Your definitive Top 10....

[Mandon Knight]

Any genre, any film, what's your all time top 10.....

 

[redhawk23]

I actually put some thought into this recently as I was rearranging my DvDs and Blu-ray. A tip 10 is tricky as by making it I think to some degree your re making a statement about yourself, about your tastes. A list of favorites is different than an attempt at an objective lists of the best FIS. You can recognize the artistic merit or technical innovation and importance of a film without loving it. On the other hand you can whole hearted Lynch love a film no one gives the time of day to.

For me there are a handful of movies that immediately come up as a kneejerk reaction when asked about my favorite movies. Any list I could try to make without them would be a lie.

Jurassic Park, Empire Strikes Back, the Lion King and the 1931 Frankenstein. Those are movies I have loved my whole life and very much defined what movies even are for me.

Along similar lines I would have to list 2001: A Space Odyssey. Growing up in the 90s I was obsessed with the space program of the 60s and would watch any and all Apollo footage that might play on TV. One night I came across something that at first looked like it might be NaSA footage, the spinning wheel space station. The film quality looked of the right era but we of course never had anything like it in real life. I of course soon figured out I was watching a movie but I was entranced. HALs fate made me sad, the end of the film blew my mind. Again, the definition of what a movie could be was stretched.

A more recent addition to my favorites is Inside Llewyn Davis. A sad, sometimes frustrating story of a sad frustrating man. The mood and the.music stuck it's hooks in me.

The Road Warrior. Fury Road may actually be a better film, it certainly my builds upon and perfects the action of the earlier film , but there is an edge to Mel's Max that I love, I love the story that is told, the design of the world and just the outright act of mythmaking on display.

Videodrome. Grotesque and bizarre effects. It's themselves about the effects of a life entrenched in media are only more potent in the internet age.

Picking another 3 is oddly difficult asany of my other favorite films are almost just variations on the same themes , offer a lot of the same transporting or terrifying effects of the other movies. I will add Hot Fuzz , which I think is among the.most perfectly structured comedies of all time. I will add the original Planet of the Apes .

 

[David H.]

I'm trying to put a list together. The difficulty I'm facing is really not necessary but... past my top three (the order of which I could debate myself for hours about) it's difficult deciding what pushes One film over the next.

Kudos on Llewyn Davis. Not sure it makes it to my top ten but it's my most recent all timer. I don't know that I've ever connected to character like Llewyn. Maybe Ben Braddock.

 

[thejon93rd]

10. The Fall
9. A Bittersweet Life
8. American Psycho
7. The Truman Show
6. In Bruges
5. Robocop
4. The Iron Giant
3. The Raid 2
2. Ed Wood
1. Take Shelter

Honourable Mentions: Letters from Iwo Jima, F For Fake, Hard Eight, Do the Right Thing, Bob Roberts, Warrior, Menace II Society, Commando, The Terminator, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Darkman, Sexy Beast, M, Enemy, El Mariachi, The Killer, Unbreakable, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Who Am I?, Chinatown, Innerspace, Groundhog Day, Glengarry Glen Ross, Heat, Hot Fuzz, and probably thousands (upon thousands) of other great movies that I'm forgetting about.

 

[writer0327]

Tough one.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Chinatown
3. Back to the Future
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Big Trouble in Little China
7. Reservoir Dogs
8. Goodfellas
9. The Princess Bride
10. Ghostbusters

 

[gwynplaine]

Definitive that's a big word.

1. The Night of the Hunter
2. The Shining
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Goodfellas
5. Grand Illusion
6. John Carpenter's The Thing
7. Dog Day Afternoon
8. Rio Bravo
9. Bridge on the River Kwai
10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

 

[Fincher]

1. Dark City
2. Gattaca
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. The Matrix
5. House of Sand and Fog
6. The Sixth Sense
7. Aliens
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. Casino Royale
10. Se7en

 

[David H.]

There's no way this is my definitive top 10, but today, at this moment...

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2. Taxi Driver
3. Children of Men
4. The Last Temptation of Christ
5. Barry Lyndon
6. The Fountain
7. The Graduate
8. Star Wars
9. The Prestige
10. Magnolia

Ugh, and I'm missing so many others I love like Leone's Once Upon a Time... films (I prefer OUATITW to GBU), classics like Seven Samurai, Nosferatu, Raiders, movies I consider perfect like 2001, There Will Be Blood or The Godfather...

 

[dallywhitty]

01. Blade Runner
02. A Clockwork Orange
03. Straw Dogs
04. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
05. Gone with the Wind
06. The Godfather Part II
07. The Graduate
08. Midnight Cowboy
09. Easy Rider
10. Jacob's Ladder

 

[The Endless]

Hmmmm well...

