What Films Do You Give A 10/10?

[notchreturns]

What is exactly makes a film a 10/10?To me, it's the perfect film.I can't find one thing wrong with it and it ultimately brings me joy like no other film can.

It's a select few, but here are my 10/10's.

"Jaws"
"Goodfellas"
"The Wild Bunch"
"Annie Hall"
"The Silence of the Lambs"
"Raider's of the Lost Ark"
"The Third Man"
"E.T. The Extra Terrestrial"
"Apocalypse Now"
"Rear Window"
"Raging Bull"


What are your 10/10's?What qualifies them to be?

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[stefanb]

-The Shawshank Redemption
-Magnolia
-American History X
-Fight Club (which I hated the 1st time I saw it -- go figure)

[Dumb-Fokker-**]

I have a firm belief that no film is perfect - in fact, that nothing is perfect, and as such, have never given a 10/10. Stupid, I know, but hey - look at the member name. I havent really given many 9/10`s either (12 tops) but with my way of thinking, an 8/10 is a damn, damn good film. So,there ya go.

[Mick]

A Clockwork Orange
Dirty Harry
Fight Club
The Godfather
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
The Searchers
Unforgiven
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo

[Cyclonus]

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
2001
BOOGIE NIGHTS
JFK
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

[charliebobo]

The Godfather
Amelie
Almost Famous
Forrest Gump
Schindler's List
The Usual Suspects

[bankholdup]

I guess...

Good Will Hunting
Scarface
SPR
Shawshank
Almost Famous
Magnolia

[pennywise46]

American Beauty
A Clockwork Orange
Citizen Kane
The Godfather part 1 and 2
Taxi Driver
Seven Samurai
Pulp Fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now

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[Harold Shand]

I don't generally subscribe to "favourite lists" as one's appreciation of anything can change from year to year...

...but if hard pressed to go a top thirty film list as of NOW here's what I'd put; (and in NO particular order)...

BLOW OUT (DePalma)
THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA...QUEEN OF THE DESERT
THE HAUNTING (original)
VIDEODROME
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY
SOME LIKE IT HOT
CRASH
DIRTY HARRY
THE EXORCIST
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
ONCE WERE WARRIORS
KING KONG (original)
DEEP RED
JAWS
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
THE TIME MACHINE (original)
THE COMMITMENTS
THE STRAIGHT STORY
DRESSED TO KILL
THE TOWERING INFERNO
CHARLIE'S ANGELS
GREGORY'S GIRL
THE VAMPIRE LOVERS
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
BLADE RUNNER
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
AUDITION
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
ZOMBIE FLESHEATERS

...a bit of a random selection as I could go a top 100 and still not get everything in that I'd like to take to a desert island. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/frown.gif

[Puck Bond]

All the movies I have given 10/10 to...You may think there are too many..or i am too leniant, because a lot of you say for a movie to get 10/10 it has to be perfect. To me there is no such thing as a perfect film...these are all what I consider classics, great films...that I personally enjoy at the highest level despite some having flaws.

