the top ten best movies you have ever seen in YOUR LIFE

[Zapranoth]

Man, hard one... in no order, here's my try at listing.

Pulp Fiction
The Terminator
Aliens
Guardians of the Galaxy
Blade Runner
The Dark Knight (even for Health Ledger's performance, alone)
The Avengers
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Matrix (1st one)
and then Raiders of the Lost Ark has to be in there somewhere.

[indianasmith]

Sigh. . . .

I am the only one so far to list SUCKER PUNCH.


Philistines!

[The Burgomaster]

Alphabetically (and subject to change within 5 minutes):

* A Clockwork Orange
* The Deer Hunter
* The French Connection
* The Godfather
* The Godfather, Part II
* The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
* Mean Streets
* Midnight Cowboy
* North by Northwest
* Taxi Driver


Honorable mentions:

* Anatomy of a Murder
* Deliverance
* Fiddler on the Roof
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Charles Laughton)
* Judgment at Nuremberg
* Schindler's List
* Shane
* 12 Angry Men
* The Ten Commandments
* The Tin Drum
* Witness for the Prosecution

EDIT: I knew I would forget some!  These belong somewhere on the above lists:

* Cool Hand Luke
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
* The Hustler
* Serpico
* Dog Day Afternoon

[zombie no.one]

Goodfellas
Twin Town
Jaws
A Mighty Wind
Nuts In May
Fargo
Dazed & Confused
Faster p***ycat Kill Kill
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Hot Fuzz

that's off the top of my head, and not including anything that's 'so bad it's good' (although FPKK arguably falls into this territory)

missed out by a hair: Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction, Deep Red, An American Werewolf In London

[claws]

01 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
02 The Dark Knight (2008)
03 Pulp Fiction (1994)
04 Inception (2010)
05 The Matrix (1999)
06 Fight Club (1999)
07 Django Unchained (2012)
08 Inglourious Basterds (2009)
09 American Beauty (1999)
10 Forrest Gump (1994)

[Alex]

In no particular order.

The Crow.
The Thing.
Alien.
Aliens.
Robocop.
Jaws.
Se7en.
Night Of The Living Dead.
Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Team America.

[clockworkcanary]

Difficult to do, but will try (in no order):

1. Eyes Wide Shut
2. The Shining
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. The Wicker Man (the original)
5. Alien
6. The Godfather
7. Empire Strikes Back
8. Heathers
9. John Carpenter's Halloween
10.  John Carpenter's The Thing

[RCMerchant]

See?
Now this makes me think.
Clockwork reminded me of Carpenters the THING-which I watch and rewatch constantly-as well as the SHINING and the WIZARD OF OZ,In fact I may have seen the WIZARD OF OZ more than any film ever-just because as a child-I watched it evey year-and I still love it-that goes for KING KONG (1933) too!

When I first saw this-I cried like a baby-I cried.It still has the power to tear me up.

http://youtu.be/qqQKgSwlcm8

[HappyGilmore]

Ok.  Hmm.  Initial reactions, off the top of my head, based off of rewatchings and just enjoyment I got of them. 

1.) Rocky
2.) Caddyshack
3.) Ghostbusters
4.) Clerks
5.) Happy Gilmore
6.) The Dark Knight
7.) Goodfellas
8.) The Wizard of Oz
9.) The Muppet Movie
10.) The Godfather Trilogy-Yeah, I included them as 1.  Cause generally, if I watch one I pop in the next, etc. 

[ChaosTheory]

NOSFERATU (Murnau)
THE IRON GIANT
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
GOODFELLAS
THE THING (Carpenter)
SE7EN
RESERVOIR DOGS
HUNGER (McQueen)
MOONRISE KINGDOM

Runners-up: STAND BY ME, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, GODFATHER 2, BEST IN SHOW, THE MUPPET MOVIE, JAWS, ALIEN, PEEPING TOM, THE FLY (Cronenberg), YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN