Top 10 Films (Birth Year-Present)

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Simple enough. Your top 10 favorite films in the span of your birth year and now. If you were born in 1978 and Star Wars is your favorite film, pick again!

1. The Thin Red Line

2. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

3. The Tree Of Life

4. No Country For Old Men

5. Pulp Fiction

6. There Will Be Blood

7. Children Of Men

8. Zodiac

9. Road To Perdition

0. Goodfellas

I feel like I completely overlooked the 90s, but oh well.

[mrbellamy 8,243]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Darjeeling Limited

In the Loop

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Minority Report

Punch-Drunk Love

The Secret in Their Eyes

The Silence of the Lambs

Three Colors: Blue

Toy Story

[Jay 46,242]

Wait a minute is it our top 10 BEST films or top 10 FAVORITE films? There's a HUGE difference in those two lists

This is what I posted in the favorite films of the 20th century, and its identical to what I will post here assuming you are asking for our FAVORITE films and not the best ones made

The Goonies

Gremlins

Ghostbusters

Ferris Bueller

Breakfast Club

Star Wars trilogy (Shit the first one came out before I was born, let's just put Empire Strikes Back here in its place)

Indiana Jones trilogy

Back To The Future trilogy

The Princess Bride

Hook

[Brónach 1,330]

I find it difficult to reduce it to 10 and even so I keep thinking on films that I haven't seen yet but could make the list anyway if they deliver.

[Sandor 918]

1. The Empire Strikes Back

2. Star Wars

3. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

4. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

5. Jaws

6. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

7. The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring

8. The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King

9. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

10. Return Of The Jedi

[filmmusic 3,269]

1. The Thin Red Line

Koray, this film is one of my favourites too.

Although i didn't put it in the list with the 10 most favourite films of the 20th century, but I would put in a list with the 10 Best films of the 20th century.

When I saw it first at the theatre I was bored to death, but the second time I saw it alone (when I purchased the DVD influenced by the marvellous reviews of its technical quality at that time), I changed my mind and found it a masterpiece.

I just wanted to say that I'm glad there's one person here that obviously feels the same about it..

The Princess Bride

I really want to see this movie so much, but i always hold back because I think I won't like it due to the synth music..

[BloodBoal 8,711]

[Quintus 6,494]

Honestly, the synth is a barrier for me too. It's frickin' awful. And I normally go out of my way to see "one of the best comedies ever made."

[mrbellamy 8,243]

Wait a minute is it our top 10 BEST films or top 10 FAVORITE films? There's a HUGE difference in those two lists

This is what I posted in the favorite films of the 20th century, and its identical to what I will post here assuming you are asking for our FAVORITE films and not the best ones made

So wait, are you implying that the movies I picked aren't very good, or that I don't actually enjoy them?

Not to bust your balls too much, but I've never really understood the whole best vs. favorite thing, and that's usually how the argument ends up sounding when it's laid out in front of me. It's not really how I watch movies, although maybe you have better reasons.

[Jay 46,242]

To be honest with you I never even notice the score to The Princess Bride while watching it, other than Mark Knopler's wonderful guitar melodies at the beginning and end

[Wojo 2,458]

Simple enough. Your top 10 favorite films in the span of your birth year and now. If you were born in 1978 and Star Wars is your favorite film, pick again!

Unless Koray changed the instructions after Jay raised the question, he said favorite. Not best.

I do understand the difference, but I really question what the point of us normal people providing commentary on what films we think are the best, as opposed to simply our personal favorites. A list of "bests" will probably be the same for most critics based on some defining characteristic, like best scenery, best screenplay, best acting, cast, most influential, best score, best director or effects, best remembered, etc. Favorites are a function of who we are as people and the personal journeys we've had so far, and will be far more interesting to discuss.

Like Jay's list; it appears he is clearly an unabashed child of the 80s. Roald's personal favorites have Spielberg or Williams as the common thread for most.

It's like if I was going to make a list of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, I would have to include Peyton Manning and Tom Brady (maybe not after yesterday, lol), but I would never include them on a list of my favorites because I hate them. I respect them as athletes and for their accomplishments, but I don't have to like them.

[Jay 46,242]

I've never really understood the whole best vs. favorite thing

It's super easy. My FAVORITE films are the ones I can watch over and over again and never get sick of. IE, all the 80s comedies I listed and most Spielberg and Cameron movies, etc. They come on and I just enjoy watching them every time. I'll never get sick of watching them.

