a. Hidden Figures [2016]

b. Black Panther~ 2018.

c. Just Mercy {2019}

d. Philadelphia- 1993.

e. Rocky— 1976.

f. Koe no katachi- (A Silent Voice) 2016.

g. An Inspector Calls 2015.

h. The Imitation Game, 2014.

i. The Matrix 1999.

j. The Pink Panther, 1963.

(NOTE: My current list, seen most of these & others not included for the top 10 usually over a holiday/break, or on a quiet long weekend, too).

03.09.2021 (Friyay)

#Latest-ish&older.

The Time Machine (1960)

The Thing (1982)

The Fly (1958)

Logan’s Run (1976)

Planet Of The Apes (1968)

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)

Alien (1979)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Terminator (1984)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Action:

1. The Matrix Reloaded

2. Knight and Day

3. LOTR : The Two Towers

4. Django : Unchained

5. Salt

6. Goldfinger

7. Extraction

8. Men in Black : International

9. Train to Busan

10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Adventure:

1. Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle

2. Jumanji : The Next Level

3. LOTR : The Fellowship of the Ring

4. The Extrodinary Journey of the Fakir

5. Life of Pi

6. Enola Holmes

7. Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows

8. The Croods

9. Nim’s Island

10. The Peanut Butter Falcon

Animation:

1. Minions

2. Coco

3. Boss Baby

4. Inside Out

5. Sing

6. Up

7. Ratatouille

8. Hotel Transylvania

9. Brave

10. Zootopia

Comedy:

1. The Personal History of David Copperfield

2. The Truman Show

3. Bedtime Stories

4. Murder Mystery

5. What happens in Vegas

6. Blended

7. Grownups 2

8. 50 First Days

9. Meet the Spartans

10. Shazam!

Drama:

1. The Shawshank Redemption

2. The Pursuit of Happyness

3. Forrest Gump

4. A Time To Kill

5. The Imitation Game

6. Little Women

7. Downtown Abbey

8. My Week With Marilyn

9. Vertigo

10. Catch Me If You Can

Fantasy:

1. Twilight

2. LOTR : Return of the King

3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

4. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

5. Avatar

6. Maleficent

7. Cinderella

8. Beauty and The Beast

9. The BFG

10. Jack the Giant Slayer

Historical:

1. Ben-Hur

2. Dunkirk

3. Jojo Rabbit

4. Padmaavat

5. The Pianist

6. Hawksaw Ridge

7. Saving Private Ryan

8. 1917

9. Mary Queen of Scots

10. The King

Musical:

1. Mary Poppins

2. The Sound of Music

3. August Rush

4. The Lion King

5. Bohemian Rhapsody

6. La La Land

7. The Greatest Showman

8. Tangled

9. Moana

10. Saving Mr. Banks

Romance:

1. Titanic

2. The Shape of Water

3. Pride & Prejudice

4. The Theory of Everything

5. Marriage Story

6. Kate & Leopold

7. W.E.

8. Falling Inn Love

9. Jerry Maguire

10. She’s the Man

Science Fiction:

1. The Matrix

2. Tenet

3. Interstellar

4. Inception

5. Lucy

6. The Vast of Night

7. Predestination

8. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

9. The Host

10. Wall-E

Thriller:

1. The Godfather

2. The Prestige

3. Insomnia

4. The Courier

5. The Departed

6. Gone Girl

7. Fight Club

8. Joker

9. Uncut Gems

10. The Devil All The Time

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A few movies (very few) in the list are actually recommended by my brother. So yes, I’ll get back here once I’m done watching them :)

1. Casablanca 1943

Bogart, Bergman and Dooley make beautiful music

2. Schindler’s List 1993

Evil Nazis easily fooled

3. Chinatown 1974

Incest, California, Dunaway, incest, water-wars, corruption, incest, and one bad nose-job

4. Apocalypse Now 1979

What Hell is all about

5. To Have and Have Not 1944

Bacall teaches Bogie to whistle

6. Two Women 1960

Sophia stopped jiggling and started acting

7. Klute 1971

See Jane run in this nail-biter

8. Rear Window 1954

Classic Hitchcock and classy Grace

9. Purple Noon 1960

Alain Delon (in 1960) is the yummiest

10. Love Actually 2003

One of the best Christmas films ever

How to choose from among so many good and great movies? I know: Films in my Top Ten will answer the question, “Would I watch this movie again and again?”

1. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

As uplifting as it gets. Easily my best Christmas movie, but great to watch anytime. Thanks, Frank Capra, George Bailey and Clarence the angel.

2. Psycho (1960)

Loaded with suspense. Alfred Hitchcock and Norman Bates will make you think twice about your next shower.

3. My Cousin Vinny (1992)

A comedy classic, especially the court scenes. Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei’s New Yawk accents are priceless. “Is it possible that two yutes…?”

4. Scent of a Woman (1992)

Hoo-ah! Al Pacino’s Oscar-winning portrayal of cantankerous Lt. Col. Frank Slade is amazing, and the prep school “court” ending is worth the watch. “I’ll show you out of order!”

5. The Sixth Sense (1999)

Bruce Willis is a shrink who tries to help a kid who sees ghosts. Chilling scenes and a good story, but you will want to watch again to see how you missed…

6. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Defiant British POWs in a Japanese prison camp. For me, the best WWII movie. You will be whistling the theme song, the “Colonel Bogey March.”

7. Rocky (1976)

Yo, this is the best of Sylvester Stallone’s franchise, although the sixth film, “Rocky Balboa,” is a close second. Great fight scenes with Carl Weathers.

8. The Time Machine (1960)

This sci-fi freak admires the film version of H.G. Wells’ future with Eloi and Morlocks. The 2002 remake has better special effects, but I prefer time-traveler Rod Taylor and the older version.

