I’ve really enjoyed the lists I’ve posted this week and I hope you have too.
However, this list I’ve been dreading.
Unlike the other lists, there’s no real recommendation at work here.
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It’s a list designed to highlight mostly beloved and established films.
So why am I doing it?
I have my reasons.
They’re not very good ones, but I have them.
Hit the jump to start the countdown.
Even better, not every number was loud and energetic.
19.I’M NOT THERE
Most biopics are an attempt to boil an entire life
down to a message.
There was no better subject to do this with than Bob Dylan.
17.SUPER TROOPERS / ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY
Yep, I’m cheating.
It’s gonna happen a couple
more times in this list so deal with it.
or “This burrito is good but it is filling.”
Also, it shows what happens when a guy fills with spiders and then explodes.
It’s an unnerving, unforgiving film but one you could’t forget, even though you may want to.
In Dante’sInferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for betrayers.
11.SPIDER-MAN 2
This was the decade of the superhero.
Instead, it gained something far better than awards: a reputation.
Of course, this is only one reading of the film.
Guillermo Del Toro has a singular imagination.
No one makes movies like he does and that’s good because he can be imitated but never emulated.
If that’s true, thenThe Fountainshows us why the power of accepting death is awesome.
The film is a painting in motion with every shot filled with both beauty and meaning.
Clint Mansell’s score is sorrowful yet tranquil and thus completely in line with Aronofsky’s approach to death.
It’s learning to accept death to get to understand the eternity of love.
It’s confident enough to be weird (“Talking monkey, yeah, yeah.
Came here from the future, ugly sucker, only says ‘ficus’.")
Not an illusion or a trick, but magic.
(no, stubbornness means never having to say you’re sorry).
2.PIXAR
Yep, I’m cheating again.
It’s just not possible.
At some point, excellence is excellence and to say which is best is both impossible and pointless.
1.THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Like Pixar, there’s just no way to rank these
movies.
I suppose you could but what would be the point?
I’ve ranked all these films but at this point in the list, measuring greatness is just silly.
What separatesThe Lord of the Ringsfrom Pixar is that it’s one story.
One gigantic story that exceeded any realistic expectation, LOTR was a one million shot.
It was an insane gamble to make all three films at once and hope that audiences would connect.
These three movies shouldn’t exist and yet they do.
It’s a miracle of cinema and taken together they make the best film of the last ten years.