The BEST movies are the ones that most make you go "Wow, that was a feat of movie making". Schindler's List is one of the BEST films I've ever seen, but I'd never call it a favorite because I've only seen it exactly one time. Same with There Will Be Blood, Apocalypse Now, The Pianist, The Godfather, City of God, etc.

Some movies place high at the top of both lists, such as the LOTR trilogy, Alien, Fight Club, etc.

[Sandor 918]

My favorite films are the films that have somehow become part of who I am. They have contributed something to my personality and the things I believe in. Some of the best films I have ever seen have not had that kind of effect on me. But nonetheless most of my favorite films are also the best films I've seen. Wow, this must come across as confusing. It's very clear to me though.

[indy4 160]

I think favorite films are also sometimes only on a list because of you, rather than the film. For instance, a movie you watched when you were little may make the list purely because of nostalgia. Then you find out it's completely unoriginal or nonsensical, but you still love it.

[hornist 1,261]

I do not understand this "favorite vs. best film" thing. My favorite ten film list is definitely same as my list of the best movies.

I did enjoy(and still do) Dumb an Dumber, it's brilliant but definitely wouldn't put it to my favorite/best films list.

This separation sounds to me that one wants to say:" I love Justin Bieber but it is more acceptable to say Mozart was better."

I just made my top 10 list in some other thread, I'll try to find. I'm quite serious about films.

It will fit here. -66 was my year, no older than that movies in my list!

[filmmusic 3,269]

It's like indy4 said.

eg. I love Spacehunter: Adventures in the forbidden zone (4.9 in imdb) but of course it's no Apocalypse Now. In no way I would put it in a list with the best films ever made!

it's like: you love pizza, but you are aware that is not a nutricious food.

But, you love it all the same. It's a guilty pleasure!

of course, as Jason said, some films can be both favourite and best.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

I gave my 10 list in the other recent thread, I'm not going to limit it to my lifespan.

[KK 3,313]

I find it difficult to reduce it to 10 and even so I keep thinking on films that I haven't seen yet but could make the list anyway if they deliver.

As do I. It's a lot easier with lists like favourite scores. But there are so many diverse and great films that I love that condensing into a list would be almost like a crime to me. It's hard to pick for me to pick a top 10.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

I gave my 10 list in the other recent thread, I'm not going to limit it to my lifespan.

Unfortunate, since I had you in mind when I thought of the thread. You have a lot of great 30s-50s classics. Limiting yourself to films that were made after you were born would have been interesting.

As for the favorite vs. best thing, to me it seems like childhood vs. adult. Films we grew up watching over and over are ones we'll love forever, but we discover a lot of fucking great movies throughout the rest of our life. As much as I love The Fifth Element and Tremors, I wouldn't rank them above the emotional experience I get from Leone's or Malick's films.

[JoeinAR 1,957]

Okay Koray, for you.

It would still have 6 of that list, E.T. Jaws, Superman, Aliens, Carrie, Beauty and the Beast. Add to it Victor Victoria, Signs, and Terminator 2.

There Koray, I could have added Signs, or Star Ship Troopers, Towering Inferno, Team America, World Police. Most of these are movies I can watch over and over, a few I can't.

[Koray Savas 2,260]

Didn't realize you loved Signs that much. I find it severely underrated. Shyamalan's best.

[Ollie 1,375]

Airplane!

Smokey And The Bandit

Superman (1978)

Jaws

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Die Hard

Patton

The Incredibles

Star Trek II

[JoeinAR 1,957]

Didn't realize you loved Signs that much. I find it severely underrated. Shyamalan's best.

well you know how much I love Hands of Fate and it is easy to tell what films I like by the scores I like, so Titanic is up there too.

[Wycket 36]

Hard for me since most of my favorites are pre 1987 but HERE.....WE.......GO

1. Casino Royale

2. Forrest Gump

3. The Dark Knight

4. Back to the Future Part II

5. Jackie Brown

6. Die Hard

7. Jurassic Park

8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

9. GoldenEye

10. Inception

[tannhauser 101]

Lotr: fellowship of the ring

Lotr: two towers

Lotr: return of the king

Batman begins

The dark knight

Hugo

Pirates of the catibbean 1

The Prestige

Gladiator

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[Sandor 918]

I've adjusted my 10 favorite films since I just realised that - of course - films from the noughties can be added to this list:

1. The Empire Strikes Back

2. Star Wars

3. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

4. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

5. Jaws

6. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

7. The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring

8. The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King

9. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

10. Return Of The Jedi

[Wojo 2,458]

Pirates of the catibbean 1

Looks like Jack wants a sparrow.