Brian Earl Spilner said:

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How the hell did I forget Halloween...

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You already listed 29, what's one more?

You really get triggered by lists huh?

1) The Philadelphia Story
2) The Empire Strikes Back
3) Star Wars: A New Hope
4) Young Frankenstein
5) The Shawshank Redemption
6) Big Fish
7) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8) Star Trek: First Contact
9) The Princess Bride
10) Fellowship of the Ring

1. The Godfather
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Miracle
4. The Dark Knight
5. Iron Man
6. Avengers: Endgame
7. Whiplash
8. Inglorious B
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Tie between Spider-Man: No Way Home and the Disney animated Hercules movie

Tanya 93 said:

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1) The Philadelphia Story
2) The Empire Strikes Back
3) Star Wars: A New Hope
4) Young Frankenstein
5) The Shawshank Redemption
6) Big Fish
7) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8) Star Trek: First Contact
9) The Princess Bride
10) Fellowship of the Ring

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Nice! It's way up my list of "it's on, I don't care what part it is, I"m watching it."

1. Jaws
2. The Godfather 1&2 (cheating & saying that's one movie, if forced I'd favor 2)
3. Casablanca
4. Braveheart
5. Master & Commander
6. Blazing Saddles
7. Last of the Mohicans
8. Dune (2022 version duh)
9. Tombstone
10. Shawshank

Probably too soon for Dune tbh.... but I just got sucked into that world & could have watched for hours.
Can't wait for the second half. One of the best sci-fi films of all time IMO.

My top ten. I guess I'll just lump them into movies I don't get tired of watching.

In no particular order:
Jurassic Park
The Empire Strikes Back
Jaws
Shawshank Redemption
True Grit (2010)
Kelley's Heroes
A Bridge Too Far
The Mummy (1999)
Band of Brothers
Lonesome Dove

I know the last two are mini-series but they should have been released to the cinema.

Master and Commander was very hard to leave off my list.

GoAgs92 said:

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a.froman said:

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Tombstone
Caddyshack
The Cowboys( John Wayne)
The Natural
Swingers
Hoosiers
Die Hard
Animal House
Fletch
Few Good Men

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No Ferris Buellers day off? Sausage King of Chicago my ass.

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Hahaha

I'll play (in no particular order):

• The African Queen
• Stagecoach (1939)
• Casablanca
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Saving Private Ryan
• From Russia with Love
• Pulp Fiction
• Chinatown
• Red River
• Young Frankenstein

The Mummy is definitely one I'll stop and watch anytime its on

double aught said:

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c-jags said:

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7. Crazy Stupid Love

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I love this movie. It's in my top 10, but I didn't expect it in anyone else's.

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Agreed, I'm bumping Mean Girls for Crazy, Stupid, Love...fantastic cast that just works, underrated comedy/film.

I really dug the new True Grit as well.

Also, I was wondering if anyone was going to bring Kelly's Heroes into this. That's a good one. I think I use "negative waves" way too much because of this movie.

It bothers me when I reference it and no one gets it.

1 Back to the Future
2 Red Dawn
3 Pulp Fiction
4 Bull Durham
5 Step Brothers
6 Forrest Gump
7 Dazed and Confused
8 Shawshank Redemption
9 Goodfellas
10 Ferris Bueller's Day Off

My favorites in no particular order …

Gladiator
The Patriot
Die Hard
Tombstone
Aliens
Shawshank Redemption
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars
Hunt For Red October
Avengers : Endgame

Blade Runner
Shawshank Redemption
ET
Raiders of the Lost Ark
One Flew Over The ****oo's Nest
Braveheart
The Bourne Identity
Good Will Hunting
The spaghetti westerns (all 3)
The Shining

Mine, I am old and have not watched a lot of movies in the last ten years. Also in no particular order.

Harold and Maude
Rear Window
North by Northwest
African Queen
Captain Phillips
Star Wars
The Great Escape
Cabaret
Desk Set
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1. Gladiator
2.Monty Python & Holy Grail
3-10. Saving Private Ryan
Godfather
Godfather II
Old School
The Usual Suspects
Snatch
Waterboy
Hangover

Lot of Monty Python & The Holy Grail mentioned

Been working on coming back to this thread for a few days now. Based my list on three main criteria: compelling storytelling, exceptional cinematography/action/visuals, and rewatchability.

- The Matrix
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- John Wick
- Jurassic Park
- Oceans Eleven
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- The Iron Giant
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Fifth Element

Honorable mentions:
- Stardust
- Hot Fuzz
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Children of Men

So many more left off too.

AgRyan04 said:

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Chipotlemonger said:

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Lot of Monty Python & The Holy Grail mentioned

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Probably because its one of the best movies ever made

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Good point

Off the top of my head:

-About Time
-Love Actually
-The Last Five Years
-Ex Machina
-American History X
-Slumdog Millionaire
-3 Idiots
-Infinity War
-Lion
-La La Land

Top 10 during my '04 Baghdad deployment:

1. Raiders
2. Jurassic Park
3. Team America: World Police
4. Godfather Part II
5. Blackhawk Down
6. Glory
7. Old School
8. Jaws
9. Bloodsport
10. Leon: The Professional

Gonna have to think about this but I have a clear top two, which I'll start off with because I haven't seen them mentioned yet.