1. Goldfinger(1964)
2. The Shawshank Redemption(1994)
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001)
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest(1975)
6. Saving Private Ryan(1998)
7. The Sting(1973)
8. The Breakfast Club(1985)
9. Casablanca(1942)
10. Dr. Strangelove(1964)
11. Pulp Fiction(1994)
12. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)
13. North by Northwest(1959)
14. Citizen Kane(1941)
15. Platoon(1986)
16. Taxi Driver(1976)
17. The Great Escape(1963)
18. Goodfellas(1990)
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)
20. The Third Man(1949)
21. Raging Bull(1980)
22. The Godfather(1972)
23. The Untouchables(1987)
24. Star Wars(1977)
25. Being John Malkovich(1999)
26. The Shining(1980)
27. Chinatown(1974)
28. Braveheart(1995)
29. The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)
30. The French Connection(1971)
31. Gladiator(2000)
32. Die Hard(1988)
33. Lawrence of Arabia(1962)
34. The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
35. On the Waterfront(1954)
36. Good Will Hunting(1997)
37. Apocalypse Now(1979)
38. A Beautiful Mind(2001)
39. Blade Runner(1982)
40. The Usual Suspects(1995)
41. Stagecoach(1939)
42. A Clockwork Orange(1971)
43. Schindler’s List(1993)
44. Octopussy(1983)
45. Paths of Glory(1957)
46. Swingers(1996)
47. Bonnie and Clyde(1967)
48. The Seven Samurai(1954)
49. Almost Famous(2000)
50. Patton(1970)
51. Stand by Me(1986)
52. Dog Day Afternoon(1975)
53. The Hunt for Red October(1990)
54. Strangers on a Train(1951)
55. The Longest Day(1962)
56. The Man Who Wasn’t There(2001)
57. The Conversation(1974)
58. Full Metal Jacket(1987)
59. The Sixth Sense(1999)
60. The Maltese Falcon(1941)
61. Midnight Cowboy(1969)
62. The Rock(1996)
63. Halloween(1978)
64. Scarface(1983)
65. Unforgiven(1992)
66. Ben-Hur(1959)
67. Deliverance(1972)
68. American Beauty(1999)
69. Glory(1989)
70. The Philadelphia Story(1940)
71. Black Hawk Down(2001)
72. Network(1976)
73. The Hustler(1961)
74. Dances with Wolves(1990)
75. E.T.-The Extra Terrestrial(1982)
76. Psycho(1960)
77. JFK(1991)
78. Jaws(1975)
79. Gallipoli(1981)
80. Life Is Beautiful(1998)
81. 12 Angry Men(1957)
82. The Deer Hunter(1978)
83. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(2000)
84. Wall Street(1987)
85. Double Indemnity(1944)
86. Fargo(1996)
87. Cool Hand Luke(1967)
88. All the President’s Men(1976)
89. Dark City(1998)
90. Vertigo(1958)
91. The Terminator(1984)
92. The Fugitive(1993)
93. The Exorcist(1973)
94. The Wild Bunch(1969)
95. The Majestic(2001)
96. The Gold Rush(1925)
97. Das Boot(1981)
98. Rocky(1976)
99. Where Eagles Dare(1969)
100. Some Like It Hot(1959)
101. L.A. Confidential(1997)
102. Se7en(1995)
103. Three Kings(1999)
104. The Fifth Element(1997)
105. The Thin Red Line(1998)
106. The Green Mile(1999)
107. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves(1991)
108. Fight Club(1999)

Add We Were Soldiers to this list too.

[Fergus]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Puck Bond:
All the movies I have given 10/10 to...You may think there are too many..or i am too leniant, because a lot of you say for a movie to get 10/10 it has to be perfect. To me there is no such thing as a perfect film...these are all what I consider classics, great films...that I personally enjoy at the highest level despite some having flaws.</font>

I have the same opinion about giving films a 10. I probably have the same amount of films rated a 10, or more. All of them I have rated a 10, have lived up to my expectations of a great film. I suppose I rate a film on emotion. I don't go into technicalities like rating a film by its acting, directing, etc, and then add all those individual ratings up and put them into an average which stands for the whole film. I'd prefer go by how the film made me feel, if it challenged me, or if it made me laugh etc. I do think about how the writing affected the film; how the acting affected it, and things like that. But I look at the overall film with those things in mind. Rating a film using that mode of thinking influences my opinions too, and is part of the reason why I disagree with many people on certain films. It is also the reason why I find it impossible to numerically put together a list of favorites or great films, because my ratings are all based on emotion and I don't get technical, but opinionated. That's my approach.

[bskutle]

These are the best of the best films. Not perfect necessarily, just the upper class of the movie universe. Here they are:

1. Vertigo (1958)- Alfred Hitchcock
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)- Stanley Kubrick
3. Schindler's List (1993)- Steven Spielberg
4. Gone With the Wind (1939)- David O. Selznick, Producer
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)- Quentin Tarantino
6. The Fantasia Anthology (1940/2000)- Walt & Roy Disney, Exec. Producers
7. Sherlock Jr. (1924)- Buster Keaton
8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)- Ang Lee
9. Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope (1977)- George Lucas
10. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)- Steven Spielberg
11. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)- Frank Capra
12. Braveheart (1995)- Mel Gibson
13. Nosferatu (1922)- F.W. Murnau
14. Saving Private Ryan (1998)- Steven Spielberg
15. Face/Off (1997)- John Woo
16. Memento (2001)- Christopher Nolan
17. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)- John Frankenheimer
18. A Few Good Men (1992)- Rob Reiner
19. GoodFellas (1990)- Martin Scorsese
20. The Big Sleep (1946)- Howard Hawks
21. Touch of Evil (1958)- Orson Welles
22. Rebecca (1940)- Alfred Hitchcock
23. The Godfather (1972)- Francis Ford Coppola
24. Metropolis (1926)- Fritz Lang
25. Dark City (1998)- Alex Proyas
26. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)- Martin Scorsese
27. The Wizard of Oz (1939)- Victor Fleming
28. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying… (1964)- Stanley Kubrick
29. Some Like It Hot (1959)- Billy Wilder
30. Apocalypse Now (1979)- Francis Ford Coppola
31. Sunset Boulevard (1950)- Billy Wilder
32. 8 ½ (1963)- Federico Fellini
33. Singin' in the Rain (1952)- Gene Kelly, Stanley Donan
34. On the Waterfront (1954)- Elia Kazan
35. Andrei Rublev (1966)- Andrei Tarkovsky
36. Casablanca (1942)- Michael Curtiz
37. Fargo (1996)- Joel Coen
38. Psycho (1960)- Alfred Hitchcock
39. King King (1933)- Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
40. The Maltese Falcon (1941)- John Huston
41. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)- Elia Kazan
42. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)- John Huston
43. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)- Steven Spielberg
44. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)- Peter Jackson
45. Raging Bull (1980)- Martin Scorsese
46. North By Northwest (1959)- Alfred Hitchcock
47. Almost Famous (2000)- Cameron Crowe
48. Star Wars: Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)- Irvin Kershner
49. Citizen Kane (1941)- Orsen Welles
50. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)- Atom Egoyan
51. Jaws (1975)- Steven Spielberg
52. L.A. Confidential (1997)- Curtis Hanson
53. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)- Frank Capra
54. City Lights (1931)- Charles Chaplin
55. The Usual Suspects (1995)- Bryan Singer
56. Toy Story (1995)- John Lasseter
57. One, Two, Three (1961)- Billy Wilder
58. The Killer (1989)- John Woo
59. Chinatown (1974)- Roman Polanski
60. Blue Velvet (1986)- David Lynch
61. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)- Preston Sturges

