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This past weekend I was flipping through cable and came across one of those “have to watch” movies and it got me thinking about my favorite moves.
You know, movies you have to watch when you come across them while channel surfing, movies that you can pop the DVD in and watch over and over or movies that you can watch over an over in theaters..

After analyzing this I came across my true favorite top 15 movies

1) Full Metal Jacket
2) The Empire Strikes Back
3) Star Wars
4) Jurassic Park
5) Serenity
6) The Postman
7) The Incredibles
8 ) Star Trek 2 The Wrath Of Kahn
9) Return of the Jedi
10) My Fair Lady
11) The Lion King
12) The Goodbye Girl
13) Lake Placid
14) True Lies
15) Transformers The Movie(1986)

It i not necessary but here are the movies to round out my top 20.

16) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
17) The Truman Show
18) Raiders Of The Lost Ark
19) Independence Day
20) Saving Private Ryan

*EDIT*
I edited the title because it is tough coming up with 15 since there are so many good movies out there that are multi watchable..

I don't know if I have 15, but I'll give this a shot. In no particular order...

1. Event Horizon (rarely seen on TV, I'm sure)
2. Judgment Night
3. RoboCop
4. The Transformers (1986)
5. Airheads
6. Mystery Science Theatre 3000
7. Shawshank Redemption
8. Office Space. Yes, everyone loves Office Space.
9. Demon Knight
10. The Thing
11. Shaun of the Dead
12. Dodgeball

I got to 12. Maybe more later...?

The Thing is a great movie!
So is Robocop.

Funny, I made my top ten the other day... good timing CB.

Here is my top 10, with visual aides!

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In no particular order...

1. Spiderman
2. Spiderman 2
3. Spiderman 3
4. Transformers
5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
6. Empire Strikes Back
7. Star Wars
8. Frequency
9. Poltergeist
10. The Ring
11. Independence Day
12. Men in Black

Also some faves: Mississippi Burning, The Shawshank Redemption, Event Horizon (saw it on tv eight years ago and fell in love), The Matrix..X-Men, X-Men 2, First Contact

The Truman Show would be in my top 20.

As well as Raiders and Indy & the Last Crusade.

In no particular order

1. Highlander
2. Star Trek: First Contact
3-5. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
6. X-Men
7. Spider-Man
8. Batman (1989)
9. Batman Begins
10. Robocop
11. The Matrix
12. Ghostbusters
13. Transformers: the Movie
14. Dogma
15. Grumpy Old Men

No Particular order.

Jurrasic Park
The Empire Strikes Back
Bourne Identity
Pulp Fiction
Terminator 2
The thing
Domino
The Punisher
A Life Less Ordinary
Se7ven
Legend Of The Falls
Fight Club
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
The Bridge over the river kwai

In roughly descending order (after the first three it's about equal) -

1: "The Terminator"
2: "Escape From New York"
3: "Aliens"
4: "Clerks."
5: "Videodrome"
6: "Alien"
7: "First Blood" ("Rambo")
8: "Platoon"
9: "Apocalypse Now"
10: "Evil Dead 2"
11: "Pi"
12: "Die Hard"
13: "Animal House"
14: "Die Hard 2"
15: "Mallrats"

It's a tough call since it kinda changes everyday. But if I had to sit down and write list them this moment, my favorite movies are...

15. Chasing Amy
14. Transformers (1986)
13. Road to Perdition
12. Jerry Maguire
11. Batman Begins
10. Superman
9. The Magnificent Seven
8. Spidey 2
7. Se7en
6. Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
5. Toy Story
4. Robocop
3. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
2. Snoopy Come Home
1. Almost Famous

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double post.

In no particular order...

Independence day
V for Vendetta
Mallrats
Clerks 1 and 2
Ferris buellars day off
Titan A.E.
Ace Ventura, When Nature Calls
Transformers the movie.
Akira
Princess Mononoke
Spirited away
Iron giant
Return of the Jedi
Harold and Kumar
Dodgeball.

Jesus Prime wrote:In roughly descending order (after the first three it's about equal) -

1: "The Terminator"
2: "Escape From New York"
3: "Aliens"
4: "Clerks."
5: "Videodrome"
6: "Alien"
7: "First Blood" ("Rambo")
8: "Platoon"
9: "Apocalypse Now"
10: "Evil Dead 2"
11: "Pi"
12: "Die Hard"
13: "Animal House"
14: "Die Hard 2"
15: "Mallrats"

****, i forgot about those.

tequila stu wrote:****, i forgot about those.

It's tough isn't it... I should have made it a top 25 or something because I am missing quite a few great movies that I watch over and over like Ghostbusters and Little Shop Of Horrors..

