Top 5 favorite movies of all time?

SPC Michelle M. — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:00:02 -0400

These aren't genre specific, but I want your all time favorite no matter how cheesy they might be. I will start with mine (in no particular order):
1. Clue
2. The Labyrinth
3. Usual Suspects
4. The Goonies
5. Fight Club

We can get more genre specific and/or expand on this top later.

Response by MSG Wade Huffman made Aug 20 at 2014 9:43 AM

MSG Wade Huffman — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:43:02 -0400

1. Shawshank Redemption - no question, #1
remaining in no particular order...
Saving Private Ryan
Tombstone
The entire James Bond series (especially the older ones)
We Were Brothers

Many others but these are the first that came to mind.

Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 30 at 2014 3:58 AM

SCPO Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:58:55 -0400

- Lawrence of Arabia
- Hunt for Red October
- Blazing Saddles
- History of the World, Part 1
- Miracle on Ice

Response by PO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 30 at 2014 10:06 AM

PO1 Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:06:09 -0400

1. Charlie Sheen's Navy SEALs
2. Chuck Norris's Delta Force
3. Stallone's Rambo series
4. Schwarzenegger's pre-Terminator movies

Oh, wait, favorite? Oops...

Response by SFC(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 30 at 2014 10:19 AM

SFC(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:19:37 -0400

1 Shawshank Redemption "get busy living or get busy dying"
2 Tombstone " I'm your huckleberry"
3 Enter the Dragon " Man..you come straight out of a comic book"
4 Sleepers " What do you know fat man"
5 The Usual Suspects " Keyser Soze!!!)

I watch all of those at least twice a year...CQ

I also watch a lot of standup comedy, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappell, Richard Prior, Cat Williams. Those guys crack me up.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 30 at 2014 10:24 AM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:24:34 -0400

The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Office Space
Star Wars
It's a Wonderful Life

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 30 at 2014 11:53 AM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:53:56 -0400

I can only name my favorite. Everything else ties for second.

1. Casablanca
2. Delta Force
2. Lone Wolf McQuade
2. Rudy
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Response by CW3 John Wescott made Aug 30 at 2014 12:02 PM

CW3 John Wescott — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:02:42 -0400

1) Patton
2) Blackhawk Down
3) Godfather
4) Vision Quest - Best High School Wrestling Movie Ever !!!
5) Apocalypse Now

Response by SGT Richard H. made Aug 30 at 2014 2:08 PM

SGT Richard H. — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 14:08:14 -0400

In no particular order:

The Patriot
Forrest Gump
The Bourne.... (all 3 with Damon)
Lone Survivor
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Response by MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca made Aug 30 at 2014 3:40 PM

MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 15:40:34 -0400

Everything MSG Wade Huffman put plus:

Midnight Run
Patton
Mystery Men
Where Eagles Dare
The Gumball Rally
- why stop at 5 -
Rough Riders (technically a mini series)
Hooper
The A-Team (the movie)
The Avengers
War Games

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Aug 30 at 2014 6:21 PM

SFC Mark Merino — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:21:06 -0400

1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Boondock Saints
3. The Last Samurai
4.Tombstone
5. Star Wars

Star Wars goes in the ground with me.

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 30 at 2014 7:05 PM

MSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 19:05:20 -0400

In no particular order:

The Jason Bourne movies
Lone Survivor
Taken
Clear and Present Danger
Black Hawk Down

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 30 at 2014 10:35 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:35:09 -0400

1. The Goonies
2. The Neverending Story
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. The Princess Bride
5. Platoon

I'm, apparently, all kinds of manic.

Response by PO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 30 at 2014 11:02 PM

PO3 Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 23:02:17 -0400

1.Tombstone
2. Boondock Saints
3. The Day After Tomorrow
4. The Green Mile
5. Dances With Wolves

Response by Sgt Jennifer Mohler made Aug 31 at 2014 7:46 PM

Sgt Jennifer Mohler — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:46:06 -0400

Sorry, I couldn't get it down to five. This is in no order whatsoever.

