Favorite Top Ten Movies

MagiciteKefka

Well, I'm going to have to revise my list now. I'm putting Cloud Atlas on the very top. No regrets.

Tyler_Durden

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Godfather 1 and 2
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Fight Club
6. Amadeus
7. Oldboy
8. City of God
9. The Pursuit of Happyness
10. The Shawshank Redemption

Damn, its really hard to narrow it down to 10, so many good movies left out.

loneassassin

This is easy for me (in no particular order).

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Young Frankenstein
3. Blazing Saddles
4. The Producers (original)
5. Blues Brothers
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Clerks
8. The Good, The Bad And the Ugly
9. Once Upon a Time In The West
10. For a Few Dollars More

And the two movies just outside of range:

a. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
b. A Fistful of Dollars
So yeah, a huge fan of Mel Brooks and Sergio Leone

Pochipochi

Films that have had an unshakable impact on me and influenced my taste off the top of my head:

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@Tsukishima:

Well, if we go by the favorites. In no particular order.

Late Spring

Le Salaire de la Peur

Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux

Woman in the Dunes

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Barry Lyndon

Come and See

La Haine

Amores Perros

3-Iron

No Country for Old Men

Yo 3-Iron rules so hard high five

MiyamotoMusashi

Lady Vengeance
Leon The Professional
The Return of the Kings
Oldboy
Hana-Bi
The Godfather
Seven
Seven Samurai
Hero
Ghost In The Shell

Apprentice

It's VERY interesting seeing how these lists contrast with each other. It's a very diverse group here on AP but for goodness sake people stop being punks and actually order them from 1st to least favorite. "In no particular order" is such a copout.

Nobodyman

@Apprentice:

It's VERY interesting seeing how these lists contrast with each other. It's a very diverse group here on AP but for goodness sake people stop being punks and actually order them from 1st to least favorite. "In no particular order" is such a copout.

Or, you know, maybe it's hard enough for people to select just ten movies, let alone rank them, seeing as how people can enjoy movies on different levels and for different reasons. But if you wanna twist my arm…

1. Star Wars (all three films)
2. Fantasia
3. Fargo
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. The Producers (original)
6. Hunchback of Notre Dame
7. Finding Nemo
8. Kill Bill
9. Shawshank Redemption
10. 12 Angry Men

Hiroy

@Apprentice:

It's VERY interesting seeing how these lists contrast with each other. It's a very diverse group here on AP but for goodness sake people stop being punks and actually order them from 1st to least favorite. "In no particular order" is such a copout.

How about "no".

DartG

10. Zatoichi movie series
9. Yojimbo/Sanjuro
8. Oldboy
7. The Native Duck, The Foreign Duck, and God in a Coin Locker
6. Princess Mononoke
5. Kill Bill Vol 1
4. Kill Bill Vol 2
3. Fish Story
2. Fire and Ice
1. Tampopo

It's obvious I like foreign films very much. There's a few of Spanish and Korean ones I would of loved to put on the list;
Pans Labyrinth, The Host, The Good The Bad The Weird, The Show Must Go On.

Other films
Finding Nemo, Laputa, Spirited Away, Shawshank Redemption, Django Unchained, Seven Samurai, Metropolis(both the Fritz and the Japanese animated movie), and Pixar Story

Apprentice

@Nobodyman:

Or, you know, maybe it's hard enough for people to select just ten movies, let alone rank them, seeing as how people can enjoy movies on different levels and for different reasons. But if you wanna twist my arm…

1. Star Wars (all three films)
2. Fantasia
3. Fargo
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. The Producers (original)
6. Hunchback of Notre Dame
7. Finding Nemo
8. Kill Bill
9. Shawshank Redemption
10. 12 Angry Men

Thank you Nobodyman, a couple of great ones on here by the way. Runs around twisting everyone's arm

Wagomu

@Apprentice:

It's VERY interesting seeing how these lists contrast with each other. It's a very diverse group here on AP but for goodness sake people stop being punks and actually order them from 1st to least favorite. "In no particular order" is such a copout.

