- The Empire Strikes Back
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Blade Runner
- Woman of the Year
- Star Wars
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (for the cinematography, and for Ron and Hermione)
- Love, Actually (strength of characters...I actually cared what happened)
- The Dark Knight
- Return of the Jedi
- Clerks
- Alien
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Stranger Than Fiction
- The Triplets of Belleville
- Chasing Amy
- The Cutting Edge
- Field of Dreams (game of catch gets me every time)
- Tron
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Ghost in the Shell
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Spirited Away
- Desk Set
- Pride and Prejudice
- Adam's Rib
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Princess Mononoke
- Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Bull Durham
- Shrek
- Pat and Mike
- Bend it Like Beckham (and I don't even like soccer)
- Spanglish
- Sabrina (original)
- Remains of the Day
- Emma
- The Princess Bride (hello, my name is...)
- The Sixth Sense (because M. Night fooled me)
- Singin' in the Rain (make 'em laugh)
- Bicentennial Man (because it made me cry, dammit)
- This is Spinal Tap
- Memento
- The Usual Suspects
- Rush Hour (had to have Jackie)
- Dead Poets Society
- Young Frankenstein (Puttin' on the Ritz)
- Bringing Up Baby
- Holiday Inn (pretty much just for the music)
- Dead Again (modern day homage to film noir)
- What Dreams May Come (again, because it made me cry, dammit)
Some notes on the top five:
Empire will always reign supreme. I'll never have another moment in my life when I realize I have to wait three long years to find out what will happen to Han Solo. Star Wars held the number two for a long time, but I honestly think the other three movies are more important to me now, and it's not just prequel bitterness or anything.
Okay, okay. I realize no one has seen this. But I love it and for reasons known only to me, it got me through my senior recital in college.
7 comments:
Great list! I have 19 of those films on my list too. I'm glad to see you're not immune to the charm of movies made before 1977 that might be in black and white. :)
You're a little more in synch with Chuck than with me, it looks like. Only 12 of your 50 were in my top 100. But, that said, many of the movies on your list that didn't make mine are still movies I thought were "pretty good" -- I can get how they'd end up on a person's list. That is, the ones I've seen. You have a fair number I haven't, too.
I found it interesting that The Two Towers ranked highest of the LotR trilogy for you -- it was the one of the three that didn't even make my list.
And the Star Wars trilogy, all in the top 10 -- Jedi didn't make my 100 at all. Empire was my best showing, at number 12. I guess your disappointment over the prequel trilogy must have been even more intense than mine.
Good list. I need to undertake a new analysis of mine here and repost it. I haven't seriously evaluated the list in months -- haven't seen a movie yet that would make it, except for Serenity. And I'm not sure I should officially put Serenity on the list until I've seen the final cut.
I should note that, when a movie series has three movies, I usually like the middle one best. Beginnings are structural, endings are too final. Middles are uncertain, exciting.
And thank god that Love Actually is on CK's list. Now if one of you really loved me, you'd put 10 Things I Hate About You on your list so I don't feel so cold and alone.
Er, you should look in my profile ...you won't feel so cold and alone (and it has always been there).
Love Actually is on my list too --#43. No shame in getting a little emotional. :-)
I think I counted that we have 12 in common. Where you have field of dreams, I think I have Major League. I caught part of Blade Runner on network TV this past weekend and I found myself watching it. I can't believe that's not on my list, that may end up bumping off The Big Lebowski.
Well, I've seen 23 of those, so we have that many or fewer in common. I suppose I'll work on a list...someday.
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