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#100. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
(38 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
Tagline: The Machines Will Rise
Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Govanah Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken
Plot summary; John Conner, now an adult, in fear of the events that took place at a young age, lives off the grid--no phone, no job, no credit cards. After failing twice, SkyNet sends their most advanced machine to date, the T-X or Terminatrix, to not only kill John, but his future wife as well. Once again, a Terminator is sent to protect John and his future wife, and has a small upgrade which allows it to mimick humans more. Not knowing how these terminators were sent, considering he thought he destroyed SkyNet, John will soon learn something that will change his life...forever.
- Summary written by Hayden
Quote: [John puts a gun to his head]
John Connor: **** my destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (44,395 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 72%
Allmovie rating: 3/5
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#99. Traffic (2000)
(38 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181865/
Tagline: No One Gets Away Clean
Directed by:Steven Soderbergh (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Benicio Del Toro (Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor), Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Erika Christensen
Plot Summary: A modern day look at America's war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who's just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband's drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse's business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.
-Summary written by {MonkeyKingMA@aol.com}
Quote: General Ralph Landry: You know, when they forced Khruschev out, he sat down and wrote two letters to his successor. He said - "When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can't get out of, open the second letter". Soon enough, he gets into a tight situation, and he opens the first letter. It says - "Blame it all on me". So he blames it all on the old guy, and it worked like a charm. When he got himself into a second situation, he opened the second letter. It said - "Sit down, and write two letters".
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (50,789 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 /5
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#98. Amores Perros (Loving Dogs) (2001)
(38 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/
Tagline: Love. Betrayal. Death
Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Emilio Echevarría, Goya Toledo
Plot summary: Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in Mexico City all resolve with a fatal car accident. Octavio is trying to raise enough money to run away with his sister-in-law, and decides to enter his dog Cofi into the world of dogfighting. After a dogfight goes bad, Octavio flees in his car, running a red light and causing the accident. Daniel and Valeria's new-found bliss is prematurely ended when she loses her leg in the accident. El Chivo is a homeless man who cares for stray dogs and is there to witness the collision.
-Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Susana: [to Octavio] You and your plans. You know what my grandmother used to say? If you want to make God laugh... tell Him your plans.
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 (23,007 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 4/5
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#97. 28 Days Later (2002)
(38 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/
Tagline: His fear began when he woke up alone. His terror began when he realised he wasn't.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson
Plot summary: A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.
- Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Sergeant Farrell: Well, I think Bill's got a point. If you look at the whole life of the planet, we... you know, man, has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (35,139 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%
Allmovie rating: 4/5
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#96. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
(38 points, 5 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/
Tagline: Buy Milk. Ring Mum. Dodge Zombies
Directed by: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Plot summary: Shaun is having many problems in life. His long-time girlfriend has dumped him due to their almost-daily expedition to Shaun's favorite pub, the Winchester. His temporary management job isn't going well at Foree Electronics, with his subordinates not even giving him the time of day. His deadbeat flatmates, Pete and Ed, are at each others' throats. And, oh yeah, London is overrun with multitudes of zombies. In the midst of this, he must save himself, Ed, his ex, his mom, and his precious record collection. There is a time when a hero must rise...from his couch.
- Summary written by Matt Plenert
Quote:
Ed: Don't forget to kill Philip!
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (34,842 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 90%
Allmovie rating: 4/5
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#95. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
(39 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/
Tagline: When the world closed its eyes, he opened his arms.
Directed by: Terry George
Starring: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo,
Plot summary: Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.
- Summary written by Sujit R. Varma
Quote: Jack: [after Paul thanks him for shooting footage of the genocide] I think if people see this footage, they'll say Oh, my God, that's horrible. And then they'll go on eating their dinners.
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (28,707 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 91%
Allmovie rating: 4/5
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#94. Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story (2005)
(39 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385690/
Tagline: All new, Outrageous, Uncensored!
Directed by: Pete Michels, Peter Shin
Starring: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein
Plot summary: For Family Guy fans, there are no freakin' sweeter words than "Never Before Seen." A triumphant homecoming for the Griffins, Stewie Griffin is not so much a movie as it is a not-yet-aired three-episode story arc enhanced with a home-video-exclusive "red carpet premiere" prologue and an epilogue (capped, of course, with a fart joke). Family Guy's resurrection is a television miracle, and its creators have rewarded the faithful by picking up right where they left off, offending any and all sensibilities (recasting Jesus as comic magician Art Metrano), dissing the celebrity disenfranchised (Ellen Cleghorne references, anyone?), and generally taking potshots at anyone on their enemies list (Stewie breaks the neck of a reporter for Entertainment Weekly, the magazine that once called Family Guy "the Awful Show They Just Keep Putting on the Air"). The Untold Story! is a star vehicle for Family Guy 's breakout character, in which the mega maniacal and matricidal infant has a Grinch-like change of heart after a near-death experience (and a disturbing encounter with Steve Allen in Hell) and, more life-altering, discovers a football-pated man who could be his father (the truth is more shocking!). As go the gags, so goes Family Guy, and there are enough good ones here to compensate for the many misfires. The Miller-esque (as in Dennis) penchant for channeling arcane pop culture can grow tiresome. But for those who do remember the words to the Who's the Boss theme song, know (or still care) who Steve Bartman is, and are always up for "a sexy party," this will be the greatest story ever untold. --Donald Liebenson
Quote: Wilfred Brimley: Hi, I'm Wilfred Brimley, and I have diabetes. It hurts me to pee, and it causes me to be short with my family. I can't sleep at night. The other day, I stubbed my toe and took it out on the dog. And two weeks ago, I ran out of vanilla ice cream and struck my wife. Then I find out my wife's been dead for six years. Who the hell did I hit?
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (9,949 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: N/A
Allmovie rating: 2/5
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#93. Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain) (2001)(39 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/
Tagline: She'll change your life
Directed by: ean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz,
Plot summary: Amélie is a shy waitress in a Montmartre café. After returning a long-lost childhood treasure to a former occupant of her apartment, and seeing the effect it has on him, she decides to set out on a mission to make others happy and in the meantime pursues a quirky guy who collects discarded photo booth pictures.
Summary written by Anonymous
Quote: Amélie: [to her father, who is not paying attention] I had two heart attacks, an abortion, did crack... while I was pregnant. Other than that, I'm fine.
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10 (83,648 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%
Allmovie rating: 4/5
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#92. Versus (2000)
(40 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275773/
Tagline: Witness a battle no one has ever seen
Directed by: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka
Plot summary: A pair of escaped convicts meet up with a group of gangsters by a remote forest road. After an arguement over a girl the mobsters have kidnapped, shots are fired and one of the gangsters is killed. The standoff is cut short, however, when the dead man suddenly springs to life and starts trying to kill his former friends. The zombie eventually goes down in a hail bullets, but their problems aren't over. It seems the gangsters have been using this forest to dispose of of their victims, all of whom are now looking to settle some old scores. Even if they get through this mess, there is still the question of why they've arranged to meet the convicts out here, and why they've brought along the girl. How are they connected to the dead bodies coming back to life?
-Summary written by Jean-Marc Rocher {rocher@fiberbit.net}
Quote:
Fighter: You can't hit me! I have five hundred times faster reflexes then Mike Tyson!
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 (3,684 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 60%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#91. Panic Room (2002)
(40 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258000/
Tagline: It was supposed to be the safest room in the house
Directed by: David Fincher
Starring: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Kristen Stewart
Plot summary: This story centers around a divorced woman in her 30's and her daughter, who are caught up in a cat-and-mouse game inside their new New York brownstone when three burglars come looking for a hidden cache of cash. Mother and daughter hide in the "panic room," a secret room designed for just such a purpose, but still end up fighting for their lives...
- Summary written by {Laffz00@aol.com}
Quote:
Burnham: He's telling the truth.
Raoul: Yeah, he's telling the truth... you know how I know? Cause when I do this...
[Raoul points the gun at Burnham]
Raoul: ...people don't lie.
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 (32,077 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 76%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#90. Monster (2003)
(40 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/
Tagline: Based on a true story (** What a weak tagline!
)Directed by: Patty Jenkins
Starring: Charlize Theron (Aademy award: Best Actress), Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern
Plot summary: A dark tale based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America's first female serial killers. Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute--servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. The tale focuses on the nine month period between 1989 and 1990, during which Wuornos had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby. And during that very same time, she also began murdering her clientele in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomena of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers--instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer.
- Summary written by Sujit R. Varma
Quote:
Will: You wanna call me "Daddy" while I **** you, huh?
Aileen: I'll try. Why? You like to **** your kids?
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 (18,294 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#89. Dude, Where’s My Car?
(40 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242423/
Tagline: After a night they can't remember, comes a day they'll never forget.
Directed by: Danny Leiner
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott
Plot summary: Jesse and Chester, two bumbling stoners, wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car which prompts them on a journey to find it and along the way, they encounter a variety of people who include their angry girlfriends Wilma and Wanda whose house they trashed, an angry street gang, a transexual stripper hounding them for a suitcase full of stolen money, a cult of alien seeking fanatics, and a group of aliens in human form looking for a mystical device that could save or destroy the world.
