YOUR top 10 movies.

The Wages of Fear
The Man With No Name trilogy
The Apartment
Days of Wine and Roses
Bridge on the River Kwai
Double Indemnity
Casablanca
Fargo
My Dinner with Andre
The Three Colors trilogy (actually saw this on Laserdisc...yikes)

 

It's fitting that A Beautiful Mind is not among your top 13 films on a top 10 list.

 

Props for mentioning Run Lola Run. Great take on the randomness of fate and the impetuousness of youth.

 

I'd have to think about it to get a definite top 10, but the 10 that come to mind now:

Revenge of the Nerds
The Boondock Saints
The Matrix
Superbad (I consider this Revenge of the Nerds for a new generation)
Better off Dead
Wild Style
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
The Last Starfighter
Mallrats (I saw this one before I saw Clerks, which might be why I have it ranked higher)
Superfly

 

1. Reservoir Dogs - My most enjoyable moviegoing experience ever. I knew nothing about the film going in and was just blown away by it.

2. Fight Club - This is my go-to movie. I've probably watched it more times than any other movie.

3. Godfather I+II - Just so brilliant.

4. Pulp Fiction - I really miss the days when I would see a movie in the theater and have the desire to round up everyone I knew who hadn't seen it and take them to see it... That was how I felt about Pulp Fiction.

5. Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back - As a kid, nothing was better...

6. Heathers - If Reservoir Dogs was my favorite moviegoing experience, this is a close second. I knew nothing about the movie, but a friend who knew I was a movie fan, said, "I just saw this psychotic movie that I think you'd love..."

7. True Romance - Holy shit I love everything about this movie...

8. Scarface - I know it's become cliche, but it's just such a fun and exciting movie...

9. Fast Times at Ridgemont High - I snuck into see this as a kid. It holds up...

10. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut - It's nice when a movie lives up to gigantic expectations...

Honorable mention:
Top Secret!
A Fish Called Wanda
Se7en
Usual Suspects
Silence of the Lambs
Goodfellas
Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

Thanks, casty. I wish I could wedge "The Exorcist" in there somewhere.

 

Not in any particular order (and with 11 because I couldn't decide which one to get rid of):

Hugo
In Bruges
Clue
Once
Casablanca
Fight Club
Miller's Crossing
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Airplane!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

 

I think you have about three movies on that list which would have made mine if I'd thought of them earlier.

"A Fish Called Wanda," to me, was the same reaction as yours for "Reservoir Dogs."

 

Indeed, I saw Dre's list and am adding "Once" to the Notebook/Bridges combo.

 

In no order

1) Diner
2) Godfather 1 and 2
3) Blade Runner
4) Midnight Cowboy
5) The Graduate
6) Slap Shot
7) Manhattan
8 Bridge on the River Kwai
9) McCabe & Mrs. Miller
10) Once Upon a Time in America (uncut version)

 

The Sting
The Usual Suspects
The Big Sleep
Body Heat
Psycho
Key Largo
Pulp Fiction
Sunset Boulevard
Bull Durham
The Godfather

 

Some great mentions so far. Glad to see the love for "Breaking Away," which is an underrated film.

Mine, until I think of 10 more:

Rushmore
The Big Lebowski
Raising Arizona
The Godfather
Brazil
Citizen Kane
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Annie Hall
Singles
This is Spinal Tap