You can also get to know someone by getting a bead on their taste in movies. Much like the video game thread, the list can probably change on any given day. So right now my top 10 list would be:
300
Requiem for a Dream
Beowulf
Aliens
Lord of the Rings
Black Swan
Heavy Metal
Transformers the Movie (1986)
Gremlins
Iron Man
Honorable mentions go to:
The Crow, Sin City, Fight Club, Ninja Scroll, Troy, Equilibrium, Reservoir Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, Slumdog Millionaire
Fight Club
Snatch
Inglorious Bastards
The Big Lebowski
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Get him to the Greek (I almost pissed myself while watching the latest 2)
Crank
Law Abiding Citizen
Basic Instinct
Queen of the Damned/Interview with a Vampire ... sorted these 2 as one movie, as they are both parts of Vampire Chronicles.
I just threw the first 10 (11) movies that came to my mind that I liked, can't seem to focus/recall all the good ones atm.
Okay, here's my top 10. It was a tough choice on a few of them!
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Treasure Planet (Because I relate to Jim)
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. The Matrix
5. Grease
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. Unbreakable
8. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
9. Pineapple Express
10. Napoleon Dynamite
My numbers 1 and 2 haven't changed in years, and I think it would be hard for a film to even try... thats said, the other films I list here are part of my top five/ten/fifteen/twenty often but sporatically... they're always the same movies, but never the same order from even hour to hour... plus its easier for something to qualify, though very few films actually do... also, I have a tendancy to count perfectly linear trilogy/sagas in a single place.
Anyway, here we go:
1. KINGDON OF HEAVEN
2. THE LAST SAMURAI
Taken
Red Cliff
In Bruges
Watchmen
The Postman
The Book of Eli
Best of the Best
Three Musketeers (1993)
The Dark Knight
Saw (franchise)
Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
The Boondock Saints
Full Metal Jacket
States of Grace
Sweeney Todd
Braveheart
Star Trek
Gladiator
1 - Alien (how dare you choose Aliens over this masterpiece)
2 - Deadman (Do you have any tobacco?)
3 - The Big Lebowski (He peed on my rug man!)
4 - Princess Bride (As you wish)
5 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (nee!)
6 - Full Metal Jacket (This is my rifle, this is my gun...)
7 - Brazil (Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating.)
8 - Starship Troopers (Do you want to know more?)
9 - Fargo (Ohh! Yeah! Sure! You betcha!)
10-Clueless (Besides, the PC term is "Hymenally challenged")
(My apologies to Bladerunner, LoTR, Empire, Bad Taste... Tarantino, Howard Hughes, among many others... and even the Cohen brothers and Terry Gilliam for only having two of each of their films on my list)
1) American Graffiti
2) Last Samurai
3) Outlaw Josie Whales
4) Heavy Metal
5) The Forgotten Kingdom
6) The Postman
7) Ghost
8) The Patriot
9) Last of the Mahicans
10) Azumi