I stopped buying movies a while ago, partially because to buy every movie I want to see isn’t sustainable, but also because of the big bought between HD DVDs and Blu-ray technology. I used to buy all sorts of movies on DVD, mainly because I really wanted to own them. But since picking up the Netflix bug a couple of months ago, the desire to own a lot of movies has left me. Instead, I only really want to buy movies that I already really enjoy, and want to have for the purposes of a commentary or many repeated viewings.

In light of this realization, and the likelihood of my purchasing a Blu-ray player sometime this year, I’ve been compiling a list of my all time favorite movies. Thought I would share them here. Any of your favorites listed? Or any you think I should add?

So here they are. And just for fun, let’s try to split them up into genres, as given by Netflix’s categorizing (yeah, I trust them):

Dark Humor

• Fight Club
• Matchstick Men
• 12 Monkeys

Psychological Thriller

• Memento
• Seven
• Saw (the first is the only one that still blows me away)

Crime Thrillers

• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• Crash
• Ocean’s 11, 12, 13

Sci-Fi Thrillers

• The Matrix
• X-Men (first one)
• The Terminator (the first three, at least)
• Batman
• Batman Begins and The Dark Knight

Comedy

• Ghostbusters (again, just the first one)
• Back to the Future (the whole trilogy)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Big Lebowski
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Groundhog Day
• Snatch

Drama

• The Shawshank Redemption
• American History X
• Donnie Darko
• V for Vendetta

Action Thrillers

• Casino Royale (not to mention the entire EON Bond series)
• Die Hard (first one)
• The Bourne Identity (and the other two)
• Lethal Weapon (at least the first one)

 
This is the list I’ve compiled so far. Put together your own. The guiding rule I use is that in order for a movie to be on this list I have to want to suggest others see these movies. All time favorites only.

I’ll update this post as I think of more.