Your Top Movies of All Time

[BlackInk]

Recently attempted to make a top 10 for the first time since the old top 20 movies thread. But instead of doing it like that again I thought I'd make a thread where you just post the list, like the DT album ranking thread.

So what are your top 10/top 20/top whatever movies of all time?

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1. The Lord of the Rings
2. Forrest Gump
3. Inception
4. The Fountain
5. The Shawshank Redemption
6. Interstellar
7. The Usual Suspects
8. The Revenant
9. Fight Club
10. The Dark Knight

Some great ones that missed out on the top 10 that I still want to mention:

11. Memento
12. The Last Samurai
13. Good Will Hunting
14. Blood Diamond
15. Black Swan
16. Seven
17. Gladiator
18. Birdman
19. Spotlight
20. The Departed

I'd say the most controversial picks here are either The Fountain or The Last Samurai.

[Accelerando]

I think mine is more or less the same

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. The Lion King
6. Jaws
7. The Godfather
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Alien
10. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Although there's no question that Mad Max: Fury Road has entered my Top 20

[Chino]

1) Avatar
2) Contact
X) Office Space
X) Gladiator
X) Independence Day
X) A Knights Tale
X) Back to the Future
X) 61*
X) Apollo 13
X) Hot Fuzz

[Kotowboy]

1. Back To The Future
2. The Wrath Of Khan

Innerspace
Fight Club
Flight Of the Navigator
The Matrix
Jaws

? ? ?

[The Trooper]

1) Jaws
2) On The Waterfront
3) Usual Suspects
4) Black Hawk Down
5) Godfather 2
6)Gladiator
7) Hurt Locker
8) Goodfellas
9) Lone Survivor
10) Return of the King
11) Fight Club
12) Zero Dark Thirty
13) Dark Knight
14) Fast Times at Ridgemont High
15) The Incredibles
16) Full Metal Jacket
17)Departed
18) Wall St.
19) American Sniper
20) Mallrats

[TAC]

1. River's Edge
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. Star Wars
5. Easy Money
6. White Chicks
7. The Sixth Sense
8. Dirty Harry
9. Remember The Titans
10. My Cousin Vinny

[Big Hath]

1. The Blues Brothers
2. Tron
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
4. Midnight Madness
5. The Shawshank Redemption
6. The Empire Strikes Back
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. The Usual Suspects
9. Back to the Future
10. Groundhog Day

so so so many that could be interchangeable.  Fight Club, WALL-E, The Incredibles, Rocky, The Godfather (I and II), City of God, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey . . . the list goes on and on

[El Barto]

American Beauty
The Big Country
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Goodfellas
The Guns of Navarone
Kill Bill
The Longest Day
Natural Born Killers
Young Frankenstein

[Prog Snob]

I'll contribute when I can sit down and seriously think about it. I'm a film buff, so I could name a ton of movies that I love, but I want to narrow it down to a dozen or so.

[King Postwhore]

1. L.A. Confidential
2. In Bruges
3. Return Of The King
4. The Dark Knight
5. Captain America Civil War
6. Memento
7. The Usual Suspects
8. 12 Angry Men
9. Silverado
10. The Quiet Man

[Adami]

1. Escape from LA.


No need for 2-10.

[King Postwhore]

1. Escape from LA.


No need for 2-10.

I don't believe you. I'd at least see a picture of you hanging out with Jackie with an eye patch on.

[Zantera]

In no particular order, my top 20 would include these:

1. Memento
2. Whiplash
3. Mulholland Drive
4. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (if you want only one, I'd say Return of the King)
5. Star Wars OT (if you want only one, The Empire Strikes Back)
6. Terminator 2
7. The Matrix
8. Drive
9. Die Hard
10. Her
11. Evil Dead II
12. Jaws
13. Cloud Atlas
14. Jurassic Park
15. I Saw the Devil
16. Alien
17. Oldboy
18. Fight Club
19. Blue Ruin
20. Shaun of the Dead

[Accelerando]

Whiplash is amazing

[BlackInk]

Whiplash only just missed out on my list. If I made the list closer to when I saw it the first time it would've definetely been on there, but since then my view of Miles Teller the actor has somewhat damaged my opinion of the movie. Not much though, it's still really high, but not quite high enough to make it onto my top 20.

[Prog Snob]

1. L.A. Confidential
2. In Bruges
3. Return Of The King
4. The Dark Knight
5. Captain America Civil War
6. Memento
7. The Usual Suspects
8. 12 Angry Men
9. Silverado
10. The Quiet Man

I'm so glad you're such a fan of L.A. Confidential. It's one of my favorite movies and one that you don't hear mentioned enough.

[King Postwhore]

John, I can never say enough of great writing, great acting and great directing. So damn perfect.

[Adami]

This is no order at all, and is likely to change often.

1. Dogville
2. That Thing You Do
3. Annie Hall
4. Dancer in the Dark
5. Meloncholia
6. Mallrats
7. Black Swan
8. The Aviator
9. Empire Records
10. Almost Famous

Man, aside from the top 3-5, those can seriously be changed regularly with other movies.

[Prog Snob]

John, I can never say enough of great writing, great acting and great directing. So damn perfect.

I love the whole film noir feel to it. I can't believe it lost the Academy Award to Titanic.

This is no order at all, and is likely to change often.

1. Dogville
2. That Thing You Do
3. Annie Hall
4. Dancer in the Dark
5. Meloncholia
6. Mallrats
7. Black Swan
8. The Aviator
9. Empire Records
10. Almost Famous

Man, aside from the top 3-5, those can seriously be changed regularly with other movies.

You have a few of my favorites in your list. Real nice! That Thing You Do, Almost Famous, Empire Records, Mallrats. Great choices. Melancholia is good too, but I wouldn't list it as one of my favorites.

