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Monday, February 9, 2015

Good Movies and TV Shows:

Just to be thorough, I thought I'd include a permapost featuring the best movies and non-anime television the world has ever produced:

Movies:

1.  Movie-length Anime (21 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
2.  Star Wars (6 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
3.  The Lord of the Rings franchise (6 movies)
4.  Gettysburg + Gods and Generals
5.  Marvel Cinematic Universe (16 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
6.  James Bond (15 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
7.  Harry Potter franchise (8 movies)
8.  Red Cliff 1 and 2
9.  The Princess Bride, Stardust
10.  Braveheart, The Patriot, Apocalypto 
11.  'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower, House of Flying Daggers, Fearless
12.  Gone With the Wind
13.  Disney's Animated Movies (20 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
14.  Musicals (11 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
15.  Willow
16.  Indiana Jones franchise 1-3
17.  X-men franchise (7 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
18.  Terminator 2
19.  The Last of the Mohicans, Midway (2019)
20.  Silverado, Tombstone
21.  Black Hawk Down, 13 Hours, Zero Dark Thirty
22.  Gladiator, 300
23.  Top Gun 1 & 2
24.  FFVII:  Advent Children, FFXV:  Kingsglaive, Dragon Quest: Your Story
25.  Lethal Weapon franchise (4 movies)
26.  Spiderman's original trilogy, Into the Spiderverse
27.  Back to the Future 1
28.  Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Aquaman
29.  Mortal Kombat franchise (3 movies)
30.  Batman franchise (8 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
31.  Akira Kurosawa Films (6 movies) * (Click on the * for details)
32.  Robin Hood:  Prince of Thieves
33.  The Fugitive, Witness, Working Girl
34.  Dances with Wolves, The Last Samurai
35.  Apollo 13, The Martian, The Right Stuff
36.  The Mexican, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
37.  Patriot Games + Clear and Present Danger
38.  Far and Away
39.  Airplane 1
40.  My Cousin Vinny
41.  Ender's Game
42.  Die Hard 1
43.  Pride and Prejudice (2005), Clueless
44.  The Matrix 1
45.  Dune (2021-2024)
46.  Much Ado About Nothing
47.  Casablanca
48.  The Fifth Element
49.  Jurassic Park 1
50.  Tremors 1

(In Total:  200 must see movies)

TV:

1.  College Football
2.  The Olympics (including 'The First Olympics' movie and all the official documentary movies)
3.  The NFL
4.  The World Cup
5.  March Madness
6.  Firefly (including the movie)
7.  Game of Thrones
8.  Gilmore Girls
9.  X-men the Animated Series
10.  Shogun (2024)

Non-anime entertainment generally sucks, but sometimes it can compete with anime.  When the chance arises to take in something fresh, there's no reason to miss out.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You forgot The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Wire. Those shows really set the bar high for TV and hasn't been topped since.