Top 50 Movies of All Time

So, a friend of mine is doing her top 50 movie list.  Which is just such a great - if hard - idea that I had to give it a shot myself.   It took a lot of work, and a lot of tough consideration, because this wasn't just my favourite 50 movies - it was in order of awesomeness. 

Some of these movies are obvious Dave movies (Bladerunner and High Fidelity have been mentioned on this blog before).  Others are movies that are "guilty pleasures" (When Harry Met Sally, or Ferris Bueller's Day Off).  Some are indy or lesser-known movies not everyone's seen (Italian for Beginners, Deep Rising).  And others are movie classics that belong on any top 50 list (Jurassic Park, Trainspotting, The Shawshank Redemption). 

So, here it is - my top 50 movies of all time.

1. Bladerunner                               
2. Grosse Point Blank
3. The Abyss
4. The Princess Bride
5. Fight Club
6. High Fidelity
7. Die Hard
8. Gladiator
9. When Harry Met Sally
10. Back to the Future
11. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
12. The Emperor's New Groove
13. Serenity
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
15. Super Troopers
16. American History X
17. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
18. The 40 Year Old Virgin
19. Die Hard 4
20. Trainspotting
21. Pulp Fiction
22. Play it Again, Sam!
23. Alien
24. Knocked Up
25. The Dark Knight
26. The Green Mile
27. National Lampoon's Animal House
28. The Silence of the Lambs
29. About a Boy
30. Mighty Aphrodite
31. Akira
32. Hollywood Ending
    
33. Moulin Rouge
    
34. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
    
35. Snatch
    
36. The Shawshank Redemption
    
37. District 9
    
38. Mallrats
    
39. Dirty Work
    
40. This is Spinal Tap
    
41. Annie Hall
    
42. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
    
43. Deep Rising
44. Jurassic Park                              
45. Clerks
46. Ferris Bueller's Day Off              
47. BASEketball
48. The Mummy
49. The Day the Earth Stood Still (edit:  the original!  Not the remake!)
50. Italian for Beginners