……Since most of you will be relaxing anyway…..or retired……here’s the critics and know everything about the cinema world people’s choices…..
SUPRISING LISTS OF RECOMMENDED BY KEANU REEVES…..Not only is he one of the coolest person I have yet to meet….my man has a crazy taste in films…..there were a few I said “nah” to…..but the rest….classics…..A Clockwork Orange…..Rollerball (the 1st one)……Dr. Strangelove…..Seven Samurai…..Amadeus…..Raising Arizona……Monty Python and the Holy Grail…..The Outlaw Josey Wales…..The Evil Dead…..Nikita: Le Femme Nikita…..The Big Lebowski…..Young Frankenstein……Leon…..Mad Max 2: Road Warrior……and one of the greatest films of all-time…..Blazing Saddles…..great taste in films and all of them are in my collection…..there were only 3 films I wasn’t feelin’…..and next we have……
20 EPIC LONG MOVIES EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH AT LEAST ONCE…..I’ll give you my 11 and talk about the other “no’s” later…..Gandhi…..The Godfather II……JFK……Ben-Hur…..Schindler’s List……Doctor Zhivago…..The Wolf of Wall Street…..The Green Mile…..Dances with Wolves…..Gone with the Wind…..Oppenheimer…..now I’ve seen the “no’s” before…..but I wasn’t feeling Cleopatra…..my favorite part is when she rolls up in Rome….. Fiddler on the Roof…..I do love “If I were a rich man”…..The Ten Commandments…..way too long and boring for me…..Pearl Harbor…..the cinematography was great…..but the story was really weak….King Kong…..if they’d picked the original…..instead of the re-make from 2005…..that would’ve been a yes….The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King….nothing against The Rings….and they’re all beautifully filmed…..but after the 3rd one…..that grungy-looking thing that was trying to steal the ring turned me off…..because it kept getting on my last nerve…..Titanic…..an hour into it…..sink the damn boat so we all can go home early…..Avatar: The Way of the Water…..I gave it 45 minutes…..and that was it…..I liked the first one better……now we mutate into…..
HOW MANY OF THE 100 BEST AMERICAN MOVIES OF ALL TIME HAVE YOU SEEN…..Seen many of them…..and here’s my list…..Do the Right Thing…..On the Waterfront….L.A. Confidential…..Dunkirk…..Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind….The Truman Show…..Back to the Future…..Moonlight…..The Bride of Frankenstein….oh come on…..her reaction the first time she puts eyes on her future husband is worth watching the film…..she freaked!……Fantasia….Roma…..Cool Hand Luke…..Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon…..The Shawshank Redemption……Anatomy of a Murder……It’s a Wonderful Life…..Platoon…..Whiplash……Hamilton…..Chinatown……Spotlight…..Alien…..The Dark Knight….Heath Ledger was major sick in this film…..and we lost him way too early…..The Wild Bunch…..A Streetcar Named Desire…..Rosemary’s Baby…..Taxi Driver…..The Grapes of Wrath…..The Maltese Falcon…..The Apartment…..Ratatouille…Goodfellas…..Saving Private Ryan….Double Indemnity…..Notorious…..Apocalypse Now…..All About Eve…..Some Like It Hot…….Modern Times…..Psycho……Citizen Kane…..Pulp Fiction…..Casablanca….12 Angry Men…..The Wizard of Oz……and those are my favorite out of the 100 “they” picked….many good ones were left out…..a lot!…..and movie picking people….not all of the films you selected were American films….anyway, moving on…..everyone has their favorites and for me….
MANY FILMS ARE MISSING…..LIKE…..Being There……Whatever Happened to Baby Jane…..Blade Runner (the 1st one)……Bonnie & Clyde…..Brubaker…..Cabin in the Sky….Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid…..Dogma…..Face Off…..Fistful of Dollars…..Gladiator…..Harvey…..Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte……In the Heat of the Night….Inglorious Basterds…..Jaws…..Malcolm X….My Cousin Vinny…..One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest…..Raging Bull….Sunset Blvd…..The Bad Seed…..The Color Purple…..The Conversation….The Curious Case of Benjamin Button…..The Magnificent Seven…..The Usual Suspects…..Thelma & Louise…..Wait Until Dark……Watermelon Man…..All Quiet on the Western Front (the new one)……The Three Faces of Eve…..The Red Balloon…..The Red Violin….To Kill a Mockingbird……and I could add more but I want to take you…..
UNDER THE CRITICS MOVIE RADAR…..The Secret in Their Eyes…..The Boys From Brazil…..Orfeu Negro…..Apocalypto…..Ajami….Lawrence of Arabia…..The Battle for Algiers…..The Devil’s Double….The Hurt Locker…..Hidalgo…..Spartacus…..I Saw the Devil…..Audition…..Empire of the Sun…..Gallipoli…..Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence…..Once Were Warriors…..Ong Bak….Red Cliff pt. 1&2…..The Flowers of War…..The Raid…..The Kite Runner…..The Viral Factor….Tracker….Warriors of the Rainbow…..Bride Flight….71 Into the Fire….My Name is Khan….Rockstar (Bollywood)……Veer Zaara…..As it is in Heaven…..Braveheart…..Cat Run…..Cinema Paradiso…..District B 13/District 13 Ultimatum……Never Let Me Go……Pans Labyrinth…..A Woman in Berlin…..The Great Escape….The Illusionist…..Farinelli…..Finding Neverland…..Hugo…..Joyeux Noel…..Life is Beautiful…..Malena….Peter’s Friends…..Sarah’s Key…..Sliding Doors…..Snatch…..Special Forces (French)……Tell No One…..The Legend of 1900…..The Lives of Others…..The Man Who Sued God…..The Orphanage…..The Reader…..The Unknown Woman…..The Wind That Shakes the Barley…..The Women on the 6th Floor…..The Boat That Rocked…..The Boy in the Striped Pajamas…..The Magdalene Sisters…..The Prestige…..3000 Miles to Graceland…..A Day Without Mexicans….A River Runs Through It…..Animal House…..August Rush…..Beaches…..Carmen Jones…..Buck and the Preacher…..Freedom Writers…..Bulworth….E.T……Enemy of the State…..For Love of the Game….Four Brothers….From Dusk Til Dawn…..Hancock….Human Trafficking…..I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell……Juno…..Limitless…..Orphan…..Little Caesar…..Lucky Number Slevin…..Nuts…..The Great Debaters…..Paul…..Paycheck…..Precious…..Putney Swope….Remember the Titans….S1mOne……Set It Off…..Silverado….Source Code….The Full Monty……Strange Days…..Streamers….The Blues Brothers….The Last Castle….The Natural…..The Negotiator….The Next Three Days…..Tootsie…..Two Days in the Valley….We Were Soldiers….White Heat…..Colossus The Forbin Project….For The Boys…..Life As A House…..Mr. Hollands Opus….Punchline….The Joy Luck Club……The Last Detail…..The Life of David Gale….The Replacements…..and this list…..if you are brave enough to take it on…..should keep you busy until December…..have fun!