Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | Lists | March 13, 2012
RottenTomatoes has been running a weekly feature for several years now, in which they ask a particular actor or director what their five favorite films are. It’s a neat little series, and occasionally, you can try and determine whether that actor or actress is pulling a Rachel Greene and revealing that her favorite movie is Dangerous Liasons instead of what it actually is, Weekend at Bernies. Of the 35 Actors listed below, I actually think they’re all being fairly honest, for better (Dane Cook) or worse (Taylor Lautner) or worst (Megan Fox). I might also note that the fact Kramer vs. Kramer is on both John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s list does not bode well for their relationship.
Among the titles listed, Kubrick is well represented, as is Marlon Brando, James Dean, Spielberg, and The Wizard of Oz. There’s not a lot of wild cards in the list of five favorites, but among these 35 Actors, based on their movie selections, who would you consider your movie soul mate? That is to say, the one whose Five Films would best jibe with your own?
I would tentatively have to go with Jonah Hill.
1. Ewan McGregor
Harvey
Deliverance
Jaws
Easy Rider
Doctor Zhivago
2. Megan Fox
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
How to Train a Dragon
Kung Fu Panda 2
The Wizard of Oz
Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtle trilogy
3. Elizabeth Olsen
Gone with the Wind
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Roman Holiday
Pal Joey
4. Emily Blunt
Jaws
Kramer vs. Kramer
Princess Bride
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Lives of Others
5. Daniel Radcliffe
12 Angry Men
A Matter of Life and Death
Dr. Strangelove
Little Miss Sunshine
Jason and the Argonauts
6. Gina Carano
True Romance
Braveheart
Let Me In (remake)
Cry-Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
7. Emile Hirsch
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Matrix
Raging Bull
Usual Suspects
The English Patient
8. Gary Oldman
Apocalypse Now
The Conversation
The Godfather Part II
Badlands
Ratcatcher
9. Kermit the Frog an Miss Piggy
The Wizard of Oz
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Vanilla Sky
Devil’s Advocate
Deliverance
10. Rosario Dawson
Resovoir Dogs
The Misfits
Network
Killer of Sheep
Man on Wire
11. Aaron Eckhart
Apocalypse Now
Five Easy Pieces
The Getaway
Bringing Up Baby
Midnight Express
12. Abigail Breslin
Meet Me in St. Louis
Insidious
The Help
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Prancer
13. Hayden Panettiere
Life is Beautiful
The Power of One
Moulin Rouge
How to Train Your Dragon
Legends of the Fall
14. Alan Tudyk
All that Jazz
Young Frankenstein
What’s Up Doc?
Sexy Beast
Smokey and the Bandit
15. Taylor Lautner
Braveheart
Gladiator
Man on Fire
Iron Man
The Notebook
16. Joel McHale
Dr. Strangelove
Blade Runner
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Children of Men
Ikiru
17. Nick Frost
Dead Man’s Shoes
Bottle Rocket
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Shining
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
18. Bradley Cooper
Life Lessons
The Celebration
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Conversation
The Shop Around the Corner
19. Nicolas Cage
East of Eden
Streetcar Named Desire
2001
A Clockwork Orange
The Wizard of Oz
20. Amy Adams
Gone with the Wind
Vertigo
The Wizard of Oz
The Shawshank Redemption
Paulie
21. Jane Lynch
Zoolander
Private Benjamin
The Big Lebowski
Ninotchka
The Crossing Guard
22. Justin Long
The Drugstore Cowboy
Back to the Future
Boogie Nights
Way Out West
Annie Hall
23. Tim Burton
Dracula A.D.
The Wicker Man
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
The War of Gargantuas
The Omega Man
24. James McAvoy
The Goonies
Brief Encounter
My Wife is An Actress
The Great Escape
Back to the Future
25. Jonah Hill
Rushmore
Boogie Nights
The Big Lebowski
Back to the Future
Goodfellas
26. Katherine Heigl
Overboard
Coming to America
Steel Magnolias
Charade
The Blind Side
27. Craig Ferguson
Inglourious Basterds
Night of the Hunter
Run Lola Run
In the Name of the Rose
Carry on Screaming
28. Timothy Olyphant
Blue Velvet
Chariots of Fire
Pulp Fiction
Sid and Nancy
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
29. Kristen Bell
The Apartment
The Last King of Scotland
When Harry Met Sally
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Fletch
30. John Krasinski
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ordinary People
The Verdict
On the Waterfront
The Godfather
31. Dane Cook
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Empire Strikes Back
Goodfellas
The Dark Knight
Halloween
32. Seth Rogen
The Big Lebowski
Ghostbusters
The Last Detail
Total Recall
Ghostbusters
33. Robert Pattinson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Exorcist
Prenom Carmen
ivan’s xtc
Corky Romano
34. Jason Statham
Cool Hand Luke
The Godfather
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Sting
Enter the Dragon
35. James Franco
Gimme Shelter
My Own Private Idaho
The Bicycle Thief
The Wrestler
