Wednesday, November 02, 2005

OZARK'S TOP 250 MOVIES: #120-#111

#120 - ET: The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
This family sci-fi adventure has a place even in the meanest of hearts. Spielberg lays on the sentimentality so think it invests you in this story. It also features one the most ominous bad guy's in Peter Coyote's government agent Mr Keys.

#119 & #118 - Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003), Volume 2 (2004)
Tarantino reinvents the kung-fu samurai epic with much aplomb and style. Uma Thurman is 'The Bride' a bad ass momma who slices and dices with the best of them ending in suitable amounts of arterial spurtage.

#117 - The Untouchables (1987)
"I want to piss on his grave!"
Robert De Niro chews up the screen as Al Capone in Brian De Palma's telling of Elliot Ness and team of Untouchables who went to war with the gangster during prohibtion.

#116 - Harvey (1950)
Years before Roger Rabbit got framed James Stewart was seeing this six foot tall rabbit. Imagenary or not, this is a wonderfully funny and quirky film.

#115 - Sin City (2005)
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller collaberated to make this on screen comic book. An almost frame to frame adaptation of Miller's noir stlyed comic book series this movie blows the viewer away with it's visionary technique and outlandish violence.

#114 - Battle Royale (2000)
A class of Japanese school kids think they are going on a field trip but they end getting kidnapped and dumped on an island. Each of them is given a weapon and the single mission of killing everyone else until there is only one left.

#113 - The Frighteners (1996)
Michael J Fox is perfectly cast as the psychic private detective/exorcist is Peter Jackson's first Hollywood movie. The script has the right pitch of comedy and scares with some excellent performances from the supporting cast, namely Jeffrey Combs.

#112 - 12 Angry Men (1957)
Henry Fonda stands as the one man against eleven other jurors in this tense drama. The whole film is set in the humid jury room and tempers are soon frayed leading to some of the best performances put on celluloid.

#111 - Bullitt (1968)
McQueen is and always will be Lt Frank Bullitt, he will always drive that car and it will always be on the Streets of San Francisco.

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