Saturday, 28 January 2012

Top 50 movies

So Kali yells out from the lounge room the other day "Mel! What's your favourite movie of all time?" She'd been asked and didn't have an answer, found it too hard to cut them down. I've always used The Princess Bride as my standard answer to this question, it's a family classic, i know all the words, it's mainstream but still probably regarded as a cult classic. I feel it's a good answer to the question. 
But she couldn't narrow it down anything smaller than a list of 50. I repeat 50. So i've gone and spent a rocking Saturday night putting my list of 50 top movies together. They're in no particular order, just what i thought of off the top of my head. She also put the stipulation in that series of movies (like Harry Potter) could be grouped into one movie ranking, but you could remove a movie. 



1.            Princess Bride
2.            Love, Actually
3.            Coming to America
4.            Lord of the rings trilogy
5.            Bridget Jones’ diary
6.            Harry Potter series (not the 2nd one)
7.            The Breakfast club
8.            Pretty in Pink
9.            Say anything
10.          10 things I hate about you
11.          A knights tale
12.          Aladdin
13.          The Lion King
14.          Mulan
15.          Tangled
16.          Wall-e
17.          How to tame your dragon
18.          Despicable me
19.          Hairspray
20.          The Sound of Music
21.          Sister Act 2
22.          I am Legend
23.          Men in Black series
24.          Four Weddings and a Funeral
25.          Star wars series
26.          Independence Day
27.          Last of the Mohicans
28.          Indian Jones series (not crystal skull)
29.          Easy A
30.          Moulin Rouge
31.          The Matrix (one only)
32.          Up
33.          Good Will hunting
34.          Toy Story series
35.          Wizard of Oz
36.          Back to the Future series
37.          Saving Private Ryan
38.          Beauty and the Beast
39.          Forest Gump
40.          Batman Begins/Dark Knight
41.          Jurassic Park
42.          Weekend at Bernies
43.          Definitely Maybe
44.          Gladiator
45.          Inception
46.          The Social Network,
47.          Sense and Sensibility
48.          The Wedding Singer
49.          Serenity
50.          Speed

Honourable mentions:  That thing you do, Cast Away, Mean Girls, The truman show, district 9, Sleepless in Seattle, A walk to remember, Braveheart, Titanic, Nick and Norah’s infinite playlist,



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  1. Lucas31 January 2012 at 16:34

    Hmm. I find I think about films differently in the last few years. I mean, I used to be all about the collecting of DVDs (and before that VHS tapes), but lately, between downloading and Netflix, I've really come to watch things repeatedly less. There are still films I can watch 50 times, like LotR, Star Wars, Love Actually, Four Weddings & a Funeral and Indiana Jones off the top of my head. But things like (also off the top of my head) Training Day, which I enjoyed and still do, but how many times do I watch Training Day again, considering that Tanja didn't like it, and I find the ending awful. So I will not make a list.

    And reserve the right to change my mind.

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