{"id":493,"date":"2007-03-04T19:33:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T23:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/archives\/2007\/03\/my-top-20-movies\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T19:33:37","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T23:33:37","slug":"my-top-20-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/04\/my-top-20-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top 20+ Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In answer to <a href=\"http:\/\/traderx.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/my-top-20-movies.html\">Trader X&#8217;s question<\/a>, here are some of my favorite movies.  There&#8217;s no way I can rank them beyond maybe the first three.  Nor could I stop at just twenty so with the help of my historical rankings on NetFlix I&#8217;ve gone 40 deep.  Depending on my mood, any of these could be in the top 20:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Shawshank Redemption<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317248\/\">City of God (Cidade de Deus)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trading Places<\/li>\n<li>A Fish Called Wanda<\/li>\n<li>O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/li>\n<li>Clear and Present Danger<\/li>\n<li>Friday<\/li>\n<li>Malcolm X<\/li>\n<li>The Matrix<\/li>\n<li>The Devil&#8217;s Advocate<\/li>\n<li>Rabbit-Proof Fence<\/li>\n<li>Memento<\/li>\n<li>Get Shorty<\/li>\n<li>Rush Hour<\/li>\n<li>Brown Sugar<\/li>\n<li>The Sixth Sense<\/li>\n<li>Austin Powers 1<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s Something About Mary<\/li>\n<li>Buena Vista Social Club<\/li>\n<li>The Fifth Element<\/li>\n<li>Desperado<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Honorable Mention:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Training Day<\/li>\n<li>The Usual Suspects<\/li>\n<li>Misery<\/li>\n<li>Pulp Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Amistad<\/li>\n<li>Analyze This<\/li>\n<li>As Good as It Gets<\/li>\n<li>Better Than Chocolate<\/li>\n<li>Black Hawk Down<\/li>\n<li>Blade<\/li>\n<li>Casino<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119174\/\">The Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GoodFellas<\/li>\n<li>Heat<\/li>\n<li>Set it Off<\/li>\n<li>Sling Blade<\/li>\n<li>The Thomas Crown Affair <\/li>\n<li>The Untouchables<\/li>\n<li>Donnie Brasco<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In answer to Trader X&#8217;s question, here are some of my favorite movies. There&#8217;s no way I can rank them beyond maybe the first three. Nor could I stop at just twenty so with the help of my historical rankings on NetFlix I&#8217;ve gone 40 deep. Depending on my mood, any of these could be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/04\/my-top-20-movies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Top 20+ Movies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/22\/shaolin_soccer\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":0},"title":"Shaolin Soccer","date":"July 22, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I just saw the trailer for Shaolin Soccer. I like the concept of having Kung-Fu masters apply their skills to the game of soccer, but there's way too much CGI in it for my liking. It'll go on my NetFlix queue though. I'm sure my brother will love it though,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":215,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/08\/tupac_resurrection_documentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":1},"title":"Tupac Resurrection Documentary","date":"October 8, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a Tupac documentary due out in November. It's called Tupac Resurrection: In His Own Words. 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I can think of several movies that went way overboard with CGI, like the avalanche scene in XXX, or the concept of the Hulk. Though I'm not as hard-core as Quentin, I wouldn't mind\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":448,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/vh1s_black_in_the_80s_series\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":4},"title":"Vh1&#8217;s Black in the 80s Series","date":"February 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I just finished watching the 'film\/movies' episode of 'Black in the 80s'. It was an entertaining and informative trip back to the 80s. It made me realize that I need to add some (major) movies to my NetFlix queue that slipped by me. I also have to watch Hollywood Shuffle\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":508,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/07\/quentin-tarantino-the-master-remixer\/","url_meta":{"origin":493,"position":5},"title":"Quentin Tarantino, the Master Remixer","date":"June 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've enjoyed the \"Everything is a Remix\" video series. As an old-school hip-hop fan, I've always enjoyed figuring out the origin of samples used in any given track. I guess that's why part 2 of the remix series, which covered remixing in movies, was so interesting to me. 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