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This page is very new and under construction.
All of the following notes were thrown together quickly.
It would take months of work to create a list of favourite movies with comments and reviews. Since I can't find the time, I'll take a temporary easy way out and dump some poster images and screen shots here. Some images can be clicked to pop-up a full-sized image. Eventually I will spin-off each major movie to separate pages for more detailed screen-shots and discussion. In the meantime I'll just dump everything in this page -- Greg (11-Feb-2003)
This page is unlikely to be made even vaguely presentable in the near future, so I have decided to spin off a series of sub-pages with random movie reviews. The first (and most vitriolic) are:
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Many more to be listed...
Following is a slowly accumulating list of my favourite movies. I emphasise once again that these are my favourite movies, therefore you will find a weird jumble of genres and titles in here that tickle my personal tastes and might confuse some visitors. I'm sure some visitors will disagree violently with some of my choices, and I'm quite happy to hear and discuss your disputes, so long as you send them to me in a coherent and polite form.
You should recognise some classics (Citizen Kane, Wizard of Oz, Zulu), some really bad movies (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Robot Monster), some bad taste movies (Pink Flamingos, Texas Chain Saw Massacre), and many other titles that have cult followings and blur the line between various genres. Obviously, all of these movies strike some resonance in my brain, and I think the vague common thread through the list is that the films are coherent, original, full of humour (often black), thought provoking, or simply entertaining in some way.
I'm slowly browsing sequentially though the 1600 pages of Leonard Maltin's 2002 Movie Guide, looking for movie titles that I recognise to drop into the lists that follow (favourites, bad movies, not seen yet). By 11-Feb-2003 I'm only up to page 278. The list is not yet sorted into any meaningful sequence.
| Catch-22 Star Wars IV Star Wars V Star Wars VI The Witches of Eastwick Duck Soup A Night at The Opera A Day at The Races Horse Feathers Monkey Business Animal Crackers The Cocoanuts Eraserhead Dune Blue Velvet Enter The Dragon Harold and Maude Invasion of The Body Snatchers It's a Wonderful Life Jason and The Argonauts King Kong (1933) Mad Max Mad Max II The Nutty Professor Plan 9 From Outer Space The Producers The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Day The Fish Came Out Barbarella The Great Race The Demon Seed Dr. Doolittle Dr. Strangelove A Clockwork Orange Terminator I Terminator II Predator Ice Pirates Citizen Kane Pink Flamingos Desperate Living The Fellowship of The Ring The Two Towers Babe: Pig in The City Blade Runner (Director's Cut) Legend Risky Business Ferris Beuler's Day Off Blood Sucking Freaks The Toxic Avenger Class of Nuke 'Em High Raising Arizona Fargo Blow Up The Abominable Dr. Phibes Dr. Phibes Rises Again The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Above Us The Waves Being John Malkovich Best In Show |
Bedazzled (1967) Being There Ben-Hur (1959) The Big Bus Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey The Blob (1958) The Blues Brothers Boogie Nights The Bridge on The River Kwai Broadway Danny Rose Take The Money and Run Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex Bullitt Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid Die Hard Casablanca The Castle (1997) Joe versus the Volcano Conan the Barbarian Better Off Dead Zulu The Birthday Party Blazing Saddles The History of The World Part I Bliss Brainstorm (1983) Bram Stoker's Dracula If A Walk With Love and Death The Brother From Another Planet A Bug's Life Antz Caddyshack The Caine Mutiny Chicken Run Child's Play The Fifth Element The Chocolate War Quest for Fire Flying High Flying High II Allegro Non Troppo Mr. Blanding's Dream Home When Harry Met Sally The American President The Andromeda Strain The Mechanic Orlando The Missouri Breaks The Addams Family Altered States An American in Paris The Soldier (1982) An American Werewolf in London Apocalypse Now Arthur Back to The Future I Back to The Future II Back to The Future III |
Mary Poppins The WIzard of Oz The Day The Earth Stood Still Forbidden Planet This Island Earth Alien Aliens Alien Resurrection The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Indiana Jones I Indiana Jones II Indiana Jones III The Time Machine (1960) The Taking of Pelham 123 Dark Star Escape from New York The Thing (1982) They Live Videodrome The Fly (1986) The Fly (1958) To Die For Re-Animator Evil Dead II Army of Darkness Darkman Journey to the Center of the Earth The Adding Machine Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Dr. No From Russia With Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice Moonraker Planet of The Apes (1968) Beneath the Planet of The Apes Death Race 2000 Head Gumball Rally Zardoz Starship Troopers The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Robot Monster Plan 9 From Outer Space Eegah! Jabberwocky Life of Brian Time Bandits Monty Python's Meaning of Life Twelve Monkeys Monty Python and The Holy Grail The Cars That Ate Paris Mulholland Dr. Hamburger Hill The Forbin Project Pulp Fiction Flesh Gordon The Monolith Monsters MST3K (This Island Earth) |
This is a quickly constructed list of movies that I consider truly "bad", meaning that they have little redeeming features of any kind. Watching any of these movies borders on cruel and unusual punishment. I must admit that some of these movies had a certain cult appeal, so it will necessary to grade them in some way when there is time. The list is far from finished.
| Pearl Harbor Ghost Amadeus Star Wars I (The Phantom Menace) Star Wars II (Attack of the Clones) King Kong (1976) Exorcist II: The Heretic Percy Earthquake The Giant Claw The Green Berets One Million Years BC E.T. Batteries Not Included A.I The Time Machine (2002) Mars Attacks Planet of The Apes (2001) Batman Batman Returns Batman Forever Edward Scissorhands The Wild, Wild West Cube |
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Misson To Mars Platoon The Abyss Aliens III Deep Impact Armageddon Beyond The Valley of The Dolls The Blair Witch Project The Boy Who Could Fly Broken Arrow Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert Agnes of God Amadeus Backdraft The Bamboo Saucer Live and Let Die The Goonies The Sound Barrier Sgt. Peppers's Lonely Hearts Club Band The China Syndrome Cocoon Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Glen or Glenda |
Airport 75 Airport 1979: The Concorde Jonathan Livingston Seagull Last Year at Marienbad Lost Horizon (1973) Santa Claus Conquers The Martians Billy Jack The Trial of Billy Jack Volcano The Silver Chalice Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter Matango, The Fungus of Terror The Brain That Wouldn't Die The Swarm The Thing With Two Heads Night of The Lepus The Terror of Tiny Town At Long Last Love Blackenstein Scream, Blacula, Scream Battlestar Galactica The Avengers Terminator III |
The 100 Worst Stinkers of the 20th Century
While contructing the lists above, a list of movies "not seen yet" will slowly accumulate here as a side-project. This list might help to explain why certain titles are not previously listed, and it will serve as a reminder of what movies to place on the priority viewing list at home.
Many more to come...
A reminder list of favourite TV shows for possible expansion later.
| The Twilight Zone Kolchak: The Night Stalker Doctor Who Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea Gerry Anderson's UFO Blake's 7 The Invaders Buffy The Vampire Slayer Monty Python's Flying Circus |
The Wild, Wild West Lost in Space The Prisoner Star Trek Star Trek: Next Generation Babylon 5 The Outer Limits Angel The Bugs Bunny Show & Looney Tunes |