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Data West · May 4, 2015

1. Police Story(1985)
2. Goodfellas(1990)
3. Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory(1971)
4. Yojimbo(1961)
5. The Warriors(1979)
6. Halloween(1978)
7. Patton(1970)
8. First Blood(1982)
9. Hard Boiled(1992)
10. The China Syndrome(1979)

I tried to keep it as varied as I could as the OP did say 'favorite movies' and the idea of finding objective 'best' movies are hard for me to come because different movies do different things better than others. Some are expertly acted, expertly written and some are just beautiful or are so bare-bones that I can enjoy its shallowness at the right time. I've certainly seen more movies with more 'artistic merit' than some of these, but something about these ten were the ones I could come to without feeling too bad about my choices.

Satch · May 4, 2015

1) Gone Girl
2) The Incredibles
3) Kiki's Delivery Service
4) The Prince of Egypt
5) The Woman
6) The Birds
7) The Bad Seed
8) Oldboy (original)
9) The Babadook
10) Catwoman

HIGH DEF JEFF · May 4, 2015

1) JFK
2) Do the Right Thing
3) Die Hard
4 ) Heat
5) Blade Runner
6) Rocky
7) Goodfellas
8) Once Upon a Time in the West
9) Speed Racer
10) Out For Justice

For my own reference I rate things on a 5 star scale and I allow myself 10 5 star movies total. After that its:
4 stars - a classic, can be watched multiple times and is still great.
3 stars - good to see once and never again.
2 stars - skippable, but if seen its good a few good parts, few good ideas, but dont go out of your way to see it. (aka every Marvel movie)
1 star - a total piece of shit.
0 stars - a movie that actually makes you angry someone spent money to get it made.

Wreck-It Ralph · May 4, 2015

Shit, this is hard. I'll have to think about this for a while.

blackflag · May 5, 2015

I already dun goofed and forgot to put Taxi driver way near the top....that list was off the top of my head.

badrang · May 5, 2015

1) The Thing (1982)
2) The Maltese Falcon
3）The Big Sleep
4) Zodiac
5) No Country for Old Men
6) The Third Man
7) Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut
8) Unforgiven
9) The Bridge on the River Kwai
10) The Secret of NIMH

SonicMegaDrive · May 5, 2015

Good to see a lot of Hitchcock love. More people need to watch his films. So many of them hold up wonderfully today.

venom2124 · May 5, 2015

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part 2
3. The Shining
4. Tombstone
5. The Departed
6. No Country for Old Men
7. Jurassic Park
8. The Dark Knight
9. Unbreakable
10. Goodfellas

Bill Squabber · May 5, 2015

Did anyone read the OP?

tearsintherain · May 5, 2015

1. Goodfellas
2. Blade Runner
3. The Princess Bride
4. Godfather 2
5. The Dark Knight
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Blazing Saddles
8. Empire Strikes Back
9. The Matrix
10. Predator (Arnold)

could change order of some things and I wanna sort of stick Aliens and Terminator 2 in there but i'll stick with that

now I wanna see Godfather 2 tonight

Data West · May 5, 2015

Bill Squabber said:
Did anyone read the OP?

Did you?

sgjackson · May 5, 2015

I am massively underqualified to vote on this, so I'm tossing votes to four movies that had a profound effect on me.

1) Jurassic Park
2) Her
3) Princess Mononoke
4) Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Reasoning:
-Jurassic Park is still the best blockbuster ever made. It's eminently quotable and breathtaking, even 20 years later.
-Her was an exploration of long-distance relationships with a sci-fi wrapper, and it ended up being a very personal movie for me as a result.
-Mononoke and Beauty and the Beast are the magnum opuses of the two greatest animation studios of all-time.

I've seen a lot of the movies that are being commonly named, and even find many of them good or noteworthy, but I only really care about these enough to vote on them.

Infernostew · May 5, 2015

Zach said:
I should really watch Apocalypse Now.

Avoid Redux though.

