Top Ten Films

[joeallonby]

1. Casablanca
2. High Plains Drifter
3. Repo Man
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
5. Brazil
6. Apocalypse Now
7.To Kill a Mocking Bird
8. The Tin Drum
9. Doctor Strangelove
10. Zoolander (I'm not kidding)

Number 10 may seem like a really odd choice. To be honest it just nudged out
Straw Dogs. You may be thinking "Joe's on off the deep end". But it makes
the list on the strength of one legendary scene. The "Playful Gasoline
Fight" is the most uproariously funny thing I have ever seen on film. I
almost ruptured my esophagus screaming "That's gasoline, you idiots!"
between convulsive fits of uncontrollable laughter. I think I may have wet
myself a little. Conceptually it's like Bill Hicks, Douglas Adams, and Mel
Brooks collaborated on one scene for a Bond film. Viciously ridiculous.

Please feel free to question my sanity and character in addition to savaging
me for my appalling lapse of taste. I just can't help it.

Joe

on 9/18/04 11:36 PM, Tim Strzechowski at Dedalus204 at comcast.net wrote:

  1.  Eraserhead (Lynch)
 2.  Citizen Kane (Welles)
 3.  Pulp Fiction (Tarentino)
 4.  Casablanca (Curtiz)
 5.  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weiss)
 6.  American Graffiti (Lucas)
 7.  Metropolis (Lang)
 8.  The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
 9.  Vertigo (Hitchcock)
10.  Clerks (Smith)






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