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What are your top 5 movies of all time? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by Euraru to c/[email protected]

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[–] Euraru 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'll throw my hat in the ring and give my list in no particular order:

Seven Samurai

Borat

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

War of the Worlds (2005)

The Godfather

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

This means something

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Euraru
Those are some great choices. I haven't seen Close Encounters yet though. And I loved War of the Worlds.

[–] Euraru 1 points 2 years ago

Close Encounters is amazing and iirc some of the plot points were taken from reality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Seven Samurai is an amazing movie. It set the groundwork for so much more to follow.

[–] _finger_ 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah we could hang

[–] Euraru 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did we just become best friends?

[–] _finger_ 1 points 2 years ago

Just as long as you don’t touch my drums

[–] captainjaneway 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I want to know more about why you would put War of the Worlds in your top 5. I am not hating on you. Purely perplexed because I've never seen anyone mention this movie since it came out. I rewatched it last year, but I don't remember much to write home about.

[–] Euraru 2 points 2 years ago

I was 8 years old when I first saw the film and it scared me so much it left in me a permanent fear of aliens and once I got older I grew to love the film and aliens in general.

Tbh the battle on the hill is enough to make it a great film for me because it involves the ultimate dilemma: which child do you save?

It's a choice no parent should ever have to make and the entire scene in general shows how hopeless it was against the Tripods.