Our Top 10 Favorite Movies

[EnriqueH]

I poked around in here and didn't see any such topic, so I thought I'd start one.

It's hard to pick and choose, particularly after my top 5 or 6. But I did my best.

Here are my favorite movies:

1) Star Wars Trilogy (although if push comes to shove, I'll say the first movie)

2) Superman II (I grew up watching the ABC extended version from the 80s, so was shocked to find the theatrical version had less footage. Still, nothing will ever top Christopher Reeve in the role.)

3) Enter the Dragon (One of the few movies that I knew every piece of dialogue.)

4) Jaws

5) Close Encounters of the Third Kind

6) The Godfather

7) The Karate Kid

8) Ghostbusters

9) Raiders of the Lost Ark

10) Saturday Night Fever

 

[auntiehill]

1) Raiders of the Lost Ark

2) Cinema Paradiso

3) Citizen Kane

4) Casablanca

5) Rear Window

6) Jaws

7) Lawrence of Arabia

8) The Third Man

9) Star Wars

10) Close Encounters / The original Time Machine/ Singing in the Rain. Hard to choose for the last one.

 

[cardinal biggles]

10.) The Godfather / The Godfather, Part II

9.) Cinema Paradiso

8.) All the President's Men

7.) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

6.) Fantasia

5.) The Lord of the Rings trilogy

4.) The Empire Strikes Back

3.) Gettysburg

2.) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1.) The Right Stuff

 

[nightwind1]

In no particular order:

Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension
Big Trouble in Little China
The Blues Brothers
Casablanca
Serenity
The Avengers
Captain America: The First Avenger
Silverado

 

[Mister Fandango]

I'm basing these mostly on rewatchability, and particularly how many times I've rewatched them.

1. Goodfellas

2. Pulp Fiction

3. Boondock Saints

4. Snatch

5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

6. The Shawshank Redemption

7. Fight Club

8. The Green Mile

9. Leon: the Professional

10. Django Unchained tied with Inglourious Basterds

And despite the fact that it just came out and I've only seen it twice so far...
11. Guardians of the Galaxy

 

[Shazam!]

1. Superman: The Movie
2. Die Hard
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Ghostbusters
6. Jaws
7. Blade Runner
8. Punch Drunk Love
10. An American Werewolf In London

 

[CorporalClegg]

Back to the Future
Batman
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Casablanca
The Empire Strikes Back
The Hunt for Red October
Major League
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Superman: The Movie
Top Gun

 

[EnriqueH]

I love seeing the love for the first Superman movie from a couple of you guys.

Corporal, I like the On Her Majesty's Secret Service listing too.

I'm a HUGE Bond fan.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

In no particular order:

Goodfellas
Godfather, Part 1
Bridge on the River Kwai
Unforgiven
Unbreakable
Apocalypse Now
Peggy Sue Got Married
Young Frankenstein
Life of Brian
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

 

[JiNX-01]

1. Judgment at Nuremberg
2. In the Heat of the Night
3. The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!
4. Blazing Saddles
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. The Godfather
7. The Gathering Storm
8. The Producers
9. The Great Escape
10. Chicago

 

[Random_Spock]

Mrs. Doubtfire
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Back to the Future
Batman
Forrest Gump
Mr. Holland's Opus
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Bicycle Thieves
Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans
Vertigo
Children of Men
Rashomon
Andrei Rublev
The Mirror
Persona
Mulholland Drive
Fargo

 

[Gary Mitchell]

In no particular order (and subject to change without notice):

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Nobody's Fool ('94)

Tequila Sunrise

Lethal Weapon

Doc Hollywood

The Hunt for Red October

Crimson Tide

Alien

The Manchurian Candidate ('62)

 

[CaptainCanada]

Alphabetical order:

1. Almost Famous
2. The Great Dictator
3. Henry V (1989)
4. The Lion King
5. Miller's Crossing
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Pan's Labyrinth
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
9. The Shawshank Redemption
10. WALL-E

Branagh's Henry V is my #1 film. I don't have a particular ranking for the rest.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

This is one of those questions that will change on a day to day basis for me, as ten movies are barely a representative number of movies I would consider favorite.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Pulp Fiction
3. The Godfather
4. The Princess Bride
5. Fargo
6. Inception
7. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
8. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
9. Aliens
10. Jurassic Park

 

[auntiehill]

Branagh's Henry V is my #1 film. I don't have a particular ranking for the rest.

I agree with you there; it's a damn fine film. I'd probably put it my favorite 15.

 

[BruntFCA]

1. Rio Bravo
2. Dawn of the Dead (78)
3. Chaplin
4. Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5. Batman (89)
6. Big Trouble in Little China
7. Tremors
8. The Gold Rush
9. Project A
10. Casino Royale (06)

 

[Melakon]

Subject to change without notice:

The Big Sleep (1946)
Forbidden Planet
The Great Escape
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
King Kong (1933)
North by Northwest
Radar Men from the Moon (serial)
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
The Wizard of Oz

 

[Orac Zen]

In no particular order*, today's nominees are:

Casablanca
All About Eve
My Favourite Wife
The Philadelphia Story
The Remains of the Day
Howards End
When Harry Met Sally...
Alien
Forbidden Planet
Lost Horizon

* I'd probably have a different list tomorrow, but the first five or six are always in my top 10 whenever this topic turns up.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Small list of the Dearly Beloved. There used to be a lot more on it but I have left off the ones I have not seen in years. Don't know if they would still be there.

1. The Piano
2. Star Wars saga
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Star Trek XI, V, VI, VIII
5. The Royal Tennenbaums
6. Serenity
7. Muriel's Wedding
8. GWTW