Favorite Movies

My Rating Scale
* - waste of good film
** - weak
*** - good
**** - Excellent
***** - Complete Perfection

My Favorite Movies

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) *****
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002 ) *****
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) *****
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977, 1997) *****
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980, 1997) *****
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983, 1997) *****
Raider's of the Lost Ark ****1/2
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ***
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ****1/2
E.T. the Extraterrestrial *****
Schindler's List *****
Forrest Gump ****1/2
Contact *****
2001:A Space Odyssey *****
X2: X-Men United (2003) ****
Planet of the Apes ****
Superman ****
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn ****
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ****
The Shawshank Redemption *****
It's a Wonderful Life ****
Close Encounters of the Third Kind ****1/2
Jaws ****
Braveheart ****
The Princess Bride *****
Twelve Monkeys ****
The Day the Earth Stood Still ****
Apollo 13 ****
The Sound of Music ****1/2
A Fiddler on the Roof *****
West Side Story *****

My Ratings for AFI's 100 Greatest Movies

1) Citizen Kane *****
2) Casablanca *****
3) The Godfather *** 1/2
4) Gone With The Wind ***
6) The Wizard of OZ ****1/2
7) The Graduate ****1/2
8) On The Waterfront ****
9) Schindler's List *****
11) It's a Wonderful Life ****
13) The Bridge On The River Kwai ****
15) Star Wars *****
17) The African Queen ***1/2
18) Psycho ***1/2
19) Chinatown ***
21) The Grapes of Wrath ***1/2
22) 2001: A Space Odyssey *****
23) The Maltese Falcon ****
25) E.T. the Extraterrestrial *****
26) Dr. Strangelove *****
28) Apocalypse Now ****
34) To Kill A Mockingbird *** 1/2
36) Midnight Cowboy ***1/2
40) North By Northwest ***1/2
41) West Side Story *****
43) King Kong (1933) ****
46) A Clockwork Orange ****
47) Taxi Driver *** 1/2
48) Jaws ****
49) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ***
50) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ***1/2
55) The Sound of Music ****1/2
56) M*A*S*H ****
58) Fantasia ****
59) Rebel Without A Cause ****
60) Raiders of the Lost Ark ****1/2
61) Vertigo ***1/2
62) Tootsie ****
64) Close Encounters of the Third Kind ****1/2
65) The Silence of the Lambs ****
70) The French Connection ***1/2
71) Forrest Gump ****1/2
72) Ben-Hur ****
75) Dances With Wolves ****
77) American Graffiti ****
78) Rocky ****
84) Fargo ****
85) Duck Soup ***1/2
95) Pulp Fiction ***
98) Unforgiven ****1/2