Your Top 5 Films To Watch....

Ok, so, after I've just watched an absolute classic and TMG liked Goodfellas as well....what your all time top 5 classic films to watch, if you could take a DVD onto a remote island for 6 months...one's you could watch over and over.

For me:

1.Godfather Part 2

2.Goodfellas

3.State of Grace

4.Scarface

5.Black Hawk Down

Depends on my mood, but 5 films I would happily watch time and again:

High Fidelity (as good as the excellent book)
On The Waterfront (Eva Marie Saint is stunning)
Starter For Ten (Makes me laugh out loud, and so reminds me of the teenager I was)
It's A Wonderful Life (Perfection)
Quadrophenia (In reality a poor film, but so nostalgic for me).

So many others that are now springing to mind!

How about a shite top 5 too?

Some good films there TBM....guess it nostalgia for you?

Not really a film fan, so when I see one that strikes a chord I tend to keep returning to it.

i don't think i've watched any of them.

there's a few pixar cartoons that i've watched dozens of times (toy story, monsters inc. cars).

titanic
ghost

You can't go wrong with Pixar movies, or Tarantino either.
Django, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill are works of art. Uma Thurman slaughtering hordes of assassins, dressed in that yellow suit, to a northern soul track is just about the most perfect combination in cinema history!
In fact anything with Uma Thurman is good for me!
Guilty pleasures are the Fast & Furious franchise, purely because me and the boy always go to see them on release, even though he's now 20 and at Uni. Yes they are crap in reality, but still great fun to watch together.

I've got to nod in agreement with Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction. They will never go out of fashion.

I do like the Fugitive and Enemy of the State.

Top Gun
First Blood
Rocky
Shawshank Redemption
The Great Escape

Enemy of the State...good film

See, I could add at least 3 or 4 more to my list.....The Usual Suspects, Cyrano de Bergerac, Nikita (the original), Gladiator

Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Fistful of Dollars
Schindlers List
Alien

Never watched Schindlers List again after I saw it in the cinema. Very powerful film.

Schindler's List is hard going to watch.  Bloody good film in it's own right, but in the back of your head is the knowledge that it's based in reality and it makes it all that bit more uncomfortable to sit through.

My five, in no particular order:

• Pulp Fiction - Has a bit of everything, plus I love the banter between Jackson and Travolta
  
• The Fifth Element - Again, has a bit of everything
  
• Die Hard - About the best action film I've seen, plus you can watch it at Christmas 
  
• Blues Brothers - You see something new in it every time you watch it
  
• Snatch - Every single character is watchable.  And Brad Pitt's pikey is superb.
  

Although on another day I'd be as likely to say others, like:

• Airplane! - I can recite it word for word and yet it still makes me laugh, it's just so ridiculous
  
• Local Hero - My wife's favourite, but I really like it too
  
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Another ridiculous film that makes me laugh
  
• The Crow - Came out around about the same time I went through my goth phase.  Stop laughing at the back!
  
• The Full Monty - I never thought I'd like this until the first time I saw it.  Very funny.
  
• Lethal Weapon - The chemistry between Gibson and Glover is brilliant.  It's still as good in the three follow-ups, but this one is the best of the four.
  

It's too hard to call.  If I was forced to take 5 DVDs, I'd want them to be recordable discs and I'd burn all these onto them!

It's hard....I look at some that have been posted and think.."wow, forgot about them".

Airplane for one....absolutely brilliant.

"Captain, how soon can you land?"

"I can't tell"

"You can tell me, I'm a doctor"

"No, I'm just not sure"

"Well can't you take a guess?"

"Well, not for another 2 hours"

"You can't take a guess for another 2 hours?"

Brilliant.

I was only going to write Blues Brothers then I forgot to even include it!

blueboy wrote:It's hard....I look at some that have been posted and think.."wow, forgot about them".

Airplane for one....absolutely brilliant.

"Captain, how soon can you land?"

"I can't tell"

"You can tell me, I'm a doctor"

"No, I'm just not sure"

"Well can't you take a guess?"

"Well, not for another 2 hours"

"You can't take a guess for another 2 hours?"

Brilliant.

It's just full of such silliness, is Airplane.

"We need to get this man to a hospital"
"What is it?"
"It's a big building full of sick people, but that's not important right now."

I actually use a few clips when I'm training pilots....ambiguity, it's perfect for it.

Airplane
Spaceballs
Terminator 2
Basic (fairly recent army training based with travolta & samual L in it, surprisingly good I thought)
Most of the current Marvel films I'm enjoying

It's funny what people like in films. Sort of tells a little glimpse of their personality maybe?

Good job I didn't include Back Door Action 3 then!!!