I've wanted to get in on the 100 Favorite craze that's been sweeping the voxosphere of late, but have felt daunted every time I opened iTunes to start the painful process of separating the wheat from the ... not quite as good wheat. Because I have seen considerably fewer movies than I have heard songs, I figured a 100 favorite movies list might be easier. Here are my caveats:
1) I am composing this in my Vox window, as I think of it, and cannot be bothered to get off my couch to look at my DVD collection.
2) It's too late to copy edit, so I may misspell the names of some of my favorite films. (I'm also not ruling out the possibility that I will repeat myself, or leave out things that I have sworn are the best things ever set to celluloid).
3) It is entirely possible -- nay likely -- that I will give up at some point between now and 100 movies and just post what I have.
4) The only order these are in is the order in which I think of them.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, Fistful of Dollars, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Tampopo, Cyrano de Bergerac (Gerard Depardieu version), The Three Musketeers (Michael York Version), The Four Musketeers, Henry V (Branagh), Big Trouble in Little China, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Paths of Glory, Crimson Tide, Oceans 11 (George Clooney Version), Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, LA Confidential, His Girl Friday, A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim - the ONLY version worth watching), Miracle on 34th St., Rocky, Rocky III, Dazed and Confused, Miller's Crossing, Godfather, Godfather II, Goodfellas, Monthy Python and the Holy Grail, A Fish Called Wanda, Bloodsport, Enter the Dragon, Ong-Bak: Thai Warrior, Wedding Crashers, The Wedding Singer, Ben Hur, Gladiator, The Duelists, Play it Again Sam, Animal House, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Life of Brian, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, X-Men 2, The Dark Knight Returns, Spiderman 2, Iron Man, Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, The Hunt For Red October, Das Boot, Trading Places, 48 Hours, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Conan the Barbarian, Two Mules for Sister Sarah, The Usual Suspects, Tombstone, The Decline of Western Civilization (Part 1), Hoop Dreams, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, This is Spinal Tap, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, In the Name of the Father, Last of the Mohicans, Bloody Sunday, This is England, Clerks, Gandhi, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Raising Arizona, Midnight Run, The Blues Brothers, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Anvil: The Story of Anvil, The Karate Kid, Superbad, The Killing, The Princess Bride, Kill Bill Volume 1, Kill Bill Volume 2, Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli), Akira, Troy, Elizabeth, Time Bandits, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Out of Sight and oh, let's say Spartacus.
That's 100. At least 50 or so ought to be right. I can't promise I'll stand by it tomorrow.
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