Princess Bride

[Susanna]

Oh gosh, don't ask me that question EVER. Hmm, Top 5 off the top of my mind and in no particular order:

Terminator 2
Alien
Fight Club
Saving Private Ryan
Love Actually

[Ally]

...oh, oh, I forgot about The Life of David Gale - superb film!

Ally

[gina~*]

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Stranger Than Fiction
The Departed
Public Enemies
Drop Dead Gorgous

It's so hard just to pick five!!!

[Susan]

Sense and Sensibility
The Right Stuff
The Philadelphia Story (an oldie but a goodie!!)
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Little Women (the one with Winona Ryder & Susan Sarandon)

[Yasmin]

Crash
The Notebook
Love Actualy
The Holiday
Meet Joe Black

[[deleted user]]

YoudontGnomie wrote: "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Stranger Than Fiction
The Departed
Public Enemies
Drop Dead Gorgous

It's so hard just to pick five!!!"


I saw that the other day! Surprisingly good - not just the typical teen movie, but satirical :)

[Beeeeee]

5!! Thats' pretty much impossible but these are some films that I love.
Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Pulp Fiction
The Dark Knight
10 Things I Hate About You.

Grr now I keep thinking of all the other films I love too. I will post now so I don't feel tempted to change them again!

[John]

Only five is almost impossible, so here is the first top five.

Shane
The Commitments
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
To Kill a Mockingbird
Upside of Anger

first alternatives

Dear Frankie
Adventures of Robin Hood
Bourne Identity
Lord of the Rings
Tin Cup

[Jenny, honorary mod - inactive]

I watched one flew over the cuckoo's nest recently and loved it!

[Yorky]

Top Five have to be:-

African Queen
Emma
Harry Potter - Philosphers Stone
Kindergarten Cop
Deeply ashamed of this one.....Convoy!

[[deleted user]]

Top 5 oooohhhh thats a good question.... I'm gonna go with top 5 that make me smile...
The Sound of Music
50 First Dates (very funny and its filmed in Hawaii... my home)
The Holiday
Ever After
The Princess Bride

[Leshawn]

"Howards End" (I saw it three times in the theater before I ever owned it on DVD. In my opinion, it is one of the best literary adaptations ever made!)
"Bleu"
"Amadeus"
"Husbands and Wives"
"Woman of the Year"

[Sam]

Oooo tough one:

1. The Nightmare Before Christmas
2. Twin Town
3. American History X
4. The Boondock Saints
5. Four Brothers

But there could've been many many more added to that list!

[Leshawn]

Carolyn I love "The Princess Bride"! My sister and I have seen it so many times that we can quote it to each other!

[Gemma]

Oooh, what a question. The list is in flux, but here's what I reckon at the minute, in no particular order...

The Shawshank Redemption
The Truman Show
Equilibrium
Constantine
Inception

I know Inception's only a recent one, but I reckon it's going to go the distance for me.

[Mark]

My problem is that a list I post today might be different tomorrow. I'm constantly adjusting the list. The only movies that stay up there are:

Halloween
The Lost Weekend

[Gemma]

Oh, hang on, I have to squeeze V for Vendetta in there, oh but if i'm going there, Watchmen is great... *head explodes.

[Becky]

Hey LeShawn - just saw Amadeus again - loved it!

Here are mine - but it totally depends upon my mood (and not in any order):
It Happened One Night
The General
Some Like it Hot
Young Frankenstein
Room with a View

[Stacy]

5 is definitely hard!


The Princess Bride
Amelie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Moulin Rouge!
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

[Leshawn]

Oh Becky....I see scenes from "Amadeus" in my head constantly!
"Room with a View" is an excellent choice! I've seen it to many times to count. I've read Forster's novel repeatedly and I think it is a wonderful adaptation.
Did you see the new adaptation?
I put it on my Netflix list but I haven't seen it yet.

[Laura]

Harry Potter (All of them)
P.S. I love you
The notebook
Never been kissed
there's something about mary

[Alese]

the notebook
Dear john
The last song
The time travelers wife
and lots of others

[Ivan]

Cabaret
Chinatown
A Room with a View
84, Charing Cross Road
Summertime

The Third Man, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Queen, Reversal of Fortune, Rosemary's Baby...would round out the top ten. Oh, I just watched The Purple Rose Cairo this weekend with a friend who'd never seen it. What a hymn to old-time movies, and such a beautifully realized bittersweet story.

[Becky]

Leshawn - I haven't seen the new version, I can't imagine since the one with Helena Bonham Carter was so wonderful. Let me know if you do see it.

Lots of other great movies here too.

[[deleted user]]

Inception
Toy Story Three
I Love You Man
Scott Pilgrim vs the World

[Butterflycager]

1. You Can't Take It With You
2. Sense and Sensibility
3. A Room With A View
4. The Holiday
5. The King's Speech

[Kristina]

1. Titanic
2. Grease
3. Lady and the Tramp
4. King Arthur
5. Mamma Mia

[Alison]

The Sound of Music
The Tin Drum
Heathers
North by North West
Strictly Ballroom

[Karendenice]

The Little Princess
Rebecca
The Shawshank Redemption
The Sound of Music
The Horse Whisperer

[Chrissy315]

Star Wars
Grease
The Wizard of Oz
Jaws
Lord of the Rings trilogy

[Lisa]

The Sound of Music
To Kill a Mockingbird
Chocolat
The Parent Trap
Casablanca

and this is impossible. How about top 100?!