Airplane!

#20 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

If you've never seen this movie and then try to watch it now, it might not be that funny to you, because of Scary Movie 4 and 2001: A Space Travesty and etc. But this was one of the first of its kind - a parody movie that just goes crazy slapstick on an overplayed genre. I used to watch a version taped off of tv when I was a kid, so all the blowjob humor was cut, but it's works with or without the fellatio, sort of like James Joyce I guess.

RATING: 91%

The Royal Tenenbaums

#21 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

My pledge to you, R3 reader(s?), is that in this election year, 2012, I will finish my Top 100 Movie List and my Beer For Every State Countdown! And this movie is pretty good, right? I haven't seen it in like six years. I remember watching it on 50 cent Tuesday at the discount theater in Tallahassee, and I got like three dollar hot dogs. Must be listworthy I guess.

RATING: 94%

Dawn Of The Dead

#1 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

So the number one pick for my list shouldn't be a surprise to basically anyone who knows me, because I've made every one of my friends watch this at least once. This horror movie sequel to Night of the Living Dead imagines a zombie apocalypse that disintegrates society more and more, so a quartet decide to hole up in a shopping mall where - oh, why am I even explaining this to you? The blood is a weird color and it's a rough movie in construction, but the writing, atmosphere and characterization are the best. No movie makes me feel better watching it than this one. If you haven't seen it, and I can't imagine that's true since the site's audience is mainly people I've probably forced this movie on before, then you really need to go rent it from wherever even rents movies anymore, pronto buster.

RATING: 100%

An American Werewolf In London

#22 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

I thought I ran out of horror movies on my top 100 movie list (WHICH I SWEAR I'LL FINISH), but hey, here's the best werewolf movie ever made. I really miss the days when talented, non-genre directors like John Landis would take a shot at making a horror movie. I guess the Grindhouse double feature kind of counts, but those dudes weren't even trying to make something good. Anyway, the plot is an American college kid gets turned into a werewolf, except he's in London. Co-starring lots of shots of the main dude's wang.

RATING: 93%

Apocalypse Now

#23 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

This is a movie about how war is bad and we shouldn't go to war. Just kidding - it's obviously a very complex film filled with characters who discover that whatever morality they thought they possessed needs to be discarded or revised because of their environment. I know everybody's probably seen this movie, but I want to mention that I got the chance to see the Redux cut in the theater back in 2001, and even though that edit is pretty pointless, the movie is the most visually gorgeous I've ever seen in the movie theater. So see it in a theater if you can, or go spend all your cash on one of those 100 inch HDTVs, Professor Moneybags.

RATING: 94%

Superman: The Movie

#24 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Superman: The Movie is about a young alien who looks just like a human and when he comes to visit Earth he ends up getting powers. Psyche, I know everybody on earth knows Superman's origin. This movie has a lot of hokey parts, like when he turns back time by pushing the Earth backwards on its axis, but it's probably without a doubt the most reverential and fun comic book movie ever made. Each of these movies got progressively worse, especially the special effects, but this one is "really great" (Donner, 56).

RATING: 93%

The Abyss

#25 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

The Abyss is the highest movie on my list starring Chris Elliott. It is the story of some deep sea dudes who suddenly get contacted by a water tentacle (tentacle rap?) and realize there are sentient creatures living under the sea. It's James Cameron, so you know it's going to be high melodrama, but I often find his particular brand of cacophony to be strangely moving. The end is some typical 80s message about why people shouldn't nuke each other to bits, but that doesn't ruin it because I for one am against people nuking each other to bits.

RATING: 93%

Mulholland Drive

#26 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Mulholland Drive is a nice movie about a young aspiring actress who comes to Hollywood to make it big! It was made by the director of Walt Disney's Dune, and is really uplifting and fun. Ha ha, just kidding about all the nice stuff. This movie doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it does manage to create a complex tonal and emotional landscape. I'm not big on decoding symbolism or meaning in art - that junk is for science nerds, math nerds, and philosophy douchebags. If it doesn't make me feel something, then it fails, and Mulholland Drive takes me through a terrifying spectrum of emotion every time I watch it, so there.

RATING: 93%

The Sting

#27 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Speaking of Robert Shaw, The Sting is about a couple of hucksters who want to con this mean rich guy out of a lot of money during the olden times when there was no such thing as stealing or crime (according to old white people). Like all great caper movies, you forget all the little details of the scheme, so every time you watch it it's like watching it click together for the first time. It's a great movie, and I bet if the internet was around in the 70s in the way it is today there'd be a lot of Newman/Redford slash fic out there, thought to be fair I bet there's probably a bunch anyway (I'm not checking).

RATING: 90%

Jaws

#28 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

I don't care about/am not scared of sharks. Big fishy killing machines that could take me out with one bite? It seems pretty easy to go through life and avoid that ever happening. I guess that doesn't subtract from this being an awesome movie though, and it's pretty terrific even 34 years later. Oh right, the plot for those of you who haven't seen it - a big shark is eating people so they try to stop it and do stop it (spoilers). Smile you son of a BLAOW!

