Everyone has there favorite movies and sometimes people will say a certain movie is their favorite of all-time when it really isn't. For the readers that know me very well, you already know what #1 movie is but I am here to give you my Top 10 Favorite Movies of All-Time. Now this list does not mean that I give every on of theses films a 10 out of 10. These films are the ones that I can sit and watch over and over again and not get tired of them. So without further ado........
10. The Breakfast Club-
This film really helped me in high school and it's one of my favorite films of all-time. Trapped in a day-long Saturday detention in a prison-like school library are Claire, the princess (played by Molly Ringwald); Andrew, the jock (played by Emilio Estevez); John, the criminal (played by Judd Nelson); Brian, the brain (played by Anthony Michael Hall); and Allison, the basket case (played by Ally Sheedy). These five strangers begin the day with nothing in common, each bound to his/her place in the high school caste system. Yet the students bond together when faced with the villainous principal (played by Paul Gleason), and they realize that they have more in common than they may think, including a contempt for adult society. "When you grow up, your heart dies," Allison proclaims in one of the film's many scenes of soul-searching, and, judging from the adults depicted in the film, the teen audience may very well agree. The Breakfast Club has a rating of 91% on rottentomatoes.com.
9. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan-
I'm a huge Star Trek fan (not as big as a Trekkie) and this film is the reason why I am. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is not only a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it is a actually a sequel to an episode in the Star Trek TV series entitled "Space Seed". The plot feature James T. Kirk (played by William Shatner) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise facing off against he genetically-engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (who was the villain in the episode and is played by Ricardo Montalban in both the episode and movie). When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan has a rating of 91% on rottentomatoes.com.
8. Pulp Fiction-
This film comes from one of the greatest directors in the modern era Quentin Tarantino. Pulp Fiction connects the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase. Considerable screen time is devoted to conversations and monologues that reveal the characters senses of humor and perspectives on life. I love this film and Tarantino is one of my favorite directors of all-time and I love his non-linear storytelling by presenting the story in non-chronological order. Pulp Fiction was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing while winning only 1 (Best Original Screenplay) and it has a rating of 95% on rottentomatoes.com.
7. Lord of The Rings: Return of the King-
This is the best film in my favorite trilogies off all-time and what many consider one of the greatest films of all-time. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King continues the story of the fellowship as they have gone their separate ways in the quest to destroy the one ring. As Sauron launches the final stages of his conquest of Middle-earth, Gandalf the Wizard (played by Sir Ian McKellen) and Theoden King of Rohan (played by Bernard Hill) rally their forces to help defend Gondors capital Minas Tirith from the looming threat. Aragron (played by Viggo Mortensen) finally claims the throne of Gondor and, with the aid of Legolas the Elf (played by Orlando Bloom) and Gimli the Dwarf (played by John Rhys-Davies) summons the army of the Dead to help him defeat Sauron. Ultimately, even with full strength of arms, they realize they cannot win; so it comes down to the Hobbits Frodo (played by Elijah Wood) and Sam (played by Sean Astin), to bear the burden of the Ring and deal with the treachery of Gollum (played by Andy Serkis). After a long journey they finally arrive in the dangerous lands of Mordor, seeking to destroy the One Ring in the place it was created , the volcanic fires of Mount Doom. I loved the trilogy and this film in particular and it was the film that made me absolutely love movies. Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King was nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up, Best Sound Mixing and Best Editing while winning all 11 awards it was nominated for and it has a rating of 94% on rottentomatoes.com.
6. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
I am one of the biggest Star Wars fans in the world (but not to big in the sense I don't overly obsess over all of the merchandise). The adventure continues in this "Star Wars" sequel. Luke Skywalker (played by Mark Hamill), Han Solo (played by Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (played by Carrie Fisher) and Chewbacca (played by Peter Mayhew) face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz). Only with the Jedi master's help will Luke survive when the dark side of the Force beckons him into the ultimate duel with Darth Vader (played by David Prowse and voiced by James Earl Jones).Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Sound Mixing, Best Original Score and Best Production Design while winning 1 for Best Sound Mixing it has a rating of 97% on rottentomatoes.com.
5. Blazing Saddles-
The film is just absolutely hilarious and it is also my favorite comedy of all-time. The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town. Blazing Saddles was nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actress, Best Film Editing and Best Original Song and it has a rating of 90% on rottentomatoes.com.
