Top 40 Favorite Movies of All-Time!

well today is my 40th birthday actually tomorrow is my 40th birthday because you guys are watching this in the future so a few months back someone recommended that for my 40th birthday i make a video with my 40 favorite movies of all time and i thought that's a good idea i think i'm going to do that so today i'm going to provide my 40 that's actually 10 fingers 40 favorite movies of all time let's talk about it [Music] hi my name is sean and i love to talk about movies way too much and today we are talking about the movies that i love the most as we go into this this is a purely subjective list it is not my picks for the 40 best movies of all time these are the movies that meant the most to me for entirely personal reasons maybe it's when i saw them what they meant to me how they made me fall in love with films or they're just goofy cheesy movies that i love to re-watch over and over again every time i do a video like this someone's always like i disagree well of course you do you're not me we're all gonna have totally different lists and we should have totally different lists also one more thing before we get started there is a companion video to this over on my patreon page with 10 more of my favorite movies of all time so they get my top 50 favorite movies of all time join at any level and you can unlock that video as well as hundreds of additional exclusive videos over there and it's a nice birthday present for me if you decide to do that with that said let's get started kicking things off at number 40 is memento now this is christopher nolan's first film that had a budget now he did a movie before this that he basically self-financed and made with his buddies this is his first professional shoot and all of his talent as a director and writer are fully on display as it's a movie that's told in reverse order in order to put the audience in the same position as the lead character he can't make new memories it's this disorienting way of telling a story that just creates such a unique experience that matches the central narrative and matches the state of our lead character i have this condition the condition it's my memory amnesia no no no it's different from that it also is a movie that came out right after i graduated high school and so right in those pivotal years where i was falling in love with film i discovered this movie and christopher nolan has been one of my favorite directors ever since number 39 forrest gump now this is one of these movies that came out during a very different era in cinema where dramas could be big gigantic blockbusters so this was one of the biggest films of 1994 even though it's basically a drama about this guy's life and it was one of the very first times or maybe the first time that i saw a best picture winner before it won best picture like as a 13 year old whatever i was when this movie came out i guess it would have been 12 when it actually came out went and saw it absolutely loved it and then it went on to win best picture and so it's just one of those movies that once again showed me that movies could be more than animation and people being shot with machine guns and big gigantic explosions that you can tell stories that are just compelling and rewatching this movie last year the thing that really stuck out is lieutenant dan has one of the greatest character arcs of all time and he's the side character in the movie it's so satisfying when you see him at the end of the film and just smiling and standing it's so satisfying so this is one of these movies that i loved it when i saw it back in 1994 and still loved it when i rewatched it last year 38 first blood now this is the first rambo movie and because the sequels kind of turned into these one man army movies where rambo won the vietnam war by himself they kind of became a parody of themselves but the first movie is actually just a great thriller about a man with ptsd who's misinterpreted by this small town sheriff that leads to dire consequences uh it's a movie that is messaging about how vietnam vets were treated when they returned from the war is there any law against me getting something here yeah me it's filled with great characters great performances it has a lot of emotion plus it has a bunch of great action and i've said it many times before that stallone is my favorite actor of all time his two franchises are rocky and rambo and this is easily the best of the rambo films 37 a fist full of dollars people frequently ask me what's my favorite western of all time a fist full of dollars is my favorite western of all time it kicks off the man with no name trilogy starring clint eastwood and from sergio leone and i actually like this one more than the good the bad and the ugly and just the simplicity of the story it was also my introduction to kind of clint eastwood everything because of back to the future part two and three that they referenced this movie and those ones i don't watch that movie well that what's that movie i gotta check that movie out and so i checked it out and i loved it and it's been my favorite western ever since i saw it way back in the day but it's a movie that's um basically a remake of yojimbo the akira kurosawa film just as a western as many westerns of that era were remakes of akira kurosawa films and this is one of them and it made me have this long phase where a super duper into clint eastwood and as i've said like three times now my favorite western of all time number 36 i'm gonna cheat this one but it's a better tomorrow the killer and hard boiled whenever i do these favorites list i want to include as many movies as i can so i only allow one movie from each franchise so it doesn't get dominated by some of these franchises that i i love a bunch of the movies in like star wars or in the case of this one basically i wanted my john wu pick of his heroic bloodshed set of films that he did with chow yun fat and my favorite of the bunch is a better tomorrow it was their their first one that they did and these movies just have the best action gunplay that i have ever seen probably the best overall film of the bunch probably the killer the one with the most the best gun action is hard-boiled and a better tomorrow is probably the one that resonates me on a character level a little bit more with the journey of