- Summary written by Matthew Patay {pataygs@voicenet.com}
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Quote:
Jesse: I refuse to play your Chinese food mind games!
IMDB Rating: 4.7/10 (18,467 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 17%
Allmovie rating: 1.5 / 5
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#88. Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2003)
(40 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368909/
Tagline: No computer graphics. No stunt doubles. No wires.
Directed by: Prachya Pinkaew
Starring: Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Pumwaree Yodkamol
Plot summary: Booting lives in a small and peaceful village. One day a sacred Buddha statuette called Ong Bak is stolen from the village by a immoral businessman who sells it for exorbitant profits. It soon becomes the task of a young man, Boonting (Phanom Yeeram), to track the thief down to Bangkok voluntarily and reclaim the religious treasure. Along the way, Boonting uses his astonishing athleticism and traditional Muay Thai skills to combat his adversaries.
- Summary written by astroboy2k
Quote:
Big Bear, a Fighter: Come on! Fuck Muay Thai!
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (9,136 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 84%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#87. Mystic River (2003)
(41 points, 5 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/
Tagline: We bury our sins, we wash them clean
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Sean Penn (Academy Award: Best Actor), Tim Robins (Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor), Kevin Bacon
Plot summary: Childhood friends Jimmy Markum (Penn), Sean Devine (Bacon) and Dave Boyle (Robbins) reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie (Rossum). Sean's a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he's also tasked with handling Jimmy's rage and need for retribution.
- Summary written by mmg
Quote:
Jimmy Markum: They put her in a bag.
Theo: What's that?
Jimmy Markum: That's what Katie looked like when I saw her in the morgue. Like they put her in a bag and then they beat the bag with pipes. Janie died in her sleep, all due respect, but there you go. She went to sleep, she never woke up. Peaceful.
Theo: You don't need to talk about Janie.
Jimmy Markum: My daughter was murdered. They put a gun to her. As we stand here, she's on an autopsy slab getting cut open by scalpels and chest spreaders, and you're talking to me about domestic ******* responsibility? Good to see you, Theo.
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (44,967 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 86%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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#86. The Royal Tenebaums (2001)
(42 points, 1 vote)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265666/
Tagline: Family Isn't A Word... It's A Sentence.
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow
Plot summary: Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
- Summary written by MonkeyKingMA
Quote: 7.5/10 (42,179 votes)
Eli: [immediately after wrecking his car] Where's my shoe?
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (42,179 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 79%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#85. King Kong (2005)
(42 points, 1 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/
Tagline: The eighth wonder of the world.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Starring: King Kong, Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody
Plot summary: Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
- Summary written by steandric
Quote:
Jack Driscoll: Actors! They travel the world, all they ever see is a mirror.
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (63,944 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 84%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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Floyd highly recommends the Directors Cut rather than the crappier theatrical version..
#84. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
(42 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320661/
Tagline: Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Orlando Bloom, ,Eva Green, Liam Neeson
Plot summary: It is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East. A blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense drama. Amid the pageantry and intrigues of medieval Jerusalem he falls in love, grows into a leader, and ultimately uses all his courage and skill to defend the city against staggering odds. Destiny comes seeking Balian in the form of a great knight, Godfrey of Ibelin, a Crusader briefly home to France from fighting in the East. Revealing himself as Balian's father, Godfrey shows him the true meaning of knighthood and takes him on a journey across continents to the fabled Holy City. In Jerusalem at that moment--between the Second and Third Crusades--a fragile peace prevails, through the efforts of its enlightened Christian king, Baldwin IV, aided by his advisor Tiberias, and the military restraint of the legendary Muslim leader Saladin. But Baldwin's days are numbered, and strains of fanaticism, greed, and jealousy among the Crusaders threaten to shatter the truce. King Baldwin's vision of peace--a kingdom of heaven--is shared by a handful of knights, including Godfrey of Ibelin, who swear to uphold it with their lives and honor. As Godfrey passes his sword to his son, he also passes on that sacred oath: to protect the helpless, safeguard the peace, and work toward harmony between religions and cultures, so that a kingdom of heaven can flourish on earth. Balian takes the sword and steps into history.
- Summary written by Sujit R. Varma
Quote:
Saladin: Will you yield the city?
Balian of Ibelin: Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
Saladin: I wonder if it would not be better if you did.
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 (30,188 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 39%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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Ridley Scott back-to-back!
#83. Hannibal (2001)
(42 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212985/
Tagline: Break The Silence
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Giancarlo Giannini
Plot summary: After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he is discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns back to his homeland of America to once again make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI official/rival as well as the media. Meanwhile, Hannibal must survive the advances by a disfigured and vengeful victim he first came in contact with years ago as a patient. He finds himself being tracked down not only by his wealthy victim and his henchmen but also by Agent Starling and the American authorities.
- Summary written by MonkeyKingMA
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- Quote:
Hannibal Lecter: Bowels in or bowels out?
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 (37,069 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 36%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5
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Paper cuts!
#82. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) (2002)
(43 points, 1 vote)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/
Tagline: (The tunnel led Chihiro to a mysterious town,,,)
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: (Voices): Rumi Hîragi, Mari Natsuki, Miyu Irino
Plot summary: While moving to a new home in Japan, Chihiro and her parents take a wrong turn down a mysterious wooded path. They come across an ominous-looking tunnel of which only Chihiro is scared. Going through the tunnel, they are lead them to a mysterious town filled with restaurants that have all kinds of delicious food on display. Chihiro's parents quickly sit down and start gorging themselves, assuming they will pay the restaurant upon their return. Chihiro's doubt of this strange town leads her to wander off, and she comes across a building of titanic size, where a young boy warns her to leave before nightfall. However, as the sun sets, the town begins to fill up with the gods of Japan's mythology, and Chihiro returns to find her parents mysteriously turned into pigs. The young boy, Haku, works in the building, which is a bathhouse for 8 Million gods. He helps Chihiro find work in this new world, find a way to save her parents from a dinner platter, and find her way home.- Summary written by Jason Krischke
Quote:
Chihiro: I'm see-through!
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (39,434 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 97%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5
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Mutant shenanigans
#81. X-Men (2000)
(43 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120903/
Tagline: Join the Evolution.
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Starring: Hugh Jackson, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen
Plot summary:
All over the planet, unusual children are born with an added twist to their genetic code. This "X-factor" allows the children to perform extraordinary feats - flight, telekinetics, laser beams from the eyes and more. One Dr. Charles Xavier gathers the children to a place where he can train them to use their powers for themselves and the forces of good he dubs these children his X-men and hijinks ensue.
- Summary written by Zach Wilson {zcwilson@naz.edu}Quote:
Logan: [Logan's first line] Beer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (60,871 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#80. The Pianist (2002)
(43 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253474/
Tagline: Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.
Directed by: Roman Polanski (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Adrien Brody (Academy Award: Best Actor), Emilia Fox
Plot summary: The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
- Summary written by Anthony Hughes {husnock31@hotmail.com}
Quote:
Mr. Lipa: 2,000 and my advice is to take it. What will you do when you're hungry? Eat the piano?
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (48,073 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 95%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5
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#79. Cabin Fever (2002)
(43 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303816/
Tagline: Cabin Fever... catch it.
Directed by: Eli Roth
Starring: Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, James DeBello
Plot summary:
An offbeat horror tale about a group of five college friends on vacation at a remote mountain cabin when one contracts a flesh-eating virus. As it spreads among the friends, their true feelings and personalities emerge as they struggle to survive the virus and each other.
- Summary written by {samfroz@aol.com}
Quote:
Bert: God damn it! What pancakes, you ****?
IMDB Rating: 5.2/10 (12,119 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 62%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#78. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
(43 points, 2 votes – one #1 vote)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363547/
Tagline: 36 billion people have died since the reign of humanity. For the new Dawn, there's a reunion...
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Starring: Sarah Polly, Jack Weber, Ving Rhames
Plot summary: A young female nurse, named Anna, is caught in the middle of a world-wide chaos as flesh-eating zombies begin rising up and taking over the world and attacking the living. She escapes into the streets and is rescued by a black police officer, named Kenneth. Together they find shelter in a mall along with a group of other survivors. For a while everything is ok, but pretty soon, they start running out of food, the power goes out, and the dead keep finding ways to break through their defenses. Realizing they're sitting ducks, they make a plan to head for an island by using two armored mall shuttle busses to get across the sea of zombies.
- Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Michael: Truck's not gonna make it to Fort Pastor.
Steve: No, forget the truck. That place is fucked, man. Bloodbath city.
Kenneth: How do you know?
Norma: We just came from there.
Kenneth: Is everyone there dead?
Steve: Well, dead-ish.
Kenneth: Is everyone there dead?
Steve: Yeah, in the sense that they all sort of, uh... fell down... and then got up... and started eating each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (26,223 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 77%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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Finally….. The Rock has returned to… Mars…
#77. Doom (2005)
(44 points, 1 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419706/
Tagline: Hell Breaks Loose
Directed by: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Starring: The Rock, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike
Plot summary: Something has gone wrong at a remote scientific research station on Mars. All research has ceased. Communication has failed. And the messages that do get through are less than comforting. It's a level 5 quarantine and the only souls allowed in or out are the Rapid Response Tactical Squad - hardened Marines armed to the teeth with enough firepower to neutralize the enemy...or so they think.
