Thursday, February 12, 2009

200 or So of the Greatest Movies Ever

My contenders for top movie are in boldface:

28 Days Later

A Few Good Men

A Mighty Wind

Ace Ventura (only the first one)

Airplane!

Aladdin

Alien

Aliens

All the President’s Men

Amadeus

American Beauty

American History X

Animal House

Annie Hall

Any Given Sunday

Apocalypse Now

Army of Darkness (mainly for Bruce Campbell)

Austin Powers

Bachelor Party

Back to School

Batman

Beetlejuice

Being John Malkovich

Best in Show

Big Lebowski

Blow

Blues Brothers

Boogie Nights

Boondock Saints

Bourne Identity

Braveheart

Brazil

Breakfast Club

Caddyshack

Chasing Amy

Chinatown

Clerks

Color of Money

Cool Hand Luke

Dances with Wolves

Dark City

Dark Knight, The

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (2003)

Dazed & Confused

Deer Hunter

Die Hard

Die Hard with a Vengeance

Do the Right Thing

Dogma

Don’t Be a Menace

Donnie Brasco

Dr. Strangelove

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola remake)

Easy Rider

Edward Scissorhands

Election

Empire Strikes Back

Exorcist

Fantasia

Fargo

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Fight Club

Forrest Gump

Fox and the Hound

From Dusk Till Dawn

Full Metal Jacket

Full Monty

Gladiator

Godfather

Godfather II

Goodfellas

Goodwill Hunting

Grosse Pointe Blank

Half-Baked

Heat

How High

Independence Day

Indiana Jones (list three)

Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade

Interview with the Vampire

Jaws

Kill Bill Vol. 1

King of New York

Kung-Fu Hustle

Kung Fu Panda

L.A. Confidential

Lion King

Lock, Stock and Two Smokin’ Barrels

Lolita (Showtime version)

Lord of the Rings

Magnolia

Mallrats

Mean Streets

Memento

Monty Python: Holy Grail

Monty Python: Life of Brian

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mystic River

National Lampoon’s Family Vacation

Natural Born Killers

Night of the Living Dead

Nightmare Before Christmas

Nightmare on Elm Street

Ocean’s Eleven (remake)

O Brother Where Art Thou?

On the Waterfront

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ong-Bak: the Thai Warrior

Out of Sight

Panic Room

PCU

People Vs. Larry Flynt

Pirates of the Carribbean

Princess Bride

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction

Raging Bull

Rain Man

Raising Arizona

Rebel Without a Cause

Reservoir Dogs

Return of the Jedi

Rocky (only the first one)

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Roger and Me

Rounders

Rushmore

Saved

Saving Private Ryan

Scarface

Scream

Se7en

Shawshank Redemption

Shawn of the Dead

Shrek

Silence of the Lambs

Slap Shot

Sleepers

Sleepy Hollow

Smokey and the Bandit

Snatch

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

Star Wars (original)

Suicide Kings

Superbad

Super Troopers

Swordfish

Syriana

Taxi Driver

Team America: World Police

Terminator 2

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

The Firm

The Game

The Hustler

The Last Boy Scout

The Rock

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Shining

Terminator

There’s Something About Mary

This is Spinal Tap

Time to Kill, A

Tombstone

Trainspotting

Transformers

Usual Suspects

 

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