kind of returning gangsters showing that they still have all of their skills everything like that but these are just awesome action movies that inspired the matrix actually inspired a whole bunch of what hollywood did 10 years after they came out 35 a few good men and this is my favorite courtroom movie of all time and another one of these films that kind of came out right as i was going into my tween years and discovering movies could be more than just entertainment but they could have like deep themes messages character arcs and so my mom i think took me to see this one in the theater which was probably a bit too young to see one in the theater and thoroughly enjoyed it but it's also a movie that is time passed every time i rewatch it kind of i think i resonate with it a little bit more as it's the story about this lawyer that has has all the talent to be a great lawyer but has always chosen the easy path of just doing these plea deals and then he's given this case where he can't do that and he has to decide to actually embrace who he is with um and also tom cruise's character in it his personality has a bunch of traits that are a little bit like mine and the movie's most famous for jack nicholson and his performance and you know you can't handle the truth but it's a movie based off an aaron sorkin script based off an aaron sorkin play and so you have all the aaron sorkin great dialogue in there but to me it's just a great character journey for tom cruise's character as well as a great courtroom drama 34 donna the planet of the apes one of the best blockbusters of this past decade that just did a tremendous job of telling a great tragedy with conflict that feels earned where the two factions the humans and the apes you understand where they're coming from but they have this very delicate partnership between the two of them and one person acting or one character acting out of place destroys what was being built between the two of them leading to dire consequences and it involves apes on horseback with machine guns battling a tank it's a movie that manages to be able to take something so ludicrous while telling a great story with emotional stakes drama tragedy and there's just something special about what matt reeves was able to do with this film and tell a compelling story while having ludicrous spectacle at the exact same time 33 mission impossible fallout or really all the mission impossible movies except two once again i do some of these stand-in movies for an entire franchise that i really appreciate when i can't put five movies from a franchise in this list but i i feel like this one of these franchises just done a great job of regularly reinventing itself providing incredible spectacle and thrills whether through the spy stuff or tom cruise getting crazier as he gets older and i think fallout is the movie that maybe pulls everything together the best by tying back to the events of previous films while having emotional stakes while having physical danger stakes at the exact same time but i mean ghost protocol has one of the best sequences i have ever seen in a theater with the dubai tower sequence this is just a great great spy franchise that has one been one of the most consistent franchises except for two over the last 25 years next up spider-man 2002 now i've always loved comic book characters comic book movies but the genre started to change around the turn of the century when technology started to make it possible for them to truly immerse you in these comic book worlds and do these fantastical things that prior to the digital era cgi green screen was very difficult to pull off remember with great power comes great responsibility and this movie was the first true blockbuster of that era x-men was a hit blade was an important hit this was a super blockbuster that changed the game and took this incredibly popular character and made a hugely popular and great film adam and to get very personal with this one i'm pretty sure this is the first movie i saw in the theater after my dad died obviously movies are a massive part of my life and i love movies as escapism and you think about what are some of the most painful moments you can have in your life obviously losing a parent and i even wonder if one of the reasons that i've always had a soft spot for this movie is when going through one of the hardest times of my life this was my escape for two hours to just get swept away in this marvel version of new york seeing this compelling story about this teenage boy that gains great powers and learning that that comes with responsibility and um you know i think those sorts of movies that you see at just the right time when you need that escape it really can can shape you a little bit and mean a lot to you that got a little bit heavy on a lighter note number 31 while you were sleeping now this is just a delightful rom-com from the mid-90s where the year prior sandra bullock had been in the movie speed that was a big gigantic hit and she was one of the standouts and so she kind of like got on everyone's radar like is she just a one-hit wonder is she actually going to be around for a long time next year while your sleeping comes out and just everyone absolutely falls in love with her because she's just delightful in this film uh put up against bill pullman and it's just one of the great rom-coms of all time it's one of these movies that i've i've never met anyone that's seen it that didn't like it it's just a charming little story about a misunderstanding that leads to this lady ending up in this family where she thinks she's in love with one brother but maybe she's actually in love with the other brother and the family just accepts her with all their her quirks their quirks it's just a delightful charming little film bringing us into the top 30 blood sport the very first r-rated movie i ever saw summer of 1989 i was at a sleepover with some of my friends houses and they're like hey my parents ran into bloodsport want to watch bloodsport i was like i don't know what that is but there's a guy doing a jump kick on it so yes and i watched it then grossed out at the point time where a bone snaps out of a guy's leg but i have loved it ever since i did not come this far stop now and this is maybe the movie that i've rewatched the most partially because i watched it a very