{"id":24,"date":"2012-02-21T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:15:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T01:15:51","slug":"movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watch a fair number of movies. Most I watch at home and once in a while I&#8217;ll see one in the theatre.<\/p>\n<p>If you read my post from yesterday you won&#8217;t be surprised that I have a particular interest in science fiction and fantasy movies. And yes, there are lists for those on the <strong>Sci-Fi Lists<\/strong> web site as well: check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/scifilists.sffjazz.com\/lists_film.html\">science fiction list<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy100.sffjazz.com\/lists_films.html\">fantasy list<\/a>. I&#8217;ll let you know what I think of the movies on these lists one of these days.<\/p>\n<p>When I review a movie the only thing I can do is rate it according to how I feel about it on that occasion. I sometimes rewatch movies, and it&#8217;s certainly possible that I&#8217;ll give a movie a different rating upon subsequent viewing.<\/p>\n<p>For now, here are my picks for the best of the best movies. These aren&#8217;t etched in stone &#8212; I might change my mind tomorrow. But they give you a good idea of what kind of movies I like.<\/p>\n<p>Top 20 science fiction movies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/li>\n<li>The Adjustment Bureau<\/li>\n<li>Batman Begins<\/li>\n<li>Blade Runner<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Dark City<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Strangelove<\/li>\n<li>Galaxy Quest<\/li>\n<li>Gattaca<\/li>\n<li>Inception<\/li>\n<li>Last Night<\/li>\n<li>The Matrix<\/li>\n<li>Planet of the Apes (1968)<\/li>\n<li>Serenity<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: Insurrection<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek<\/li>\n<li>The Truman Show<\/li>\n<li>Twelve Monkeys<\/li>\n<li>WALL-E<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 20 fantasy movies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Babe<\/li>\n<li>Being John Malkovich<\/li>\n<li>Big Fish<\/li>\n<li>Chicken Run<\/li>\n<li>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/li>\n<li>Field of Dreams<\/li>\n<li>The Green Mile<\/li>\n<li>Hero<\/li>\n<li>The Incredibles<\/li>\n<li>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/li>\n<li>The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers<\/li>\n<li>The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King<\/li>\n<li>Monsters, Inc.<\/li>\n<li>The Princess Bride<\/li>\n<li>Shrek<\/li>\n<li>The Sixth Sense<\/li>\n<li>Spider-man 2<\/li>\n<li>Toy Story<\/li>\n<li>Toy Story 2<\/li>\n<li>Unbreakable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 20 comedy movies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amelie<\/li>\n<li>The Big Lebowski<\/li>\n<li>Bowfinger<\/li>\n<li>Broken Flowers<\/li>\n<li>Bulworth<\/li>\n<li>Clerks<\/li>\n<li>Crocodile Dundee<\/li>\n<li>Dave<\/li>\n<li>Dogma<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Strangelove<\/li>\n<li>Drowning Mona<\/li>\n<li>Fargo<\/li>\n<li>Grumpy Old Men<\/li>\n<li>Life is Beautiful<\/li>\n<li>Maverick<\/li>\n<li>Napoleon Dynamite<\/li>\n<li>Strictly Ballroom<\/li>\n<li>The Triplets of Belleville<\/li>\n<li>Tropic Thunder<\/li>\n<li>Zoolander<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 20 dramatic movies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Beauty<\/li>\n<li>Backdraft<\/li>\n<li>Citizen Kane<\/li>\n<li>The Color Purple<\/li>\n<li>Dances With Wolves<\/li>\n<li>Dead Again<\/li>\n<li>Dead Poets Society<\/li>\n<li>Forrest Gump<\/li>\n<li>The Fugitive<\/li>\n<li>Good Will Hunting<\/li>\n<li>A Love Song for Bobby Long<\/li>\n<li>The Mission<\/li>\n<li>One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/li>\n<li>Rain Man<\/li>\n<li>The Reader<\/li>\n<li>The Secret Life of Words<\/li>\n<li>The Shawshank Redemption<\/li>\n<li>The Sweet Hereafter<\/li>\n<li>Water<\/li>\n<li>Witness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 14 action\/adventure movies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bourne Identity<\/li>\n<li>The Bourne Supremacy<\/li>\n<li>The Bourne Ultimatum<\/li>\n<li>Hero<\/li>\n<li>The Hunt for Red October<\/li>\n<li>The Italian Job<\/li>\n<li>Leon<\/li>\n<li>Mission Impossible 3<\/li>\n<li>Ocean\u2019s Eleven<\/li>\n<li>Ocean\u2019s Twelve<\/li>\n<li>The Rock<\/li>\n<li>Seraphim Falls<\/li>\n<li>Speed<\/li>\n<li>The Sting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 13 romance movies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50 First Dates<\/li>\n<li>As Good As It Gets<\/li>\n<li>Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary<\/li>\n<li>Definitely, Maybe<\/li>\n<li>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/li>\n<li>It Could Happen to You<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Maguire<\/li>\n<li>Notting Hill<\/li>\n<li>Shakespeare in Love<\/li>\n<li>Sommersby<\/li>\n<li>The Wedding Singer<\/li>\n<li>While You Were Sleeping<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ve Got Mail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 20 movies based on a true story<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apollo 13<\/li>\n<li>The Aviator<\/li>\n<li>Awakenings<\/li>\n<li>A Beautiful Mind<\/li>\n<li>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/li>\n<li>Capote<\/li>\n<li>Catch Me If You Can<\/li>\n<li>Changeling<\/li>\n<li>Chaplin<\/li>\n<li>Ed Wood<\/li>\n<li>Erin Brockovich<\/li>\n<li>Finding Neverland<\/li>\n<li>Freedom Writers<\/li>\n<li>Gandhi<\/li>\n<li>Gorillas in the Mist<\/li>\n<li>Infamous<\/li>\n<li>Kundun<\/li>\n<li>October Sky<\/li>\n<li>Ray<\/li>\n<li>Walk the Line<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 10 musicals<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enchanted<\/li>\n<li>Fiddler on the Roof<\/li>\n<li>Grease<\/li>\n<li>Jesus Christ Superstar<\/li>\n<li>Mary Poppins<\/li>\n<li>My Fair Lady<\/li>\n<li>The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/li>\n<li>The Sound of Music<\/li>\n<li>West Side Story<\/li>\n<li>The Wizard of Oz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 9 documentaries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bowling For Columbine<\/li>\n<li>The Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/li>\n<li>The Fog of War<\/li>\n<li>An Inconvenient Truth<\/li>\n<li>Lost in La Mancha<\/li>\n<li>Walking With Cavemen<\/li>\n<li>Walking With Dinosaurs<\/li>\n<li>Walking With Prehistoric Beasts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 3 seeing-the-world-in-a-new-way movies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baraka<\/li>\n<li>Koyaanisqatsi<\/li>\n<li>Powaqqatsi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch a fair number of movies. 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