Still 10/10, but rather than just one of my favorite movies - it IS my favorite movie. Also for those thinking I haven't seen many -- screenwriter here with having seen over a thousand. Go to the theaters twice to three times a week, and always get around 30 dvds out from the library, and etc. And I stand by this literally being my favorite movie.
I love movies that deal with themes of adoption because it's what I relate to being an adoptee. This movie captured that spirit and essence more than any other movie I've seen before, and I search them out readily. I love classic sci-fi movies and alien invasion movies. This movie captured that on the edge of your seat and amazement I've been searching for. Independence Day was my favorite alien invasion movie before and this one ups it. Being an adoptee I have always looked at superheroes as role models, they're all similarly orphaned and manage to find their way - I've always found that inspiring and superheroes are really what fuels and drives me. TDKR tapped into this (and is my second favorite superhero movie of all time), whereas this went there full force and I loved every second of it. To me superheroes are the figures you're told and tell others who were orphaned about - because here are these mythic figures who similarly lost their parents in one way or another and while they still have grief over it, they don't let it fuel them and they use being an outsider in this world to help others and to rise above themselves to find where they fit in - so superheroes have always been about more than just the cool things someone can do and they are the most inspiring thing in my life because being orphaned I really needed that hope and that's what heroes give me. I'm a Star Wars fan who loves new worlds and Krypton certainly had that in spades. And I love innovative action sequences that I've never seen before and this is that and more. Basically it has everything I look for in a movie: adoptee themes (or themes that I can relate to), gets the essence of what I see in superheroes, took me someplace I've never been yet also had it in my own back yard, and it's innovative.
So with having all of that, I can readily say that this is my favorite movie of all time and it will be hard to top and the only film I see topping it is MOS 2. It's actually the first movie that I can readily say is my number one favorite, because before this all favorite movies have been readily tied. It just, as said, has everything I personally look for. It's like being given something that has every single one of your favorite things in it. Typically it's only a couple of these aspects, but here it - for the first time - it checked off every box.
