My Fifty Favorite Movies

(Meaning feature-length pictures, and not shorts. Most of my favorite shorts involve the Horwitz Brothers slapping one another.)
1) Frankenstein (1931)

2) Duck Soup (1933)

3) King Kong (1933)

4) The Wizard of Oz (1939)

5) Rashomon (1950)

6) The Thing from Another World (1951)

7) The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

8) The War of the Worlds (1953)

9) Gojira (1954)

10) Seven Samurai (1954)

11) Them (1954)

12) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

13) Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

14) Psycho (1960)

15) West Side Story (1961)

16) Dr. Strangelove (1963)

17) The Great Escape (1963)

18) Matango (1963)

19) Zulu (1964)

20) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

21) Planet of the Apes (1968)

22) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

23) A Clockwork Orange (1971)

24) Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)

25) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

26) The Godfather (1972)

27) Sleeper (1973)

28) Blazing Saddles (1974)

29) The Godfather Part II (1974)

30) Young Frankenstein (1974)

31) Jaws (1975)

32) Halloween (1978)

33) Alien (1979)

34) Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

35) Airplane (1980)

36) Blade Runner (1982)

37) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

38) 1984 (1984)

39) The Silence of the Lambs (1990)

40) Army of Darkness (1992)

41) Ed Wood (1994)

42) Fargo (1996)

43) Hamlet (1996)

44) Ringu (1998)

45) The 13th Warrior (1999)

46) Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

47) Battle Royale (2002)

48) Jason X (2002) 49) Ju-On (2003) 5

0) Shaun of the Dead (2004)

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  • My five star films:

    28 Days Later (2002)
    About a Boy (2002)
    The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
    After the Thin Man (1936)
    Amelie (2001) Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
    American Splendor (2003)
    Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
    And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
    Anne of Green Gables (1985)
    Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987)
    Another Thin Man (1939)
    Army of Darkness (1993)
    The Big Lebowski (1998)
    A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
    Bringing Up Baby (1938)
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
    Casablanca (1942)
    City Lights (1931)
    Cool Hand Luke (1967)
    Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
    Dark City (1998)
    The Dark Knight (2008)
    Dead Again (1991)
    Desperado / El Mariachi (1995)
    The Devil's Backbone (2001) El Espinazo del Diablo
    Dr. Strangelove (1964) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
    Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
    Fargo (1996)
    Finding Nemo (2003)
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
    Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
    Garden State (2004)
    The General (1927)
    Go (1999)
    The Godfather (1972)
    The Godfather: Part II (1974)
    The Gold Rush (1925)
    The Great Dictator (1940)
    Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
    Heathers (1989)
    Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
    Henry V (1989)
    His Girl Friday (1940)
    The Host (2006) Gwoemul
    Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Hauru no ugoku shiro
    An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
    The Iron Giant (1999)
    It Happened One Night (1934)
    It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
    The Jerk (1979)
    Juno (2007)
    The Kid (1921)
    Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Majo No Takkyubin
    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
    Kung Fu Hustle (2004) Gong Fu
    The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
    The Lion in Winter (1968)
    Mary Poppins (1964)
    The Meaning of Life (1983)
    Midnight Run (1988)
    Modern Times (1936)
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
    Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
    My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Tonari no Totoro
    O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
    Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
    The Orphanage (2007) El Orfanato
    Say Anything (1989)
    Serenity (2005)
    Seven Samurai (1954) Shichinin no samurai
    Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
    Shaun of the Dead (2004)
    Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    Snoopy, Come Home (1972)
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Bonus (1937)
    The Sound of Music (1965)
    Spider-Man 2 (2004)
    Spirited Away (2001) Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
    Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
    Star Wars: Episode V: Empire Strikes Back (1980)
    Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
    Stranger than Fiction (2006)
    Superman: The Movie (1978)
    Sweeney Todd (2007)
    Swingers (1996)
    That's Entertainment (1974)
    The Thin Man (1934)
    This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
    To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    Waiting for Guffman (1996)
    Whale Rider (2003)
    When Harry Met Sally (1989)
    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
    The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Yojimbo (1961)
    Young Frankenstein (1974)
  • Some interesting choices there, Doctor.
  • When I was debating whether or not to re-post the Earth-44 Timeline in the new site, I decided to try creatign a much shorter timeline combining the continuities of my 50 favorite films above. I included sequels somewhat arbitrarily (i.e., when I felt like it) Someday, I will flesh this out in the timeline group, but for now, I thouhg tfolks might find a shorter timeline more accessible:

    33: Brian Cohen is crucified.

    922: Ahmed Ibn Fadlan joins a group of Norsemen led by the warrior Buliwyf in their battle against the Wendol.

    1150: In Japan, the bandit Tajomaru is accused of the murder of a samurai and the rape of the samurai's wife.

