Top Five: 50-50

The Girl and I caught 50-50 over the weekend. Good film - not perfect but good. Let's check where it ranks among the various films of the various actors.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

1. Dark Knight Rises
2. Looper
3. Brick
4. (500) Days of Summer
5. 50/50

Seth Rogan

1. Superbad
2. 50/50
3. Fight for Your Right (revisited) 
4. Knocked Up
5. 40 Year Old Virgin

Anna Kendrick

1. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
2. Pitch Perfect
3. Up in the Air
4. 50/50
5. Rocket Science

Anjelica Houston

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. 50/50
3. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
4. The Grifters
5. The Addams Family

Phillip Baker Hall

1. The Truman Show
2. "Seinfeld" (Mr Bookman)
3. 50/50
4. Dogville
5. In Good Company

Top Five: lack of theme

My favorite Tommy Lee Jones movies

1. No Country for Old Men - the last scene alone is worth the price of admission
2. The Fugitive
3. Blown Away - great character with Jones as his most manic form
4. Cobb
5. Small Soldiers
   Honorable mention - Captain America (not enough Jones), Under Siege (loads of Jones but too much non-Jones), Batman Forever (fun but a little too wacky), Men in Black

My favorite Steve Carrell movies (updating)

1. Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy
2. Dinner for Schmucks
3. Crazy Stupid Love
4. Despicable Me
5. Bruce Almighty
   Dishonorable mention: 40 Year Old Virgin and Little Miss Sunshine - hated them both

My favorite Meryl Streep movies

1. Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. Adaptation
3. Manhattan
4. Julie & Julia
5. Death Becomes Her
   I'm surprised at how few of her really well respected movies I've seen.

My favorite Ryan Gosling movies

1. Drive
2. Lars & the Real Girl
3. Ides of March
4. Crazy Stupid Love
5. Blue Valentine - not enjoyable but excellently well made

My favorite Emma Stone movies

1. Zombieland
2. Superbad
3. Zombieland
4. House Bunny
5. Friends With Benefits - the film's better than this ranking, but Stone's only in it for a minute, so I had to drag it down the list

Oh, and about the graphic...second hit when I searched for "five movies" on Google images. I really enjoyed her in Adventureland and thought she did a great job in Panic Room, but I'll admit that the latter didn't require her to do much more than suffer and look vacant - pretty much right in her wheelhouse as we've since learned.

Top five: Authors and their movies

My favorite films based on Philip K Dick stories...

1. Blade Runner
2. Scanner Darkly
3. Minority Bureau
4. Adjustment Bureau
5. Total Recall

My favorite films based on Stephen King stories...

1. The Shining
2. Stand By Me
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. The Green Mile
5. It (tv mini-series)

My favorite films based on Michael Crichton stories...

1. Disclosure
2. Jurassic Park (nothing below here is worth watching)
3. Rising Sun
4. Sphere
5. The Lost World: Jurassic Park

My favorite films based on Shakespeare plays...

1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
2. Strange Brew
3. West Side Story
4. Romeo+Juliet
5. 10 Things I Hate About You Honorable mentions: The Lion King, Shakespeare in Love (He wrote that, right?), Looking for Richard, Hamlet(1996) , Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

My favorite films written by Cameron Crowe...

1. Almost Famous
2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
3. Singles 
4. Jerry McGuire  
5. Say Anything...

Five by five: Crazy Heart

My favorite movies with Jeff Bridges

1. The Big Lebowski 
2. Iron Man
3. True Grit
4. Crazy Heart
5. Tron

My favorite movies with Maggie Gyllenhaal

1. The Dark Knight
2. Secretary
3. Criminal
4. Stranger Than Fiction
5. Crazy Heart 

My favorite movies with Colin Farrell

1. In Bruges
2. Minority Report
3. Intermission
4. Crazy Heart
5. The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus 

My favorite movies with Robert Duvall

1. The Godfather, Part II
2. Apocalypse Now
3. The Godfather
4. The Natural
5. Network 

My favorite movies with Jim Carrey (No, he wasn't in Crazy Heart, but it's not called 'Five by four'.)

