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[Gorlak]

1. The Godfather - 1972
2. The Godfather Part II - 1974
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968
4. My Neighbour Totoro - 1988
5. Alien - 1979
6. Taxi Driver - 1976
7. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - 1977
8. A Clockwork Orange - 1971
9. Oldboy - 2003
10. The Matrix - 1999

 

[Currygan]

So based on what I'm seeing correlating with my tastes I really need to see 12 Angry Men and Lawrence of Arabia.

oh, you should mate. Personally I find Lawrence just a tiny bit overrated, but 12 Angry Men is mandatory

okay, final list. My top 50. Top 10 is unchanged so no issues for the Neogaf list. This took a while

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


11-20

11) Raging Bull
12) Locke
13) Rancho Notorious
14) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
15) Some like it hot
16) The Woman Next Door
17) City Lights
18) Psycho
19) Moloch
20) Rain


21-30

21) Tokyo Story
22) The Kid
23) All the President's Men
24) The Bridge on River Kwai
25) Yojimbo
26) 2001 A Space Odyssey
27) Spirited Away
28) Henry V
29) Carnage
30) Citizen Kane

31-40

31) Ran
32) Umberto D
33) 12 Angry Men
34) The Blues Brothers
35) The 400 Blows
36) Frankenstein
37) The Thirty Nine Steps
38) Hana-Bi
39) The Killer
40) Early Spring


41-50

41) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
42) Taxi Driver
43) Monty Python's Life of Brian
44) Modern Times
45) Heat
46) The Accident
47) Lawrence of Arabia
48) Jackie Brown
49) Russian Ark
50) The Yakuza



had to sadly leave out:


Toy Story 3
Unforgiven
Mean Streets
In the Mood for Love
Rocky
Godfather 1-2
Dracula 1958
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Lolita
Late Spring
Rififi
The French Connection
Amarcord
Another Woman
The Circus
Il Divo
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Furyo
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


list could go on, but maybe I'll do a top 100 one day

 

[harSon]

Man the amount of lists in this thread that don't list any movies pre-1990 or just big blockbusters is shockingly high. To those of you, I BEG you go watch some more films. It will change your life for the better.

The top 25, at the moment, is almost 50:50 between films releasing before and after the 1990's. It's almost exclusively Hollywood and English language though.

 

[Saya]

I firmly believe the performance of Renée Jean Falconetti to be the greatest ever captured in a film.

Fully agreed. Such a sensational and emotional performance.

 

[Loona]

Updated my list: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=162703003&postcount=43


I get the impression that Terminator 2 must be doing well in the overall ranking - I didn't score it higher because nowadays the narrated bits feel a bit off, but its character( archetypes)s have a special place in my psyche, so I had to included.

Not enough mentions of Cloud Atlas though

 

[Liquidsnake]

1) Blade Runner
2) The Good The Bad and The Ugly
3) There will be blood
4) TDKR
5) Inception
6) Goodfellas
7) Gladiator
8) Braveheart
9) MOS
10) Shawshank

 

[PK Strawstorm]

1. Ghostbusters
2. It's A Wonderful Life
3. The Lion King
4. Hot Fuzz
5. Alien
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Star Wars IV: A New Hope
8. Akira
9. The Apartment
10. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

I tried to limit myself to movies I've seen more than once and have seen recently enough to know I still like them, but Akira and The Apartment both snuck on due to great first viewings in the last couple years.

 

[Timeless]

In my opinion:

1. The Kid - 1921
2. Seven samurai - 1954
3. The birth of a nation - 1915
4. Metropolis - 1927
5. Mulholland Drive - 2001
6. The passion of Joan of Arc - 1928
7. Nosferatu - 1922
8. Citizen Kane - 1941
9. Psycho - 1960
10. Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) - 1960

Awesome that someone prefers The Kid to City Lights. City Lights is a love story. The Kid oozes creativity. Although,

Spoiler

I'd like it a lot less if it didn't have that incredible ending dream sequence, which displays the most creativity in the whole film

. The Gold Rush & The Circus are my two favorite silent Chaplin movies. (Limelight is my favorite film of his.)

Metropolis kicks ass too. Can't wait to watch Nosferatu, having loved Sunrise.

I'm semi-planning on watching Birth of a Nation at a theater that's having a history professor speak on its accuracy and historical context before the film. The movie *is* good in its own right, correct? Not just because it inspired a whole generation of films?

