As an avid movie-goer, this was difficult, but here are the top ten best movies of all time! (In my humble opinion, of course.)
1. Back to the Future 2
While the first movie is very good, the second is much better. I personally like the futuristic feel of the second more so than the 1950’s from the first movie, and the wild west from the third. Hoverboards, flying cars with highways in the sky, and the self tying Nike’s. These, along with many more predictions, make the movie interesting to watch. Since it came out in 1989, this gave everyone hope for cool inventions in the future. While most of them didn’t happen in 2015, as the second movie is based, we can still wish to have these in the future as well. This is my all time favorite movie mainly because of the future aspect of throughout the film. We can still imagine these inventions happening, which makes it still a movie set in the future.
2. The Truman Show
This is another old movie, but it’s a good one. It, in a way, is also futuristic. The Truman show came out in 1998, but continues to be one of my favorites to this day. Truman has been on a tv set (big enough to be a real town, even having a huge body of water) all his life, and people in the real world have been watching him grow up, get a degree, and get married, etc. He has no idea until people start trying to get on the set and tell him about what has been happening to him. He starts to notice things that are happening around him and tries to figure out what is really happening in Seahaven Island.
3. Avengers: Endgame
I shouldn’t need to say why this is in my top ten because everyone should know how amazing this film is. But if your the one in a million person who hasn’t seen it, well, you might want to watch the first twenty-one Marvel movies that take place before Endgame. Please don’t start with Infinity War either. You won’t fully understand Endgame if you haven’t seen all of them. Yes, it will take you a while since most of the movies are over two hours but it’ll be worth it. Endgame is a masterpiece created by the Russo brothers and it is seriously a must watch. There was no better feeling than watching Endgame for the first time. I laughed, I sat in shock, and I cried… a lot.
4. Jurassic Park
Once again, another classic old movie. Jurassic Park came out in 1993 and has had two sequels and two reboot movies from this decade. While the new ones are good, the first one is brilliant. It brings in a world that uses science to bring back the dinosaurs. It backfires on the workers and the visitors but everything gets put under control, until the next film, of course.
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
This movie is one from my childhood and it honestly still slaps. The plot and the actors really just make the movie one of the best of all time. Since its release in 2005, I watch it as much as I can until my family yells at me. It gives a good story of how the underdog can win, and those who are wealthy and usually win everything don’t always end up superior becuse of their privlege. Can’t forget how good of job Johnny Depp did, too.
6. The Notebook
Most of the movies on this list are old(ish), and that continues to be true with The Notebook. It came out in 2004, but I only started really liking it until about the end of 2018. Even though something like this probably wouldn’t happen anymore, because of the war that sends Noah away and Allies parents saying she couldn’t be with him (I still would’ve despite what my family said), this movie has such a strong meaning behind it. If it’s meant to be, in the end, it will be.
7. Oceans 11
Even though this movie doesn’t really have a strong, overall meaning from the film, it is still really good. Danny Ocean gets out of jail and basically makes a team with many of his friends right away and makes a plan to rob a casino. Ocean has three rules that he follows: 1. Don’t hurt anybody, 2. Don’t steal from anyone who doesn’t deserve it, and 3. Play the game like you’ve got nothing to lose. There is a reboot of this 2001 film that came out in 2018 with Danny Oceans sister being the main character, and her also getting a team together to do just as her brother did, but bigger and better.
8. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Another really old movie, but one that everyone should’ve watched growing up. Basically, in a nutshell, Ferris Bueller wants to skip school one last time before graduation, and he wants to make it the best skip day ever. His principal is angry that he gets away with skipping too much and wants to catch him skipping, so he goes out of his way to do so. Bueller has the best day ever running around the streets of Chicago.
9. Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc. came out in 2001, so I couldn’t yet comprehend what was happening. But, sure enough, it became my favorite movie of all time when I was little. I’m almost positive everyone has seen it, so I’ll skip the description, but when I say it was my favorite, I seriously mean it. I had stuffed animals of every character, I watched it so much on DVD that it started to break, and I can even quote the whole movie. As I grew up, however, I started liking other movies more and more. But it will always be in my top 10.
10. Now You See Me
Lastly, number ten. Now You See Me is seriously slept on but it is such a good movie. It is one of two of the movies on this list that are actually from this decade. Basically, these illusionists do these magic shows, but their tricks are to steal from the corrupt and they give some of the money to those in the audience. A federal agent does his best to track down the Four Horsemen and arrest them, but there’s a shocking twist at the end that I didn’t even see coming.