1. The Truman Show
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Bruce Almighty
4. Man on the Moon
5. Batman Forever (shut up, Nicole Kidman is really pretty) 

Five by five: Multiple movies

Today's rules

1. All movies must have gotten actual studio releases. Straight to DVD or video doesn't count on this one.
2. I must've seen all the movies.
3. The movies must be connected by more than name & theme.

My favorite triologies...

1. Dollars - A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Toy Story
3. Mariachi - El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico
4. Bourne - Identity, Supremacy, Ultimatum
5. Godfather

My favorite four-movie series...

1. Jersey - Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Clerks 2 (none are embarrassing, an accomplishment for a four-movie series)
2. Batman - Batman (1989), Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin (I'll always have a soft spot for Poison Ivy in B&R)
3. Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, Crystal Skull (Crystal Skull the only weak entry)
4. Jack Ryan - Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear & Present Danger, Sum of All Fears
5. Superman - I, II, III, IV (III and IV weak entries)

My favorite films made from television shows...

1. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
2. The Untouchables
3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
4. The Fugitive
5. Mission: Impossible
   Honorable mention: The Muppet Movie - not directly based on The Muppet Show, so doesn't quite qualify to me...

My favorite prequels...

1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Godfather Part II
3. X-Men: First Class
4. Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
5. X-Men: Wolverine

My favorite reboots...

1. James Bond - Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace 
2. Batman - Batman Begins, Dark Knight   
3. Oceans 11, 12, 13 
4. Star Trek (2010)
5. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (cheating, but it came from a movie)

Five by five: The Fighter

My favorite Mark Wahlburg movies

1. Three Kings
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Italian Job
4. The Departed
5. The FighterHonorable mention: Saturday Night Live ("Say hello to ya mother.")

My favorite Christian Bale movies

1. The Dark Knight
2. Batman Begins
3. The Prestige
4. 3:10 to Yuma
5. American Psycho 

My favorite Amy Adams movies

1. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
3. Charlie Wilson's War
4. The Fighter
5. Catch Me if You Can 

My favorite boxing movies

1. Raging Bull
2. Rocky III
3. When We Were Kings
4. Rocky
5. The Fighter 

My favorite Boston movies

1. Blown Away (not so good, but I love it)
2. Gone, Baby, Gone
3. Good Will Hunting
4. Mystic River
5. The Town

In honor of that last part...

Top five by five: comics edition

My five favorite non-cape series

1. Planetary
2. Sandman
3. Fables
4. DMZ
5. Ex-Machina
   Honorable mention: Starman (there aren't a lot of capes there)

My five favorite Superman stories

1. Secret Identity
2. All-Star Superman
3. Supreme: Story of the Year
4. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
5. Action Comics #776 

My favorite Batman stories - as an aside, I am amazed that this list was hard for me to come up with. I would've sworn that coming up with five awesome Batman stories would've been far easier than five Superman stories, but that wasn't the case. And it's not because there were so many...nope, it was harder for me to come up with five great Batman stories.

1. Dark Knight Returns
2. Hush
3. The Long Halloween
4. JLA: Tower of Babel
5. Year OneHonestly, you could throw #2-5 into a hat and pick 'em at random. They're all very good, but I would probably put every Superman story in before #2-5 on this list.

My favorite Marvel trades

1. Eternals
2. Wolverine: Enemy of the State
3. Astonishing X-Men: Unstoppable (or anything in the Whedon/Cassaday run)
4. Ultimate Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends
5. Old Man LoganHonorable mention: Hulk: The End

My favorite stand-alone graphic novels not already mentioned

1. Watchmen
2. Pride of Baghdad
3. Kingdom Come (though it's kind of been brought into continuity)
4. Superman: Red Son
5. Marvels

Five by five plus one: Bonds

My five favorite movies with Sean Connery...easily the strongest list...

1. Highlander
2. Time Bandits
3. The Hunt for Red October
4. Diamonds are Forever (not the finest of his Bonds but the most enjoyable for me)
5. Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
   honorable mention: Darby O'Gill and the Little People mostly for this scene

My favorite movies with Roger Moore...

1. Live and Let Die
2. The Cannonball Run
3. The Spy Who Loved Me
4. The Curse of the Pink Panther 
5. The Man With the Golden Gun

My favorite movie with George Lazenby...

