Create your top 10 movie list and identify the method you used. Remember that this is your list not the greatest movies of all time. I'm curious to see what movies you like and what methods you use to create your list (I.e. your method could be the 10 movies you can bring to a deserted island for the rest of your life). I'll start.

Method: I selected one movie only for each of my favorite directors, then filled in the remainder:

Top 10:
Spielberg - Raiders of Lost Ark
Tarantino - Inglorious B
Nolan - Interstellar
Shyamalan - Unbreakable
Michael Mann - Heat
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
Cameron-T2
Tombstone
Casablanca
Star Wars A New Hope

Honorable Mention:
The Great Escape
The Matrix
A fistful of dollars
The Sting
Les Miserables


Edit: Loved reading everyones lists. I'm adding movies I forgot below.

For Love of the Game
Hell or High Water
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
True Grit (2010)
Sean of the Dead

helloimustbegoing said:

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You say it's a top 10 list, then you add your honorable mentions? That's weak, bro. Make a 10 and stick to it.

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Guilty as charged. I agonized so much over chopping off the last five I felt I had to include them somehow.

I enjoyed reading your descriptions; particularly Jurassic Park. I watched that movie as a kid on a tiny movie screen in a suburban with my friends on the way to a party. There's no rational explanation for how terrified I was watching that movie (kitchen scene) given how grainy the picture was and yet…

tamuangry said:

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helloimustbegoing said:

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You say it's a top 10 list, then you add your honorable mentions? That's weak, bro. Make a 10 and stick to it.

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Guilty as charged. I agonized so much over chopping off the last five I felt I had to include them somehow.

I enjoyed reading your descriptions; particularly Jurassic Park. I watched that movie as a kid on a tiny movie screen in a suburban with my friends on the way to a party. There's no rational explanation for how terrified I was watching that movie (kitchen scene) given how grainy the picture was and yet…

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it's funny, midnight showings weren't a thing back then. I was 19 and home from A&M and my brother was 22 and had just moved back from college out of state. He won the tickets to a midnight showing off the radio and in the span of a few hours we were at the theater. As dumb as it sounds now, we left the theater at 230 or 3 am and I remember being so blown away I felt like the T-Rex was going to be lurking behind the move theater. Special effects wise I can't think of anything that has given me that experience since.

My top 10:

The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Alien
Star Wars
Avengers Infinity War + Avengers Endgame (counting as 1 really long movie)
Captain America The Winter Soldier
Die Hard
Aliens
Jaws

There is a strong correlation between this list and my childhood+college years.

If I had to go with directors,
Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ridley Scott - Alien
James Cameron - Aliens
Christopher Nolan - Interstellar
Denis Vill??? - Dune

1: The Godfather
2; The Godfather Part 2

My Top 10 that I just don't get tired of watching but also, for the most part, are beautifully shot.

1) Godfather Part II
2) Godfather
3) Goodfellas
4) Raging Bull
5) Lost in Translation
6) Do the Right Thing
7) A Clockwork Orange
8) Kung Fu Hustle
9) Amelie
10) Parasite

Edit: Subbed Parasite for In Bruges. But am adding because I haven't thought about a movie like that after viewing ever. The life parallels were amazing.

In no particular order:

The Hunt for Red October
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Dark Knight
The Usual Suspects
Die Hard
The Goonies
Jurassic Park
Heat
Office Space
Ratatouille


Went purely on rewatchability. I dont care what kind of mood I am in, I can watch any one of these. Doesnt matter if there are 10 min left, I can turn it on.

Movies I never tire of and have watched many times, so I guess my top 10.

2001
Lawrence of Arabia
Swingers
Clerks
Aliens
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Hunt for Red October
Amadeus
The Blues Brothers
Lord of the Rings - Return of the King

Did anybody mention any Hitchcock films?

Good Will Hunting
Gladiator
Braveheart
Rocky
Lord of the Rings
A New Hope
Empire Strikes Back
Princess Bride
Monty Python
A River Runs Through It


Or at least, that's what I say right now on the spur of the moment. I haven't seen a lot of the old classics (Godfather, Casablanca, etc) and could easily be forgetting some that would normally be in my top ten, but I don't think any of the top 7 would drop out.

