My Top 10 Favourite Movies

10. The Evil Dead 2
 The film is set in a forest where evil lurks and the main character is Ash (Bruce Campbell) a college student who is trapped as his friends and girlfriend are possessed by the evil spirits as the night progresses he must fight to survive.


9. Gran Torino

Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood this film is about an old war veteran who lives in a neighbour hood of asians but he soon befriends one family and  grows a bond with a teenage boy as he protects him and his family as they are attacked by a gang. He soon decides to rid the problem of this gang.

8. The Dark Knight Trilogy

When Christopher Nolan rebooted the Batman series he created a dark and more realistic and character based universe where the dark knight must defend his city from dangerous threats such as a group of terrorists, his arch enemy Joker and a masked madman Bane.

7. Kill Bill

Directed by Quentin Tarantino this is a tale of a former assassain who is out for revenge against her old team for an ambush at her own wedding which resulted in her going into a coma and the death of her unborn baby.

 6. Edward Scissorhands

In the first collaboration from Tim Burton and Johnny Depp this is a tale of a boy who was made by a brilliant scientist but is unfinished with scissors for hands and when a suburbian mother finds him and takes him down to live among real people and the disintegration of his relationships with those around him.










5. Sin City

In this stylish noir graphic novel adaptation it stars Bruce Willis as a honest cop in a dirty town who protects a stripper (Jessica Alba) from an evil madman yellow basterd. Mickey Rourke as Marv a man out to avenge the only woman he has ever loved death and Clive Owen as Dwight who helps a prostitute protect her part of town.

4. Scream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_%28film%29

In this Wes Craven directed slasher film, high school student Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) struggles with the one year anniversary of her mothers death but soon her class mates are murdered and the murderer stalks the teenagers dressed in a ghost face mask  but she soon discovers the murders are more personal than she realised. The reason i like this movie is that it turned the slasher horror genre on it's head and showed it from a different perspective but at the same time the movie was a parody of the horror genre showcasing the cliches and flaws within it.

3. Pulp Fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction

This is the second movie directed by Quentin Tarantino and stars an all star ensemble cast such as John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis. The movie consists of 4 overlapping stories but are not told in order which adds to it;s narrative structure. I love this film as the characters have been so well thought out and the situations over the top but well written. But the best thing about this movie is how influential the movie is especially the 50's diner scene and it is also very quotable.




2. Kindergarten Cop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarten_Cop

This movie is about an cop, John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzengger), who is forced to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher to find the wife and child of his rival a gangster serial killer to put him behind bars for good. The reason i love this movie is that Kimble is so out of his comfort zone as a tough guy cop it provides the comedy but the storyline and bond he establishes with the children he teaches is also touching but the film is not low on action.









1. Die Hard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard

This movie tells the story of a New York city cop visiting his estranged wife in Los Angeles for a christmas party at a large finacial company but is interrupted by a band of 12 terrorists he is the only one who escapes and takes down the terrorists one by one. The reason this is my favourite movie is that this action movie has a thought out plot and developed characters that you can actually identify with and feel for, also the action is completely blockbuster and explosive. This movie is regarded as the best action movie ever made.