Sephzilla · May 5, 2015

1) RoboCop (1987)
2) The Matrix
3) Terminator 2
4) Aliens
5) Die Hard
6) Gojira (Godzilla 1954)
7) Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
8) Back to the Future
9) Jurassic Park
10) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Buba Big Guns · May 5, 2015

1. Jurassic Park
2. Top Gun
3. The Dark Knight
4. Aladdin
5. Interstellar
6. Lion King
7. The Raid 2
8. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
9. Toy Story 3
10. Terminator 2

HM: City of God, Batman Begins, Pinocchio, The Departed, Avengers, Dumb and Dumber

Neff · May 5, 2015

1. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. Star Wars (1977)
3. Return of the Jedi (1983)
4. Titanic (1997)
5. Robocop (1987)
6. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
7. Aliens (1986)
8. Pulp Fiction (1993)
9. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
10. Lethal Weapon (1987)

whatsinaname · May 5, 2015

A mix of movies I tend to re-watch a lot and those that I rated highly on my personal IMDB list.

1) The Maltese Falcon
2) High Noon
3) Paths of Glory
4) Fight Club
5) Yojimbo
6) Rear Window
7) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
8) Cool Hand Luke
9) Run Lola Run
10) Bringing Up Baby

thequickandthedead · May 5, 2015

Infernostew said:
Avoid Redux though.

nah it has the reading scene.

Kill3r7 · May 5, 2015

1. The Godfather
2. Citizen Kane
3. 2001 Space Odyssey
4. Rear Window
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Third Man
7. Casablanca
8. City of God (Cidade de Dues)
9. Chinatown
10. Raging Bull

Charles Foster Kane · May 5, 2015

made my list.

RustyNails · May 5, 2015

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Last of the Mohicans
3. Dances with Wolves
4. The Insider
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Gladiator
9. Memento
10. Gandhi

NipplesAndToes23 · May 5, 2015

I like a lot of movies, but I'm not sure if I could list them in order. I don't have a particular all out favorite.

harSon · May 5, 2015

If you guys are interested, we could do what the Anime Top List threads do and include user comments regarding the film in question? At least for the Top 10 or so.

RustyNails · May 5, 2015

Lack of Lawrence of Arabia in the lists disappoints me

Ryaaan14 · May 5, 2015

1.) Stand By Me
2.) The Shawshank Redemption
3.) Vanilla Sky
4.) The Green Mile
5.) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6.) Seven Pounds
7.) The Wolf of Wall Street
8.) The Breakfast Club
9.) Die Hard
10.) Beverly Hills Cop

Dalek · May 5, 2015

RustyNails said:
Lack of Lawrence of Arabia in the lists disappoints me

I said it!

RustyNails · May 5, 2015

Dalek said:
I said it!

Good man.

Bobby Roberts · May 5, 2015

RustyNails said:
Lack of Lawrence of Arabia in the lists disappoints me

I initially had it in my top 10. Bumped it for Ran.

Red · May 5, 2015

1. The Seventh Seal (1957)
2. Breathless (1960)
3. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
4. 28 Up (1984)
5. The Exorcist (1973)
6. Chinatown (1974)
7. The Dark Knight (2008)
8. Children of Men (2006)
9. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
10. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Honorable mentions:

Toy Story nearly made it

The first 40 minutes of Wall-E are magic, but I can't justify the full movie on my list.

Kieslowski's Three Colors series

Linklater's Before series

Can we change our lists before a certain deadline?

I think I watched Citizen Kane, Psycho, Ran, and those other old classics too much in film school for them to stick with me. They are historically interesting and contemporary filmmaking owes them a great deal, but they don't come to mind when I imagine my favorite movies.

My list is not in any order. Just 10 movies I really like. Like others have said this could easily extend to 50.

Warm Machine · May 5, 2015

1. Blade Runner
2. Alien
3. Empire Strikes Back
4. Aliens
5. Star Wars "A New Hope"
6. Terminator 2
7. Se7en
8. Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
9. Top Gun
10. Dangerous Liaisons

My 1-5 has been this way for a decade or so. My 6-10 changes all the time.