    1300: The time-lost Ash Williams battles the Deadites in England.

    1554: The elders of a mountain village in Japan hire seven samurai to defend them from bandits.

    1815: In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, the warriors Hamlet and Fortinbras seize the thrones of Denmark and Norway, and make war upon one another and on Poland.

    1845: Hamlet's brother Claudius poisons him and seizes the throne of Denmark. Hamlet's son, also called Hamlet, launches a campaign of revenge which results in the deaths of all the Danish royal house. Fortinbras' son - also called Fortinbras - seizes the throne of Denmark.

    1863: Three men - the hired killer known as "Angel Eyes", the gunslinger known as "Blondie" and the bandit Tuco Ramirez - compete to find a hidden cache of Confederate gold.

    1864: Sir Oliver Lindenbrook leads an expedition to the center of the Earth.

    1865: Henry Frankenstein discovers the secret of reanimating dead tissue, Creating the creature that will come to be known as Frankenstein's Monster. Subsequently, Doctor Pretorius convinces him to create a mate for the creature.

    1874: Sheriff Bart and the Waco Kid help stop Hedley Lamarr from destroying the town of Rock Ridge in the American West.

    1879: British forces battle Zulus at Rorke's Drift.

    1892: Vito Andolini is born in Sicily.

    1897: The vampire Count Dracula travels to England, where he is defeated by Professor Abraham van Helsing. Dracula's body is claimed by Countess Marya Zaleska, who claims to be Dracula's daughter.

    1900: Wolf Frankenstein, son of Henry, encounters his father's creation.

    1901: Vito Andolini moves to the U.S., where he adopts the name "Vito Corleone".

    1903: Ludwig Frankenstein, younger brother of Wolf, also encounters his father's creation.

    1904: A vampire calling himself Count Alucard appears in New Orleans.

    1907: Lawrence Talbot becomes a werewolf.

    1909: Lawrence Talbot, seeking a cure for his lycanthropy, encounters Frankenstein's Monster.

    1912: Lawrence Talbot, Count Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster each get caught up in the vengeful schemes of Doctor Gustav Niemann.

    1913: Lawrence Talbot and Count Dracula each seek out Doctor Edelmann to find cures for their conditions.

    1916: Santino "Sonny" Corleone and Thomas Hagen are born.

    1919: Frederico "Fredo" Corleone is born.

    1920: Michael Corleone is born.

    1924: The Corleone family adopts Tom Hagen.

    1927: Constanzia "Connie" Corleone is born.

    1930: Frederick Frankenstein, son of Wolf, creates a creature of his own, with somewhat more positive results.

    1933: Rufus T. Firefly becomes President of Freedonia. Carl Denham leads an expedition to Skull Island, where he captures the giant ape, King Kong and brings it to New York City to exhibit it. Kong escapes into the city, and is killed by the U.S. military. Denham subsequently returns to the island, where he encounters the Son of Kong, which is killed when the island sinks into the sea.

    1939: Kansan Dorothy Gale, struck on the head during a tornado, dreams of a visit to the Land of Oz.

    1944: British POWs carry out the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III.

    1945: Working from Henry Frankenstein's notes, a Nazi scientist has succeeded in reanimating a human heart. At the war's end, the heart is sent to Japan, arriving in Hiroshima just as the atomic bomb is dropped.

    1948: Lawrence Talbot helps save Chick Young and Wilbur Grey from Count Dracula and the original Frankenstein Monster.

    1951: An alien, humanoid vegetable crashlands in the Arctic. It encounters and is destroyed by military personnel from a nearby American base.
    Anthony Corleone is born.

    1953: A nuclear test in the Arctic revives a prehistoric creature called a Rhedosaurus, which makes its way to New York City, where it is killed by the American military.
    Martians invade the Earth. While they easily overcome all human opposition, they are wiped out by terrestrial bacteria. Among those killed during the invasion are Colonel Jack D. Ripper, and Vito, Sonny, Fredo and Anthony Corleone. Subsequent to the battle, the German-American scientist calling himself Doctor Strangelove is placed in charge of the U.S. efforts to salvage and reproduce the invaders' technology.
    In the wake of the invasion, Michael Corleone assumes control of what is left of New York's underworld.
    Mary Corleone is born.

    1954: Ants, grown to giant size as a result of residual radiation from nuclear testing, appear in New Mexico. They are eradicated by the U.S. military.
    The monster Godzilla attacks Tokyo for the first time.

    1955: Godzilla battles the monster Anguirus.

    1956: Two monsters known as Rodan attack Tokyo and various other cities.

    1958: The monster Varan attacks Tokyo.

