My Top 10 Movies
These are in no particular order, because I can put anyone of these movies in and get a good laugh out of it. I do have series’ of movies from the same director/writer that I tend to follow.
1. So I Married an Axe Murderer [Region 2]- Probably one Mike Myers funniest movies. The character of his dad was one of the funniest people with some of the best lines ever. Me and some of my friends and family have a tendency to quote the whole movie while watching or just in everyday happenings. Definitely a movie to have in your collection.
2. - Just Friends - One of Ryan Reynolds best movies. He really knows how to work a fat suit and sing one of the worst songs of the mid 90’s. He starts out in the 90’s and graduating from high school weighing well over 250 lbs. and cheerleading and pretty much being the class nobody and being humiliated to 10 years later and being thin and having the best rock and roll lifestyle and accidently winding up in his hometown and trying to impress his ex-crush. His whole family dynamic with his little brother brings back some memories for me.
3. Raising Arizona - Definitley Nicolas Cages best movie. He was perfect in the part of being pushed around by his petite wife, played by Holly Hunter, and getting the crap kicked out of him. Great soundtrack, sorry lots of yodeling, but it works with the chase scenes. You just can’t help but laugh at a hairdo that just doesn’t want to cooperate.
4. Orange County - Great movie written by Mike White, who makes a cameo, and a great spring board for Colin Hanks’ career. What really makes the film is the total disfunctional family of the lead character. Parents who are split up, but are still in love but won’t admit it. The father who is a work-aholic, the mother who drinks a little and doesn’t want her baby to go away to college and the older brother who doesn’t do anything but sleep, drink and take way too many drugs and says he’ “kick ass”. Jack Black as the older brother is a classic.
5. Empire Records - I have to throw this one because of the excellent soundtrack. it is a good movie, for being a teen flick of sorts. It is just filled with teen angst and problems all centered around saving the neighborhood record store. Renee Zellweger and Liv Tyler’s earliest movies. Did I mention a great soundtrack .
6. The Princess Bride (Special Edition) - Yeh, you’re probably saying “what the ____!” but it is a really good movie with more great quotable lines, by Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya. Directed by Rob Reiner and also starring Robin Wright-Penn, Cary Elwes, Andre Giant and Wallace Shawn.
The next three are all written and directed by Kevin Smith and are great movies because of that fact alone. Low budget but they don’t look it. Great stories, great casts and edgy subject matters.
10. There’s Something About Mary (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector’s Edition) - Great movie by the Farrelly Brothers with some very edgy subject matter. They are always able to put those certain things inot their movies and you always have to ask “how did they do that and get away with it” and “why did they do that and that’s just so wrong”, but that is what makes them so good at what they do. You just can’t go wrong with a Farrelly Brothers movie.
Honorable mention goes to Grosse Point Blank with John Cusack. Fantastic soundtrack, if you are into the whole 80’s punk and alternative scene. Very dark comedy about a professional hitman going back to his class reunion.
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