Apocalypse Now
Children of Men
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
Alien
Mulholland Drive
A Fish Called Wanda
Once Upon A Time In The West
John Wick Chapter 2
The Prestige

 

[Lord]

In no particular order:

Apocalypse Now!
Barry Lyndon
Amadeus
Magnolia
There Will Be Blood
Drive
Pulp Fiction
The Elephant Man
The Godfather Part II
2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[OutOfBoose]

No order:

Blade Runner
The Terminator
RoboCop
Inland Empire
Dracula (1992)
The Lord of the Rings
Conan the Barbarian
The Dark Knight
The Matrix
Ghost in the Shell (1995)

 

[Rowsdower!]

I'll do one in reverse. My top 10 favorite BAD movies:

1. The Final Sacrifice (MST3K version)
2. Dolemite
3. Space Mutiny (MST3K version)
4. Cool as Ice
5. Cave Dwellers (MST3K version)
6. This Island Earth (MST3K version)
7. Conan the Destroyer
8. Showgirls
9. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (MST3K version)
10. Freddie Got Fingered

 

[Finarfiniel]

I've actually found doing this ridiculously difficult because of the sheer volume of films I love and how insanely eclectic my taste is. These are probably the ten films I feel that have had the most impact on me and my life, as a child of the late 80's/early 90's, and also the ones I attach the most meaning to. It doesn't necessarily mean I think they're the ten best films ever made, because recognising technical brilliance and your personal emotional connection to a film are very different things. So, in no particular order, except Fellowship because it's definitely my favourite of all time:

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Shawshank Redemption
Labyrinth
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Princess Mononoke
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Matrix
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Neverending Story

 

[Mandon Knight]

I think it's fundamentally difficult simply because one can have a 'personal' top 10, in films that mean something to them for a personal reason but are not 'world beaters' and a top 10 because of their technical merit. I tend to have a list for both.

 

[Boom]

In alphabetical order:

Alien
Jaws
Jurassic Park
King Kong (1933)
No Country for Old Men
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Dark Knight
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac

 

[AnneFan]

I have many, but here's ten in no order:

Pulp Fiction
The Empire Strikes Back
The Matrix
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Dark Knight
The Shawshank Redemption
Jurassic Park
The Fellowship of the Ring
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Predator

 

[Wildcard]

Oh boy, this is gonna be a tough one. But, here goes (in no order):

Frankenstein (1931)
Lion King
Jurassic Park
Halloween (1978)
The Godfather Part II
The Dark Knight
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Training Day
Silence of the Lambs
Drive (2011)

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

In no order...

Pan's Labyrinth
Robocop
The Matrix
Groundhog Day
Truman Show
Pulp Fiction
Beetlejuice
Predator
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Blade

Honorable mention...

Ex Machina
Se7en
T2: Judgement Day
Schindler's List
Goodfellas
Fight Club
The Fly
Office Space
Artificial Intelligence
Batman 89
Big Trouble in Little China
Glory
Raising Arizona
Coming to America
V for Vendetta
The Mask
Constantine
Logan
Deadpool
Days of Future Past
Winter Soldier
Superman the Movie
Donnie Darko
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Buffalo '66
Inglorious Basterds
City of God
Waking Life
Equilibrium
Bedazzled

 

[Finarfiniel]

It warms my heart to see so many people including Fellowship of the Ring in their top 10 lists, I've always maintained (and I always will) that it's the best installment of the LotR trilogy by far. It's the one film I can watch countless times and still feel the same sense of magic every damn time that I felt the first time I watched it. Best movie ever.

 

[OutOfBoose]

It warms my heart to see so many people including Fellowship of the Ring in their top 10 lists, I've always maintained (and I always will) that it's the best installment of the LotR trilogy by far. It's the one film I can watch countless times and still feel the same sense of magic every damn time that I felt the first time I watched it. Best movie ever.

It's the best of the trilogy indeed.

 

[Boom]

It's the best film in the trilogy, and it has the best cast commentary of the three films.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Okay, after a wee bit of placement shuffling....

1 Superman The Movie / Vertigo - cannot split them
2 E.T.
3 Halloween
4 Back to the Future
5 Donnie Darko
6 Brief Encounter
7 Jaws
8 An Affair to Remember
9 The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp
10 Blade Runner

Those just missing out on top 10

Man of Steel
Rear Window
Psycho
Lawrence of Arabia
It's a Wonderful Life
The Breakfast Club

 

[AnneFan]

It warms my heart to see so many people including Fellowship of the Ring in their top 10 lists, I've always maintained (and I always will) that it's the best installment of the LotR trilogy by far. It's the one film I can watch countless times and still feel the same sense of magic every damn time that I felt the first time I watched it. Best movie ever.

It has the greatest blend of darkness, mystery and emotion.

Nothing really topped the Balrog confrontation or Boromir's death for me.

 

[Sundancer]

My top ten keeps changing. For today --

Episode IV
Empire Strikes Back
Hot Fuzz
Braveheart
Goodfellas
Training Day
Better off Dead
Raiders Lost Ark
Black Dynamite
Scarface