My 25 Most Influential Movies

This is inspired by my good friend, Charlie Forrester, who really got to the core of why we love the movies and how they help shape who we are. With that it mind, it comes as no surprise that most of these choices come from the decades of my youth, the 1980s and 90s. I had no idea how difficult a task this would be, but it was, made even tougher since I have put these movies in order based on how much they impacted me.

Here's the fun part...each one is represented by a screen shot, and it's up to you to guess each movie. Some of them will probably be obvious, but I've done my best to be tricky. Let's see how well I did...

-Lee

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Complete List:

25) The NeverEnding Story (1984) dir. Wolfgang Petersen
24) Kingpin (1996) dir. Peter and Bobby Farrelly
23) Eraserhead (1977) dir. David Lynch
22) Delicatessen (1991) dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
21) RoboCop (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven
20) Blood Simple (1984) dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
19) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) dir. John Carpenter
18) Natural Born Killers (1994) dir. Oliver Stone
17) The Player (1992) dir. Robert Altman
16) Freaks (1932) dir. Tod Browning
15) The American Astronaut (2001) dir. Cory McAbee
14) The Incredibles (2004) dir. Brad Bird
13) City Lights (1931) dir. Charles Chaplin
12) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984) dir. W.D. Richter
11) Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (1987) dir. Sam Raimi
10) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner
9) Rear Window (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
8) The Killer (1989) dir. John Woo
7) The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
6) Synecdoche, NY (2008) dir. Charlie Kaufman
5) Apocalypse Now (1979) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
4) Rushmore (1998) dir. Wes Anderson
3) Die Hard (1988) dir. John McTiernan
2) Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
1) Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino



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