10: An unhappy man decides to change his life for the better in American Beauty.
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8: A man faced with life inprisonment feigns insanity and winds up in a mental asylum ruled with an iron fist by Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
7: A man with a low I.Q. leads an extraordinary life in Forrest Gump.
6: A former Nazi decides to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust in Schindler's List.
5: Marlon Brando and Al Pacino are involved in the mafia in The Godfather.
4: A man about to committ suicide is visited by his guardian angel who shows him all the people he has changed in It's A Wonderful Life.
3: A guard on death row discovers a man with magical powers who changes the lives of the depression worn prisoners on The Green Mile.
2: A man obsessed with greed tries for more power and money in Citizen Kane.
1: A wrongfully imprisoned man changes the lives of those in a corrupt prison and gets the last laugh against the corrupt guards and warden in The Shawshank Redemption.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
The Top 10 Thrillers
10: Four friends from the city go canoeing down a river for the last time and get themselves into a really bad situation in Deliverance.
9: Sandra Bullock's entire life is literally erased because of a computer conspiracy in The Net.
8: A paralyzed woman is terrorized by her insane sister in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.
7: A psycho punishes sinners in Seven.
6: A man dangerously obsessed with a woman campaigning for a senator plots murder to get her attention in Taxi Driver.
5: A man in his home on medical leave begins spying on his neighbors and believes one of them has murdered his wife in Rear Window.
4: A theme park full of cloned dinosaurs suffers a malfunction in Jurassic Park.
3: A group of mysterious people are called in as suspects for a crime in The Usual Suspects.
2: A ravenous shark comes to a Massachussets beach and doesn't leave in Jaws.
1: An FBI agent trying to solve a rash of kidnappings and murders shares secrets with a highly intelligent cannibal in The Silence of the Lambs.
9: Sandra Bullock's entire life is literally erased because of a computer conspiracy in The Net.
8: A paralyzed woman is terrorized by her insane sister in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.
7: A psycho punishes sinners in Seven.
6: A man dangerously obsessed with a woman campaigning for a senator plots murder to get her attention in Taxi Driver.
5: A man in his home on medical leave begins spying on his neighbors and believes one of them has murdered his wife in Rear Window.
4: A theme park full of cloned dinosaurs suffers a malfunction in Jurassic Park.
3: A group of mysterious people are called in as suspects for a crime in The Usual Suspects.
2: A ravenous shark comes to a Massachussets beach and doesn't leave in Jaws.
1: An FBI agent trying to solve a rash of kidnappings and murders shares secrets with a highly intelligent cannibal in The Silence of the Lambs.
The Top 10 Scariest Movies of All Time
10: Gregory Peck and Lee Remick are informed that their son is actually the antichrist in The Omen.
9: A small northern Californina town is terrorized by a serial killer who asks their victims questions about horror movies over the phone with the penalty for the wrong answer being death in Scream.
8: A disturbed serial killer attempts to make victims appreciate their lives by putting them in life or death situations in Saw.
7: A man opens a puzzle box and unleashes demons who take pleasure in torture and sadism in Hellraiser.
6: Mark Whalberg becomes dangerously obsessed with an unsuspecting Reese Witherspoon in Fear.
5: Scientists at an isolated Antarctic research base discover that one of them isn't human in The Thing.
4: A priest is faced with the difficult task of ridding the demons from a young girl in The Exorcist.
3: An escaped mental patient incarcerated since childhood for the murder of his sister escapes on Halloween night and stalks and murders babysitters in Halloween.
2: An undead child murderer seeks revenge on he people that burned him alive by killing their children in the one place their parents can't save them, in their dreams, in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
1: Jack Nicholson becomes caretaker of a hotel and begins to go insane in The Shining.
Our runners up:
A woman comes to the mysterious Bates motel to look for her sister who has gone missing in Psycho.
A family traveling through the desert gets stranded and terrorized by cannibals in The Hills Have Eyes.
A group of friends become lost in the middle of rural Texas and try to escape from a poor family of cannibals and their insane son who likes to make masks out of human flesh in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
A group of college graduates celebrate by renting a cabin in the woods and fall victim to a deadly flesh eating virus in the water and more in Cabin Fever.
Women go cave diving and have to try and survive when attacked by starving cavemen who don't need eyes to see in The Descent.
A family buys a house for a bargain only to discover that it is haunted by demons presumably as a result of a mass murder there the previous year in The Amityville Horror.
