10 out of 10 movies

I agree that a 10/10 rating should be very difficult and only the very best should be awarded that appraisal. I very rarely rate movies 10/10. For them to get that rating they must have had a great impact on me. Currently I have rated six movies 10/10 out of 635 rated ones:

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Interstellar
The Dark Knight
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King



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I basically agree with your criteria, but I've given it to over a hundred features - http://www.imdb.com/search/title?lists=ls056227800,ls004611035&count=107 - which doesn't include any of the Godfathers (the main reason being, they're all around three hours long and I don't care what happens to these people). Mind you, a lot of those are more like 9.6/10 rounded up. And it's still less than 5% of all the movies I've seen.

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Watched through your link, a lot of my favourite movies are there though I'd give them an 8 or 9. I'll have to rewatch Ratatouille and Pulp Fiction after seeing your list though.

I checked and my perfect 10s comprise only of 8 movies. This is from a total of 1200+ ratings, I estimate about 10-15% are tv shows.

I agree with previous poster ESvanberg. Perfect 10s should be extremely difficult. That being said, 2 of my perfect 10s are currently not in the IMDB Top 250, though once upon a time they were.

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
4. Goodfellas (1990)
5. Se7en (1995)
6. Hero (2002)
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

I agree that 10/10 ratings should be spared for the best of the best. I also believe that the perfect movie doesn't exist, but some come very close. So far I have given 10 movies a 10/10 rating out of 311 rated movies.

When a movie really strikes me as epic I give it a 9 and leave it alone for some time. After watching it again and if it still hits me I upgrade it to 10. I regard those movies as wine that slowly get better. Pulp Fiction is a good example: it just got better and better for me each time I watched it. Some examples of movies I watched once and are considered for a 10: City of God, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and No Country for Old Men. Really strong titles but I have to see them again if they still have that special something.

I have the same filosofy about giving it a 9 and rewatch it later. I am going to rewatch the goodfather(for the 4th time). I have started to notice that I appreciate them for different reasons when I watch them. The first time I loved it for being a violent gangster movie, last time I saw it I appreciated the stategies and the ways Michael Corleone used, the way the actors interact with eachother as well as the action.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is absolutley one of my favourite movies and the first time I saw it it was a ten for me. But I did the misstake of rewatching it, and it is not quite the same knowing the ending. Still a great movie, gave it a 9.

A movie gets a 10 from me if I love it and can watch it over and over, which is the case with a lot of movies. I don't care if it's not perfect, but as long as it's awesome to me then it's well worthy of a 10. It doesn't require that much thinking, just throw out a number.

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If I love a movie and can rewatch them it usually an 8 or 9 for me. To get a 10 it would realy have to connect to to me on a personal level. It's not that much thinking, it's just the general feel of the movie and how much I enjoyed it.