70. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Directed by Clyde Geronimi
Written by Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Joe Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, and Milt Banta from the Fairy Tale
Starring the voices of Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, and Marvin Miller
Oscar Nominations: 1
There are a number of reasons why this is one of the best films in the Walt Disney collection. A major reason for me is the music. A lot of it is taken directly from the score of Tchaikovsky's ballet of the same name. Another reason is the art. It looks like something taken directly from medieval art. It's a style that's distinct from any of the disney films that came before or after. Now, that all said, the major reason I love this movie is the villain, Maleficent, possibly my favorite of all the Disney villains. She definitely the most evil. She wants to kill a baby simply because she got slighted an invitation to a party. She has no problem ruining lives and she is unabashedly evil. While doing all this, she always has an air of elegance and style to her that makes it seem alright that she's terrorizing these people. That fact that she can turn into a huge dragon is completely arbitrary but still adds to her coolness.
69. Run Lola Run (1999)
Directed & Written by Tom Twyker
Starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Herbert Knaup
Run Lola Run, or Lola Rennt as it's known in it's native Germany, is a movie about cause and effect. In the film, Lola has 20 minutes to find 100,000 marks before her boyfriend holds up a grocery to get the money he needs to pay back a crime lord. What happens is Lola running through the streets of Berlin, trying to accomplish that. What makes the film novel is that we are shown three different versions of the events, all based off of an opening scene of her running down the stairs and encountering a dog. In each case it changes how the rest of the film goes for Lola and also changes the effect on the people she encounters. In three cases in each story, Lola interacts with a person for half a second and because of that, their life is shown for a moment showing how it turns out. Really, that is what I love about this movie. It basically says that every moment of every day counts and we need to live with that, running to make it work if necessary.
68. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Directed by Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
Written by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Llama, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, & Michael Palin
Starring Many of the people in the above line.
What can I say about this movie that hasn't already been said?
Next time, "There's something about an anatomically correct rubber suit that puts fire in a girl's lips.." "I used to love Doggy Chow, too!" "Oh my god, they're eating her and then they're going to eat me. Oh my god!"
Okay, fine, I'll talk Monty Python and The Holy Grail is a geek classic, I would probably be thrown out of geekdom if it wasn't on here. It is one of the most quotable movies of all time and the ending is infamous but very much in style. There really isn't a lot to say since this is a hard movie to describe, it really has to be seen. Go out and rent it. NOW!
The real Next Time: "Playwrights teach us nothing about love. They make it pretty or they make it comical or they make it lust." "They're his father's eyes." "Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
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