Top 50 Movies

Here are my top 50 movies. Again, with these lists they are likely to change at any time. But as of right now I am quite happy with this list. Though it would have been easier if I had gone to 100, as quite a few favorites were left out of this.

What does this list say about me?

1. 8 1/2
2. Bamboozled
3. 400 Blows
4. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
5. North by Northwest
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7. Julien Donkey-Boy
8. Thesis
9. PI
10. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
11. Breaking the Waves
12. Shallow Grave
13. Fight Club
14. Mean Streets
15. Repo Man
16. The Squid and the Whale
17. Crumb
18. Naked
19. I Heart Huckabees
20. Magnolia
21. Primer
22. In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger
23. Wonderland
24. Brother from Another Planet
25. George Washingtom
26. 3 Women
27. L'Avventura
28. How to Get Ahead in Advertising
29. Ratcatcher
30. Network
31. Midnight Cowboy
32. Butcher Boy
33. Blade Runner
34. Masculine-Feminine
35. Bonnie and Clyde
36. Dancer in the Dark
37. Jules and Jim
38. Barry Lyndon
39. Children of Men
40. The War Zone
41. Don't Let me Die on a Sunday
42. Orlando
43. To Catch a Thief
44. Mildred Pierce
45. Charade
46. Badlands
47. Heavenly Creatures
48. The Apartment
49. City of God
50. eXistenZ

Top 50 Works of Fiction

Since this blog mainly exists to discuss media products, ones that I am often quite critical of, I am going to periodically leave lists of things that i really enjoy, to give as wide a spectrum of my tastes as possible to the reader. Today I start with works of fiction.

This is in no specific order and I am sure 3 weeks from now it would be quite different as well....

1. Random Acts of Senseless Violence
2. His Dark Materials
3. Play It As It Lays
4. The Great Gatsby
5. Cathedral
6. Post Office
7. Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday
8. Watchmen
9. The Portrait of a Lady
10. Snow Crash
11. The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. Underworld
14. The Fortress of Solitude
15. A Home at the End of the World
16. The Sandman
17. VALIS
18. Traplines
19. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
20. Invisible Man
21. The Lord of the Rings
22. The Middle Kingdom
23. Moby-Dick
24. To Kill a Mockingbird
25. The Invisibles
26. Invisible Monsters
27. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
28. Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp
29. Give Me Liberty
30. Skin
31. Native Son
32. Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
33. The Dark Phoenix Saga
34. Jinx
35. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
36. V for Vendetta
37. The Beach
38. The Black Cauldron
39. The House on Mango Street
40. The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real
41. Maus: A Survivor's Tale
42. Amnesiascope
43. Moonshadow
44. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
45. Calvin and Hobbes
46. Skinny Legs and All
47. The Castle
48. Neuromancer
49. The Stranger
50. Blankets