Hah, Contact would have been my top choice too.

And my next choice would have been about trouble in China, but not that one - The Painted Veil, awesome movie.

Other than that - Fantastic Planet, Moon, maybe Ted Danson's Gulliver's Travels.

Contact really? That movie was so average, where it could have been so good.

Contact? Really?

In no particular order:

• A few good men


• Batman Begins


• Fight Club


• Office Space


• For love of the game

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It allows you to rate movies with a simple system and then see friends ratings across the rest of the worlds ratings, so helps giving you ideas of what to watch next, etc.

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I have way too many really, very tough choice.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Ace Ventura Pet Detective and When Nature Calls
Jumanji
Hook
All old Disney films
Toy Story series

I am actually a sucker for the 50's films, just because it's so amazing how much character and difference there is in todays films.

1. Highlander
2. Princess Bride
3. LOTR Trilogy
4. Sliding Doors
5. Love, Actually

Contact would be in my top ten though... about 8 i think.

Terminator 2
The Other Guys
2012
30 Days Of Night
Independance Day


There are many many more however, those were just the 5 that came to mind.

The book of eli, I am legend, pursuit of happiness, good will hunting, 40 year old virgin, pineapple express, how high, fridays, zombieland, up + many many more!

1. Hunt for Red October
2. Oliver!
3. Rounders
4. Broken Arrow
5. Short Circuit 1/2 OR the star trek movies

5th is a bit tricky. Probably a toss up between the ones i listed and another half a dozen.

The Matrix
Fight Club
Lord of The Rings
V for Vendetta
Back to The Future

I can get a fairly respectable list just from Bruce Willis films.

1. Die Hard
2. The Fifth Element
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Twelve Monkeys
5. Charlie's Angels: Full Throt... nah just kidding, Sin City.

Not my actual "Top 5" but without thinking about it too hard they would probably be in my top 10 or 20 somewhere, along with Unbreakable.

After much deliberation I'd say the five below are my fave in that I watch them over and over again and still love them.

Heat
Big Trouble in Little China
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Darjeeling Limited

A few favs:

Rear Window
Pulp Fiction
Clerks
Alien
Dawn of the Dead

Impossible to pick 5, more like top 50.
Or top 5 in each genre.

Horror:
Evil Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Texas Chainsaw
Friday 13th Part IV
Poltergeist

Action:
The Terminator
Scarface
Sin City
Fight Club
No Country for Old Men

Sci-fi:
Alien
The Thing
Bladerunner
Empire Strikes Back
Cube

War:
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Guns of Navarone
First Blood

Western:
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The Magnificent Seven
High Plains Drifter
Once Upon a Time in the West
Rio Bravo

Drama:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Eternal Sunshine
The Road
Whale Rider
Goodfellas

Classic:
Rear Window
Casablanca
Cape Fear
The Birds
The Man Who Would Be King

Other honourable mentions based on what others have said and reminded me of after I forgot them earlier:
Pulp Fiction
Love, Actually
Aladdin
Hook
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Snatch
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Damn, making a list of just 5 is hard!

The Big Lebowski

abide

Fight Club
Donnie Darko
Reservoir Dogs
Terminator 2
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

I was reading this thread and thinking, isnt it great that we are all so different (or wierd :P) and have different tastes...

In no particular order but certainly in my top 5 movie list
1) Aliens
2) Blues Brothers
3) Once were warriors
4) LOTR Trilogy
5) Ip Man

And a couple that might have been top 5 depending on my mood - Ong Bak, Hot Fuzz and Seven Samurai

(Why these movies? Can i watch them again? Did they move me in some way or make me snort my drink out my nose from laughing? Was it music that made me want to get up and shake my tail feather or fight scenes that left me (and still do) wondering how the hell they did that? - I would like to have included a couple more foreign movies in there as i think that right now the best cinema is not coming from the USA but the problem with foreign films is that you cant remember the names of them easily :P)




P.S

Contact as a top 5 movie compared to so many other awesome movies? That movie could have been so much more...

Contact has something to do with Carl Sagan? I saw it as being a distinctly religious movie about finding God disguised as a story about 'naive' scientists looking for aliens.

He and his wife, who are both atheists/scientists, wrote it.

It was about many things that I could tell, but one of them was the problem of eye witness accounts, and how even a scientist or like-minded person should remain skeptical - of even their own experiences.

I just started reading the book. It is quite different from the movie.

Contact is partly my number one because of how Jodie Foster portrays her character. She is brilliant.

1.The Green Mile
2. Anchorman
3. The Naked Gun
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Reservoir Dogs

Star wars transcends beyond being just "a movie".

If we were talking top 5 experiences of a life time.

Yeah a top 50 list would have been way easier. Mine would be something like

Big Trouble in Little China, Heat, The Darjeeling Limited, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Inglourious Basterds, The Big Lebowski, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chinatown, The Seven Samurai, A Clockwork Orange, Once Upon a Time in the West, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Terminator 2, The Third Man, The Thing, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Total Recall, Predator, M, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Catch 22, The Fifth Element, Beverly Hills Cop, Drive, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Snatch, Fight Club, The Wrong Man, Goodfellas, Ronin, Reservoir Dogs, Inception, The Departed, Collateral, Kill Bill, Death Proof, The Matrix, Die Hard, Full Metal Jacket, V for Vendetta, Sin City, Das Boot, Saving Private Ryan, Charade, North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief.

I'll stop there. I admit some of the above are 'better' than my top five i.e. classics, oscar winners or whatever but that doesn't count for everything.

The Transformers movie made a mark on me too like the original TMNT movie and GI Joe animated movie to a lesser extent. Everytime my friend's mum took us to the video store when I was about 5 or 6, pretty much every couple of weeks, I would get the Transformers movie. One day we went there she actually raged me and said do not get that movie!

Agamemnon, LOTR trilogy is 3 movies.. pick 1!!!

i consider them as one piece. same with back to the future.

Stargate, Clerks, Fight Club... umm I dunno... American Pie, Bad Boys II ?

Being John Malkovich
The Usual Suspects
Limitless
Donnie Darko
Primer

Haha

That video is genius.

I like how the thread title is pick 5 movies, yet some people post eleventy billion.

Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather Part 2
Schindler's List
The Dark Knight
Braveheart

No particular order.

Spaceballs - I wore the VHS tape out from watching this so many times and I still enjoy watching it to this very day.
Stargate
Explorers
BRAT Patrol
Clue

There aren't many movies that I can re-watch and not get bored with but I'd have to say these 5 would be on the list of movies I can just chuck in and watch, no matter what kind of mood I'm in.

Runner up movies would probably be The Shadow, The Wraith and Back To The Future ( I and III, don't much care for II )

Fight Club
Lotr
seven

Great thread!

1. Gladiator
2. The Matrix
3. Tombstone
4. Heat/Terminator 2
5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Hah, had to squeeze T2 in damnit! :)

The Fifth Element
Predator
Aliens
Starship Troopers
Star Wars V (Empire Strikes Back)

My number one would probably be The Blues Brothers.


Honourable mention goes to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Sure it's a crappy movie but it has the lolz.

predator
aliens
mad max
troy
dr strangelove