After over four months of planning, structuring, sorting, re-structuring, and rewatching both old and new favorite movies, I've finally completed my Top 100 Favorite Films list, and am very excited to finally post it. I know a few people have asked me about it (me posting my Top 100 list) in the past, and I apologize for the delay, but I wanted to make sure everything was just where I wanted it to be, and now, I think it is.
So, without further obstruction, after hours upon hours of deliberation amongst myself, here are my one-hundred favorite movies of all time. Forgive me if I'm slow at posting the list; it may take me about a week to post it in its entirety.
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100. The Green Mile
(Frank Darabont, 1999)
The Green Mile is deeply moving with dark characters and themes. Its antagonists are truly sinister and chilling, and fit into the setting of death row perfectly. Of this type of film (a prison-themed drama), it's everything I look and ask for--with the addition of an element of the supernatural. Blend all that together, and a near-masterpeice is achieved, thus just making my all-time Top 100.
99. An American Tail
(Don Bluth, 1986)
An imaginative tale of immigrating mice whose fantasies of there being "no cats in America" come to an end once the beasts viciously and relentlessly attack them early in the film. The plot thickens once Fieval, the movie's main character (who is a tiny young mouse), gets lost on the ship to America, and must reunite with his family after a long and arduous journey of endless search and self-discovery. The story is heartwarming and the songs are cleverly uplifting, and all of this combined drives An American Tail up to be one of my favorite animated films of all time.
98. How the West Was Won
(John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, 1962)
I've just fairly recently gotten into the Western genre of film, and this was the movie that started me off with it. What a start it was. I absolutely loved it: the cinematography showing all of the beautiful landscapes and scenery was astounding, and the unique way in which the film is represented was captivating. This is truly a remarkable picture, and stands out for me as the film that--quite virtually--got me into an entirely new genre.
97. The Iron Giant
(Brad Bird, 1999)
A fantastic film with one of the coolest animated characters ever: the Iron Giant. The process he goes through in the movie, learning language and how to express human emotion, I find very awe-inspiring, as it causes me to look at myself and how I've grown. The Iron Giant's ending is among the most powerful of any and all animated features. "Suuupermannn..."
96. The Karate Kid
(John G. Avildsen, 1984)
The story of a young man's struggle to rise above the ridicule of his peers and redeem himself in the eyes of his mother and new girlfriend by winning a Karate-based fighting match. This is about as classic 80's as it gets, and The Karate Kid's ending is about as uplifting as it gets. After debating whether or not I should include it in the list, one last quick thought of the ending made me say "Yes."
[Will Be Continued...]
So, without further obstruction, after hours upon hours of deliberation amongst myself, here are my one-hundred favorite movies of all time. Forgive me if I'm slow at posting the list; it may take me about a week to post it in its entirety.
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100. The Green Mile
(Frank Darabont, 1999)
The Green Mile is deeply moving with dark characters and themes. Its antagonists are truly sinister and chilling, and fit into the setting of death row perfectly. Of this type of film (a prison-themed drama), it's everything I look and ask for--with the addition of an element of the supernatural. Blend all that together, and a near-masterpeice is achieved, thus just making my all-time Top 100.
99. An American Tail
(Don Bluth, 1986)
An imaginative tale of immigrating mice whose fantasies of there being "no cats in America" come to an end once the beasts viciously and relentlessly attack them early in the film. The plot thickens once Fieval, the movie's main character (who is a tiny young mouse), gets lost on the ship to America, and must reunite with his family after a long and arduous journey of endless search and self-discovery. The story is heartwarming and the songs are cleverly uplifting, and all of this combined drives An American Tail up to be one of my favorite animated films of all time.
98. How the West Was Won
(John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, 1962)
I've just fairly recently gotten into the Western genre of film, and this was the movie that started me off with it. What a start it was. I absolutely loved it: the cinematography showing all of the beautiful landscapes and scenery was astounding, and the unique way in which the film is represented was captivating. This is truly a remarkable picture, and stands out for me as the film that--quite virtually--got me into an entirely new genre.
97. The Iron Giant
(Brad Bird, 1999)
A fantastic film with one of the coolest animated characters ever: the Iron Giant. The process he goes through in the movie, learning language and how to express human emotion, I find very awe-inspiring, as it causes me to look at myself and how I've grown. The Iron Giant's ending is among the most powerful of any and all animated features. "Suuupermannn..."
96. The Karate Kid
(John G. Avildsen, 1984)
The story of a young man's struggle to rise above the ridicule of his peers and redeem himself in the eyes of his mother and new girlfriend by winning a Karate-based fighting match. This is about as classic 80's as it gets, and The Karate Kid's ending is about as uplifting as it gets. After debating whether or not I should include it in the list, one last quick thought of the ending made me say "Yes."
[Will Be Continued...]
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
My Movie Review Thread | My Top 100
Last edited by TheDOMINATOR; 04-11-09 at 08:28 PM.