Good and Great Movies

Here’s an incomplete list of movies (in no particular order) I think are at least quite good (i.e. think a rating of 7.5 on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the best possible), right on up to to great. An asterisk (*) denotes a top choice.

Who am I to judge and why does my opinion matter?  Everyone has their own perfectly valid opinion about what’s good or great and what isn’t.  I’m not especially qualified, beyond believing most movies are not very good, yet feeling strongly positive about a relatively small number of them.

Perhaps someone who likes many movies I do will find a few they haven’t yet seen.

1. Apollo 13*
2. A Few Good Men
3. When Harry Met Sally
4. Mississippi Burning
5. Jurassic Park
6. Castaway
7. Big
8. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
9. Sixteen Candles
10. The Breakfast Club
11. Pretty In Pink
12. Mystic Pizza
13. A Beautiful Mind
14. Good Will Hunting*
15. The Shawshank Redemption*
16. Clay Pigeons
17. Patriot Games
18. The Hunt For Red October
19. Fargo*
20. There’s Something About Mary
21. Meet The Parents*
22. Saving Private Ryan*
23. Waterworld (not really – just seeing if you’re paying attention)
24. American Beauty*
25. Glengarry Glen Ross
26. Doubt*
27. Four Weddings And A Funeral
28. The Wrestler
29. Revolutionary Road
30. Titanic (version starring the lovely & talented Kate Winslet)
31. The Reader
32. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
33. Cars
34. Indecent Proposal
35. Fatal Attraction
36. O Brother, Where Art Though?
37. Ocean’s Eleven
38. American History X
39. Monster
40. Coming To America
41. Trading Places
42. 48 Hours
43. Beverly Hills Cop
44. I Am Legend
45. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
46. Toy Story
47. Toy Story 2
48. There Will Be Blood
49. Juno
50. The Last of the Mohicans
51. No Country For Old Men
52. Blood Simple
53. A Simple Plan*
54. Terminator
55. Finding Nemo
56. The Last King of Scotland
57. The Bourne Ultimatum
58. Babel
59. The Pursuit of Happyness
60. The Good Shepard
61. The Da Vinci Code
62. Casino
63. Casino Royale
64. Family Man
65. Planes, Trains and Automobiles*
66. Little Miss Sunshine
67. Something’s Gotta Give
68. The Shining
69. Misery*
70. Little Miss Sunshine
71. An Inconvenient Truth
72. The Woodsman
73. Footloose
74. Philadelphia*
75. Inside Man
76. Boogie Nights
77. Munich
78. The World’s Fastest Indian*
79. Silence Of The Lambs*
80. Syriana
81. Cinderella Man*
82. Walk The Line
83. Brokeback Mountain*
84. Forest Gump*
85. Capote*
86. The Constant Gardener*
87. Crash
88. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (with Gene Wilder)
89. Sideways
90. Star Wars (original trilogy)
91. Jaws
92. Fahrenheit 9/11
93. Hotel Rwanda
94. Million Dollar Baby
95. Grand Torino
96. The Natural
97. The Aviator
98. The Human Stain
99. Ray
100. Coal Miner’s Daughter
101. Bush family Fortunes
102. Close Encounters of the Third Kind*
103. ET
104. Field of Dreams
105. Under the Tuscan Sun
106. Fatal Attraction
107. In The Name of the Father
108. City Of God
109. Albino Alligator
110. The Cooler
111. Alien
112. Wonder Boys
113. The Life Of David Gale
114. Lost In Translation
115. About Schmidt
116. Carlito’s Way
117. The Godfather (one and two only)
118. Chicago
119. Thelma & Louise
120. Seabiscuit
121. Apocolypse Now
122. The Deer Hunter
123. American Graffiti
124. The Pianist
125. Enemy of the State
126. The Last Days
127. Catch Me If You Can
128. One Hour Photo
129. Top Gun
130. Steel Magnolias
131. Pretty Woman
132. The Good Girl
133. On The Waterfront
134. In The Bedroom
135. The Matrix
136. The Usual Suspects
137. The Graduate
138. Born of the Fourth of July
139. The Patriot
140. Clear and Present Danger
141. Braveheart
142. Gladiator
143. Regarding Henry
144. The Fugitive (with Harrison Ford)
145. Ransom
146. Cocoon
147. Rounders
148. Rain Man*
149. Boys Don’t Cry*
150. Southern Comfort
151. Slum Dog Millionaire
152. Rocky
153. Terminator
154. Rambo
155. The Cider House Rules
156. Road Warrior
157. Pulp Fiction*
158. Deliverance
159. Big
160. State Of Play
161. The Kids Are Alright*
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More to come…