Nostromo's Top 50 Cocktail Party

An exotic dancer inherits ownership of the Cleveland Indians and purposely puts together a horrible team so she can move the club to Miami. Notable appearances from Wesley Snipes as Willy Mayes-Hayes, the hilarious Bob Uecker as Harry Doyle the alcoholic play-by-play announcer, Charlie Sheen as Ricky Vaughn, and my personal favorite- Dennis Haysbert as Pedro Cerrano, who defected from Cuba on the basis of religious freedom. His religion? Voodoo. I'm sure i've mentioned it before, I've loved baseball since about the age of 5. As Humphrey Bogart once said, 'A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.' This pick represents my fondness for the game. Really there are lots of movies i could have picked here, such as A League of Their Own, The Natural, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, or The Sandlot. Ultimately I opt for Major League, bc i enjoy the humor, Jobu's voodoo black magic, & watching Charlie Sheen 'winning.' And i must mention Bob Uecker again:
Just a reminder fans about Die Hard Night coming up here in the stadium. Free admission to anyone who was actually alive the last time the Indians won the pennant

The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight. Time-traveling Cyborg Arnold hunts Sarah Conner (Linda Hamilton), as she is protected by Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn). The idea came in the form of a nightmare to James Cameron, previously a truck driver. And the result is a sci-fi 80's action flick for the ages. I give Terminator 2 the slight edge, bc it was one of those movies that had me completely spellbound on first viewing. I woke up in the middle of the night when i I was in college and put T2 in for the first time, and felt profoundly connected ... to a movie about time-traveling cyborgs! Strange, i know! Yet it hasn't let me down, especially T2.

Kubrick's strikingly visual adaption from the Anthony Burgess novel, this one is too compellingly sarcastic and satirical to leave off, for me. It was unlike anything else I'd seen upon first viewing, unique.
Alex DeLarge and his droogs get into some good ole mischief in futuristic Britain, Alex is arrested and eventually placed in the Ludovico treatment designed to 'cure' him. It's pretty disturbing and twisted at times, yet also bizarre and brilliant. It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van. Rarest-spun heaven metal

Machiavellian Hans Gruber vs Smartass John McClane. One of the most compelling villain-hero relationships as we can never really be sure who has the upper hand during the runtime. Rickman plays Hans as if he's always got a trick up his sleeve, and is one of the great villain screen performances. I've mentioned before that my surname in life is Gruber. Whenever someone mispronounces my name, i tell them COME ON! It's Gruber, like Hans Gruber in Die Hard. And then they understand. The story follows Hans as he takes a Christmas party hostage at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. Meanwhile Bruce Willis as John McClane the NYC cop delivers on a cool, confident, wisecracking & intelligent screenplay written by Jeb Stuart and Steven DeSouza. Slick, clever, and excellently paced.
Hey, it's Die Hard, Come out to the coast! We'll get together, have a few laughs