Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Top 10 Movies of All Time

Since I'm on a roll, and since someone asked, I might as well do this. Kinda like the asshole in High Fidelity, huh? In no particular order:

1. The Producers (runner up: Blazing Saddles, for "The French Mistake")
2. Seven Samurai (runner up: The Magnificent Seven)
3. Diner (runner up: The Wanderers)
4. Miller's Crossing (runner up: The Untouchables)
5. Cool Hand Luke
6. On the Waterfront (runners up: Edge of the City and The Defiant Ones)
7. High Fidelity (runner up: That Thing You Do)
8. The Princess Bride
9. A League of Their Own (runner up: Hoosiers)
10. To Kill a Mockingbird

BONUS
Best Spike Lee Movie: 25th Hour
Best Oliver Stone Movie: JFK
Best Quentin Tarantino Movie: Reservoir Dogs
Best Woody Allen Movie: Sweet and Lowdown
Best Rock Movie: The Kids Are Alright
Best Reggae Movie: Rockers
Best Movie About Kids: Harriet the Spy
Best Movie About Teenagers: Ghost World
Last Horror Movie I Saw That Truly Scared the Pants Off Me: Phantasm (generally, I dislike horror movies).
Other Movie Scene That Truly Scares the Pants Off Me: The Wizard of Oz (when the Wicked Witch of the West appears in the crystal ball)
Best Genre: War (runners up: baseball, porn, blaxploitation)
Best Baseball Movie: Bull Durham (I love the American myth of baseball, but Christ, the games are boring)
Movies I've Unwillingly Seen the Most Times: The Road Warrior, Conan the Barbarian, Cat People, Taps (My squadron in Korea had a recreational hooch. I spent an inordinate amount of time there. It was the dawn of video movies. We had exactly four.)
Stupidest Movie I've Ever Seen 50 Times: Death Race 2000 (When cable TV became available on Long Island, I was living with my parents. I insisted on getting it and even paid for it. I spent an entire summer with John Wilmshurst, trying to hitchhike to Smith Point Beach to go crabbing and watching this fucking stupid movie -- Sylvester Stallone's first.)
Most Nightmarish Movie Experience: Two. 1) Taking my then-girlfriend to see Taxi Driver, thinking it was a comedy. 2) Waking up in the middle of Pokemon: The Movie (basically one long commercial). Realizing I was the only adult in the theater. Realizing who really won World War II.

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