Saturday, September 20, 2008

Best ever



My friend Steve posted a list of his favorite movies released each year of his life. So did I.

1983- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
1984- Stranger Than Paradise
1985- Goonies (close 2nd Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure or Brazil)*
1986- True Stories
1987- Predator
1988- Beetle Juice
1989- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (close 2nd Field of Dreams)*
1990- Total Recall
1991- What About Bob?
1992- Wayne’s World
1993- Jurassic Park
1994- Ed Wood
1995- Clueless
1996- Bottle Rocket (close 2nd Fargo)*
1997- Jackie Brown
1998- TIE The Big Lebowski and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Rushmore*
1999- Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
2000- Almost Famous
2001- Royal Tenenbaums
2002- FUBAR
2003- American Splendor (close 2nd Kill Bill Vol. 1)*
2004- Shaun of the Dead
2005- Batman Begins
2006- Science of Sleep
2007- King of Kong: Fist Full of Quarters
2008- Burn After Reading

*Apologies for the impure nature of my close 2nd's and one three way Tie.

3 comments:

Steve said...

Firsties!

Looks like our lists overlap for 1983, '98, '03 and '07.

Though mine doesn't have any of that "close 2nd's and one three way Tie" crap.

A.W. Hilst said...

No Zissou???

Natalie va Bien said...

Ah! Zissou! Of course! I knew I would leave out some major movies. Thats what friends are for.