long time ago and it was on loop late at night on uh cable when i was growing up and then partially because it's one of those movies that it's just comfort food for me just throw this one on in the background late at night when i want to go to bed but this is like peak van dam it is cheesy 80s it's a tournament fighter but it's a really good cheesy 80s tournament fighter that if you're into martial arts films this is a must watch uh that just delivers van damme in his prime doing his theme fighting a thing fighting a whole bunch of different styles of martial artists and just pulling on all the right hearts tugging at all the right strings of my heart if you're into this kind of movie if you're a lot of you would watch this and just think it's a cheesy disaster i love it 29 unbreakable m night shyamalan's follow-up to the sixth sense is my favorite film that that he has ever done it's a origin story i've said it many times before that i love origin stories stories of becoming where you see someone in their normal life realize or become something special throughout the course of the film that to me is just always so compelling and stirring and unbreakable is one of the great examples of that even beyond that has kind of tells the story of this guy that feels like he's never lived up to his potential and those are sorts of things that you know i resonate with stories like that where people discover who they are and finally live up to their potential i love those types of stories and i think this one does it so well definitely is a slower paced deliberate film but even as you move into the final twist reveals i feel like they're earned i think the movie works if you remove the last scene and when you add it on there it gives new meaning to everything that took before adds new emotion some people feel anti-climactic like they want to see the next scenes that play out after it i think it's just the perfect way to have that final piece of information you learn that causes you to reinterpret everything that you experience and adds this whole new emotion in that's heartbreaking then we have home alone one and let's throw in home alone two as well i was the perfect age for when this movie first came out macaulay culkin is only like six months older than me and so then watching it i was the age of kevin when this movie originally came out and just remember watching this movie on loop as a child watching home alone 2 on loop as a child and now that i have kids of my own they watch this movie on loop throughout the entire year yes yes yes yes we'll get to march let me make hey can we watch home balloon all right let's watch home alone and then we'll get to june let me like can we watch home alone all right we can watch home alone this is another one of these movies both one and two that are some of the movies i have rewatched the absolute most in my entire life keep the change you filthy animal and i i think they work during the first two thirds because macaulay culkin is just so good and there's just something magical about the score the themes and then of course they're so fun when you get to the third act and all the excessive violence begins 27 halloween now when i was growing up slasher films were the horror genre of choice they were the ones that were always playing on late night cable that when my mom would go to bed i'd check out the fridays of 13 films or whatever was playing late night on cable and i think the one that that really started all the one that influenced a generation of films that were the horror films of my childhood was halloween and it's just one of those examples of like this classic uh iconic director john carpenter doing this genre just the right time casting just the right actress that you get that lightning in a bottle of this very simple story that laid the template for one bazillion knockoffs that would come over the next 40 years really and while it's been copied a zillion times this was the best of the bunch then we have galaxy quest a movie that's both a love letter to star trek fans and the fandom as well as a send-up of them but in the best most sincere way possible and then it's also just a great comedy never give up never surrender so growing up some of my early childhood memories are of watching star trek iv with my family and getting freaked out by the probe when the probe shows up and running out of the room and then with my sister mother and i we watched star trek the next generation during its original run and we went to star trek conventions all throughout the 90s and we didn't go to comic cons we went to star trek conventions that are basically the exact same thing just niche down to just star trek so when galaxy quest came out 1999 it was just a movie that was designed for us as people that went to the conventions like in this movie that followed the fandom of william shatner and went to a star trek convention with william shatner this was so so on so many levels designed for us it's a great star trek story it's funny in its own right and then it's it's just it's so understands the fandom and how to celebrate them while poking fun at them at the exact same time and then when i got married i showed it to my wife who did not watch star trek prior to meeting me of course did not go to star trek inventions and she just watched it and she thought that's just a good movie that's just a fun sci-fi comedy that she had fun with and now as she's grown to actually like some star trek because of being married to me likes the movie even more it's it's an example of potentially a perfect movie number 25 scream people frequently ask me what is my favorite horror movie of all time scream is my favorite horror movie of all time what this is some scary movie you like scary movies the kevin williamson era of slashers that were self-aware and commenting on the previous 20 years of horror films never ever ever under any circumstance to say i'll be right back because you won't be back get another beer you want one yeah sure i'll be right back those were the movies that were popular during my formative high school years and the king of all of them was screamed the one that started that trend was scream and here we are 25 years later and it is just as good it's so sharp witty funny while being a good slasher movie it understands how to poke fun at