In no particular order: that. are do us None going of to

MiyamotoMusashi

@Apprentice:

It's VERY interesting seeing how these lists contrast with each other. It's a very diverse group here on AP but for goodness sake people stop being punks and actually order them from 1st to least favorite. "In no particular order" is such a copout.

It´s already hard enough to actually name 10 movies out the hundreds, maybe thousands of movies i have watched over the years. I am not even entirely sure whether the 10 movies i included in my list are actually my top 10.

Wagomu

The thread is only about favorite top 10 movies, anyways. I thought we were just writing in our favorites from other top 10 lists, with no order or limitation.

Nex 0

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pulp Fiction
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Memento
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Lord of the Rings (Extended Editions)
Anchorman
Se7en
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
The Room

I know, my taste is fantastic.

valiantt

@Nex:

The Room
I know, my taste is fantastic.

Nex 0

@valiantt:

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A movie I love simply because it's so bad it's amazing can't be one of my all time favorites and still indicate good taste? It's not like I think it's a _good_ movie.

TLC

People can say how many movies they want with or without order they want and categorize them however they want. It's hard enough to be able to make a list let alone order it. I'd know, it took me years to make mine.

Apprentice

@MiyamotoMusashi:

It´s already hard enough to actually name 10 movies out the hundreds, maybe thousands of movies i have watched over the years. I am not even entirely sure whether the 10 movies i included in my list are actually my top 10.

Yeah yeah yeah it's hard. Listen no one is putting a gun to your head but come on its not filing taxes here, spend the extra 5 minutes and try to arrange your 10 from best to worst. It makes it more fun to read IMO when you have a definite #1 and so on because when you have Bambi and Oldboy in ur top 10 which of those is #1 and which is #10 says a lot about you.

TLC

Dude, my thread, my rules. People can do what they want with their lists. This is supposed to be something fun and spontaneous.

Hiroy

@Apprentice:

says a lot about you.

Aside from you, who really cares?

Apprentice

No one has to care, but I'm hoping some people might for the reasons i've already stated and that's why I said it. It was a VERY non threatening request that can easily be ignored you guys are making it a much bigger deal than it is honestly. I mean to get to the point where this

@Hiroy:

Aside from you, who really cares?

Was worth posting is silly IMO. Some people might succumb to the provocation and post a comprehensive list and then I'll be happy. One person already did. Are you less happy just because I requested that? If you are I don't know why you are or what your problem is but I can't help you with that.

Also I'm purposely ignoring you TLC, because I don't like you. Just FYI. Good thread idea though.

Darkstorm

@Apprentice:

Also I'm purposely ignoring you TLC, because I don't like you. Just FYI.

Thanks for the FORUM DRAMA

everyone back to lists/discussion of lists please

TLC

Here's a fun list. Favorite trilogies. Let's keep it to top five because good trilogies are so rare but feel free to add more or less if you want.

1. Lord of the Rings
2. Toy Story
3. Back to the Future
4. Evil Dead
5. Bourne series

The Cornetto trilogy will most probably make my top three though assuming World's End isn't a total bomb.

MiyamotoMusashi

Hannibal Trilogy
Lord of the Rings
Bourne Series
Vengeance Trilogy by Park Chan-Wook
Internal Affairs Trilogy
The Dollar Trilogy
Indiana Jones
Godfather

Those are the trilogies i have to mention

Robby

Trilogies are rough though because your list is pretty much covers what good trilogies there are. There aren't a whole lot, maybe 15-20, so there's going to be a LOT of overlap.

I added miniseries into mine to make it more interesting but…

@Apprentice:

No one has to care, but I'm hoping some people might for the reasons i've already stated and that's why I said it.

And everyone has already said its hard enough to do a top 10, ordering is impossible. Plus, your mood can change from day to day. On a different day you might not be in the mood to watch a specific thing or think of a different movie. You might have one thats an absolute for certain favorite, but then the other 9 can fluctuate.

