Sorry y'all, MM has been MIA on the MF community during the big reveals of the last few films. So here are my belated comments on some of them...
I can't remember exactly when I first watched
Pulp Fiction, but it was early in my cinematic pilgrimage. As far as I remember, I had already watched the first two
Kill Bill flicks - which I liked but had yet to grow into loving - and watching this Tarantinos masterpiece for the first time certainly wasn't all that successful either. I liked it okay, but I respected it more than I loved it. It took me a couple of watches throughout the years, but now I really love it.
While it is great on many levels, it's undeniably about the way that QT took a u-turn with the crime genre and presented it in a different light than we were used to together with the signature Tarantino allspice we have come to love - though at the time it was something quite new and eye-opening (or ear-opening, for that matter). The movie has all the pieces to complete the QT-collection of which his films are build upon; great acting, great soundtrack, alive dialogue, dead people and so on. I understand it being this high because of what it meant to cinema and how it blasted Tarantinos career and name through the roof. It's not my favorite of his, but I think it's great.
Casablanca is one of my all-time favorite films. It's not many older movies that I connect with as well as I did with this one. The lovestory is timeless and one of the greatest romances of all time. The script is just... it's just... no matter what I write I won't do it justice. It's so well written, complete with iconic memorable quotes and truly well written characters and peformances. I can watch it day in and day out. And it was on my list of course.
I'll comment on the top three later