The Top 5 List Thread

[no country for old wainds]

I can't remember ever saying something that idiotic

I mean, it's a notch below 'sun but that "tombs of epic hidden dynasties..." section is one of the most spine-tingling moments of the year

what you actually said was "Fortune and Glory would be like a 3/5 song if it didn't have that spinechilling outro"

 

[Vegard Pompey]

what you actually said was "Fortune and Glory would be like a 3/5 song if it didn't have that spinechilling outro"

I might stand by this actually, that gorgeous part transforms the whole song. When the chorus comes in again after it, it's 100x more starry-eyed and stirring.

 

[Bloopy]

Bands I saw live the most in 2021:
4× Fatdick
4× Gravel Pit
4× Ripship
3× Bodysiege
3× Mammuthus

More live show geek numbers. 2022 wasn't top 5 friendly - just Mammuthus ×5 and no other artists more than twice.

Seen live the most in 2023 (Ripship moved to Wellington, lucky me):
7× Ripship
5× Dole Bludger (Kiwis love band names with bludger in them too)
3× Old Man Pine
3× Simon Donald
3× Total Violation

Seen live the most in 2024 (but now I was finally based in Auckland again):
11× Brackenwood Coven
5× Exit Sign
5× Forsworn
4× ...a six-way tie between Cesura, Chlorine, Cyanide Altar, Ripship, Soul Stroke and Threat.Meet.Protocol

 

[Bloopy]

More than a year since any of you overloaded this thread with film lists, but here's some.

Top 5 films by year for years not polled in GMD Social yet... 80s & 90s:

1980
1. The Shining
2. Friday the 13th
3. Altered States
4. The Ninth Configuration
5. The Lathe of Heaven

1982
1. White Dog
2. First Blood
3. Basket Case
4. Creepshow
5. Blade Runner

1991
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Delicatessen
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Mindwarp
5. The Addams Family

1998
1. Happiness
2. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
3. Bride of Chucky
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. Babe: Pig in the City

1999
1. Fight Club
2. eXistenZ
3. The Winslow Boy
4. The Matrix
5. Being John Malkovich

 

[Cronopio]

Top 5 Dutch politicians:

1. Pim Fortuyn (R.I.P.)
2. William the Silent
3. Geert Wilders
4. Pim again
5. Dries van Agt

 

[CiG]

More than a year since any of you overloaded this thread with film lists, but here's some.

Top 5 films by year for years not polled in GMD Social yet... 80s & 90s:

1980
1. The Shining
2. Friday the 13th
3. Altered States
4. The Ninth Configuration
5. The Lathe of Heaven

1982
1. White Dog
2. First Blood
3. Basket Case
4. Creepshow
5. Blade Runner

1991
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Delicatessen
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Mindwarp
5. The Addams Family

1998
1. Happiness
2. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
3. Bride of Chucky
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. Babe: Pig in the City

1999
1. Fight Club
2. eXistenZ
3. The Winslow Boy
4. The Matrix
5. Being John Malkovich

Genuinely surprised we never got to these years.

 

[Slammed]

Top 5 Blood Duster song titles

Therichbreedfuckingcockheadchildrenwhowillonedaybeyouremployer
Celebrating 35% Pigfat
Where Does All The Money Go When Releasing A Full Length Album
Don't Call Me Homeboy Ya Cunt
A Tracksuit In Not Metal Apparel

 

[CiG]

Top 5 Dutch politicians:

 

[no country for old wainds]

More than a year since any of you overloaded this thread with film lists, but here's some.

Top 5 films by year for years not polled in GMD Social yet... 80s & 90s:

1980
1. The Shining
2. Friday the 13th
3. Altered States
4. The Ninth Configuration
5. The Lathe of Heaven

1982
1. White Dog
2. First Blood
3. Basket Case
4. Creepshow
5. Blade Runner

1991
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Delicatessen
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Mindwarp
5. The Addams Family

1998
1. Happiness
2. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
3. Bride of Chucky
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. Babe: Pig in the City

1999
1. Fight Club
2. eXistenZ
3. The Winslow Boy
4. The Matrix
5. Being John Malkovich

1980
1. times square
2. out of the blue
3. airplane!
4. the fog
5. cruising

1982
1. the thing
2. the king of comedy
3. blade runner
4. fast-walking
5. nomad

1991
1. point break
2. the stranger
3. the lovers on the bridge
4. terminator 2
5. barton fink

1998
1. perfect blue
2. the last days of disco
3. buffalo '66
4. a hero never dies
5. babe: pig in the city

1999
1. bringing out the dead
2. the straight story
3. the blair witch project
4. eyes wide shut
5. charisma

 

[CiG]

5. Babe: Pig in the City

5. babe: pig in the city

 

[Bloopy]

Anyone who hasn't seen it should just go in blind and watch it now without trying trailers or anything. You may be impressed. I haven't seen it since it came out so I'm due for a rewatch too.

