Top 10 of 1993

Good year and very deep I could make a top 20 for this one.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 1993

1. Schindler's List
2. Groundhog Day
3. Jurassic Park
4. Fearless
5. True Romance
6. Red Rock West
7. Carlito's Way
8. Searching for Bobby Fischer
9. A Perfect World
10. Short Cuts

Top 10 of 1992

I've seen more from this year although still not a bunch. By a bunch I'd say 60+, or 100+.

Some good, not great movies.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 1992

1. Reservoir Dogs
2. Army of Darkness
3. The Player
4. Husbands and Wives
5. Hard Boiled
6. Glengarry Glen Ross
7. My Cousin Vinny
8. Unforgiven
9. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
10. Malcolm X

Top 10 of 1991

This is the year I've seen the least amount of movies from in the 90s. Only around 20. What I've seen has been mostly good. All of the top 8 here are worth watching.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 1991

1. JFK
2. Barton Fink
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. The Fisher King
5. The Silence of the Lambs
6. Boyz n the Hood
7. Point Break
8. Cape Fear
9. What About Bob?
10. The Doors

Best movies of the 1990's

Sure, why not. Let's start with 1990. I started really watching a lot of movies in the mid to late 90s, so these very early years of the decade I haven't necessarily seen *that* many movies. But this is only true of the very very early part of the 90s.

Apparently this is the best year for gangster flicks.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 1990

1. Goodfellas
2. Miller's Crossing
3. Total Recall
4. The Hunt for the Red October
5. Misery
6. Awakenings
7. Jacob's Ladder
8. The Godfather, Part III
9. Europa Europa
10. Edward Scissorhands

Best Movies of 2000's

These are the top 25 movies of 2000-2009, according to myself.

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. The New World
3. Minority Report
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. No Country for Old Men
7. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
8. The Lord of the Rings
9. Munich
10. Femme Fatale
11. Grizzly Man
12. The Man Who Wasn't There
13. Inglourious Basterds
14. Kill Bill
15. My Blueberry Nights
16. You Can Count on Me
17. Once
18. Apocalypto
19. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
20. War of the Worlds
21. Frailty
22. Amélie
23. Let the Right One In
24. The Fog of War
25. Talk to Her

Top Ten of 2009

Incomplete, too soon. Haven't watched enough for a proper list.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2009

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Drag Me to Hell
3. Moon
4. Star Trek
5. Brothers
6. A Serious Man
7. Avatar
8. Splice
9. Up in the Air
10. Crazy Heart

Top Ten of 2008

Wow this is not a great year at all, lol.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2008

1. Let the Right One In
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. In Bruges
5. Rachel Getting Married
6. Gran Torino
7. Two Lovers
8. Standard Operating Procedure
9. The Dark Knight
10. Step Brothers

Honorable Mentions: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Baghead, Iron Man

Top Ten of 2007

A few best of the decade nominees in this bunch.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2007

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2. No Country for Old Men
3. My Blueberry Nights
4. Juno
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6. A Mighty Heart
7. Lars and the Real Girl
8. Knocked Up
9. Zodiac
10. Sweeny Todd


Honorable Mentions: Disturbia, There Will Be Blood, Gone Baby Gone, The King of Kong, Charlie Wilson's War, Water Lilies

Top Ten of 2006

Not such a great year, this is the weakest one yet.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2006

1. Once
2. Apocalypto
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. World Trade Center
5. Notes on a Scandal
6. Casino Royale
7. The Science of Sleep
8. Marie Antoinette
9. Away From Her
10. The Good Shepherd

Honorable Mentions: The Lives of Others, The Illusionist, The Fall, Flags of Our Fathers, Babel, Rescue Dawn, Inside Man

Top Ten of 2005

A fantastic year.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2005

1. The New World
2. Munich
3. Grizzly Man
4. War of the Worlds
5. The Puffy Chair
6. The Squid and the Whale
7. Match Point
8. Good Night, and Good Luck
9. The 40 Year Old Virgin
10. Junebug

Honorable Mentions: Block Party, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Serenity, V for Vendetta, Walk the Line, Hard Candy

Top Ten of 2004

Good year for comedies and remakes.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Kill Bill Vol 2
3. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
4. The Incredibles
5. Dawn of the Dead
6. The Terminal
7. The Manchurian Candidate
8. Napoleon Dynamite
9. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
10. Mysterious Skin

Honorable Mentions: Shaun of the Dead, Mean Girls, The Village, Sideways, Spider-Man 2, Spanglish, The Aviator, I Heart Huckabees

Top Ten of 2003

Very weak year for movies. At least the Academy got Best Picture right!

