The Film-Lover's Check List: Top 5's - The Film Vault Podcast

The Film Vault Podcast - Top 5's

Top 5 "Overlooked" Films (Vol.1)

Miss Movies


1.	The Watcher In the Woods (1980)
2.	Clue: The Movie (1985)
3.	Heartbreakers (2001)
4.	The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy (2005)
5.	11:14 (2003)

Anderson


1.	The Butcher Boy (1998)
	The Butcher Boy (1917)
2.	La Haine (1995)
3.	The Dish (2000)
4.	Gerry (2002)
5.	Cube (1997)

Bald B


1.	The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
2.	Live Forever (2003)
3.	His Girl Friday (1940)
4.	Bill Cosby: Himself (1983)
5.	The Hammer (2007)

Top 5 "CGI" movies

Miss Movies


1.	Finding Nemo (2003)
2.	The Incredibles (2004)
3.	Monster House (2006)
4.	Cars (2006)
5.	WALL*E (2008)

Anderson


1.	Toy Story (1995)
2.	The Incredibles (2004)
3.	WALL*E (2008)
4.	Finding Nemo (2003)
5.	Monster House (2006)

Bald B


1.	Sin City (2005)
2.	300 (2006)
3.	Finding Nemo (2003)
4.	Ratatouille (2007)
5.	Shrek (2001)

Top 5 "Cult" movies

Miss Movies


1.	Edward Scissorhands (1990)
2.	The Big Lebowski (1998)
3.	The Sound of Music (1965)
4.	The Watcher In the Woods (1980)
5.	The Wicker Man (1973)
	The Wicker Man (2006)

Anderson


1.	Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
2.	Harold and Maude (1971)
3.	Freaks (1932)
4.	The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
5.	Happiness (1998)

Bald B


1.	Putney Swope (1969)
2.	The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
3.	Split Image (1982)
4.	Freaks (1932)
5.	The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Top 5 "Feel Good" movies

Miss Movies


1.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
2.	Erin Brockovich (2000)
3.	Spellbound (2002)
4.	Newsies (1992)
5.	Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)

Anderson


1.	Rudy (1993)
2.	Amelie (2001)
3.	Billy Elliot (2000)
4.	Good Will Hunting (1997)
5.	The Secret Garden (1993)

Bald B


1.	The Princess Bride (1987)
2.	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3.	Love Actually (2003)
4.	Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
5.	Hoosiers (1986)
5.	The Natural (1984)

Top 5 "Plot Twists"

Miss Movies


1.	The Sixth Sense (1999)
2.	The Usual Suspects (1995)
3.	Primal Fear (1996)
4.	The Prestige (2006)
5.	Seven (1995)

Anderson


1.	Angel Heart (1987)
2.	The Usual Suspects (1995)
3.	Frailty (2001)
4.	The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
5.	The Last Seduction (1994)

Bald B


1.	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
	The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
2.	The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3.	Fight Club (1999)
4.	The Usual Suspects (1995)
5.	The Sixth Sense (1999)

Top 5 "Gang" movies

Note: excluding 'Mafia' movies

Miss Movies


1.	West Side Story (1961)
2.	Romeo + Juliet (1996)
3.	Gran Torino (2008)
4.	City of God (2002)
5.	The Outsiders (1983)

Anderson


1.	Gangs of New York (2002)
2.	Sin Nombre (2009)
3.	Bound By Honor (1993)
4.	The Warriors (1979)
5.	City of God (2002)

Mike Carano


1.	Colors (1988)
2.	Tombstone (1993)
3.	The Doberman Gang (1972)
4.	The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
5.	The Warriors (1979)

Top 5 "Vampire" movies

Miss Movies


1.	Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
2.	Dracula (1992)
3.	Interview With the Vampire (1994)
4.	Van Helsing (2004)
5.	Nosferatu (1922)

Anderson


1.	Let the Right One In (2008)
2.	From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
3.	Vampire's Kiss (1988)
4.	The Addiction (1995)
5.	Love At First Bite (1979)

Mike Carano


?.	Dracula (1931)
?.	Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (2001)
?.	The Night Stalker (1972)
?.	Let the Right One In (2008)

Top 5 "Most Disappointing" movies

Anderson


1.	???
2.	Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)
3.	The Brown Bunny (2003)
4.	Batman (1989)
5.	Human Nature (2001)

Bald B


1.	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
2.	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
3.	Southland Tales (2006)
4.	Clerks II (2006)
5.	The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Top 5 "War" Movies

Anderson


1.	Platoon (1986)
2.	Braveheart (1995)
3.	Das Boot (1981)
4.	Paths of Glory (1957)
5.	Patton (1970)

Bald B


1.	Black Hawk Down (2001)
2.	Apocalypse Now (1979)
3.	Glory (1989)
4.	Full Metal Jacket (1987)
5.	Three Kings (1999)

Top 5 "Comic Book" movies

Anderson


1.	Oldboy (2003)
2.	Ichi the Killer (2001)
3.	Creepshow (1982)
4.	Ghost World (2001)
5.	V For Vendetta (2006)

Bald B


1.	Batman Begins (2005)
2.	Spider-Man 2 (2004)
3.	X2: X-Men United (2003)
4.	Superman II (1980)
5.	Batman (1989)

Top 5 "Prison" movies

Anderson


1.	Midnight Express (1978)
2.	Murder In the First (1995)
3.	Return To Paradise (1953)
4.	Papillon (1973)
5.	Animal Factory (2000)