Man the amount of lists in this thread that don't list any movies pre-1990 or just big blockbusters is shockingly high. To those of you, I BEG you go watch some more films. It will change your life for the better.

Agreed, but most of my top 10 is post-1990. After the first 10 it branches out into some wonderful old films as well as 6 foreign films.

Although my 10/10 movies are mostly English and new, I think I'm more likely to enjoy an old film than a new one. Lots of my 9/10 and 8/10 movies are foreign and old.

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls054661775/

I already voted, don't count me twice!

Ratatouille I already voted, don't count me twice!
Citizen Kane
The Godfather
The Shawshank Redemption
Good Will Hunting
Finding Nemo
Forrest Gump
The Lion King
Schindler's List I already voted, don't count me twice!
My Neighbor Totoro
Airplane!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Pulp Fiction
Primer
Groundhog Day
The Game
F for Fake
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Some Like It Hot
Casablanca
The Incredibles
The Dark Knight
Memento
North by Northwest
Seven Samurai
The Shining
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
WALL-E
Ernest & Celestine
Spirited Away
All About Eve
Inception
The Silence of the Lambs
The Godfather: Part II
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Toy Story 3
Monsters, Inc.
Cinema Paradiso
Shoah

 

[swoon]

I'm semi-planning on watching Birth of a Nation at a theater that's having a history professor speak on its accuracy and historical context before the film. The movie *is* good in its own right, correct? Not just because it inspired a whole generation of films?

it's not narratively good - it has some really interesting/creative shots though what you are looking at isn't any good either. so yea it's more important than any measure of good. he plenty of actually good films like broken blossoms and way down east

 

[LeadenStride]

1, Woman in the Dunes; 1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara
2. Lost Highway; 1997, David Lynch
3. Onibaba; 1964, Kaneto Shindo
4. Mulholland Drive; 2001, David Lynch
5. Possession; 1981, Andrzej Zulawski
6. Eraserhead; 1977, David Lynch
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966, Sergio Leone
8. Repulsion; 1965, Roman Polanski
9. Thirst for Love; 1967, Koreyoshi Kurahara
10. Yearning; 1964, Mikio Naruse

Well, I guess I really like Lynch, the 60s and japanese movies.

The top 25, at the moment, is almost 50:50 between films releasing before and after the 1990's. It's almost exclusively Hollywood and English language though.

Expected, but a shame though. There are so many wonderful foreign movies.

 

[Rug Monkey]

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Fanny and Alexander
3. Blade Runner
4. Fargo
5. Jacob's Ladder
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Spirited Away
8. The Seven Samurai
9. The Rear Window
10 Toy Story

 

[Currygan]

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Fanny and Alexander
3. Blade Runner
4. Fargo
5. Jacob's Ladder
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Spirited Away
8. The Seven Samurai
9. The Rear Window
10 Toy Story

fuck I knew it. completely ignored Bergman ugh

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Griffith's films don't really set the world on fire, artistically, a century later - very melodramatic, lots of narrative contrivances, etc. - but they're somewhat incredible to watch just for the mere fact of their existence. It's just... there's a very, very short window where something like Intolerance could have been made, and the spectacle is really something else.

 

[xehanort]

1. The Dark Knight
2. My Sassy Girl (Korean Version)
3. Inception
4. Rocky
5. Die Hard
6. Toy Story 3
7. Wall-E
8. Memento (2000)
9. Casino Royale
10. Begin Again (2013)

Relatively new movies. Haven't catched up yet to the classic ones

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

fuck I knew it. completely ignored Bergman ugh

One can't put every movie one loves in the list, unfortunately.

 

[LeadenStride]

fuck I knew it. completely ignored Bergman ugh

I tried to shove him into my list with either Shame or The Seventh Seal, but the competition was too tough. Wild Strawberries is top tier as well.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

1. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)

2. Die Hard (McTiernian, 1988)

3. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)

4. The Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick, 1957)

5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)

6. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)

7. Badlands (Malick, 1973)

8. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)

9. The Rules of the Game (1939, Renoir)

10. The Good , The Bad and The Ugly (1966, Leone)

 

[Tyrael]

1. Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Terminator 2
3. Indiana Jones And The Last Cruzade
4. Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of The Jedi
5. Forrest Gump
6. The Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
7. Dark Knight
8. Aliens
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[Kill3r7]

fuck I knew it. completely ignored Bergman ugh

I tried squeezing Bergman in as well but ultimately left off Seventh Seal in favor of City of God which I also chose over Blade Runner as well. I really hate Top 10 lists as I can never find an ideal balance between great films and my favorites. I also managed to leave Kurosawa off the list which is mind boggling in retrospect.

