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

1 comment:

  1. Yay! I inspired someone! A good handful of those made my Top 50 as well.

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