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Friday, July 24, 2009

Film For Lindy's Approval

Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:43 PM

Dear Ms. West:

On the corner of Broadway and East Pike Street, just outside the fences of the Block Party, there is a trinity of barkers handing out pages that promote the "BEST MOVIES." There are 130 "BEST MOVIES" plus one additional movie, Schindler's List, which is numbered 93 (even though there is another 93rd best movie, Smart People). The trinity says they do not know why these are the best movies; a man made the list but the man was gone so I could not ask him. So are these movies, in fact, the "BEST MOVIES"? Here are the top 10:

1. The Insider
2. John Adeams HBO
3. Hotel Rwanda
4. Nanking
5. Veronica Guerin
6. Stardust
7. House of Saddam HBO
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
9. Transformers [!!!]
10. Elizabeth the Golden Age

Surely The Insider is the best film in cinematic history, right? I await your reply.

Truly yours,
Dom

Comments (21) RSS

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I'VE GOT THE BEST MOVES.

Posted by Josh Bomb

on July 24, 2009 at 2:48 PM

Top 10 films you can buy on DVD at your Local(tm) coffee shop?

Posted by kinaidos on July 24, 2009 at 2:51 PM

No, "My Fellow Americans" is the Best Movie Ever. I swear to God.

Posted by Allyn on July 24, 2009 at 2:53 PM

I guess until someone trademarks the term "best movies," anyone with a pen and paper is free to make up a bullshit list and hand it out to passerby.

As apparently this guy did.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on July 24, 2009 at 2:56 PM

Yes, this is accepted as the definitive list.

Posted by Lindy West on July 24, 2009 at 3:06 PM

It seems this list has been around for a while: http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/this…

Posted by Levislade

on July 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM

Fact: the television show The Apprentice is the 20th best movie of all time.

Posted by Lindy West on July 24, 2009 at 3:10 PM

This has to be one of the stranger occurrences I've heard of in a while.

Posted by oldmanandthesea

on July 24, 2009 at 3:19 PM

Obviously this man has never seen "The Running Man"

Posted by Joh on July 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM

"Orphan" debuts at #1this weekend, right?

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on July 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM

One hundred years of film and the top 10 on this list have been made since 2000 or so? Um, no. Fail! Now put away the lollipop, hon.

Posted by Bauhaus I on July 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM

What happened to "Roadhouse"? It's on TV all the time, after all.

Posted by Toe Tag on July 24, 2009 at 4:58 PM

Hmph. None of these would even make my top 100. Not that I have a top 100, because, you know, that would be kinda weird.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on July 24, 2009 at 5:31 PM

Eat that list Dom, it has to have acid blotted into it.

Posted by wisepunk on July 24, 2009 at 5:47 PM

So that's what that was. Now I feel bad that I didn't take one.

@3,

Definitely.

Posted by keshmeshi on July 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM

Any list of great movies that omits "Major League," "The Blues Brothers," and "Used Cars" is not a list worth considering.

Posted by Frank Sinclair on July 25, 2009 at 1:54 AM

Can someone un-mothball the Enigma Machine? I first suspected the key was that they all have easy porn homonyms ("The Inside-her"?) but now I'm not so certain. Has anyone forwarded this list to Nicholas Cage and/or Jon Voight? This might have something to do with a disappeared mule-cart of Union gold or some shit.

Posted by .Ahnon. on July 25, 2009 at 9:46 AM

sad, it's totally this self-proclaimed anarchist crazyhead who pays junkies to distribute his literature... been doing it a while and more than just this list.

Posted by madelinear

on July 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM

sad, it's totally this self-proclaimed anarchist crazyhead who pays junkies to distribute his "literature"... been doing it a while and more than just this list.

Posted by madelinear

on July 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM

Now I want to make my own list of Best Movies and leave it in random places. (P.S. The list from 2007 that someone linked above is similar, but a different list. For example, former #3 The Holiday seems to have slipped out of the top ten.)

Posted by Phiadria on July 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM