Not such a simple question to answer. Over on
Simon's Blog he commented on the recent film Inception and how good he thought it was - whilst flying on a plane. Level 1 of the dream if I remember correctly. Still it sparked a little discussion on movies and I realised I hadn't recently reviewed my own "Ten Favourite Films of all time" list. I wondered if Inception would make it on the list. Thus, I have just recreated my list and shall record it for posterity and ridicule here on my own blog. I used a system of brainstorming followed by directed selection. Simply put, I tried to recall any movie that had had an impact on me during my life, I filtered many at this stage - all remaining get an honourable mention. I suspect there is a certain amount of bias too, particularly if I had recently watched or discussed a move, but I tried to adjust for this. I then asked myself the question, "If I could watch only one of these movies in the whole of the next year and no other, which would I watch?". I also tried to adjust this for having watched recently. When I had selected one, I looked at the remaining list and asked the same question prefaced with "of those left, ....". During this process I remembered some more movies which either got added to the pool or noted.
Top 10
Brainstorm Others
Nearly forgot
Starwars trilogy's
Terminator 2
Gladiator
Reservoir Dogs
Swordfish
Just about anything with:
Denzel Washington - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/
Russell Crowe - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000128/
Bruce Willis - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000246/
