OZARK'S TOP 250 MOVIES: #70-#61
#70 - Reservoir Dogs (1991)
"Are you cool? I need you cool."
Blasting onto the movie scene with a self-assured coolness and a deft touch for dialogue came Quentin Tarantino's debut crime picture about the heist gone wrong. Mixing pop culture references, profanity and violence this stills holds up as cult classic.
#69 - Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
A hilarious quirky indie-film about a guy who must be the ultimate nerd who sets about to help his friend win the class presidency whilst trying to deal with his family at home. A new star is born in Jon Heder as the title role and boy can he dance.
#68 - Withnail & I (1987)
"I feel like a pig shat in my head."
A couple of would-be actors in 60s London deciede it is time to getting away from it all and try to take a vacation in the Lake District. This british comedy has inspired a thousand drinking games, except for the part where Withnail drinks lighter fluid. This film is not only brilliantly funny but also very intelligent beyond all the drunken swearing.
#67 - Alien (1979)
In space no one can hear you scream. But you can feel the terror nevertheless. Whilst making a star out of Sigourney Weaver, Ridley Scott managed to helm a truly scary horror sci-fi. Also making a cinematic icon out of the creature in the process.
#66 - A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
"My mule don't like you laughing."
After establish himself as a TV star on the show Rawhide Clint Eastwood stepped into the cowboy hat and poncho for the first film in Sergio Leone's fantastic dollars trilogy. The plot is basically a remake of Japanese film Yojimbo but transfered into a Spaghetti western as Clint is the man with no name who walks into a town run by two warring outfits and he sets about stirring it up until he is the last man standing.
#65 - Die Hard (1988)
"Yippie-kay-ay mother fucker."
Bruce Willis as an action star? In the 80s this seemed like a joke question but after this one you couldn't at him without seeing the dirty white vest. Creating it's own genre of the lone gun against impossible odds lead by euro-trash bad guys (Alan Rickman is sublime), Christmas will never be the same.
#64 - Clerks (1994)
"Oooohhh Navy Seals!"
Kevin Smith seemingly created a movie that reached out to the frustrated cashier in all of us. Everytime one of those customers comes up to you with that attitude or dumb question you just wanted to be Randall and just tell them what is really on your mind. You have the power, abuse it.
#63 - The Blues Brothers (1980)
"I hate Illinois nazis."
Quite simply the best thing to come out of a Saturday Night Live skit. The barrage of great music, memorable quotes and funny characters keep this one running. Plus it doesn't hurt to have the destruction of the most police cars in movie history as the end sequence.
#62 - Rear Window (1954)
Or 'What James Stewart Saw'. Hitchcock revs up the suspense as we the audience are dragged in as voyeurs on our neighbors along with Jimmy as he suspects the person across the way in his apartment complex may or may not have murdered his significant other. Forever homaged never equalled.
#61 - Shallow Grave (1994)
This low budget pitch black comedy thriller from Danny Boyle really tries to answer the age old question. If you wake up one morning, your new roommate is dead and there is a bag with a shitload of money under his bed, what do you do? This film is a well concieved and fascinating character study of the effects of greed on friends. Paranoia, betrayal and murder.
"Are you cool? I need you cool."
Blasting onto the movie scene with a self-assured coolness and a deft touch for dialogue came Quentin Tarantino's debut crime picture about the heist gone wrong. Mixing pop culture references, profanity and violence this stills holds up as cult classic.
#69 - Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
A hilarious quirky indie-film about a guy who must be the ultimate nerd who sets about to help his friend win the class presidency whilst trying to deal with his family at home. A new star is born in Jon Heder as the title role and boy can he dance.
#68 - Withnail & I (1987)
"I feel like a pig shat in my head."
A couple of would-be actors in 60s London deciede it is time to getting away from it all and try to take a vacation in the Lake District. This british comedy has inspired a thousand drinking games, except for the part where Withnail drinks lighter fluid. This film is not only brilliantly funny but also very intelligent beyond all the drunken swearing.
#67 - Alien (1979)
In space no one can hear you scream. But you can feel the terror nevertheless. Whilst making a star out of Sigourney Weaver, Ridley Scott managed to helm a truly scary horror sci-fi. Also making a cinematic icon out of the creature in the process.
#66 - A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
"My mule don't like you laughing."
After establish himself as a TV star on the show Rawhide Clint Eastwood stepped into the cowboy hat and poncho for the first film in Sergio Leone's fantastic dollars trilogy. The plot is basically a remake of Japanese film Yojimbo but transfered into a Spaghetti western as Clint is the man with no name who walks into a town run by two warring outfits and he sets about stirring it up until he is the last man standing.
#65 - Die Hard (1988)
"Yippie-kay-ay mother fucker."
Bruce Willis as an action star? In the 80s this seemed like a joke question but after this one you couldn't at him without seeing the dirty white vest. Creating it's own genre of the lone gun against impossible odds lead by euro-trash bad guys (Alan Rickman is sublime), Christmas will never be the same.
#64 - Clerks (1994)
"Oooohhh Navy Seals!"
Kevin Smith seemingly created a movie that reached out to the frustrated cashier in all of us. Everytime one of those customers comes up to you with that attitude or dumb question you just wanted to be Randall and just tell them what is really on your mind. You have the power, abuse it.
#63 - The Blues Brothers (1980)
"I hate Illinois nazis."
Quite simply the best thing to come out of a Saturday Night Live skit. The barrage of great music, memorable quotes and funny characters keep this one running. Plus it doesn't hurt to have the destruction of the most police cars in movie history as the end sequence.
#62 - Rear Window (1954)
Or 'What James Stewart Saw'. Hitchcock revs up the suspense as we the audience are dragged in as voyeurs on our neighbors along with Jimmy as he suspects the person across the way in his apartment complex may or may not have murdered his significant other. Forever homaged never equalled.
#61 - Shallow Grave (1994)
This low budget pitch black comedy thriller from Danny Boyle really tries to answer the age old question. If you wake up one morning, your new roommate is dead and there is a bag with a shitload of money under his bed, what do you do? This film is a well concieved and fascinating character study of the effects of greed on friends. Paranoia, betrayal and murder.
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