 

[Mdot]

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather 2
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Jaws
5. Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
6. Ghostbusters
7. Casino
8. The Karate Kid (1984)
9. Groundhog Day
10. Jurassic Park

These are my favorites. Some of which I consider the best movies of all time (top 5), while the others I just really enjoy.

 

[Kotetsu534]

1. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
2. The Separation of Nader and Simin (a.k.a. A Seperation) (Farhadi, 2011)
3. Only Yesterday (Takahata, 1991)
4. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata, 2013)
5. Bicycle Thieves (de Sica, 1948)
6. Blue is the Warmest Colour (Kechiche, 2013)
7. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
8. Pinocchio (Sharpsteen et. al., 1940)
9. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988)
10. Whisper of the Heart (Kondo, 1995)

I feel absolutely no qualms about including 5 Ghibli films in my list. I do regret leaving out, among many others, The Parallax View, Klute, Fantasia, The Wind Rises, My Neighbour Totoro, Waltz with Bashir, Rear Window, The Rules of the Game, and Once Upon A Time in Anatolia. Ask me tomorrow and my list would be shuffled around, except #1.

Edit: I forgot Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive altogether. Editing it in for a special honourable mention.

 

[Shiera Seastar]

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
2. 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle/2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard, 1967)
3. Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen, 1986)
4. Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944)
5. Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959)
6. Fa yeung nin wa/In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
7. Les quatre cents coups/The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
8. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
9. Viskningar och rop/Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
10. Paradies: Liebe/Paradise: Love (Seidl, 2012)

+ Annie Hall, Pierrot le fou, Aguirre, Dr. Strangelove, Banshun, Le samourai, Rear Window, Goodfellas, Chungking Express, Le mépris, Persona, Broadway Danny Rose, Social Network, The Apartment, Psycho, Roman Holiday, Shining, Un condamné à mort..., La passion de Jeanne d'Arc, Hundstage, eXistenZ, Big Lebowski, Masculin féminine, Copie conforme, Krylya, In a Lonely Place, L'emploi du temps, Deadly Is the Female, Angel Face, Kiss Me Deadly, Leave Her to Heaven...

...

 

[Polishin8r]

1) Memories of Murder (2003)
2) Ip-man (2008)
3) I saw the devil (2010)
4) Interstellar (2014)
5) The Dark Knight (2008)
6) Sympathy for Mr vengeance (2002)
7) The good bad and the ugly (1966)
8) Finding Nemo (2003)
9) Inception (2010)
10) Ong-bak (2003)

Honorable mentions:
Chaser, matrix, old boy, mother, man from nowhere, event horizon, up, dredd

 

[psykomyko]

1. La Dolce Vita - Federico Felini, 1960
2. Aguirre, The Wrath of God - Werner Herzog, 1972
3. A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick, 1971
4. The Third Man - Carol Reed, 1949
5. Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa, 1954
6. Memento - Christopher Nolan, 2000
7. Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki, 2001
8. Alien - Ridley Scott, 1979
9. Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
10. Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979

Wanted to do only one film from a director instead of having multiple films from a single director.

Probably would have had 2 films from Kubrick, Kurosawa and Felini each otherwise

 

[thiscoldblack]

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Lost in Translation
3) Back to the Future
4) Baraka
5) The Matrix
6) The Shawshank Redemption
7) The Godfather
8) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
9) Blade Runner
10) Schindler's List

 

[Wreck-It Ralph]

Man the amount of lists in this thread that don't list any movies pre-1990 or just big blockbusters is shockingly high. To those of you, I BEG you go watch some more films. It will change your life for the better.

Get over yourself. You think that you have superior taste in movies just because you have a lot of old movies and not many blockbusters? Your taste in movies is no better than anyone else's.

I've seen enough of the types of films that people like you put on these kinds of lists to know that I usually don't like those kinds of movies. And that's okay! People enjoy movies for different reasons. There's nothing wrong with liking modern blockbusters. There's nothing wrong with preferring visual spectacle over dramatic stories. Dramas are not inherently superior to comedies or action movies. Different genres exist for a reason.

