This was my first time watching this all the way through since I became a dad, and BOY does it hit different.
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Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Series: Top 100 (2009 List)
In 2009, I made a list of my 100 favorite films. I am rewatching all 100 to see how I feel more than a decade later.
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Juno (2007)
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.
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GoodFellas (1990)
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:
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Menace II Society (1993)
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
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Spider-Man (2002)
The first Spider-Man is likely a top 5 superhero movie for me… and it might even be top 3.
It’s tough for me to articulate how important this movie was for me:
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
As I started watching this time, I tried counting how many quotes I’ve referenced, or had referenced to me, in actual conversations before.
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Star Wars (1977)
More than forty years later, Star Wars still puts most popcorn cinema since to shame.