Last night was essentially “veg in front of the TV and add to ‘movies to see’ list night” in our home as we settled in to watch the AFI’s 100 Years 100 Movies special on CBS. Of course I had to tweet it, and sure enough, there was Julie asking me which movies made it to my top five. So here’s a quick head to head.
AFI’s top five are Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The GodFather, Gone With The Wind, and Lawrence of Arabia.
My top five are Star Wars (4, 5, 6), The Sound of Music, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, An American In Paris, and it’s a tie between The Wizard of Oz and Ben-Hur.
My criteria is simple, what movies am I likely to see over and over again without ever getting tired of them, and these made the cut.
And so now it’s your turn, what movies made it to your top 5?
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off the top of my head (in no particular order) and yes there are more than 5
boogie nights
pulp fiction
star wars #4
back to the future
saturday night fever
monty python and the holy grail
this is spinal tap
How can I resist a top five list? What fun!
Ok, this is very tentative and could change by the time I hit submit comment, but here it is for the moment:
The Wild Bunch (1968)
The Shining
Escape from New York
Night of the Hunter
The Killers (1946)
It has already changed, I think I would be better off doing this like top 5 by genre, or actor, or city in which the film takes place. The general top five is a huge commitment. Wow, I already am feel caged in
I’m with you Jim, already revising the list
. Maybe you should be the next to get us going by genre, actor, city, whatever floats your boat 
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Hi!
I can’t resist top fives either – and whenever the ‘by genre/actor/etc,’ comes out I’ll answer that. But I do have top five in general movies! (in attempted order)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)