it much like galaxy quest knows how to poke fun at the genre while being a lev letter to it at the exact same time [Music] and so for me this is just means the most to me because of when it came out but it's also great 24 elf when it comes to what is my favorite christmas movie of all time it's a little bit tough for me because home alone is my childhood but then i think what's the one that makes me laugh even more and it is elf you did it congratulations i just think that this movie is so funny so quotable you disgust me how can you live with yourself will ferrell is so endearing the film is so wholesome on so many different levels and so it's this movie that came out when i was uh like 22 years old and so maybe i should have been in this cynical phase but it's a movie that it's impossible to be cynical about because it's just so charming and so funny then we have the wedding singer people frequently ask me what is my favorite adam sandler film or what is my favorite rom-com the wedding singer to me this is just a great night late 90s comedy and great rom-com you are the worst wedding singer in the world buddy well i have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word i have to say where you have two lead characters that have fantastic chemistry with adam sandler and drew barrymore who went on to do several more movies together because they're just so fun on screen together that you care about the journeys that they're on and it picks this time period that is inherently amusing because the 80s were so excessive and so over the top they're just a fun environment to be in for a comedy like this that's kind of making fun of the time period while also celebrating it at the same time and so for me i just find this movie this pair of characters to be delightful and uh can re-watch this movie over and over again 22 the lion king speaking of favorites of all time the lion king is my favorite animated movie of all time i was born at just like the perfect time period because the disney renaissance were the disney animated films of my childhood and from the little mermaid through the lion king was just such a phenomenal run of movies and i was the target audience for all of them and kind of the peek at all of that was the lion king a film that has fantastic songs told with kind of like this elegance and it's like kind of like a remake of uh hamlet and macbeth in its own way so it has some shakespearean tragedy in there as well while being this charming little delightful family film add to this i have some fun memories of seeing a double feature at a drive-in movie theater where the first movie i saw on one side was the lion king and the one i saw on the other side for the second half was true lies that was a fun double feature 21 the karate kid now this is just a classic story about a boy in need of a father and a father in need of a son all centered around a karate tournament it takes a premise that is rather silly at face value about a group of high school bullies that take karate together who bully a kid and he learns karate to beat them in a karate tournament it's a silly concept but it plays it with such sincerity with such great performances that somehow it just becomes this fantastic coming-of-age story fantastic story about people finding family in confidence in unusual places i promise teach karate and a friend fighting all his last answer and it's an endearing story that here we are 37 years later and cobra kai is one of the most popular shows on streaming currently because something about these characters about this premise about these themes about adult mentors and coming-of-age stories resonate with people on a deep level and this is one of these stories that's resonated with me since i was a child bringing us into the top 20 jaws now this is a movie that i had not seen until i met my wife and i've always loved steven spielberg movies and somehow i just never seen jaws and my wife loves shark movies so i mean how have you never seen jaws this is where you start to realize that you've found the right person to spend the rest of your life with because she was the one that introduced me to jaws and of course i absolutely loved it and it's an example of but another one of these potentially perfect films you're gonna need a bigger boat where through even some of the mistakes or issues they ran onto on set with the shark led to amazing creative decisions where they don't show the shark very much but it's a movie that slowly builds the tension it's filled with great compelling characters amazing dialogue and then a young steven spielberg who even at a young age had all of his skill and talent was able to tell this amazing story about this small town being attacked by a shark that still to this day is one of the considered one of the best movies of all time number 19 braveheart now along with forrest gump this is another one of these early best picture winners that i saw in the theater before it won best picture one of those movies that introduced me to prestige celebrated awarded movies when i was still in middle school now this one's a little bit more my traditional pace as it is jam-packed with amazing epic battles where people's legs are getting chopped off but aside from the amazing war carnage it just tells this compelling story a fictionalized version of real life events very fictionalized version but it with the story that they do tell it's the sweeping epic that has failure love loss tragedy um betrayals people betraying people and realizing their failure i mean it just touches on so many big emotions throughout its run time that it it is an amazing amazing movie then we have pulp fiction another movie from that same time period as forrest gump and braveheart this one being from 1994. i didn't see this one in 1994 but i did remember all the buzz surrounding it and the buzz in my household was my mom talking about like hey john travolta is in this one and he has another dance number like he had in saturday night fever that was literally my introduction to to pulp fiction was my mom being excited that john travolta was going to dance in it but obviously as time has passed the movie's reputation and what i remember the movie for has changed just a little bit and this is my personal favorite quentin tarantino film and it's another one of those