Series: Top 100 (2009 List)

I am a man of intense intestinal fortitude when it comes to stomaching cutesy teen dialogue.

It’s tough to think of many other movies that are more cheerful than this one — it’s a movie where it’s easy to have a smile on your face during literally the entire duration without really realizing it.

I think the reason that Goodfellas is (probably) my favorite gangster movie is because it does the best job of depicting the extreme bundle of paradoxes that the gangster arc is all about:

I watched Menace II Society just a couple days after watching Goodfellas, and, damn, do the two complement each other.

It might be the nostalgia speaking, but I feel like Men in Black represents a golden and lost era of blockbusters

Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man film is one of the most important comic book movies ever made, laying the groundwork for the tone and sweep that would define 21st century superhero films.

It’s tough for me to articulate how important this movie was for me:

As I started watching this time, I tried counting how many quotes I’ve referenced, or had referenced to me, in actual conversations before.

More than forty years later, Star Wars still puts most popcorn cinema since to shame.

It’s an obvious point, but worth repeating: With so many bad franchise sequels in film history, Empire Strikes Back is kind of a miracle.