As Printed in The Lumberjack Student Press on Dec. 9, 2010
by Gary Sundt
After four years of reviewing movies, it seems fitting to sign off my beloved post by providing a list of my 50 favorite films. This list is by no means a “best of” list (mainly because those are almost completely pointless), nor is it a listing of the films in order of their quality … Rather, this is a list of movies that have had a large impact on me in some form or another, and have helped shaped the moviegoer I am today.
Were you to ask me about this list tomorrow, it would probably be different.
1. King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
2. Kill Bill – Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (2003 & 2004, Quentin Tarantino)
3. WALL-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
4. Boogie Nights (1997, P.T. Anderson)
5. Mallrats (1995, Kevin Smith)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
7. Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)
8. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
9. The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)
10. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
11. No Country for Old Men (2008, The Coen Brothers)
12. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
13. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
14. Where The Wild Things Are (2009, Spike Jonze)
15. The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)
16. Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)
17. Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
18. Nixon (1995, Oliver Stone)
19. Chasing Amy (1997, Kevin Smith)
20. Adaptation (2002, Spike Jonze)
21. The Toy Story Trilogy (1995–2010, John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich)
22. Boyz n the Hood (1991, John Singleton)
23. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
24. The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
25. The Star Wars Trilogy – Episodes IV–VI (1977–1983, George Lucas, Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand)
26. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo Del Toro)
27. Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
28. Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero)
29. Clerks (1994, Kevin Smith)
30. Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
31. Bowling for Columbine (2001, Michael Moore)
32. Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (1987, Sam Raimi)
33. Serenity (2005, Joss Whedon)
34. Se7en (1995, David Fincher)
35. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010, Edgar Wright)
36. Spider-Man 2 (2004, Sam Raimi)
37. Sleeping Beauty (1959, Clyde Geronimi)
38. Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze)
39. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998, Terry Gilliam)
40. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
41. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
42. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004, Danny Leiner)
43. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1992, James Cameron)
44. Bonnie & Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)
45. The Harder They Come (1972, Perry Henzell)
46. The Matrix (1999, The Wachowski Brothers)
47. Slither (2006, James Gunn)
48. Crumb (1994, Terry Zwigoff)
49. True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993)
50. King Kong (2005, Peter Jackson)
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