May 24, 2009

After some movie conversation, I was inspired to update my top movies list. I feel so stupid for spending so much time on this. Oh well.

Personal Favorites:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Swingers
3. Chingoo
4. My Sassy Girl

Action:
1. Terminator 2
2. Robocop
3. Face/Off
4. Mission Impossible
5. Terminator
6. Mission Impossible 3

Animated:
1. Shrek
2. Aladdin
3. Lion King
4. Wall E
5. Toy Story I/II
6. The Incredibles
7. Fantasia

Best Performance:
1. Oasis
2. Forrest Gump
3. Rainman
4. Scent of a Woman
5. To Die For
6. Silence of the Lambs
7. Erin Brokavich
8. Girl, Interrupted

Best Twist:
1. Old Boy
2. Saw
3. Usual Suspects
4. The Sixth Sense
5. Fight Club

Best Villain:
1. Robocop
2. Faceoff
3. Training Day
4. Sin City
5. Silence of the Lambs
6. Se7en
7. Saw

Bizarre:
1. 2001: Space Odyssey
2. Akira
3. Donnie Darko
4. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
5. Eyes Wide Shut
6. Suicide Club
7. Battle Royale
8. Mulholland Drive

Black Movies:
1. Menace II Society
2. Dead Presidents
3. Belly
4. Bamboozled
5. Do the Right Thing

Comedy:
1. Swingers
2. Dumb & Dumber
3. Office Space
4. Meet the Parents
5. Shallow Hal
6. Austin Powers
7. Speedy Scandal
8. Kingpin
9. Orange County
10. Annie Hall
11. Ace Ventura
12. Ace Ventura 2
13. Snatch
14. Manhattan

Creative:
1. Oldboy
2. Kill Bill Vol. 1
3. Sin City
4. Memento
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
7. 300
8. Eternal Sunshine and the Spotless Mind
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10. Stranger Than Fiction

Documentary:
1. Bus 174
2. Rhyme and Reason
3. Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
4. Super Size Me
5. An Inconvenient Truth

Drama:
1. When Spring Comes
2. Asako in Ruby Shoes
3. Chungking Express
4. The Lives of Others
5. American Beauty
6. Schindler’s List
7. Raging Bull
8. The Pianist
9. In America

Feel Good:
1. Forrest Gump
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Jerry Maguire
4. Remember the Titans
5. Oceans 11
6. Oceans 12
7. Oceans 13
8. Gran Torino

Foreign Struggle:
1. The City of God
2. Blood Diamond
3. Hotel Rwanda
4. Turtles Can Fly
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. City of Men

Games:
1. Rounders
2. Tazza
3. The Color of Money
4. The Hustler
5. Shade
6. The Sting

Gangster:
1. The Godfather
2. Good Fellas
3. The Godfather: Part II
4. Scarface
5. The Godfather: Part III

Hitchcock:
1. Vertigo
2. The Birds
3. Rear Window
4. Psycho

Horror:
1. Interview with the Vampire
2. The Sixth Sense
3. The Exorcist
4. The Shining
5. The Ring
6. Ju-On
7. Child’s Play 2
8. Child’s Play 3

Independent:
1. Eternal Sunshine and the Spotless Mind
2. Lost in Translation
3. The Wrestler
4. Punch Drunk Love
5. Sideways
6. Garden State

Intellectual:
1. Good Will Hunting
2. A Beautiful Mind
3. Searching for Bobby Fischer

Korean:
1. Chingoo
2. My Sassy Girl
3. When Spring Comes
4. Asako in Ruby Shoes
5. Attack of the Gas Station
6. Radio Star
7. Silmido
8. Speedy Scandal
9. Christmas in August
10. Oasis

Martial Arts:
1. Bloodsport
2. Kickboxer
3. Best of the Best
4. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
5. Drunken Master II
6. Rumble in the Bronx

Music:
1. Amadeus
2. Vitus
3. The Legend of 1900
4. Mr. Holland’s Opus
5. School of Rock
6. Shine

Musical:
1. Moulin Rouge
2. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
3. Singin’ in the Rain
4. Sound of Music
5. Chicago
6. Newsies
7. West Side Story

Philosophical:
1. The Matrix
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Vanilla Sky
4. 12 Monkeys

Racial:
1. American History X
2. Crash
3. Babel
4. Do the Right Thing

Romance:
1. Notting Hill
2. My Sassy Girl
3. Moulin Rouge
4. Romeo & Juliet
5. When Harry Met Sally
6. Roman Holiday
7. Before Sunrise
8. Before Sunset

Saddest:
1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Pyunji
3. House of Sand and Fog
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. Mystic River

Sci-fi:
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Star Wars Trilogy
3. The Matrix
4. The Fly
5. Alien

Sports:
1. Rocky IV
2. Remember the Titans
3. Rocky
4. Hardball

Superhero:
1. Batman Returns
2. Dark Knight
3. X-men
4. X-men 2
5. Ironman
6. Batman
7. Spiderman
8. Hulk
9. Batman Begins
10. X-men 3

Trilogy/Series:
1. Back to the Future
2. Star Wars
3. The Godfather
4. Lord of the Rings
5. Rocky
6. Batman
7. Terminator
8. Indiana Jones
9. Spiderman

War:
1. Braveheart
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Taegukgi
5. Pearl Harbor
6. Platoon
7. Apocalypse Now

Western:
1. Tombstone
2. The Good The Bad The Ugly
3. Unforgiven
4. Young Guns

Most Underrated:
When Spring Comes

Worst Movie Of All Time:
Bodies, Rest, and Motion

Thought of the Day: Moving screen.
Song of the Day: Wheesung-불면증 (Insomnia)

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