NysGAF · May 5, 2015

1. Finding Nemo
2. The Road Home
3. Se7en
4. Forrest Gump
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. The Fifth Element
7. Christmas Vacation
8. Die Hard
9. Top Gun
10. Titanic

spyder_ur · May 5, 2015

1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Usual Suspects
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Gravity
5. Children of Men
6. The Dark Knight
7. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
8. White Men Can't Jump
9. The Truman Show
10. Once Brothers (ESPN 30 for 30)

(If last doesn't count, then Django Unchained)

Honorable Mentions

jango Unchained, Big Lebowski, Superbad, Jurassic Park

cloud_sleep · May 5, 2015

1. 2001 A Space Odyssey
2. Heat
3. Goodfellas
4. Alien
5. Bladerunner
6. Dr Strangelove
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Apocalypse Now
9. The Terminator
10. No Country For Old Men

Addi · May 5, 2015

This is hard! It's sort of a fight between what you liked the most and what the general consensus is. Anyway, here's an attempt:

1. Taxi Driver
2. Stalker
3. Bicycle thieves
4. In the mood for love
5. Once upon the time in the west
6. Breathless (A bout de souffle)
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Amelie
10. Blow up

NipplesAndToes23 · May 5, 2015

harSon said:
If you guys are interested, we could do what the Anime Top List threads do and include user comments regarding the film in question? At least for the Top 10 or so.

I'd be interested though I think there are only five animes that I actually like.

Mr Git · May 5, 2015

1. Alien
2. Blade Runner
3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
4. Princess Mononoke
5. Oldboy
6. Withnail & I
7. True Romance
8. Drunken Master
9. The Fantastic Mr Fox
10. Chungking Express

(difficult)

Wish this was top 20 or 30, even 50. 10 was too hard and mine aren't really in order.

JCtheMC · May 5, 2015

I'm not very happy about ranking influencing the voting, but eh.

There's 14 films out of the 1800+ i've rated on IMDB that have scored 10's. I picked 10 of them and put them in an the order i want them to influence the voting.

Generally speaking, my 10's are movies i've seen a fair number of times and still find them very enjoyable upon repeat viewings. Something i've seen once and enjoyed very much usually gets an 8, or in certain cases, a 9. This is the reason the newest film on this list 5 years old - a lot of more recent things i just haven't seen often enough yet. A similar problem arises for films that were made before 1980; i only started trawling through older stuff in college and although i have enjoyed many of the classics i've watched, there are very few that i've seen 3 or more times.

1. Un prophète [2009]
2. Heat [1995]
3. Dazed and Confused [1993]
4. The Longest Day [1962]
5. Michael Clayton [2007]
6. The Breakfast Club [1985]
7. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain AKA Amélie [2001]
8. Pulp Fiction [1994]
9. Inception [2010]
10. Citizen Kane [1941]

megalowho · May 5, 2015

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. There Will Be Blood (2007)
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
4. City of God (2002)
5. Chinatown (1974)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. The King of Comedy (1982)
8. Boogie Nights (1997)
9. 12 Angry Men (1957)
10. Blade Runner (1982)

A top 25 list would be easier. Already second guessing my choices.

Secret Fawful · May 5, 2015

1. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4. The Thing (1982)
5. Vertigo (1958)
6. An American Tail (1986)
7. The Third Man (1949)
8. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
9. Police Story (1985)
10. Metropolis (2001)

Runners-up:

11. Casablanca (1942)
12. The Secret of NIMH (1982)
13. A Night at the Opera (1935)
14. Duck, You Sucker (1971)
15. Suspiria (1977)
16. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
17. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
18. Blazing Saddles (1974)
19. Wizards (1977)
20. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
21. The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
22. The Great Dictator (1940)
23. Tokyo Story (1953)
24. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
25. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Red · May 5, 2015

I love cinema. My favorite movies are "Citizen Kane" and "The Boondock Saints."

Dennis · May 5, 2015

JJDinomite said:
1. Avatar
2. Prometheus
3. Cars 2
4. The Scorpion King
5. Shrek
6. Superman Returns
7. Bruce Almighty
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. Happy Gilmore
10. The Expendables 3

Putting 2001 in there was a masterful troll. I am raging hard.

Razzer · May 5, 2015

This was hella tough. I made a shortlist with 68 films, then I narrowed that down to 37 films, then started putting films by the same director (or from the same studio in Pixar's case) together and choosing just one from each as well as trimming a bit more which gave me a final shortlist of 18. From there each film had almost nothing on the one that it eliminated, but I tried to not pick two films for the same reason, so if I liked one film for its dark lighting in particular then another great film I love for its lighting would be eliminated. Basically just to make it easier to choose, as well as maybe giving me a more varied list. Anyway:

1. City of God

2. Hero

3. Apocalypse Now

4. Inglorious Basterds

5. Psycho

6. Spirited Away

7. Wall-E

8. Hot Fuzz

9. Shawshank Redemption

10. The Raid

Is this the kind of thread for long explanations of why we chose what we did? Or more of just a list thread. Don't wanna write essays unnecessarily.

