Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Top Ten Rated-Updated

This is my updated top ten list of favorite films...

Blade Runner (1)
Citizen Kane (2)
The Seven Samurai (3)
Star Wars (4)
Lord of the Rings (5)
The Maltese Falcon (6)
Alien (7)
The Empire Strikes Back (8)
Aliens (9)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (10)


Runner-up films (close but no cigar!):

12 Monkeys, 28 Weeks Later, 127 Hours, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future, Barton Fink, Brazil, The Breakfast Club, Brick, Casablanca, Casino Royale, Children of Men,  Cloverfield, Constantine, The Crow, The Dark Crystal, The Dark Knight, Dead Man, District 9, Donnie Darko, Double Indemnity, Dr. Strangelove, Duel, Dune, East of Eden, The Elephantman, The Empire of the Sun, Eraserhead, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Europa, Fargo, Faust, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, The Fountain, Give 'Em Hell Malone, Gladiator, The Godfather, The Goonies, Gravity, Groundhog Day, Heat, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hot Fuzz, The Hurt Locker, I Heart Huckabees, The Incredibles, Inland Empire, Interview with a Vampire, James Bond Movies, James and the Giant Peach, Jaws, Joe Versus the Volcano, Kick-Ass, Kill Bill I-II, The Labyrinth, Laura, Lawrence of Arabia, Legends of the Fall, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Life of Pi, Lifeforce, Logan's Run, The Lost Boys, Lost Highway, Lost in Translation, The Machinist, Mad Max, Magnolia, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Man Who Wasn't There, El Mariachi, The Matrix, Max Payne, Memento, Miller's Crossing, Minority Report, The Money Pit, Moon, Moulin Rogue!, Mulholland Dr, Napoleon Dynamite, The Never Ending Story, Never Let Me Go, Night of the Hunter, Night of the Living Dead, No Country For Old Men, No Way Out, North by Northwest, Nosferatu, Notorious, Once Upon A Time in the West, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pan's Labyrinth, Pandorum, The Petrified Forest, Pi, Primer, Princess Mononoke, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Punch-Drunk Love, Raising Arizona, Rashomon, Rear Window, Rebecca, Rebel Without A Cause, Red Dawn (original), Renaissance, Reservoir Dogs, Return of the Jedi, The Road, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, (Baz Lehrmann's) Romeo + Juliet, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Lu Samurai, Saving Private Ryan, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shaun of the Dead, Signs, Silence of the Lambs, Sixth Sense, Skyfall, Sleepless in Seattle, Soilent Green, Spartacus, Spirited Away, Star Trek (J. J. Abram's), Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Sunshine, Superbad, Synecdoche New York, Taxi Driver, Tetro, There Will Be Blood, The Third Man, Time Bandits, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Truman Show, Unbreakable, Up, Up In The Air, Upstream Color, The Usual Suspects, Vanilla Sky, Vertigo, The Watchmen, We Are The Strange, Where the Wild Things Are,   Wings of Desire, Yojimbo (really- all of Akira Kurosawa's work! In fact I personally believe Mr. Kurosawa to be the greatest director of all time).

Also: I like all James Bond movies (by the way, the Bond franchise and the 22 existing films in the catalog ARE IMHO the best, most successful franchise in movie history- something many people think belongs to other franchises they are enthusiastic about- but they are mistaken), I like Jim Carrey comedies, John Candy comedies, Danny Kaye comedies, Monty Python comedies, Leslie Nielsen comedies, Pink Panther comedies, ANYTHING with Humphrey Bogart, ... & i like some older 80's anime too but I'm not obsessive or a huge anime fan…  My favorite genres are epics, sci-fi, fantasy, action, adventure, some art house and supernatural realism movies.





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