 

[no country for old wainds]

one of george miller's best movies tbh

 

[Cronopio]

Top 5 numerals:

1. First
2. Second
3. Third
4. Fourth
5. Fifth

 

[Slammed]

How the fuck can you rank second higher than fourth?

 

[Cronopio]

Why is fourth better?

 

[Slammed]

If you don't know you don't know.

 

[Cronopio]

I guess I'm a sucker.

 

[Slammed]

Maybe, but there is no reason to be hard on yourself about it.

 

[Bloopy]

Top 5 films by year for years not polled in GMD Social yet...

70s:

1970
1. Le cercle rouge
2. Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion)
3. Catch-22
4. Le boucher
5. ZigZag (a.k.a. False Witness)

1971
1. THX 1138
2. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
3. Duel
4. Get Carter
5. Harold and Maude

1972
1. Frenzy
2. Deliverance
3. The Last House on the Left
4. Pink Flamingos
5. Images

1973
1. The Exorcist
2. Soylent Green
3. Don't Look Now
4. Westworld
5. The Long Goodbye

1974
1. The Parallax View
2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Foxy Brown
5. The Godfather Part II

1975
1. Jaws
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. Le orme
4. Death Race 2000
5. French Connection II

1978
1. Eyes of Laura Mars
2. Magic
3. The Deer Hunter
4. Revenge of the Pink Panther
5. Dawn of the Dead

1979
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Сталкер (Stalker)
3. Monty Python's Life of Brian
4. Alien
5. Over the Edge

Didn't have room for French Connection or Godfather I, meaning '71 & '72 may be the best years here. Now I need a few more recs for '60, '61 & '65 if I'm gonna do that decade! For 1950s and earlier, 1 movie per year will be plenty.

 

[no country for old wainds]

70s:

1970
1. Le cercle rouge
2. Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion)
3. Catch-22
4. Le boucher
5. ZigZag (a.k.a. False Witness)

1971
1. THX 1138
2. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
3. Duel
4. Get Carter
5. Harold and Maude

1972
1. Frenzy
2. Deliverance
3. The Last House on the Left
4. Pink Flamingos
5. Images

1973
1. The Exorcist
2. Soylent Green
3. Don't Look Now
4. Westworld
5. The Long Goodbye

1974
1. The Parallax View
2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Foxy Brown
5. The Godfather Part II

1975
1. Jaws
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. Le orme
4. Death Race 2000
5. French Connection II

1978
1. Eyes of Laura Mars
2. Magic
3. The Deer Hunter
4. Revenge of the Pink Panther
5. Dawn of the Dead

1979
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Сталкер (Stalker)
3. Monty Python's Life of Brian
4. Alien
5. Over the Edge

Didn't have room for French Connection or Godfather I, meaning '71 & '72 may be the best years here. Now I need a few more recs for '60, '61 & '65 if I'm gonna do that decade! For 1950s and earlier, 1 movie per year will be plenty.

1970
1. deep end (skolimowski)
2. trash (morrissey)
3. the honeymoon killers (kastle)
4. husbands (cassavetes)
5. five easy pieces (rafelson)

1971
1. minnie & moskowitz (cassavetes)
2. they might be giants (harvey)
3. mccabe & mrs miller (altman)
4. the devils (russell)
5. the last picture show (bogdanovich)

1972
1. aguirre: the wrath of god (herzog)
2. the godfather (coppola)
3. fat city (huston)
4. deliverance (boorman)
5. the heartbreak kid (may)

1973
1. badlands (malick)
2. mean streets (scorsese)
3. emperor of the north pole (aldrich)
4. the wicker man (hardy)
5. turkish delight (verhoeven)

1974
1. the texas chainsaw massacre (hooper)
2. a woman under the influence (cassavetes)
3. little malcolm and his struggle against the eunuchs (cooper)
4. the conversation (coppola)
5. bring me the head of alfredo garcia (peckinpah)

1975
1. dog day afternoon (lumet)
2. barry lyndon (kubrick)
3. fox and his friends (fassbinder)
4. night moves (penn)
5. seven beauties (wertmuller)

1978
1. in a year of 13 moons (fassbinder)
2. days of heaven (malick)
3. blue collar (schrader)
4. who'll stop the rain (reisz)
5. straight time (grosbard)

1979
1. saint jack (bogdanovich)
2. all that jazz (fosse)
3. apocalypse now (coppola)
4. alien (scott)
5. stalker (tarkovsky)

purple = all-time favourite