Movies I Friggin' Own Yo' (Literally!)

I love this movie.

Beautiful, hilarious, and compelling. It attacks the emotional and spiritual complacency of American culture and really brings to light how poisonous a self-absorbed and shallow lifestyle can be, and how that causes pain and alienation within a family. All this while being funny and great to watch! One scene, in which a character describes a sort of revelation, was for me (and remains) one of the most significant and meaningful moments in film. It is also tremendously melodramatic.

If you haven't seen Back the Future you have no business reading reviews. 88 miles per hour! 1.21 Gigawatts! Lightning! Skateboards! All this and more in the sensation of the modern age: BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!

You can't not like it! It's more "Back to the Future" fun times!

Back to the Future goes west: fun ensues! It's Back to the Future III!

Tim Burton hits the nail on the head with this movie. It's called Big Fish because its about a family of huge fish that can talk. Then they are abducted by aliens and fly to the moon, where they are brainwashed, outfitted with lasers and rocket launchers, and sent back to earth to assasinate Mr. T. Mr. T of course then pwns them like n00bs.

We're not computers, Sebastian, we're physical.

An awesome movie that asks some moral questions that are both outrageous and legitimate at the same time. That, and its just plain cool, regardless of some potentially sub-par production quality.

The movie that brought the epic back, and one of the more compelling "give me liberty or give me death" movies ever.

"You know, you should have let yourself get killed a long time ago when you had the chance. See, you may be the biggest thing that ever hit this area, but you're still two-bit outlaws. I never met a soul more affable than you, Butch, or faster than the Kid, but you're still nothing but two-bit outlaws on the dodge. It's over, don't you get that? Your time is over and you're gonna die bloody, and all you can do is choose where. "

The moral of this story?

Life is sad, but totally sweet to watch.

Probably the best Bond film ever made from a technical standpoint. Virtually every aspect of the movie is excellent, although Sean Connery isn't in it, so it loses half a star. Daniel Craig plays the most human and the most hardcore Bond yet.

Pretty slick and super fun to watch.

I think this is Martin Scorsese's best movie. Whether this movie was a direct influence on Wes Anderson and Guy Ritchie and every slick movie since is debatable, maybe it is just representative of the style of every cool movie made ever since, but "The Color of Money" capitalizes on cinematography, drama, and music placement or whatever you call awesome music queues in ways that have obviously been emulated a billion times over. This is a movie that finally nails the sentimental idea of regaining your place in life after suffering a major blow without being absolute crap. At no point must you wince with the overbearing gooiness that normally assaults the viewer in a movie about rebuilding your life. It's awesome, you should totally watch it at least twice.

Do you know about Cowboy Bebop? If you do, you like it, and if you like it then you'll love this movie. If you don't know about Cowboy Bebop then never mind any of this.

Crash attempts and succeeds at the difficult and often botched task of addressing racial and cultural stigmas in modern society.

It will be so good I can barely stand it.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE:
I saw it, and I am going to see it again. Maybe not his best, maybe not as poignant, and maybe lacking the climactic cathartic sequences of his other movies, but still beautiful and altogether fantastic. I loved it, and if Wes Anderson fails to progress much further than revisiting these themes with this aesthetic over and over again I will not be let down.

I watched this movie a few years ago and I was really tired so I had no clue what the junk actually happened. Also, Frank the bunny terrified me. Having watched it again I find that A) It both makes sense and is excitingly cool. and B) Frank is not that scary. If you like spiritual dilemmas, time travel, mental illness, thinking about things, or social marginality you'll probably enjoy it.

Dr. Strangelove gets 5 stars for teaching me the importance of the preservation of my precious bodily fluids.

A heartwarming tale of kinda unrequitable love and a guy who has scissors for hands.

Bruce Lee and other awesome dudes face off in a truly epic tournament! This movie has Jackie Chan in it too. He gets kicked across a room!

Thoroughly enjoyable and totally epic, the only real problem with The Fellowship of the Ring is, like the sequels, its inability to capture the elements of the story that make it truly compelling. While the Lord of the Rings books are certainly about hobbits and rings and all that fantasy jibber-jabber, they are even more an analogy to the struggle between good and evil in modern times. While not at all an allegory, the story itself is a reflection on very real elements of moral conflict, and the movies fail to capture that altogether.

A pretty cool movie. Definitely a must for anybody who likes sci-fi stuff, but a little out there for those who have a stunted imagination. Also, the good aliens that show up at the end are absolutely idiotic looking.

The scene at the end with the buildings crashing down to the Pixies "Where is my mind" is one of the mostest awesomest I've ever seen.

One of the best movies ever in my book. It's totally awesome.

This movie is epic. I think my expectations were a bit too high because I kind of found myself disappointed, but that also might be because I am ridiculously tired. Anyway it was awesome, and I can see why people go nuts about it.

You know...for the kids!

One of the best looking and most entertaining kids movies ever in my opinion.

It stars a giant robot from outer space. That is enough for 5 stars right there.

A well made atmospheric sci-fi love story. You can find happiness and beauty in even the weirdest, most inexplicable, and worst situations.

A beautiful movie and an excellent adventure story.

Aside from being of overall quality, there is a scene in which ninjas attack a village of samurai. And they fight. This is therefore one of the greatest movies of all time.

Hilarious and brilliant.

This movie is the quintessential western. Epic gun fighting, a good strong moral theme, Yul Brynner and some tumbleweeds and you got yerself one fine movin'-picture. Giddyap!

Plucks at the hearstrings and excites your visual receptors. I don't know why I put it that way, but it does. One of the greatest movies I've ever seen.

Aliens (Martians, to be specific) attack and it is awesome.

Possibly the best action movie of all time. Between the amazing special effects, the mind-blowing action, and the perfectly portrayed story of the triumph of truth, the Matrix stands apart from pretty much every action movie ever. One of the most complex and deep action movies you'll ever see.

Miller's Crossing is morally complex, thematically rich, visually beautiful, and emotionally authentic. Wham bam thank you ma'am.

A great idea realized with tremendous humor.

This movie has it all I tell ya.

Your greatest strength is your greatest weakness, and when your greatest strength is sheer tenacity it makes for some crazy drama. A beautifully shot tragic moral lesson and riveting drama all at once.

Modern warfare against dragons in a post apocalyptic environment is the stuff dreams are made of. Maybe not the most cerebral film ever created, but it's pretty awesome nonetheless.

Road to Perdition is a fantastic movie. If you have not seen it you should change that immediately.