Sports writer and columnist Joe Posnanski lists the 100 best movies he’s ever seen.
The movies that are on this list are the ones that, one way or another, transported me into another time and another place. They made me laugh so hard I couldn’t stop, or they changed the way I looked at the world, or they made me fall in love, or they made me ridiculously happy, or they chilled me to the bone. What they did was take me outside of myself for an hour and a half or two hours or however long.
It’s an interesting list, based he says in part on reading Roger Ebert’s The Great Movies
I’m not sure I could do a 100 best list. I don’t remember movies that well and would be too dependent on external hints (such as Ebert). There surely are many movies I will watch for a few minutes when I find them while surfing the channels — even though I’ve seen them many times before.
Posnanski’s list is in alphabetical order, so click the link above to check it out. His explanation is interesting, too.
I quickly estimated I’ve seen about 75 of the 100. Ebert’s books are terrific reading and the great movies reviews are online.
That was fun. I could never do a 100 list. If I could, though, Waiting For Guffman would be at the top of it. Romy & Michelle would be in there somewhere, and also The Usual Suspects and Snatch. Beyond that, things become very unclear. Ha.
I could easily compose of list of my favorite 100 movies, although ranking them might be harder. I’ve seen most of the ones on Posnanski’s list, but there are many movies I would add, so obviously, there’d be some I’d have to exclude from that particular list. I didn’t see most of my very favorite movies on the list, in fact.