"You can't stop me..." - Jean Marie K & Oliver Fox, You Can't Stop (original good mix) [buy the album]
Okay, my first crack at this wasn't well thought out. As j. thebrotherlove pointed out, it's near impossible to do this and make it work. What I realized is that my criteria was too soft and that I needed to approach this from many different angles. So, here's how I'm doing this now: this post features my Definitive Top 25. For whatever reason, and I'll explain to you if you ask, these are, bar none, my absolute favorite films. They never get old. I will always watch them if they are on cable. When I'm sixty, i'll be dragging HSW to go see them at the Midnight Movies on Mars (M-A-R-S. Red Rocks!). What will follow for the rest of the week will be blocks of films that make up the rest of my list and the categories they fall into so that there's an accurate and varied cross section of what I like in film.
**Note - even though I fully expect Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and possibly I *heart* Huckabees to enter my top twenty five at some point, I'm choosing not to include any film released this year as they are too fresh in my brain to be compared fairly with other films.
The Definitive Top 25
- Lèon
- Aliens
- Ferris Beuller's Day Off
- The Color Purple
- Big Trouble in Little China
- The Matrix
- The Empire Strikes Back
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Goonies
- Silence of the Lambs
- Deep Cover
- Back to the Future II
- New Jack City
- Tombstone
- Signs
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Goodfellas
- The Great White Hype
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Bowfinger
- The Neverending Story
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Abyss
- Beat Street
- 12 Monkeys
Other notes: We're pushing towards the end of the year so expect heckuv-lists masqeurading as posts. As soon as I get a handle on these movies, I'm going to tackle this year's hip hop so far. I think. Who knows? I shouldn't even give foreshadowing on this site as I so rarely follow through on it...check out to the floor's holiday film movie list. I don't know why she isn't in the link list yet. Oh yeah, I do. I'm lame. Anyway, I also don't know if she plans on posting her complete movie list once she finishes but this is a fitting stop-gap.
Even more, but totally unrelated, notes: Speaking of Mars, Veronica Mars is still damn good. This episode had some wonky editing going on but the characters are stronger every week and her mystery du jour had a totally unexpected twist...Lost? Best episode of the season tonight, by far. Locke's reveal is awesome and Jack might be going crazy. I do keep expecting Harold Perrineau to sit down in the wheel chair and narrate for us, though.
Red Rocks!