 

[yukonrye]

1) Dawn of the Dead (1978)
2) Princess Bride
3) Ghostbusters
4) Star Wars - Return of the Jedi (not special edition)
5) Raiders of the Lost Ark
6) Back to the Future
7) Blazing Saddles
8) Amadeus
9) Blade Runner
10) Airplane

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Get over yourself. You think that you have superior taste in movies just because you have a lot of old movies and not many blockbusters? Your taste in movies is no better than anyone else's.

I've seen enough of the types of films that people like you put on these kinds of lists to know that I usually don't like those kinds of movies. And that's okay! People enjoy movies for different reasons. There's nothing wrong with liking modern blockbusters. There's nothing wrong with preferring visual spectacle over dramatic stories. Dramas are not inherently superior to comedies or action movies. Different genres exist for a reason.

And some works of art last across time for a reason, whereas the vast majority are disposed of as soon as the generation that created and consumed them are lost to the dustbin of history. To quote Roger Ebert:

"So let's focus on those who seriously believe "Transformers" is one of the year's best films. Are these people wrong? Yes. They are wrong. I am fond of the story I tell about Gene Siskel. When a so-called film critic defended a questionable review by saying, "after all, it's opinion," Gene told him: "There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact. When you say 'The Valachi Papers' is a better film than 'The Godfather,' you are wrong." Quite true. We should respect differing opinions up to certain point, and then it's time for the wise to blow the whistle."

So no, nobody's taste is better than anybody else's, but that doesn't mean we can't make at least relative statements of value, like saying Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick's filmographies will last far longer in the human canon than the Marvel "Cinematic Universe" because there is more there to appreciate and engage with.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I've seen enough of the types of films that people like you put on these kinds of lists to know that I usually don't like those kinds of movies.

This is more presumptive than the quote you were responding to.

Not that this needs to turn into a dick measuring contest of who does "watching movies" better or anything, but I don't know that "Please, watch older movies, they're awesome too" deserves a response like "Get over yourself snob, I've seen enough older movies to know that you're full of shit."

Hell, the point of this doesn't even seem to be so much "let's find out what GAF's all time favorite top 10 is," It's more like "Lets get a lot of movies you might not have ever watched in front of your eyes, so you can watch 'em too, and maybe you'll wind up liking them like some of your fellow posters do."

I don't know that such a premise is automatically worthy of dismissal. I know there's a lot of movies, old AND new, that I'm seeing pop up in people's lists, that I'm gonna throw on my projector sometime within the year. That's a good thing, ultimately.

 

[Discotheque]

It takes a special kind of blockbuster to be truly memorable

I go to the theaters like 5 or 6 times every summer so I'm a sucker for this shit but Ill admit they're almost always forgettable. Especially now

Need more unique directors in that game.

 

[Aarglefarg]

Oh, I'm not ending the voting. I was just done updating the spreadsheet for the night. It's pretty monotonous lmao. As I said, voting will remain open as long as there's a healthy trickle of votes - and once things do begin do begin to wind down - I'll give a week warning before I ultimately close the thread. I want this to be as comprehensive as possible. I'll be able to see if a person has updated or not based on the 'post edited by _" message that pops up at the bottom of edited posts - so those will be reflected within the spreadsheet as well when I get around to it.

I didn't think you were ending the voting, I wasn't sure if that person would be counted because of initially giving one movie and getting banned. But yeah it makes sense to check for edits much later on.

 

[Laputa_94]

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Blade Runner
3. Monty Python's Life of Brian
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Hard Boiled
6. John Carpenter's The Thing
7. Princess Mononoke
8. Toy Story
9. From Russia with Love
10. Whisper of the Heart

 

[big ander]

i really need to revisit surviving desire, based on your review and placement here. beautiful list.

Thanks! I'd write again on Surviving Desire right now, but the reason I adore the film is that I'm mostly baffled as to how it swept me away. Duration-wise revisiting it's an easy 55 min. investment, though I think it's only available as paid VOD rentals and on a semi-rare DVD.

