I'm finally getting around to copying Shelly... sort of. I just don't feel like enumerating my oddities. I want to go with the more standard "Desert Island" theme.
First off- top 20 movies. I expect some lists in my comment section you lazy P.O.S.'s. Top 10, 5, 1, something!
Dana's Top 20 movies:
1-Full Metal Jacket (No big secret here. Everytime I do this list it moves up a spot so now it will be on it's way down, slimeballs.)
2-Resevior Dogs
3-Manhatten ("One sees [the City] with a doubly alien view. With the view of the child one no longer is, and with the view of the child to whom the city was not yet familiar. The adult's glance does not yearn to merge with the child's glance; it is directed towards those moments when the future first anounced itself to the child.)
4-Menace to Society ("So, what, we gonna fight over some bitch?")
5-Silence of the Lambs
6-Lone Star
7-The Shining
8-Apocalypse Now
9-Papillon
10-Blade Runner
11-The Secret of Roan Inish (That's right. John Sayles get two!)
12-The Conversation (This is boarderline, but gotta represent G.H. Plus, paranoia is a favorite theme.)
13-Auntie Mame (Sentimental Favorite)
14-Barton Fink (This should be higher, I just thought of it. Maybe #4)
15-Memento
16-Vertigo
17-Who Framed Roger Rabbit (STFU, this is my list!)
18-Fantastic Planet
19-Naked Lunch (Fucking Disturbing!)
20-Murder on the Orient Express -1974 (Representative of many Agatha Christie/Sherlock Holmes movies)
6 comments:
It took a while to put together but here it is for what it's worth.
1) Fight Club – Amazing film in conception and execution.
2) Lone Star – My favorite Sayles flick with Limbo being a close second
3) Sex, Lies & Videotapes – Opened my eyes to indie films, Spader was too cool.
4) The Thin Red Line – Cinema making at its finest.
5) Apartment Zero – Dark, dark, dark and funny.
6) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels/ Snatch – Great flick(s), what happened to Guy? Can we blame it on Maddona or did he have only one good idea?
7) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Visually stunning.
8) The Matrix – Blew my mind at the theater, bought a DVD player so I could own this film. Some what devalued by the other two films that followed, the Wachowski brothers should have left it alone. Bound is a great earlier film of theeirs that proves they had more than one good film in them.
9) Dances with Wolves – I know it’s Costner but this film affected me like few ever have.
10) Usual Suspects - Who is Keyser Soze?
11) Full Metal Jacket – It was a toss up for my favorite Kubrick film with Dr. Strangelove
12) North by Northwest – Probably my favorite Hitchcock film. Beat out Vertigo & Rear Window even though I’m a big fan of Jimmy Stewart.
13) Key Largo – Just picked one to represent Bogart, probably my favorite all time actor. Other great films include The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca & The African Queen
14) Ran – Kurasawa made many great films, this was probably my favorite although High and Low is brilliant too.
15) O’Brother, Where Art Though – Almost all the Coen brothers films are good, this is my favorite although Fargo is a close second.
16) The Player – Probably my favorite Altman film but I like a lot of them including Short Cuts
17) Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean made some great films, this was my favorite.
18) Finding Neverland – Johnny Depp’s best IMO plus Kate thrown in. Alternative was Pirates of the Caribbean, the first one.
19) The Unforgiven – Clint at his best both acting and directing.
20) Shallow Grave – The film Danny Boyle directed and Ewen McGregor acted in before they made Train Spotting. Both are great but Shallow Grave is blacker and was done before they were well known.
SK
1-Fight Club #1, must be a guy thing. Do you want to bust out, Steve.
3-Hate S, L, & V. I know I'm the only one.
9-Harumph.
16-Love the Player. Wanted to include Susan's hubby somehow but nothing pushed me over the edge.
Overall, good list. Old shcool/New school.
movies huh....
It's in their nature to suck. Oh, that's tv some movies don't suck.
commedy -
Search for the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Office Space (how could you fucking loser forget this one!)
Animal House
Drama -
Schindlers List
Apocalypse Now
Action -
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Matrix
Le Pacte de Loups
Horrror -
The Exorcist
The Shining
IT (the last 5 minutes blows but the rest of it is sufficiently redeeming)
The Accidental Tourist
Sci-Fi
Alien
Galaxy Quest
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
That's enough for now.
Um, that last post was by Josh.
My top ten are on my blog, but 11 - 20 are listed below.
11. To Catch a Thief
12. Rear Window
13. Les Diaboliques (the 1995 version)- you shouldn't have to be that scared in French class.
14. Pulp Fiction
15. LA Confidential
16. Silence of the Lambs
17. Dial M for Murder
18. The Shawshank Redemption
19. Fargo
20. The Fugitive (for Tommy Lee Jones, not for Harrison Ford).
The Accidental Tourist?
Didn't see that coming. You always gotta be different don't you.
Shelly, Fatal Attraction? Sigh.
That aside, your list is heavy on the sentimental side- I can dig it.
Tommy Lee Jones, ditto. Another voice thing.
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