Sorry about the shouting in the title. Don't know what came over me.

As suggested by JimiTorch, sorry, JimiLamp, here's my top ten movies as decided just now, in know particular order, apart from the way I listed them.

You would think that would go without saying. It probably should have done.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Memento

Goodfellas

The Matrix

The Godfather

Gravity

The Shining

Amelie

Fight Club

Leon

R

Edit: Having thought about it, I could have easily listed another ten, or twenty. But you can see I didn't. Doesn't mean I might not later. After the baahing eases.

Another Edit: Thanks to whoever fixed my title shouting. It does look better. And now I look like a bit of an eejit. No change there, then.
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Good flicks. I love Leon.  I have a top five but I'll try for a top ten. No particular order.

1. Seven Samurai
2. Being There
3. Raising Arizona
4. Taxi Driver
5. The Wild Bunch
6. Dr. Strangelove
7. To Live and Die in L.A.
8. Badlands
9. The Professional (Leon)
10. Wild at Heart

I HATE chick flix and rom-coms, so I'll mention a few I actually did like.

Muriel's Wedding
Shag
Thelma and Louise
Tin Cup


I know a lot of people don't like Costner, but I've always liked him since No Way Out.

I've had a top four favourite movies for a while now. Top four is an odd amount though, it should always be at least a top five, and it just so happens I recently watched a film that I've added to make it a top five.

Shawshank Redemption.
Old School.
The Big Country.
Garden State.
The Lego Movie--this is the recently added one, I plan to review it at some point, but want to watch it a few more times first.

And since a top ten was asked for, I'd probably go with these five, though these tend to change from day to day.

Last of the Mohicans.
No Country For Old Men.
Gladiator.
The Sting
The Matrix-- though I sometimes struggle to love this cos of the sequels, but when I can see it as it's own film, it's definitely up there.

Not sure if everyone would describe them as 'great', but for one reason or another, they're all great in my eyes.

Okay, I could get all pretentious and try to create a list that's every film students wet dream, and don't get me wrong I love all of the classics too guys! However, I'm going to base this list off of the movies I can watch over and over again, the ones that would burn out the VCR (if that's how people still watched movies).

The Shining
The Virgin Suicides
Frances Ha
The Breakfast Club
Away We Go
Closer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Parent Trap
Glengarry Glen Ross
Almost Famous

In no particular order:

Face/Off
Duck Soup
Dogville
The Rock
Eyes Wide Shut
The Matrix
Annie Hall
The Fountain
Wild Strawberries
Modern Times

Jaws
Glory
Heat
Saving Private Ryan
Batman(1989)
The first 3 Terminator films (I know they are different stories but I class as one)
The Lord Of The Rings (one long film cut into 3 so it's impossible - and silly really - to rate them separately)
Friday Night Lights
Waterworld
12 Monkeys

This is one of my favorite topics for discussion. Its so hard to narrow a list to just ten. These are in no particular order.

Good Will Hunting
Fight Club
Looper
Django Unchained
No country for old men.
Prisoners
Man on fire
Back to the future
Rear Window
The Bourne Identity trilogy.

This would be my list at the moment.

Gangster #1
This is England
The Life of Brian
Sexy Beast
Goodbye, Mr Chips
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Ladykillers
Sholay
Pulp Fiction
Unforgiven

The Departed
Heat
Eternal Sunshine
LA Confidential
The Untouchables
The Pledge
Polanski's Macbeth
Alien
Her
The Town

I'm with YaTopher re 'at the moment' cause I saw two of his titles: Prisoners & Man on Fire and thought yeah, love those too. And then there's Gravity and True Romance... and Dustin pointing out Sexy Beast - Secrets and Lies is great as well. Okay I'll shut up now cause I've already broken the '10 rule'.

My list changes daily but these are definitely some of my faves.

All fine choices.

Well, most of them. Although some are cheating with trilogies. They count for three. Naughty.

Another ten I love -

Being John Malcovich

Life Is Beautiful

Raging Bull

Inception

Paths Of Glory

Rear Window

Se7en

The Untouchables

The Lives of Others

Reservoir Dogs

R

Star Wars.