Rhomega Beta · May 5, 2015

1. WALL-E
2. Tron: Legacy
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
4. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
5. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
6. Tron
7. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
8. Toy Story 2
9. Aladdin
10. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

30yearsofhurt · May 5, 2015

1. Fight Club
2. Sanjuro (much better than Yojimbo)
3. Blade Runner
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Das Boot
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Seven Samurai
8. Gallipoli (Peter Weir film)
9. Star Wars
10. Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Honorable mentions:
Alien, Collette, Chariots of Fire, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Empire Strikes Back, Amelie, There's Something About Mary, 12 Angry Men, My Secret Cache (Himitsu no hanazono), Godzilla (2014), Lawrence of Arabia, Mad Max 2 and Muriel's Wedding.

Apt101 · May 5, 2015

1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Spirited Away
3. Fight Club
4. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
5. Suicide Kings
6. Blade Runner
7. The Breakfast Club
8. Shawshank Redemption
9. Akira
10. Aliens

Currygan · May 5, 2015

1) M
2) The Lost Weekend
3) Rear Window
4) Full Metal Jacket
5) The Searchers
6) Casino
7) High Noon
8) Double Indemnity
9) The Seven Samurai
10) Annie Hall

runner ups:

Raging Bull
Locke
Rancho Notorious
Some like it hot
Psycho
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Moloch
The Woman Next Door
Rain
The Kid
All the President's Men
Yojimbo
The Killer
Jackie Brown
Taxi Driver
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Modern Times
The Bridge on River Kwai
2001 A Space Odyssey
Lawrence of Arabia
Toy Story 3
Spirited Away
Heat
Unforgiven
Henry V
Russian Ark
Frankenstein
Mean Streets
In the Mood for Love
The Blues Brothers
Carnage
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Rocky
Dracula 1958
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Citizen Kane
Lolita
Early Spring
Late Spring
Tokyo Story
Rififi
The French Connection
The 400 Blows
Amarcord
Another Woman
The Yakuza
Umberto D
The Circus
Il Divo
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Thirty Nine Steps
Furyo
Hana-Bi
North by Northwest
Chungking Express
Duck Soup
The Honey Pot
Nashville
Monsieur Verdoux
Godfather Part II
It Always Rains on Sunday
Paths of Glory
Stagecoach
Little Buddha
Greed
Rashomon
While the City Sleeps
The Servant
Sonatine
Tell Me Lies - a Story about London
Witness for Prosecution
To Be or Not To Be
Still Life
Johnny Guitar
The Birds
Dawn of the Dead
The Wild Bunch
Letters from Iwo Jima
Nosferatu
The Big Heat
The Accident

might need to edit it out later if some more come to mind

Stet · May 5, 2015

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Alien
3) Blade Runner
4) The Breakfast Club
5) Do the Right Thing
6) The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
7) Fargo
8) Sweet and Lowdown
9) The Shining
10) Airplane

JehutyRunner · May 5, 2015

Tweaked my top ten and added a few honourables.

1. Lost in Translation

2. The Social Network

3. 500 Days of Summer

4. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

5. Garden State

6. Anchorman

7. Whisper of the Heart

8. Norwegian Wood

9. Hot Fuzz

10. Tron Legacy

Honourable mentions: Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Shaun of the Dead, Inception, The Dark Knight Returns, Juno, Whip It, Babel.

Imperial · May 5, 2015

1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Godfather 2
3. Star Wars
4. Heat
5. Terminator 2
6. Return of The King
7. Alien
8. Blade Runner
9. The Dark Knight
10.Deathly Hallows Part.2

NervousXtian · May 5, 2015

1. Space Balls
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. O Brother Where Art Thou
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Back to the Future
6. Good Burger
7. Seven Samurai
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. Apocalypse Now
10. Goodfellas

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Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.

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