1. 浪華悲歌 (1936, 溝&#21475
2. 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 (1991, &#26954
3. Sommaren med Monika (1953, Bergman)
4. Ordet (1955, Dreyer)
5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Michael Bay)
6. Un Chien Andalou (1929, Luis Buñuel)
7. მარილი სვანეთს (1930, შვილ&#4312
8. Fear and Desire (1953, Kubrick)
9. 鞍馬天狗 恐怖時代 (1928, 山&#21475
10. Showgirls (1995, Verhoeven)

vulgar auteurist spotting
EDIT: actually the most wildcard pick here is Fear and Desire. only way to be more of a contrarian while still tapping Kubrick would be to list like The Seafarers lol. would love to hear briefly why you love it. I enjoy it more than its reputation, yet it's inescapable embryonic.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)
3. Battleship Potemkin
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc
5. The Lion King
6. O, Brother, Where Art Thou
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Barry Lyndon
9. Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
10. Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
10. Lost in Translation

warring ideologies here, I like it

Get over yourself. You think that you have superior taste in movies just because you have a lot of old movies and not many blockbusters? Your taste in movies is no better than anyone else's.

I've seen enough of the types of films that people like you put on these kinds of lists to know that I usually don't like those kinds of movies. And that's okay! People enjoy movies for different reasons. There's nothing wrong with liking modern blockbusters. There's nothing wrong with preferring visual spectacle over dramatic stories. Dramas are not inherently superior to comedies or action movies. Different genres exist for a reason.

the discussion isn't about genre though. there are hundreds of spectacle-based movies from before 1999. the entire first artistic period of cinema is called "the cinema of attractions" and is 100% about just putting cool things in front of a camera.

you can't see enough "types of films" from old movies because old movies are as varied as movies are today. If your entire list is marvel and pixar and imdb 250 mainstays like Gump and Shawshank, there are 1,000 movies predating your picks by a decade that are hugely similar in tone, narrative, genre, so on.

the original post urged people to watch older movies explicitly because they'd find a lot to enjoy. The hell is presumptuous about that? It's just true. To assert that you only enjoy a medium after a certain year is ludicrous. Media are not that mutable. lines can be drawn right from Intolerance and Metropolis to Ultron, from Chaplin to Chan, from A Trip to the Moon to Guardians of the Galaxy. it's all cinema. Preferring new movies purely on the basis of their novelty is as ridiculous as claiming older movies are better by default*.

So yeah, to purposefully say you avoid old movies, as if having seen a few satisfies some mystical requirement and completes any possible enjoyment you'd receive from seeing more, is silly. If you like certain movies from the current era, there are movies in the past you would enjoy heartily. Identifying that suggestion as some sort of preposterous, pretentious imposition reflects back on you more than anything-- if you like movies only as objects of mainstream pop culture, as commodities, there's little reason to travel back. Fair. But if you well and truly appreciate the artistry, looking back can only be a positive step.

*it is true that a movie being older can give us a better conception of its "actual" value in that Ebert/Siskel sense Snowman posted. When the culture at large has been chewing over a work for 50 years it's absolutely more valuable than a blockbuster people have just begun mulling over.

 

[Scoot McNairy]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Jurassic Park
6. Zodiac
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Terminator 2
9. The Social Network
10. JFK


This is the best list.

 

[Scoot McNairy]

Also, how in the hell have The Social Network and Zodiac been forgotten by so many people?! Some clown even put Man of Steel as one of his picks. See also: Fear and Desire clown.

 

[Hellshadow]

1. Aliens
2. Blade Runner
3. Alien
4. Suspiria
5. The Terminator
6. Predator
7. Apocalypse Now
8. High Tension
9. 28 Days Later
10. Sunshine

 

[Henry Swanson]

Not happy with the order, and I'll probably want to change some of the films all together tomorrow, but this will do.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, dir. Michel Gondry)
2. The Terminator (1984, dir. James Cameron)
3. Whiplash (2014, dir. Damien Chazelle)
4. Under the Skin (2013, dir. Jonathan Glazer)
5. 12 Angry Men (1957, dir. Sidney Lumet)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994, dir. Quentin Tarantino)
7. Dial M for Murder (1954, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Léon (1994, dir. Luc Besson)
9. Enemy (2013, dir. Denis Villeneuve)
10. Drive (2011, dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)

 

[lordxar]

Shit...I might want to change my list and put the War of the Worlds in, the 50's version...dammit lol

 

[Lambtron]

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Jackie Brown
3. Rashomon
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Mononoke Hime/Princess Mononoke
8. Spring Breakers
9. 5 Centimeters Per Second
10. Out of Sight

 

[foxtrot3d]

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. The Godfather
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Apocalypse Now
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. Gladiator
8. Citizen Kane
9. Dr. Strangelove
10. Terminator 2

Besides the first 3 I made the rest of the list based on the movies that immediately popped into my head.