4. Mystic River
This film has an amazing cast an amazing script and it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed convict Jimmy Markum (played by Sean Penn) and his devoted wife Annabeth (played by Laura Linney) find out that their teenage daughter Katie (played by Emmy Rossum) has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean Devine (played by Kevin Bacon) is the homicide detective assigned to the case, along with partner Whitey Powers (played by Laurence Fishburne). Jimmy also gets his relatives, the Savage brothers (played by Adam Nelson and Robert Wahlberg), to conduct an investigation of their own. Jimmy and Sean both start to suspect their old pal, Dave Boyle (played by Tim Robbins), who lives a quiet life with his wife Celeste (played by Marcia Gay Harden) but harbors some disturbing secrets. Mystic River was nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay while winning two (Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor) and it has a rating of 87% on rottentomatoes.com.
3. American Beauty-
This film is magnificent and it really dives in the emotions of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, beauty, materialism, self-liberation, and redemption. Lester Burnham (played by Kevin Spacey) is a gainfully employed suburban husband and father. Fed up with his boring, stagnant existence, he quits his job and decides to reinvent himself as a pot-smoking, responsibility-shirking teenager. What follows is at once cynical, hysterical, and, eventually, tragically uplifting. American Beauty was nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score while winning 5 awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography) and it has a rating of 88% on rottentomatoes.com.
2. The Godfather Part 2-
This film is consideredthe greatest sequel of all-time and it serves also as a prequel as well. The Godfather Part 2 continues the story of Michael Corleone (played by Al Pacino) (the new Don of the Corleone crime family) trying to hold his business ventures together from 1958 to 1959. The prequel parts of the film are flashbacks to a younger Vito Corleone (played by Robert DeNiro), from his childhood in Sicily in 1901 to the founding of the Corleone crime family in New York City. I will admit that the film is a little over 3 hours long and for some people I can see why you might get bored or uninterested, but believe me when I say that the film needs to be that long because of the story they are telling. The Godfather Part 2 was nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, 3 for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction and Best Music while winning 6 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Art Direction and Best Music) and it has a rating of 98% on rottentomatoes.com.
1. The Dark Knight-
Batman is my favorite superhero and a Batman film tops my list. In this film Batman raises the stakes on hi war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordan (played by Gary Oldman) and D.A. Harvey Dent (played by Aaron Eckhart), Batman (played by Christian Bale) sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind know to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker (played by Heath Ledger). The Dark Knight was nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Make-Up, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects while winning only 2 (Best Supporting Actor and Best Sound Editing) and it has a rating of 94% on rottentomatoes.com.
So ladies and gentlemen what do you think of the list and what are your favorite movies of all-time? Let me know in the comments and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
10. The Breakfast Club-
This film really helped me in high school and it's one of my favorite films of all-time. Trapped in a day-long Saturday detention in a prison-like school library are Claire, the princess (played by Molly Ringwald); Andrew, the jock (played by Emilio Estevez); John, the criminal (played by Judd Nelson); Brian, the brain (played by Anthony Michael Hall); and Allison, the basket case (played by Ally Sheedy). These five strangers begin the day with nothing in common, each bound to his/her place in the high school caste system. Yet the students bond together when faced with the villainous principal (played by Paul Gleason), and they realize that they have more in common than they may think, including a contempt for adult society. "When you grow up, your heart dies," Allison proclaims in one of the film's many scenes of soul-searching, and, judging from the adults depicted in the film, the teen audience may very well agree. The Breakfast Club has a rating of 91% on rottentomatoes.com.
9. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan-
I'm a huge Star Trek fan (not as big as a Trekkie) and this film is the reason why I am. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is not only a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it is a actually a sequel to an episode in the Star Trek TV series entitled "Space Seed". The plot feature James T. Kirk (played by William Shatner) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise facing off against he genetically-engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (who was the villain in the episode and is played by Ricardo Montalban in both the episode and movie). When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan has a rating of 91% on rottentomatoes.com.
8. Pulp Fiction-
This film comes from one of the greatest directors in the modern era Quentin Tarantino. Pulp Fiction connects the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase. Considerable screen time is devoted to conversations and monologues that reveal the characters senses of humor and perspectives on life. I love this film and Tarantino is one of my favorite directors of all-time and I love his non-linear storytelling by presenting the story in non-chronological order. Pulp Fiction was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing while winning only 1 (Best Original Screenplay) and it has a rating of 95% on rottentomatoes.com.