[movieDUDE68686]

Cool Topic!

2002 About A Boy

2001 The Royal Tenenbaums Mulholland Drive A.I. Moulin Rouge

2000 Requiem For A Dream Almost Famous Traffic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Billy Elliot The Virgin Suicides

1999 Magnolia The Sixth Sense Election American Beauty Toy Story 2 Fight Club

[ColinM]

Do you have any pre-1999 10/10's?

[ColinM]

Here are my 10/10's...
Almost Famous American Beauty As Good as it Gets Casablanca The Empire Strikes Back The Godfather Memento Moulin Rouge One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Rear Window Saving Private Ryan Se7en The Shawshank Redemption Star Wars The Wizard of Oz

[Strider]

I am a firm believer that there is such a thing as a "perfect film". And the majority of the films I have given a 10/10 are the holy grail of the movie world, and they are "perfect" in my eyes.

1. Glory (1989) - Edward Zwick
2. Heat (1995) - Michael Mann
3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Frank Darabount
4. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Irvin Kershner
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Peter Jackson
6. The Usual Suspects (1995) - Bryan Singer
7. The Sixth Sense (1999) - M. Night Shyamalan
8. Memento (2001) - Christopher Nolan
9. The Godfather Part II (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola
10. The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola
11. Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Tim Burton
12. Gladiator (2000) - Ridley Scott
13. The Green Mile (1999) - Frank Darabount
14. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) - George Lucas
15. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Richard Marquand
16. L.A. Confidential (1997) - Curtis Hanson
17. Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Steven Speilberg
18. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Ang Lee
19. Casino (1995) - Martin Scorsese
20. Braveheart (1995) - Mel Gibson
21. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Steven Speilberg
22. Se7en (1995) - David Fincher
23. The Silence of the Lambs (1990) - Johnathan Demme
24. Hamlet (1996) - Kenneth Branagh
25. Fight Club (1999) - David Fincher
26. Insomnia (2002) - Christopher Nolan
27. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones & Spider-Man (2002) - George Lucas/Sam Raimi (tie)
28. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Steven Speilberg
29. Black Hawk Down (2001) - Ridley Scott
30. Ghost World (2001) - Terry Zwigoff
31. Babe (1995) - Chris Noonan
32. Platoon (1986) - Oliver Stone
33. Traffic (2000) - Steven Soderbergh
34. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) - The Coen Brothers
35. The Omen (1976) - Richard Donner
36. The Exorcist (1973) - William Friedkin
37. Dark City (1998) - Alex Proyas
38. A Beautiful Mind (2001) - Ron Howard
39. Cast Away (2000) - Robert Zemeckis
40. Malcolm X (1992) - Spike Lee
41. The Insider (1999) - Michael Mann
42. Groundhog Day (1993) - Harold Ramis
43. Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (1987) - John Hughes

These are all the films from my Top 100 List that I have given a 10/10.

Strider

[Muha]

saving private ryan

the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring

l.a. confidential

the untouchables

fight club

the count of monte cristo

the shawshank redemption

[Fergus]

ALL THE FILMS I'VE EVER GIVEN A FULL (*****)(10) RATING TO:

These are in NO particular order, except the first fifty is the first fifty.