- Summary written by El_Ucca@hotmail.com
Quote:
[takes hold of the BFG3000]
Sarge: Aaaaawwww shit...
IMDB Rating: 5.3/10 (14,687 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 19%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5
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The last one-vote movie!
#76. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
(44 points, 1 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356721/
Tagline: An existential comedy
Directed by: David O. Russell
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin
Plot summary:
Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.
- Summary written by Benjamin Conway
Quote:
Albert Markovski: [to Vivian Jaffe] I can't believe you guys actually exist.
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 (16,294 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 60%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#75. Mullholland Drive (2001)
(44 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/
Tagline: A Love Story In The City Of Dreams
Directed by: David Lynch
Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring
Plot summary: A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.
- Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Betty Elms: Don't drink all the coke!
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (50,284 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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#74. Thirteen (2003)
(44 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328538/
Tagline: It's happening so fast.
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed
Plot summary: At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in school, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends.
- Summary written by Miss Kittin
Quote:
Tracy: Geez, Mom, why don't you open a hotel? You could get payed for all this shit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (13,745 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#73. Road Trip (2000)
(45 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215129/
Tagline: The greatest college tradition of all time.
Directed by: Todd Phillips
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, DJ Qualls
Plot summary: Tom Green co-stars as the story-teller in this warped comedy about three friends (Meyers, Scott and Costanzo) and another guy (Qualls) who head from Ithaca, NY to Austin, TX in an attempt to save a lifelong romance.
- Summary written by wallace-17
Quote:
Kyle: It's not cheating if you spread peanut butter on your balls and let your dog lick it off.
[Josh, Rubin and E.L. are understandably repulsed]
Kyle: Because it's your dog.
Rubin: Jesus Christ!
Kyle: You know, because it's YOUR dog, get it?
Rubin: Yeah, we've got it.
IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 (21,089 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 57%
Allmovie rating: 2.5 / 5
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#72. Girl Next Door (2004)
(45 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265208/
Tagline: Matt never saw her coming... but all his friends had!
Directed by: Luke Greenfield
Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch, Timothy Olyphant
Plot summary:
An ambitious high school senior, Matthew (Hirsch), with dreams of a career in politics is overjoyed to discover that his new neighbor, 19-year-old Danielle (Cuthbert), is absolutely beautiful, and they fall in love quickly, head over heels. Their relationship is put to the test, however when he discovers (along with the rest of the town, eventually) that she used to be a porn star...(Olyphant plays her ex-boyfriend; Remar plays a skin flick producer she used to work for)
- Summary written by austin4577@aol.com
Quote:
Eli: God, I just wanna bang hot chicks!
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (19,086 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 57%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#71. Oldboy (2003)
(45 points, 4 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/
Tagline: End of confrontation, one must die.
Directed by: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang
Plot summary:
On the day of his daughter's birthday, Ho Dae-su (Min-sik Choi) gets completely drunk and is arrested. His best friend No Joo-hwan (Dae-han Ji) releases him from the police station, and while calling home from a phone booth, Dae-su vanishes. Indeed he has been abducted and imprisoned in a room for fifteen years. One day, he is suddenly released, receives clothes, money and a cellular and meets the Japanese chef Mido (Hye-jeong Kang), and they feel a great attraction for each other. However, Dae-su seeks for his captor and the reason of his long imprisonment. While looking for revenge, Dae-su discloses deep secrets from the past.
- Summary written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Quote:
Dae-su Oh: [after a very messy beating] Anyone here with an AB blood type, raise your hand.
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (26,870 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#72. Mar adentro (The Sea Inside) (2004)
(46 points, 3 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0369702/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_adentro
Tagline:
Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas
Plot summary: Life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramón's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others.
Summary written by Sujit R. Varma
Quote:
Padre Francisco: Freedom without a life is not freedom.
Ramón Sampedro: A life without freedom is not a life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (9,727 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 83%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#70. Scary Movie 2 (2001)
(46 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Movie_2
Tagline: Taking the Piss Out of Sequels!
Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Starring: Anna Faris, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans
Plot summary:
Megan Voorhees (Natasha Lyonne), is possessed and two priests, Father McFeely (James Woods) and Father Harris (Andy Richter), must drive the demon out, but the exorcism doesn't go as planned. A year later, survivors Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), and Shorty (Marlon Wayans) and Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), are at college, trying to forget the incidents that occurred last Halloween. Cindy is falling for Buddy (Christopher Kennedy Masterson), who loves to give wedgies, and Ray is still confused about his sexuality. Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) and his paralyzed assistant, Dwight (David Cross), have decided to do a research study at Hell House, the house where the bad exorcism took place, and disguise it as a sleep disorder study. Chaos starts as soon as Cindy arrives and meets the creepy caretaker (Chris Elliot) with the funny hand. But the house has some deep dark secrets that the group has to solve, even if they are scary or disgusting.
- Summary written by Will
Quote:
Brenda Meeks: Cindy, this is a skeleton, this is bones! Would you run from Callista Flockheart?
IMDB Rating: 4.3/10 (17,653 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 52%
Allmovie rating: 1.5 / 5
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Heh, #69 for this movie…
#69. The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
(48 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405422/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_40-Year-Old_Virgin
Tagline: The Longer You Wait, The Harder It Gets.
Directed by: Judd Apatow
Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener
Plot summary: The stock supervisor of Smart Tech store Andy (Steve Carell) is a nice guy and good colleague. One night, his colleagues David (Paul Rudd), Jay (Romany Malco) and Cal (Seth Rogen) invite him for a poker game, and in the end of the night, they find that Andy is a 40 years old virgin and they decide to help him to score. When he meets the divorced Trish (Catherine Keener), the owner of "We Sell Your Stuff on eBay" store, they agree to have no sex before their 20th date. Andy gets into many troubles due to these situations.
- Summary written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Quote:
Jay: He sold his old toys for over half a million dollars! We gotta get some toys!
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 (28,071 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 84%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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Don’t open the mailbox!
#68. The Butterfly Effect (2004)
(48 points, 4 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect
Tagline: Change one thing, change everything.
Directed by: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart
Plot summary:
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single working mom and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evans' friends and mom hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble, something bad always seems to happen during these blackouts. As Evan grows up he has less of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!
- Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
[upon discovering his armlessness]
Evan: What the **** is this?
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 (39,669 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 33%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5
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Searching for Vader’s White Castle of Fear.
#67. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)
(49 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366551/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_Kumar_Go_to_White_Castle
Tagline: Fast Food. High Times.
Directed by: Danny Leiner
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn
Plot summary: Two twenty-something stoner roommates -- one a Korean American investment banker; the other an Indian American medical school candidate -- go through a life changing journey, as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers.
- Summary written by Jon Hurwitz
Quote:
Harold: Did Doogie Houser just steal my ******* car?
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (17,082 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 71%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#66. Garden State (2004)
(49 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0333766/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_State_%28film%29
Tagline:
Directed by: Zach Braff
Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm
Plot summary: Andrew Largeman shuffled through life in a lithium-induced coma until his mother's death inspired a vacation from the pills to see what might happen. A moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles, "Large" hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. But even with 3,000 miles between them, he's been unable to escape his domineering father Gideon and the silencing effect he's had on his son from afar. Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Large finds old acquaintances around every corner living quite unique lives as gravediggers, fast food knights and the panderers of pyramid schemes. Meanwhile, at home, he does his best to avoid a long-simmering but inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate, Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything he isn't. A blast of color, hope and quirks, Sam becomes a sidekick who refuses to ride in his sidecar. Her warmth and fearlessness give Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of the infinite abyss that is life.
- Summary written by Sujit R. Varma
Quote:
Sam: Wow! I cannot believe you're not retarded!
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (47,228 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 85%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#65. I Am Sam (2001)
(52 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277027/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_sam
Tagline: love is all you need
Directed by: Jessie Nelson
Starring: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest
Plot summary: Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
- Summary written by Jon Reeves {jreeves@imdb.com}
Quote:
Lucy: [being observed] I want no other daddy but you.
[turns to the glass]
Lucy: [shouts] Did you hear that? I said I didn't want any other daddy but him. Why don't you write that down?
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 (14,637 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 33%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5
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#64. The Last Samurai (2003)
(52 points, 4 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Samurai
Tagline: In the face on an enemy, in the Heart of One Man, Lies the Soul of a Warrior.
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise,
Plot summary: In Japan, Civil War veteran Captain Nathan Algren trains the Emperor's troops to use modern weapons as they prepare to defeat the last of the country's samurais. But Algren's passion is swayed when he is captured by the samurai and learns about their traditions and code of honor.
- Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Emperor Meiji: Tell me how he died.
Algren: I will tell you how he lived.
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (46,419 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 67%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#63. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
(53 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_and_Commander:_The_Far_Side_of_the_World
Tagline: The Courage To Do The Impossible Lies In The Hearts of Men.
