From the AFI thread . . . what are your top ten films of all time?

I've tried for hours to pare down my list, seeing this as a personal challenge. I can't make get it down past 17 I guess it gives me a little more respect for them because of how difficult it must be to do it with every movie of all time.

 

Top 10 favorite or the 10 we think are the 10 best of all time? There is a difference, at least somewhat.

 

Indeed. My list would change dramatically.

 

I'm apparently not putting enough thought into all the movies I watch. I have no idea what my Top 10 woud be. I will say, though, that my favorite movie is "Usual Suspects."

 

1. Out of the Past

2-10 in alphabetical order:
2. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
3. Cache
4. Dead Ringers
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. Metropolis
7. The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek
8. Rear Window
9. Robocop
10. The Searchers

 

For certain, I can agree with more top 10s here than I can with AFI's new top 10.

(And, for the record, kudos to SockPuppet, I think, for breaking down films by category ... though I am shocked, dismayed, frustrated, etc., that you did not include "Major League" in your sports film list [Indians looser fanboy]).

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather: Part II
3. Annie Hall
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Hotel Rwanda
6. Star Wars: A New Hope
7. GoodFellas
8. The Wizard of Oz
9. Raging Bull
10. The Graduate

On the outside looking in (but still often in my DVD player): Breakfast at Tiffany's ... Fight Club ... Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings ... The Constant Gardener ... Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail ... Casablanca ... Roman Holiday ... Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back ... The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ... and, yes, Major League.

 

1. Scarface
2. Godfather I-II
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Empire Strikes Back
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Fight Club
7. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
8. Goodfellas
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Top Secret!

 

Comedies

1. Fast Times
2. Top Secret!
3. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
4. A Fish Called Wanda
5. Fletch
6. Animal House
7. Heathers
8. Airplane
9. Caddyshack
10. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle


Honorable mention: Metropolitan, Election, Kevin Smith's first five movies...

 

Mob/crime movies

1. Scarface
2. Godfather I-II
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Goodfellas
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Usual Suspects
7. Chinatown
8. Taxi Driver
9. The Departed
10. Mean Streets

 

Adventure/Sci-Fi

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back
3. Terminator I-II
4. Aliens
5. Total Recall
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Back to the Future
8. The Matrix
9. Romancing the Stone
10. Minority Report

 

War films

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Deer Hunter
4. First Blood
5. Platoon
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Born on the 4th of July
8. Gladiator (I know, not a true war film...)
9. Braveheart
10. Patton

 

HOW IN THE FUCK COULD I, OF ALL PEOPLE, FORGET "FULL METAL JACKET?" SHIT.