1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (in spite of the awful dubbing on Sir Hilary)

My favorite movies with Timothy Dalton

1. Flash Gordon
2. Toy Story 3
3. License to Kill
4. The Living Daylights
5. The Rocketeer

My favorite movies with Pierce Brosnan...

1. The Thomas Crown Affair
2. After the Sunset
3. Goldeneye
4. Tomorrow Never Dies
5. The Lawnmower ManAbsolutely last on the list - even below the last two awful Bonds - Mrs Doubtfire

My favorite movies with Daniel Craig...oddly, the second strongest list for me (but I've only seen these five with him)...

1. Casino Royale
2. Layer Cake
3. Munich
4. Road to Perdition
5. Quantum of Solace

And Daniel Craig is only 5'10"...

Five by five: Favorite music from favorite artists

Artists with the most five-star songs on my iTunes...(identical versions - like from a Greatest Hits album - duplicates eliminated)

1. Wilco - 26 (Jeff Tweedy another 6)
2. Bob Dylan - 24
3. U2 - 18
4. The Beastie Boys - 16
5. Lyle Lovett - 15

My favorite songs from Wilco / Jeff Tweedy

1. "Organ Blues" from Alpha Romeo Tango
2. "Laminated Cat" from Sunken Treasure Live
3. "Kamera" from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos
4. "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" from A Ghost is Born
5. "Misunderstood" from Being There

My favorite songs from Bob Dylan

1. "Girl from the North Country" (with Johnny Cash) from Nashville Skyline
2. "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts" from Blood on the Tapes
3. "Isis" from Desire
4. "Seven Curses" from Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3
5. "Lay Lady Lay" from Nashville Skyline

My favorite songs from U2 (this was the toughest of the lists to narrow down)

1. "Slow Dancing" with Willie Nelson from If God Will Send His Angels
2. "Callin' on Sunday" with Lyrics Born from a mashup on the internet somewhere
3. "Bass Trap" from The Unforgettable Fire
4. "Bad" from Wide Awake in America
5. "All I Want is You" from Rattle and Hum

My favorite songs from The Beastie Boys

1. "Sabotage" from Ill Communication
2. "So What'cha Want" from Check Your Head
3. "Root Down" from Ill Communication
4. "High Plains Drifter" from Paul's Boutique
5. "Intergalactic" from Hello Nasty 

My favorite songs from Lyle Lovett

1. "Moritat" from Smile: Songs from the Movies
2. "You Can't Resist It" from Lyle Lovett
3. "Dr T's Theme" from Dr T & the Women
4. "Flyin' Shoes" from Step Inside This House
5. "The Girl in the Corner" from The Road to Ensenada

Top Five: The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus

I would provide a review of The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, but there's not much to say there.  It's bland, occasionally pretty, but ultimately boring.

Instead...

My five favorite Terry Gilliam-directed films

1. Time Bandits
2. Brazil
3. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. Twelve Monkeys

My five favorite Heath Ledger films

1. The Dark Knight
2. Brokeback Mountain
   
3. Lords of Dogtown
4. 10 Things I Hate About You
5. The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus

My five favorite Christopher Plummer films

1. Inside Man
2. Up
3. Syriana
4. The Insider
5. Dragnet

My five favorite Tom Waits films

1. Short Cuts
2. Mystery Men
3. Dracula
4. Coffee & Cigarettes
5. Down by Law

My five favorite Colin Farrell films

1. In Bruges
2. Minority Report
3. Intermission (pretty much the last good film here)
   
4. The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
5. Dardevil
   

My favorite Johnny Depp Films

1. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2. Donnie Brasco
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. Sweeney Todd
   

My favorite Jude Law films

1. Gattaca
2. Road to Perdition
3. Cold Mountain
4. Closer
5. Alfie
   

In honor of The Prestige...

My favorite Hugh Jackman films...

1. The Prestige
2. The Fountain
3. X2 (major drop in quality after this one)
   
4. X-Men
5. X-Men: The Last Stand 
   

My favorite Christian Bale films...

1.  The Dark Knight
2. The Prestige
3. 3:10 to Yuma
4. Batman Begins
5. Henry V
   American Psycho doesn't make the cut.  I'd like to see I'm Not There.
   

My favorite Michael Caine films...