important movies because when i did discover it in the late 90s that it showed me a new way of seeing movies a new way of telling stories obviously if you know my channel and just by watching this list you can tell i like big blockbusters spectacle traditional types of stories with clear villains clear heroes clear character arcs and then i see this movie pulp fiction that i loved that i thought had such amazing dialogue fascinating characters but it broke all the rules it everything about almost every other movie on this list everything that makes me that i would describe why i loved every other movie on this list pulp fiction is the counter example to all of it and how you can make a great movie that breaks all the rules that were moves differently treats characters differently treats storytelling differently but is still compelling nonetheless seventeen predator the arnold schwarzenegger john mctiernan late 80s classic and to me what's so phenomenal about this film is that it is one of the great arnold schwarzenegger films that he's great in it but i don't think of it as an arnold schwarzenegger film and that is truly an astounding thing because he's such a dominant personality that he just oozes his unique arnold charisma and charm but when i think about predator i i don't i forget sometimes that he's the star of the movie because john mctiernan is the star of the movie that just tells this compelling action movie that starts as a nor traditional action movie that turns into this sci-fi survival film as these macho best of the the best mercenary types slowly unravel and lose control of themselves until only the best of the best of the best is remaining to have a showdown with the predator it bleeds we can kill it it's just such a great action movie it's such a great thriller but it's also a sci-fi movie and it's also an arnold movie and once again like several other movies on this list it's basically a perfect version of the film that it's trying to be that will bring us to the matrix now this is a movie that when i first saw it i didn't immediately fall in love with it i was like that was cool but you know all the gun fights are just ripping off all those john woo movies i've been watching because i'd recently discovered a better tomorrow the killer and hard-boiled those were huge influences on this movie and all the martial arts that's just all those jet li movies i've been watching because i was huge into asian martial arts films at the times especially jackie chan but also jet li and all of his waifu and that's what's in the matrix and i was like you know in the plot it's just like a reworking of like the terminator mythology with just some different influences and then as time passed i realized wait that's what makes this movie brilliant it it's like taking all of my favorite things the terminator john woo action asian martial arts films plus stuff that i'm not even all that into like anime and stuff like that just matches them all together and does something wholly new while drawing from the best and having all these deep philosophical ideas and themes woven seamlessly into the story and it's a movie that took me a while to realize how brilliant it was and then as soon as it clicked in my mind i was like this thing's brilliant then the sequels came out and i lost interest in the matrix for about a decade then i rewatched and i went no this thing is amazing it's a story of becoming as i've already told you that i love in this video that is all my favorite stuff as i've already told you while talking about the matrix the i love this movie and as well as movies i'm keep trying to talk my wife into letting me show it to my son it's probably a little bit too young but maybe with a new matrix movie coming out this month and with them actually showing the matrix in theaters this month perhaps actually next month i guess potentially i can talk my wife into letting him see it even though he's he's too young to see it speaking of one of my favorite movies of all time that turned into a franchise that has a fourth entry coming out in the year 2021 also ghostbusters so just a couple weeks back ghostbusters afterlife came out i absolutely loved it because it was such a love letter to the fans just oozing with nostalgia and i had so much ghostbusters nostalgia now i was a little bit too young to see the original film or even the second film in the theaters when they first came out but the real ghostbusters the cartoon based off the film dominated kitty popular culture in during my childhood so that's one of the first animated shows i just remember watching all the time was the real ghostbusters and somewhere in there of course also watched ghostbusters one and two all the time as a kid and they're just some of those movies that uh the first one not the second one this is lightning in a bottle of just a great concept that's a fun idea for a movie with a fantastic cast and then perfectly balances the comedy and entry-level spook scares and horror to make something special human sacrifice dogs and cats living together mass hysteria here we are 37 years later and people still absolutely love this movie and when this new one came out people are crying because of the nostalgia during the the final act of the film number 14 inception christopher nolan storytelling magnum opus now he's done a bunch of movies that have meant a whole lot to me and even more of them will appear on this list but when it comes to just blowing my freaking mind inception is the one that did that the most when it comes to christopher nolan's films or maybe any movie ever of just taking this concept about dreams and just weaving this super intricate story with multiple layers to it and multiple layers in multiple different senses all leading up to this final moment they can have multiple different interpretations all of which have evidence all throughout the film as to what the final shot of the movie meant while having great action while having unique distinct interesting action and tying into the concept of being in dream world i just thought it was an amazing achievement what nolan was able to do with his movie number 13 avengers infinity war end game iron man guardians of the galaxy really the entire mcu but as i said before with some of these big franchises i only allow one entry in my favorites