Boondock Saints series
Lord of the Rings series
Harry Potter series
Star Wars series
Pirates of the Caribbean series
Willy Wonka/ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 31 at 2014 10:07 PM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:07:22 -0400

1. Gran Torino (very well done)
2. The Princess Bride ("RUS's, I don't think they exist" - clearly, the Dread Pirate Roberts never went to Africa)
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (I have to watch this every time it is on. Classic)
4. American Beauty (also, very well done)
5. Team America World Police (First time I saw it in Iraq, 2005:
My roommate: "I can't believe I just wasted 90 minutes of my life"
Me: "That might have been the best movie I have ever seen"
Roomate: "Really? You're kidding."
Me: "I'm watching it again"
The perfect deployment movie)

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 1 at 2014 10:45 AM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:45:44 -0400

1. Band of Brothers
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Last Samurai
4. A Bridge Too Far
5. Top Gun

I only list Top Gun because of the number of times a group of us saw it when it first came out in the Mid 80s and then shortly PCS'd to Korea and it was the top re-played in our Camp Theater (dining facility converted each night). The list does go on and if I were to give it deeper thought, there would be some changes. These are the ones that pop in my head at the moment.....Oh, yeah, here is another one....A Time to Kill w/ Samuel L. Jackson. See what I mean.

Response by SGT Marvin "Dave" Bigham made Sep 12 at 2014 2:05 PM

SGT Marvin "Dave" Bigham — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:05:25 -0400

Ghostbusters.
Evolution.
McClintock.
The Princess Bride.
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou.

Gotta have: action, humor, and GREAT one-liners

Response by SSG Pete Fleming made Sep 24 at 2014 10:08 AM

SSG Pete Fleming — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:08:21 -0400

SPC Michelle Malloy (Stagg), that is a good mix of movies... too many to choose from, for me to narrow to just five. I might be able to do that per genre, haha...

Response by COL Jean (John) F. B. made Sep 24 at 2014 11:08 AM

COL Jean (John) F. B. — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:08:08 -0400

1. Braveheart
2. Goodfellas
3. The Godfather (I, II, and III)
4. Dances With Wolves
5. Legends of the Fall

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 24 at 2014 11:15 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:15:00 -0400

1. Return of the Jedi
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. The Dirty Dozen
4. Dead Poet's Society
5. The Dark Knight

Response by PO2 Steven Erickson made Oct 21 at 2014 5:15 PM

PO2 Steven Erickson — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:15:27 -0400

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Let me go back in there and face the peril.)
2. Spaceballs (What's the matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken?)
3. Office Space (He represents all that is soulless and wrong!)
4. The Princess Bride (You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.)
5. Love Story (I love you.)
JUST KIDDING!!!!
5. Firefly/Serenity (That's morbidly creapifying.)

Response by COL Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 21 at 2014 9:21 PM

COL Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:21:22 -0400

1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) Fight Club
3) Boondock Saints
4) The Dark Crystal
5) The Empire Strikes Back

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 21 at 2014 9:41 PM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:41:39 -0400

I know this is an old post, but since I am brand new here, figured it'd be a quick and easy intro to the discussions. So...here goes
1- It's a Wonderful Life
2- The Green Berets
3- Full Metal Jacket
4- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
5-Grease

Response by SPC James Mcneil made Oct 21 at 2014 10:05 PM

SPC James Mcneil — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:05:16 -0400

To pick a favorite movie would be VERY difficult for me. Picking a top 5 wouldn't be easy. But here goes.

Highlander
The Princess Bride
The Fifth Element
The Karate Kid (Original)
Tombstone

Response by SPC(P) Jay Heenan made Oct 21 at 2014 10:15 PM

SPC(P) Jay Heenan — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:15:27 -0400

Top five (not in order)

1. Band of Brothers (does this count)
2. Red Dawn (original is best, also like the re-make)
3. Tomorrow when the war began (cheesy but I like it)
4. 300
5. The Jason Bourne series

Response by PO2 Rocky Kleeger made Oct 21 at 2014 11:16 PM

PO2 Rocky Kleeger — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:16:05 -0400

1. The Godfather
2. Rocky (no, shit, right?)
3. Princess Bride
4. Wall-E
5. Replacement Players

Response by CW2 Jonathan Kantor made Oct 22 at 2014 2:28 AM

CW2 Jonathan Kantor — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:28:49 -0400

In no particular order:

A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Last Emperor
Casablanca
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 22 at 2014 9:37 PM

SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:37:39 -0400

1. Bad Boys 1/2
2. Gone in 60 Secs
3. The Kingdom
4. Any Given Sunday
5. Last but not least Meet the Robinsons

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 23 at 2014 11:26 AM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:26:47 -0400

In order:

1) Seven

Such a great movie. Deep, dark, and the ending always gets me. "What's in the box?!?"