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Prestige
3. Deathtrap
4. Children of Men
5. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
   Hell of a list of Batman Begins doesn't make it on.  And I need to see Victory.

My favorite Scarlett Johansson films

1. The Prestige
2. Lost in Translation (Tough call between #1 & #2)
3. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
4. Ghost World
5. The Island (This film is horrible, but at least it's better than Match Point.)
   Hell, I was tempted to put Iron Man 2 in here at #3 just because of the anticipation, but Jeff Bridges story about #1 soured me a bit.
   

My favorite Christopher Nolan films

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Prestige
3. Batman Begins
4. Memento
5. Um...Inception just because it looks cool?
   

Nine by Five: Name that flick

All nine of these actors had smallish parts in a movie together. I have omitted that movie from all of their respective top five lists.

Name the missing movie.

Favorite Steven Martin films (all more than cameos)

• LA Story
• Shopgirl
• My Blue Heaven
• The Jerk
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Honorable mention: Bowfinger

Favorite Mel Brooks films

• History of the World: Part I
• Spaceballs
• Blazing Saddles
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• To Be or Not To Be
  Honorable mention: Mad About You cameos "firm embrace!"

Favorite James Coburn films

• Charade
• Payback
• The Magnificent Seven
• Young Guns II
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Favorite Elliott Gould films

• Ocean's 11
• American History X
• MASH
• Ocean's 13
• Ocean's 12

Favorite Madeline Kahn films

• Clue
• History of the World: Part I
• Young Frankenstein
• Blazing Saddles
• Yellowbeard

Favorite Cloris Leachman films

• History of the World: Part I
• Young Frankenstein
• Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
• The Last Picture Show
• High Anxiety

Favorite Richard Pryor films

• The Wiz
• The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
• Brewster's Millions
• Superman III
• The Toy

Favorite Dom DeLouise films

• Johnny Dangerously
• History of the World: Part 1
• Cannonball Run
• Smokey & the Bandit II
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Favorite Carol Kane films

• The Princess Bride
• My Blue Heaven
• Scrooged
• Transylvania 6-5000
• Annie Hall

Guess the movie (part II)

Continuing with yesterday's theme...all these folks - plus all the folks from yesterday - worked in the same movie together...

Favorite Judge Reinhold movies

1. Beverly Hills Cop
2. Stripes
3. Gremlins
4. Ruthless People
5. Beverly Hills Cop II
Honorable mention to Clerks: the cartoon and Pandemonium
mystery movie would come in at #1

Favorite Jennifer Jason Leigh movies

1. Short Cuts
2. Road to Perdition
3. The Hudsucker Proxy
4. Rush
5. Single White Female
...mystery movie would come in at #2

Favorite Sean Penn movies

1. Thin Red Line
2. Sweet & Lowdown
3. Mystic River
4. Dead Man Walking
5. 21 Grams
...mystery movie would come in at #2

Favorite Phoebe Cates movies

1. Bodies, Rest, and Motion
2. I Love You to Death
3. Gremlins
4. Drop Dead Fred
5. Gremlins 2
...mystery movie would come in at #1

Favorite Cameron Crowe movies

1. Almost Famous
2. Singles
3. Jerry McGuire
4. Say Anything
5. Elizabethtown
...mystery movie would come in at #2

So, who knows it?

Guess the movie

Today I offer a bit of a challenge...I list my five favorite films - in order - of some actors, all of whom worked together in a film that would have made every one of the lists but that I omitted just to keep you guessing.

No fair cheating by using the advanced search for people working together on imdb.com.

Tomorrow, five more people from the same movie.

And no comments on this post so you can't ruin the fun for everybody else just yet. Feel free, however, to email me your guess if you have one. Winner gets a No Prize.