list because i don't want these franchises to so dominate this list that i can't talk about non-franchise stuff because i do love a lot of these big franchises quite a bit infinity war is my favorite of the marvel cinematic universe because it just epitomizes everything that i love about the marvel cinematic universe which is the ability to have a shared universe with so many different characters each of them having their own tone and vibe but they have managed to pull it all together in a way that works and feels cohesive and doesn't feel disjointed and it's a movie that has a great villain massive stakes and i love that the heroes lose at the end of it and i think it is this movie that tells a complete story it's about who's going to get the gauntlet and it wasn't the good guys it was the bad guy and so he won but i mean guardians of the galaxy has a very special place in my heart it's such a unique distinct film that's so personal i think iron man i love that it was our introduction to this world that i think extends the test of time end game has one of the best final hours of any movie ever that just is so rewatchable so enjoyable it's the best fan service ever put to film but the mc is my favorite film franchise of all time if you know my channel you're not probably not surprised by that and so several mc movies potentially could have been on this list but i wanted to be able to talk about more things in here so they're all crammed into this one spot right here that will bring us to warrior whenever someone asks me for a movie recommendation i always recommend warrior because it's a movie that came out right about 10 years ago that nobody saw it when it first came out in the theaters and i'd heard some positive buzz about a year after it came out so i checked it out and i just fell in love with this sports movie that's also a family drama and it delivers all of the emotion that you want from both of those genres but it's an underwatched film everyone that's seen it seems to really like this film but it's underwatch that's why it's a great movie to recommend to people and it's a movie that i try and now that i have a platform to recommend movies to people this is the movie that i try and get people to go and watch in a lot of ways it out rockies rocky and it just doesn't say it takes a little while to get going the first hour sets up all these family dynamics and the failures of each of the different characters and all this stuff which means when you get to the last hour it is an hour straight of payoff payoff payoff payoff dramatic payoff until you get to the end of it and you're just crying tears at this family and everything going on with them and what happens in the end and so i just i love this movie and if you're looking for a movie to watch if you haven't seen warrior you should go watch wario number 11 batman begins as well as the dark knight as i mentioned before inception is sort of christopher nolan's storytelling magnum opus that just blew my mind but when it comes to his batman movies batman is one of my two favorite comic book characters of all time i love comic book movies i love origin stories and what he was able to do in taking this character that i love and telling a great origin story and then a great follow-up that while the one has the more simple story but has that story of becoming that i love and then he follows it up with the dark knight that has a much more complicated story that instead of drawing inspiration from other comic book movies draws inspiration from crime thrillers and from some of the best crime thrillers of all time as well as some of the best source material in the comic books and that one two punch of those two films is just amazing blockbuster cinema in a genre that i love i love what nolan was able to do with those two films and i i put batman begins on this favorites list ahead because i love origin stories if we're going more objective okay let's put the dark knight ahead but i'm just pure favorites i love the journey of bruce wayne in batman begins and bringing us into the top 10 rocky as well as rocky iv rocky balboa creed rocky ii rocky iii and creed 2 not rocky 5 but all the other ones except rocky 5. and i actually kind of like rocky 5 2 but not favorites level like rocky 5. rocky balboa is my favorite movie character of all time this is the quintessential sports movie because it's not a sports movie it's a character study it's a drama about a guy who hasn't figured him out himself out yet who hasn't taken his shot in life yet and he's given that opportunity and through it finds the confidence to find love to find himself and then i love that we've been able to see this character now for over 40 years in cinema in these different phases of life and even when you get rocky 5 it's like okay that's a weird direction to take all of this i love that we see this journey of this compelling character in all these different places and even when you get rocky iv that's this ludicrous over-the-top 80s movie it's so fun and enjoyable rocky 4 is by far the rocky movie that i've rewatched the most times with all of its 80s cheese robots and montages it's a rewatchable film but to me i'd still say the best of the bunch is the original one because it is so much it's not about the sports and it is about a man finding himself number nine superman the movie as well as superman 2. when i was growing up there weren't very many comic book movies one of my earliest memories of going to the theater was seeing batman 1989 and then on television we had the superman movies and that is where my love of this genre that has kind of defined my life comes from from watching my vhs copies of superman the movie and superman 2 that we didn't buy them because vhs movies cost like 90 to buy back in the 80s no we recorded the broadcast off television so they had commercial breaks and there were these like weird extended cuts with scenes thrown in there that we didn't see again until like the dvds came out and the zeros and i watched them on loop and richard donner took this genre that people didn't really take seriously and treated it like it was the the mythology of western culture in the united states he took it taught treated it with a reverence they brought in of course amazing film composer john williams mario puzo wrote the first