Bald B


1.	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2.	Chicken Run (2000)
3.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
4.	Batman: The Great Escape (1968)
5.	Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

Top 5 "Guilty Pleasure" movies

Anderson


1.	D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
2.	The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
3.	Tape (2001)
4.	Love Actually (2003)
5.	The Dark Crystal (1982)

Bald B


1.	Love Actually (2003)
2.	Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
3.	Sugar & Spice (2001)
4.	Deep Blue Sea (1999)
5.	100 Girls (2000)

Top 5 "Buddy" movies

Anderson


1.	48 Hrs. (1982)
2.	Midnight Run (1988)
3.	Midnight Cowboy (1969)
4.	The Defiant Ones (1958)
5.	The Mighty (1998)

Bald B


1.	Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
2.	The Blues Brothers (1980)
3.	Kingpin (1996)
4.	Rounders (1998)
5.	Of Mice and Men (1992)

Top 5 "Cartoon" movies

Anderson


1.	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
2.	The Lion King (1994)
3.	Spirited Away (2001)
4.	Jungle Book (1942)
5.	Charlotte's Web (2006)

Bald B


1.	Transformers: The Movie (1986)
2.	Jungle Book (1942)
3.	The Sword In the Stone (1963)
4.	Jungle Book (1942)
5.	Pinocchio (1940)

Top 5 Sequels

Anderson


1.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
2.	Aliens (1986)
3.	Desperado (1995)
4.	Babe: Pig In the City (1998)
5.	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

Bald B


1.	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
2.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
3.	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
4.	The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
5.	Goldfinger (1964)

Top 5 Trilogies

Anderson


1.	Oliver Stone's Vietnam Trilogy
	Heaven & Earth (1993)
	Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
	Platoon (1986)
2.	The Dollars Trilogy
	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
	For a Few Dollars More (1965)
	A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
3.	The Mariachi Trilogy
	Once Upon a Time In Mexico (2003)
	Desperado (1995)
	El Mariachi (1992)
4.	Mad Max Trilogy
	Mad Max (1979)
	The Road Warrior (1981)
	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
5.	Superman (Christopher Reeves) Trilogy
	Superman (1978)
	Superman II (1980)
	Superman III (1983)

Bald B


1.	Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
2.	OG Star Wars Trilogy
	Star Wars (1977)
	The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
	Return of the Jedi (1983)
3.	The Godfather Trilogy
	The Godfather (1972)
	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
	The Godfather, Part III (1990)
4.	Bourne Trilogy
	The Bourne Identity (2002)
	The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
	The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
5.	Back To The Future
	Back To the Future (1985)
	Back To the Future, Part II (1989)
	Back To the Future, Part III (1990)

Top 5 & 25 "L.A." flims

Note: loosely ranked (inspired by The L.A. Times 25 best L.A. films of the past 25 years; 1984-2008)

Anderson


1.	Falling Down (1993)
2.	Boogie Nights (1997)
3.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
4.	Menace II Society (1993)
5.	Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
6.	Go (1999)
7.	The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
8.	Repo Man (1984)
9.	Heat (1995)
10.	The Big Lebowski (1998)
11.	Lost Highway (1997)
12.	Bulworth (1998)

13.	Training Day (2001)
14.	Barfly (1987)
15.	Barton Fink (1991)
16.	Friday (1995)
17.	Point Break (1991)
18.	White Men Can't Jump (1992)
19.	The Aviator (2004)
20.	Punch Drunk Love (2002)
21.	Lethal Weapon (1987)
22.	Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
23.	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
24.	Bound By Honor (1993)
25.	True Romance (1993)

Bald B


1.	Swingers (1996)
2.	L.A. Story (1991)
3.	Short Cuts (1993)
4.	Heat (1995)
5.	Magnolia (1999)

Top 5 Directors

Anderson


1.	Stanley Kubrick
2.	David Lynch
3.	Cohen Brothers
4.	Martin Scorcese
5.	David Fincher
5.	Todd Haynes


	Kubrick IMDb

Bald B


1.	Martin Scorcese
2.	Ridley Scott
3.	Alfred Hitchcock
4.	Steven Spielberg
5.	Francis Ford Copolla


	Scorsese IMDb

Top 5 Villians

Anderson


1.	Bill The Butcher Gangs of New York (2002)
2.	Chad In the Company of Men (1997)
3.	Frank Booth Blue Velvet (1986)
?.	Bobby Peru Wild At Heart (1990)
?.	Hal 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
?.	Buddy Revell Three O'Clock High (1987)

Bald B


1.	Mrs. John Iselin The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
2.	Warden Norton The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3.	Jame Gumb aka Buffalo Bill The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
4.	Mitch Leary aka Booth In the Line of Fire (1993)
5.	John Doe Seven (1995)

Top 5 Soundtracks

Anderson


1.	Hedwig & the Angry Inch
2.	Ransom
3.	Velvet Goldmine
4.	Harold and Maude
5.	Natural Born Killers

Bald B


1.	Hard Days Night
2.	Pulp Fiction
3.	Trainspotting
4.	The Big Chill
5.	Boogie Nights

Top 5 Oscar Injustices

Anderson


1.	Conan O'brian, for never hosting
2.	An Inconvenient Truth (2006) For winning Best Documentary
3.	Goodfellas (1990)
4.	Gangs of New York (2002)
5.	Stanley Kubrick, for never winning Best Director

Bald B


1.	Blade Runner (1982)
2.	Requiem For a Dream (2000)
3.	Boogie Nights (1997)
4.	Goodfellas (1990)
5.	Memento (2000)