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by Kaare Kvenild |
 April 2006 |
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#10 If I have a sentimental
favorite in my list, this is it. Lon Chaney Jr. stars
as the tragic lead in this 1941 horror classic. At
the time, the effects and makeup were revolutionary, a
technical marvel. And it horrified audiences. By
todays stardards, it's not that scary, but the
performances are tremendous. Chaney is especially
good and the cursed Wolfman.
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#9 This is the second film in Leone's "Dollars" trilogy and,
like a lot of movies in my list, is often overlooked
by it's more famous bookend films. Clint Eastwood is
again the Man with No Name who joins forces with Lee
Van Cleef to track down an escaped con, named Indio.
Eastwood's motivation is money, but what does Van
Cleef want with Indio? Best Western Ever!
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#8 Simply the greatest action film
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#7 Like "High and
Low," this one gets lost in the shuffle. But this
story about an English father that travels to
Hollywood for revenge is an engaging suspense
thriller. And to top it off, it's filmed a truly
unique way that will either make you dizzy, or make
you think Soderberg is an idiot. You obviously know
how I feel.
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#6 A great, low bugdet, independent
action flick that delievers on every front. Christian
Bale plays a futuristic cop in a society that subdues
your emotions for the supposed better good of peace in
the world. This movie blows movies like "The Matrix"
out of the water.
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#5 This jem often
gets lost amongst his better known films. But
Kurosawa's story of a business tycoon battleing a
crisis of conscience is absolutely riviting. Toshiro
Mifune is the tycoon who is told that his son is
kidnapped, but it turns out to be his butler's son.
Does he pay the ransom or doesn't he?
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#4 The greatest
comedy film ever made. It's ridicoulous, pointless
and stupid; and an absolute work of pure genious! It
just gets funnier and funnier every time I watch it.
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#3 A great big sweeping epic. It gives the viewer a hero to sympathise with
and cheer for. It's over three hours, but it moves by
so quickly you would never notice. It also showed Mel
Gibson was almost better behind the camera than in
front; and he's a great actor!
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#2 I have been a Batman fanatic
sinse I was 6 years old, and since that age I waited
for the definitive Batman film. Christopher Nolan
gave me that. It's more than just a comic book
superhero movie, it's a movie that would have fit in
at arthouse cinemas and multiplexes. It's a character
study, love story, drama and action film rolled into
one. And to top it off, Christian Bale gives us a
Batman to truly fear which is exactly what the film
needed.
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#1 Simply the greatest
movie ever filmed, and marked the beginning of the
slasher genre. No other film in history suddenly
kills off it's heroine and biggest star by the time
the movie reaches it's half-way point. It's a classic
in every sense of the word; a masterpiece.
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