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#110: X2
The first movie that took the superhero genre from a "kinda maybe" to something that really had legs to stand. X-men is okay with it's subdued story, but of course the point where any X-men story gets awesome is when the humans start gunning for them. When Wolverine has to start secreting around a bunch of students who are getting hunted down, shit gets real. The added character dynamics are amazing from start to finish. Bad guys actually have arcs. As an X-men fan, it's just a great film.
#109: Hachi: A Dog's Tale
I wanted so badly for the original Japanese movie to be better, and it wasn't where it counted. Cause this is a shitty movie. It's poorly made sentimental drivel. But the second half fucking slays me. It's so damn depressing. So many bad dog movies are all about how the dog dies. But this one is the other way around, and the canine performance alone is so compelling. Sure, the classic tale is still represented in Futurama, but it seems like a movie with this narrative can't even be intentionally bad.
#108: The Seventh Seal
If you don't know about this movie, then you do know about the man who has a game of chess with death. Ingmar Bergman is a master of surreal, other-worldly examinations of real world psychological drama. For many, this is his best film. It's also metal as fuck.
#107: The Boondock Saints
There are those who hate this movie just because Troy Duffy got a one in a million opportunity to be a filmmaker and burned every bridge. Also that it's basically just trying to be a Quentin Tarantino movie. But Tarantino's whole career is about making other people's movies well, and Troy Duffy did the same. I mean god damn, THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT! Everyone and everything in this film just gives 110%. It's a blast.
#106: Ben-Hur (2016)
By far the biggest surprise of 2016, if not one of the biggest surprises for me ever. This movie is VERY good. It has all the epicness of the original with none of the bloat, and somehow manages to have much more developed, believable, and likable characters. It actually tells a much more cohesive story. And the story is pretty good.
#105: Memories of Murder
Korean crime film about two corrupt idiot cops trying to pin a series of murders on anyone they can force a confession out of and the educated city policeman trying to show them morality and science. Well, it seems a bit black and white, doesn't it? But if you've seen The Wire, you already know that cops is hard. As a drama it goes farther than most cops would ever have to deal with, yet displays fundamental problems in a professional that we're required to have around.
#104: Paths of Glory
Stanley Kubrick's best film imo. Yes, he hasn't been on this list much, though several of his films were considered. I'm still looking for that 10/10 Kubrick film that I feel must exist. For now, this one is just brilliant war satire. Hell, it's not a lot unlike Catch-22 or All Quiet on the Western Front. A simple black and white movie, but somehow it's exceptional story propels it above Kubrick's big tentpoles.
#103: Requiem for a Dream
To many this a nightmarish horror story. To me it's a beautiful opera. No, I'm serious, the way this movie is filmed is very unique. I love the constant drowning music, the melodrama, the seasonal motifs. Either way, it's a great film to show the horrors of drug use.
#102: The Dark Knight
OMG, Dark Knight isn't even top 100?!? Well, no. It has some massive plot holes and just dumped a lot of good plot points from the end of the first movie. The soap boxing is frankly annoying, and this may seem nitpicky, but so is just how often this film is shot during the day. But that doesn't mean I don't love what everyone else loves about it: those fucking amazing performances of the Joker and Two-Face. I just won't look past the bad bits for it.
#101: The Secret of NIMH
Don Bluth at his best. Brutal and horrifying children's movie. The concept is pretty good, the character whose point of view we see it from is great. But the kicker is all those scenes that really fucked me up as a child. You know the ones. All fifty of them.
The first movie that took the superhero genre from a "kinda maybe" to something that really had legs to stand. X-men is okay with it's subdued story, but of course the point where any X-men story gets awesome is when the humans start gunning for them. When Wolverine has to start secreting around a bunch of students who are getting hunted down, shit gets real. The added character dynamics are amazing from start to finish. Bad guys actually have arcs. As an X-men fan, it's just a great film.
#109: Hachi: A Dog's Tale
I wanted so badly for the original Japanese movie to be better, and it wasn't where it counted. Cause this is a shitty movie. It's poorly made sentimental drivel. But the second half fucking slays me. It's so damn depressing. So many bad dog movies are all about how the dog dies. But this one is the other way around, and the canine performance alone is so compelling. Sure, the classic tale is still represented in Futurama, but it seems like a movie with this narrative can't even be intentionally bad.
#108: The Seventh Seal
If you don't know about this movie, then you do know about the man who has a game of chess with death. Ingmar Bergman is a master of surreal, other-worldly examinations of real world psychological drama. For many, this is his best film. It's also metal as fuck.
#107: The Boondock Saints
There are those who hate this movie just because Troy Duffy got a one in a million opportunity to be a filmmaker and burned every bridge. Also that it's basically just trying to be a Quentin Tarantino movie. But Tarantino's whole career is about making other people's movies well, and Troy Duffy did the same. I mean god damn, THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT! Everyone and everything in this film just gives 110%. It's a blast.
#106: Ben-Hur (2016)
By far the biggest surprise of 2016, if not one of the biggest surprises for me ever. This movie is VERY good. It has all the epicness of the original with none of the bloat, and somehow manages to have much more developed, believable, and likable characters. It actually tells a much more cohesive story. And the story is pretty good.
#105: Memories of Murder
Korean crime film about two corrupt idiot cops trying to pin a series of murders on anyone they can force a confession out of and the educated city policeman trying to show them morality and science. Well, it seems a bit black and white, doesn't it? But if you've seen The Wire, you already know that cops is hard. As a drama it goes farther than most cops would ever have to deal with, yet displays fundamental problems in a professional that we're required to have around.
#104: Paths of Glory
Stanley Kubrick's best film imo. Yes, he hasn't been on this list much, though several of his films were considered. I'm still looking for that 10/10 Kubrick film that I feel must exist. For now, this one is just brilliant war satire. Hell, it's not a lot unlike Catch-22 or All Quiet on the Western Front. A simple black and white movie, but somehow it's exceptional story propels it above Kubrick's big tentpoles.
#103: Requiem for a Dream
To many this a nightmarish horror story. To me it's a beautiful opera. No, I'm serious, the way this movie is filmed is very unique. I love the constant drowning music, the melodrama, the seasonal motifs. Either way, it's a great film to show the horrors of drug use.
#102: The Dark Knight
OMG, Dark Knight isn't even top 100?!? Well, no. It has some massive plot holes and just dumped a lot of good plot points from the end of the first movie. The soap boxing is frankly annoying, and this may seem nitpicky, but so is just how often this film is shot during the day. But that doesn't mean I don't love what everyone else loves about it: those fucking amazing performances of the Joker and Two-Face. I just won't look past the bad bits for it.
#101: The Secret of NIMH
Don Bluth at his best. Brutal and horrifying children's movie. The concept is pretty good, the character whose point of view we see it from is great. But the kicker is all those scenes that really fucked me up as a child. You know the ones. All fifty of them.