YOUR Top Ten List

[Batty31]

Oh I forgot The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Better Off Dead (I can quote that movie line for line). Grimm...very impressed to see Bride of Frankenstein! Great pick. BTW, I've met Boris Karloff's daughter several times and she's a really nice lady..tells some funny stories about her father on the set in the Monster makeup.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Bride of Frankenstein is my favorite of the old Universal horror movies.

The scene in the cabin with the blind man, the strange little king and queen who are kept under glass, that strange woman who's always shrieking, the inexplicable lever that, when pulled, destroys the whole building (who would have one of those installed?) and some of the quotes from Karloff: "Love... dead. Hate... living..." And the reaction of the "bride" when she meets her groom! The way that Elsa Lanchester moved as the bride, and her dual role as Mary Shelley.

What an insane movie! I love it!

[Guest The Second Spitter]

1. GoodFellas
2. The Guns of Navarone
3. The Third Man
4. North by Northwest
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. The Godfather Part II
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Groundhog Day
= 10.Unbreakable
= 10. Le Fabuleux destin d'Am�lie Poulain

[Guest sharpie]

Surprised to see Full Metal Jacket show up on two recent lists. Toward the bottom of the Kubrick ouevre IMO, above Killer's Kiss, The Killing and Eyes Wide Shut but certainly below the rest (Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining).

[Guest AG/DC]

"Full Metal" deserves a poll. It's like two movies, and I'm not sure what to make of the second.

[batmagadanleadoff]

AG/DC wrote: "Full Metal" deserves a poll. It's like two movies, and I'm not sure what to make of the second.

I always liked Full Metal and rank it as one of my favorite Vietnam, if not all purpose War movies. It could easily make my top 10 list if my top 10 list were permitted to go to 20.

MILD SPOILER ALERT COMING UP

To me, the second half of Full Metal was a perfect metaphor for the senselessness of war. All of those American soldiers, and all the training they went through to get to where they were, all the resources assembled, human and machine, and for what? To commandeer a building already reduced to rubble before the soldiers even got there, and to eliminate what turned out to be just one sniper who perhaps was not even affiliated in an official sense, with the opposing forces.

I write this post with the caveat that I do so only for the purpose of reviewing the Kubrick movie. I have no real opinion on whether Wars in general, or the Vietnam War specifically, were senseless, although I do suspect that there are people out there with concrete opinions on the matter. If I were forced to opine as to the senselessness of Wars, I would probably take the easy way out, and note that all Wars have some purpose and are also senseless in some other sense, and that some Wars, I would suppose, are more senseless than others. Or less senseless. Does this make any sense?