No particular order, off the top of my head:

Interstellar - my favorite Nolan movie

The Dark Knight - best comic book movie, one of the best action movies, and one of the all time best villian/performace ever

Jaws - the GOAT and original summer popcorn flick. Will never be surpassed.

Jurassic Park - second best summer popcorn flicks, and beyond the technical wizardry of it, I saw it with my Dad when I was in high school after we had both read the book. For a high school age teenager to go to the movies with just his dad and enjoy the time so much he still remembers it almost 30 years later - that's a special movie.

Raiders of the Lost Ark - another GOAT. I didn't want to be a football player or musician or movie star when I was a kid....I wanted to be Indiana Jones.

Star Wars A New Hope - c'mon, no reason needed.

Star Wars Empire Strikes Back - ditto

Legends of the Fall - love the storyline, love the score

Last of The Mohicans - an epic storyline, Mann at his peak, and Day-Lewis starring

A Christmas Story - I'll watch this every Christmas until the day I die

My Top Ten:

• Stand By Me
• Forrest Gump
• There Will Be Blood
• No Country For Old Men
• Jurassic Park
• Almost Famous
• A Christmas Story
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Dumb & Dumber
• The Big Lebowski

No order:

The Natural
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Jaws
True Grit (2010)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Patton
Bringing Up Baby
Bull Durham
The Searchers
The Thin Man (series)

So far Jurassic Park and Star Wars leading the pack here. Both having that "woah" scene they saw right in the theater moment.

I won't go through all top ten, but my favorite movie is probably Robocop (the original).

Head Ninja In Charge said:

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Movies I've probably watched the most times, so I guess my favorite movies:

1. Bloodsport
2. Selena
3. Jurassic Park
4. Ocean's 13
5. Ratatouille
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. Saving Private Ryan
8. Thor: Ragnarok
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
10. Lost in Translation

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RIP Selena

When's the yearly Top 10 TV & Movie post coming?

Was just thinking about that. Problem is, I'm so far behind on my own lists - still so much I need to watch from 2021 - that mine would feel incomplete, hence having not yet posted anything. Maybe I can in a couple weeks, or if someone else wants to get the thread going now, go right ahead, and I'll add to it later. In the past I've done a single, end-of-year thread, and it can be either your top ten movies, top ten TV shows, or just top ten things you've watched, from both movies and TV, in one list.

All good. I was building my list on Letterboxd the other day and thought about it. There's a few movies I'd like to see that haven't made their way near me or onto VOD, but I'm really behind on tv this year for some reason.

Lord the the Rings
Empire Strikes Back
Back to the Future
2001: A Space Odyssey
Eyes Wide Shut
ET
Jurassic Park
The Lion King
Inglourious Basterds
Pulp Fiction

Gun to my head, that's probably the ten that I would name.

Just outside the top 10:

Terminator 2
Gladiator
The Matrix
Home Alone 1 & 2
Happy Gilmore
Titanic
Avatar
Django Unchained
Vanilla Sky
American Psycho
Donnie Darko

---------------------- Line delimiting my original post and the movies I will inevitably remember and come back to post after.

Halloween
The Shining
Toy Story 1 & 3

Fun topic. My criteria was to start back with my childhood to now and list out movies I found memorable or impactful or just loved for some reason or another. Next I went through my list and asked if a film still holds up as a top 10 for me. I tried to list these in order of when I think I saw the film and not release date:

Return of the Jedi…my first movie theater experience was watching RotJ. I even remember the theater…this small 2 screen theater on a hill next to Richland Mall in Waco.
Ghostbusters
Beetlejuice
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Blazing Saddles
Pulp Fiction (#1)
Swingers…I know younger generations will likely never understand the Gen X Swing revival. It was fun. This movie helped make it fun. I love this movie so much.
The Dark Knight
Mad Max Fury Road

or

Casino Royale
Die Hard
Gladiator
Major League II
Mean Girls
Pitch Perfect
Saving Private Ryan
Shooter
The Italian Job
The Patriot