City Lights (1931)
The Bicycle Thief (1947)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Jules and Jim (1961)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
8 ½ (1963)
Vertigo (1958)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001 a space odyssey (1968)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Annie Hall(1977)
Network (1976)
Das Boot (1981)
E.T. (1982)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Schindler's List (1993)
Sunrise (1927)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
La Strada (1954)
The Searchers (1956)
Easy Rider (1969)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The World According to Garp (1982)
A Christmas Story(1983)
Ordinary People (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Hustler (1961)
Dr. Strangelove... (1964)
Little Big Man (1970)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The Stunt Man (1980)
Field of Dreams (1989)
GoodFellas (1990)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Immortal Beloved (1994)
50. The Ice Storm (1997)

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Cinema Paradiso (1989)
Apartment, The (1960)
400 Blows, The
Paris, Texas (1984)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Giant (1956)
Sleuth (1972)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Nashville (1975)
One, Two, Three (1961)
Dark City (1998)
Bonnie and Clyde
Empire Strikes Back, The
Bride of Frankenstein, The
Casablanca
Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
French Connection, The
The Sting
Rebel Without a Cause
Terms of Endearment (1983)
My Life as a Dog (1985)
Gold Rush, The (1925)
Citizen Kane
Topsy-Turvy
Touch of Evil
M*A*S*H
Heat
Bringing Up Baby
King Kong
Lawrence of Arabia
Almost Famous
Malcolm X
Harold and Maude
Strangers on a Train
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
Broadcast News
Dresser, The
Moonlighting
China Syndrome, The
General, The (1927)
Julia (1977)
Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1980)
Becket (1964)
Persona (1966)
Underground (1995)
Two English Girls (1972)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Third Man, The
Chinatown
Moonstruck
101. Seven Samurai, The

All these films have blown me away in some way or another.



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[paul calf]

the godfather 1 and 2
the wizard of oz
ben hur
the great escape
the shawshank redemption
jaws
starwars
planet of the apes(the original)

[arto_j]

I'm not going to be able to remember every single one of them, because I don't have them listed anywhere, but i'll try and come up with as much as I can.

American Beauty
Vertigo
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Jerry Maguire
Fight Club
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Fargo
Chasing Amy
Casablanca
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Heat
Braveheart
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
12 Angry Men
The Truman Show
Pulp Fiction
Apocalypse Now
When Harry Met Sally
The Usual Suspects
Playing by Heart
Moulin Rouge

That's all I can come up with now. There's a lot of them, and most are pretty new of the ones listed. The list will grow every once in a while as I see some truly great films.

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[BadCoverVersion]

There are plenty of near misses that I have decided to give a 9/10...These are true beauties thou!

Naked
Kes
Requiem for a dream
Secrets and lies
Trainspotting
Withnail and I
Fight club
Life of Brian
Ratcatcher
The Elephant Man
American History X
One flew over the cuckoos nest
A Clockwork Orange
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Moulin Rouge
American Beauty
Taxi Driver
Strictly ballroom
As good as it gets
Billy Elliot
Edward Scissorhands
The Crow
The Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory


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[Andrew Tom]

There's not a lot of them so far...

Halloween
Big Trouble In Little China
The Thing
Double Indemnity
Fight Club
The Evil Dead
Memento
High Fidelity
The Usual Suspects
Rio Bravo
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[SteveSzyk]

Requiem for a Dream: 10/10 (2000)
Memento: 10/10 (2001)
Pulp Fiction: 10/10 (1994)
Ed Wood: 10/10 (1994)
The Evil Dead: 10/10 (1982)
The Exorcist: 10/10 (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 10/10 (1974)
Moulin Rouge: 10/10 (2001)
Nosferatu: 10/10 (1922)
Diabolique: 10/10 (1955)
Airplane!: 10/10 (1980)
A Nightmare on Elm Street: 10/10 (1984)
Misery: 10/10 (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs: 10/10 (1991)
The Others: 10/10 (2001)
Following: 10/10 (1998)

[FeverDog420]

What I've rated a "10" on IMDb:

Airplane! (1980)
Almost Famous (2000)
Annie Hall (1977)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Big (1988)
Blair Witch Project, The (1999)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Cry in the Dark, A (1988)
Crying Game, The (1992)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Delicatessen (1991)
Fargo (1996)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Fight Club (1999)
Fly, The (1986)
Glory (1989)
Grand Canyon (1991)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Léon (1994)
Last Seduction, The (1994)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Magnolia (1999)
Poltergeist (1982)
Psycho (1960)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Rear Window (1954)
Remains of the Day, The (1993)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Se7en (1995)
Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
Sweet Hereafter, The (1997)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Trainspotting (1996)
True Romance (1993)
Woodstock (1970)

[KornKidJedi]

Fight Club
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
The Lord of The Rings:TFOTR
Dawn Of The Dead
The Empire Strikes Back
Taxi Driver