For example, on my list if I was pressed, I'd probably cut out a couple of films just because I have the same directors on there multiple times. I might decide that Good Will Hunting deserves to be in my top ten, and I'lll take out How to Train Your Dragon because its still new and I liked Lilo and Stitch more. But those are two completely different movies, so its not like replacing one movie with a similar movie thats slightly superior… its just mood and what comes to mind. If I only put one Miyazaki film, thats absolutely Castle of Cagliostro... but then kicking off Princess Mononoke which is also one of my favorites is a travesty.

Fish Story is fantastic, but its subtitled only, so I can only watch it when I'm REALLY in the mood to watch it, I can't play it as background noise and quote along with it.

What about Goofy Movie, that's on my list because I grew up on it and it has a specific place in my heart from a specific time and place and I've seen it 50 times and I can quote the whole thing... but with that familiarity comes a little bit of boredom.but if I saw it for the first time now... I don't know that I'd care for it much. Its super important to 14 year old me and so makes it for that reason, and I can't see it fresh anymore, so as a result I don't love it as I did. How do I rank and justify all those factors compared to a movie that came out two years ago that I've only seen a couple times but knew I loved the first time?

And hey, Darkstorm mentioned some movies I love that I simply didn't think of, where do I put Groundhog's Day and Blues Brothers into my list of already 10? What other favorite that I thought of first gets cut for a different one?

Making a top 10 is already arbitrary enough, a definitive order where you feel you'll always watch this movie before that movie is impossible... especially if the genres are heavily mixed up.

You might be able to place one comedy ahead of another, or a romance against a romance or and adventure over and adventure... but how do you stack a comedy against a musical against a drama?

Apprentice

@RobbyBevard:

Trilogies are rough though because your list is pretty much covers what good trilogies there are. There aren't a whole lot, maybe 15-20, so there's going to be a LOT of overlap.

I added miniseries into mine to make it more interesting but…

And everyone has already said its hard enough to do a top 10, ordering is impossible. Plus, your mood can change from day to day. On a different day you might not be in the mood to watch a specific thing or think of a different movie. You might have one thats an absolute for certain favorite, but then the other 9 can fluctuate.

For example, on my list if I was pressed, I'd probably cut out a couple of films just because I have the same directors on there multiple times. I might decide that Good Will Hunting deserves to be in my top ten, and I'lll take out How to Train Your Dragon because its still new and I liked Lilo and Stitch more. But those are two completely different movies, so its not like replacing one movie with a similar movie thats slightly superior... its just mood and what comes to mind. If I only put one Miyazaki film, thats absolutely Castle of Cagliostro... but then kicking off Princess Mononoke which is also one of my favorites is a travesty.

Fish Story is fantastic, but its subtitled only, so I can only watch it when I'm REALLY in the mood to watch it, I can't play it as background noise and quote along with it.

What about Goofy Movie, that's on my list because I grew up on it and it has a specific place in my heart from a specific time and place and I've seen it 50 times and I can quote the whole thing... but with that familiarity comes a little bit of boredom.but if I saw it for the first time now... I don't know that I'd care for it much. Its super important to 14 year old me and so makes it for that reason, and I can't see it fresh anymore, so as a result I don't love it as I did. How do I rank and justify all those factors compared to a movie that came out two years ago that I've only seen a couple times but knew I loved the first time?

And hey, Darkstorm mentioned some movies I love that I simply didn't think of, where do I put Groundhog's Day and Blues Brothers into my list of already 10? What other favorite that I thought of first gets cut for a different one?

Making a top 10 is already arbitrary enough, a definitive order where you feel you'll always watch this movie before that movie is impossible... especially if the genres are heavily mixed up.

You might be able to place one comedy ahead of another, or a romance against a romance or and adventure over and adventure... but how do you stack a comedy against a musical against a drama?

I don't know what to tell you Robby, obviously everything you said about moods, nostalgia and absolute favorites is true but I still don't find it nearly impossible to make a list. It isn't like you can't change it later if you feel like it. I'm really into film and i've done this list 100 times and after this summer i'm not sure watchmen or star trek 2009 will still be on my list. I still put them there because I think it means more this way and is fun to weed out the best of the best and see how people react to them and your positions. I think it would engender more conversation for someone to say "How could you put good burger over watchmen?" and for me to try to find some way to defend that or give the back story behind it because once you make that commitment to say This is #1 or #2 it means more than any of the top 10 being interchangeable. IMO anyway.

