Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024) Movie

Was suggested we create a new Top 20 thread in the Last Movie You Saw thread, so why not:

1. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
3. Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball, 2022)
4. Seven (David Fincher, 1995)
5. Airplane! (Zuckerberg, Abrahams and Zuckerberg, 1980)
6. American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999)
7. NOPE (Jordan Peele, 2022)
8. Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
9. Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990)
10. Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
11. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
12. Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
13. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
14. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, 1987)
15. A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez, 1965)
16. Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
17. Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)
18. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
19. Pearl (Ti West, 2022)
20. Be Kind Rewind (Michael Gondry, 2008)

This list is constantly in flex for me (I usually list Eyes Wide Shut as my number one, but have been thinking about Donnie Darko a lot recently), and there's some stuff I know I'm missing (like Dawn of the Dead '78 being my favorite horror film for all intents and purposes), but as a whole, I think this list does a good job of reflecting both the films I grew up with and have a soft spot for vs the films I'm discovering and falling in love with now. 2022 was an absolutely insane year for horror.

Also, I know A Charlie Brown Christmas Special is technically a television special, but it makes me more emotional than a lot of other films so I feel it belongs here.

 

Wow!

 

goddamn this is gonna be hard

 

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Mirror
3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
4. Persona
5. Blue Velvet


ok got my top 5. that was hard enough. I’ll chip away at the rest from here

 

I’ll just copy what I’ve got on my Letterboxd top 20 list.

1) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
2) Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
3) The Lion King (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, 1994)
4) Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
5) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)
6) Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
7) Logan (James Mangold, 2017)
8) Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1996)
9) Scream (Was Craven, 1996)
10) Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)
11) Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024)
12) Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004)
13) The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
14) The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
15) Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski, 2022)
16) Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019)
17) Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
18) Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017)
19) The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2007)
20) Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

 

1. Dazed and Confused
2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
3. Goodfellas
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Billy Madison
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Can’t Hardly Wait
8. The Master
9. American Psycho
10. American Movie
11. Tommy Boy
12. Beau Travail
13. KIDS
14. The Rules of Attraction
15. Wet Hot American Summer
16. Road House
17. Pulp Fiction
18. Boogie Nights
19. The Breakfast Club
20. Scream

 

Donnie Darko over taking Eyes Wide Shut is crazy

 

I honestly have no fucking idea what mine would be.

 

Realistically it's probably Eyes Wide shut, but I've had Donnie Darko on my mind for about a week now and I never grow out of that one so they're neck and neck. Very different movies, not really compatible, both mean a lot to me though.

 

Like I said, I'm sure I'm missing a few and Road House very well may be one of those few.

 

1. No Country For Old Men (2007)
   
2. Buffalo 66 (1998)
   
3. Mulholland Drive (2001)
   
4. Drive My Car (2021)
   
5. Possession (1981)
   
6. Pacifiction (2023)
   
7. Wake In Fright (1971)
   
8. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
   
9. Black Dynamite (2009)
   
10. There Will Be Blood (2007)
    
11. Solaris (1972)
    
12. The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
    
13. Memoria (2021)
    
14. Drive (2011)
    
15. Nacho Libre (2006)
    
16. Fire Walk With Me (1992)
    
17. Apocalypto (2006)
    
18. Macgruber (2010)
    
19. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
    
20. Au tha balthazar (1966)

 

Good chance to find out

 

So far, I have forgotten Dawn of the Dead '78, Road House, The Brood, and Jackass (probably Number Two, although I could see a legitimate argument for any of them)

edit: And Office Space. Fuck.

 

1. Hot Rod
2. Hot Rod
3. Hot Rod
4. Hot Rod
5. Hot Rod
6. Hot Rod
7. Hot Rod
8. Hot Rod
9. Hot Rod
10. Hot Rod
11. Hot Rod
12. Hot Rod
13. Hot Rod
14. Hot Rod
15. Hot Rod
16. Hot Rod
17. Hot Rod
18. Popstar
19. MacGruber
20. Hot Rod

 

my taste is Bad btw

1. Barton Fink (Coen Bros., 1991)
2. Scream (Craven, 1996)
3. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
4. Alien (Scott, 1979)
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
6. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Ramsey, Persichetti & Rothman, 2018)
8. Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
9. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
10. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros., 2013)
11. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
12. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven, 1984)
13. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)
14. Knives Out (Johnson, 2019)
15. Resolution (Benson & Moorhead, 2012)
16. Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017)
17. Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000)
18. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
19. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniels, 2022)
20. Palm Springs (Barbakow, 2020)

 

Mine probably hasn't changed much but I'll give it another look over later to see if I feel like any changes.

 

1. Possession (1981)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
3. Braveheart (1995)
4. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
5. The Holy Mountain (1973)
6. Her (2013)
7. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
8. Come and See (1985)
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
10. Blue Valentine (2010)
11. End of Evangelion (1997)
12. Oldboy (2003)
13. Before Sunset (2004)
14. Mulholland Drive (2001)
15. Santa Sangre (1989)
16. The Lobster (2015)
17. I Saw the Devil (2010)
18. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
19. The Idiots (1998)
20. Midsommar (2019)

 

The Idiots is a choice

 

yeah it's maybe a strange pick but it's one of the most unique and interesting films I've ever seen and I appreciate it more every time I see it. I'm not sure there's any other film out there that can match the mix of absurd humour and emotional devastation I get from it.

 

all i know is my number one is there will be blood. good will hunting number 2 probably idk.

 

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Fight Club
4. Inception
5. Dune
6. Se7en
7. City of God
8. Life is Beautiful
9. 12 Angry Men
10. Interstellar
11. Spirited Away
12. Spider-Man: Across the Universe
13. Leon: The Professional
14. Pulp Fiction
15. American History X
16. Whiplash
17. The Prestige
18. Django Unchained
19. The Lives of Others
20. American Beauty

 

post properly

 

Classic Morrissey list.

 

he has a couple great films on it tho

weird troll

 

its just the imdb list