My Favorite Movies

I try very hard not to make ignorant comments on films or push others to share my opinions, but if you don't like this film I will punch you in the face.

I loved every damn second of this film.

Something about this film hits me in such a personal way. It's tragic, hilarious, touching, real, intelligent... everything I want in a movie-watching experience.

Cagney has a presence that has never been paralleled. This has one of the most haunting endings I've ever had the pleasure to experience.

This is a film that I appreciated WAY more the second time, because I knew what to expect, or rather what not to expect, and could focus more on how it got me there, which is the point of the film anyways. Top notch filmmaking.

One of my favorite films of all time. Some of the most haunting filmmaking ever (get it?) The craft put into it is just flawless. And, in my opinion, a vast improvement over the novel.

I don't care how many times I've seen this film, it always manages to make me laugh and care about the character(s).

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A devistatingly beautiful yet simple film.

For the last of the true Universal Monster films, they rehashed old ideas with new exotic locales. What I think makes this film more involving than the other monster films, is the tenderness the creature has. He's not attacking, but retaliating to the intruders in his own home. In a sense, the creature is the hero.

I would kill to see this in 3D someday.

This is the epitome of my childhood movies. One could argue that it subconsciously started me down the path towards wanting to make films. The modern adventure film at its finest.

This movie isn't 64 minutes. If you're watching the original restored version, it should be 94 minutes.

While comparatively to other silent films of its time, no it's not the best directed or acted (with the exception of Max Schreck,) but there's something to be said about the atmosphere it creates, the attention to developing a story, and the spectacle through special effects and art direction that make this as classic as its become.

It's probably the best performance of a vampire (and I avoid saying Dracula) ever put on film, because Schreck doesn't overact it, which ever actor since has (and I say that including Gary Oldman, despite how much I love him.) By playing the absurdity of the character down to a subtlety, a true sense of fear begins to emanate.

Charlie Kaufman is a huge inspiration to me as a writer. Everything in this film was just spot on from Jonze as the director right down to Diaz as Lotte (which says a lot because I'm not yet convinced of her versatility as an actor.)

It's one of the most unique fantasy stories I've ever come across that is so rooted in reality that it creates this weird paradox where you forget that it's a fantasy and you begin to think that, 'yeah, Malkovich has a portal to his head, and yeah, I would like to experience that.'

That is the definition of the greatest filmmaking, in my humble opinion.

I have seen this film many times, but it wasn't until watching it again recently that I understood just how ballsy and unconventional it actually is.