Once again though, if no one wants to do so then it's not a problem.

Robby

@Apprentice:

I'm really into film and i've done this list 100 times

Then doesn't that mean your top ten is even MORE interchangeable than most? That your numbered order means even less than everyone else's if you do it all the time and can't decide on the contenders you'll go to 95% of the time?

Or that you've simply thought about this way more than anyone else?

Apprentice

@RobbyBevard:

Then doesn't that mean your top ten is even MORE interchangeable than most? That your numbered order means even less than everyone else's if you do it all the time and can't decide on the contenders you'll go to 95% of the time?

No it means more actually, because when I say I've done it 100 times I mean i've been in 100 discussions where this was asked. Not that my list has been different 100 times. In… I'd say 80% of those convo's, the list has been the same. After thinking about it so many times I've solidified these films as being my top 10 through trial and error. Practice makes perfect after all.

Wagomu

Coming up with a perfectly ordered top 10 list is like making a process thermodynamically reversible. It will take an obscenely long time to get close and close is all you can get.

TLC

Lists are amorphous. They change all the time depending on mood. I only managed to make my list by picking movies that still stick in my mind after a long time not to say I haven't watched movies that I love just as much and give me the warm fuzzies every time I think of them. It's just the picks in my top ten stick out a little for me just a bit more and less due to their quality and more due to them just being able to hit me in a point somewhere more for some reason. The theme, the characters, the style, the cinematography or a mixture of a multitude of these factors in a ratio that may not be necessarily balanced but just appeals to me more.

With that said, my top five are pretty much stuck but my lower five can still fluctuate a bit. So many times I've quibbled about tying movies in the list because I didn't want to leave some out but I guess that would be a bit of a cop out. Guess that's what the honorable mentions list is for. But trust me I could easily switch flicks from my top ten and honorable list.

KyonSmith

Bloody Hell! I see 'Hot Fuzz' and 'The Incredibles' in some lists. They are also in my list:

The Dark Knight
Raiders of the lost ark
The Untouchables
The Incredibles
Hot Fuzz
Reservoir Dogs
L.A. Confidential
The Lion King
The Shawshank redemption
The Apartment

Sonic Youth

1. Black Cat, White Cat
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Woman in the Dunes
4. Nobody Knows
5. Come And See
6. A Face in the Crowd
7. Polisse
8. There Will Be Blood
9. Biutiful
10. Rear Window/Wings of Desire/Fanny & Alexander

Honourable Mention: The Twelve Tasks of Asterix

Well, this was impossible as usual.

Apprentice

Updating My list

1. Good Burger
2. Mystery Men
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. The world
4. The Avengers
5. Back to the future Trilolgy
6. Godzilla (1998)
7. TDK
8. One Piece FILM Z
9. Star Trek (2009)
10. Revolving spot left open because my favorites list changes every few months.

soundblast

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longtimelurker

1.the borrower arrietty (love most all ghibli. saw this on Saturday so it's still fresh)
2.zatoichi (the most recent one)
3.dead man
4.ghostdog; the way of the samurai
5.withnail & i
6.alien/s
7.brazil
8.duel
9.seven samurai
10.blade runner

Shandian

Shit this will wreck my brain but lets give it a quick shot;

1. Sin City
2. Empire strikes back
3. Two towers
4. Lion King
5. WALL-E
6. The last samurai
7. Kill Bill
8. Casino Royale
9. Terminator 2
10. Starship Troopers

Its difficult to rate movies, some movies gets special place becasue emotional effect they left, some because excellent script,drama or action.

RDarren

Ok, this was hard.

Moonrise Kingdom
Reservoir Dogs
Prestige
Seven Pounds
Lucky Number S7evin
Lilo and Stitch
Hero
A Dirty Carnival
City of God
Ran

RamistaR

I just saw The Prestige for the first time..wow! Really good! But I just can't accept the sci fi twist. The last line, "you want to be fooled", is for us. Of course this crazy twist is amazing. But it's crazy!
There must be an explanation hidden in the movie. I don't feel like rewatching it though. Not yet. Really good movie.

benjamminbrown

I love that movie. I can't remember exactly what it was, right now, but I think that there are a couple plot holes involving one of the main characters. They were pretty easy to overlook, for me, though. It's even better on the second watching!

