Desert Island DVDs (Version 2011)

There had been a slow accumulation of DVDs in my bedroom and decided it was time to sort through the pile and pick my 20 movies.  20 movies that I can take to a desert island and watch over and over.  Over the years, the list changed as new movies replace tired ones.  Two Pixars, two Sean Connery's, two Jet Li's and two Fast & Furious movies make up 40% of my top 20.  I'm sure this list will change as early as next year.  For now, here's the twenty in no particular order.

1) Princess Bride - Inconceivable I've seen this at least once a year for that past 15 years.

2) Fist of Legend - The gold standard of martial arts flicks; a remake of the Bruce Lee classic

3) Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Is it Thanksgiving yet?

4) Up - Broke the top 20 as soon as I saw it the first time

5) Collateral - I had to pick a Michael Mann so it was between this and Heat.  Tom Cruise might bump this one off the list.  Jamie Foxx helps.

6) Fast And The Furious - Tokyo - I wonder if you know, how they live in Tokyo

7) Fast Five - Love the cast, love the cars, who care about the plot

8) Thomas Crown Affair - What would you do for art?

9) G.I. Jane - The only Demi Moore movie I can watch more than once; a Ridley Scott classic

10) Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Inspiration to take the day off from work, any day

11) Pee Wee's Big Adventure - Tim Burton's best work and it's about a bike

12) Wall-E - First 15 minutes is the best 15 minutes of any animated movie.  Spork.

13) Singles - Best Matt Dillon acting; it's all about the music

14) Finding Forrester - Hoops and literature and friendship; my fav Sean Connery movie

15) Blade Runner - I need a dark movie for my list so it had to be this one

16) The Matrix - either this Keanu or the Point Break Keanu.  This one always gives me plenty to think about.

17) Idiocracy - The best comedy in the last 10 years.  Smart, relatively speaking.

18) Contact - I always wonder if someday this movie will be classified as pseudo-fiction

19) Romeo Must Die - Hip hop meets kung fu; Jet Li, the late Aaliyah, DMX

20) Goldfinger - If I will see only one spy movie again, this is it.  Love the 60s cars in this flick.