Originally Posted by SamsoniteDelilah
How many of these films have you rewatched while working on this list?
I'm not quite sure of the exact number. Lets just say
the majority...
Originally Posted by Iroquois
Brazil? Wild Bunch? Glengarry Glen Ross? Chinatown?
This paves a tantalising glimpse of the top 10, although if you put Blade Runner at #12 -
I don't know...
I put
Blade Runner as 12 for a very specific reason - there's 11 films I'd place above it.
It's 28 (I know the date as my mum keeps reminding me that I fell asleep and had to be carried out - which is still the only time I've left a film before the end) years since I was first dragged, kicking and screaming, to a cinema. Thus followed a life of Saturday matinees down at the local fleapit (Lord knows why I don't have a contract out on Pearl & Dean by now) and a huge, noisy VCR as soon as we could afford one without remortgaging the family home.
I've seen, and loved, a heck of a lot of films and there were quite a few childhood favourites, like
Blade Runner, that I rewatched for this list. Not in an 'I know it by heart and it brings back great memories' kinda way, which was very difficult with some, Ridley's film being the most difficult to rate as I've probably watched it more times than anything on the list.
The list is me, at 33, with a busted back and too much time on my hands. It's different to one that I would have made 10 years ago and hopefully different to one that I would make in 10 years time.
Enough of my yakkin', lets boogie!