What are your top 5 movies? (relevant)

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Cool story, agwood! I love meeting someone who I share mutual interests with, and can talk about them with.

My top 5 movies would be (in the order that I was exposed to them):

Chicken Run

Finding Nemo

Cars

Planes

Where the Wild Things Are

....All five movies have been special interests of mine at one time or another.

The Matrix Trilogy
Constantine
All of the Star Trek movies
The Passion of the Christ
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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can this be moved to the TV,movies section as it is not about ASD

This list is in no special order
1) How to succeed in business without trying (1967)
2) Spirited away (2002)
3) Scott Pilgrim vs the world (2010)
4) My neighbor Totoro (1988)
5) The cat returns (2002)

Diary of a wimpy kid
Look who's talking
Phoebe in wonderland
Hocus pocus
Honey we shrunk ourselves

1. Blade runner (1982); I like the aesthetic, I like the cinematography and I like the notion of replicants
2. Fight club (1999); That movie, for a big part sums up how I feel about society. But I think it's quite a beautiful movie cinematographically as well. So as with Blade runner; I do like pretty pictures
3. Natural born killers (1994); Best love story ever told
4. Pulp fiction(1994); I got nothing to why this movie is amazing. To me it just is; but this goes for a few other Tarantino movies as well.
5. The Big Lebowski (1998); Pretty much the same as Pulp fiction...

If you were to ask me for a top 10; these would've been tailing in no specific order; Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004), Eraserhead (1977), Videodrome (1983), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Fly (1986)

And my main preference in movies barely touched here; Dystopian sci fi and body horror. I'm quite a big Star wars fan and I like time travel stuff, yet SW or BTTF doesn't even rank in the top 10. I quite like Tim Burton, as well as Nolan's Batman trilogy as well as Araki's Teenage apocalypse trilogy... I'll mention A serbian film, just for kicks and the shockfactor. The fact a movie like that gets made and garners a bit of a cultfollowing is quite interesting in terms of filmmaking and a reflection on society I suppose.

But yeah; these 5 above for now it is I guess.

Looking at directors; Kubrik would be in my top 10, but I suppose there's a few other more eccentric ones in there (of which I wouldn't state they're on the spectrum); Tarantino and Lynch. And I suppose 1980's Cronenberg would qualify "eccentric" as well, though he has toned down a bit after the millenium.

1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) The Dark Knight
3) Back to the Future
4) Jurassic Park
5) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Really hard to pick a top 5. My favorite director is Krzysztof Kieslowski. Of his films my favorites are Blind Chance and Double Life of Veronique. Also absolutely love the Decalogue which is not really a film but series of short films, and my favorites of those are episodes 1, 4, and 10.

Also a big fan of Martin Scorsese and my favorite of his is The Age of Innocence.

Nearly love my mind with joy when I found out about Scorsese's Masterpieces of Polish Cinema film series this year. I was blown away by Krzyzacy (Black Cross).

I like Woody Allen movies a lot but don't really have a favorite of his.

Among comedies my favorites are O Brother Where Art Thou and The Waterboy.

Love just about anything with Robert Duvall in it.

Favorite miniseries, The Thornbirds.

Favorite anime series, Air.

I'll list my favorites by series in a no particular order.

Star wars
Back to the future
Lord of the rings


I also like the Simpsons movie.

DUEL --- Stephen Spielberg's directorial debut (though he may have directed some smaller projects before). This is a movie I first saw in my childhood, when the movie made its first appearance, as a television movie of the week. And this is a movie I always remembered. What appeals to me is the lack of a lot of characters and the straightforward linear plot. I also love that Spielberg opted against the use of "process" in the making of the film, which consists mainly of a semi-truck chasing a car. Also interesting is the lack of music (no opening credit music and no closing credit music, and mainly odd ethereal effects throughout the film for ambience).

JAWS --- This movie was probably the first film that truly affected me after seeing it as a child. I can remember having to sleep in my parents' bedroom after witnessing the horrific images presented on the screen. After seeing the movie, I considered Robert Shaw (Capt. Quint) as my favorite actor. I tried to watch every movie he ever made. And I can remember in junior high school learning from a teacher that Robert Shaw had died a few years after making Jaws. I was quite upset.

THE LONG LONG TRAILER --- This early 1950s comedy with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz is a movie I could watch over and over again without growing tired. I absolutely love it. As I love travel trailers, this film easily appeals to me. But the comedy is top notch in my opinion.

THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN --- Like Duel, this is a movie I always remembered from my childhood. I can remember watching it late at night on New Years Eve with my parents. It was a tradition for us. I love haunted houses, and this very funny film, starring Don Knotts, is one of the greatest comedies ever made, in my opinion.

A MIGHTY WIND --- This mockumentary about folk music is another movie I could watch over and over again without growing tired. I just love it. This is the newest of the films I selected (2003), and it is one that always makes me laugh.

There are other films that I could easily place in this top five list, but these were the ones that first came to my mind. And they are truly five films that I regard as some of the finest ever made.

1. Chronicle (2012)
2. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
3. Donnie Darko (2001)
4. Drive (2011)
5. There Will Be Blood (2007)

Stanley Kubrick is one of my favourite directors. I've loved him even more so, once I found out about him being autistic.

all time favourite: Cleopatra (1963)
Bat man the dark knight
LOTR Return of the king
Troy
Downfall

something like this.

I had a lot of trouble thinking of these for some reason. I guess I don't typically think of movies in terms of favorites unless they really blow me away. To try to rank them would take too much extra effort.

The Royal Tannenbaums — it's just deliciously, irresistably, unrelentingly quirky. You never know what's coming next, and the characters seem to have actual personalities, rather than just being names with well-timed lines to speak. Also, one of the plotlines is intriguing — an adopted brother and sister in love with one another.

Desert Hearts — quiet and compelling lesbian romance, likeable characterizations, very touching sex scene, and FINALLY, a movie that isn't all about men

Pitch Black — one of the best horror movies ever, I think. Maybe more like a sci-fi/horror mix (sci-fi is my favorite genre). It has a foreign feel to it that is befitting the setting (an uninhabited planet of three suns) and creates ambiance, as the viewer never gets many details about the time period, culture, origin, circumstances, etc., of the characters. Seems more realistic than most movies of the genre because the horror is supplied by very creative indigenous animals (rather than some sort of monster or masked psychopath), and because it doesn't end by having the "obvious" characters survive. I like that it does not focus on gore or drawn-out suffering.

Jurassic Park 3 — I like to see humans get their comeuppance from other animals, and I like movies that remind us to respect nature. Also, dinosaurs are just freakin' cool, and Tea Leoni is nice to look at.

(not 100% sure about this one; it might be tied for fifth place with another movie)
Equilibrium — The theme of this movie is very personal to me, as I have issues dealing with emotions and have often wished that I had less, even to the point of wanting to become a schizoid and fantasizing about having a part of my brain removed. Also, I was impressed and intrigued by Gunkata, one of the COOLEST incorporations of math into a movie I have EVER seen — a martial art based on statistical analyses of gun fights.