The Last Samurai and Equilibrium for me.
I would hope that people don't believe that The Dark Knight was the first Batman movie with Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan. While The Dark Knight was a great movie, Batman Begins was also awesome. With a less convoluted endgame plotline. It also had another actor that Nolan used in Inception (from his Batman movies). Ken Watanabe.
On a side note, I always wondered if Leonardo DiCaprio was Nolan's first choice for Cobb or if Heath Ledger's death forced him into another direction. You know, since he LOVED including the same actors from Batman in Inception and vice versa.
I didn't mind 'Batman and Robin', you know, the movie that had George Clooney, Uma Thurman and the always lovely, Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
My Personnel top 5 Best Movies Ever (in no order) as in ones I can watch at any time and still enjoy.
1 - Dirty Harry
2 - Blade Runner
3 - Terminator 2
4 - Deep Impact (only makes it onto the list if they cut out all the scenes with with the kids after they are on the bus)
5 - V for Vendetta
Paul Thomas Anderson's great "Magnolia".
Requiem for a Dream is pretty stunning.
Pulp Fiction
Terminator 2
Godfather
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Machinist
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Goodfellas