• 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.

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.

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.

1. Back to the Future
2. Wall-E
3. Into The Spider-verse
4. Interstellar
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The Dark Knight

The Shining

LOTR Trilogy (ROTK if I have to pick one)

The Nice Guys

Gladiator

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!

Big Lebowski for 1-5

Such a hard thing to do.

In no particular order, and this is only my mind right now,

• Grave of the Fireflies
• LOTR
• The Mummy (Brendan Fraser)
• Fifth Element
• The Northman

Honorable mentions, and depending on my mood, any of these might sneak into the list:

• Empire Strikes Back
• Spirited Away
• Hotel Rwanda
• The Lives of Others
• Princess Bride
• White Christmas
• Blade Runner / Blade Runner 2049
• Dune
• Your Name
• Alien
• The Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le pacte des loups)
• Arrival
• Children of Men
• Pretty much any Mel Brooks movie, but particularly Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood MIT, Dracula dead and loving it
• Kubo and the Two Strings
• In Bruges
• A fish Called Wanda
• The Life of Brian
• Some Like it Hot
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Wrath of Khan
• Best in Show
• Them
• Something Wes Anderson, likely Grand Budapest Hotel or Royal Tenenbaums
• Hot Fuzz
• There will be Blood
• 1917
• The Color of Money
• The Godfather Part 1
• Master and Commander
• Tropic Thunder
• The Sting
• Burn After Reading
• A River Runs Through It

• Star Trek: First Contact
• Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
• October Sky
• 12 Angry Men
• It’s a Wonderful Life

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 few 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

Monty Python and the holy grail

DnD movie

And all three LOTR movies. Extended of course.

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

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?!)

No way I can do all time, because my tastes change. However, I guess right now it’s:

• My neighbour Totoro
• Grave of the Fireflies, even though I can’t watch it
• into the spider verse
• knives out
• everything everywhere all at once

The top two there never really shift but the other three do all the time.

• Dazed and Confused
• Jurassic Park
• Fellowship of the Ring
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Matrix