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To all members. I'll go first. Yea' it's silly, but interesting.
1. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World(1963)
2. The Blues Brothers(1980)
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1965 or some time, when I was about 1 or 2)
4. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot(1975)
5. Back to School(1986)

Five Honorable mentions:
3 Days of the Condor(1975)
The Meaning of Life(1983)
The Outlaw Josey Wales(Timeless!)
City Heat(1984)
Ghost Dog(1999)

That is not silly but an awesome thread there DD, keep 'em coming. I love it.

Sorry I could not fit them all in a Top 5, I had to do a TOP 17 list and hell I could fit 100 in there easily...

1. Omega Man (Charton Heston sci fi, remake coming out in 2007)
2. Attack Force Z (1981 movie with Mel Gibson and Sam Neil)
3. Rollerball (original version from 1976, not that shit remake)
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Tears Of The Sun
6. Rear Window (best Hitchcock movie bar none)
7. The Wild Geese
8. 3 Days Of The Condor (awesome movie)
9. We Were Soldiers
10. Black Hawk Down
11. Bourne Identity and Supremacy
12. Pitch Black
13. Damnation Alley (coming to DVD in a month or so)
14. The Rat Patrol Series (Coming to DVD Jan 31, 2006...OOORAH!)
15. All Clint Eastwood Movies especially Dirty Harry ones
16. All James Bond Movies
17. All Star Wars movies

I'm too lazy to actually think about my favorite movies AND put them in any order. Nevertheless, I have at various times considered these to be my faves, and I have to watch them if they're on TV:

Dr. Strangelove;
Airplane;
Omega Man (love the balcony shooting scenes, reminds me of the Dawn of the Dead-remake rooftop celebrity spotting game);
Animal House (Karen Allen as Katy);
Empire of the Sun (P51 Cadillac of the sky!);
Fandango;
The Right Stuff (try and stump me with obscure references from this movie);
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (the Buick Riviera w/ 455cid is no slouch);
Casablanca;
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Karen Allen, );
The Great Escape;
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Gort: "Klaatu Verata Nikto");
Young Frankenstein;
Red Dawn (Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey! - just needed a shower scene);
Starman (got that Karen Allen again); and of course,
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Deanopilot. I left out a whole bunch. I probably should have put more thought into it. Original Rollerball, the old Charleton Heston movies, etc. I tryed to leave out War and science fiction movies. Directors cut of Bladerunner and shower scene in Starship Troopers( I wanted the black chic, that accidentily killed the guy on the live-fire combat course), Exc. Empire of the Sun, Excellent Plus. All 3 Monty Python movies, plus derivatives of Pythons original cast, like A Fish Called Wanda, Spies Like Us. Most of the true war movies have a book also. The book is almost always better than the movie, but that argument is like comparing apple sauce to cheese spread.

DangerousDave, these are all excellent movies. It's just fascinating that if you find one person who has a single similar interest, it's more than likely that you're going to find a whole bunch more in common. Just goes to show you that no matter how much we all would like to think of ourselves as unique rugged individualists, we really are just cookie-cutter mindless robot clones who are destined to fall under the domination of power-hungry political dictators unless we arm ourselves with MRE's, movies and flashlights and vote-from-the-rooftops ... er, maybe just Libertarian. I have to go get my medication now.

How's that for "off-topic"?

More seriously, you might take notice many of these films were directed or written by the likes of John Milius, Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Kubrick. Seems you can't go wrong with actual talent.

Wow, if i were to name all my favorite movies i'd be here all night... that and i'm too tired to think of them all lol... missing snowmobilers kept me up all night! I'll just rattle off a few of my favs that come to mind:

- The Ghost and the Darkness
- The Last Samurai
- Braveheart
- Enemy at the Gates
- Lord of the Rings (All Three)
- Mad Max
- The Postman

And last but far from least, Monty Python and the Holy Grail! try getting the dvd and watching the Knights of Ni in Japanese and Lego Knights of Camelot... Hilarity Ensues!

The Searchers (john Wayne), Das Boot, Goodfellas, The Hunt for Red October, The Thin man, Murder on the Orient Express, The Maltese Falcon, just to name a few.

My favorite still is "The boondock saints". A very nice 2-irish-kill-the-mafia movie.

Other favorites are things like
Pulp Fiction
Black Hawk Down
In China essen sie Hunde (very nice danish movie, only available in danish and german w/o subtitles afaik)
Empire Of The Sun
Fight Club
Twelve Monkeys
Die Hard
Killing Zoe
Equilibrium
Felidae (German cartoon movie - pretty cool and bloody)
Soylent Green (maybe MRE's one day contain soylent green---)
Ghost Dog
Event Horizon
Mad Max
etc...

Oh

1. Blackhawk Down
2. Equilibirum (less bollocks and more fun than the Matrix)
3. Hard Boiled- the definative John Woo film
4. Pale Rider
5. Platoon

Honorable Mentions:
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
The Mummy- (remake with Brendan Fraser...proper old fashioned action film)
A Bridge Too Far
Enemy At The Gates
Finding Nemo
Akira- Top Magna title
The Matrix NOT Revolutions or 3.
Jaws

braveheart
tigerland
pulp fiction
halloween
full metal jacket
heartbreak ridge
the goonies
top gun
carlitos way
blood in blood out
heat
lonesome dove
just off the top of my head there are many more.