My Favorite Movies

The one that made movies fun again, and forever changed how the movie business works. Does anybody really care about "Annie Hall," the flick that beat this for Best Picture in 1977? I though not...

This was Leone's masterpiece. Yes, there are some holes in the plot's logic, as this is almost a pure exercise in style over substance, but it was HIS style. The substance might not be all that deep, but neither was it very deep in a lot of John Ford's work, and nobody talks bad about "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" might or might not have been. Eastwood had mastered this character by now (if it is indeed the same character - that could be the subject of another very interesting debate...), and we began to see here his mastery of gaze and expression that he uses to this day. Wallach's role is a bit more than comic relief, as he is actually the one character about whom we really learn anything, and he's the perfect hyper-foil to Eastwood's silent understatement. This is one of the greatest films ever made (in my humble opinion), but for altogether different reasons than the more typical "great film." What it boils down to is this: it's just SO DAMN COOL, how can you NOT love this stuff??

Everybody says it's the best movie ever made. THEY'RE RIGHT!!!

Others may say "Blade Runner" is Ridley Scott's masterpiece, but I say it's this one. The ultimate blend of historical epic, action movie and revenge yarn.

If there ever was the perfect "doomed" love story, this is it.

This is the last original idea George Lucas had, but what an idea! Damn shame he hasn't come up with anything new since. Almost impossible to believe Harrison Ford only did this after Tom Selleck couldn't...

With the ONLY flaw in this flick being how the LAPD were made out to be imbeciles, this is the closest thing to a perfect action movie there's ever been. Die Hard set the standard by which all subsequent action-fests are judged.