Top 10 Movies of All Time
We have a thread on the top 10 movies of the decade...how about your top 10 of all time. Mine would be
10. It's a Wonderful Life
9. Glory
8. Dead Poet's Society
7. Ben Hur
6. E.T.
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Patton
3. Star Wars
2. The Godfather
1. Cinema Paradiso
(closely out of the top 10 would be Rocky, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, A Fish Called Wanda, Pulp Fiction, Pricilla - Queen of the Desert, Annie Hall and Titanic)
Great topic, largely because everybody's tastes are so different
Big question, and I'm very limited by not having watched a ton of older movies. But of the ones I've seen...
Raiders of the Lost Ark - to me, a perfect popcorn action movie, stuffed full of iconic moments, incredibly rewatchable.
Godfather II - I give the edge to Godfather II over the original thanks to DeNiro's performance as the young Vito Corleone.
Jaws - Every moment on the boat is note perfect. "We're gonna need a bigger boat." Great, great line.
Glory - My favorite moment - Matthew Broderick standing on the beach before the final battle, and he absolutely knows he's going to die, and you can see how sad and scared he is at that thought, but there is no doubt he's going to lead his men into battle. The definition of courage, and an acting moment I never would have thought Ferris Beuller could deliver.
Unforgiven - Freeman, Eastwood, Hackman, and Harris are all perfect in their roles. Great story, perfect ending.
Alien - Ridley Scott creates a phenomenal atmosphere of suspense. Captain Dallas in the airshafts was a perfect scene.
Blade Runner (Director's Cut) - The movie had flaws (Decker's basically rape of Sean Young's character being the biggest in my mind...never was sure how to take that scene, but I didn't like it at all), but without the voiceovers and with the dark, foreboding ending, a great movie that steps into the top 10 for redefining sci-fi.
Drunken Master II - Jackie Chan's masterpiece. A very funny movie with some of the best fight sequences you will ever see.
The Incredibles - Could easily have put Wall-E, Up, or Finding Nemo in this place, but I'll give a slight edge to The Incredibles and volunteer it as my one cartoon representative (yes, over the Disney classics even). There's a profound real-life message in this movie, as with Pixar's other best offerings, that you won't find in Snow White or Cinderella, as great as those movies are.
The Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa was the inspiration for countless Western movies, and this was his best work.
Honorable Mention: Saving Private Ryan, Heat, Fist of Legend, The Lord of the Rings, Die Hard, The Princess Bride, Goodfellas, Schindler's List, The Mission, The Dark Knight