Townsfolk seek shelter in a supermarket from ravenous creatures from another dimension hiding in the mist outside, but can't hide from a raving lunatic demanding human sacrifice in The Mist.
9: A small northern Californina town is terrorized by a serial killer who asks their victims questions about horror movies over the phone with the penalty for the wrong answer being death in Scream.
8: A disturbed serial killer attempts to make victims appreciate their lives by putting them in life or death situations in Saw.
7: A man opens a puzzle box and unleashes demons who take pleasure in torture and sadism in Hellraiser.
6: Mark Whalberg becomes dangerously obsessed with an unsuspecting Reese Witherspoon in Fear.
5: Scientists at an isolated Antarctic research base discover that one of them isn't human in The Thing.
4: A priest is faced with the difficult task of ridding the demons from a young girl in The Exorcist.
3: An escaped mental patient incarcerated since childhood for the murder of his sister escapes on Halloween night and stalks and murders babysitters in Halloween.
2: An undead child murderer seeks revenge on he people that burned him alive by killing their children in the one place their parents can't save them, in their dreams, in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
1: Jack Nicholson becomes caretaker of a hotel and begins to go insane in The Shining.
Our runners up:
A woman comes to the mysterious Bates motel to look for her sister who has gone missing in Psycho.
A family traveling through the desert gets stranded and terrorized by cannibals in The Hills Have Eyes.
A group of friends become lost in the middle of rural Texas and try to escape from a poor family of cannibals and their insane son who likes to make masks out of human flesh in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
A group of college graduates celebrate by renting a cabin in the woods and fall victim to a deadly flesh eating virus in the water and more in Cabin Fever.
Women go cave diving and have to try and survive when attacked by starving cavemen who don't need eyes to see in The Descent.
A family buys a house for a bargain only to discover that it is haunted by demons presumably as a result of a mass murder there the previous year in The Amityville Horror.
Townsfolk seek shelter in a supermarket from ravenous creatures from another dimension hiding in the mist outside, but can't hide from a raving lunatic demanding human sacrifice in The Mist.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Top 10 Car Chase Movies
10: Dan Akroyd and Jim Belushi drive to Chicago after getting paroled to save an orphanage in The Blues Brothers.
9: Burt Reynolds participates in an illegal cross-country race in The Cannonball Run.
8: Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine are forced into a race where they are forced to run down innocent pedestrians in Death Race 2000.
7: Steve McQueen drives a mustang after a mob kingpin for revenge in Bullitt.
6: A man is hired to take a 1970 Dodge Challenger to California from Colorado in 15 hours... no matter what the cost in Vanishing Point.
5: An undercover cop played by Paul Walker discovers that his friend, Vin Deisel, is a car thief in The Fast and the Furious.
4: An insurance agent is hired by a drug baron to steal 48 cars in one day and avoid capture in Gone in 60 Seconds.
3: C. Thomas Howell plays a man driving across the country alone and is terrorized by a psychotic hitchhiker in The Hitcher.
2: A nerdy Keith Gordon fixes up and becomes completely obsessed with a 1958 Plymouth Fury that seems to have a mind of its own in Christine.
And at number one we have a frantic Dennis Weaver who lives out every motorist's nightmare: being chased across a lonely desert highway by the sadistic driver of a massive semi truck in Steven Spielberg's first movie, Duel.
9: Burt Reynolds participates in an illegal cross-country race in The Cannonball Run.
8: Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine are forced into a race where they are forced to run down innocent pedestrians in Death Race 2000.
7: Steve McQueen drives a mustang after a mob kingpin for revenge in Bullitt.
6: A man is hired to take a 1970 Dodge Challenger to California from Colorado in 15 hours... no matter what the cost in Vanishing Point.
5: An undercover cop played by Paul Walker discovers that his friend, Vin Deisel, is a car thief in The Fast and the Furious.
4: An insurance agent is hired by a drug baron to steal 48 cars in one day and avoid capture in Gone in 60 Seconds.
3: C. Thomas Howell plays a man driving across the country alone and is terrorized by a psychotic hitchhiker in The Hitcher.
2: A nerdy Keith Gordon fixes up and becomes completely obsessed with a 1958 Plymouth Fury that seems to have a mind of its own in Christine.
And at number one we have a frantic Dennis Weaver who lives out every motorist's nightmare: being chased across a lonely desert highway by the sadistic driver of a massive semi truck in Steven Spielberg's first movie, Duel.
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