The Top 70 Movies that I like

These are movies that really resonated with me and that I would clearly watch over again (something I rarely do). I am not a film critic so I will not pass judgement and their production brilliance. This is all about personal taste and comfort. (Yes I know that Godfather should be #1 or #2.... Citizen Kane and Casablanca are on my list to watch as is Scarface and The Untouchables).

1. Back the Future (the first movie not the sequels)

2. Silence of the Lambs

3. Casino

4. Goodfellas

5. Interstellar

6. High Noon

7. Gran Torino

8. Raiders of the Lost Ark

9. Glengarry Glen Ross

10. Downfall

11. Pulp Fiction

12. Exodus

13. Star Wars a New Hope

14. Schindler's List

15. The Unforgiven

16. Jurassic Park

17. Once Upon a Time in America

18. The Spy who Loved me

19. Dredd

20. Gone with The Wind

21.Blood Diamond

22. Apocalypse Now

23. Saving Private Ryan

24. Empire Strikes Back

25. Demolition Man

26. The Right Stuff

27. Sleuth (the original)

28. The Holdovers

29. Gladiator

30. American Beauty

31. Inception

32. Boogie Nights

33. Spartacus

34.  Grease

35. When Harry Met Sally

36. Goldfinger

37. Angel Heart

38. Whiplash

39. The Notebook

40. Fury

41. Where Eagles Dare

42. Rocky 

43.  The Chosen

44. Carry on Doctor (My favourite Carry on Movie)

45. Rambo

46. The Great Escape

47. In Time

48. Ford v Ferrari

49. Rocky III

50. Life of Brian

51. The Godfather

52. The Dark Knight

52. People v Larry Flynt

53. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

54. Batman (1988)

55. Amadeus

56. Higher Lerarning

57. The Red Violin

58. Ice Cold in Alex

59. Memento

60. Jaws

61. Wild Geese

62. Natural Born Killers

63. Donny Brasco

64. Top Gun

65. White Men Can't Jump

66. Chatriots of Fire

67. The Departed

68. Donny Darko

69. Invictus

70. Escape to Victory

Reflections XLVII - Making Sense of the Narrative

 The greatest weapon that the elites have in a democratic system is that they can almost always rely on the stupidity of the voter.

The obvious weakness of rationalism is that on a practical level it doesn’t scale as well as emotion.

The surest way to destroy an economy is to fleece the wealth of the job creation class in the name of a supposed equality.

Our biggest enemy at times is our own ego. If not kept in check it will pave out a dangerous road for us to take.

China has built itself into an economic power by systematically defeating every US Presidential Administration since Richard Nixon in the great game of trade. The US paved the way for its recovery from the disasters of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

If Americans took a break from their two party partisan politics model to objectively analyzing the aspects of specific policies they might see the improvements they would like. Unfortunately this aspect of their national landscape is unlikely to change. If anything it is more inclined to worsen.

Individual intelligence counts for little if you are prone to the hysteria of the masses.

The problem with management is that they have an innate need to complicate processes to justify their net being.

Progress (whatever that nebulous term means) only makes some sense if our trajectory is understood else it can very easily lead you along a course of self destruction. Progressivism as a political movement in the United States has erred in this regard many a time.