Favorite Nicolas Cage Movies

1. Face/Off
2. Raising Arizona
3. Snake Eyes
4. Adaptation
5. Honeymoon in Vegas
Peggy Sue Got Married just missed
...mystery movie would come in at #1

Favorite Ray Walston movies

1. Johnny Dangerously
2. Of Mice & Men
3. Popeye
4. From the Hip
5. Ski Patrol
...mystery movie would come in at #1

Favorite Eric Stoltz movies

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Singles
3. Bodies, Rest, and Motion
4. Say Anything
5. Jerry McGuire
honorable mention to The Heart of Justice and Mad About You
...mystery movie would come in at #2

Favorite Forest Whitaker movies

1. Blown Away
2. Panic Room
3. Platoon
4. Color of Money
5. Good Morning, Vietnam
...mystery movie would come in at #1

Favorite Taylor Negron movies

1. The Aristocrats
2. Johnny Dangerously
3. Better Off Dead
4. Young Doctors in Love
5. Nothing But Trouble
...mystery movie would come in at #2 or 3

More clues tomorrow...far easier ones, too...

'Cause the Matrix hasn't aged well

Top five films made by The Matrix folks...note, these are my favorites...they do not, in any way, reflect upon the quality of the films themselves...

Keanu Reeves...

1. The Devil's Advocate
2. Scanner Darkly
3. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
4. The Matrix - upon initial viewing, this would have been #1, but the sequels and the surprisingly dated review this past week moved it down
5. Constantine

Joe Pantoliano

"The Sopranos" - were it a film, it would be a clear #1 choice
1. Risky Business
2. Bound
3. Memento
4. The Fugitive
5. Goonies
   Honorable mention: The Matrix
   Dishonorable mention: Daredevil

Laurence Fishburne

1. Apocalypse Now
2. Boyz in the Hood
3. The Matrix
4. Mystic River
5. We have to again leave the silver screen to reach "Pee Wee's Playhouse" where Laurence played Cowboy Curtis

Huge Weaving...

1. LoTR: #3
2. LoTR: #1
3. V for Vendetta
4. LoTR: #2
5. The Matrix
   Honorable mention: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

And we stretch a bit to find a fifth actor who has made enough films that I've seen...Carrie-Anne Moss...

1. Memento
2. The Matrix
3. Chocolat
4. The Matrix Reloaded
5. The Matrix Revolutions

In honor of the possibility of Anchorman 2

My favorite Will Ferrell movies:

1. Stranger Than Fiction
2. Anchorman
3. Zoolander
4. Talladega Nights
5. Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Honorable mention: Elf, Austin Powers, Wedding Crashers

My favorite Christina Applegate movies:

• Sorry, I've apparently only seen two of her movies, so we'll move along

My favorite Paul Rudd movies:

1. Anchorman
2. Romeo + Juliet
3. Clueless
4. Knocked Up
5. The 40 Year Old Virgin - hated it
Honorable mention: The Shape of Things, not because I've seen it but because I read the plot once and have been utterly fascinated ever since

My favorite Steve Carell movies:

1. Anchorman
2. Bruce Almighty
3. The 40 Year Old Virgin - have I mentioned that I hated this?
4. Little Miss Sunshine - hated it even more
5. Seriously? I've only seen four of his films? Amazing...

My favorite David Koechner movies:

1. Thank You For Smoking - best film in today's top fives
2. Man on the Moon
3. Anchorman
4. Talladega Nights
5. Wag the Dog
Dishonorable mention: Balls of Fury - wow, was that horrible...A Guy Thing - possibly worse than Balls of Fury...The 40 Year Old Virgin - last time, I promise, but blech

My favorite Fred Willard movies:

1. This is Spinal Tap
2. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
3. Best in Show
4. A Mighty Wind - It's growing on me...kinda sweet.
5. Anchorman
Honorable mention: Waiting for Guffman, Austin Powers...this is clearly not a man destined for leading man roles

Top five...back in force...

In honor of yesterday's post...

My favorite films starring - or involving...

...George Clooney...

1. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2. Thin Red Line
3. Three Kings
4. Michael Clayton
5. Oceans Eleven
South Park gets nixed because his part is about a minute long...

...Tom Wilkinson...

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Batman Begins
3. Michael Clayton
4. Full Monty
5. Shakespeare in Love

...Tilda Swinton...

1. Orlando
2. Michael Clayton
3. Adaptation
4. Constantine
5. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - okay, I haven't seen it, but Calen swears that I'd enjoy it in spite of my revulsion to seeing it, and I need a fifth for Swinton

...Sydney Pollack...

