Can't do it. I don't know how anyone can have a top 10. there are so many great movies for different reasons. Off the top of my head, here's a list of films I think are great - in no particular order.

Garden State
Dogma
Snatch
12 Angry Men (Henry Fonda)
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Seven
Gladiator
The Matrix (only the first)
Open Range
Field of Dreams
Braveheart
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Aliens
American History X
Bourne Identity
Bridge on the River Kwai
Deer Hunter
Forrest Gump
Platoon
Princess Bride
Schindler's List

That's enough for now.

Well, I guess since Im still pretty young, my favorite movies change once and a while, so I have a new top ten. Its most of the same movies, just some are in a different order along with some new ones. Actually, I'm gonna do top 20:

1. "The Lord of the Rings"
2. "Kill Bill" (both volumes)
3. "Pulp Fiction"
4. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
5. "Forrest Gump"
6. "2001: A Space Odyssey"
7. "Saving Private Ryan"
8. "Minority Report"
9. "Adaptation"
10. "Gladiator"
11. "The Matrix"
12. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
13. "The Pianist"
14. "The Incredibles"
15. "Finding Nemo"
16. "The Last Samurai"
17. "The Truman Show"
18. "Memento"
19. "The Shawshank Redemption"
20. "Being John Malkovich"

Since you get to make a new list I shall as well. Still in no order (it is too hard to rate my favorite movies against each other).


1. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
2. The Incredibles
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Forrest Gump
5. The Matrix Series
6. Pulp Fiction
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Goodfellas
9. Dogma
10. Black Sheep
11. The Silence of the Lambs
12. The Bourne Series
13. Dawn of the Dead (Remake) explanation, need a bedtime story, horror movie, so I might as well pick this one.
14. School of Rock
15. Taxi Driver
16. Meet the Parents
17. Joe Dirt
18. Almost Famous
19. The Italian Job (Remake)
20. MallRats

Someone mentioned if I could only watch 10 movies the rest of my life...

Godfather, Jaws, Fellowship of the Ring, Star Wars, Cuckoo's Nest, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Usual Suspects, Silence of the Lambs, Aliens and Hannah and Her Sisters.

I would surely miss...

Pulp Fiction, the other Lord of the Rings, Schindler's List, Psycho, Maltese Falcon, Tresure of the Sierra Madre, Annie Hall, Manhatten, Life of Brian, Holy Grail, Kill Bill, Alien, Full Metal Jacket, Exorcist and the Terminator movies.

Well, I finally was able to create a top 100! So here it is:

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
4. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
7. Pulp Fiction (1994)
8. Forrest Gump (1994)
9. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
11. Minority Report (2002)
12. Adaptation (2002)
13. Gladiator (2000)
14. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
15. The Pianist (2002)
16. The Incredibles (2004)
17. Finding Nemo (2003)
18. The Last Samurai (2003)
19. The Truman Show (2003)
20. Memento (2001)
21. The Matrix (1999)
22. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
23. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
24. The Godfather (1972)
25. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
26. Shrek (2001)
27. The Shining (1980)
28. The Green Mile (1999)
29. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
30. Garden State (2004)
31. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
32. Alien (1979)
33. The Thin Red Line (1999)
34. Big (1988)
35. Traffic (2000)
36. Zoolander (2001)
37. Psycho (1960)
38. Almost Famous (2000)
39. Rain Man (1988)
40. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
41. Collateral (2004)
42. 28 Days Later (2003)
43. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
44. The Bourne Identity (2002)
45. Cast Away (Cast Away)
46. School of Rock (2003)
47. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
48. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
49. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
50. Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
51. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
52. Big Fish (2003)
53. Finding Neverland (2004)
54. Lost in Translation (2003)
55. The Sixth Sense (1999)
56. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
57. Unbreakable (2000)
58. The Fifth Element (1997)
59. The Others (2001)
60. The Terminal (2004)
61. Chinatown (1974)
62. Philadelphia (1993)
63. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
64. Spirited Away (2002)
65. Seven (1995)
66. Mars Attacks (1996)
67. Gangs Of New York (2002)
68. Best in Show (2000)
69. Casablanca (1942)
70. Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
71. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
72. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
73. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
74. Braveheart (1995)
75. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
76. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
77. Happy Gilmore (1996)
78. Hero (2004)
79. My Neighbor Totoro (1993)
80. X2: X-Men United (2003)
81. Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
82. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
83. Men in Black (1997)
84. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
85. The Village (2004)
86. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
87. Blade Runner (1982)
88. Identity (2003)
89. Dumb and Dumber (1994)
90. Jean de Florette and Manon Des Sources (1986)
91. Bowling for Columbine (2002)
92. Shanghai Knights (2003)
93. Rush Hour (1998)
94. Big Trouble (2002)
95. Matchstick Men (2003)
96. Toy Story (1995)
97. Liar Liar (1997)
98. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
99. About Schmidt (2002)
100. Amadeus (1984)

You have a lot of spare time, don't you? I wish I had the ability to create a list like that. If I did I'd prolly hang it in my house and give it to friends. Tell them to view all of these before they step foot in your house again.