Directed by: Peter Weir
Starring: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Max Pirkis
Plot summary: During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, HMS Surprise, and a much larger French warship, the Acheron, with greater fire power, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Russell Crowe brings great intensity to the role of Captain Jack Aubrey. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. While the naval battle sequences are quite fantastic, the film is successful because director Weir chose to build the story to get to know the men who are locked aboard the tight quarters of a small ship and how they interact everyday. The officers and the mates are well-known by the time the final battle comes. Paul Bettany offers a strong performance as the surgeon and naturalist who balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist. He is the captain's friend and confidant, the two frequently playing violin and cello duets together. The horrors of the injuries from the war are frequently implied, but vividly depicted in the reactions of the characters.
- Summary written by John Sacksteder {jsackste@bellsouth.net}
Quote:
Capt. Jack Aubrey:[/v] Name a shrub after me - something prickly and hard to eradicate.
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (29,991 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 85%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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#62. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
(53 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362270/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_Aquatic_with_Steve_Zissou
Tagline:
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Starring: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett
Plot summary: Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he's having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he's attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?
- Summary written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}
Quote:
Steve Zissou: I dunno, I think that bull-dyke reporter is gonna burn us.
Ned Plimpton: I don't think she's a lesbian, Dad. She's pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 (24,639 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 77%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#61. Bad Santa (2003)
(53 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307987/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Santa
Tagline: He doesn't care if you're naughty or nice.
Directed by: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly
Plot summary: "Bad Santa" is the story of two conmen who go on a road trip to malls dressed as Santa and his elf. Rather than spreading good cheer, the duo's motive is to rob each establishment, a strategy that becomes complicated when they encounter an 8-year-old who teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.
- Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Willie: You can't drink worth shit.
Marcus: I weigh 92 pounds, you dick!
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 (18,383 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 74%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#60. The Incredibles (2004)
(55 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredibles
Tagline: Save The Day
Directed by: Brad Bird
Starring: (Voices): Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel Jackson
Plot summary: Mr. Incredible is a superhero; or he used to be, until a surge of lawsuits against superheroes submitted by the people they've saved forced the government to hide them in witness protection programs so they could lead normal, anonymous lives. Now known exclusively by his secret identity, Bob Parr, he lives with his wife Helen, formerly Elastigirl, and their three children Violet, Dash, and Jack Jack. He works as an insurance claims specialist, and he's fed up with his pushy boss and his immoral profession, but his wife's worked too hard to build a normal life for her family to abide his nostalgia for heroism. When Mr. Incredible's offered the chance to play the role of hero again by a mysterious informant, he jumps at the opportunity, but when it turns out to be a trap set by an old nemesis he had a hand in corrupting, the whole family must reveal themselves to save Mr. Incredible and countless innocents.
- Summary written by Michael Loughrin
Quote:
Dash: That was the best vacation ever! I love our family.
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (56,069 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 97%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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WHAZZZZZZZUPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!??
#59. Scary Movie
(56 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175142/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Movie
Tagline: No mercy. No shame. No sequel.
Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Starring: Anna Faris, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans
Plot summary: Six friends - Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams), Buffy Gilmore (Shannon Elizabeth), Greg Phillipe (Lochlyn Munro), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), and Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) - are being stalked by a serial killer. A serial killer that is after them because of an accident that they caused last Halloween. A serial killer that seems to have come out of every other scary movie. The body count's already started with Drew Decker (Carmen Electra), the local town slut, and it's starting to build up. The friends are going to have to escape from both the killer's clutches and annoying news reporter Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri) if they plan on living to the sequel...
- Summary written by Will
Quote:
The Killer: [rapping] I'm gonna slash and gash, cut another hole in your ass. I spill blood on the walls, then play tennis with your balls. If the phone rings, don't answer the call. Gonna slit your throat, **** you like a goat, peal your foreskin off and make a winter coat. Peace!
[camera pulls back to reveal all of Shorty's friends dead]
Shorty: Yo! That was the illest rhyme I ever seen!
IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 (31,082 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 52%
Allmovie rating: 2.5 / 5
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The LAST 2-vote movie!
#58. The Inside Man (2006)
(56 points, 2 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_man
Tagline: It looked like the perfect bank robbery. But you can't judge a crime by its cover.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster
Plot summary: "Inside Man" is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen). As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more instability into an already volatile situation.
- Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Vikram Walia: Detective Frazier my ass, where's my ******* turban?
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (22,987 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 88%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#57. Equilibrium (2002)
(58 points, 3 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_%282002_film%29
Tagline: In a future where freedom is outlawed outlaws will become heroes.
Directed by: Kurt Wimmer
Starring: Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Sean Bean
Plot summary: In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.
- Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Father: Mankind united with infinitely greater purpose in pursuit of war than he ever did in pursuit of peace.
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 (31,117 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 34%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#56. Old School (2003)
(59 points, 3 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0302886/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_School_%28film%29
Tagline: All the fun of college, none of the education.
Directed by: Todd Phillips
Starring: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn
Plot summary: Mitch, Frank and Beanie are disillusioned with their personal lives begining when Mitch's nymphomanic girlfriend, Heidi, cheats on him, then former party animal Frank gets married, but unwilling to get go of his wild life, and Beanie is a family man seeking to reclaim his wild and crazy youth. Beanie suggests that they form their own fraternity in Mitch's new house on a college campus to re-live their glory days by bringing together a variety of misfit college students, losers, middle-aged and elderly retirees as their new friends and later try to avoid being evicted by the new Dean of Students, Pritchard, whom still holds a personal grudge against all three of them.
Summary written by Matthew Patay
Quote:
Beanie: I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank?
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (22,977 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 59%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#55. Training Day (2001)
(60 points, 5 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0139654/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_day
Tagline: The only thing more dangerous than the line being crossed, is the cop who will cross it.
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel Washington (Academy Award: Best Actor), Ethan Hawke
Plot summary: In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.
- Summary written by Anna {dimenxia@yahoo.com}
Quote:
Alonzo Harris: How you want it, dawg? Closed casket? Remember that fool in the wheelchair? How'd you think he got there?
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (31,685 votes
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 73%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#54. Der Untergang (The Downfall) (2004)
(60 points, 5 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0363163/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_%28film%29
Tagline: April 1945, a nation awaits its...
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara,
Plot summary: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
- Summary written by Anthony Hughes {husnock31@hotmail.com}
Quote:
Adolf Hitler: I always make mistakes when I'm dictating.
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (25,948 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 91%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#53. Minority Report (2002)
(62 points, 4 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0181689/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_%28film%29
Tagline: What would you do if you were accused of a murder, you had not committed... yet?
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow
Plot summary: Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, Minority Report is about a cop in the future working in a division of the police department that arrests killers before they commit the crimes courtesy of some future viewing technology. Cruise's character has the tables turned on him when he is accused of a future crime and must find out what brought it about and stop it before it can happen
- Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
John Anderton: I'm not being set up. I really am going to kill this man.
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 (68,040 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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Fate Vs. Choice, part II
#52. Saw (2004)
(62 points, 6 votes – one #1 vote)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0387564/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_%28film%29
Tagline: Every piece has a puzzle.
Directed by: James Wan
Starring: Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover
Plot summary: Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) wake up chained to pipes at opposite ends of a dirty utility room. They soon learn that they have become the victims of the Jigsaw, a man who devises intricate situations to teach his victims to value their life by forcing them to hurt theirselves or others to stay alive. Jigsaw is described as a killer, but never actually does any harm to his victims. Pitted against the clock and each other, the two must work to outwit their captor and save Gordon's family, who have been taken hostage by the killer.
- Summary written by Denny Gibbons
Quote:
Zep Hindle: It's the rules!
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (42,196 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 45%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5
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#51. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
(63 points, 3 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0378194/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_bill
Tagline: Here comes the bride
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Chia Hui Liu
Plot summary: There were five on her list. Now it's three. O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green were the first to fall, now The Bride (Uma Thurman) is out to finish the job by killing Elle Driver, Budd, and last of all, Bill (David Carradine). If the final three aren't afraid now, they better start, because she's coming for them. However, something has thrown off her plans a bit. Her daughter (whom she was pregnant with as she was getting married) is still alive. What affect this will have on her quest for vengeance is unclear, but the question is, will The Bride have actually succeeded in completing her ultimate goal, to kill Bill?
- Summary written by Roguemaster83
Quote:
Pai Mei: Your so-called kung-fu - is really - quite pathetic.
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 (70,430 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 85%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#50. Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
(64 points, 4 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0121765/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_II_-_Attack_of_the_Clones
Tagline: A Jedi Shall Not Know Anger. Nor Hatred. Nor Love.
Directed by: George Lucas
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman,, shitload of clones
Plot summary: Ten years after the 'Phantom Menace' threatened the planet Naboo, Padmé Amidala is now a Senator representing her homeworld. A faction of political separatists, led by Count Dooku, attempts to assassinate her. There aren't enough Jedi to defend the Republic against the threat, so Chancellor Palpatine enlists the aid of Jango Fett, who promises that his army of clones will handle the situation. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi continues to train the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker, who fears that the Jedi code will forbid his growing romance with Amidala...
- Summary written by Brian Barjenbruch
Quote:
Obi-Wan: Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?
