Philthy’s Movie Lists

My Top 10 Favourite Movies (subject to change without notice).

UPDATED: January 16th 2015.

1. Goodfellas (1990)

I had spent a lot of my teenage years being a dick and thinking I was an intellectual because I went to dinner parties dressed as a causal bum and interrupted the dinner table conversations with my thoughts on the lastest trends and social cultural influences. In one particular sitting, I stunned my friends with a 60-second monologue about why Wayne’s World was a brilliantly written and acted metaphor for youth (of the early 90’s) and why it shamed so many other  more serious films in it’s message. The conversation at the dinner table moved away from movies after that indiscretion, and I don’t think I ever saw those friends again.

Then my girlfriend (at the time) and I went to see Goodfellas on the big screen and within 15 minutes I realised I had wasted my life. This was the only movie I had ever seen in the cinema that truly took my breath away and introduced me to what movie-making is all about. After 146 minutes I walked out of that cinema (at Knox City Shopping Centre, Melbourne) and understood that I had just seen the benchmark for which I would judge every other movie I ever see. Beautifully scripted and shot, Goodfellas is Scorsese’s finest cinematic accomplishment and should be in every movie-lover’s Top 10.

2. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

3. Inception (2010)

4. Alien (1978)

5. The Insider (1999)

6. The Dark Knight (2008)

7. Taxi Driver (1976)

8. Chopper (2000)

9. Hellboy (2004)

10. Wonder Boys (2000)

(special mention to Gladiator, the Thing (1982), Ronin, Black Hawk Down, The Social Network and Fargo).

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 Australian films

1. Chopper

2. Proof

3. Romper Stomper

4. Mad Max

5. Lantana

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 Comedy films

1. Airplane

2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

3. The Big Lebowski

4. Horrible Bosses

5. Stripes

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 Comic-Superhero adaptation movies

1. The Dark Knight

2. Hellboy

3. Watchmen

4. X-men

5. Thor

 _________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 movie directors

1. Sir Ridley Scott

2. Martin Scorsese

3. David Fincher

4. The Coen Brothers

5. Christopher Nolan

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 Ridley Scott movies

1. Alien

2. Black Hawk Down

3. Gladiator

4. Blade Runner

5. Robin Hood

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 Martin Scorsese movies

1. Goodfellas

2. Taxi Driver

3. Raging Bull

4. The Departed

5. Casino

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 David Fincher movies

1. The Social Network

2. Fight Club

3. Se7en

4. The Game

5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 Coen Brothers movies

1. Fargo

2. The Big Lebowski

3. True Grit

4. Millers Crossing

5. Burn After Reading

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 Christopher Nolan movies

1. Inception

2. The Dark Knight

3. Memento

4. The Prestige

5. Interstellar

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 Actors

1. Robert De Niro

2. Christian Bale

3. Russell Crowe

4. Eric Bana

5. Al Pacino

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 Actresses

1. Cate Blanchett

2. daylight…

3. Helen Mirren

4. Frances McDormand

5. Marion Cottilard

_________________________________________________________________________________

My Top 5 “Friday night, beer and pizza” movies

1. The Thing (1982)

2. District 9

3. The 40 year old Virgin

4. Horrible Bosses

5. Snatch