My Top 100 Movies

As inspired by the recent(-ish) top 500 movies poll in Empire magazine, I thought I'd have a bash at my personal top 100... and it ain't as easy as it sounds... Remember this is a PERSONAL list based on what I like to watch, just as much as what I consider to be classics and rate in terms of quality and ingenuity (e.g. "Fievel Goes West" higher than "Pulp Fiction", eh? You know what? Fievel is an unsung work of genius - just watch it for the details - and Pulp Fiction is great, but it's not Quent's best). Suffice to say, the first 25 are films I would consider "stunning" and nigh-on perfect...

This is something I'd probably want to tweak every time I look at it - there's usually something I've forgotten, or rewatched recently and reappraised. Plus, of course, there's movies I aim to finally catch up with in the near future - M, Third Man (STILL not seen it), Holes - and I'm sure "Watchmen" will go straight in to the number 1 spot next Easter...!

So... come on all you Browncoats, Blade Runner fans, Kubrick-ites, gorehounds, Tarantino-phobes, and Fincher-philes, if you don't agree with your favourite movie's position or absence, let me know!

1. Aliens
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Fellowship of the Ring
4. Jaws
5. The Dark Knight
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Star Wars IV: A New Hope
8. Kill Bill 1 & 2 (just can't split 'em, no matter how hard I try...)
9. Fight Club
10. Cold Mountain
11. John Carpenter's The Thing
12. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
13. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
14. Godfather 2
15. Heat
16. The Matrix
17. Alien
18. Pan's Labyrinth
19. Reservoir Dogs
20. Leon
21. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
22. Atonement
23. Monty Python's Life of Brian
24. Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor)
25. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
26. 2001: A Space Odyssey
27. The Breakfast Club
28. Moulin Rouge
29. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
30. Sunshine
31. Pulp Fiction
32. Die Hard
33. Hero
34. This is Spinal Tap
35. Unbreakable
36. The Big Sleep
37. Finding Neverland
38. Labyrinth
39. Death Proof
40. E.T.
41. Goodfellas
42. Transformers
43. Double Indemnity
44. Taxi Driver
45. The Abyss
46. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
47. Chinatown
48. Blade Runner
49. Godfather
50. Gone Baby Gone
51. Lawrence of Arabia
52. Ghostbusters
53. The Two Towers
54. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
55. Das Boot
56. Batman Begins
57. Hot Fuzz
58. Cloverfield
59. The Usual Suspects
60. La Vita e Bella
61. Apocalypse Now
62. Schindler's List
63. Road to Perdition
64. Seven
65. Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi
66. Shaun of the Dead
67. Memento
68. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
69. V For Vendetta
70. Anchorman
71. Trainspotting
72. Delicatessen
73. Sin City
74. Pitch Black
75. Braveheart
76. The Lady From Shanghai
77. Back to the Future
78. The Shining
79. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
80. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
81. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
82. Zodiac
83. Hellboy
84. Predator
85. X-Men 2
86. True Romance
87. Once
88. The Kingdom
89. The Sixth Sense
90. American Beauty
91. Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
92. Iron Man
93. Garden State
94. Dances With Wolves
95. Enchanted
96. Be Kind Rewind
97. Brief Encounter
98. Natural Born Killers
99. Jurassic Park
100. Alien 3

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25 things I learned in Kentucky and Tennessee

1. there's a Walmart on every corner
2. there's 20 times the amount of churches than Walmarts
3. you have to love country (Nashville), blues (Memphis), rock n roll (Memphis) or contemporary Christian music (everywhere): it's your choice...
4. your Baptist minister can't buy alcohol within 50 miles of his church, but he can smoke or chew tobacco
5. you can drive for over 2 hours on the interstate without touching a pedal (good ol' cruise control)
6. watching High School Musical 3 at the drive-in is marred only by the steamy windscreen
7. Graceland isn't a cheesy experience in the slightest, it's really rather tasteful (unlike Elvis's choice of decor)
8. the Newsboys sound better live than in the studio
9. playing $3000 Gibson Les Paul's leaves one rather weak at the knees
10. the homeless in Memphis rather fancy themselves as tour guides
11. we could buy a 4-bed house with 25+ acres outright and have spending money left over... :-S
12. baseball is much more fun than American football
13. only in America could a grocery store chain be called "Piggly Wiggly"
14. the US aren't interested in being green in the slightest, they'll just do anything to avoid relying on Arabs for fuel
15. you never have to leave your car for anything: drive-thru ATM's, drive-thru pharmacies, drive-thru libraries...
16. grits aren't worth all the fuss
17. WHOEVER wins a government election, they can't save a country. God's in charge.
18. speedboats, handguns, samurai swords and throwing stars are all readily available in your local mall
19. shooting shotguns and rifles in the back yard is not only legal, it's really great FUN
20. if the Shakers thought we were already living in the post-Second Coming Millenium, then their expectations of heaven must have been WELL below par...
21. Christian Halloween parties are theologically a bit weird, but do feature great chilli
22. the Amish are pretty cool neighbours
23. Kentucky Baptists party just as well as Kent Charismatics
24. a red-neck's last words = "Hey y'all, watch this!"
25. if we ever moved to the States, we have a ready-made family in place... love y'all...
    

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