The best film ever made, and the best film that will ever be made. Nothing else will ever come close....

Narrowing down ten ain't easy. Some others have mentioned could easily be interchangeable. Unforgiven, the pledge is great. Underrated IMO. Raging bull... And it goes on. Here's ten I've seen fairly recently that I've enjoyed, got a kick out of or just left the gears spinning.

Take shelter

Mud

Killer joe

Bug

Martyrs (rarely does a horror flick spook me but this got under my skin)

District 9

The cabin in the woods

Gravity

Seven Psychopaths

Bronson

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films Star Wars. The best film ever made, and the best film that will ever be made. Nothing else will ever come close....

Better than A Hard Days Night bro?

:P :B

Pulp Fiction
Mulholland Dr.
Network
Synecdoche, New York
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Big Lebowski
Taxi Driver
Chinatown
North By Northwest
Casino

Of the top of my head.

Memento
Ikiru
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Forrest Gump
Mulholland Dr.
City of God
Oldboy
Hero
Unfrogiven
Rocky

Great thread. And some great choices! A few of these have been mentioned... but eh  :P

City of God
La Haine
In Bruges
No Country
Fargo
Lost in Translation
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Lives of Others
A Bittersweet Life
Zodiac

8)  8)

Zulu
Dirty Harry
Get Carter
Manhunter
The Godfather
Let the right one in
Uncle Buck
American History X
The Sixth Sense
Layer Cake

man, this was really hard!

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
1. Alien (first 3 films)
2. Star Wars (org tril)
3. Indiana Jones (Ark & Crusade)
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Tombstone
7. Back to the Future (Trilogy)
8. Glengarry Glenross
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. Platoon

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Fargo, Big Lebowski, Heat, Unforgiven, The Thing (org), Memento, Jurassic Park, Breakfast Club, American Pie 1&2, Apocalypse Now, Predator, A Few Good Men, Glory, Shaun of the dead, Signs, united 93

The Prestige
Alien
The Big Lebowski
The Thing (1982)
Rear Window
Heat
The Godfather II
All the President's Men
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Goodfellas

Some of these are obviously not considered 'Great Films' by the masses, but they all have some memorable aspect, scene, or character(s) that forces me to watch them over and over.

Blade Runner
Chinatown
American Psycho
Shawshank Redemption
The Big Lebowski
Phantom of the Paradise (yes... seriously)
Memento
Silence of the Lambs
Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton's)
Kung Fu Hustle

... and. pretty much anything from the mind of Charlie Kaufman.

I'm running with these as my favourites, rather than the greatest films I've seen. There are films I personally know to be better than the those listed below, but these have all had an impact on me in some way or another. I'm going to cheat and put a special mention to My Life. A film I have no fear in admitting made me blub like a baby.

Fargo
Network
RoboCop
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Brokeback Mountain
Vanilla Sky
A Clockwork Orange
Downfall
Glengarry Glen Ross
American Psycho

I saw Andrew's list and at first I thought: Vanilla Sky? But then I remembered I quite liked it myself, on the quiet. I thought it's not half as bad as they say. Still not sure it'd be top ten. But then he's not me. To each their own.

Just watched Good Will Hunting again. And I wept like a baby. Christ, it looked different, now he's gone. His words had more weight.

Nevertheless, and my tears aside, what a fucking amazing guy. A sad loss.

I would say sorry to be a little down. But I'm not. RIP RW.

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Aye, it's definitely, let's say underappreciated. But any film that contains the line, "Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around" deserves praise for me. It managed to nail how i was thinking about my first love, hence its inclusion! "Consequences" and "The little things, there's nothing bigger, is there" couldn't have been more apt at that time.

Ten more I've lately seen again, in no particular order...

Tell No One

The Exorcist

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

JFK

Up

Apocalypse Now

Looper

Alien

R

Quoted from rendevous Ten more I've lately seen again, in no particular order... Tell No One The Exorcist Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Planes, Trains and Automobiles JFK Up Apocalypse Now Looper Alien R

Never seen "R".