Anakin: Don't say that, master. You're the closest thing I have to a father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 (89,499 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 66%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#49. Walk the Line (2005)
(66 points, 4 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0358273/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_the_line
Tagline: Love is a burning thing.
Directed by: James Mangold
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon (Academy Award: Best Actress), Ginnifer Goodwin
Plot summary: The love of a woman, given reluctantly, saves a man from addiction and self-destruction. Traces the life of Johnny Cash from his boyhood, with loss of a brother and of his father's affection, to 1968 when his outlaw side and his unhappiness give way to the twin triumphs of his concert at Folsom Prison and June Carter's acceptance of his marriage proposal. Along the way there's his first composition, first recording, first marriage, daughters, being smitten with June, divorce, pills and booze, an empty life, and the Carter family's nursing him back to health. June eases Johnny out of a ring of fire.
- Summary written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}
Quote:
June Carter: You walked here all the way from Nashville?
Johnny Cash: Yeah, well, walking is good for you...
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 (32,314 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 83%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#48. V for Vendetta (2006)
(66 points, 5 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0434409/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_%28film%29
Tagline: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Directed by: James McTeigue
Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea
Plot summary: In a near future, a totalitarian state is ruling England. On November, 5th, a man self-calling V (Hugo Weaving) explodes a symbolic monument and starts fighting for freedom using terrorist technique. He also rescues Evey Hammond (Natalie Portman) from the claws of the abusive secret police and later she becomes her allied. The man in charge of the investigation, Inspector Eric Finch (Stephen Rea), discloses the truth about his leaders while chasing V.
- Summary written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Quote:
Delia Surridge: [V gives her a rose] Are you going to kill me now?
V: I killed you 10 minutes ago.
V: [shows her hypodermic needle]
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (62,517 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 75%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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I hope you flip your bike over and knock your two front teeth out, you selfish son of a bitch!
#47. Wedding Crashers (2005)
(67 points, 3 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0396269/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_crashers
Tagline: Life's a Party. Crash It.
Directed by: David Dobkin
Starring: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams
Plot summary: John and Jeremy, single in their mid-30s, mediate divorces in D.C.; their summer social life consists of crashing weddings (always with a back story) to meet young women for a one-night stand. As John thinks about growing up, Jeremy convinces him to go to one more, for the daughter of the Treasury Secretary. Each catches the eye of a daughter of the host. Jeremy scores with Gloria, who proves to be a psycho clinger; John wants real romance with Claire, but she has a boyfriend, a privileged hound. Can John convince Jeremy to stick around long enough so he can woo Claire, and can he tell her the truth about himself before she finds out from someone else? What if he messes up?
- Summary written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}
Quote:
Chazz Reinhold: HEY MOM! CAN WE GET SOME MEATLOAF?
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (33,899 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 75%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#46. Gangs of New York (2002)
(72 points, 3 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0217505/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_new_york
Tagline: America Was Born In The Streets.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz
Plot summary: As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!
- Summary written by Miramax
Quote:
[Amsterdam goes to wipe blood off razor]
Priest Vallon: No son, never. The blood stays on the blade. One day you'll understand.
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 (49,453 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 77%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#45. Bruce Almighty (2005)
(72 points, 4 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0315327/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Almighty
Tagline: In Bruce We Trust?
Directed by: Tom Shadyac
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman
Plot summary: Bruce Nolan (Carrey), a television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y.,is discontented with almost everything in life despite his popularity and the love of his girlfriend, Grace (Aniston) . At the end of the worst day of his life, Bruce angrily ridicules and rages against God and God responds. God appears in human form (Freeman) and, endowing Bruce with divine powers, challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better.
- Summary written by Cezzie
Bruce: God is a mean kid sitting on an anthill with a magnifying glass, and I'm the ant. He could fix my life in five minutes if He wanted to, but he'd rather burn off my feelers and watch me squirm.
Quote:
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 (35,935 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 49%
Allmovie rating: 2.5 / 5
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He training to be a cage fighter.
#44. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
(73 points, 3 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0374900/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napolean_dynamite
Tagline: He's out to prove he's got nothing to prove.
Directed by: Jared Hess
Starring: Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino
Plot summary: Preston, Idaho's most curious resident, Napoleon Dynamite (Heder), lives with his grandma and his 32-year-old brother (who cruises chat rooms for ladies) and works to help his best friend, Pedro (Efren Ramirez), snatch the Student Body President title from mean teen Summer Wheatley (Haylie Duff).
Summary written by IMDb Editors
Quote:
Don:Hey, Napoleon, what'd you do all last summer again?
Napoleon Dynamite: I told you. I spent it with my uncle
in Alaska hunting wolverines.
Don:Did you shoot any?
Napoleon Dynamite: Yes, like 50 of'em. They kept tryin'to attack my cousins. What the heck would you do in a situation like that?
Don: - What kind of gun did you use?
Napoleon Dynamite: A frickin' 12-gauge. What do you think? GOSH!
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 (36,399 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 71%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#43. The Ring (2002)
(73 points, 4 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0298130/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring
Tagline: Before you die, you see the ring
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Martin Henderson
Plot summary: When her niece spontaneously dies of fright one week to the day she watched a disturbing video, a cynical journalist (Naomi Watts) travels to the Pacific Northwest in search of the tape's origins and its links to a string of suicides at a horse ranch.
- Summary written by JoJo Mac
Quote:
Samara Morgan: Seven days..
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (42,146 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 72%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#42. Snatch (2000)
(73 points, 7 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0208092/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatch_%28film%29
Tagline: Stealin' Stones and Breakin' Bones
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Jason Statham, Stephen Graham, Brad Pitt
Plot summary: Turkish, an unlicenced boxing promoter is pulled into trouble when he becomes involved in big time criminal Brick Top, who wants him to arrange a fight and fix it. Meanwhile, a diamond theft goes down but the 84 karat stone goes missing. This leads Avi, the boss who was supposed to receive the stone, to come to England to search for it, with the help of his cousin, Doug The Head and Bullet Tooth Tony. As events twist and turn, the two situations blend into one with a chain reaction of events carrying on for each and every character.
- Summary written by ~^Æ~§íX~^Æ~
Quote:
Bullet Tooth Tony: I'm driving down the road with your head stuck in my window. What does it look like I'm doin'?
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (65,008 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 74%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#41. Big Fish (2003)
(74 points, 3 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0319061/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_fish
Tagline: An adventure as big as life itself.
Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Billy Crudup, Helena Bonham Carter
Plot summary: This film follows the incredible life of Edward Bloom, through a series of flashbacks that begin when his son Will visits him for the last time. Edward is dying of cancer, and Will hasn't spoken to him for years because he believes him to be a liar that never really cared for his family. As Edward's story unfolds once again, Will tries to finally understand the truth about who his father really was...
- Summary written by Chris Makrozahopoulos {makzax@hotmail.com}
Quote:
[Amos returns from the woods after being a wolf for a night]
Amos Calloway: Didn't kill anything, did I?
Young Ed Bloom: A couple of rabbits, but I think one of 'em was already dead.
Amos Calloway: That would explain the indigestion.
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (52,293 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#40. Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
(75 points, 5 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0121766/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_III:_Revenge_of_the_Sith
Tagline: The saga is complete.
Directed by: George Lucas
Starring: Ewan McGregor), Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid
Plot summary: The clone wars is near an end, Obi-wan and Anakin have been called to Coruscant which has been invaded by General Grievous and has abducted the Chancellor. As General Grievous tries to escape, Obi-wan and Anakin attempt to board Grievous' ship to rescue the Chancellor. If they fail then it could mean an end to the republic...
- Summary written by yatessixecho
Quote:
Yoda: Good relations with the Wookies, I have.
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (94,642 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 82%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#39. Matrix Reloaded (2003)
(76 points, 5 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234215/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Reloaded
Tagline: Free your mind.
Directed by: Andy & Larry Wachowski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne
Plot summary: Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rest of their crew continue to battle the machines that have enslaved the human race in the Matrix. As their quest unfolds, Neo learns more about his super-heroic abilities, including the ability to see the codes of the people and things around him. Simultaneously, now, more humans are waking up out of the Matrix and attempting to live in the real world. As their numbers grow, the battle moves to Zion--the last real-world city and center of human resistance.
- Summary written by Sujit R. Varma
Quote:
Twin #1: We are getting aggravated.
Twin #2: Yes, we are.
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 (75,460 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 74%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#38. Batoru rowaiaru (Battle Royale) (2000)
(76 points, 6 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0266308/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_%28film%29
Tagline: One Dead. 41 To Go.
Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Plot summary: "Battle Royale - A random class of Japanese ninth grade student are - in this fictional universe - randomly selected by a fascist government lottery. They become kidnapped and forced onto an isolated island, where they are equipped with food, water, a map and a random weapon. On the island, they have to compete in a violent death match game till only one single victor remain. Failure to follow the rules or participate in the death match results in death by an exploding collar everyone has to wear"
Summary written by Artificial_Lifeform
Quote:
Shuya: And so our compulsory education was coming to an end.
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (19,944 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#37. Finding Nemo (2003)
(78 points, 6 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0266543/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_nemo
Tagline: 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water. That's a lot of space to find one fish.
