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List added by The Mighty Celestial on 7 January 2009 02:54
1995: My Top Ten Favorite Movies By Year |
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 249  7.2  7.7  A movie that excellently shows both sides without taking either one. When Susan Sarandan's character exposes to Sean Penn's the real extent of his racism " ... so it's lazy people that you don't like...?" & then when she finally has him take responsiblity for his sins as a "true son of God", are two of my favorite scenes in a movie ever. The Mighty Celestial's rating:
 
110 6.6 7.2  I pretty much ignored this film when it was first released. I watched on it's first airing on TV, & I literally couldn't believe at how good it was. So I went out & rented it, & yep, I was right. It's that good. The story is just perfect from beginning to end. And Kathy Bates, IMO, turns in an even better performance than she did in Misery. The plot may tend to come off as a bit complicated, but the movie does a great job of walking the viewer thru the intermingling flashbacks & various plot points that show the main character's redemptive journey. A journey which includes a mother's fight against against a man's world to save her daughter from the father's "parental indulgences" & how that struggle can lead one to find strength in the most unlikely of places.  The Mighty Celestial's rating:
227 7.2 7.2 A truly romantic story of how the escapist fantasy high/feeling that initially results with falling in love must eventually be realistically dealt with, as the conditions & responsibilities of one's current situation come quickly creeping back in. This movie always reminds of something I heard once: that couples pairing up for the sake of true love is still a relatively young concept in the context of human history. That we as both a society & a species over-all, have not evolved enough yet to be able to deal & accept each other in a manner that would be considered as total unconditonal love (which is the only real love). And it is because of this that the world population has yet been unable to formulate an effective means of discussion that would truly begin a process of unity between it's racial, social & in this case, gender factions. Maybe, like this film depicts, this is why so many make decisions more for the sake of a security based on social & financial reasons than what is right for us on an emotional level. And as they impeded on Robert Kincaid (Eastwood) & Francesca Johnson (Streep), decisions which may impede on our ability to follow our hearts & therefore sway us, individually and socially, from a path that would lead to true love before it's too late.
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775 7.7 8.3   The Mighty Celestial's rating:
 
1062 8.1 8.7 "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
 A really cool mystery crime drama featuring a really cool cast of crime characters. Particularly Kevin Spacey as one of the coolest names for a villian in a long time, Keyser Söze, Also of particular interest is Fred Fenster, one of my favorite unique sub-characters in recent cinema. IMO, Benecio Del Toro's handling of the role is one of those instances where an actor portrays a character in manner so distinctive, that he makes it completely his own. Del Toro plays this criminal con-man in a such a way that even tho the majority of the time you don't what he's saying, you still know where he's coming from. The Mighty Celestial's rating:
323 6.6 6.7  Not only did I walk into this film not really knowing anything about it but also several minutes late into, at the scene where they kept switching between the dialogues of the two boys walking down the street & of the group of girls commiserating about sex. Because of this, my initial impression was that I was watching a documentary. That is, until I caught on to the camera work & noticed that it was obviously a movie. As someone who grew in an incredibly poor nieghborhood, for me, this movie one of the "realest" depictions of "wake-up call kids" that I had seen up to that point in time. Any other year, this easily would've made it to the number one spot on my list.  The Mighty Celestial's rating:
155 7.5 7.3 With the realism of the coming of age teen life themes that the film "Kids" started, Dollhouse seems to continue. This time, the plot is fitted into a "more linear" storyline, with the intent of structuring the movie in an order that makes it more of a digestable film for general audiences, despite some of its sharp edges.  This is a hard-nosed depiction of those who are quietly & easily overlooked & who tend to make up a larger percentage of the student school population than many of us want to or even care to notice. The Mighty Celestial's rating:
330 6.3 6.9 Chili Palmer, a guy who showed that you can be both a movie nerd and a cool bad-ass.
Hmmmm.... maybe I should change my screen-name to "Chili Palmer".........  The Mighty Celestial's rating:
49 6.3 7.6 Anne Frank Remembered
Actually this listing should be "Anne Frank Remembered", but this site does not have the movie in it's catalog. Probably my favorite documentary ever. Not so much for any kind of "craftsmanship" as a film, but more on the scale of the message that can result from seeing how this real-life situation unfolded. As with everyone else, sometimes, it gets pretty easy for me to forget how good I really have it in life. Every time I watch this movie, & hear the part when Anne writes in her diary of her waiting for things to get back to normal, as a viewer who knows that for her it never will, it serves as a great reminder to me that not taking things for granted is an act of appreciation that should never wait until tomorrow. And watching the only existing moving-figure footage of Anne that is included in this documentary, truly serves to enhance the importance of this lesson of gratitude.  The Mighty Celestial's rating:
 
