What If I Pegged My Top 10 Favorite Movies ?

There seems to be some kind of theme involving triumph of the human spirit ( or it's inverse, in the case of Ran and Dead Poet's Society )

1. Pleasantville
2. Mary Poppins
3. Ran
4. Sandlot
5. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
6. Star Wars series (with apologies to all who are rolling their eyes reading this one).
7. Dersu Uzala
8. Dead Poet's Society
9. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
10. Finding Forrester

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This blog has been edited many times since it's debut, I keep adding stuff that friends recommend, etc. The top 10 has only changed a little bit, but everything below seems to change a lot. Further reflection seems to point to a top 100 as a more meaningful list.

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I've had as much fun collecting suggestions on this list as watching the films themselves.  This is great sport, and one I recommend. Discussing movies is always fun.

As soon as you mention "top ten", it really forces one to sort by whatever gets the goose bumps or chicken skin going, and that moves the conversation to an entirely different level.

Here is how my son Jeff might start his

1. Big Fish
2. It's a Wonderful Life

Jeff had a number of other recommendations, that's how I remembered the rings trilogy, for example. I was driving when we discussed them though, so they didn't all get written down.

Mary and Ron from Tulsa thought Love Actually might be a candidate, didn't get me at the top ten level though.

Marcos Ferreyra suggested a ton of great movies as candidates, so the ones that I hadn't seen got added to my Netflix queue immediately.

1. casablanca
2. all that jazz
3. the grifters
4. hero (not the asian version)
5. seven samurai
6. memento
7. castle in the sky
8. betty blue
9. peggy sue got married
10. sorry wrong number - comment added after seeing it: This was not a movie that I enjoyed.
11. diva

Worthy of consideration are many from the Walt Disney type of collection, such as

• Dumbo
• Jungle Book
• Fried Green Tomatoes

Obviously these don't have the juice for making it to the top ten, but they caputre a nice relationship between spirit and how I invest myself in my surroundings. Some of us are sappier than others, apparently. Fried Green Tomatoes really should have made it to the top ten, if only I could think of one to kick off and free up a slot.

All this conversation with others reminds me to at least see if not put on top

• thelma and louise

I'd love to get your recommendations, if this comment thing below can be made to work. It's mis-fired before, we shall see. Please feel free to send them by email to pete [at] couldbe [dot] net.

 

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Youngest sister Martha just sent me these films to add to the list:

• Bella
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Things We Lost In The Fire

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We had a dinner party with Jeff and Alice and Skye and David, there were a bunch of interesting recommendations that came from that night:

• unbearable lightness of being
• huducker proxy
• clueless
• abyss
• black orpheous
• casablanca
• godfather 1
• lenny
• goodwill hunting
• its (?)
• wizard of oz
• american beauty
• eating raul
• primer
• basic
• the mission
• open water
• my green valley
• where the red f.... ?
• reuben reuben
• turner hooch
• boy and his dog [with some interesting commentary and grimmaces]

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