TLC

Man, random necro…

Blast from the past, this thread is. My best thread really and I don't do a lot...

It's amazing how much my list has changed in a year...

Algetrig

Since this is my first time seeing this thread I'll throw my list up.

1. The Breakfast Club (My deserted island film)
2. Chicago (I actually clapped at the end)
3. The Lion King
4. Crash
5. The Departed
6. Lord of the Rings (Cheating I know but they were all soo good haha)
7. Goodfellas
8. American History X
9. Friday
10. Reservoir Dogs (My favorite of the QT movies)

Also for anyone who sees this, I saw How to Train Your Dragon on a couple lists earlier. Was it really an amazing movie? I'm asking because I never saw it. The trailers never really caught my attention at the time. Just curious.

Robby

Well, its been a year and a half, so I guess my list has changed a little bit…?

In no particular order (other than director)... But Castle of Cagliostro is definitely my number 1.
1. Castle of Cagliostro
2. Princess Mononoke
3. Lilo and Stitch
4. How to Train Your Dragon
5. Ratatouille
6. Moulin Rouge
7. 1776
8. Jackie Chan Drunken Master 2
9. Almost Famous (director's cut)
10.Good Will Hunting

Back to the Future and Lord of the Rings honorable mention... but I can't seperate the movies out, and I'm not giving up three slots to either of them.

Runners up. [hide]

Wolf Children Ame and Yuki is alllmost on the list/was on the list. I love the visuals and the first 1/2 of the movie, but not the second half so much. I've seen it 4 times now in the last year and its very very good but…. I dunno. Just not quite there.

Lost in Translation almost made the list but I rewatched it recently with my girlfriend... its still good but loses something on repeats... while Good Will Hunting remains strong as ever... its just time I put it on the list.

From my old top 10... I took off Goofy Movie because I rewatched it recently and it just doesn't resonate with me like it did my 15 year old self for many years. And Fish Story went because, much as I like it, it doesn't lend to repeats all that much and theres really only about 10 minutes out of the whole thing I really love. Almost Famous was a really good movie... the director's cut adds about an HOUR of footage (almost all character stuff) and makes it into an amazing one.

Comedy
Emperor's New Groove, Tangled, Groundhog's Day, Goofy Movie

Drama
Good Will Hunting, Lost in Translation, Tenchi Forever, Citizen Kane, Rocky, Wrath of Khan, 12 Angry Men, Amadeus, Lost in Translation,

Overall package
Iron Giant, Incredibles, Last Unicorn, Princess Bride, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Whisper of the Heart, Fantasia, The Empire Strikes Back, Fish Story[/hide]

Nobodyman

Hmm, so what was my list last year?

@Nobodyman:

1. Star Wars (all three films)
2. Fantasia
3. Fargo
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. The Producers (original)
6. Hunchback of Notre Dame
7. Finding Nemo
8. Kill Bill
9. Shawshank Redemption
10. 12 Angry Men

Honestly…it's still pretty much the same. Weird, considering how many films I've seen over the last year, you'd think at least one would've edged its way into my heart, but...no, none that I can think of. Though I probably would rearrange my previous list a bit.

1. Star Wars Trilogy
2. Fantasia
3. Fargo
4. The Producers (1967)
5. Beauty and the Beast
6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7. Kill Bill
8. Finding Nemo
9. 12 Angry Men
10. The Shawshank Redemption

The funny thing is though, I actually haven't watched a lot of these films in a long time. I guess I just want to preserve them in my mind as treasured films rather than rewatch them and find fault in them.

TLC

Old list:

1. Avengers
2. Letters from Iwo Jima
3. Hot Fuzz
4. Die Hard
5. Kingdom of Heaven (the director's cut)
6. Casino Royale
7. Fellowship of the Ring
8. Schindler's List
9. Gandhi
10. Chicago

Hmm in retropsect, after watching Guardians, I'd bump Avengers down and tie it with Guardians. The movie was always so high up more due to the theater experience (albeit it's still a great movie).

