All of us here on SS have read many many many screenplays. Many great, many awful. But what if you were to reel in three and put them in order? Mine:
  
1. Shawshank
2. Psycho
3.  Inglorious Basterds (I just loved this script)

What about you guys?

Top 3 scripts I've read and actually learned something from?

Groundhog Day
Karate Kid
Magnolia

Not surprising all 3 are brilliant movies...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kill Bill (in its entirety)
Happiness

- A Few Good men
- The Big Lebowski
- World War Z

Big Lebowski - ludicrous humour
Matrix - sheer inventiveness
Reservoir Dogs - couldn't stop turning the pages

I only got 25 pages into the Inglourious Basterds script. To me it seemed utter rubbish.

Quoted from rendevous I only got 25 pages into the Inglourious Basterds script. To me it seemed utter rubbish.

Fair enough, but to me it seemed like a good revenge story.

Quoted from Aaron Fair enough, but to me it seemed like a good revenge story.

I'm sure it is and I'm keen to see it on the big screen. So far I've seen all his at the cinema, watched em on DVD and embarrasing number of times and read the scripts. I still read Pulp and Dogs now and again to make sure I'm not just copying (again).

I put Dogs in my top three because I think it really is one of the best scripts I'll ever read. Amazing seeing how early in his career he wrote it. I've a sneaking feeling he had a lot of help from Roger Avary or others. I do know he had a lot of help from the actors.

But, after Deathproof I was really hoping QT was gonna hit high form again. After reading the start of IB I was really disappointed. It's probably a subject for another thread.

To get back on topic I'm sorry I couldn't include Pulp Fiction. I'm pretty surprised no-one's metioned it yet, and yet Kill Bill and IB did get up there.

Pulp Fiction completely slipped my mind. I'd probably put it at number four. But I have to disagree about the start of IB, I thought that was great too. I would like to see it on the big screen, as I gave the script a 10/10 (Story wise, formatting and error wise it gets like a 2), but it's length might cause a lot of walk outs. If the movie is anything like the script, QT is back IMO

Die Hard
Life of Brian
Stigmata

Merlin
Christmas Vacation
The Three Stooges

Changeling: A True Story*
Love and Death on Long Island
Dark Knight

*IMHO one of the best screenplays ever written

If I were posting this tomorrow, apart from the first one, the list could quite easily change - I read a lot of scripts, some good, some bad, some memorable, some not!