7. Lord of The Rings: Return of the King-
This is the best film in my favorite trilogies off all-time and what many consider one of the greatest films of all-time. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King continues the story of the fellowship as they have gone their separate ways in the quest to destroy the one ring. As Sauron launches the final stages of his conquest of Middle-earth, Gandalf the Wizard (played by Sir Ian McKellen) and Theoden King of Rohan (played by Bernard Hill) rally their forces to help defend Gondors capital Minas Tirith from the looming threat. Aragron (played by Viggo Mortensen) finally claims the throne of Gondor and, with the aid of Legolas the Elf (played by Orlando Bloom) and Gimli the Dwarf (played by John Rhys-Davies) summons the army of the Dead to help him defeat Sauron. Ultimately, even with full strength of arms, they realize they cannot win; so it comes down to the Hobbits Frodo (played by Elijah Wood) and Sam (played by Sean Astin), to bear the burden of the Ring and deal with the treachery of Gollum (played by Andy Serkis). After a long journey they finally arrive in the dangerous lands of Mordor, seeking to destroy the One Ring in the place it was created , the volcanic fires of Mount Doom. I loved the trilogy and this film in particular and it was the film that made me absolutely love movies. Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King was nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up, Best Sound Mixing and Best Editing while winning all 11 awards it was nominated for and it has a rating of 94% on rottentomatoes.com.
6. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
I am one of the biggest Star Wars fans in the world (but not to big in the sense I don't overly obsess over all of the merchandise). The adventure continues in this "Star Wars" sequel. Luke Skywalker (played by Mark Hamill), Han Solo (played by Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (played by Carrie Fisher) and Chewbacca (played by Peter Mayhew) face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz). Only with the Jedi master's help will Luke survive when the dark side of the Force beckons him into the ultimate duel with Darth Vader (played by David Prowse and voiced by James Earl Jones).Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Sound Mixing, Best Original Score and Best Production Design while winning 1 for Best Sound Mixing it has a rating of 97% on rottentomatoes.com.
5. Blazing Saddles-
The film is just absolutely hilarious and it is also my favorite comedy of all-time. The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town. Blazing Saddles was nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actress, Best Film Editing and Best Original Song and it has a rating of 90% on rottentomatoes.com.
4. Mystic River
This film has an amazing cast an amazing script and it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed convict Jimmy Markum (played by Sean Penn) and his devoted wife Annabeth (played by Laura Linney) find out that their teenage daughter Katie (played by Emmy Rossum) has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean Devine (played by Kevin Bacon) is the homicide detective assigned to the case, along with partner Whitey Powers (played by Laurence Fishburne). Jimmy also gets his relatives, the Savage brothers (played by Adam Nelson and Robert Wahlberg), to conduct an investigation of their own. Jimmy and Sean both start to suspect their old pal, Dave Boyle (played by Tim Robbins), who lives a quiet life with his wife Celeste (played by Marcia Gay Harden) but harbors some disturbing secrets. Mystic River was nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay while winning two (Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor) and it has a rating of 87% on rottentomatoes.com.
3. American Beauty-
This film is magnificent and it really dives in the emotions of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, beauty, materialism, self-liberation, and redemption. Lester Burnham (played by Kevin Spacey) is a gainfully employed suburban husband and father. Fed up with his boring, stagnant existence, he quits his job and decides to reinvent himself as a pot-smoking, responsibility-shirking teenager. What follows is at once cynical, hysterical, and, eventually, tragically uplifting. American Beauty was nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score while winning 5 awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography) and it has a rating of 88% on rottentomatoes.com.
2. The Godfather Part 2-
This film is consideredthe greatest sequel of all-time and it serves also as a prequel as well. The Godfather Part 2 continues the story of Michael Corleone (played by Al Pacino) (the new Don of the Corleone crime family) trying to hold his business ventures together from 1958 to 1959. The prequel parts of the film are flashbacks to a younger Vito Corleone (played by Robert DeNiro), from his childhood in Sicily in 1901 to the founding of the Corleone crime family in New York City. I will admit that the film is a little over 3 hours long and for some people I can see why you might get bored or uninterested, but believe me when I say that the film needs to be that long because of the story they are telling. The Godfather Part 2 was nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, 3 for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction and Best Music while winning 6 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Art Direction and Best Music) and it has a rating of 98% on rottentomatoes.com.
1. The Dark Knight-
Batman is my favorite superhero and a Batman film tops my list. In this film Batman raises the stakes on hi war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordan (played by Gary Oldman) and D.A. Harvey Dent (played by Aaron Eckhart), Batman (played by Christian Bale) sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind know to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker (played by Heath Ledger). The Dark Knight was nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Make-Up, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects while winning only 2 (Best Supporting Actor and Best Sound Editing) and it has a rating of 94% on rottentomatoes.com.
So ladies and gentlemen what do you think of the list and what are your favorite movies of all-time? Let me know in the comments and let your voice be heard.
Jonah Sparks
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