[Adami]

Meloncholia was a weird one. I first heard about it as the most depressing film Lars ever made and I am a huge fan of is (obviously, since I have 3 of his movies on my list) and then I watched it and it wasn't really depressing that much. So I didn't like it. Then I watched it again, this time with no preconceptions and oh my god did I fall in love with it. Possibly one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen.

[Prog Snob]

It is rather depressing. The whole mood to the movie literally saps the joy out of me.  I watched it twice. Like you, I enjoyed it more the second time around. The only other movie of his I've seen is Nymphomaniac.

[KevShmev]

It's hard to put comedies alongside non-comedies, so I will list 10 or so of each.

Comedies:

The Holy Grail
The Big Lebowski
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Animal House
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
40-Year Old Virgin
Office Space
The Naked Gun
Dumb and Dumber
The Great Race
Tommy Boy

Non-comedies:

The Godfather
The Godfather II
Goodfellas
Braveheart
Back to the Future (I, II and III)
The Usual Suspects
The Shawshank Redemption
Inglorious Basterds
Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction
The Green Mile
Fight Club
Se7en
American Beauty

[BlackInk]

I watched Melancholia once. It made me feel actually sick for an entire day and it is now one of my least favorite movies of all time.

[Zantera]

Whiplash only just missed out on my list. If I made the list closer to when I saw it the first time it would've definetely been on there, but since then my view of Miles Teller the actor has somewhat damaged my opinion of the movie. Not much though, it's still really high, but not quite high enough to make it onto my top 20.

I don't have any problems with Miles Teller myself, but I feel like it's never a good thing to mix the personal life and the professional life when judging something, whether it's movies or music. If it's great, then it's great, even if a douchebag is behind it.

[BlackInk]

Whiplash only just missed out on my list. If I made the list closer to when I saw it the first time it would've definetely been on there, but since then my view of Miles Teller the actor has somewhat damaged my opinion of the movie. Not much though, it's still really high, but not quite high enough to make it onto my top 20.

I don't have any problems with Miles Teller myself, but I feel like it's never a good thing to mix the personal life and the professional life when judging something, whether it's movies or music. If it's great, then it's great, even if a douchebag is behind it.

I agree. This isn't a voluntary thing, it just sort of happened automatically for me, unfortunately. I wish it hadn't.

[Prog Snob]

I'm stealing Kev's idea to separate the list. I'm sure I left a few out.

Non-comedies
Lord of the Rings
The Godfather
GoodFellas
A Bronx Tale
The Usual Suspects
Indiana Jones (Raiders and Last Crusade)
Lost in Translation
Moulin Rouge
Willow
Labyrinth
Pulp Fiction

Comedies
Super Troopers
Mallrats
Empire Records
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
The Meaning of Life
Spaceballs
The Naked Gun
Airplane
Burn After Reading
Freddy Got Fingered

Classics & Film Noir
Casablanca
Angels With Dirty Faces
The Philadelphia Story
The Time of Your Life
The Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
Miller's Crossing
Laura
L. A. Confidential
Se7en
Mulholland Drive
Memento

[Kotowboy]

I watched Melancholia once. It made me feel actually sick for an entire day and it is now one of my least favorite movies of all time.

I just don't see the point in watching movies that just make you feel bad.

[Adami]

I watched Melancholia once. It made me feel actually sick for an entire day and it is now one of my least favorite movies of all time.

I just don't see the point in watching movies that just make you feel bad.

It's a beautiful movie. Not for everyone. Clearly not for guys like you, but some people can appreciate art. Even art that evokes sadness.

[Kotowboy]

The way I am - I prefer films that are entertaining.

[Adami]

The way I am - I prefer films that are entertaining.

They are entertaining. You can just say they're not your cup of tea or whatever. You don't have to downgrade them to less just because you don't like them. It's cool if people like things you don't like or don't get. And it's cool if you like things other people don't.

[Prog Snob]

I watched Melancholia once. It made me feel actually sick for an entire day and it is now one of my least favorite movies of all time.

I just don't see the point in watching movies that just make you feel bad.

That's a strange comment coming from someone who has made even more bitter and angry comments than me. How many things have you said here that have the capacity to make someone else feel bad?

Art isn't always about making you feel bad/good. It's about evoking emotions that may have otherwise gone undiscovered. How can you understand happiness without understanding sadness? Sometimes experiencing something depressing can have a positive effect on you.

[Phoenix87x]

Godfather
Terminator 2
Pulp fiction
Silence of the lambs

A lot more. Too lazy to think

[CrimsonSunrise]

Pulp Fiction
Star Wars ANH
The Matrix
Apocalypse Now
The Excorsist
Jaws
Terminator 2:Judgement Day
Titanic (Camerons)
Crimson Tide
Interstellar
True Lies
Lord of The Rings : ROTK
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact

[Kotowboy]

I like Interstellar up til and including the Tesseract scene. After that it just feels like the ending is really rushed and tacked on.

• Did the future beings eject Cooper from the tesseract at the exact moment the rangers were out searching ?
• Where is Cooper station going ? Is it going to Edmund's planet ? Is it merely just an Ark to keep humanity alive ?
• Cooper meets 100+ year old Murph and spends exactly 60 seconds with her before leaving again.
• Where is he going at the end ? is the Wormhole even still there ? It's not stated one way or the other...



I mean - some films are like - work it out for yourself like Inception ( I think he's awake btw ) - but Interstellar's ending was just like huh ?

[CrimsonSunrise]

Yeah, there are a lot of unanswered questions, but I still thoroughly enjoy it.  I attribute a lot of the unanswered questions to just my lack of comprehension, like... I just must not get it..