Speaking of movies, I was thinking about doing this a while back and am just now getting around to it. I like movies. I like them a lot. I like to watch them, quote from them, dissect them, be snobbish about them, and discuss them ad nauseum. Thus, in the spirit of mildly relevant innanity, here are my top 10 favorite movies in order:
- The Matrix
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Snatch
- So I Married An Axe Murderer
- Aliens
- Top Gun
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Better Off Dead
- TRON
- The Hunt For Red October
What's your Top 10 list?
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Drew, I'm surprised you don't have AI on there! Oh wait, you said favorite movies, not worst movies. Here are my top 10 that I can (and do) watch over and over.
1. Batman: The Dark Knight
2. Spy Game
3. Godfather I&II
4. LotR Trilogy (Two Towers being my fav of the 3)
5. Saving Private Ryan
6. O Brother Where Art Thou?
7. Flags of Our Fathers & Letters From Iwo Jima
8. The Seige
9. 61*
10. Princess Bride
I think my top ten list, and I could quibble with myself over the precise order, would be:
10. Breakfast Club
09. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
08. Tombstone
07. The Godfather
06. Casablanca
05. Beaches
04. A Beautiful Mind
03. The Departed
02. Dead Poets Society
01. Gone with the Wind
At least I think that would be my list.
Okay, I think I got this down. If I think of others, I'll just do a parallel post on my site.
1- The Hunt For Red October
2- Run Lola Run
3- Rocky
4- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
5- Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon
6- The Godfather (loved #2 equally but axed it for list constraint)
7- Dumb and Dumber
8- Stigmata
9- The Matrix
10- Major League
(Honorable Mentions- V for Vendetta, Blazing Saddles, The Bourne series, Mask of Zorro, Pan's Labyrinth, West Side Story)
1. When Harry Met Sally: "I'll have what she's having."
2. Dan in Real Life: "This corn is like an angel."
3. Gladiator: "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
4. A Beautiful Mind: "I have respect for beer. I have respect for beer!"
5. LA Confidential: "Go back to Jersey, sonny. This is the City of the Angels, and you haven't got any wings."
6. Blazing Saddles: "Hey, where the white women at?"
7. Spanglish: "They should name a gender after you, looking at you doesn't do it, staring is the only way that makes sense."
8. Aladdin: "PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS! Itty-bitty living space"
9. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: "Oh they cried and kissed and kissed and cried/All over that Roman countryside/So don't forget that when you're takin' a bride./Sobbin' fit to be tied/From that riotous ride!"
10. The Mask of Zorro: "You have passion, Alejandro, and your skill is growing. But to enter Montero's world, I must give you something which is completely beyond your reach." "Ah, yes? And what is that?" "Charm."
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. StarWars (The original unaltered version with all it's flaws)
3. Rocky
The next 7 in no particular order
The Matrix
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Dark Knight
The Usual Suspects
Field of Dreams
The Karate Kid (Whenever I hear the song "Your the Best..." I stop whatever I'm doing to sit down and watch the fight scene)
Tied for 11th place:
Fight Club
Glory
Major League
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Office Space
The Bourne series