1. Ghostbusters
2. Chronicles of Riddick
3. Hellboy/Hellboy Animated
4. 300
5. The Punisher(Tom Jane)
6. Clerks 2
7. Robin Hood Men In Tights
8. Predator
9. Batman Begins
10. TMNT(1st and CGI)

11. Hot Fuzz
12. Dogma
13. V for Vendetta
14. Titan A.E.(easily the most gorgeous 2d/cg movie ever made)
15. Superman Returns
16. Fantastic Four
17. The Thing
18. The Princess Bride
19. LOTR
20. Blade

Really in no order, unfortunately there are so so many more movies that I could see on Tv and just stop everything and starting watching.

1. Armageddon(it made me cry)
2. Forrest Gump
3. Aliens
4. The Thing
5. Big Trouble in Little China
6. Terminator 2
7. Predator
8. Falling Down
9. Layer Cake
10. Pulp Fiction
11. Gone in Sixty Seconds
12. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
13. Wayne's World 2
14. The last samurai
15. Bill & Ted's Bogus journy.

1. Spider-man
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Jurassic park
4. Independence Day
5. Caddyshack
6. Animal House
7. Happy Gilmore
8. Kill Bill vol 1
9. Batman Begins
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

1.Blade Runner
2.Transformers The Movie
3. Transformers The Movie 2k7
4.Robocop
5.Terminator 2
6.Porco Rosso
7.Macross plus
8.Wonderful Days
9.New Police Story
10.Street Fighter 2 Animated Movie
11.Street Fighter Zero
12.Fatal Fury 3
13.The Simpsons The Movie
14.Batman Begins
15.Spider-Man 3

Loki120 wrote:12. Ghostbusters

Garr! I totally forgot this one. Definitely up there.

Tammuz wrote:Falling Down

Incredibly under-rated movie. Love it.
I've noticed I seem to be the only person who prefers the first "Terminator" film to the second. Why is that? I mean, I look at T1 admiringly from the film-making point of view as well as it being my favourite film of all time purely as a film to watch (if ANY of that makes sense, I'll be surprised), whereas T2 seems too high-faluting for my tastes, and smacks of "we've gotta top the last one, oh yeah". Plus, I found it overly implausible. There's a limit to what I'll accept. Time travel? Sure, timespace is a medium to be bent like any other. Machine rule? A genuine fear of mine. Self-replicating machinery? Possible with today's technology. Liquid metal able to reform itself, and function as an organism? Nope.
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No order:

1. Apocalypse Now
2. October Sky
3. Leon: The Professional
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Memento
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Way of the Gun
8. X2
9. 12 Monkeys
10. Transformers(1986)
11. Raiders of the Lost Ark
12. Training Day
13. American History X
14. The Empire Strikes Back
15. Cape Fear
16. The Goonies
17. The Legend of Drunken Master
18. Ninja Scroll(Manga)
19. The Crow
20. Batman Begins

Lets see here in no particular order:
DBZ Movie 5:Cooler's Revenge
DBZ Movie 8:Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan
DBZ:Movie 12Fusion Reborn
DBZ:Movie 13Wrath of the Dragon
Spider-Man 3
Return of the Jedi
Empire Strikes Back
Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars
V for Vendetta
Naruto:Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
Naruto:Mission Protect the Water Village
Napoleon Dynamite
AKIRA
Pink Floyd the Wall
Transformers The Movie 1986
Transformers The Movie 2007

In no order

1. The Crow
2. Raging Bull
3. Batman 1989
4. Sparticus
5. Robocop
5. The Predator
6. Terminator 2
7. Die Hard
8. The Matrix
9. Hard Boiled
10. Apocalypse Now.
11. Transformers 1986
12. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
13. Star Wars OT
14. Kill Bills vol 2.
15. Superman II
16. Fahrenheit 911
17. Serpico
18. Scarface
19. Heat
20.BULLITT my favorite Steve McQueen is the ultimate Bad ass.

Tammuz wrote:1. Armageddon(it made me cry)

Because you wasted 3 hours of your life watching it?

Just kidding!!!! I mentioned before how I really liked this movie when it first came out, until I came to the realization as how contrived it all was.

Me, Grimlock! wrote:Garr! I totally forgot this one. Definitely up there.

Yeah, ijt's an oldie but goodie. It one of those only movies that I've seen about a hundred times, but I can still get a laugh out of it. It's timeless.

"Next time someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!"

Classic!

There are a few others that people have listed that I've considered, but they're more runners up. Like, American History X (great movie), and Mallrats.