Movies I Own

While Mr Hanks didn't win an Oscar for this movie perhaps Bruce Dern should've won one for it? It's got Dern as a psychotic military vet, Princess Leia, one of the Coreys (Feldman) and Henry Gibson before he was telling William H Macy not to confuse children with angels in a bar. It's not particularly funny, but it is just entertaining enough to have good replay value.

I am not a Nicolas Cage fan by any means. That being said, this was an excellent film that takes Cage from being a sort-of pushover at the start of the film to an almost sadistic madman at the end trying to get to the bottom of a snuff film that has been proven to be real. Typical excellent performances by Phoenix, Stormare and Gandolfini highlight this lengthy (it seems longer than two hours) film about taboo pornography. Schumacher adds one of the best DVD commentaries I've heard as well.

Monty Python vet Terry Gilliam directs Bruce Willis as a convict going around in time trying to stop a killer disease. Brad Pitt used to do good movies like this and was awesome in most everything he did. With that said...what the hell happened, Brad? Not for everyone and a bit of a departure for most involved. Plus...it's got Frank Gorshin in it. You can't go wrong with The Riddler.

Not a stretch for Nick Nolte by any means was this early buddy cop comedy co-starring Eddie Murphy long before kids determined his film roles (he actually had a co-star besides himself in this one!) Right up there with the original Lethal Weapon as the best of the genre.

Seagal's first starring role with a very impressive cast led by Blaxploitation-veteran Pam Grier as his long-suffering partner, Sharon Stone as his wife and Rat Pack hangaround Henry de Silva as the bad guy. A good movie and a sign of things to come for Aikido-legend Seagal - at least until he did Under Seige 2.

This is the kind of cast that makes you say "Son of a bitch, this is a great cast!". Clint Eastwood is excellent as a career criminal that sees a lady murdered by the Secret Service while messing around with the President. All involved put in top-notch performances with a very unique story idea.

A typical romantic storyline set in the 60's as told through Beatles music. A very interesting idea that works well for what it is, but the music hides what is a rather lackluster story. Without the music, the story is nothing.

Hailed by many as the greatest comedy of all time, I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that right off. The laughs are nonstop and the movie itself has to be watched over and over continually just to catch everything that's in it. This really brought Leslie Nielsen to the forefront of comedies like this.

After years of battling drugs dealers, murderers and sharks, Roy Scheider really shines in this dark musical based on the life of Bob Fosse, who was previously involved in Cabaret, Chicago and Damn Yankees. The ending of this movie (with Ben Vereen) is one of favorite endings.

A very well-acted movie worthy of all the critical hype that surrounded it. This is the movie that really made Kevin Spacey's career (along with The Usual Suspects) and made him a household name. The film won a ton of awards and rightfully so. It's a movie just short of having the "masterpiece" label placed upon it.

A great adaption of Bret Easton Ellis' book starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman. The movie flows quite smoothly as Bateman goes from one mood another, interacting with his Wall Street colleagues one minute, then chopping off Jared Leto's head with an axe while wearing a raincoat the next. Not a normal slasher flick which more often than not try to get you to feel some kind of sympathy for someone who kills. Instead, Bateman is a man who seemingly has it all and kills perhaps for the thrill of it. Or does he? This movie has an open ending.

As with a lot of Spielberg's films, this one is wide and sweeping, telling some sort of story and taking a long time to get there. The cast is magnificent and the acting is superb, but it tries too hard to be some sort of cinematic masterpiece and falls far short of Spielberg's previous works. Not a horrible movie by any means, but not one to watch too often.

A very disturbing film about a very disturbing war in U.S. history, Martin Sheen is sent to kill Marlon Brando and the more he reads about Col. Kurtz, the less he is for sure he really wants to do it. The original cut of the film was far superior to the redux done years later, as the extra 40+ minutes don't add much to the movie. Most people will just remember Duvall's "I love the smell of napalm in the morning..." speech but this film is far much more than that. It's one of the best and more important films in American cinema history.

A typical John Candy movie, co-starring Eugene Levy (before he decided to hop aboard the American Pie milktruck), Meg Ryan (before she decided to leave her marriage for a telephone-slinging Aussie), Robert Loggia, Duke from Rocky and Mr Strickland from Back To The Future. Really enjoyable if you're into these types of movies, which I find a guilty pleasure.

If you're into Evil Dead, then I don't even have to explain this one. It is what it is...and thank God for Bruce Campbell! I couldn't even begin to imagine a world without him.

Typical great performances from Penn and Cheadle, this is not some kind of normal "pyscho killer goes insane and wants to kill the president" story. It's not a great movie, but not at all a bad one. It's a very good film.

A great cast put together for (yet another) remake that somewhere along the line falls flat. It took a drubbing from critics and fans, but whatever caused this film to fail, it sure as hell wasn't the acting. Nothing wrong there, although I have to say Uma isn't near the beauty Diana Rigg was in that role. Damn she was hot.

Focuses on the worthiest and more important part of Hughes' life: filmmaker, aviator, groundbreaking inventor and industrialist throughout different periods of his life played brilliantly by the multitalented DiCaprio. Scorcese does a masterful job here, as do Blanchette, Reilly, Alda and Baldwin. A pleasure for me to experience this one.

Just a bit (or a lot) lacking in believability, but then again this was the 80's. Fox stars as a teen who travels back in time to avoid a van full of vengeful Libyans and ends up totally altering the past then must fix it. Followed by two sequels, this trilogy has an incredible amount of rewatchability mostly due to all the hidden things in it.

