1. "Horse Thief"
2. "The Thin Red Line"
3. "A Borrowed Life"
4. "Eyes Wide Shut"
5. "Bad Lieutenant"
6. "Breaking the Waves"
7. "Bottle Rocket"
8. "Crash"
9. "Fargo"
10. "Malcolm X" and "Heat" (tie)
I like Scorsese's list. All the movies beyond Crash are worthy. It's good to see Eyes Wide Shut on a list, I'll take a Kubrick film over a Spielberg one any day.
Ebert's not so much. JFK was bad. Never really thought Pulp Fiction was brilliant.
Seven
Pulp fiction
Reservoir Dogs
True romance The greatest scene in movie hisotry!!
Jackie Brown
Heat
Terminator 2
Goodfellas
Casino
Scent of a Woman
Silence of the Lambs
Titanic
Forrst Gump
Sixth Sense
Fargo
Shawshank
The Rock....screw all the Bay haters!
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I like seeing so many other people pick Groundhog Day; I don't think many people would have predicted when it came out that it would be considered a classic 15 years later. For Bill Murray, I think it's got a perfect combination of the SNL sillyness of a lot of his previous work, and yet it also has a lot of elements of the sorts of quintessentially sad characters he would end up playing in the Wes Anderson films and Lost in Translation and such.
My 20 or so:
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut: Simply the funniest movie opening ever. I had to re-watch the first 20 minutes twice so I could actually see all the jokes because I was rolling on the ground laughing. When I heard that it was giong to be a musical I scoffed and assumed they were joking but they did and it was epic.
Bulworth: A great performance from Warren Beatty. And a movie I didn't hate Halle Berry in.
Fargo: Actually not a true story but still the best Coen brothers movie ever. Steve Buscemi was hilarious in his role.
Men of Honor: It isn't really about WWI or WWII but I watched this the other day because of Remembrance Day. (oh and it is from 2000 but whatever)
Private Parts: Howerd Stern stars as himself in the hilarious movie about his early life. Paul Giamatti at his best as the hated producer who tries to censor Stern.
Trainspotting: Drugs are bad mmkay.
Waking Ned Devine: Awesome British comedy about a guy that wins the lottery and then dies.
American Beauty: Kevin Spacey was so good in this movie.
Braveheart: Mel Gibson knows storytelling.
The Insider: Last movie with Al Pacino that didn't suck since Scarface.
T2: Best action movie ever.
American History X: Another great film. Norton played the role perfectly.
Clerks: I'll include Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma with Clerks and just consider it one pick.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Johnny Depp must have done some research for the role because he was bang on. How is it possible I'm the first one to mention this movie!?!?
Fight Club: David Fincher is amazing.
Goodfellas: Not Godfather awesome but still pretty good.
Pulp Ficton/Resevoir Dogs: Tarantino's best movies by far.
Silence of the Lambs: Hopkins was way better than Bryan Cox in Manhunter. Last movie since One Flew Over the ####oo's Nest to win the big 5 oscars (Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Screenplay) and for good reason.
The Usual Suspects: Best ending ever.
And the best movie ever. The Shawshank Redemption.
Shakespeare in Love, how does that beat any of Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan or The Thin Red Line? Ugh...
Yup, worst Best Picture ever (not that I've seen all of them, but I stand by the comment anyway), and in a year when there were some pretty good contenders. I also think Titanic was vastly overrated. And in fact, none of these made my top ten (although Unforgiven was close).
