10 Favorite Movies

I'm working on a list of my top 10 favorite movies of all time for a blog post. It is so hard to narrow down. What does your list look like?

 

This is one of those situations where this bizarre forum switch is so disappointing. I had written a great top 100, including a thorough evaluation of the top ten. All lost to the Internet archives now.

1. Au Hasard Balthazar
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Masculin feminin
4. The Godfather Part II
5. Citizen Kane
6. The Tree of Life
7. Andrei Rublev
8. Late Spring
9. Raging Bull
10. The Passion of Joan of Arc

 

1. Back to the Future
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Goodfellas
5. Blazing Saddles
6. Boogie Nights
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Bottle Rocket
9. Fargo
10. Tremors

 

1. The Motorcycle Diaries
2. Gladiator
3. Kingdom of Heaven
4. Syriana
5. The Dark Knight
6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7. Back to the Future
8. The Thin Red Line
9. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
10. Can't decide....

 

I know my list may seem super random but....

1. Man of Steel
2. Terminator 2
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. The Patriot
5. American History
6. Scott Pilgrim vs The World
7. The Dark Knight
8. South Park
9. Kung Fu Panda
10. Die Hard

 

Favorites? Something along the lines of...

1.) Kill Bill
2.) Attack the Block
3.) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4.) Shaun of the Dead
5.) Extract
6.) The Way Way Back
7.) Celeste and Jesse Forever
8.) Heat
9.) The Big Lebowski
10.) No Country for Old Men

Honorable Mentions: Can't Hardly Wait, Fargo, Mystic River, Memento, Hot Fuzz

 

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Zodiac
5. Adaptation.
6. The Thing
7. Walk Hard: A Dewey Cox Story
8. Enemy
9. Punch-Drunk Love
10. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

 

Are you counting Kill Bill as one film or are you referring to one Volume specifically?

 

If I were to take it as a whole, I would rank it a lot better. Separate though, I think they are uneven and all the action and best moments are in part 1.

 

Tarantino counts both volumes as one film.

 

That being true, he still released it as two separate movies. I've heard from people who have seen the cut of it as one film is awesome and it's actually re edited with scenes from both parts mixed in differently resulting in a different flow of the movie.

I wonder if it'll ever got a real release.

 

I remember at the time the original cut was over 3 hours and the Weinsteins thought that would hurt its box office potential so they forced QT to split it up

 

Makes sense. Seems a common mistake that studios are still making.

 

In no order:

Apocalypse Now
Jaws
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Animal House
Dead Man
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
Dazed and Confused
Blade Runner
Chinatown
Boogie Nights

 

I'll have to come back to this. Off the top of my head:

Spaceballs
Princess Mononoke
Scott Pilgrim
Leon (The Professional)
Fell Metal Jacket

 

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

Goodfellas
The Godfather I, II
Gamorrah
The Tree of Life
Lost in Translation
Rushmore
History of the World Pt. 1
Gladiator
Home Alone

 

Home Alone 1 & 2 are so good.

 

I love The Patriot. Such a great movie.

 

hmmmm

Apocalpyse Now
Before Trilogy
Do the Right Thing
Eyes Wide Shut
Ikiru
Inglorious Basterds
On the Waterfront
Tree of Life
The Wolf of Wall Street
Yi Yi

I could have switched any of Scorsese's top films with Wolf, Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, particularly, though I love Goodfellas and the King of Comedy. Obviously the first two Godfather films and Citizen Kane deserve a spot in any top ten, but I wanted to include Yi Yi and any film from the Before trilogy given how much I love Edward Yang and Richard Linklater. I would have liked to include Wes Anderson and Kevin Smith, given they (along with Scorsese) were my gateway into taking film seriously, but as much as I love the Royal Tenenbaums I'm comfortable with the ten films selected above it (and as much as I love Kevin Smith's first few films, they'd look wildly out of place next to most of these). Eyes Wide Shut is not only my favorite Kubrick, but also my favorite Tom Cruise film, and I love him as an actor. He's made a few films that could threaten my top ten in Magnolia, Minority Report, and Collateral. To speak of actors, On the Waterfront is Brando at his most focused while Apocalypse Now is him at his most indulgent, but both are transcendent performances.

 

Brazil
Mulholland Drive
Interstellar
Inception
Pulp Fiction
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in America
The Godfather
The Royal Tenenbaums
1900

Damn, that was really hard.

 

finally got my list together.

Super 8
Pulp Fiction
The Shining
Almost Famous
Alien
Fargo
Cloverfield
Psycho
The Darjeeling Limited
Fight Club

 

Niicccceee

 

That took too many posts before Jaws was mentioned

I can do a top 5, not so much a top 10, in no particular order except Jaws.
1) Jaws
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The Thing (1982)
- The Exorcist
- Misery

 

Airplane!
Children of Men
Die Hard
Rushmore
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
The Assassination of Jesse James
The Darjeeling Limited
The Kings of Summer
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Wet Hot American Summer