Here are the thirty films Mart, Doc and Jennifer... You remember the premise. Here are numbers ten all the way up to number one.
And again, a warning to any squares and/or prudes out there. Some of the quotes from these films are in bad taste, to say the least. Read at your own risk.
10) The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner – 1987
How could this movie possibly not be in the top 10? That would just be inconceivable. Perfect now as when I was 13.
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
"Are there rocks ahead?"
"If there are, we'll all be dead."
"No more rhymes now, I mean it!"
"Anybody want a peanut?"
"Humperdink ! Humperdink !Humperdink !Humperdink !Humperdink !"
"Rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist."
"You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles."
"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in the world. It would be a pity to damage yours."
"I do not envy the headache you will have when you awaken. But for now, rest well and dream of large women."
"You can die, cut into a thousand pieces."
"As you wish."
9) Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro - 2006This movie just left me a complete wreck. I couldn't move until the usher came in to clean out the theatre. I was stunned over the loss I had just suffered. Yet, the ending is so full of joy and hopefulness. Think Lucy in C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle."
"Tell my son the time that his father died...Tell him
"No. He won't even know your name."
"Arise, my daughter. Come. You have spilled your own blood rather than the blood of an innocent. That was the final task and the most important."
"I'll make you a deal. If you can count to three without st-t-uttering, you can go."
8) Blue by Krzysztof Kieslowski – 1993 It's such a terrible thing to lose someone. But what's worse are the following months and years when you slowly realize, not only did you lose them, but you have to live without them.
"Now I have only one thing left to do: nothing. I don't want any belongings, any memories. No friends, no love. Those are all traps."
"Why are you crying?"
"Because you're not."
7) Lost Highway by David Lynch - 1997David Lynch's greatest film (yes, even better than "Eraserhead,") starts with a first act of a bizarre love story and then just in the middle of 'what-the-hell' Lynch turns on us. He does not explain himself because he does not have to. What matters is whether he is Fred Madison or Pete Dayton, somebody is hunting him down. We have no idea what is driving the Mystery Man other to say that he seems to be malevolence personified. He is either a symbol of God or of Satan. And I am still not sure which.
"We've met before, haven't we?"
"You like porno? Give you a boner?"
"I like to remember things my own way."
"What do you mean by that?"
"How I remembered. Not necessarily the way they happened."
"In the East, the far east, when a person is sentenced to death, they're sent too a place where they can't escape, never knowing when an executioner may step up behind them and fire a bullet into the back of their head."
"Dick Laurent is dead."
"You and me, mister, we can really out-ugly them sons of bitches. Can't we?"
Generally considered von Trier's greatest work, he made this film amidst the Dogme 95 movement. The premise is simple and heartbreaking. A woman prostitutes herself out to help her injured husband. This can never lead to anything happy, especially considering the fact that her home is dominated by the Scottish Calvinist Church who rules all. Even in defeat, what we take away from this is that love is love.
"Look for Christ's sake, he's forcing you to get screwed by every Tom, Dick and Harry. It's just not you."
"I don't make love with them. I make love with Jan, and I save him from dying."
"Not one of you has the right to consign Bess to hell!"
"You know we do not favor matrimony with outsiders."
How paralyzed with fear are you about the world? Scared of all of it. I've heard of "Safe" described as a "horror movie for the soul." This film follows Carol White who is allergic to the 20th century. Or at least she thinks she is. That is one of the wonderful things about this film. At the end, you don't know if she's sick or insane. It's been twenty-two years and I still haven't made up my mind. "We are one with the power that created us. We're safe and all is well in our world."
"I love you. I love you. I really love you. I love you."
4) eXistenZ by David Cronenberg – 1999
Quite simply the greatest mind-fuck of the past thirty years. Aside from "Videodrome," this is Cronenberg's finest achievement. For what it's worth, I believe they're still in the game.
"eXistenZ. Written like this. One word. Small 'E,' capital 'X, capital 'Z.' eXistenZ."
"What's wrong? Aren't you dying to see what's so special about the special?"
"Death to the demoness Allegra Geller!"
"It disappeared into my back? It's in my spine? It's working its way around my spinal cord?"
"I actually think there is an element of psychosis involved here."
"I made the bio-port sacrifice to get close to you."
"I suppose a smaller caliber pistol would have to fire baby teeth."
"Did you say Trout Farm?"
"Death to the demon Ted Pikul! Have I won? Have I won the game? Have I won?
"What's wrong? Aren't you dying to see what's so special about the special?"
"Death to the demoness Allegra Geller!"
"It disappeared into my back? It's in my spine? It's working its way around my spinal cord?"
"I actually think there is an element of psychosis involved here."
"I made the bio-port sacrifice to get close to you."
"I suppose a smaller caliber pistol would have to fire baby teeth."
"Did you say Trout Farm?"
"Death to the demon Ted Pikul! Have I won? Have I won the game? Have I won?
3) Blue is the Warmest Color by Abdellatif Kechiche - 2013
Yes, I know a lot of people thought this was overrated and are tired about hearing about this movie, but I maintain that it is the most pure, touching romances so far this century.
"You're talking crap in front of everyone! I'm not a lesbian!"
"I went out with Louise, that was her name, Louise. We didn't kiss at the party, but I invited her to sleep over. That's when we kissed."
"I am happy. I'm happy with you, like this. It's my way of being happy."
2) Never Let Me Go by Mark Romanek - 2010
How can a single film be so beautiful and distressing at the same time? We know so much more about this world than the characters do. As we see them with hopeful looks on their faces and clear ambitions, it devastates us to watch as the worst-case scenario comes true. Andrew Garfield gives his best performance to date."None of you will go to America. None of you will work in supermarkets. None of you will do anything except live the life that has already been set out for you. You will become adults, but only briefly. Before you are old, before you are even middle-aged, you will start to donate your vital organs. That's what you were created to do. And sometime around your third or fourth donation, your short live will be complete."
"It's been two weeks since I lost him. I've been given my notice now. My first donation is in a month's time.
"We didn't have The Gallery in order to look into your souls. We had The Gallery to see if you had souls at all."
"You poor creatures."
And here it is. The moment you've been waiting for. The greatest film in the last 30 years is...
PULP FICTION by Quentin Tarantino - 1994
1) Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino by 1994
I don't really think I have to explain why this film is at the top of the list. "Pulp Fiction" not only revolutionized the way films were cut. It changed the way all of us look at movies."I'm a mushroom cloud laying motherfucker, motherfucker!"
"Mmmm. That is a good burger!"
"Yeah, well the days of me forgetting are over, and the days of me remembering have just begun."
"Any if you fucking pricks move and I'll execute every motherfucking one of you."
"I'm sorry, did I break your conversation?"
"Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you. I double dare you motherfucking, say 'what' one more goddamn time!"
"You hear me talking, hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass."
"Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet."
"Well believe it now, motherfucker! We gotta get this car off the road! You know cops tend to notice shit like you're driving a car drenched in fucking blood."
"Maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but, you know, touching his wife's feet and sticking your tongue in her Holiest of Holies ain't the same fucking ballpark. It ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fucking sport"
"Jules, if you give that fucking nimrod fifteen hundred dollars, I'm gonna shoot him on general principle."
"The day that I bring an OD-ing bitch over to your house, then I give her the shot. Give here the shot."
So that wraps that up nice and neat with a little bow. Enjoy the trailer:
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