    1959: Aliens led by Commander Eros attempt to influence Earth's development by resurrecting the recently-deceased. The plan fails, but filmmaker Edward D. Wood, Jr., learns the details of the attack and makes a "quickie" motion picture about the events, called Plan 9 From Outer Space.

    1960: Hotel-keeper Norman Bates commits a series of murders before he is captured by the police.

    1961: In New York City, two teenagers named Tony and Maria meet and fall in love.
    The monster Mothra attacks Tokyo and New Kirk City in Rolisica.

    1962: Godzilla battles the second giant ape to be known as King Kong.

    1963: Seven Japanese people are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by intelligent mushrooms called matango.
    As part of an officer exchange program, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is sent to Burpleson Air Force Base in California to serve as adjutant to the base's commander.
    On Halloween night, six year old Michael Myers murders his sister Judith.
    The undersea civilization of Mu uses the monster Manda to attack the surface world. They are defeated by the submarine Atragon.

    1964: Mothra battles Godzilla. Later that year, Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan battle King Ghidorah.

    1965: An accidental nuclear explosion awakens the monster Gamera.
    Planet X attempts to conquer the Earth using the monsters King Ghidorah, Godzilla and Rodan.
    The"Frankenstein" heart, having absorbed radiation, has grown into a gigantic humanoid, which battles the monster Baragon.

    1966: Gamera battles the monster Barugon.
    Godzilla battles the monster Ebirah.
    The Gargantuas, Sanda and Gailah, battle in Tokyo.

    1967: Gamera battles the monster Gyaos.
    Godzilla battles the monsters Kumonga and Kamacurus to protect Minilla.
    King Kong II battles the monster Gorosaurus, then battles the robot Mechani-Kong, built by the evil scientist Dr. Who.

    1968: Gamera battles the alien monster Viras.

    1969: Gamera travels to the planet Terra, where he battles the monster Guiron.
    In Tokyo, a young boy dreams of life on Monster Island, the name that Monsterland was originally known by.

    1970: Gamera battles the monster Jiger.

    1971: Chocolatier Willy Wonka gives away free tours of his candy factory in a contest. One of the contest winners is a young boy named Charlie Bucket, who becomes Wonka's hand-picked heir.
    Gamera battles the alien monster Zigra.
    In Britain, a young man named Alex DeLarge is subjected to an experimental treatment for his violent tendencies.
    Godzilla battles the monster Hedorah.

    1972: An experimental interstellar spaceship launched from Earth vanishes and is presumed lost.
    Aliens from Nebula M Spacehunter send the monsters Gigan and King Ghidorah to attack Earth. Godzilla and Anguirus battle the alien monsters.

    1973: Miles Monroe is cryogenically frozen.
    The undersea civilization of Seatopia sends the monsters Megalon and Gigan to attack Japan. They are defeated by Godzilla and the robot Jet Jaguar.

    1974: The alien Simians send the robot Mechagodzilla to attack Earth. It is defeated by Godzilla and the monster King Seesar

    1975: A great white shark begins attacking bathers off of Amity Island, causing Police Chief Martin Brody to take steps to have it destroyed.
    The Simians send a rebuilt Mechagodzilla to attack Earth again, this time in concert with the monster Titanosaurus. They are defeated by Godzilla, in concert with human forces.

    1978: On Halloween night, Michael Myers returns home to Haddonfield, Illinois to resume his killing spree.

    1980: Ted Striker pilots a Los Angeles-to-Chicago flight safely to land after its crew falls ill.
    Pamela Voorhees is killed. Her son Jason begins his unending murder spree to avenge her death.

    1981: Ash williams battles the Deadites, and is sent hurtling back in time.

    1982: Ted Striker pilots the lunar shuttle Mayflower One to a safe landing on the Moon after its computer fails.

    1984: Winston Smith, a divorced copy editor for the Times of London, begins a love affair with a girl named Julia.
    The malignant revenant Freddy Krueger begins killing the teenagers of Springwood, Ohio, thorugh their dreams.
    Tommy Jarvis kills Jason Voorhees.

    1985: Roy Burns commits murders in imitation of Jason Voorhees.

    1986: Tommy Jarvis accidentally reanimates Jason Voorhees. After committing several murders, Jason is imprisoned at the bottom of Crystal Lake.

    1988: Telekinetic Tina Shepard accidentally releases Jason Voorhees, and battles him with her psychic powers.

    1989: Jason Voorhees travels to Manhattan.

    1991: FBI agent Will Graham, who captured the serial killer Hannibal Lecter, battles the serial killer Francis Dolarhyde. Subsequently, Agent Clarice Starling seeks Lecter's aid in tracking down the serial killer known as "Buffalo Bill".

