Your Top 10 Films of All-Time

Certainly one of my favorite horror movies in quite some time.

 

Hell to the YES! That movie was a ride.


In no particular order, except Red Planet is my all time favourite.

1: Red Planet
2: Fightclub
3: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
4: Clue
5: Robocop
6: Army of Darkness
7: Robinhood (The one with Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman, Kevin Costner, Shean Connery).
8: The Thing
9: Falling Down
10: In the Mouth of Madness

Bonus round: Predestination, Terminator, Alien, Demolition man, Blade Runner, Event Horizon.

 

I'm so torn on your list. Many of them are little gems, but then others like Red Planet I just don't get. Interesting though. I appreciate the inclusion of Nausicca.

 

I totally get not liking Red Planet. That one is harder to explain. There's something about how off-beat the tone is, and the unfocused the antagonism that really gets me (in a good way).

 

In no particular order:

Heat
The Last of the Mohicans
Hoosiers
Alien
The Breakfast Club
Blade Runner
Tombstone
The Shawshank Redemption
Scent of a Woman
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

 

I liked all of these except Robin Hood, so I consider it a good list

 

Casablanca
The Fifth Element
The Aviator
Star Wars- the original 1977 movie, impossible for anyone born after the advent of computerized special effects to really appreciate
Snow Dogs
Serenity
Dangerous Beauty
Sahara
Moana
Zootopia
Frozen II

Yeah, that's eleven. For an even dozen, add

Fantasia

And for a baker's dozen, add

Frenchman's Creek.

 

28 Days Later
Hellraiser
Hellraiser 2
The Labyrinth
Pumpkinhead 2
Child's Play
Bride of Chucky
Christine
Land of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead

 

Forgot to mention 'Birdy' and 'Leaving Las Vegas.'

 

Man, this is gonna be tough. I've pretty much stopped watching movies, and I'm sure that I'm forgetting some that were once very dear to me. Where series are concerned, I'll stick to just mentioning my favorite instalment. In no particular order:

Aliens
The Thing
Pan's Labyrinth
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Godfather Part II
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Blade Runner

Some honorable mentions that might otherwise have made the list, but I've seen them too few times or didn't like them quite well enough:

Brazil
North by Northwest
The Rope
Saving Private Ryan
Total Recall
Event Horizon
Watchmen
Kingdom of Heaven
Enemy at the Gates
Class of 1984
No Country for Old Men
The Warriors
Trainspotting
Oldboy

And finally, some highlights from the Guilty Pleasures category:

The Quest
Class of 1999
Screamers
Ghosts of Mars
Johnny Mnemonic

 

No. 1 is The Princess Bride, no contest.

 

Lists likes these can be tricky. The more I thought about it, the movies I wanted to put down. I don’t know if these are the best, but I’m confident I have acted out most of them verbatim many times with my brother while sharing a whiskey. Enjoy!

1. Braveheart
2. Ghostbusters
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Training Day
5. Boondock Saints
6. Full Metal Jacket
7. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
8. Goodfellas
9. Conan the Barbarian
10. Rocky

H.M.

1. Spirited Away
2. Life Aquatic
3. Jet Li’s Fearless
4. The Conjuring
5. The Big Lebowski

 

You picked the sequel over the original Pumpkinhead? Very interesting!

 

Just watched Quiet Place II. It is not going on my top ten list.

 

Ridiculous ending!

 

Not an ending, just a set up for Quiet Place III. Just an echo of the end on QPI but dumber.

 

It always irks me that so many people completely ignore comedy when they make these lists. Like Rodney, it gets no respect. So, I'll try to make up for it. No particular order, because I'm horribly indecisive.

The Blues Brothers
The Naked Gun
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
The Big Lebowski
My Cousin Vinny
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Little Shop of Horrors
This is Spinal Tap

Hmmm... They do seem to focus on a pretty small time period. I need to watch more old comedies. There's a huge Marx brothers-sized hole in my movie edumucation that I need to fill, among other things.

 

This is very hard. No matter what I choose, I end up leaving something out. But I tried to pick interesting answers when I could. Anyway, none of them are in order.

1. Old boy



Introduced me to the very taboo crossing style of Korean cinema. Korean cinema is criminally underrated, they create bangers after bangers. The revenge trilogy this movie is apart of is all good stuff. Honorable mentions would be Memories of a Murder (one of the best murder mysteries), The Handmaid (I think this movie is actually better than Old Boy, but I think old boy was my first introduction to Korean cinema so it still holds a higher place in my heart).

2. Secret in their eyes (2009)



This is one of the greatest tracking shots in movie history. I still don't understand how it was done. But anyway, absolutely top notch murder mystery movie again (or secretly a subtle love story). Way better than the American version.

3. American beauty



It's a bit controversial nowadays to support a movie with an actor who had a shady sexual history. Still, this movie haunted me through my teenage years. Which is so fucking weird because I was relating to a middle aged man struggling through a mid life crisis. But it connected, I related to his sense of impotence in the constructed reality he found himself in. I find my self in a different stage of my life that it doesn't resonate with me anymore, but the feelings it invoked was amazing. All the little shocking relegation was shocking to me (maybe due to my lack of experience with stories at that point in my life).

4. Memento



Not my favourite Nolan movie anymore, I guess that's the issue with a movie that's so reliant on the ending for an emotional response. But the first time I watched it and it blew my mind. It's Nolan's tightest movie in my opinion. Though honorable mention; Prestige is probably his best work.

5. Enter the void



Ok this movie feels like a technical marvel. Some parts overly wrong, but it actually depicts drug culture and let's you experience drugs through cinema. It's the closest thing to getting high through a movie you are gonna get. But I can understand if people don't care for it.

6. Schindlers list

https://youtu.be/mxphAlJID9U

If you had to watch one holocaust movie you'd best have it be this one. Not because it's the best or more powerful depiction of the holocaust, but because it's the one with the most appeal. But if you are brave of heart, Bent was the most harrowing movie for me:

https://youtu.be/GA0CCzh3x_g

7. Once upon a time in america

https://youtu.be/5vrbUpDihxs

The gangster flick are so hard to gauge. They all sort of blend into a soup and i personally love watching most of them. So I thought I'd mention one that doesn't get much love. But it's probably one of my favourites because it doesnt glamorise as much and the ending is quite ungangsterlike. The characters and their actions are quite ugly.

8. Forrest Gump

https://youtu.be/bLvqoHBptjg

It's got a good message and is nice to watch.

9. Phantom thread

https://youtu.be/xNsiQMeSvMk

Oh man oh man. This is one fucked up movie. Words can't describe it.


10. Shawshank redemption/gladiator/ben-hur/Spartacus

Ok weird to do this and I'm cheating (sorry not sorry). Because I think they made me feel sort of similar; none of these movie affected me in any meaningful way. But they are a beautifully constructed stories. But they are sort of... self contained? You don't take those things back with you. At least not really. I guess because they are all conventional so I felt the need to categorise them this way.

Ok this list just feels soo incomplete. I think there is absolutely no way for me to reduce everything I've watched in my life to 10 movies. It's just too hard. Plus ranking them feels even more impossible.

 

You sound like someone who wouldn't put the bunneh back in the box.