Happy Birthday to...

Morgan Freeman! (71, yikes!) In honor of his birthday I thought it would be fun for everyone to give their top 5 Morgan Freeman movies of all time (in which he's acted in)...come on, admit it, you love top 5 lists! Here are mine:

1. The Dark Knight
2. Se7en
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Lucky Number Slevin
5. Gone Baby Gone


Honorable mention: Batman Begins, The Bucket List

Happy Birthday then, Mr Freeman !

1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. Unforgiven
4. Gone Baby Gone
5. The Dark Knight

My list (cheating some b/c I'm actually identifying SEVEN...SE7EN, heh... films):

[1] Se7en
[2] The Shawshank Redemption
[3] (tie) Glory;
[4] Unforgiven
[5] Driving Miss Daisy; Deep Impact

P.S. Don't give me shit about Deep Impact, either. Freeman conveys more Presidential gravitas with merely his anxious pinky finger than Michael Douglas did in the entirety of The American President.

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He's played Lucius Fox, the President, and God. Some resume!

Happy Birthday to one of the most accomplished actors out there.. Now, for the list:

1. Shawshank
2. Se7en
3. The Dark Knight
4. tie; Unforgiven and Gone Baby Gone
5. Batman Begins

Also, i think i'm one of the few people who really liked Along Came a Spider, but i wouldn't put it on the list though.

I haven't seen Shawshank, Amistad, Glory, Deep Impact, Unforgiven, Driving Miss Daisy, Lean On Me, or Million Dollar Baby so I'm sure my list is lacking:

5. Wanted
4. Bruce Almighty
3. Se7en
2. The Dark Knight
1. Gone Baby Gone

Ooh, tough one. My list:

1. Dark Knight
2. Lucky Number Slevin
3. Se7en
4. Batman Begins
5. Bruce Almighty
6. Glory
7. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (yes, HE was cool in that film)

Least Favorite: Dreamcatcher (by a country mile)


ETA: Shamefacedly added L#S to list. Good catch. FORGIVE ME, MORGAN!!!

I'm going to be a party pooper and not do a list. I've liked every character that i've seen Morgan Freeman do even if i didnt like the movie.

Does Morgan Freeman ever do a bad job in a movie? Okay, other than the "in it for the paycheck" role in Lucky Number Slevin.

1.The Shawshank Redemption
2.Lean On Me
3.Seven
4.Street Smart (Freeman as a pimp. Superman as a reporter. Rent it and you'll see why Freeman got an Academy Award nomination for this small Cannon release)
5.Glory

Honorable Mentions:
Million Dollar Baby
Gone Baby Gone
Batman Begins/The Dark Knight
Driving Miss Daisy (1989 was a good year for Freeman)

Morgan Freeman

I'm going to go off book.

1. 10 items or Less
2. Shawshank
3. Wanted
4. Bruce Almighty
5. The Dark Knight

How could you guys not love the "Shoot this motherfucker!" monologue!?

And I fully expect The Human Factor to take that number one spot.

Hmm... I'll go my favorite performances rather than the best films (I haven't seen enough of Sleven to include it).

1. Driving Miss Daisy
2. Glory
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Bruce Almighty
5. Nurse Betty (Chris Rock and him were hilarious back and forth)

I love practically everything the guy touches... I thought The Bucket List was great...

JackO wrote:
How could you guys not love the "Shoot this motherfucker!" monologue!?

Actually, it has more like:

SHOOT DAT MOTHERFUCKA! (in Freeman's God-like voice)

happy birthday.. here's my (read: "THE") top 5 of your career

# Se7en (1995)
# Glory (1989)
# The Dark Knight (2008)
# Batman Begins (2005)
# Unforgiven (1992)

and two notables
# "The Electric Company"
# The Pawnbroker

Shryke, I thought Lucky Number Sleven was one of your favorite movies of all time...yet I don't see it on your list? What gives?

Uh.... global warming? Massive brain fart?


I added it. Thanks for the reminder.

Happy Birthday!

My top 5 Morgan Freeman performances:

(no particular order; that's like ranking your kids from favourite to unfavourite)

Glory
Nurse Betty
Lean on Me
Seven
Shawshank Redemption

I had great difficulty not putting 'Hard Rain' and 'Driving Miss Daisy' on this list.

My third favorite actor, happy birthday Morgan! His best five:

1. The Dark Knight
2. the Shawshank Redemption
3. Gone Baby Gone
4. Lucky Number Slevin
5. Se7en

All in my top 80

Not a bad one on that list Geez, and pretty much the order I would have them in too.