Since I'm on a Movie Kick...Your Top *FIVE* Films
I've always thought you could tell a good deal about people by their favorites in film and literature, and, as I'm on a movie kick tonight I'd like to start up a thread with everyone's top FIVE movie picks. Somehow, people always manage to pop a tie or two in or even honorable mentions to expand the list to upwards of eight, but we're disciplined iron warriors...let's exercise (no pun intended) some of that discipline and cap it at FIVE (ranked or unranked...your choice...though indicate if it's in no particular order or not, por favor). So, you're forced to exclude some of your faves and narrow it down to a list of five films that absolutely engage you, changed you and/or simply provide everything that you believe a film should be.
I'll start it off, though I'm ashamed to say that my list is fairly narrow in that my top five are dominated by films in the last ten years. A few that I'm leaving off the list go back much further...but when forced to choose an absolute top five, it simply pans out that way. So, without further delay, my top five (in no particular order) -
1. Vanilla Sky
2. Fight Club
3. Say Anything
4. Chasing Amy
5. American Beauty
So you wanna play games RedKetchup?
Well, you're on. My complete list...all in no particular order:
Top 3 Comedy:
1. Dogma
2. Animal House
3. Dumb & Dumber
Top 3 Horror:
1. The first and last Nightmare on Elm Streets viewed as one movie
2. Halloween
3. Dead Dudes in the House
Top 3 Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Star Wars
2. Minority Report
3. Back to the Future
Top 3 "Teen" Movies
1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
2. The Breakfast Club
3. Can't Hardly Wait
Top 3 Romantic Comedies
1. Can't Buy Me Love
2. My Best Friend's Wedding
3. When Harry Met Sally
Top 3 Sports Films
1. Rocky
2. Hoosiers
3. Field of Dreams
Top 3 "Karate" Films
1. Enter the Dragon
2. Best of the Best
3. Kickboxer
Top 3 Action Films
1. The Matrix
2. Point Break
3. Independence Day
Top 3 Dramas
1. Vanilla Sky
2. Goodwill Hunting
3. American Beauty
Top 3 "Postmodern" Mainstream Films:
1. Fightclub
2. Simone
3. Vanilla Sky