re: Your top 5 favorite movies of all time...(difficult)

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1) 2001-I have a memory as a small child seeing it and just being fascinated by it. That memory will never go away

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What movie is 2001?

Die Hard
Jaws
Tombstone
Usual Suspects
Shawshank

1. The good, the bad, the ugly
2. Monty Python and the search for the holy grail
3. The Princess bride
4. The Godfather
5. Raiders of the lost Ark

Pretty easy to come up with a top 15-20 or so, but outside of the first two my top 5 could change weekly.

Memoirs of a geisha
Last samurai
Rio bravo/Eldorado (basically the same movie)
The water boy
Beauty and the beast

The Shawshank Redemption
Rocky II
Scarface
Braveheart
Papillon
Unforgiven

Bitter Moon
Lawrence of Arabia
The Sure Thing
Barcelona
Rosetta

This is tough

Young Frankenstein
Outlaw Josey Wales
Uncle Buck
A Christmas Story
Rear Window

No particular order:

Interview with a Vampire
The Outsiders
The Shining
Good Will Hunting
Se7en

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There is a very clear beginning, middle, and end to each of the three movies

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Please tell me what they are. From my reasoning, and these are forced mind you, here would be the beginning, climax, and end to each one.

Fellowship
Beginning: The Long Expected Party obviously.
Climax: I guess Frodo and Aragorn agreeing to break off the Fellowship together.
End: Frodo and Sam walking together and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli agreeing to rescue Merry and Pippin.

Towers
Beginning: Frodo and Sam walking around
Climax: While there is none for Frodo's side of the story (the main character), I guess Gandalf showing up at Helm's Deep would be the closest thing to a climax.
End: Gollum plotting the Hobbits deaths

King
Beginning: Frodo and Sam walking some more and the other characters at Isengard
Climax: The Battle of the Black Gate and the Destruction of the Ring
End: Frodo departs from his friends and sails off to the West.

The beginning to the first, and the climax and end to the final film are very concrete, while the other parts of the others are very abstract and fairly forced for you to come up with one.

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So if you put the LotR trilogy in your top 5, then you only have two spots left.

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bullshite. So you're telling me if it were released at one time as a single 10 hour film that it could be classified as one film, but since it wasn't it can't be? No one really has the patience to sit through a 10 hour film. Hell, 3 hours is pushing it for most people. This isn't like Star Wars where you can't play them back to back and not even acknowledge that one film has ended and another has begun. There's too much of a gap between each of those films in time, tone, and plot structure. None of these gaps exist in The Lord of the Rings films.

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Harry Potter is kinda the same way...you know that each one is nowhere near the end and that it's a series. Sure, each movie has a more clear "ending," but you watch one knowing full well that the story continues for 4, 6, 8 more movies. Doesn't change the fact that there are still 8 (or 9?) movies in total.

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Aside from the final two (three is debatable with the books since that plot very much spills over into the final one), each film has a self contained plot really. They are all clearly different in structure, tone, and minor antagonist. Its not really comparable to Lord of the Rings.