My Favorite Movies

My favorite film. The film redefined the action-adventure genre. Everything from the acting, direction, story, score, to the characters are pitch perfect. A throwback to the Saturday morning serials that lil Steven and George watched as kids.
Indiana Jones is my fucking hero. Part time teacher, full time relic hunter/archeologist/adventure seeker.
This movie has it all... Dark scary jungles and rainforests, double crossing accomplices, mayan temples, gigantic tarantulas, booby traps, bottomless pits, poison darts, giant rolling balls, crazy natives, mad frenchmen and SNAKES!!! ALL IN THE FIRST 20 MINUTES!!!

Classic Spielberg escapism. Maybe not as terrifying as his masterpiece of horror, Jaws, or comparable to his other masterpieces Schindler's List, Ryan, ET, Raiders, Color Purple and Minority Report... it still is a fine addition to his resume and one of the most entertaining summer blockbusters of all time.
Best FX of all time, however... No one can deny that fact.

Very good Swords and Sandals epic by Ridley Scott who really brings the savagery and power of the Roman Empire to life.
Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix are great as protagonist and antognist.
RUSSELL CROWE SHOULD NOT HAVE WON THE OSCAR!!!!!

Sensational performance by DiCaprio in a pretty good film.

Will go down as a classic. Featuring phenomenal Oscar winning direction by Ang Lee, stunning cinematography, a touching score and a career-defining Oscar nominated performance by the Heath Ledger. His recent death will only immortalize his performance in this film. Despite the sometimes "tough-to-handle" subject matter, the film is handled supremely well and the resulting work is one of the finest films of the decade. Not to be missed.
RIP Heath.

One of the greatest action films ever. Bruce Willis has never been better. Alan Rickman creates one of the greatest movie villins of all time with Hans Gruber and ofcourse Yipi Ki Yay Motherfucker!

Easily among the finest films of the decade featuring a career best performance from Jim Carrey and another beautiful Oscar nominated performance from Kate Winslet. Charlie Kaufman is simply a genius... He deserved the Oscar for his brilliant, mind fuck of a screenplay. Eternal Sunshine will also probably go down as one of the best and strangest romances' to hit the big screen. I love this movie. To top that feeling, I received it as a Birthday gift from someone I love! How perfect is that!?

Ahhh... One of the first movies I ever saw on the big screen. When they invented the metroplex with those gigantic screens, they truly had this film in mind. It has to be watched on the big screen to be enjoyed. A pure guilty pleasure to this day.

The film that resurrected the swashbuckling genre and made Pirates cool again.
With Capt. Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp gave birth to one of cinema's most hilarious, entertaining and popular characters. Depp portrays comedy, wit, flamboyance, idiocy, and originality all at once without sacrificing the quality of the film.

Geoffrey Rush also deserves mention as Depp's foe by unleashing dark yet comic viliany.

Great action sets, locations, an interetsting story, topped by career defining performances by Depp and Rush make this film a must see.

A true classic. Includes arguably the most talked about twist ending in the history of films, next to THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980), PLANET OF THE APES (1968) and THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995).
Shyamalan's best film. Hopefully THE HAPPENING will be a return to form.

Blade Runner is a masterpiece. You can't get a better science fiction film than this. Probably the most influential science fiction film, in terms of style, and mood. What is human? or what defines being human? And what is our society heading towards. As the years fly by, the world starts to get more and more like the Los Angeles seen in Blade Runner.

With The Dark Knight, comic book adaptations have a new benchmark to aspire to. To say that this film is the best superhero comic-book movie is not only an understatement, but an insult to the film. It can be seriously argued that The Dark Knight is the first superhero comic book adaptation that can be respected as a serious motion picture rather than disposable summer blockbuster fare. Instead of comparing the film to movies like Spider-Man 2, Iron Man or X2 (all very strong pieces of film-making on their own), it should be analyzed with Michael Mann's Heat or Martin Scorsese's The Departed - modern crime epics with serious themes, and characters. The Dark Knight is very similar to those films in the way it tackles fear, ethics, the concept of what makes a hero different from a villain, and how far people would go to save themselves. This Gotham City exists in a real world and suffers from the same problems one would associate with real world metropolises.
Since the advent of Batman in Gotham (envisioned in Nolanâs prequel Batman Begins), crime has taken a steep dive. Alongside Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and newly appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) Batman has almost single-handedly cleansed the streets - that is, until the mobsters, in their desperation, decide to turn to a mysterious, mass-murdering, psychopathic criminal for help, known to all only as The Joker (Heath Ledger). With the rise of the Joker come anarchy, chaos and the instillation of fear among the residents of Gotham with the Joker killing off important city officials every day the Batman doesn't reveal his identity.
Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker is everything you've heard. It's a magnificent performance. Every time the Joker is on screen, he elevates the film to its zenith with his snarl-like voice, physical twitches, and most noticeably, flapping snake-like tongue. The performance is at once terrifying, creepy, bizarre, brilliant and iconic. This performance will cement his legend in the hearts and eyes of everyone who watches the film.
Christian Bale more of less owns the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman making it his own. He perfectly balances Bruce Wayne's doubt, insecurities and loneliness with Batmanâs detective and physical abilities.
Both Aaron Eckhart and Gary Oldman bring their A game to the roles of Harvey Dent and Jim Gordon respectively. Eckhart, is very impressive as Ledger as Gotham's white knight whose eventual downfall and conversion into the villainous Two-Face is widely known. Maggie Gyllenhaal who replaces Katie Holmes is fine as Rachel, the woman torn between Bruce Wayne and Dent. Oscar winners Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman both bring much needed weight to their supporting roles.
Action sequences are all ace with the highlight being a freeway chase sequence involving the Bat Mobile, the new stunning Bat Pod, an 18-wheeler, an armored vehicle and a bunch of disposable police cars. Cinematography, Editing, Sound and Make-up work are all Oscar worthy.
The Dark Knight, simply put, is a transcendent experience - A revolution of film-making that can only be compared to capturing lightning in a bottle. It is a picture so well conceived, written and directed that it warrants to be placed alongside the greatest crime films of all time. I am pretty much convinced that no future comic book film will ever scale the heights that this film sits perched on. For decades, film buffs and historians will look upon this film as a benchmark in its genre. A flat-out masterpiece.

PS. The IMAX Experience is the only way to truly appreciate this film.

Deniro gives probably the best acting performance in history.

Scorsese has made better films but none as entertaining, tense and well written as The Departed. Adapted from the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs, The Departed ups the characters, plot and screen time. Scorsese infuses his trademarks in the film making it one of his best efforts. He deservedly took home the Oscar for his work here.
Kudos to DiCaprio for giving the finest performance of his career here. Damon also excels in a much harder role. Walhberg steals every scene he is in and Nicholson is Nicholson... Scenery chewing.

Tarantino's finest. There will never be a film as gripping, hilarious, violent, brutal and original as Pulp Fiction.

Won the Palm D'Ore at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

Another Spielberg classic. This one raised the bar for the war film which was otherwise seen from the general's POV. The GI's POV truly gives us a glimpse of the "Greatest Generation."