Well Brodie Fanns, it’s time for another installment of my Top 100 Favourite Films of All Time. If you remember last week I started off by counting down 100-76, with The Longest Day kicked off the list at number 100, Blade Runner at 88, and M*A*S*H* rounding out the bottom portion of the list at 76. Earlier this week, the supplemental list was my Top 5 Foreign, Non-English films, with last year’s El Laberinto del Fauno from Mexico at number 4, and 1952’s Umberto D from Italy taking the top spot.

Now here, I present you with numbers 75-51. Next week we start in with commentary and possible YouTube videos. Keep an eye out this weekend for a review of I Am Legend.

Without further ado…

75) Wayne’s World
74) High Fidelity
73) Army of Darkness
72) It Happened One Night
71) The Hustler
70) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
69) The Lion King
68) Leon: The Professional
67) Dirty Harry
66) The Day The Earth Stood Still
65) Cool Hand Luke
64) This Is Spinal Tap…
63) A Clockwork Orange
62) Serenity
61) Ben-Hur
60) Alien
59) Airplane!
58) The Princess Bride
57) Night of the Living Dead
56) The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
55) Serpico
54) The Warriors
53) Fast Times at Ridgemont High
52) The Great Escape
51) Star Wars Epsiodes IV-VI

For the record, Star Wars Episodes IV-VI garner one spot, because I view the original trilogy as a complete viewing experience. All three are parts that make up a whole. Where as say, Alien, which is also part of a series (4, or 6 if you count the Alien vs. Predator flicks), they aren’t part of one long story being told. They are individual stories concerning the same characters, but it isn’t one long story, like Star Wars is. And if you’re wondering why it’s just episodes IV-VI, since technically, episodes I-III are part of one big long saga, the answer is quite simple. IV-VI did perfectly fine on their own for 22 years. And let’s face it… I-III suck. End of story. No discussion. I-III suck. Including Revenge of the Sith. It may be the prettiest whore in the brothel, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a whore. And let’s face it… Lucas is a whore. Those movies weren’t made because Lucas was dying to tell more of the story. Lucas was dying to SELL more of the story. Lucas is a whore.

Ok… I’m done pontificating for now.

See you next time Brodie Fanns!

-Brodie Mann

Hello BrodieFans,

I’ve got a couple lists for you.

Top 10 Film Adaptations of Television Shows

1) The Fugitive
2) Serenity
3) Mission: Impossible
4) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
5) The Untouchables
6) South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
7) The Addams Family
8) The Blues Brothers
9) The Naked Gun
10) Wayne’s World

Top 7 Brad Pitt Performances
1) Fight Club
2) Snatch
3) 12 Monkeys
4) Se7en
5) True Romance
6) Babel
7) Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Top 5 Val Kilmer Performances
1) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2) The Doors
3) Tombstone
4) Top Secret
5) Heat

I thought about writing a special blurb for each of these, sort of a justification or an “in defense of”, pointing out the technical merits of as to why each film was included. But they all came out like mini-reviews of the flicks. And I didn’t want that. Then I remembered what this and every list like it is… opinion. Rarely, if ever, does actual technical merit come into play when a critic, or a panel of critics come up with the “10 best” of anything. So I said fuck it. Write the list, provide some good clips (all courtesy youtube.com) and have people see for themselves why I thought the film was particularly deserving of the 10 best of this current decade.

So here it is…

1. Sin City
   

2. Donnie Darko
   

3. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
   

4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
   

5. Shaun of the Dead
   

6. Memento
   

7. Requiem for a Dream
   

8. 28 Days Later…
   

9. Ocean’s Eleven
   

10. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy