american beauty

I'm afraid my classic repertoire is a bit thin. I tried to sit through Casablanca once and couldn't do it. American Beauty is pretty good, for sure. Another that springs to mind is rather simple, but still sticks with me: Grand Canyon. Blue Velvet is pure genius. It was my favorite for years. Its A Beautiful Life is incredible. The Sweet Hereafter gave me a hard time for quite awhile after watching it. Extremely powerful. The audio is so perfectly matched with the film and stands on its own wonderfully. From a pure entertainment sense, I would go with Brother, Where Art Though. Brilliant!!! I'm still going to stick with Malick's Thin Red Line, though.

You couldn't sit through CASABLANCA? Are you nuts? It doesn't move any slower than Malick's artsy war film, that's for damn sure. ;)

or apocalypse now

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If you loved O Brother... (one of my top 20), do yourself a vavor and watch Sullivan's Travels someday.

For Malick, I gotta go with Days of Heaven.

Hmmm. . . a couple more runners up that came to mind. "Seven Years in Tibet" is fantastic, as is "American Beauty". I'd nominate both.

Red Dawn staring Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howel, Lea Thompson and Charlie Sheen

If I had to choose one movie it would be Star Wars A New Hope. I read the book before seeing the movie and at 13, couldn't believe that Lucas was able to bring those images to the big screen.

Other favorites in no particular order:
Princess Bride
The Holy Grail
The Meaning of Life
Great Santini
American Grafitti
Indiana Jones
Christmas Story
Young Sherlock Holmes
Time After Time
Koyaanisqatsi (anybody else seen this?)

Yes a classic... I'm really sad that my Butch and Sundance haven't made the grade yet..

So many choices for favorites..... cant be pigeon holed into picking just one

To pick just one:

Rocky

As far as others I really enjoy:

Apollo 13
Backdraft
Forrest Gump
White Christmas
Top Gun
Tombstone

BINGO! +1

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well this will never work cuz you need some division.

drama Shawshank redemtion; What Dreams may come; meet Joe Black

comedy Caddy Shack

shot um up the Good the Bad and the Ugy; Scare Face

blow um up Transporter; Die Hard series

alien Alien series

si-fi Star Wars

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Well, my top five are in no particular order..
Forrest Gump
Great Santini
Empire of the sun
Holy Grail
Apocalypse Now

Can't you fkO's follow Directions or is it that you can't READ, the man said only ONE movie not 5. GEEZUS what morons.

Ballad of Cable Hogue.

Impossible to answer since it would be a 20 or 30 way tie, (I've seen thousands of films), but if I had to pick one it would be "Chinatown". As close to a perfect film as ever made. Can't even imagine what could be changed to improve it.

One interesting measure is how well a film holds up over time; some really don't and you wonder what all of the fuss was about in the first place. The really great ones get better, you see more genius with every subsequent viewing.

Some of the choices named on this thread are not even considered good films by most people, I guess that sentimentality or some other factor weighs heavily for some(?)

"Sweet Hereafter" is brilliant, Egoyan is definitely a genius of film. It is part of a series, (trilogy?), of films about loss and recovery by him. That film knocked me out cold as a mackerel, and it has my absolute favorite young actress in it, Sarah Polley. She is hauntingly good, I'd watch a dog food commercial w/ her in it.

Well wait a minute now...ahhh Cable Hogue is a good film but...All That Jazz is good to..so I go with the Fortune Cookie.

Number one will be almost anything with Bogart and Bacall or Bergman. A few comes to mind (sorry can´t pick), like Key Largo, Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep and of course Casablanca.

IMO, no man before or after Humphrey Bogart, has been able to externalize such character impact. He really epitomized the rule less is more. The talk, the walk, the smoking and the women handling.. ;)

Funny, I can´t seem to come up with any movies I think is better after those made over half a century ago..

The Shawshank Redemption