Your top five best movies

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  1. ohyeah89

    ohyeah89 LEARN-IMPROVE-TRAIN

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    1. American History X
    2. Dogma
    3. Momemento
    4. Donnie Darko
    5. Being John Malcavitch

    Also Fight Club, Happy Gilmore, Seven, Boon Dock Saints, Garden State
     
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    Blade Runner (The original release NOT the Director's cut)
    The Addiction
    Terminator 2 Judgement Day
    Schindler's List
    Bourne Identity #1

    It's tough to leave off The Godfather and Les Miserables, but the original asked for 5 and I am still moved by that robot being a good dad in T2.
     
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    great list



    no order

    rainman
    fight club
    office space
    casino
    good fellas
     
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    Danimal Gary the Cat

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    donnie darko, good flick..
    You covered most, but add;

    Salton Sea
    Snatch
     
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    In no particular order.

    1. Le Mans
    2. Dirty Harry
    3. The Aviator
    4. The Great Escape
    5. Catch me if you can

    I also liked Into the wild and The Blues Brothers.
     
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    first blood
    American History X
    Romper Stomper
    A time to kill
    Saving Private Ryan
    Fear and loathing In Las Vegas
     
  8. Zippo

    Zippo Pow Wow!

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    wait, :lol: no one's mentioned

    Child's Play
    Child's Play 2
    Child's Play 3
    Bride of Chucky
    Seed of Chucky
    [​IMG]
     
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    This is tough...
    Breaking Away
    Excalibur
    Shawshank Redemption
    Star Trek II Wrath of Khan (i'm going to get sh*t for this one, eh?)
    Stand and Deliver!

    very honorable mention(s)
    Original Star Wars
    Pay it Forward
    The Majestic
    Blue Brothers
    Cry Freedom
    Caddyshack...should be on everyone's list!

    *I reserve the right to change my list depending on mood and number of beers in my system...this is based on 0 beers...so I'm going to fix that now!
     
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    Pablomatic middle:middle

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    +1
    "I need fuel" Classic Rourke

    +1
    'Up in Smoke' and 'Next Movie' were/are some funny shiat

    +1
    Mickey Rourke again
     
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    bvader Long Live The Gorn!

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    Give you Sh##t ....No F'in way!!!! Awesome Choice. Great Saturday Afternoon post ride Flick.

    My Favorite Trek and really a great all around movie all Kirkism aside...wait you cant put them aside, so much fun and the final cat and mouse chase is the stuff of movie legends to me. Seriously....after all....

    "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one"

    Some really great movies on these lists so far...Gattaca needs to be added....and Gangs of New York...Bill The Butcher one of my all time favorite movie characters

    As I sit here writing performance appraisals (OK taking a short break) and streaming CINEMIX...Vangelis..Blade Runner Blues is playing....now just transitioned to Mad World from Donnie Darko...if you like movie sound tracks really cool station
     
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    Upchuck Marlboro Man in training

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    They left out one of the best bicycle movies of all time! The Flying Scotsman

    "The true story of Graeme Obree, the Champion cyclist who built his bicycle from old bits of washing machines who won his championship only to have his title stripped from him and his mental health problems which he has suffered since."

    The best part is it's a true story written by Graeme Obree himself. Fantastic cycling footage, too.
     
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    (In no particular order)
    -Lost in Translation
    -La Femme Nikita (the French version w/Anne Parillaud)
    -Heat
    -The Matrix
    -Broadcast News
     
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    bvader Long Live The Gorn!

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    I just saw some of that the other day...he went up against Chris Boorman (AKA Superman)...pretty compelling, I will need to record that and watch the whole thing sometime.
     
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    Dances with Wolves
    Goodfellas
    The Right Stuff
    Pulp Fiction
    Joe vs. the Volcano (weird favorite, but something about this flick just hits me)
    [​IMG]

    Oh, I forgot, I love the Kill Bill series....
     
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    yes! awesome flick. If I'm in that mood, then there's

    The Vanishing - original 1988
    Diabolique
    Knife in the Water
    Pi
    Mudhoney & Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (watch 'em as a Russ Meyer doubleheader and count 'em as one)
     
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    Gladiator
    Ronin
    Two Lane Black Top
    Vanishing Point
    The Usual Suspects
     
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    • Wrath of Khan, per above.
    • Lawrence of Arabia
    • Office Space
    • The Hunt for Red October
    • High Plains Drifter
     
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    Nothing sexier than a hot chick in stilettos wielding a really big gun! :bang:
     

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