| I don't think I could ever possibly pick a favorite movie, but how about a Top 10, in no particular order of course. |
| 1. RUN LOLA RUN |
| Run Lola Run (or Lola Rennt), for the most part, introduced me to foreign and independent films. It also raised my awareness of directors, cinematography, and musical score. Tom Tykwer (the director) has piqued my interest, and though I have yet to see his other films, and I am currently making a point to see them. Tricky does the score for RLR, though he is not credited by that name in the soundtrack. He does a superb job blending the music with the movie and getting your heart pounding. All in all, this is one of the movies I make everyone watch, as everyone should. |
| 2. THE BOONDOCK SAINTS |
| I picked this one up because the poster said "If you like Reservoir Dogs, you'll like The Boondock Saints." I bought it a week later, I was one of the lucky ones. Apparently people have been waiting forever to buy it, and now it is finally coming out on DVD at the beginning of the year (yay, widescreen!). In my opinion, Boondock gets at least a 9 in all categories; dialogue, plot, music, direction, cinematography, and dead cats (yes, dead cats). This is another movie that I make everyone watch. |
| 3. LOCK, STOCK, & 2 SMOKING BARRELS |
| So far, Guy Ritchie (writer/director) has done nothing but please me, even with the Madonna video he directed. This movie was his big start, winning Best New Filmmaker at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards. I laughed my arse off watching this movie, and automatically gave it a 10 for dialogue and plot, and an almost-10 for the music, most of which I own now. With this movie, even Sting proves he can still act, and I was introduced to Jason Statham (rrrrow), who also plays Turkish in Ritchie's movie Snatch. |
| 4. MAGNOLIA |
| Yes, yes, this movie is long, but so what? You can't beat a cast like this (complete with thousands of frogs and a cute kid that pees his pants). We're talking William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman (who makes me cry every time I watch the movie), Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, and of course Tom Cruise, in one of his coolest roles. The soundtrack, done by Aimie Mann, weaves beautifully, and at times hauntingly, through the film, lacing all the characters together, culminating with the song "Wise Up" Everytime I listen to that song the power of the movie comes back to me and I just have to sigh. All in all, please watch this movie if you haven't, and let it touch you the way it touched me. |
| 5. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM |
| "Oh man" I think was the first thing out of my mouth when this movie was over. It hit me on so many levels. Darren Aronofsky did a beautiful job with this movie, making it starkly realistic. This is no Fear and Loathing, Trainspotting kind of drug movie, maybe because it isn't really a drug movie, per se. This film deals with the harshness of addiction, be it to food, prescription drugs, heroin, pot, and even money. This is the movie you show your children, trust me they will never touch a single drug, ever. In fact, along with American History X, I think this movie should be shown in school, regardless (or maybe even because of) the language and violence. With Pi Aronofsky proved himself a gifted prophet of the camera, and Requiem follows that up nicely. Word has it he's supposed to be doing the next Batman movie, and I cannot wait for that. Click on the link to visit the Requiem site... |
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