Yippie Ki Ya Mother.... My Top 15 Movies

I am not afraid to admit that I am sort of a movie buff. When my friends have a question about a movie they usually ask me first. I remember most movie names and plots, not too good with movie quotes though. If you describe it to me and maybe who is in it, I can usually remember it, if I can't I always turn to one of my favorite websites: IMDB. It is such a helpful website and I use it all the time for everything from seeing what people rated a movie to seeing what new movies my favorite actors are in. If you have anything that you want to know that is movie related then you should definitely check out that website. Enough of me promoting IMDB...lol. Let's get back on topic, I thought I would give a try at narrowing down my top 15 movies. I am just going to list them and give IMDB's brief synopsis on them. I will eventually say my own opinion on them eventually, just know that I could watch these movies over and over and over again.

15. Crash
Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.

14. The Hurricane
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.






13. Good Will Hunting
Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics which is discovered, and a psychologist tries to help him with his gift and the rest of his life.






12. Unbreakable
A suspense thriller with supernatural overtones that revolves around a man who learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.






11. A Time To Kill
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.






10. John Q
A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation





9. Donnie Darko
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident





8. Fight Club
An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.






7. The Shawshank Redemption
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.



6. Se7en
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.






5. 300
King Leonidas and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.





4. American History X
A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.






3. Labyrinth
15-year-old Sarah accidentally wishes her baby half-brother, Toby, away to the Goblin King Jareth who will keep Toby if Sarah does not complete his Labyrinth in 13 hours.





2. Resident Evil Trilogy
a.) A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
b.) After an outbreak in a top-secret facility, Umbrella ponders on covering up their mistakes by releasing the deadly Nemesis to eliminate surviving STARS members in Raccoon City
c.) Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.



1. Die Hard Movies
a.) New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building
b.) John McClane is forced to battle mercenaries who seize control of an airport's communications and threaten to cause plane crashes if their demands are not met.
c.) John McClane and a store owner must play a bomber's deadly game as they race around New York while trying to stop him.
d.) John McClane takes on an Internet-based terrorist organization who is systematically shutting down the United States.