Directed by: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Starring: (Voices) Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould
Plot summary: Marlin (a clown fish) is a widower who only has his son Nemo left of his family after a predator attack. Years later, on Nemo's first day of school, he's captured by a scuba diver and taken to live in a dentist office's fish tank. Marlin and his new absent-minded friend Dory set off across the ocean to find Nemo, while Nemo and his tankmates scheme on how to get out of the tank before he becomes the dentist's niece's new pet.
Summary written by TonyB
Quote:
Pearl: Hey. You guys made me ink.
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 (62,974 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5
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#36. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
(80 points, 5 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0325980/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Carribean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_Pearl
Tagline: Prepare to be blown out of the water.
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush
Plot summary: Pirates of the Caribbean is a sweeping action-adventure story set in an era when villainous pirates scavenged the Caribbean seas. This roller coaster tale teams a young man, Will Turner, with an unlikely ally in rogue pirate Jack Sparrow. Together, they must battle a band of the world's most treacherous pirates, led by the cursed Captain Barbossa, in order to save Elizabeth, the love of Will's life, as well as recover the lost treasure that Jack seeks. Against improbable odds, they race towards a thrilling, climactic confrontation on the mysterious Isla de Muerta. Clashing their swords in fiece mortal combat, Will and Jack attempt to recapture The Black Pearl ship, save the British navy, and relinquish a fortune in forbidden treasure thereby lifting the curse of the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Jack Sparrow: [Wakes up and sees Elizabeth burning the rum] No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing? You burned all the food, the shade... the rum!
Elizabeth: Yes, the rum is gone.
Jack Sparrow: Why is the rum gone?
Elizabeth: One: because it is a *vile* dring that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two: that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royal navy is out looking for me, do you think there is even the slightest chance they wont see it?
Jack Sparrow: {pause}…. But why is the rum gone?
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (98,841 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 79%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#35. Shi Mian Mai Fu (The House of Flying Daggers) (2004)
(81 points, 5 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_flying_daggers
Tagline:
Directed by: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau
Plot summary: During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. A police officer called Leo sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers". Leo arrests Mei, only to have Jin breaking her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But things are far more complicated than they seem...
Summary written by Chris Makrozahopoulos
Quote:
Mei: If you kill him, I'll kill you with this dagger.
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (18,714 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 88%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#34. Black Hawk Down (2001)
(82 points, 3 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0265086/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hawk_down
Tagline: Leave No Man Behind.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore
Plot summary: Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord which lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, and the heroic efforts by various Rangers to get to them, centering on Sgt. Eversmann commanding one Ranger unit, named Chalk Four, pinned down by the street fighting, to Warrant Officer Durant who was only survivor of the second black hawk crash site and whom was captured, to Lt. Col. McKnight who leads a rescue convoy for the Rangers only to get lost within the hostile city, to Lt. Perino leading Rangers to the first black hawk crash site, to Staff Sgt. Yurek who leads his decimated Ranger group Chalk Two through gunfire to safety, to many others involved who where either killed or survived.
Summary written by Matthew Patay
Quote:
"Hoot": Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (44,819 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 76%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#33. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
(83 points, 5 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0385700/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_Advent_Children
Tagline:I won't just be a memory...
Directed by: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
Starring: (Voices) Takahiro Sakurai, Maaya Sakamoto, Ayumi Ito
Plot summary: Two years after the events in "Final Fantasy VII", a disease called 'Seikon-Shoukougun', or 'Geostigma', is spreading through the planet. This disease is believed to have been caused by the body fighting off foreign material that invaded the body two years earlier, at the end of "Final Fantasy VII". Guilt-ridden and haunted by his past, ex-SOLDIER Cloud Strife has decided to live a secluded, solitary life away from his friends while maintaining "Strife's Delivery Service", whose headquarters is located in Tifa Lockheart's bar, the Seventh Heaven. Tifa's bar serves as an orphanage for children stricken with Geostigma. Here, Tifa keeps an eye on Barret's six-year-old daughter, Marlene, while Barret searches the planet for an alternative energy source to the Planet's energy, Mako. One day, Cloud receives a phone call from the former Shinra, Inc. president, Rufus, asking him for protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj. Kadaj, in the meantime, along with his brothers Loz and Yazoo, are searching for their "mother", and seem to believe that Cloud knows where to find her. Meanwhile, Vincent Valentine has been wandering the planet gathering information on Kadaj's scheme, and Cloud and his friends must come together again to fight these new enemies.
Summary written by Andrea
Quote:
Sephiroth: Tell me what you cherish most. Give me the pleasure of taking it away.
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (10,849 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: N/A
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#32. Phone Booth (2002)
(85 points, 3 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0183649/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_Booth_%28movie%29
Tagline: Your life is on the line..
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell
Plot summary: A slick New York publicist (Farrell) who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Summary written by Ryan McIntosh
Quote:
The Caller: Do you see the tourists with their video cameras, hoping the cops will shoot you so they can sell the tape to Goriest Police Shoot-outs?
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (30,029 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 72%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#31. Ying xiong (Hero) (2002)
(85 points, 7 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0299977/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_%282002_film%29
Tagline: One man will challenge an empire
Directed by: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Plot summary: In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin's three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.
Summary written by Yocke
Quote:
Nameless: Good calligraphy.
Broken Sword: Good swordsmanship
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 (37,662 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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#30. Gong Fu (Kung Fu Hustle) (2004)
(87 points, 4 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0373074/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Hustle
Tagline: So many gangsters...so little time.
Directed by: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Zhi Hua Dong
Plot summary: Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves around a hapless wannabe gangster who aspires to become a member of the notorious "Axe Gang." Other characters include an obnoxious landlady and her apparently frail husband who exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Summary written by Metroplex
Quote:
Landlady: You may know kung fu... but you're still a fairy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (19,109 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 90%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#29. Cast Away (2000)
(87 points, 4 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0162222/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Away
Tagline: At the edge of the world, his journey begins.
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks , Wilson
Plot summary: After FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland is ripped out of his hasty life by the clock in a plane crash, he finds himself alone on the shores of a tropical island. First, frustration gets to him and then he realizes how little his chances are to ever get back to civilisation. Four years later, Chuck has learned very well how to survive on his own: mending his dental health, catching fish with a spear, predicting the weather with a selfmade calendar. A photograph of his girlfriend Kelly has kept his hopes alive all these years. Finally, Chuck takes the opportunity to take off for home: He sets off on a wooden raft with a sail that has washed ashore.
Summary written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com}
Quote:
Chuck Noland: That's a search area of 500,000 square miles. That's twice the size of Texas. They may never find us.
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (46,073 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 87%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#28. Million Dollar Baby (Academy Award: Best Picture 2004)
(87 points, 4 votes – one #1 vote)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0405159/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_dollar_baby
Tagline: Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love
Directed by: Clint Eastwood (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Hilary Swank (Academy Award: Best Actress), Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman (Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor)
Plot summary: Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time. His only friend, Scrap (Morgan Freeman), an ex-boxer who looks after Frankie's gym, knows that beneath his gruff exterior is a man who has been seeking, for the past 25 years, the forgiveness that somehow continues to elude him. Then Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) walks into his gym...
Summary written by Any
Quote:
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (49,859 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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#27. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
(89 points, 4 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0364725/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgeball:_A_True_Underdog_Story
Tagline: Grab life by the ball.
Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Chrisine Taylor
Plot summary: Peter LaFleur is a charismatic underachiever and proprietor of a rundown gym called Average Joe's. The facility's ecclectic clientele of decidedly less-than-average Joes is comprised of: a self-styled pirate; a scrawny nerd who dreams of impressing an unattainable cheerleader; an obsessive aficionado of obscure sports; a dim-witted young man; and a cocky know-it-all who, of course, really knows nothing. Peter's humble gym catches the eye of White Goodman, the power-mullet-sporting, Fu-Manchu-d, egomaniacal owner of Globo Gym, a gleaming monolith of fitness. White intends to take over Average Joe's, and Peter's non-existent bookkeeping is making it all too easy for him. A foreclosing bank has stationed attorney Kate Veatch inside Average Joe's to finalize Globo's takeover of the gym. But Peter's boyish charms win her over and Kate joins his team of social rejects to beat the odds--and their own ineptitude--to try to save Average Joe's. How? A showdown dodgeball competition against Globo Gym.
Summary written by Sujit R. Varma
Quote:
[In training session]
Patches O'Houlihan: If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball.
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 (25,996 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 69%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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#26. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
(89 points, 4 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0357413/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorman:_The_Legend_of_Ron_Burgundy
Tagline: His news is bigger than your news.
Directed by: Adam McKay
Starring: Wil Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell
Plot summary: Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the '70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other "female" interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it's more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons... it's war.
Summary written by austin4577@aol.com
Quote:
Ron Burgundy: [to dog] You're so wise. You're like a miniature Buddha, covered with hair.
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 (25,086 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 65%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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Bit surprised on this one.. But whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
#25. Bad Boys 2 (2003)
(90 points, 4 votes – one #1 vote)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0172156/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boys_2
Tagline:
Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence
Plot summary: Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war. Meanwhile, things get sexy between Mike and Syd (Union), Marcus's sister.
Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Mike Lowery: Dan Marino should definitely buy this car. Well not this one, cause I'm gonna **** this one up. But he should get one just like it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10 (19,741 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 25%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5
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My Spidy sense are a tingling’
#24. Spider-Man (2002)
(91 points, 7 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_%28film%29
Tagline: With great power comes great responsibility.
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst
Plot summary: A rather odd thing has just occurred in the life of nerdy high school student Peter Parker: after being bitten by a genetically modified spider, his body chemistry is altered mutagenically. He can now scale walls and ceilings, he has superhuman strength and super-fast reflexes, and he develops a precognitive sense that warns him of approaching danger. Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter first uses his newfound powers to make money, but after his uncle is murdered at the hands of a criminal Peter failed to stop, he swears to use his powers to fight the evil that killed his uncle. At the same time, scientist and businessman Norman Osborn, after exposure to an experimental nerve gas, develops an alternate personality himself: the super-strong, psychotic Green Goblin! Peter Parker must now juggle three things in his life: his new job at a local newspaper under a perpetually on-edge employer, his battle against the evil Green Goblin, and his fight to win the affections of beautiful classmate Mary Jane Watson, against none other than his best friend Harry Osborn, son of Norman Osborn! Is this challenge too much for even the Amazing Spider-Man to handle?
Summary written by Hammer2Fall
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Quote:
Uncle Ben: Peter, look. You're changing. I know. I went through exactly the same thing at your age.
Peter Parker: No. Not exactly.
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 (84,439 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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Mr. Anderson…
#23. Matrix Revolutions (2003)
(94 points, 5 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242653/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_Revolutions
Tagline: Everything that has a beginning has an end.
Directed by: Andy & Larry Wachowski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne
Plot summary:
The machine army continues to drill towards Zion. Within hours, they will overrun the population of the Zionites and lay extinction to human kind. Meanwhile, Neo is held captive by the Merovingian at a train station. Trinity & Morpheus set out on a journey to release him from a mysterious train operator. Also, Smith resumes his quest to kill "Mr. Anderson" as he reveals his identity into the real world and resumes to replicate his program inside the system of The Matrix, causing it to decay. All hope is placed in the freed Neo, who must travel to the city of the machines in the Logos ship with Trinity and bargain to save each kingdom from destruction by finishing Smith once and for all. But even with his new powers over the sentinels, will he be able to fight them off?
- Summary written by keyser_soze-2
Quote:
Persephone: She'll do it. She'll kill every one of us if she has to... she's in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 (56,171 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 37%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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#22. Batman Begins (2005)
(96 points, 7 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_begins
Tagline:
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine
Plot summary: A new restart of the "Batman" franchise under the helm of "Memento" Director Chris Nolan and more in tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organised crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.
- Summary written by Dark Horizons
Quote:
Ra's al Ghul: When a forest grows too wild, a purging fire is inevitable and natural.
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 (92,012 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 84%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#21. Bowling for Columbine (2002)
(99 points, 5 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310793/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_for_Columbine
Tagline: Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?
Directed by: Michael Moore
Starring: Michael Moore, a camera man, bunch of editors.
Plot summary: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humour, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.
- Summary written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Quote:
Michael Moore: Now wait a minute... The Constitution says you've got the right to bear arms. What do you think 'arms' means?
John Nichols: Well it's not like these...
[waves his arms]
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (48,328 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 84%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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Zoinks, yo!
#20. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
(104 points, 5 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_and_silent_bob_strike_back
Tagline: Hollywood had it coming
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Starring: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Luke ******* Skywalker
Plot summary: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a tale of adventure on the open road. When Dante and Randal (of Clerks fame) get a restraining order to keep the punchy Jay and his hetero life-mate, Silent Bob, from selling drugs in front of the Quick Stop convenience store, their lives are suddenly empty. They find new purpose when their friend, Brodie, informs them a movie is being made featuring two infamous characters based on their likenesses. After visiting one of the creators of the Bluntman and Chronic, Holden McNeil, they set out to get what fat movie cash they deserve and hopefully put an end to people slandering them on the Internet. Along the way, they learn the rules of the road from a hitchhiking George Carlin, ride with a group of gorgeous jewel thieves, and incur the wrath of a hapless wildlife marshal for liberating an orangutan named Suzanne. The quest takes them from New Jersey to Hollywood where a showdown involving the police, the jewel thieves, and the Bluntman and Chronic filmmakers will decide the fate of Suzanne, Jay, Silent Bob, and their good names.
Summary written by Lordship
Quote:
Jay: In a world gone mad, we will not spank the monkey, but the monkey will spank us.
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (32,144 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 52%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5
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All this over a comb.
#19. Wo Hu Zang Long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (2000)
(108 points, 4 votes – one #1 vote)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0190332/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouching_tiger
Tagline:
Directed by: Ang Lee
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Yun-Fat Chow,
Plot summary: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a timeless story that takes place in QING China when miracles were credible and spirits and gods were present in man's world. It is not unbelievable that zen warriors float through the air, skim the water and battle in trees and on rooftops. Pain, revenge and duty are the stuff that bind us in this world and are the main plot line of the movie, but in the afterlife love and faith linger on.
- Summary written by bastetg4
Quote:
Yu Shu Lien: Without Green Destiny, you are nothing!
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 (64,465 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 96%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5
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If this movie doesn't get you off drugs your FUCKED.
#18. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
(111 points, 5 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Dream
Tagline: From the director of [Pi]
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly
Plot summary: Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky) exposes four paralleled individuals and their menacing addiction to heroin, cocaine, and diet pills (speed). Taking place in Brooklyn amidst the waning Coney Island, the drugs are very easily obtained and keep each main character in its cycle of dependence. The protagonist Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) is your typical heroin junky with an ambitious plan of "Getting off hard knocks," with help from his cocaine crazed girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and his long time friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans). Meanwhile his widowed mother (Sarah Goldfarb) is obsessed with the glamour of television and eventually finds her way to a dietician who pushes her into the cycle of drug induced enslavement.
Summary written by spiro muqhar
Quote:
[Sara Goldfarb: [on her pills] Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon, and orange in the evening. Just like that, one, two, three, four.
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (72,074 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 77%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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Beware Evil Team!
#17. Siulam Chukkau (Shaolin Soccer) (2001)
(122 points, 6 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286112/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_soccer
Tagline: Kick some grass!
Directed by: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow, Man Tat Ng, Yut Fei Wong
Plot summary:
After a fateful mistake costing his career, an ex-soccer player bum meets a shaolin kung fu student trying to spread the word of kung fu. The ex-soccer player helps reconcile with his five brothers, and teaches them soccer, adding shaolin kung fu as a twist.
Summary written by ravedragon
Quote:
Team Gangster Player: Calm down. I'm a car repairer. This crescent wrench is used to hold for screwing."
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (10,922 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 90%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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#16. Shrek (2001)
(128 points, 9 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126029/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek
Tagline: The greatest fairy tale never told.
Directed by: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
Starring: (Voices): Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
Plot summary: In a faraway land called Duloc, a heartless ruler, the midget Lord Farquaad (voiced by John Lithgow) has banished all the fairy tales from the land so it can be as boring as he is. But there are three characters who will stand is his way. The first is a green, smelly ogre with a heart of gold named Shrek (Mike Myers), his faithful steed, a Donkey (Eddie Murphy), who will do anything but shut up, and the beautiful, but tough Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) whom Lord Farquaad wishes to make his wife so he can become king of Duloc. What's to do in a screwy fairy tale like this?
Summary written by Will
Quote:
Donkey: And then one time I ate some rotten berries. Man, there were some strong gases seepin' outta my butt that day!
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (87,634 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 88%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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Ludacris doesn’t **** it up!
#15. Crash (Academy Award: Best Picture 2005)
(151 points, 8 votes – one #1 vote)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_%282004_film%29
Tagline: Live your life at the point of impact
Directed by: Paul Haggis
Starring: Don Cheadle, Peter Waters, Ludacris
Plot summary: Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.
Summary written by Martin Lewison {dr@martinlewison.com}
Quote:
Shereen: They think we're Arab. When did Persian become Arab?
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (65,558 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 75%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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Cartman: “In the Ghetto…”
#14. Cidade De Deus (City of God) (2002)
(153 points, 8 votes – three #1 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_%28film%29
Tagline: Fight and you'll never survive..... Run and you'll never escape.
Directed by: Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen
Plot summary: Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pé soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he's been given an artist's point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pé is not the real protagonist of the film--only the narrator--he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pé's perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence.
Summary written by Sujit R. Varma
Quote:
Rocket: What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God was divided. You couldn't go from one section the other, not even to visit a relative. The cops considered anyone living in the slum a hoodlum. People got used to living in Vietnam, and more and more volunteers signed up to die.
IMDB Rating: 8.8/10 (50,078 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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Floyd’s favorite Super Hero movie. Nuff said.
