Topic: What Films do you Rate as 10's?

[Eternally Learning]

They were both amazing action dramas, at their times the best of the year, that have had their magic tainted by the kookiness of real life.

Meh, celebs doing stupid and ignorant shit doesn't really detract from a good movie that had a lot more go into it than their acting/directing.

[Johnny Slick]

They were both amazing action dramas, at their times the best of the year, that have had their magic tainted by the kookiness of real life.

I wouldn't call either one of them the best of the year or even close, and if by "the kookiness of real life" you mean "horrendous historical inaccuracies", I agree with that bit as well. I remember liking them when they came out and I'd certainly watch either of them again if they came on TV, but Gladiator was one of the worst movies that won Best Picture that I know of (not necessarily a knock on the movie; you can have a movie which is perfectly fun to watch and is a great time but which isn't in the same class as a Ben Hur or a Raging Bull). IIRC it also came out the same year as American Beauty and Fight Club, which makes it even more egregious. Personally, I just pretend that Crowe and company won for The Insider, just a year late.

[Eternally Learning]

Can we just agree that what wins at the Oscars has no bearing at all on its relative worth?  They are pointless awards based more on pooitics than any merit and do nothing to make a movie better or worse. 

[David E.]

Can we just agree that what wins at the Oscars has no bearing at all on its relative worth?  They are pointless awards based more on pooitics than any merit and do nothing to make a movie better or worse.

True.  Well they do sometimes get the word out on films that are great but are not considered commercially viable. 

[Johnny Slick]

Can we just agree that what wins at the Oscars has no bearing at all on its relative worth?  They are pointless awards based more on pooitics than any merit and do nothing to make a movie better or worse.

There is a correlation - certainly The Room is never going to win any awards like that - but otherwise, sure.

[Eternally Learning]

Can we just agree that what wins at the Oscars has no bearing at all on its relative worth?  They are pointless awards based more on pooitics than any merit and do nothing to make a movie better or worse.

There is a correlation - certainly The Room is never going to win any awards like that - but otherwise, sure.

Clearly there's a least a minimum level of filming competency involved in even getting considered for a nomination, but even more clear is the fact that other factors of a political nature are more important in winning the awards.

As a side note, I think I typo'd my new favorite word for the day, "pooitics." 

[jt512]

Dr. Strangelove
Rear Window
Day for Night
Sleeper
Lost in Translation
Casablanca
Annie Hall
King of Hearts
All Quiet on the Western Front
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Seven Samurai
Miracle on 34th Street
The Conversation
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

[seamas]

Adding to my list:

Brazil

Repo Man

[superdave]

I don't want to cause any nerd rage so I will just say that I have some severe issues with movies that have been put on this list already without actually naming which ones. 
Movies I agree with so far
"The Big Lebowski"

Movie I don't think I saw mentioned yet.
"Network"

Very close but not quite a ten to me
"Superman"
"Finding Nemo"

Also about the Oscars, while the winner is typically not my favorite film of the year, it's almost never a movie I would say is a bad film, overrated maybe, but not bad. 

[IrishJazz]

I can think, offhand, of movies that I roundly hated  that got the Oscar:

• The English Patient
• Out of Africa

Both started with perfectly reasonable source material and made a mess of them.  "The English Patient" had some good scenes, but rendered the poetic ambiguity of the book with flatfooted photogenic specificity. "Out of Africa" spent so much time in Isaak Dinnesen's living room that the emotional climax was when she put sales prices on the props when preparing them for the leaving Africa yard sale.

If Woody Allen's utterly predictable, cliched version of 1930s "Paris After Midnight" wins this year, it would be a hat trick.

[Johnny Slick]

Where did the occupants of "Paris After Midnight" time travel to?

[SQ the ΣΛ/IGMд]

Several that have been mentioned here plus

Stand By me

This movie just soooooooo reminds me of my childhood.
We did the same types of things as teens.
Of the gang I am LeChance, wimpy, weird but classified as extremely cool by my peers.

[Skeptress]

Adding a couple of more to mine.



oh brother where art though
Dark knight
empire strikes back
clerks
the unforgiven (2010 version)
The Others

Something post-apocalyptic that is currently escaping my drained brain

[stonesean]

Outlaw Josey Whales

"Dyin ain't much of a livin', boy."

LOVE the Josey Wales.....

[AxeGrrl]

Movie I don't think I saw mentioned yet.
"Network"

This.

Are there people out there who haven't seen it?  If so, good god damn, go GIT it!

The whole movie is great, not just the 'i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take it anymore' scene (although, Peter Finch's delivery of that entire monologue is worth the price of admission alone)