This film might look familiar to you. Probably because a portion of it is basically a redux of the first one. Taking place immediately after the first one ends, Marty must travel to the future to change the course of his and his kids' lives in 2015. During the course of this, old Biff grabs a sport almanac and takes it back to his younger self in 1955, thereby making himself a millionnaire in 1985 and changing the future once again. My personal favorite amiongst the three films.

The third and final chapter in the Back To The Future trilogy, Marty must go back in time to get Doc Brown and bring him back to 1985 while keeping him from being shot and killed by Mad Dog Tannen in 1885. A bit boring and at times seems to have no resemblance to either of the previous entries. Solid film, but not great.

Not one of Seagal's best movies, but not overly horrible either. The plot is typical Direct-To-DVD Seagal stuff and the acting is subpar, but then again Seagal is past his prime at this point.

Eddie Murphy's perhaps best starring role as a Detroit cop gone to California to investigate his friend's murder. Murphy got to act alongside such film legends like Bronson Pinchot, Judge Reinhold and Ronny Cox, who was probably relieved just to not have to match banjo techniques with a mentally challenged hillbilly. A great movie.

Not near as good as the original, without the same feel, comedy and steam as the first one had. This one wasn't bad by any means, but he should've stopped here. Now I hear they're making a fourth one?

Tim Burton's oddball fairytail of a man's life filled with tall tales is not as dark as his other films, but to me stands out so much more than the other movies he's tried to make masterpieces. If Forrest Gump was even half as good as this film was, then it would've been well-deserving of the awards heaped upon it. But the main difference is that this film, while not to be taken too seriously, must not be taken too lightly either. Ewan is his typical brilliant self while Albert Finney is wonderful as a different, albeit older version.

One of The Coens true highlights (of which there are many), this film may not be completely believeable and a bit over the top at times, but it's a lot of fun to watch and is certainly one of the most quoteable movies out there. John Goodman steals the movie as a military vet who can turn any situation into something to do with Vietnam.

It is what it is...a Van Damme movie. Great fight sequences with different martial arts styles represented, but only for fans of either Van Damme or martial arts movies. Van Damme is his usual self here - for better or worse - but this does include Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker so how many karate movies can say they have a Best Actor winner in them?

Not my favorite Bond entry, but certainly one of the best and maybe the most popular of the 007 films.

A direct continuation of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Connery reportedly got paid somewhere in the area of $20 million (adjusted for inflation today) to return for one more official Bond movie. He made it a memorable one, too, as Charles Gray, Jill St. John and the sausage-king Jimmy Dean all make this one of the best entries in the series.

Moore's first outing as 007 and my personal favorite of all 21 films. A well-paced and interesting ride from New York City to Louisiana to a Haiti-like island run by the drug-smuggling Lt. Al Giardello - oops, I mean Kananga/Mr Big. Add a very hot Jane Seymour into the mix and this was a hell of a way to open up the best run of Bond movies in the bunch.

Money talks. That's the best way to describe Moore's final outing as 007, as he was itching to retire from the franchise despite EON paychecks floating his way after every previous film had finished. Christopher Walken is a very memorable Bond villain, but Moore just looked too old and tired to play Bond anymore. Time to pass it on the younger and very hungry Dalton...and move on to classic cinema like Spice World.

When it comes to playing Bond, nobody had down the overall feel of 007 like Timothy Dalton, who was committed to playing him like he was protrayed in the books. Directed by 007 vet John Glen, this was the first movie to star Dalton in the role and he clearly took it in a much different direction than the tired Moore had. A very underrated entry into the franchise. Too bad Dalton had to get lost between Moore and Brosnan in 007land.

The last Bond to feature Brosnan as 007 and it got slammed pretty hard when it came out, mostly due to the overuse of CGI in it. But given some time and looked back upon, this one might (hopefully) be remembered as one of the most underrated 007 films (along with The Living Daylights).

Daniel Craig shines in his first major starring role playing an inexperienced and very vulnerable Bond. This film restarts the franchise apparently, and if it does, then we can forget about future garbage such as Tomorrow Never Dies and Hugo Drax.

Good acting by all involved and has some good names and an interesting plot, but didn't keep my attention like it should have. Not a great film, but not a bad one, either.

Perhaps the best film ever made about the porn industry, Anderson's masterpiece doesn't make a joke out of it or demean it in any way. Mark Wahlberg's breakout role as the John Holmes-inspired Eddie Adams is what made me forget about the bad rapping and underwear ads. Films don't get much better than this one, really.

It's mainly a hard romance story, set within the story of an ex-boxer making a life out of prison with what he knows amidst the eternal terrorist struggles in Ireland. I don't think Daniel Day-Lewis could play a bad part in a film if he tried, as he easily carries the movie here. Alongside him are a couple of Thomas Harris-universe vets in Emily Watson (Red Dragon) and Brian Cox (Manhunter). As it is, several different things could tear apart a romance already torn apart for 14 years due to a stretch in prison. I've been searching for this movie for the last 10 years, finally found it and was in no way disappointed.

Mel Gibson's masterpiece and rightfully rewarded at the Academy Awards that year. Great story, acting...you name it. A true masterpiece.

One of the funniest films ever made, right up there with Airplane! and The Holy Grail. A great ensemble cast put a hilarious spin on a sport that has to be considered the most boring ever created.