User blog comment:BrianBerta/Top 20 Favorite Movies of All Time/@comment-25226524-20160905194715

Although none of these rank very high on my list of favorites (other than maybe No Country for Old Men), I think it has a lot of quality films on it. I enjoyed Come and See, but I think I went into it expecting to be completely devastated, and I ended up feeling let down because of my expectations. I personally found Saving Private Ryan more disturbing (especially the deaths of the characters played by Adam Goldberg and Giovanni Ribisi). I really appreciate the themes in Eraserhead, but I simply can't enjoy the film. I really enjoyed Shawshank Redemption, but anything with a happy ending obliterates my view of it. I simply feel it's dishonest because death is always the outcome to life. That being said, I understand that the (what I believe to be false) message of hope in film and literature means a lot to a lot of people, and I can respect that. I support anything that makes life more tolerable for anyone as long as it doesn't harm another. I also really enjoy Kubrick films, but you actually picked two of my least favorites (although I do recognize them as great films). Looking at the list collectively, I actually think we have similar tastes. My favorite films tend to fluctuate as I age, but I'll try to list a few. I'm not really sure about the order past the first few, but I'll try.

1. A Clockwork Orange

2. Leaving Las Vegas

3. The Grey

4. There Will Be Blood

5. Full Metal Jacket

6. Oldboy

7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

8. The Witch

9. American Psycho

10. Funny Games

Honorable Mentions:

Martyrs

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Groundhog Day (I know this one goes against my view on happy endings, but I think the overall themes of how meaningless everything is and how we're forced to meet the expectations created by "who the fuck knows" (society) or be doomed to shit overshadows the fact that it ends well. The film actually confounds me to some extent, but I still really enjoy it.)

Phil - “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing that you did mattered?"

Other dude - "That about sums it up for me."