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    1. The Godfather.
    2. Blade Runner.
    3. Scarface.
    4. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
    5. The fight club.

    No particular order, these are some of my favorites.

    Alien and Aliens could be there too.

    And a bunch of animates movies like Ghost in the Shell, Akira, A silent voice, Grave for the Fireflies, The Tale of Princes Kaguya, Princess Mononoke, Howls moving Castle.

    Also Toy Story 2, Shrek 2, The Prince of Egypt, Fantasia, Klaus, Into the Spiderverse.

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    The Dark Knight

    The Shining

    LOTR Trilogy (ROTK if I have to pick one)

    The Nice Guys swapping for In Bruges

    Gladiator

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    • Young Frankenstein

    • The Princess Bride

    • Blazing Saddles

    • The Matrix

    • The Shawshank Redemption

    It’s a toss-up on a couple of those. The Blues Brothers could easily make the list, as could Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2, Alien, Interstellar, and I’m sure there are many others. I will abandon what I’m doing to watch any one of these, if they come on, probably 90% of the time.

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      The Big Lebowski is a feminist masterpiece where every man is a buffoon and every woman is willing to go as far as cutting off their own toe to get what they want.

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          A long time ago, there used to be a really, really good film analysis breakdown of this very idea on YouTube. I can’t remember the guy, but he locked up all his film analysis behind paywalls years ago. I remember the Big Lebowski one being so well put together, and in the end, it’s really hard to argue that the film has anything other than a deeply feminist viewpoint.

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    1. Dead Man: A film by Jim Jarmusch starring Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer and an all-star cast. Beautiful acid western about friendship in harsh circumstances. Wonderful original soundtrack by Neil Young.

    2. The Fall: A film by Tarsem. This films story isn’t necessarily amazing, but this is a love letter to classic cinema. It has a plot about classic cinema, and it uses all classic techniques to achieve the effects. Tarsem famously went out of their way to ensure there wasn’t any CGI in this film. It’s one of the most vividly colorful and visually stunning films I have ever seen.

    3. Dreams: A film by Akira Kurosawa. A montage of short films inspired by dreams experienced by filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. In partnership with Lucasfilm. Almost as visually stunning as The Fall but much more cohesive stories for being inspired by dreams. Come for “The Peach Orchard,” and stay for “Village of the Watermills.”

    4. Brazil: A film by Terry Gilliam starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro, Kim Greist and Michael Palin. A treatise on dreams in a totalitarian society. The only cut worth watching is the Directors Cut. The film was famously butchered by the studios to give it a “happy ending” because the original was considered too bleak.

    5. Sneakers: A film by Phil Alden Robinson starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, and Ben Kingsley. One of the only films that ever presented a semi-realistic portrayal of hacking. Good plot, good pacing, and arguably prescient considerations.

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      Sneakers was my favorite movie when I was like 12. Which is a weird age for that and yet. (my other fav was The Hunt for Red October, so I was kind of a weird tween…)

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      I love Brazil so much. De Niro has such a fantastic role in that film, never fails to make me smile.

      And the Kafkaesque/Orwellian tone is just sublime.

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    1. Back to the Future
    2. Wall-E
    3. Into The Spider-verse
    4. Interstellar
    5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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    • Star Trek: First Contact
    • Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
    • October Sky
    • 12 Angry Men
    • It’s a Wonderful Life
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    1. Star Wars: A New Hope
    2. Blade Runner
    3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
    4. Jurassic Park
    5. Back To The Future

    Runners up: Empire Strikes Back, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, ET, Close Encounters, Alien(s), Ghostbusters, Stand By Me, Full Metal Jacket, A Bronx Tale, Good Will Hunting

    It’s too hard to pick just 5!

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    Super hard to limit to just 5 but here’s the first that came to mind: Star Wars: A New Hope The Matrix Delicatessen The Science of Sleep The Fifth Element

    Any of the following could easily go somewhere on the above list :) Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brazil, The Hudsucker Proxy, Groundhog Day, Dark City, Inception & Intersteller (if only it didn’t have the whole love is a force that transcends dimensions and can be used to communicate across time and space stuff?!)

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    • Dazed and Confused
    • Jurassic Park
    • Fellowship of the Ring
    • The Royal Tenenbaums
    • The Matrix
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    I actually sat down a coworker years ago and did this. It was surprisingly easy once I realized something - I’ll sit down and watch a lot of movies on TV, but there are a few I refuse to. Too many commercials and edits just make me furious… those are my favorites. Getting down to 10 was hard enough, so top 5 are in no order. Some changed how I thought about things, some just entertained me for years:

    The Matrix

    Interstellar

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Fight Club

    Schindler’s List

    And because it was so hard, here are a few more that just as easily could be top 5:

    Silence of the Lambs, Inception, V for Vendetta, OG Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Kung Pow, Blair Witch Project

    Edit: Forgot one - Arrival. Probably in top 5, no idea which to demote. Fight Club maybe

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    I don’t have something like that, but every time this kind of question is asked, City of God (2002) always comes to mind.

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      Same here. Great movie, great soundtrack.

      And Children of Men. That’s my “of” favorites.

      I’m a sucker for the Jerk, Strange Brew, and Hot Fuzz for comedies

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    My cat is sitting on my lap so you get both of ours combined together

    • The Fifth Element
    • The Matrix
    • Dark City
    • The Big Lebowski
    • Burn After Reading
    • Fargo
    • Lost In Translation
    • Snatch
    • Grosse Pointe Blank
    • Thor: Ragnarok
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    In no particular order:

    • Clue
    • Muppet Treasure Island
    • Lord of the Rings
    • The Hunt for Red October
    • Oscar

    All but one have Tim Curry, hmm… I never noticed that before.

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      Clue is a surprisingly great ‘chick flick’ for anyone to watch. Watching it is like reading a novel like Sense and Sensibility.

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    I’ll throw my hat in the ring and give my list in no particular order:

    Seven Samurai

    Borat

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    War of the Worlds (2005)

    The Godfather

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        Close Encounters is amazing and iirc some of the plot points were taken from reality.

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      I want to know more about why you would put War of the Worlds in your top 5. I am not hating on you. Purely perplexed because I’ve never seen anyone mention this movie since it came out. I rewatched it last year, but I don’t remember much to write home about.

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        I was 8 years old when I first saw the film and it scared me so much it left in me a permanent fear of aliens and once I got older I grew to love the film and aliens in general.

        Tbh the battle on the hill is enough to make it a great film for me because it involves the ultimate dilemma: which child do you save?

        It’s a choice no parent should ever have to make and the entire scene in general shows how hopeless it was against the Tripods.