RATING: 91%

JFK

#29 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Oliver Stone is sometimes a great director (Natural Born Killers) and sometimes an awful director (U-Turn), but for JFK he truly created a movie that transcended film and became a cultural phenomenon. And it's also really great, since I guess Titanic was a cultural phenomenon too, but that sure didn't make the final cut of my list. Anyway, I don't personally believe that there was any kind of massive, complex conspiracy to kill Kennedy, but the movie really takes an interesting look at the way we as a nation perceive and interpret the events around us, and whether there is actually any such thing as one solid "truth" to be found.

RATING: 92%

The Deer Hunter

#30 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

If you like to feel happy, then as your physician I have to recommend against seeing this movie. It's a great, depressing epic about a bunch of friends from a small steel-mill town who go to Vietnam and consequently get their lives ruined in a variety of ways. I can't listen to "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Frankie Valli without becoming tense and filled with dread thanks to this movie. This also marks the fourth out of a total five movies John Cazale ever acted in to make it onto my top 100 list, and the fifth is Dog Day Afternoon, so that ain't no slouch either.

RATING: 92%

Monty Python And The Holy Grail

#31 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Chances are that even if you haven't ever seen this movie, you've probably heard about 90% of it being quoted by the two dorks who sat in the back of 9th grade algebra class and always smelled a little bit like Captain Crunch with Crunchberries. The plot is the cast of Monty Python portrays King Arthur's knights as they search for the holy grail, but that's all mainly just an excuse for a variety of Classic Comedy Moments (copyright). It's hilarious, and PS - I was one of those dorks in case you couldn't already tell.

RATING: 91%

Adaptation.

#32 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Everybody hates this movie except for me and like two other people I know, but I think it's really funny and touching and pretentious. Well, can't get around that last one I guess. In it Nicholas Cage plays twin screenwriter brothers, one of whom is struggling to adapt a book about flowers and the other who decides one day to write a stupid blockbuster serial killer movie that rips off everything else and immediately sells it. Ok, maybe that doesn't do the "plot" justice, but what if I mention crazy old Charlie Kaufman wrote it, now will you see it? I can lend it to you.

RATING: 91%

The Shining

#33 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Kubrick's The Shining is of course related to Stephen King's novel only tangentially, but it's such a a visual and tonal feat that it exists as its own masterpiece. The plot is Jack Nicholson plays a crazy writer, there's ghosts, and also alcoholism. And a kid who's got the psychic ability to be creepy. When you see Shelly Duvall in this movie you will also realize that back in the 70s acting ability was a lot more important than looks no offense.

RATING: 90%

Vanishing Point

#34 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

As far as racing movies from the 70s go, Vanishing Point may be the weirdest and also best. The movie follows this driver, Kowalski, who has to drive a Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in basically a day and a half. So he starts going full speed, cops follow him, car chases, etc. What sets this movie apart from the rest is that it is full of all these bizarre mystical elements that are supposed to be representative of American culture, including a snake handler in the desert who helps him fix his car, a Radio DJ who turns him into a rebel celebrity, and a lot of flashbacks demonstrating the ways in which death has followed Kowalski his whole life. It's a great movie with a lot of great car chases, even if the snake handler gets eaten by some stupid hole in the ground (Spoilers).

RATING: 91%

The Thin Red Line

#35 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line is visually stunning in every way, imaging that from a Terrence Malick film. I've always liked it better that Saving Private Ryan, because while although Ryan does do a good job of demonstrating the horror of wartime violence, it seems somewhat in love with the graphic detail of it, like Sam Peckinpah's Wild Bunch. Malick's film is also considerably less hokey, and deals with a small group of soldier's personal thoughts while caught up in the larger grisly mechanics of war. Somebody once made the argument to me that this film is irresponsible because the soldiers are demonstrating doubts about being involved in the only inarguable war, World War II, but I think that argument is bunk because this film demonstrates the actual realistic thoughts that individuals would have in this situation, not the jingoistic infallible patriotism of so many other WWII movies. Anyway, it's amazing so check it out.

RATING: 91%

The Original Star Wars Trilogy

#36 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Well, duh I guess. We can all acknowledge that the prequel trilogy is pretty bad, from any point of view. Politics, trade disputes, whining, Jar Jar, almost no humor or any other emotion, senate disagreements, kid Boba Fett, UGH. But the original trilogy is still amazing because it never takes itself seriously, and also has the voice of Han Solo winking at the audience about how ridiculous a movie about laser swords and furry monkeys flying space ships is. They're still great fun even if Boba Fett gets eaten by some stupid hole in the ground (Spoilers).

RATING: 93%

Schindler's List

#37 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Here's a movie that's no fun, but is still an amazing film in almost every way. This was really the first place one can argue that Spielberg made it evident that he was capable of serious filmmaking. I mean, he tried with The Color Purple and Empire Of The Sun, but the former was a disaster and the latter was a box office failure. This is a powerful movie that has been accused of melodrama by some people, but come on, are you going to be subtle when dealing with the Holocaust?

RATING: 92%

A Clockwork Orange

#38 on Glenn's Top 100 Movie List

Whoopsie daisy! I forgot to put any Kubrick films on this list until now, which means there will be a ton in the next 37 reviews on my top 100. This movie is the ten billionth movie set in a dystopian future to appear on my list. Maybe I have a bleak world view. It's directed by Stanley Kubrick, which means it is visually stunning, and the moral of the movie is don't beat up or rape people kids. So now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

RATING: 93%