Saturday, July 19, 2014

The Best Movies of All Time

The greatest movies ever to take the silver screen.

10. The Matrix

The Matrix is ​a science fiction action movie in 1999 on an American-Australian film and directed by the Wachowski brothers, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated "matrix" reality created by machines to submit the sensitive human population while the heat of their bodies and electrical activity is used as an energy source. Computer programmer "Neo" learns this truth and draws into a rebellion against the machines, involving other people freed from the "dream world".


9. Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American film crime black comedy directed by Quentin Tarantino, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear scenario, and a host of cinematic allusions and  known pop culture references. The film was voted for seven Oscars, including Best Picture nominations; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. He was also awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1994. A great critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Oscar nomination, as well as co-stars Samuel L . Jackson and Uma Thurman.


8. Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back (later known as Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera movie directed by Irvin Kershner, produced by Gary Kurtz and Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas wrote the story and he serves as executive producer. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the second to be released and the fifth in the internal chronology.


Three years after the first film of Star Wars. The Galactic Empire, under the leadership of the infamous Darth Vader, is in pursuit of Luke Skywalker and the rest of the Rebel Alliance. Although Vader pursues a small group of friends Luke, Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, and others across the galaxy, Luke studies the Force under Jedi Master Yoda. But when Vader captures Luke's friends and he must decide to complete his training as a Jedi Knight or confront Vader complete save his comrades.

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7. Fight Club

Fight Club is a 1999 film based on the novel in 1996 with the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an "everyman" who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a fight club with soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and they are joined by men who also want to fight for fun. The narrator is involved in a relationship with Durden and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter.


6. Titanic

Titanic is a 1997 American film romantic disaster epic directed, written, co-produced, co-edited and funded in part by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love on the ship during the ill-fated maiden voyage.

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5. The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is a 2008 film based on the superhero directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, Christian Bale takes the film in the second part of the Batman film series and a sequel to Nolan's Batman Begins in 2005. Christian Bale is in the main role of Bruce Wayne / Batman, with a cast of Michael Caine in the role of Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as James Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. The film introduces the character of Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Gotham newly elected District Attorney and the support of his childhood friend of Bruce Wayne, Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal replaces Katie Holmes in the first film), Batman and the police fight against the new criminal mastermind called "The Joker" (Heath Ledger).

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

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. This is the third and final part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy by the Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Two Towers (2002).


Sauron takes the final stage of the conquest of Middle-earth, Gandalf the Wizard and Théoden King of Rohan join forces to defend Gondor's capital of Minas Tirith. Aragorn finally claims the throne of Gondor, and with the help of the elf Legolas and Gimli the dwarf call the Army of the Dead to help him defeat Sauron. Even the hobbits Frodo and Sam are to bear the burden of the Ring and the treachery of Gollum. After a long journey, they finally arrive in the dangerous areas of Mordor, seeking to destroy the ring in the place it was created at the volcanic fires of Mount Doom.



3. The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American film drama written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. It is ranked # 1 in the list of "Top 250" at IMDb and as one of the best films of all time.


From the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption adapted, tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a banker who despite claims of his innocence spends 19 years at the Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. While his time in prison, he befriends a fellow inmate, Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, and finds himself being protected by the guards after the warden begins with using him in his money laundering operation.


2. Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is a romantic comedy film epic 1994 American drama based on the novel in 1986 with the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise and Sally Field. History shows several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, sporting a huge naive and slow-witted native of Alabama, witnesses, and in some cases, influences, some of the most important events of the second half of 20th century in the United States; more specifically, the time between birth Forrest in 1944 and 1982.



1. The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American crime movie produced by Francis Ford Coppola and Albert S. Ruddy, based on the bestselling novel by Mario Puzo novel of the same name. The film stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the head of a fictitious family of  the New York Mafia. The story spans the years from 1945 to 1955 focuses on the transformation of Michael Corleone from the family reluctance to foreign mafia boss and at the same time chronic ruthless patriarch Vito Corleone.

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