    1993: A group of genetically-engineered superhumans led by Khan Singh attempt to seize control of the Earth. When they are defeated, they escape into deep space in the hibernation vessel Botany Bay.
    Jason Voorhees is dragged down to Hell.

    1996: Police chief Marge Gunderson investigates the kidnaping of Jean Lundegaard.

    1997: Upon her father's death, Mary Corleone assumes control of the Corleone "family".

    1998: Japanese reporter Asakawa Reiko, investigating the legend of a "haunted" videotape, becomes caught up in the ghostly vengeance of Yamamura Sadako.

    1999: The Kilaaks attempt to conquer the Earth using the monsters confined at Monsterland.

    2001: The Katakuri family opens a guest house in the remote Japanese countryside.
    A mysterious monolith is discovered on the Moon. The American spaceship Discovery One is sent to investigate a similar anomaly near Jupiter, but is lost when the ship's computer malfunctions and begins killing the crew.
    Clarice Starling is caught up in Mason Verger's attempt to seek revenge on Hannibal Lecter.

    2002: Nanahara Shuya and Nakagawa Noriko become the first joint winners of the "reality show" Battle Royale.
    Michael Myers succeeds in killing Laurie Strode.

    2003: Tokyo home health aide Nishina Rika is caught up in the ghostly vengeance of Saeki Kayako.
    Freddy Krueger revives Jason Voorhees for his own purposes, but the two soon come into conflict. Shortly after this, Jason is captured by government forces and placed in cryogenic suspension. A government researcher - a young woman named Rowan - is accidentally placed in suspension with him.

    2004: The dead begin to rise and attack the living. Among those battling the zombies is an Englishman named "Shaun".

    2010: A joint Russian-American expedition investigates the Jupiter anomaly, and witnesses the planet Jupiter's transformation into a small sun.

    2019: Rick Deckard, a retired "blade runner", is brought back to hunt down several replicants that have come to Earth.

    2079: The space vessel Nostromo, investigating a mysterious distress call, inadvertently takes aboard a hostile Alien, which kills all of the crew except Lieutenant Ellen Ripley and the ship's cat, who survive in a hibernation pod.

    2136: Ripley's hibernation pod is found and she is revived. She accompanies a group of Colonial Marines aboard the starship Sulaco. they again encounter the hostile Aliens, and Ripley is among the few survivors. The Sulaco crashlands on the prison planet Fiorina 161, and this time Ripley is the only survivor. Ripley and the prisoners again battle the Aliens, and this time, Ripley dies at the end of the battle.

    2161: The United Federation of Planets is founded.

    2173: Miles Monroe is revived.

    2266: Captain James T. Kirk assumes command of the Federation starship Enterprise.

    2267: The Federation starship Enterprise, commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, finds Khan Singh and his followers in deep space and revive them. Khan attempts to take control of the ship, but Kirk and his crew defeat him, and the superhumans stranded on Ceti Alpha V.

    2282: Khan Singh escpaes from his exile and seeks revenge on James T. Kirk. Khna is killed by the detonation of the Genesis Device.

    2336: Federation scientists aboard the starship Auriga clone Ellen Ripley. The clone again battles the Aliens, escaping to earth aboard the starship Betty.

    2455: A human expedition to the abandoned Earth finds and revives Jason Voorhees and the researcher Rowan. The humans battle a cybernetically-enhanced Jason, who falls to ground near a human colony on the planet called "Earth Two".

    3978: The long-lost experimental interstellar spaceship crashlands on an unknown planet. The surviving astronaut, a man named Taylor, discovers that the planet is a future Earth inhabited by intelligent apes. The apes explain that humanity abandoned the Earth centuries before, and that the apes now rule the planet. The apes contact a passing human starship, and Taylor is taken to live on a human colony in another solar system.
  • I don’t know if I could pick my fifty favorite movies, but if I narrowed the list to ten I think I could identify the “10 Most Influential Movies I Saw Before 1977” (1977 because I was 13 and also because that’s the years Star Wars came out and I started looking at movies differently). Actually, six of them are on Bob’s list, and Bill picked up another two (with some duplication as well). The remaining two that aren’t on either list are Goldfinger and The Graduate.
  • Howl's Moving Castle is based on a book by Diana Wynne Jones. Her work has many of the qualities of J.K. Rowling's.
  • Baron ... That was really cool!

    The Baron said:
    When I was debating whether or not to re-post the Earth-44 Timeline in the new site, I decided to try creatign a much shorter timeline combining the continuities of my 50 favorite films above. I included sequels somewhat arbitrarily (i.e., when I felt like it) Someday, I will flesh this out in the timeline group, but for now, I thouhg tfolks might find a shorter timeline more accessible:

  • Thanks! Someday, I'll follow up on that.
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