MY FAVORITE 150 MOVIES OF ALL TIME

These are not in order the top ten are but the others would take the rest of the year to sort. I am going to break down the whys in the following blogs. It's taken me 3 months to narrow down the list to 150 and that was so damn hard.

1. The Princess Bride
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3.  12 Angry Men
4. Blade Runner
5. Strictly Ballroom
6. Dr. Strangelove
7. Tangled
8. Secondhand Lions
9. Harvey
10. Rashomon
11. The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition (the trilogy)
12. Princess Mononoke
13. The Road Warrior
14. Dredd
15. Edge of Tomorrow
16. Groundhog Day
17. The Artist
18. Hot Fuzz
19. Ghost in the Shell (anime)
20. Tron 
21. Bridge to Terabithia
22. Tron Legacy
23. Cyrano de Bergerac (original)
24. Raiders of the Lost Ark
25. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
26. The Shawshank Redemption
27. To Kill a Mockingbird
28. Casablanca
29. Equilibrium
30. Toys
31. The Matrix
32. Mary Poppins
33. The Man in the Iron Mask
34. The Highlander
35. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
36. The Life of Brian
37. Time Bandits
38. Clerks
39. My Neighbor Totoro
40. Howl's Moving Castle
41. Laputa
42. Nausicaa
43. Fletch
44. V is for Vendetta
45. Serenity
46. Starman
47. The Abyss
48. Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
49. Beastly
50. Airplane 1 & 2
51. Brotherhood of the Wolf
52. Deadpool
53. Labyrinth
54. The Dark Crystal
55. Fight Club
56. Spirited Away
57. High Fidelity
58. Star Wars: A New Hope
59. The Seven Samurai
60. Interstellar
61. The Terminator
62. Ferris Bueller's Day off
63. Friday
64. Ghostbusters (original)
65. The Hunger Games
66. Something Wicked this way Comes
67. Aliens
68. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 & 2
69. Harry Potter Movies (all of them)
70. Shot in the Dark
71. The Pink Panther (all of the Peter Sellers ones)
72. Captain America
73. Wonder Woman
74. Conan the Barbarian
75. Stardust
76. Ladyhawke
77. Cocoon
78. Captain America The Winter Soldier
79. The Dark Knight
80. Gladiator
81. 300
82. Akira
83. 2001
84. A Fish Called Wanda
85. Layer Cake
86. Star Trek 4 the voyage home
87. Star Trek 2: Wrath of Kahn
88. The Truman Show
89. Toy Story Trilogy
90. Epic
91. Singing in the Rain
92. Camelot
93. Galaxy Quest
94. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
95. Troy
96. Batman Begins
97. Iron Man 
98. Legend
99. The Avengers (Marvel)
100. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
101. Willow
102. T2: Judgement Day
103. Star Wars Rogue One
104. Star Wars The Last Jedi
105. Star Wars The Force Awakens
106. Hildago
107. Inception
108. The Green Mile
109. Shrek 
110. The Usual Suspects
111. Brazil
112. Leon: The Professional
113. Wasabi
114. Back to the Future
115. The Dark Knight Rises
116. Amelie
117. Some Like it Hot
118. Better Off Dead
119. Say Anything
120. Up
121. The Big Lebowski
122. Pirates of the Carribean Black Pearl
123. Dancing in the Rain
124. Children of a Lesser God
125. Star Trek (Remake)
126. Ghost
127. Office Space
128. Raising Arizona
129. Oh Brother Where Art Thou
130. Hamlet (Gibson)
131. La La Land
132. Brave
133. Witness for the Prosecution
134. Kick-Ass
135. Chocolat
136. Real Genius
137. Shaun of the Dead
138. Jungle Book, animated
139. Jungle Book live action (recent)
140. The Cat from Outer Space
141. The Three Musketeers (Disney remake)
142. The Musketeer
143. Cyrano (Gerald Depardieu )
144. The Incredibles
145. Big Hero 6
146. Zootopia
147. Super Troopers
148. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
149. True Lies
150. The Book of Eli

These aren't necessarily the best movies, just my favorite ones. base argument is these are the ones I would not hesitate to rewatch over and over again.

There are others that I have liked more but decided to never rewatch or own.

Now I am 48, still out of date....

Now I am 48.

People (they know who they are) ask me how it feels to be 48.
I tell them I haven't felt like I was 60 in a long time.
I get a nervous laugh, a chuckle and they shake their heads.
I don't get along with my brother.
I never did.
Even when I thought I was getting along with him, I wasn't.
Why bring this up now?
On your birthday, for Pete sakes!
Crikey.
It's obvious to me.
48 is a number like 50. I don't give it much credence. 
I am 48, I don't get along with my brother, I have a weird relationship with my father, I take care of my mother (more than I ever thought I would) and my best friend is also my niece.... also my other best friend is wonderful and doesn't get much credit as to how much I truly love her.
Okay, I admit it.
That's not my point.
I don't get along with my brother because despite all my intentions to be someone else where the world is concerned I don't get along with my brother, we are alike and utterly un-alike and it makes no sense to anyone...especially me. Sometimes I say:
"This explains everything!"
Then I am forced to admit it didn't explain anything but what I wanted it to explain.
I don't know my brother.
I have tried and quit and inevitably will most likely try again, except I am getting to old for this:

So, I am 48 and too old for- well you get the point of that, now.
Moving on.
Actually, I am doing swell.
Except that I am still alone.
Working out, eating healthy stuff, living in a perpetual daydream that is so self-congratulatory and self-pleasing- the ego massaging kind that I now call it my happy place.
Hi, I am Michael Wilder. 
I have three wives.
(I warned you)

I will stop there save to say I am on new meds.
I feel good most of the time.
I don't need Bob's tits anymore.

 If I need to explain this, you probably just wandered into my life and miss most of my movie references.
(fight club, bob (meatloaf) Deadpool, movie references) or just forget it.
pretend I am cooking and this is the food network.

So, I digress.
I am 48.
A poet, future tango dancer, hopeful romancer.
Likeliest to die alone in an empty cafe in Vienna full of figurative bullet-holes.
Now, you can be lost and give me that look.

and you won't be alone. Most of my family just shrug, make a nervous laugh and check their collective cell phones while silently wishing that the "old mike" would come back and then we could talk about that time I got kicked in the teeth.
Look, I tinker, I fix stuff, all that convenient lock picking, console hacking, raider shooting stuff 
just ain't for me....

and that is the first day of 48 according to Mike.

fiscal responsibility or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

I put myself in a pickle.
Which is an odd word or turn of phrase since I actually have no idea on how I would insert myself into a pickle. But I digress. I got into the Paypal Machiavellian plot called Buy it now and pay it later or as I call it Spend money you don't have and wonder if you will ever get it paid later. But because I am lucky enough to have parents who mostly forgive me for being stupid, I am fortunate enough to have an out that will be allowable on paying of my debt without the penalty that is paid by Sisyphus (link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus) if you don't get the comparison you are probably one step in front of your bills or way behind them.


So will I learn anything from this? Yes. If I ever want to waste money I should have it in the bank first. Then I can choose not to tell anyone about it instead of having to come clean with my parents, friends and family and look for absolution even though I am not in fact any kind of Catholic unless in fact you are Catholic and consider the rest of us protestants delinquent Catholics. Mobius Loop on that one.


Will any of you who may or may not read this know what I am saying, probably went crosseyed when I said Sisyphus.