movies! (a friend asked)

1. road warrior (life-changing)
2. master and commander (revelatory)
3. castle of cagliostro (ditto)
4. maltese falcon (ditto)
5. star trek 2 (khaaaaaaaaan!)
6. big sleep (lauren bacall!)
7. seven samurai (kurosawa-wow!)
8. dark knight (do i look like a guy with a plan?(thanks!!))
9. aliens (in-fucking tense)
10. the killing (kubrick's best movie?)
11. yojimbo ((minfune-yowza!)
12. dredd
13. empire strikes back (greatest reveal of all time!)
14. usual suspects (actually, this may be the greatest...a really great reveal is one you love even when you have seen it already!)
15. romeo+juliet (shakepeare and radiohead...yeah!)
16. avengers (joss whedon, robert downey jr. and SJ in leather in 3-D?!?!?!)
17. superman shorts (fleischer brothers!)
18. laputa (miyazaki does the 'sense of wonder' like no-one else)
19. raiders of the lost ark!!!
20. tombstone (val kilmer&kurt russell do the buddy movie)
21. the thing (special effects still hold up!)
22. midnight run (deniro does comedy!)
23. LA confidential (do you even know who directed this?  pearce, crowe, spacey!!!)
24. rocknrolla (guy richie+gerard butler+tom hardy+idris elba=awesome!)
25. deep cover (larry fishburne-intense!)
26. grosse pointe blank (wouldnt have worked with anyone except john cusack)
27. the great escape (they don't make em like this anymore...and that cast!!!)
28. a few good men (a long, talky courtroom drama...that's riveting!  saw it twice in the theater on the same day!)
29. true grit (either version)
30. the good, the bad, the weird (did you see this?  aidan will love it!)
31. apocalypse now (a movie that will leave a 13 year-old in tears...)
32. loved every godzilla movie when i was a kid
33. chibi maruko chan: my favorite song (always made me cry-i wish i could find a video of this)
34. T2 (totally holds up!)
35. memento (sweating by the end...intense!)
36. back to the future (just fun...smith and jones diaries!)
37. reservoir dogs (oh, that tarantino dialogue!)
38. roger rabbit