I was discussing top ten lists with Manny the other day. I am terrible at picking a top ten anything because I'm too indecisive. I enjoy many and various things because I am cultured and refined or some shit. I like lots of movies for different reasons. It'd almost be easier to say pick my top ten favourite quirky movies or my top ten favourite drug movies except that I'm still incapable of making choices.
Should the movies be rated based on how watchable they are now? Or how much I enjoyed them the first time I saw them? Does it matter how great the concepts behind the film are if it's less enjoyable than another film based purely on quoting amusing dialogue. I didn't really rate Napolean Dynamite as a film but some of the dialogue is killer.
I humbly present 21 of my favourite movies:
Garden State
American Beauty
Donnie Darko
Reservoir Dogs
Lock Stock
Kolya
Monsters Ball
High Fidelity
Show Me Love
Fight Club
Being John Malkovic
American History X
I Heart Huckabees
Amelie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Clerks
the Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Romeo and Juliet
Blade Runner
The first ten would probably be my top ten movies of all time (excluding Disney films) otherwise they are in no particular order. My favourite movies tend to exhibit many similar characteristics and are generally filled with a mix of awesome dialogue and awesome concepts and in some cases violence.
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