My Favorite Movies

Coming out this year with the 30th anniversary. I saw this movie the theatre! I remember being blown away. Top ten material for sure. Sunburn, mountains out of mashed potatoes, and those wonderful 4 tones.

I didn't get to see this in the theatre due the rating, but my dad came home and told me all about it in great graphic detail and here the idea of the FEMALE action lead was born. Go Sigourney. I don't think any horror movie before or since has quite been able to duplicate the combination of shock, horror, and gross that the alien through the chest achieved in the lunch scene of this movie. Aliens using us as incubators may not have been an entirely new idea but this movie presented it in a very visceral way - pun intended.

Probably one of the best of the movies told from the end to the beginning. Main character has no ability to maintain short-term memory so he tattoos clues about his wife's murder on his body. I've watched it over and over.

By all accounts this is the one to see if you can only see one of the T movies. The look on Sara Connor's face when she sees the monster of her nightmares and then has to deal with the fact that it here to protect her son from an even more lethal version. The engineer who must deal with the realization that his work might mean the end of humanity. The tearful scene at the end at the T lowers himself into the molten metal to make sure that no one will use his technology for evil while the boy mourns the loss of the robot who'd become his surrogate father. A classic!

Fantastic movie, think I've seen it at least 4 times. Viggo is magnificent. Watching his eyes as he shifts from the father into the killer and back into the father during the scene on the front lawn is just incredible. That's acting folks!

Well acted and stayed close to Krakauer's book/true story. Very moving tragic story.

O.K. I wasn't sure about this one, but it broke like every box office record ever, and got people everywhere actually thinking about contact in terms of a peaceful, what would happen if he just sorta broke down and was trying to get home, kinda way. It made the government the not to be trusted bad guys who just wanted to study the alien for the evil purposes of SCIENCE. It was the role that either made or destroyed Drew Barrymore's life depending on how you look at it, and you will never forget the look in E.T.'s eye as he raised that incredibly long finger and said, "E.T. phone home." Ya, the bike scene was cool too.

Knock-you-out-of-your-seat fantastic in nearly every way. Conceptually and visually nothing had ever been done like this. The Wachowski brothers brought in wire fighting techniques and mysticism of the East, mixed it with the look and plot of cyberpunk, threw it all onto a noir backdrop, and tossed in a western standoff for good measure. I credit this movie with singlehandedly bringing the SF genre back from the grave. (Or should I say the ends of the universe?)

It's hard to encompass with words why this movie works so well. The female sheriff who pukes not because of the grisly murder scene but because she's pregnant. The taciturn serial killer and his partner annoyed by his silence. The best chipper-shredder scene of all time. A husband who paints woodducks, and miles and miles of snow.

This was freakin' amazing! Christian Bale is my hero if only for his utter and complete dedication to the role.

Read the book too! Scary disturbing and how far are we away from this really? Gitmo anyone?

The critics trashed this movie, but I loved it. The plot made no sense, the was lots of gratuitous violence, gore, and nudity, not to mention cannablism. But most of all the delectable Rhona Mitra who shot, stabbed, elbowed, slashed, and growled her way into my heart. I liked her in Descent too but there all the girls were so covered in mud all the time it was hard to see who was who. Here she is hard, and strong, and can take her eyeball out at will. What more can you want in a girl? Sol is a great character too. How can you not love a guy who rides around with his decapitated girlfriend's head rigged up in the passenger seat. Here's me hoping for a sequel.

I can't recommend this movie enough. I haven't laughed this hard at a movie in years. Pineapple Express was funny, but just sort of dumb funny. This movie is things-just-can't-get-any-worse-funny. Scott Prendergast is just wonderful. He does the physical comedy and works with the kids and the other actors in the movie so well and his timing is perfect. Lisa Kudrow who is often cast as the ditzy blond, plays against type as the worn out mom whose husband is in Iraq and she is just barely holding things together. Watchinig the scenes with Salman in the blue suit, I had to get up and leave the cafe where I was watching the movie twice because I was laughing so hard people were looking at me funny! I finally had to finish the movie at home. If you're looking for a good laugh -check it out!!!

On my Top 10 all time greatest Sci-Fi movies list. amazing visuals, spectactular soundtrack, fascinating plot, and ending, well . . . .trippy.

The BEST Christmas movie ever made as far as I'm concerned, especially if you are from the Midwest. It's based on a book of short stories, and some of the scenes are just outrageously funny.

Inventive, gotcha by the edge of your seat, you can't take your eyes of the screen for a second or you'll miss something. I loved everything about this movie from the color of Franka's hair, to the frantic pace, to the story telling method and the ending.

The book and the movie are outstanding. Must see!