I noticed that last week, many people were tagged to do a list of their
10 favorite movies so I figured I should try to put something together.
This was a hard process for me and it is something that could very well
change next week. My weekly ten movies are just ten different movies
where I try to accomadate to everyone but I make no claims to doing any
kind of top ten list so here it goes, I'm sure you'll all disagree but
oh well, I tried.
10. A Clockwork Orange (1971): One I just always enjoy, especially the scene where Alex sings SINGIN' IN THE RAIN.
9.
Waking the Dead (2000): I really enjoyed this underrated film which
gets my attention even more when they play Peter Gabriel's MERCY STREET.
8.
King Kong (2005): Please don't take this the wrong way, I love both
versions and I really didn't know at first if I would like this one
until I saw the interactions of Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) and King Kong
and the way that she befriended the big ape.
7. Taxi Driver
(1976): Here we have Travis Bickle, one of my favorite characters in
film who does everything he can to free innocent Jodie Foster from her
pimp when she was 12 and a half. Unfortunately, John Hinckley liked this
movie way too much and cited that when trying to kill President Reagon
that he was doing it for Jodie.
6. A Better Tomorrow (1986): This
will be the only foreign film I include here but I love these early
John Woo/Chow Yun-Fat collaborations which influenced a lot of American
action films through the years. If all you have seen of Chow is
BULLETPROOF MONK and you use that to say "I hate Chow Yun-Fat", just
check out his Hong Kong work and you will change your mind.
5.
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002): I just couldn't leave this one off, I love this
movie. Bruce Campbell plays Elvis and Ossie Davis plays JFK and what's
so great is that it's a true story, well besides the mummy part. I feel
this is Bruce's best acting performance of his career and he was very
good as an aging Elvis.
4. Gladiator (2000): Some people like
this and some don't but this one has always had an impact on me and
really made me take to Russell Crowe. I love the action, the music, the
acting, and everything
3. Moulin Rouge (2001): I really love this
movie. I felt that they did a great job of getting modern music into a
movie that takes place in the early 1900s. Ewan McGregor and Nicole
Kidman were great as lovers in a forbidden relationship. What is
interesting is when I show this to people, they mistake the flamboyant
Jim Broadbent character as the villain when he really is not.
2.
House of Flying Daggers (2004): I lied about only using one foreign
film, I gotta include this one. This is definetly my favorite of those
modern-day martial arts films that CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
started and I enjoyed this from beginning to end.
1. The Godfather (1972): You can pretty much put the trilogy here. What else is there to say on this one?
Well,
that is what I came up with, I could do this next month and it would
probably be quite different so agree and disagree all you want, those
are my top ten for now but do you really want a top ten list or would
you rather just have those very diverse 10 recommendations? I'm pretty
sure you want the recommendations where numbering off from 1 to 10 is
totally unnecessary so if you don't like these, maybe you'll like what I
have on saturday night. I'll give you all a preview of what to expect
next week, we have a movie originally rated X, and we have Hitchcock
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