9. Hidden Figures (2016)

Sometimes a movie comes along that informs and entertains. The U.S. is in a space race in the early Sixties, and the brains behind NASA’s program are three African-American number-crunchers. Blast off!

10. Field of Dreams (1989)

So many movies could have filled this spot, but I will always watch this tale about a guy who builds a baseball field in a cornfield. Old ballplayers, a journey to follow a dream, and great lines make this my best baseball movie. “Is this heaven?”

You’re making me pick only ten movies? For me, that’s just impossible. So here’s a compromise: my top ten picks from ten different genres.

Action/Adventure:

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark

2. Die Hard

3. Face/Off

4. Terminator 2: Judgement Day

5. Aliens

6. The Matrix

7. John Wick

8. The Mummy (1999)

9. Goldfinger

10. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

Science Fiction:

1. Jurassic Park

2. Star Wars (any of them)

3. Blade Runner

4. Starship Troopers

5. Inception

6. E.T. The Extraterrestial

7. 2001: A Space Odyssey

8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

9. Back to the Future

10. Predator

Fantasy:

1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

2. Harry Potter (any of them)

3. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

4. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

5. It’s a Wonderful Life

6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit

7. The Princess Bride

8. Dragonheart

9. Jumanji

10. Edward Scissorhands

Horror:

1. Alien

2. Jaws

3. The Thing

4. Psycho

5. Halloween (1978)

6. Night of the Living Dead

7. The Omen

8. The Conjuring

9. Tremors

10. The Haunting

Comedy:

1. Blazing Saddles

2. The Blues Brothers

3. Caddyshack

4. Spaceballs

5. National Lampoon’s Vacation

6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

7. Trains, Planes, and Automobiles

8. Robin Hood: Men in Tights

9. Ted

10. Scary Movie

Drama:

1. The Shawshank Redemption

2. A Few Good Men

3. 12 Angry Men

4. Schindler’s List

5. Pulp Fiction

6. Tombstone

7. A Star is Born (2019)

8. Gran Torino

9. Forrest Gump

10. A Time to Kill

War:

1. Saving Private Ryan

2. Zulu

3. Black Hawk Down

4. Glory

5. Braveheart

6. Full Metal Jacket

7. The Hurt Locker

8. Inglorious Bastards

9. The Patriot

10. Windtalkers

Animation:

1. Beauty and The Beast

2. The Lion King

3. Shrek

4. Aladdin

5. The Land Before Time

6. Toy Story

7. The Lego Movie

8. The Prince of Egypt

9. How to Train Your Dragon

10. The Breadwinner

Comic Book:

1. The Dark Knight

2. Avengers: Endgame

3. Spider-Man 2

4. Logan

5. The Avengers

6. Black Panther

7. Superman

8. Captain America: Civil War

9. The Mask

10. Watchmen

Musicals:

1. The Sound of Music

2. The Wizard of Oz

3. Music Man

4. Mary Poppins

5. Les Miserable

6. Rocketman

7. Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

8. Enchanted

9. Across the Universe

10. Grease

And just for fun: my picks for the top ten worst movies ever made.

1. Fan4stic

2. The Last Airbender

3. Dragonball Evolution

4. The Dark Tower

5. Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas

6. Twilight (all of them)

7. God’s Not Dead

8. Catwoman

9. Son of the Mask

10. The Emoji Movie

#film #movies #list

In my opinion, the best horror movies ever are:

The Ring

Invisible man

Midsommar

Scream

American Mary

Conjuring (all parts, but I like 2-3 the most)

Halloween

The Strangers

Final Destination (love 3rd the most)

Tusk

Those are not really good, but I enjoy them a lot: Bride of Chuky, The Purge, Saw, Hostel, The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn (2020), Terrifier.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Harvey (1950)

Arsenic and Old Lace (1943)

Rear Window (1954)

Brief Encounter (1945)

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Braveheart (1995)

The Reader (2008)

Schlinder’s List (1993)

And cannot help but add an extra one: The English Patient (1996)

1. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)

2. The Sixth Sense (1999)

3. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

4. Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood (2019)

5. Joker (2019)

6. The Exorcist (1973)

7. Beetlejuice (1988)

8. The Shining (1980)

9. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

1) A Knight's Tale (2001). "You're about to see the bare ass of the guy who plays Vision in the Marvel movies." --a phrase I never thought I'd hear my mother say.

2) Titanic (1997). Is it a teenage romance? Yes. But I am a teenaged romantic, so it works out.

3) A League Of Their Own (1992). A tribute to my father, who also believed there was no crying in baseball.

4) Iron Man (2008). How lucky was I to have witnessed the beginning of a cinematic universe?

5) The Hunger Games (2012). There's a certain feeling that comes with watching the first Hunger Games movie, and only the first Hunger Games movie, that I'm not sure I can convey in words.

6) Knives Out (2019). I went to the movie theatre with the intention of seeing Little Women. Little Women was sold out, so we had to watch something else. I am forever grateful for that.

7) Little Women (2019). Well, I did watch it eventually. What can I say?

8) Jojo Rabbit (2019). 2019 was a good year for movies. I wished Scarlett Johansson was in more of this one, but hey, at least her shoes got a lot of screen time.

9) Miss Congeniality (2000). I will forever be astonished at the way Sandra Bullock manages to play the exact same character in every single one of her 289251839257 movies.

10) Kim Possible: So The Drama (2005). Once upon a time, I was sick with Covid-19 and couldn't sleep through the night due to coughing fits. Unfortunately, the TV remote was also missing -- don't worry, though! It just so happened that someone had left the Kim Possible DVD in the player, and thus, this movie repeated through the night 3 times. I have now memorized every word.