#13. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
(154 points, 9 votes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316654/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_2
Tagline: Sacrifice
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Alfred Molina, Kirsten Dunst
Plot summary: Peter Parker's having a rough time. His double life as the superhero Spider-Man is having a devastating impact on his civilian life. Things are so bad he declares that he's quitting, and never putting on the suit again. However, his sense of duty forces him to become a hero again when the brilliant scientist Dr. Otto Octavius is deformed in an accident and becomes Dr. Octopus. With four metal tentacles sticking out of his back, he'll prove to be a more than worthy opponent for Spider-Man.
Summary written by rmlohner
Quote:
J. Jonah Jameson: I'll give you $150.00 for it!
Spider-Man: $300.00
J. Jonah Jameson: That's Outrageous! Done.
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (62,692 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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Groupies, Rock & Roll & Overdoses. The American Feel-Good Movie of the Year!
#12. Almost Famous (2000)
(162 points, 5 votes – one #1 vote)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181875/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Famous
Tagline: Experience it. Enjoy it. Just don't fall for it.
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand
Plot summary: William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Summary written by Filmtwob {webmaster@filmfreak.co.za}
Quote:
Russell Hammond: Your mom kinda freaked me out.
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (52,607 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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28 days.… 6 hours... 42 minutes.. 12seconds.
#11. Donnie Darko (2001)
(166 points, 9 votes – one #1 vote)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_darko
Tagline: Be Afraid of the Dark
Directed by: Richard Kelly
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, one mutha-******* scary Trix rabbit
Plot summary: Donnie Darko is a disturbed adolescent from a semi-functional upper-middle-class family. After nearly escaping from death because he hears the voice of a 6-foot-tall bunny, Donnie is led by the bunny to create havoc that is both destructive and creative.
Summary written by Brendan Smith
Quote:
Rose Darko: Our son just called me a bitch.
Edward Darko: You're not a bitch. You're bitchin', but you're not a bitch.
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (84,360 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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Don’t leave the coffee machine on all night..
#10. Clerks II (2006)
(168 points, 6 votes – two #1 votes)[size]
http://imdb.com/title/tt0424345/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks_II
Tagline: No Experience Necessary
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson
Plot summary: A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional fast-food restaurant. Free from his dead-end job (and lodged in a new one), Dante begins to break free of his rut, planning to move away with his clingy fiancé. Dante is ready to leave the horrors of minimum-wage New Jersey behind, but Randal - always the more hostile of the two - starts to become overwhelmed by his own rancor.
Summary written by Anonymous
Quote:
Elias: Well, at bible camp, we made this flow chart, to prove that transformers aren't against God, and since God made man, and MAN made the Transformers.
[Excited]
Elias: The Transformers are a gift from God, Randall!
Randal Graves: No sir. They are not a gift from God. They are an unholy curse from the beast we call the Desolate One.
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 (12,846 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 62%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5
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Tokyo backstreets.
#9. Lost in Translation (2003)
(172 points, 7 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0335266/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_translation
Tagline: Everyone wants to be found.
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson
Plot summary: Bob Harris (played by Bill Murray) is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte (Scarlett Johannson), the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable travelling companions. Scarlet is looking for "her place in life," and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they?
Summary written by veloc {velo_00@yahoo.com}
Quote:
[after a loooooooooooooonnngggggggggggggng speech in Japanese]
Ms. Kawasaki: He want you to turn and look in camera. Okay?
Bob: Is that all he said?
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (65,626 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 95%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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Sheshh, Some pension plan..
#8. Gladiator (Academy Award: Best Picture 2000)
(181 points, 7 votes – one #1 vote)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0172495/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_%282000_film%29
Tagline: What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe (Academy Award: Best Actor), Joaquin Phoenix
Plot summary: Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.
Summary written by Chris "Morphy" Terry
Quote:
[Maximus looks at images of his wife and son]
Juba: Can they hear you?
Maximus: Who?
Juba: Your family. In the afterlife.
Maximus: Oh yes.
Juba: What do you say to them?
Maximus: To my son - I tell him I will see him again soon. To keep his heels down while riding his horse. To my wife... that is not your business.
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 (123,615 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5
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True love can’t be forgotten, but can it be erased?
#7. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
(197 points, 9 votes – one #1 vote)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0338013/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine
Tagline: Would you erase me?
Directed by: Michel Gondry
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst
Plot summary: A man awakes disheveled; impulsively, he skips work, heading instead to the shore. On this chilly February day, a woman in orange, hair dyed blue, chats him up: she's Clementine, he's Joel, shy and sad; by day's end, he likes her. The next night she takes him to the frozen Charles River. After, as he drops her off, she asks to sleep at his place, and she runs up to get her toothbrush. Strange things occur: their meeting was not entirely chance, they have a history neither remembers. Our seeing how the lacunae came to be and their discovery of the memory loss take the rest of the film.
- Summary written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}
Quote:
Joel: Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10 (83,179 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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I see Tarantino’s has seen A LOT of 70’s movies…
#6. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
(226 points, 12 votes – one #1 vote)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0266697/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_bill
Tagline: The Fourth Film by Quentin Tarantino
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Sonny Chiba
Plot summary: "The Bride" was once part of a group of world class female assassins, until the group leader, "Bill" and the other assassins turn against her. Five years later "The Bride" awakens from the coma the assassins left her in and heads out to seek bloody revenge. Unlike conventional movies, Kill Bill is told in chapter format making the narrative flow more like a book than a film.
Summary written by Gareth J. Mitchell {kflibble@hotmail.com}
Quote:
The Bride: Those of you lucky enough to have your lives, take them with you. However, leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now.
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (96,143 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 84%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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So when the Watchmen movie coming out?
#5. Sin City (2005)
(237 points, 14 votes – two #1 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0401792/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City_%28film%29
Tagline: There is no justice without sin.
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen
Plot summary: Sin City is a violent city where the police department is as corrupt as the streets are deadly. In this movie, we follow three stories, the central of which is Marv, a tough-as-nails and nearly impossible to kill street fighter who goes on a rampage of vengeance when a beautiful woman, Goldie (King), he sleeps with for only one night is killed while lying in bed with him.
Summary written by Slider
Quote:
Marv: I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 (89,352 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5
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Sam can’t swim!
#4. LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
(250 points, 12 votes – one #1 vote)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0120737/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_%28film%29
Tagline: Fate Has Chosen Him. A Fellowship Will Protect Him. Evil Will Hunt Them.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Starring: Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Austin
Plot summary: An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!
- Summary written by Paul Twomey {toomsp@hotmail.com}
Quote:
Legolas: Lembas Bread, one bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man.=!
Merry: How many did you eat?
Pippin: four
[burps]
IMDB Rating: 8.8/10 (204,053 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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This movies about… uhhhh… ummm… I forgot..
#3. Memento (2000)
(255 points, 10 votes – two #1 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0209144/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento
Tagline: Some memories are best forgotten
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Plot summary: Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder. His quality of life has been severely hampered after this event, and he can now only live a comprehendable life by tattooing notes on himself and taking pictures of things with a Polaroid camera. The movie is told in forward flashes of events that are to come that compensate for his unreliable memory, during which he has liaisons with various complex characters. Leonard badly wants revenge for his wife's murder, but, as numerous characters explain, there may be little point if he won't remember it in order to provide closure for him. The movie veers between these future occurrences and a telephone conversation Leonard is having in his motel room in which he compares his current state to that of a client whose claim he once dealt with.
Summary written by {tgraham@currantbun.com}
Quote:
Leonard Shelby: My wife deserves revenge, whether I know about it or not.
IMDB Rating: 8.6/10 (123,310 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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The two towers hook up in a pincher move to kick Middle Earth’s ass!
#2. LOTR: The Two Towers (2002)
(262 points, 12 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0167261/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers_%28film%29
Tagline: A New Power Is Rising.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Austin, Gollum
Plot summary: Sauron's forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman's army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron's troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin.
- Summary written by Yuandi Li
Quote:
Frodo: I can't do this Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10 (160,050 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5
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And da winner is……..
#1. LOTR: The Return of the King (Academy Award: Best Picture 2003)
(316 points, 13 votes – two #1 votes)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0167260/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King_%28film%29
Tagline: There can be no triumph without loss. No victory without suffering. No freedom without sacrifice.
Directed by: Peter Jackson (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Austin, Gollum
Plot summary:
Gondor is overrun by the orcs of Mordor, and Gandalf rides to Minas Tirith to aid the humans in the war that is ahead. Aragorn must realize his true identity and purpose as the King of Men, and journey with Gimli and Legolas to summon the Army of the Dead so that the battle against evil can be won. Meanwhile, paranoia and suspicion rises between Frodo, Sam and Gollum as they continue their increasingly dark and dangerous travel to Mount Doom, the one place where The Ring can be destroyed once and for all.
- Summary written by Qrrbirbel
Quote:
[Frodo drinks the last drops of water]
Frodo: There'll be none left for the return journey.
Sam: I don't think there will be a return journey, Mr. Frodo.
IMDB Rating: 8.9/10 (159,953 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5
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Well that's it. It may be just a movie about walking, but these hobbits went through SHIT and walked hundreds of miles without shoes just to give us the right to live Sauron-free. And if you don't like the #1 movie you can just:
TALK TO THE MOUTH!
OK so... who's up for a 90's poll now????
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