 

[Echonov]

1. The Matrix (1999)
2. Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し, 2001)
3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. The School of Rock (2003)
7. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語, 2013)
8. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
9. Departures (おくりびと, 2008)
10. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Others: The other Bourne films, The Rock, Oldboy, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, The Incredibles, Whisper of the Heart, My Neighbor Totoro, Ratatouille, Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin, Jurassic Park, Kill Bill, The Sound of Music...

 

[Dalek]

You know, I feel we should be able to count Godfather 1 and 2 as one film. Most people that list either film list both, and as such other films aren't getting counted.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Some clown even put Man of Steel as one of his picks.

Don't let Zack catch you talkin that shit on set, Scoot.

 

[InaudibleWhispa]

1. Before Sunrise
2. Lost In Translation
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Monty Python & The Holy Grail
6. Badlands
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Chungking Express
9. Spirited Away
10. Whiplash

 

[Timeless]

You know, I feel we should be able to count Godfather 1 and 2 as one film. Most people that list either film list both, and as such other films aren't getting counted.

This has no basis in any kind of anything. They are different movies. #1 wasn't even made with a sequel in mind. I don't get to list Toy Story 1~3 as one movie.

And if #1 and #2 are the same movie, why isn't Godfather 3 counted together with it too? If you ignore it you're basically saying 1/3rd of your favorite movie is subpar.

Why not just count Apocalypse Now and Godfather #1 as the same movie?

 

[Jay Sosa]

1. Scarface 1983
2. Into The Wild
3. Indien
4. Goodfellas
5. Memento
6. Mulholland Drive
7. Big Lebowski
8. Clockwork Orange
9. Dumb and Dumber
10. Totoro

 

[Dalek]

This has no basis in any kind of anything. They are different movies. #1 wasn't even made with a sequel in mind. I don't get to list Toy Story 1~3 as one movie.

And if #1 and #2 are the same movie, why isn't Godfather 3 counted together with it too? If you ignore it you're basically saying 1/3rd of your favorite movie is subpar.

Why not just count Apocalypse Now and Godfather #1 as the same movie?

Alright, Alright cool your jets.

 

[bengraven]

Fuck it, after editing the shit out of this list i'm done...

1) Once Upon A Time In the West
2) The Wizard of Oz
3) Schindler's List
4) Fight Club
5) Fellowship of the Ring
6) Star Wars: A New Hope
7) Leon: The Professional
8) Ran
9) Trainspotting
10) Spirited Away

Edit: Killed myself trying to figure out my favorite Kurosawa film (Ikiru and Yojimbo and Dreams all were on the list at one point), Ang Lee (Eat Drink Man Woman, Crouching Tiger, Hulk (loljk)), Capra film (It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, etc), and especially get enough Westerns on there (I failed, but TGTBTU was knocked off because I think of it as a companion to OUATITW and West is better). Leon nearly got knocked off several times, but I love it too much to let it go.

Edit2: I knocked off Casino...I'm spending so much time thinking of movies that are both good and are FUN to watch but I'm missing movies I truly love. I realized I should put an anime on there and the only ones that both move me and are well written are of course Ghibli, who are not the Disney of Japan as people call them but the Kurosawa of animation. Other thoughts were Akira and Ninja Scroll (first anime I ever watched and can watch it forever).

 

[QuantumZebra]

1.) Blade Runner
2.) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
3.) Leon: The Professional
4.) Aliens
5.) Terminator 2
6.) Jurassic Park
7.) The Green Mile
8.) No Country For Old Men
9.) Braveheart
10.) The Lion King

 

[harSon]

You know, I feel we should be able to count Godfather 1 and 2 as one film. Most people that list either film list both, and as such other films aren't getting counted.

Nah, it's two films. If we were to make concessions for a film, it'd be something like Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 - which is literally one movie filmed at the same time that had to be split into two due to the length in run time. But for the sake of simplicity, if the films were released/titled separately - then they're separate films as far as we're concerned.