Heard its a late-life-coming-of-age tale about a ornery luddite who longs for the days of Thatcher. Sounds infuriating! ;)

Speaking of one letter titles (real or not) I seen Fritz Lang's "M" recently, fantastic film. Its seriously dark in subject matter too for its time, reflecting a paranoid, fearful German society amid growing Nazi support. Highly recommend it.

R - It starts off badly, tails off in the middle and loses it completely towards the end. Wishy washy at best. It wants to be something. Pity it hasn't a clue what that is. Two stars.

Erm... R

Quoted from rendevous R - It starts off badly, tails off in the middle and loses it completely towards the end. Wishy washy at best. It wants to be something. Pity it hasn't a clue what that is. Two stars. Erm... R

The sequel - ARSE - was a heap of shit too

Highly amusing.

I've been called many names in my time.
These are amongst the finer.

aRse!

Off the top if my head, these, for whatever reason, I always seem to come back to...

JFK

The Departed

Wolf Of Wall Street

The Professional

Raising Arizona

Planes, Trains, Automobiles

The Natural

At Close Range

Near Dark

Goodfellas

Quoted from stevie The sequel - ARSE - was a heap of shit too

With "Sh?t Bickies", the third installment in the much maligned (but cult) trilogy, slated for a 25th of December release.

Apparently, it reaches new depths of tastelessness The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) could only tickle.

Quoted from Colkurtz8 With "Sh?t Bickies", the third installment in the much maligned (but cult) trilogy, slated for a 25th of December release. Apparently, it reaches new depths of tastelessness The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) could only tickle.

Lol!

Old buddy Jeff is currently filming his own version of the Human Centipede. He plays a fan who attaches the Rams O Line mouth to south then himself on the end ( the end zone if you like).

He had hoped to get the Cards WR corps in there but they had other commitments with sheep.

To 'top and tail' the series, the final instalment in this colonic epic will have Jeff attaching his mouth to his own arse.

Sounds like commitment to the art of film but I'll still stick with the xbox thank you very much

Feck it, I'll have a go.
No particular order..

Pulp Fiction

Goodfellas

The Dark Knight

Sweet Sixteen

The Godfather pt.1

Edward Scissorshands

Taxi Driver

The Shining

American History X

Terminator 2

Been awhile since I ranked them. More or less my top ten.

1. Tombstone - A more bad ass western I've yet seen made. Me and my brothers compared ourselves to the Earps constantly growing up. Still do. My younger brother is a cop after all, and we do live in AZ.

2. Top Gun - My childhood more or less revolved around this film.

3. Trainspotting - Used to love this as a teen. Watched it with the wife a few years ago after having not seen it in, jeez 10 years. It was not as funny as I remembered it while younger. Very depressing.

4. Clerks - The banter in this is so strong. Great dialogue that makes me chuckle every time I see it.

5. Pulp Fiction - What young kid from the 90's didn't love or quote this film to death? Unfortunately Tarantino's film has lead many an aspiring screenwriter astray I've noticed into believing foul language, violence, and witty dialogue can carry a movie by itself.

6. Dr. Strangelove - Like Clerks, the dialogue and constant sly jokes in here get me every time. And they're both black and white so there's that. :)

7. Vertigo - The first film I ever "studied to learn about what all the choices and subtle nuance a director puts into movies are for. Once I start watching this it's hard to stop until the very end.

8. Unforgiven - No explanation needed.

9. Saving Private Ryan - I remember seeing this in Hawaii the weekend it came out, fresh out of high school, a history dork, (I'm a history teacher now) the day after I visited Pearl Harbor. I was in full blown WW2 nostalgia mode if that's a thing and it was overwhelming. I used to be a projectionist and when this film was re-released I would turn up the volume just to have the sound of it's battle scenes echo through the booth.

10. Transformers - The Movie (80s cartoon version) It makes me smile.

Taxi Driver
Unforgiven
Deer Hunter
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
The Lives of Others
Downfall
Magnolia
Short Cuts