1. Memento
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Fight Club
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
5. Donnie Darko
Edit: "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" could probably replace either of the last two
Edit again: Braveheart, and Requiem for a Dream could make my list too. Man, top-5 lists are impossible. I'm sure I'll come up with another twenty movies that could make my top-5 while I'm lying in bed tonight.
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A difficult test with such a large subject. Maybe monthly we can open a thread on each specific genre. I chose to ignore Kubrick and Kurosawa for the purposes of not dominating the list entirely.
1) City Lights
2) Wages of Fear
3) Branded to Kill
4) Unforgiven
5) Blues Brothers
I assure you, I'm not as old as that list makes it seem. Or maybe I am, what year is it?
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Fight Club - No Movie has affected as much as this movie.
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Braveheart - If CD's could wear this one would be dead. Love the soundtrack.
Pulp Fiction
HM - Batman Begins, The Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, One Flew Over the ####oo's Nest, Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, The Big Lebowski
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To Harry Lime: I agree with the Kubrick and Kurosawa domination, that's why I chose to pick one film of theirs that was the best IMO. The two greatest directors ever.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is my favorite modern rock musical. A very underrated story which puts songs in context an makes them extremely powerful at times, as well as being downright fun. The film version is superior to what was already a very successful off-broadway musical. If anyone hasn't seen it, please give it a try. Also, the title character is now being played by Neil Patrick Harris on broadway. Here's a clip to entice you. (full disclaimer, it's about a gay german boy who gets a botched sex change operation…for context of this clip)
Oldboy is one of the greatest revenge films ever made, and Chan Wook Park is an amazing director. That plot is something to behold, but also watching Park work with the camera and also get some stellar performances from the cast is very impressive. Plus, one of the greatest fight scenes ever with a hammer and a hallway full of bad guys. Stay far away from the piece of #### that was put out with Josh Brolin and directed by Spike Lee. Awful.
City of God is such a great film. Something that deserves honorable mention in the same vein is Boyz in the Hood. Often forgotten but still a great movie.
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Honourable mentions: Magnolia, 2001, Her, Darjeeling Limited, Revanche, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Rope, The Game, Bicycle Thief, Blade Runner, Eyes Wide Shut, The Prestige, Akira, Shawshank, Dreams.
I feel as though one could name almost any Kurosawa, Anderson (Wes or Paul Thomas), Kubrick, or Hitchcock film and I will likely Ooo and Ahh about it. Fincher and Jonze are approaching the same level in a contemporary sense, Jonze more of an expert in storytelling and Fincher a remarkable visual composer.
Movies are fun
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