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nojfotra's "Jonathan D. Gordon's 50 Best Movies of All Time"

These are not going to be the AFI Best Movies of all time.
But I put aside all of the pretension of " I have to put the Godfather and Citizen Kane on the List or people will think I don’t know movies" to make a list of the fifty movies I can watch nonstop and be entertained by. This means some genres of film are left out. I appreciate the classics and war movies and mob movies, I can’t however watch them over and over again.
I also don’t give credit to a movie because it simply did it first. That would be a list of the most influential movies. If someone took the idea of a classic and executed it better, possibly in the way the original creators wished they could I will list the best rendition of the film.

This list is ever changing, There are movies I haven’t seen. Movies Like Brick and 300 are very interesting to me, I think they may find their way on this list after I see them. I was surprised while putting together this list how many of the films were directed by actors. Also that there were little to no directors represented more than once. Also, No Stephen Speilberg. Though Kubrick, Fincher, Soderbergh, Scorsese, Mel Brooks and Ridley Scott do make the list.

1. Sneakers
by Phil Alden Robinson
 
2. Fight Club
by David Fincher
 
3. L.A. Confidential
by Curtis Hanson
 
4. Pitch Black (Unrated Version)  
5. Without Limits
by Robert Towne
 
6. The Ninth Gate
by Roman Polanski
 
7. Ocean's Eleven (Widescreen Edition)  
8. Stephen King's Storm of the Century
by Craig R. Baxley
 
9. Shaun of the Dead
by Edgar Wright
 
10. RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane
by Benjamin Ross
 
11. Children of Men
by Alfonso CuarĂ³n
 
12. The Last Man On Earth
by Sidney Salkow
 
13. Quiz Show
by Robert Redford
 
14. The Aviator (Two-Disc Special Edition)  
15. Drumline (Widescreen)  
16. V for Vendetta
by James McTeigue
 
17. Gladiator (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
18. Death to Smoochy (Widescreen Edition)  
19. Lone Star State of Mind
by David Semel
 
20. The Contender  
21. The Jacket
by John Maybury
 
22. 28 Days Later...
by Danny Boyle
 
23. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
by Greg Berlanti
 
24. Brewster's Millions
by Walter Hill
 
25. Young Frankenstein  
26. Office Space (Full Screen Edition)  
27. Donnie Darko
by Richard Kelly (II)
 
28. Dill Scallion (2000) - Collector's Edition
by Jordan Brady
 
29. The Wood
by Rick Famuyiwa
 
30. Constantine [HD DVD]  
31. Old School (Widescreen Unrated Edition)
by Todd Phillips
 
32. The Others (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
33. Eight Men Out  
34. The Notebook
by Nick Cassavetes
 
35. The Princess Bride  
36. Galaxy Quest  
37. Hellboy  
38. Brotherhood of the Wolf
by Christophe Gans
 
39. American Psycho
by Mary Harron
 
40. Sin City  
41. Oxygen
by Richard Shepard
 
42. Of Mice & Men (1992)  
43. Cube
by Vincenzo Natali
 
44. The Right Stuff
by Philip Kaufman
 
45. Rushmore
by Wes Anderson
 
46. Shane  
47. That Thing You Do!  
48. The Prestige
by Christopher Nolan
 
49. Brick  
50. Iron Man (Special Collector's Edition) [Blu-ray]  
This is nojfotra's list. Only nojfotra can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by nojfotra on Jan 17, 2007.