My top 5 films of all time 

If there one question i hate getting asked all the time its "what your favorite film? " what makes its worse that this is normal asked in small talk with someone . Like i just going to ask you this question in the casual manor. its a bit like asking someone "well what do you think the meaning of life is for a hedgehog? "

Picking your favorite film is not something you can do at the drop of a hat, to be honest i not sure its something you can do at all , i am sure its almost impossible and i never tell people my favorite film instead  telling them , "seriously your asking me that , you might as well ask me the launch codes for north Korea imagery nuclear missile" . If someone tells you there favorite film they probably taught about it for 5 minutes and picked a film. They are either a) lying and are too polite to tell you that your question is stupid or b) they don't have a big interest in films and have picked some film they seen at Christmas and liked it . or c) they picked Shawshank Redemption cause everyone else picks it . 

So to save me giving out to people who ask me what my favorite film is i am going to attempt to pick my top 5. A big ask that going to need a lot of research that might take years. So how am i going to even start at this?  well i going to pick a top 5 for every year that i am born. As hard as a task this is, its a dam sight easier than picking your all time top 5. Once i have all the top 5's for the years 1978 - 2013 i will see can i make a top 5 out of off the number 1 throughout the years . 

However a word of warning ,there are three notes to remember. Number 1 is, i not seen every film ever made, i can only judge and pick on what i have seen, so before you confront me on the street in a slight angry way waving a samurai sword at me just remember your favorite film , i may not have seen it! 

Number 2 , there been lots of good films made before i was born in 1978 and i seen a lot of them that could end up in a all time top 5 , but to be frank , if i am going to do a top 5 for ever year films was made i need to pass on this project to my grandchildren. 

Number 3, and this is the interesting one. how do you class a great film ? is it something you watch and go wow that was amazing , or is it something you can see 5 times and still go wow at the end? some films on first watching are amazing , then when you re-watch them a few times there a bit meh , one examples of this are films with big plot twists, shutter island, the six sense, for example first time of watching you were wow , but now looking at them there no where as near as good. Then you got films that you could watch over and over and are still as good, Goodfella's Big Lebowski for example. I not sure of the answer and i think i kinda float between the two. I hope you will enjoy :)