Seen a few movies that deserve the list, some runner ups I've grown more fond off, some on the list lost some of their sparkle for me causing a lot of shifting around.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Guardians of the Galaxy/Avengers
3. Hot Fuzz
4. Die Hard
5. Kingdom of Heaven (Director's cut)
6. Lego Movie
7. Casino
8. Amistad
9. Grand Budapest Hotel
10. Schindler's List

Special mentions to my old runnerups Toy Story 3, Blood Diamond, Drunken Master 2, Crime Story (a very underrated Jackie Chan movie), Tropic Thunder, Aliens, Rain Man, A Few Good Men, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, Dredd, Lincoln as well as mentions to my former listed movies Letters from Iwo Jima, Casino Royale, Gandhi, Chicago as well as some new runner ups 8MM, Rainmaker, Locke, life of Pi, Pain and Gain, Rush, Wrath of Khan, Training Day, Wolf of Wall Street, Three Kings, L.A. Confidential and Doctor Strangelove.

Kubihige

Why did I not find this thread sooner?!

1. SPEED RACER
2. The Fall
3. Howl's Moving Castle
4. Tangled
5. Twice Born
6. The Transformers: The Movie
7. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
8. Despicable Me
9. Hachi: A Dog's Tale
10. Black Swan

Honorable mentions (in no order): Hobo with a Shotgun, God Bless America, The Lion King, Spirited Away, How to Train Your Dragon (2), Akira, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The Graduate, The Three Amigos, One Piece Z, Le Roi et l'oiseau, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Castle in the Sky, Lords of Dogtown

A movie's score plays a huge role in how much I enjoy it, especially in The Fall and Howl's Moving Castle. The only ones that are absolutely set in stone are the top 5, but 6-8 definitely won't be bumped off. Hachi I can rarely watch because I end up balling for half the film, but it's the only movie that's ever done that to me, so I figure it's earned a place.

Looking back through others' lists, I think the only one of my top 10 that was even mentioned was Tangled, by Robby x)

Outerspec

I…I can't possibly do this without agonizing over a list for countless hours. I have a favorite movie though so I'll just make a list of one.

1. Big Fish

Sarfallet

I guess I'll eh, update mine or fix it or whatever.

Le Voyage dans la Lune
Metropolis
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Andromeda Strain
Forbidden Planet
Alien
Tron
Colossus: The Forbin Project
The Quiet Earth
X) Phase IV

What this list needs is more 70's scifi!
So the only new movies are Colossus: The Forbin Project and Phase IV. And I re-arranged the order because not putting Le Voyage dans la Lune first is utter ridiculousness and I apologies for my past incarnation. He was a tool and he knows it. e_e
The rest of the order is totally arbitrary though. Well. Mostly, mostly.
So to summarize: I didn't need to make a new list and I'm a huge nerd.

RamistaR

I think I will never be able to do such a list. To pick my favorite top 30 movies is already hard.

Robby

Then list your top 30 and break them into categories.

TLC

@Robby:

Then list your top 30 and break them into categories.

You know…that gives me an idea to shake this thread up a little and inject some life into it.

Top ten favorite films by genre.

Genre 1: Top Ten Favorite Animated Films (I suppose Robby's won't change much)
1. The Lego movie
2. Toy Story 3
3. Incredibles
4. Up/Wall-E
5. Ratatouille
6. Iron Giant
7. Kung Fu Panda/Megamind
8. Shrek 2/ How to Train your Dragon
9. Princess Mononoke
10. Sailor Moon R

Geez, there's a lot of Pixar and Dreamworks in there. I even had to cheat a little and combine some. Nowhere near as many Japanese anime as I thought there'd be. Searching the web really showed how far behind I am in Ghibli and Satoshi Kon films.

So yeah, hopefully this thread picks up with this because I've got plenty of ideas for genres be it horror, science fiction, fantasy, war films etc...