1. The Player (actor)
2. Michael Clayton (actor, producer)
3. Sliding Doors (producer)
4. The Firm (producer, director)
5. Cold Mountain (producer)

...Tony Gilroy...

1. The Bourne Ultimatum (writer)
2. Michael Clayton (writer, director)
3. The Bourne Supremecy (writer)
4. The Devil's Advocate (writer) - it's trash, but I enjoy the heck out of it
5. Tie - The Bourne Identity (writer) - and The Cutting Edge (writer)

Another top five...five times

My five favorite concert films...

1. Awesome! I F---ing Shot That
2. I am Trying to Break Your Heart
3. The Last Waltz
4. Rattle & Hum
5. Purple Rain

My five favorite basketball films (in honor of Semi-Pro)

1. Hoosiers
2. Pistol: the birth of a legend (I remember it from television showing as a kid.)
3. Basketball (It's Matt & Trey, so I'm all in.)
4. Hoop Dreams
5. Blue Chips (but mostly for the basketball games)

My favorite films from 1975 (the year I was born)...

1. The Apple Dumpling Gang
2. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
3. Jaws
4. Nashville
5. Return of the Pink Panther

My favorite films from 2000 (the year I was married)...

1. O Borther, Where Art Thou?
2. High Fidelity
3. Snatch
4. Traffic
5. Almost Famous

My favorite films with a Bob Dylan connection...

1. The Big Lebowski - "The Man in Me"
2. High Fidelity - "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You", "Most of the Time", "Shooting Star"
3. The Freshman - "Maggie's Farm"
4. The Royal Tenenbaums - "Wigwam", "Billy - Main Title"
5. Dazed & Confused - "Hurricane"
And that doesn't even take into account the biggest movie part he's ever had - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

My favorite films with a Randy Newman scores

1. Toy Story 2
2. Toy Story
3. Pleasantville
4. The Natural
5. Monsters, Inv

Countdown to 1000: Five posts left, fittingly enough on a top five post.

Taking another mindless day

Because I'm taking another day to throw down something that doesn't require any real thoughts...maybe some emotion on Thursday...

Thanks, as is usually the case, is owed to wikipedia...

My five favorite films nominated for Best pic in the 1990s

1. Unforgiven
2. Quiz Show
3. Goodfellas
4. The Thin Red Line
5. American Beauty
Wow...I would not have guessed Pulp Fiction to be aced out of the list...this is a really, really strong start of the twenty five

My five favorite films nominated for best pic in the 1980s

1. Field of Dreams
2. Raging Bull
3. Raiders of the Lost Arc
4. Amadeous
5. Rain Man

My five favorite films nominate for best pic in the 1970s

1. Apocalypse Now
2. The Godfather, Part II
3. Chinatown
4. The Godfather
5. MASH
Another tough list - had to leave off The Sting, American Graffiti, Jaws, and Nashville...

My five favorite films nominated for best pic in the 1960s

1. Dr Strangelove, or how i stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb
2. The Hustler
3. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. The Graduate

My five favorite films nominated for best pic in the 1950s

1. The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Ben-Hur
4. On the Waterfront
5. High Noon

Oh, and this appears to be post #978...in case you were keeping track...looks like it'll be close on hitting the magic number around New Years...

Back to my favorite twenty-five flicks

In honor of the recently-seen Bourne Ultimatum...

My favorite Joan Allen films:

1. The Upside of Anger
2. Off the Map
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. Pleasantville
5. Face/Off

My favorite Scott Glenn films:

1. Apocalypse Now
2. The Hunt for Red October
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. Nashville
5. The Silence of the Lambs

My favorite David Strathairn films:

1. Bob Roberts
2. Sneakers
3. Good Night, and Good Luck
4. The Bourne Ultimatum
5. Eight Men Out

My favorite Julia Stiles films:

1. The Bourne Ultimatum
2. The Bourne Identity
3. Save the Last Dance
4. The Bourne Supremacy
5. 10 Things I Hate About You

I had to go with the three Bourne films - which I was avoiding on the others - because I've seen so few of her films and am not willing to dignify A Guy Thing which may be the worst movie I've ever seen.

My favorite Matt Damon films:

1. Ocean's Eleven
2. Dogma
3. Rounders
4. The Bourne Ultimatum
5. Good Will Hunting