2) Fight Club

Another terrific movie. Twisted, but hilarious too.

3) Spaceballs

The best comedy movie of all time. Mel Brooks at his best.

4) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Action, comedy, and nerdiness. What more can you ask for?

5) Idiocracy

No explanation necessary.

Response by SGT Scott Curtice made Oct 27 at 2014 5:58 PM

SGT Scott Curtice — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:58:54 -0400

hmm, top 5 favorites, hard to knock it to five, so I'll cheat:

My 5 classics
1. Casablanca
2. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1959)
3. The Great Escape
4. Maltese Falcon
5. The Third Man

if I was going to let my geek side decide:
1. Forbidden Planet
2. Dune (extended edition 1985)
3. Empire Strikes Back
4. Alien
5. LOTR: Return of the King

the kid in me would go with:
1. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
2. The Sandlot
3. Star Wars
4. Mysterious Island (1961)
5. The Goonies

five for laughs:
1. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Blazing Saddles
4. History of the World pt 1
5. Young Frankenstein

Response by CMSgt James Nolan made Oct 27 at 2014 7:48 PM

CMSgt James Nolan — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:48:37 -0400

Pulp Fiction
Good Fellas
Tombstone
Lonesome Dove
We Were Soldiers

Not in any particular order

Additionally: Honorable Mentions
Blade
The Producers (the original with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel)
US Marshals (hey, it was great)
Reservoir Dogs
Zombie Land (# 1 rule of survival is cardio)
Office Space

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 27 at 2014 10:26 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:26:47 -0400

men of honor
heartbreak ridge
gran torino
the untouchables
tin cup

Response by SSG Maurice P. made Oct 28 at 2014 3:00 PM

SSG Maurice P. — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:00:44 -0400

1.Ben-hur
2.Alice in wonderland
3.Once upon a time in the west
4.How the west was won
5.The longest day
6.The magnificent seven
7.The sands of Iwo Jima
8.Spartacus
9.To hell and back
10.Hopscotch

Response by PO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 31 at 2014 10:48 AM

PO3 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:48:48 -0400

This is tough for me because I have so many favorites and it's hard to nail it down to the top 5.

1) Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back (still the best star wars movie)
2) Top Gun (favorite "Go Navy" movie ever)
3) The Princess Bride (full of awesome goodness)
4) Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn! (best horror comedy and also best Bruce Campbell movie)
5) American Graffiti (Hot Rods!)

Response by PO2 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 31 at 2014 11:14 AM

PO2 Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:14:42 -0400

In no order
Ran
Princess Bride
The Empire Strikes Back
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2001: A Space Odyssey

Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 6 at 2014 1:21 PM

Sgt Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 13:21:45 -0500

Fight Club
Gladiator
300
The Fountain
Phantom of the Opera

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 20 at 2015 12:17 AM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:17:15 -0400

In no particular order:

Billy Jack
Dog Soldiers
Taking Chance
Major Payne
Beyond The Law

Response by SGT Jeff Lyles made Jun 26 at 2017 8:11 PM

SGT Jeff Lyles — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 20:11:01 -0400

OK, my top five in no particular order:
Gone with the Wind; no explanation needed.
Silent Running; Huey, Dewey and Looie.
The Final Countdown; F-14s vs Zeros!!!
Night of the Living Dead (1968) The one that started them all.
Rocky Horror Picture Show; Let's do the Time Warp again!
Honorable mentions:
Galaxy Quest; Best Star Trek movie ever made.
1941; John Belushi. "Horrywood, Horrywood"!!!
Battle of Britain/633 Squadron; Spitfires, Mosquitos, Hurricanes and Emils! God I love airplanes!
Schindler's List; If only more had done the same.
Airplane; Roger, Rodger. Do we have clearance, Clarence? What's our vector, Victor?
Wizards; A gun still beats magic.
Easy Rider; Don't Bogart that joint my friend.
I still have a lot more to go but that should be (New Math) five.

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 9 at 2019 8:16 PM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 20:16:28 -0400

1. Forrest Gump
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Last Samurai
4. Django Unchained
5. Dragonheart