281 6.8 7.6 My favorite aspect of this movie is the fact that it was never fully explored why Nick Cage's character wanted to off himself via alcoholism. The viewer is almost forced to come into the character's life with the same info that Elizabeth Shue's character & get to know him from that vantage point. It's a reminder that, many times, the addictions of those who are addicted tend to become bigger than whatever got them addicted in the first place. And instead of being analyzed or even understood, sometimes all they need is to be approached, from the very beginning with a caring & accepting face.
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Hey, notice how similar the DVD covers of my first two movies are. This is one of my favorite top ten by year lists so far. More than any other list that I've concocted, '95 seems to have the most in regard of cream of the crop quality for that particular year. On any other year, movies like Before Sunrise, Se7en & Toy Story would've easily made it within the top ten, instead of just barely coming in short. It was truly a tough call to not being able to include 'em in. But, let's be honest, these are the kind of tough calls we, as film-viewers, would like to have to "struggle" with every year. List cont. 11. Casino - Goodfellas, Las Vegas style. 12. Before Sunrise - One of the most in-depth love stories ever written for film. 13. Se7en - I really liked this movie. I'd get into more detail why, but right now, I'm in a mood that can best be described as numbingly sunk in a comfortable state of extreme sloth. And if you consider that a sin, well, what are you gonna do about it? Kill me? 14. Friday - daYUMMNNN....You can't have no Kool-Aid if you ain't got no sugar....! 15. Toy Story - The first computer movie that showed how sophisticated graphics can be intergrated into a really top quality & solid story. One whose visuals matched it's plot in emphasizing the warmth & color that was starting to become more & more "faded" in the tired 2-D animated family films that movie producers had seemed to be tiredly cranking out at the time. 16. Apollo 13 17. Braveheart 18. Mr. Holland's Opus 19. Clueless 20. Desperado Films from this year that I have not seen but am interested in seeing - Twelve Monkeys - Babe - Nixon - Mighty Aphrodite - Rumble in the Bronx Other lists by The Mighty Celestial: My Top 20 Female Movie Bad-Asses http://www.listal.com/list/my-top-10-female 10 Movies That Feature A Dancin' Travolta In 'Em http://www.listal.com/list/my-list-9158 Yep. When It Comes To Comicbook Movies .... http://www.listal.com/list/yep-am-huge-comicbook WAATAAAH!! My Top 10 Favorite Martial Arts Flix! http://www.listal.com/list/my-list-thecelestial The Final Frontier Of Space... & Time. My Top 50 Favorite Sci-Fi Flix Ever http://www.listal.com/list/final-frontier-space-time Can't We Be Dysfunctional Like A Normal Family? http://www.listal.com/list/dysfunctional-family-movies/edit My Other Top Ten Favorite Movies By Year Lists: http://www.listal.com/list/19551959-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/1976-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/1982-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/1983-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/1984-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/1992-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/1993-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/1997-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/1998-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/1999-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/2003-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/2004-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/2005-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/2007-my-top-ten-favorite http://www.listal.com/list/2008-my-top-ten-favorite
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