Hm... I'd have to say
The Rock - The last real James Bond movie
Pulp Fiction - Work Of Art
American Graffiti - The 60's the way it's meant to be remembered
Airplane - Some of the funniest stuff dreamed up by the ZAZ and executed by Leslie Nielsen
Casino - Compelling story with great performances by great actors. And Sharon Stone.
Glengarry Glen Ross - Taught me everything I know about marketing
Ocean's 11 - best remake ever
Point Break - Fantastic excitement smothered in cool
Saving Private Ryan - Made me forget I was in a theater
High Plains Drifter - Western Clint at his most Clint
Platoon - Lieutenant Calley's battle hymn brought to life on the big screen
Natural Born Killers - Shock and awe attack on the media
The Great Escape - Just a hell of a lot of fun and the best bike chase ever
Rumble in the Bronx - Blistering fight action and over the top stunts
Trainspotting - I understood the Scottish and junkies much better after this one
Big Trouble in Little China - Slapstic martial arts fun with American attitude
The Bridge on the River Kwai - A remarkable psychological study to the tune of "Hitler has only got one ball"
Catch-22 - Doesn't do the novel justice but still brilliant
Dog Day Afternoon - Amazing performance and dead-accurate sitz im leben
Top Gun - I cried when Goose died
JFK - Oliver Stone's "counter-fiction to the Warren Commission's fiction" is a great yarn
Unforgiven - The best Western of all time
Godfather 2 - Young Vito's story eclipses the other movies
Dr. Strangelove - Peter Sellers delivering world class performances in 3 roles in the same movie was jaw-dropping
No Country for Old Men - The whole was greater than the parts, and all the parts were great
Das Boot - Evocative, tragic, and grimly realistic
Terminator - Was expecting stupid musclebound robot crapfest, got wow
Terminator 2 - Became the gold standard for sci-fi action
Cool Hand Luke - We're all our own worst enemy, the man is just there to make sure we suffer for it
American Beauty - The wow factor was the perfectly balanced creepy, cool, weird, and relatable
Taxi Driver - Captured when New York was really scary and the people who made it scary
A Clockwork Orange - Any girl I date who says she likes it is a keeper
The Green Mile - Damn good period piece with just enough of the supernatural
Rain Man - Artfully changed attitudes and raised awareness
Silence of the Lambs - Amazingly creepy
Fight Club - I felt like I was being set up for a cheesy ending but everything about the ride was perfect
Scarface - Best 80's movie that didn't involve melodramatic kids
V for Vendetta - One man and a lot of knives 1, Orwellian future 0
Being John Malkovich - Awesome for the inside jokes and slick storyline
Boogie Nights - Vividly accurate and well executed
Dark Knight - When Joker's saying "I like this job, I like it" I'm saying "this is my favorite movie of all time"
Network - Mass media is hackable
Blazing Saddles - I kept asking myself "can they do that" and laughing my ass off
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Sweet that Hong Kong cinema went mainstream
Enter the Dragon - Bruce Lee's philosophy in the beginning and the too-fast-for-film fight sequence with O'Harra are formidable
Grosse Pointe Blank - Convinced my parents I'm actually a hitman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Moral: if you're going to fight the machine, be smart, not loud
The Deer Hunter - Nothing else captures the surreality of reality so vividly and it's probably the best Vietnam film