draft of the script they had this epic two-part story across the two movies and yeah a lot of it's dated now yeah some of it gets campy and the effects of course aren't up to today's standards but they did something special and they they invented this genre that i love that is in many ways defined my life because now my career is talking about movies and the ones that are most popular on my channel that i love the most are the comic book movies and it goes back to superman the movie and it just so much shaped who i am from a young age and what i do number eight jurassic park another one of these movies where i feel like was just the perfect age when this movie came out i was like 12 years old when this one hit theaters and it's just an amazing blockbuster that has incredible dinosaur effects that almost 30 years later 28 years later still hold up because of the blend of cutting edge cgi with the use of practical and knowing when to use each it still looks great and then it was steven spielberg in his prime knowing how to have these great characters having great ideas and then when the thrills begin how to keep you at the edge of your seat it just combines all the elements that make for a compelling blockbuster part of this also it's pulled from a great novel the the book is amazing and the movie is a great adaptation in each or one's great as a book the other is great as a movie but the music the characters the set pieces i love all of it then we have back to the future now i love time travel stories and this is basically a perfect time travel story with just a incredible timeless premise of what if a high schooler went back in time and met his parents it's just an interesting concept that's relatable to everyone all of us have parents all of us wonder what were they like when they were my age and that's what this movie explores and it's an example i think like several movies on this list of list of basically a perfect movie that had that lightning in a bottle casting great concept and then they just executed it right perfect amount of just weirdness in there where the mom falls in love with their own son that's like right on the edge of like without going too far it's thrilling and exciting without needing a bunch of explosions it's it's just a lightning in the bottle perfect film number six star trek to the wrath of khan as well as star trek four the voyage home and star trek six the undiscovered country might as well throw in their star trek three the search for spock as well i'm a massive star trek fan and they had a great run of movies during the 80s leading into the very beginning of the 90s the best of the bunch i think without question is star trek ii it's just a great continuation of the the tv series and because that it's able to tell a interesting story about an aging adventurer that's trying to figure out what to do with his life because he feels he doesn't feel satisfied by his desk job and he's haunted by the mistakes of his past and they find a story to be able to tell all of that that is a great villain i love the practical model spaceship effects in this movie the um final battle in this movie is space battle is one of my top three favorite movie space battles of all time but as i said before star trek four uh so sorry i think i think star trek three is an underrated star trek film because people say that the odd number ones are bad i think star trek three is a great follow-up to two star trek four is the one that people remember is the one with the whales it's really funny as this fish out of water comedy and then six is a great send-off for the original cast that just once again explores the ideas of these aging adventurers facing their retirement but i think they just found an amazing way to tell compelling stories with these characters as they got older that fit the characters at that stage of life acknowledged their aging but also celebrated them as heroes for their long careers as well in fifth place aliens there's two types of people in the world those that think that aliens is better than alien and those who are wrong but who am i kidding alien would also probably be in my top 40 as well if i allowed two movies from frances i love aliens and alien you're going out there to destroy them right not to study not to bring back but to wipe them out um ripley is a fantastic character the concept of the xenomorphs as just these vicious predators that kill people in these isolated environment space is amazing for my personal tastes i like the more action-based version in james cameron's aliens likewise i enjoy having a bit more emotional weight to the ripley character in giving her a family that that's that's died in her time away as well as introducing the newt character that she's very maternal towards so it has a little bit more complexity to it that i enjoy just in general i i like james cameron a lot more than i like the work of ridley scott but anyway you put it these are two fantastic a plus science fiction films that i watched very regularly in my household and love both in fourth place star wars the empire strikes back as well as essentially the entire original star wars trilogy but for me the best of the bunch is empire strikes back that just takes everything that worked in the first movie and takes it to the next level the visual effects are bigger they're better and while the first one is a coming of age story about luke really his origin story in a lot of ways is in this movie where it fully embraces it the fact that he's a force user so this is the movie where he's training in pursuing being a jedi and fails both in his training fails in his choices and then fails in his first duel with vader add to that you have the romance between han and leia yoda of course is a fantastic addition you have one of the best plot twist reveals of all time and i think the score here is even better of course the original star wars is one of the best scores of all time and this bestest is it by having even more incredible music with the imperial march yoda in the force and then the asteroid sequence when they're flying around and there's all these swelling notes it's just one of the best combinations of visual effects a thrilling experience with amazing music and but the entire original trilogy is so formative in my love for movies so formative for who