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Originally posted by Nickel-Z:
You have a lot of spare time, don't you? I wish I had the ability to create a list like that. If I did I'd prolly hang it in my house and give it to friends. Tell them to view all of these before they step foot in your house again.

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ha ha, ok! Its true I do have quite a bit of spare time and I get bored easily. But if you ever get around to wanting to make one I suggest you use one of the online list maker thingys that they offer at www.imdb.com or yahoo movies. Thats what I did and it makes things a whole lot quicker.

1. Almost Famous
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Resevoir Dogs
4. Kill Bill, vol 1
5. The Godfather
6. Amelie
7. Terminator 2
8. Evil Dead
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark
10. Dumb and Dumber

I had to have a pure comedy movie in my top 10, even though there are better movies, Dumb and Dumber is my favorite comedy of all time.

1)Tron
2)Blazing Saddles
3)Road Trip
4)Dumb And Dumber
5)Ace Ventura When Nature Calls
6)The Matrix
7)Resident Evil
8)Mystery Science Theater 3000
9)The Bourne Identity
10)Dreamcatcher

1.Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
2.Mirror (Tarkovsky)
3.Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
4.Paris, Texas (Wenders)
5.L'Avventura (Antonioni)
6.2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
7.Maborosi (Kore-eda)
8.Sunrise (Murnau)
9.The Green Ray (Rohmer)
10=North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
Abraham Valley (Oliveira)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
Celine and Julie go Boating (Rivette)

In Order:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Forest Gump
3. Resivoir Dogs
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Kill Bill
6. Unbreakable
7. The Green Mile
8. The Italian Job
9. Dead Poet's Society
10.The Wall

A film snobs top ten... and yes, I actually don't need gratuitous violence in my films to enjoy them!

The first five are stayers, the second five often change.

1. La Dolce Vita
2. Vertigo
3. Chinatown
4. Playtime
5. Burnt by the Sun
6. Dr Strangelove
7. Once Upon a Time in the West
8. Before Sunset
9. Short Cuts
10. Annie Hall

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Originally posted by slimeBalrog:
shawshank
lotr (yeah, i'm not singling one out either)
pulp (everyone forgets it, but pop it back in, you'll remember)
the matrix (i guess this one IS getting singled out)
trainspotting
the insider (mann's best and you know it)
the right stuff (1983!!?? This could pass today as a new release. perfect)
braveheart (hey at least its not titanic)
aliens
almost famous / high fidelity (saw both for the first time the same night)

man...no godfather or empire (strikes back not records)
or spielberg...E.T. should be on there somewhere

screw it

The godfather might have a place in that list. I don't know, it's all personal preference, but I would have put it in. It really was a great movie. And as good as Godfather II was, it pales in comparison to the first one.

My TOP 12 of my lifetime (no particular order)

1. Karakter
2. Dogville
3. Closer
4. Lord of the Rings
5. American Beauty
6. Shakespeare in Love
7. 2046
8. Memento
9. The Usual Suspects
10. Magnolia
11. Moulin Rouge
12. Y Tu Mama Tambien

A top 10 is too difficult but what the heck? The list might change in a few days.

In no order:

Les Enfants Terribles
Cool Hand Luke
The Third Man
Jana-Aranya (several of Satyajit Ray films)
His Girl Friday
Caine Mutiny
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Blow-Up
Room Service (my favourite Marx bros. even though it wasn't written for them)
Les Diaboliques

Honourable mentions:

Heaven Can Wait
Harvey
Orson Welles' adaptation of The Trial
The Bank Dick

Hemorrhoids, that's a cool and offbeat list. Which Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty or Ernst Lubitsch? Captain Quueg's scene on the stand may be Bogie's greatest scene, and that's saying something!

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Originally posted by mark f:
Hemorrhoids, that's a cool and offbeat list. Which Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty or Ernst Lubitsch? Captain Quueg's scene on the stand may be Bogie's greatest scene, and that's saying something!

Thanks.

The Ernst Lubitsch 'Heaven Can Wait' of course. Charles Coburn is one of my favourite character actors and he simply was too good as a grandpa spoiling his grandson, living through a young soul and vicariously doing things he could never do in his youth. One of the best feel-good movies.

Captain Queeg is my favourite Bogart character. "You may tell the crew for me there are four ways of doing things on board my ship: the right way, the wrong way, the navy way and my way. If they do things my way, we'll get along." That's still a killer saying by any standards.

Citizen Kane
Pulp Fiction
Godfather I&II
Blood Simple
Babe
Raging Bull
LA Confidential
Schindler's List
Talk to Her
All About Eve

Hmm...that was kind of random, I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot.

My top 10 in no particular order:

1. The Usual Suspects
2. The Life of David Gale
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Clerks(don't ask why)
5. Laurel Canyon
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. The Story of Us
9. A Time to Kill
10. The Jerky Boys

Not really in order...

1. Sin City
2. Moulin Rouge
3. Bubble Boy
4. Heathers
5. Dawn of the Dead
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
7. Se7en
8. October Sky
9. The Ring
10. Bring It On

Yeah. I know. I have a horrible taste in movies.