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2003

1. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2. Kill Bill Vol 1
3. The Fog of War
4. Big Fish
5. Intolerable Cruelty
6. The Station Agent
7. The Matrix: Reloaded
8. Pieces of April
9. All the Real Girls
10. The School of Rock

Honorable Mentions: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Elephant, Old Boy, Lost in Translation, Swimming Pool, Shattered Glass

Top Ten of 2002

Wow, what a great year. I had no idea!

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2002

1. Minority Report
2. Femme Fatale
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. Talk to Her
5. City of God
6. Panic Room
7. In America
8. Catch Me If You Can
9. Punch-Drunk Love
10. Bloody Sunday

Honorable Mention: Gangs of New York, About a Boy, Rodger Dodger, Narc, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Adaptation, Road to Perdition, Gerry

Top Ten of 2001

One more year before I go to sleep. 2001 is the best year for film possibly ever. You will see many of these on my best of the decade list.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2001

1. Mulholland Dr.
2. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
3. The Man Who Wasn't There
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Frailty
6. Amélie
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. Shaolin Soccer
9. Black Hawk Down
10. Gosford Park

Honorable Mentions: A Knight's Tale, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Fast Runner, The Others, Zoolander

Top 10 of the 2000s, 2000 edition

I should update this blog with just some list for no real reason. What I'll do is go back and compile a top 10 list for every year from 2000-2009 and then a top 25 for the entire decade. If I finish I'll do the 90s next. Why not? Perhaps I'll ad some explanations on subsequent lists but for this one I don't feel like it and it's my blog so deal with it! I'm strictly using the release dates according to IMDB so there may be irregularities.

My memory isn't great on some of these but whatever.

TOP 10 MOVIES OF THE YEAR 2000

1. You Can Count on Me
2. Cast Away
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. Memento
6. Nurse Betty
7. In the Mood for Love
8. Best in Show
9. High Fidelity
10. Almost Famous

Honorable mentions: Before Night Falls, Wonder Boys, Panic, Gladiator, Keeping the Faith

3 more songs

Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying - Belle and Sebastian
"Play me a song to set me free /Nobody writes them like they used to / So it may as well be me." If You're Feeling Sinister is one of my favorite albums ever. It's difficult to pick just one song, and this one definitely isn't the best. But, yeah.

Summer - Modest Mouse
"Just the smell on the summer can make me fall in love." An ode to summer! Summer may officially begin June 21st but baseball has been going on for a month or so now, and it's warm outside. So, calender be damned!

Kanske Är Jag Kär I Dig - Jens Lekman
"The best way to touch your heart is to make an ass of myself." Jens Lekman is like the Swedish version of Brian Wilson. This song is all kinds of genres mixed together. It's pretty groovy. Here is an acoustic version.

Top 3 beards

SAMUEL BEAM, musician


OBI-WAN KENOBI, jedi master


PETER KROPOTKIN, anarchist revolutionary

3 songs

I feel like recommending 3 songs from stuff I am listening to lately.

Jack Killed Mom, Jenny Lewis
"This song is about murder" sums it up. I just recently discovered Jenny Lewis (and her main band, Rilo Kiley) and love it. She's got this kind of alt-country vibe. Her album Acid Tongue has been on heavy rotation for me the last few days.

Slow Show, The National
You don't often hear baritone voices in rock music. The National's singer Matt Berninger has the most distinctive and recognizable voice around. I found an acoustic version of Slow Show on youtube and it might even be better than the album cut.

Unfair, Pavement
"We've got the hills of Beverly / let's burn the hills of Beverly!" This song just fucking rocks. Turn it all the way up. Between this song and Two States I'm thinking Pavement maybe doesn't like Southern California. Just a hunch.

Optical illusion

Which direction is the lady spinning? Clockwise or counter-clockwise? The answer is both! See if you can picture her moving in both directions. If you are having trouble try looking at just the legs and you should be able to shift it in your brain. Pretty cool, huh?

She's a hottie too. That helps.

Picks!

I link you to something useful:

Grooveshark is a site where you can stream music (like Pandora) for free. Anything you want to listen to is available right on demand. You can create playlists and get recommendations based on what you like. The features are not as good as Pandora but you can pick what you feel like hearing and play the tracks repeatedly if you desire.

Academic Earth offers classes and lectures from some of the most prestigious schools in the world, for free. There's also Open Yale courses, UCLA, Stanford, and others. Hundreds of courses are available and there is a wide variety of topics. Some of my favorites are Justice, Death, and Science, Magic, & Religion. All highly recommended.

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This is my blog. Is it not lovely?
It is about nothing at all.