Top 5 Movies
By special request: After seeing my list of my bottom 5 movies, someone asked what my top 5 were. So here we go...
5. The Usual Suspects: Several of my bottom 5 movies were all character development, but no plot. This one has great characters (I especially like Kevin Pollack and Benicio Del Toro's characters), but also also has a great story with a nice twist at the end.
4. The Shawshank Redemption: Great story! I laughed, I cried, it moved me. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman's best roles ever.
3. Dead Poet's Society: This movie was the main reason for my original career choice. Maybe if a few of my students had stood on their chairs and called me "Captain", I'd still be teaching.
2. The Sixth Sense: I know of only one person who claims to have figured out the twist in this movie before it actually happened, and they're a liar.
1. Field of Dreams: James Earl Jones' speech about baseball is one of my favorite movie moments of all time.
Honorable mentions: Pulp Fiction, Twelve Monkeys, Dead Again, Gattaca, Forrest Gump
Special citation goes to Armageddon, which is my "go to" movie on any rainy Saturday when I want to be entertained and don't want to think too hard. And since Bruce Willis made four of the movies on my list, he is my winner for favorite actor.
5. The Usual Suspects: Several of my bottom 5 movies were all character development, but no plot. This one has great characters (I especially like Kevin Pollack and Benicio Del Toro's characters), but also also has a great story with a nice twist at the end.
4. The Shawshank Redemption: Great story! I laughed, I cried, it moved me. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman's best roles ever.
3. Dead Poet's Society: This movie was the main reason for my original career choice. Maybe if a few of my students had stood on their chairs and called me "Captain", I'd still be teaching.
2. The Sixth Sense: I know of only one person who claims to have figured out the twist in this movie before it actually happened, and they're a liar.
1. Field of Dreams: James Earl Jones' speech about baseball is one of my favorite movie moments of all time.
Honorable mentions: Pulp Fiction, Twelve Monkeys, Dead Again, Gattaca, Forrest Gump
Special citation goes to Armageddon, which is my "go to" movie on any rainy Saturday when I want to be entertained and don't want to think too hard. And since Bruce Willis made four of the movies on my list, he is my winner for favorite actor.
posted by Patrick at 9:10 PM
3 Comments:
We have many similar movies on our lists. My Top 5 would be:
5. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Armageddon
3. Field of Dreams
2. Count of Monte Cristo (Richard Chamberlin version)
1. Outlaw Jose Wales
Honorable mentions: Ferris Bueller's Day off, Major League, Indiana Jones Series, Die Hard Series and of course All the Harry Potter Movies, I struggled with not putting them on the list as number one, but I think that is more because of my love for the books.
Does Dennis stand on his chair and say Captain, my Captain?
Since his chair is on wheels and spins, that's probably not a good idea :). I may have him start calling me "Captain," though.
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