5 - The Shining: For the sheer thrill, excitement and horror, coming in at number 5, is Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining. The acting is impeccable and the storytelling is wonderful. This isn't just a film to make you think but visually it is stunning from the drive up to Overlook right upto the chase through the maze, your eyes are given a treat. The film is littered with chilling but memorable moments from 'rrrreeeeddd rrruuuummmm' to 'Here's Johnny' but the one I always remember is the kid triking aroung the empty corridors of the hotel: the scene is shown once and the kid trikes around just fine, lullying you into a false sense of 'the kid will be fine', the second time and 'ARRRGGGHH WHERE HAVE THOSE SCARY TWINS COME FROM!!!'.
4 - The Dark Knight: From the first moment of the film when that window smashes you know you are in for the ride of your life. It is by far the best superhero film ever and if it wasn't for the annoying ending where Batman could see everything because of people's mobile phones it would have easily made it into the top 3.
3 - Avatar: This is in the top 5 not only because it is visually phenomenal but because my dad liked it. This is a man who will only watch a film if there is a remote possibility that it could happen, Die Hard-yes, Matrix-no no no. He took me to go and see 'Hancock' once because it had Will Smith and the name Hancock sounded like a police detective crime thriller and was, and I quote, 'disgusted and appalled' at what he had to endure. But at the end of Avatar he simply said 'absolutely incredible'.
2 - Anchorman: I'm choosing this film not only because it is genious but because Comedy films don't get enough credit. As Will Ferrell said in a song on Oscar Night '
A comedian at the Oscars, the saddest man of all, your movies may make millions but your name they'll never call.'
The first time I watched this film I didn't quite get it, I was around my then girlfriends house and it had become a relationshit and i wasn't really in the mood for comedy, second time and my opinion changed forever. If you've been to University is the last 4 years you will know that if you know this film word for word you will make friends and i knew those words and for that reason it makes it into my top 5. It makes it to Number 2 because of all the timeless quotes. I could write the script down here but I only want to say 'They've done studies, you know, 60% of the time it works every time.'
1 - The Rock: I doubt this Oscar nominated film (Best Sound-not one of the important ones) has ever made it to a top 100 list of films in any critics mind; but what do they know??? I always think that you should choose your favourite films on how many times you would watch the film. I wouldn't say my favourite meal is Octopus because I had it once and it tasted good, i'd say it was pizza because i'd eat it everyday and everyday i'd enjoy it, and the same goes for films. The Godfather is magnificant but i wouldn't watch it again, whereas i've probably watched Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery break into Alcatraz where a crack squad of marines led by Ed Harris have biological weapons pointed at San Francisco about 15 times. Such a great film. Period.
