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EW's Top 100 Films, 1983-2008
Filed Under "Pop Culture"

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Entertainment Weekly has just released its ranking of the top 100 films from 1983 to 2008, or since the year I was born! Here's the top 25 -- I've seen 19 of them. How many have you seen?

1. Pulp Fiction (1994): Oof. This film just made me uncomfortable. That whole scene in the basement. "I'm gonna get medieval on your ass." Ouch.

2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03): Orlando Bloom as an elf. *Swoon*

3. Titanic (1997): I boycotted the mania and never saw it. Tried to watch it last year, but the beginning with that old woman is unbearably contrived.

4. Blue Velvet (1986): Blue what?

5. Toy Story (1995): I mean it was good and all... but the 5th best since 1983?

6. Saving Private Ryan (1998): Uberviolent war movies freak me out. Didn't see it.

7. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986): Who's Hannah? And who cares?

8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991): That's some scary shit.

9. Die Hard (1988): Hah! THat was a joke, right? Oh. You're serious. Err....

10. Moulin Rouge (2001): Like Titanic, I boycotted. I don't even know why. I think it was because everyone just KNEW I would love it because I'm a showtunes queen. But Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor can't sing. Period.

11. This Is Spinal Tap (1984): It was pretty funny, I guess. But I much preferred Best in Show. "Makes me want a hot dog real bad!"

12. The Matrix (1999): I love meta sci-fi shit like this. And I love Keanu Reeves. Done and done.

13. GoodFellas (1990): Omg I finally just watched this two nights ago! I love crime drama.

14. Crumb (1995): What?

15. Edward Scissorhands (1990): If you haven't watched this movie in the past 5 years, sit down and get to it. It's gorgeous, and I had forgotten just how beautiful a film it was until I saw it again recently. God bless Johnny Depp.

16. Boogie Nights (1997): Oof. This is one of those great films that makes you want to beat off for hours. It's also one of the most prime examples of films made about the 70s which must inevitably come crumbling down with disaster -- payback for the era's hedonistic excesses (Forest Gump, anyone?). Moralizing bullshit. But the film is good, nonetheless.

17. Jerry Maguire (1996): Renée Zellweger -- before the face froze. It was cute.

18. Do the Right Thing (1989): ???

19. Casino Royale (2006): I love James Bond. I mean, I used to own ALL of them. No really, I did. They got stolen when I shipped them to Michigan. I cried. So of course I loved CR, despite the total erasure of the series' camp value.

20. The Lion King (1994): Omg! "Oh I just can't wait to be king!" JTT, sing it to me baby!

21. Schindler's List (1993): I never saw this. In 2001, I visited Aushwitz in Poland, and promised myself I would read the book before I saw the movie. Still working on that...

22. Rushmore (1998): Are you fucking kidding me? I mean I guess this did kind of set up the rest of Jason Schwartzman's career, but the 22nd best movie? Not a chance.

23. Memento (2001): Oh how hip of them to put Memento in. I mean, it's pretty great (and the guy from Priscilla Queen of the Desert stars)... but not sure it belongs here.

24. A Room With a View (1986): I was two when this came out, and it's not exactly something you rent with friends.

25. Shrek (2001): Funny stuff here, for sure. But a bit silly for #25.



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