So is Schindler's List going to be the only movie with an Best Picture award on this list?  I imagine American Beauty will also.

So is Schindler's List going to be the only movie with an Best Picture award on this list?  I imagine American Beauty will also.

Fair enough points about the bookending scenes.  Very Speilbergian.  I admit though sometimes I get Speilberged and I get sucked in rather than repulsed.  There's really no rhyme or reason to it, the bastard sure has that almost-insulting-but-still-heart-wrenching scenes down to a science.

I don't know maybe I needed the violence to shock me, but I came away from Saving Private Ryan a different person.  I enjoyed the Thin Red Line.  Maybe I got "Steven Spielburged" with all the sappiness, that is a possibility.  It was a long time ago and well we were all a lot younger then.

I'll fucking kill somebody

I'll fucking kill somebody

TITANIC FTW

TITANIC FTW

As brutal as it was Saving Private Ryan needs to be up there.  If you don't walk away from that movie anti-war, well, I don't know what to tell you. I'd never call a movie flawless, but damn, that movie is as gripping as it is devastating to watch.

I remember very fondly sitting in my friends basement drinking Jolt Cola watching that MTV Music Video top 20 countdown and rooting for Basket Case every week.  Some people had older brothers, people like us had MTV and eachother, for better or for worse.

I remember very fondly sitting in my friends basement drinking Jolt Cola watching that MTV Music Video top 20 countdown and rooting for Basket Case every week.  Some people had older brothers, people like us had MTV and eachother, for better or for worse.

To a 5th Grader Green Day is the most punk thing fathomable. 

To a 5th Grader Green Day is the most punk thing fathomable. 

Well I did say "punk" meaning that they weren't really punk.  To someone in 5th grade they were punk as fuck, but it took me to get into harder stuff to figure that out.  It was a learn as you go experience.

Well I did say "punk" meaning that they weren't really punk.  To someone in 5th grade they were punk as fuck, but it took me to get into harder stuff to figure that out.  It was a learn as you go experience.

Well, if you are 26-30 there's a good chance that Dookie opened your normal suburban middle class eyes up to "punk" music.  I don't think I ever would have gotten into the deep stuff like Minor Threat and Black Flag etc without actually having Green Day lead me in that direction in 5th grade.

Well, if you are 26-30 there's a good chance that Dookie opened your normal suburban middle class eyes up to "punk" music.  I don't think I ever would have gotten into the deep stuff like Minor Threat and Black Flag etc without actually having Green Day lead me in that direction in 5th grade.

Yeah that's a good idea this is some bs!  Were you at the Asbury Hall one a few years ago?  I don't think we'll ever see them in as intimate setting as that ever again.  They absolutely slayed I'm surprised they didn't decide to come back.

Yeah that's a good idea this is some bs!  Were you at the Asbury Hall one a few years ago?  I don't think we'll ever see them in as intimate setting as that ever again.  They absolutely slayed I'm surprised they didn't decide to come back.

I saw the Bouncing Souls there not too long ago and yes, it is.  I've never been to a more violent show in a long time, and the Bouncing Souls are far from a band that should inspire that much violence.