1. Das Boot
2. Gettysburg
3. Last of the Mohicans
4. Empire of the Sun
5. Fight Club
6. The Hateful Eight
7.

Lonesome Dove (I know it's a mini-series, but I consider it a long movie)
Shawshank Redemption
Cinema Paradiso
Urban Cowboy
It's A Wonderful Life
The Godfather/The Godfather Part 2
Braveheart
12 Angry Men
Pulp Fiction
Forrest Gump
Good Will Hunting

Out of a pretty quickly assembled list of my top 40, I managed to settle on this top 10. Not quite as difficult as I thought it would be, honestly. Some of you need to try harder.

1. Holy Grail -- No contest here. I can still recite 90% of the movie from memory, and I have a copy of the script for the other 10%. But I don't usually need it.

2. Groundhog Day -- I've watched GD about half as many times as HG, which puts GD into the 30-40 rewatches range. This is truly one of the best movies of all time, and unquestionably the best adaptation of Ecclesiastes in any medium ever produced. I even turned GD into a Sunday school lesson once.

3. Back to the Future -- One of the first movies that the future Mrs. G Martin and I saw together in the theatre. We bought tickets again right afterwards; saw it twice in the same night.

4. Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Without this movie and a Fedora, the future Mrs. G Martin and I would never have met. She still calls me Indy.

5. Serenity -- My favorite sci-fi space opera ever. Star Wars (I refuse to call it ANH) and Wrath of Khan both lost out to Serenity/Firefly when I had to really think about which of these franchises had the most emotional gut punch. I am a leaf on the wind.

6. Casino Royale -- There has to be a Bond film in my top 10. If I can only pick one, I guess I'll go with Daniel Craig and Eva Green over Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi. But it was really damn close.

7. The Magnificent 7 (1960) -- The best samurai western ever made. 'nuf said.

8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Comedies are perhaps overrepresented in my top 10, but it's just impossible to leave this out. Incredibly quotable and influential to this day.

9. The Great Escape -- I'm a bit surprised that this classic winds up being my favorite WWII movie, but it's the one I never tire of rewatching. Patton is great, but the use of non-WWII era tanks has always annoyed me. The Dirty Dozen is a fun action romp, but not very deep. A Bridge Too Far is an emotional beating. Bridge Over the River Kwai is the Citizen Cane of WWII POW movies, but it just isn't that fun to watch over and over. I can't find any flaws with The Great Escape. Great cast and score, too.

10. WALL-E -- A Pixar movie has to make my top 10, and WALL-E gets the nod due to the sci-fi setting and inventive, efficient story telling without excess exposition or dialogue. Yes, I can see how some viewers may be turned off by the preachy "save the Earth" overtones, but I don't care. Deep down it's a classic love story.

No honorable mentions. Them's the rules.

I can't list non-comedic movies though I admit they are the "best movies" usually. The comedies are my favorite and it's hard to choose my favorites.

1- Raising Arizona. The Coen brothers are masters of their craft. Not every movie by them is a hit but they will be well-crafted. Miller's Crossing by them is my go-to when some asks for a movie recommendation of something they likely haven't seen.

2- Caddyshack and Airplane. Released in July 1980, these movies were game changers and frequently quoted.

4- Blues Brothers. A humble take on struggling musicians who are on a mission from God.

5- The Princess Bride. Another movie full of quotes

6- The Three Amigos. I'd be interested in a modern day reboot with a serious take, kind of like how Beverly Hills Cop and Cobra have the same plot but different tones.

7- Blazing Saddles. Young Frankenstein was considered for this spot but you can't beat this flick. Spaceballs is nice but no Blazing Saddles. The Producers is another Mel Brooks great that doesn't get enough love, either version.

8- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The greatest holiday movie ever, followed by Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and Scrooged.

9- Office Space. Mike Judge brings laughter to everyone who has ever not wanted to go work.

10- Groundhog Day.

10- Groundhog Day.

Honorable mentions that I start watching when I find them on tv-
Last of the Mohicans, 2001 Space Odyssey, Die Hard, Full Metal Jacket, Gettysburg, first two Godfather movies, last two Captain America movies, Hellboy 2, Edge of Tomorrow, Maverick, O Brother Where Art Thou?, One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest, The Professional, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Secondhand Lions, Tombstone, and We we're Soldiers

Interesting, because I am just the opposite. I can't place a true comedy in my top 10 because sometimes comedies start to wear on me, and I don't feel in the mood to laugh. If I feel that way, the rest of the movie better be quality, and just funny.

I have some movies that are funny, but not necessarily classified as a "comedy".

bearamedic99 said:

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6- The Three Amigos. I'd be interested in a modern day reboot with a serious take…

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I'd watch this.

1. Sargent York
2. Willy Wonka
3. Star Wars
4. The Shining
5. Life is Beautiful
6. Glengarry Glen Ross
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Dumb & Dumber
9. The Gods Must Be Crazy
10. The Endless Summer

Hated leaving these off the list:
Holy Grail
Never Cry Wolf
Dancer in the Dark
Raising Arizona
Jaws
The Milagro Beanfield War