i am to this day and uh i i didn't know that some people didn't like return to the jedi until i was like 25 years old i've always loved all three of them speaking of some of my favorite space battles of all time return of the jedi the space battle at the end of that one is my favorite space battle in any movie of of ever oh i give a whole time but i keep saying of all time in this video so of ever to give you a new phrase to use and of course the original star wars kicked it all off and it's still a fantastic film but but all three of them really are in this spot real quick before i give you my top three favorite movies of all time remember there is a companion to this over on my patreon page with 10 more of my favorite movies of all time so you can see my top 50 favorite movies of all time join in any level and you can unlock that video as well as all the other exclusives over there we do a weekly q a on saturdays i have over 100 edited exclusive videos over there and you can join at any level and unlock that in fact if you can do it i think it's 21 you can get all the exclusives for the next year you can join for a whole year for just 20 21 i think it is so if you're interested in supporting the channel if you're interested in more content or if you're interested in sending me a birthday present consider joining over on patreon in third place die hard earlier in this video i told you that elf was my favorite christmas movie of all time i lied actually it's die hard that once again it's a perfect action movie with a perfectly crafted script where everything every line of dialogue every little moment that happens in the first 20 minutes has significance and ramifications for the rest of the movie it has a great hero who's a reluctant hero he doesn't know that he's an action hero he's just trying to do the right thing that has a great villain in hans gruber who's just a perfectly charismatic sleazy villain who's actually in the midst of committing this big gigantic heist he's just so awesome every time that he's on screen it's thrilling it's exciting it's edge of the seat it is of just straightforward action movies i would say the best straightforward action movie of all time our runner-up raiders of the lost ark as well as indiana jones and the last crusade and i think these are two fantastic adventure films that complement each other very nicely and when it comes to what are the two best adventure films of all time it's these two films indiana jones is the quintessential adventure as he's not really setting out to be a hero he's setting out to collect these relics for a museum and along the way frequently finds himself having to battle off bad guys and being pulled into being a bit of a reluctant hero while being totally willing to do it he's not intending to be that hero at the same time and so i think indiana jones uh in the last crusade finds a way to have everything you love about raiders of the lost ark while adding in a father into the mix which is the perfect dynamic to throw him off a little bit the banter between sean connery and harrison ford is fantastic but at the end of the day i think the best one is raiders of the lost ark that is just such a good old-fashioned adventure film of this guy that gets in over his head on this amazing fantastic adventure battling nazis getting dragged behind a car and an example of how to have exciting action sequences where you don't need a bunch of cgi and a bunch of cartoonish things happening you just tell a great story about a character that you care about and you care you build the stakes right you write the script right so you care if indiana jones is able to get control of a car and you when you tell a compelling story that becomes tense exciting urgent without it needing to be like the world the whole city will blow up no it matters if he gets in the car and then at the finale of the film it's opening a box but because they built it right they've set everything up right you care about what happens and that's when you know you've made an amazing film but coming in in first place is terminator 2 judgement day as well as the original terminator that i also love and to me this is an example of how to do a sequel right that continues the mythology continues the characters down the path that they were on but just takes everything to the next level and enhances and builds upon it where the mythology gets deeper but then it adds this emotional current throughout the entire thing about a terminator learning what it means to be human and sarah connor who's essentially turned into a terminator remembering what it means to be a human and a mother and so it has all these emotional levels to it and it's also a story of about a boy finding a father in an unlikely place a terminator of all places come with me if you want to live add to that some of the best action of all time with james cameron knowing how to build memorable exciting sequences with great characters but of course the original terminator is a great small scale thriller in a lot of ways it's a slasher film it's a horror film it's an action movie it's a time travel story all blended together and james cameron was able to do so much with so little with that film created this great world great set of characters but as for what's my favorite movie of all time it is terminator 2 and i i still remember my mom's cousin ronnie talking my mom into letting me watch the movie when i was only 10 years old and be like no it's a great movie it's actually got a lot of humor in it and we watched it in the basement um at a family reunion and then i think the next day we watched the first one at my my aunt's house and when there's you have those movies that you remember so distinctly the first time you watched them 30 years later that's when you know you've watched something that really matters to you and i loved this movie when i first watched it as a kid and i love it still to this day so it comes in at number one thank you so much for tuning in for this 40th birthday edition of my favorite movies with my 40 favorite films but there's still more if you join over on patreon you can get 10 more movies to see my top 50 favorite films plus you gain access to all the other exclusives over there and 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Published: Mon Nov 29 2021