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I just realized: When MCKillswitch does his next "legs" post, we'll get to see either Degeneres legs, Olsen legs, or Weaver legs.

#10 Les Miserables Directed by Tom Hooper "Now life has killed the dream I dreamed." Box Office: $148.8M Domestic, $441.8M WW IMDB Summary: In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever. Why it's so Meaningful to Me: To talk about this movie, it's best to know about some background. For the most part, I didn't know much about Les Miserables. I knew what it was, and the basic premise of "a guy goes to prison for stealing bread". But the reason why I wanted to see this movie, and why I waited with bated breath, was this one teaser: This still gives me goosebumps! This had wonderful actors, a glorious production design, and a bone-chilling performance of Anne Hathaway singing one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. It was a perfectly edited trailer, and news about the film's groundbreaking achievement of having all of the actors actually sing their lines on set instead of a pre-recorded track made it seem like this movie was going to be a modern masterpiece. I can't say that it's a modern masterpiece nowadays, as there are moments in the direction and some of the acting that doesn't really hold up, but when I saw it at the ripe age of 15, it was still quite the life-changing experience. Right from the opening sequence, I was hooked. The camera zooming across the oceans and shipwrecks, and ending with the prisoners forced to pull the mighty freights, as the wicked Javert stares down upon them, with the opening song roaring triumphantly was an amazing attention-grabber, and a wonderful way to start the film. From then on, I saw true, raw emotion. The innocence of Jean Valjean was immediately endearing, and the coldness of Javert was immediately despicable, and the cat and mouse game they play was truly engrossing. It brought up the ideas of how far people will go for justice, and whether who is truly corrupt: the criminal who wished to help his family, or the police inspector who refuses to look at the big picture. So many wonderful scenes are in this movie that really punched me in the gut. The time when Javert and Cosette meet the first time is so sweet and joyful, that it's hard not to love it. The confrontation against Javert and Jean after Fantine's death, as the two fight against one another with swords and their words was extremely well-done and action-packed, minus a few awkward shots where the camera didn't let you see anything. The death of Gavroche, which ignited the true form of the revolution, and even made the heartless Javert honor him for his bravery, is so perfectly done and such a beautiful symbol for the loss of innocence and the fight amongst the Rebellion to create a better future for the youth. And "Can you Hear the People Sing?" Oh, "Can you Hear the People Sing?" Both the original and the reprise are just perfect. Each shot given is perfectly chosen, it's emotionally powerful, and it leaves you full of energy, ready to fight the corruption of your own government, and fight for truth and justice. The ending alone is just amazing, as we see all of the people who gave their lives for a better tomorrow for the country they love all together celebrating that what they have done has lead to a wonderful future. How can you not tear up at that? But speaking of tearing up, what stole the entire movie was "I Dreamed a Dream". There's no flash, no intercutting, and no magnificent singing. We just see Anne Hathaway as Fantine, sitting and reflecting on her decisions, as raw emotion comes out, her choking up and attempting to hold back the tears to no avail. It's done in one take, and it is a wonderful performance that pretty much earned Anne Hathaway the Oscar. It's one of the very, very few moments in movies that I genuinely cried in, and it's pretty hard for me to do that. After I left the theater, it made me realize the power of what film could do. It grabbed me, hooked me, touched me, and left me out as a different person, and on that day, I knew I wanted to be in the film industry. The only problem was that I didn't know where to go or what to do. It wasn't until next year that I knew what I really wanted to do. And...well, I'll talk about it later.

Well, I know what Close Encounters is. There's at least one.

Matthew Broderick's in this? HYPE!

I actually read the RTM thread for The Witch, and I was surprised by how many people didn't get into it. I mean, different strokes for different folks, but I thought it was easily some of the best writing and direction for a movie I've seen in a long while, and Anya Taylor-Joy was a clear star in the making. Meh, maybe I'm just missing something.

Okay, we're going to the top 10. The hints for #10-6: 10. It's a film 24 years in the making. 9. This movie practically saved its own company. 8. Literally every line from that movie has been quoted in some way, shape, or form. 7. This movie was originally supposed to star John Travolta 6. This movie easily has the best Matrix reference of all time.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/702191-transformers-the-last-knight-billboard#/slide/1 The movie's still shooting, and there's already promotional materials...I don't get it.

#11 The Dark Knight Directed by Christopher Nolan "See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve." Box Office: $534.9M Lifetime Domestic, $1B WW IMDB Summary: When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, the caped crusader must come to terms with one of the greatest psychological tests of his ability to fight injustice. Why it's so Meaningful to Me: I already shared this story on Baumer's "50 Most Important Films" list, but I need to reiterate it once again in order to explain my appreciation for this film. So in the summer of 2008, I was about 10 years old. My mom wanted to take me and my brother out to the movies. And for whatever reason, my Mom chose The Dark Knight. I'm not exactly sure why, since she doesn't care about comic book movies, but I guess it was just a case of nothing really appealing out, and good reviews swaying her towards it. Regardless, we went out to see it. I didn't know anything about this movie, outside of it being a Batman movie. Now I wasn't the biggest superhero movie fan as a kid, but there were some that I watched and enjoyed. I liked the Spider-Man movies, and I liked the Fantastic Four movies. So going in, I expected something along the lines of those movies. Films that had some moments of seriousness, but a good sense of fun and bounciness. That wasn't the case. Boy that wasn't the case. Keep in mind also that as a kid, I was a humongous scaredy-cat. I was easily frightened, but for movies that did scare me, like Harry Potter or Pirates of the Carribean, I at least knew that the happy or cool or funny scene would come shortly. But happy scenes in this movie didn't happen. There was always an intense action scene. There was always a huge explosion. There was always the Joker, frightening the bejeezus out of me. It completely blindsided what I thought comic book movies were like, and it was really something that hit my nerves for weeks. And yet, this is arguably a huge milestone for me. A couple of years after the movie, I actually began having interest in the lore of Batman. For some reason, I really wanted to know more about the Joker and Two-Face and Alfred and all of the other characters. This resulted in me playing and later loving the Arkham series of video games (which btw, if you haven't played yet, go do yourself a favor, and experience some true masterpieces!), and I absolutely adored Tim Burton's take on the Caped Crusader, loving its creativity, acting, and direction. Hell, by that time, I actually began gaining more interest in comic book movies. I loved the backstories and the personalities these characters had, and it plays into a part of why I'm obsessing over Suicide Squad and Doctor Strange. (Of course many of them connect to other genres and subjects I love, so that might have helped.) The Dark Knight is also what I consider to be my first "adult" movie. Of course it's PG-13, and kids younger than me when I first saw it were able to enjoy it (boy, do I envy their bravery!), but this is the first film to really tackle mature subjects in a way that talked more to adults than kids. It talked of anarchy, crime, corruption, escalation, human choice, and other themes and topics that didn't get much attention from the likes of Dreamworks or Disney. It was my first exposure to these ideals, even though a lot of it flew over my head, since I was 10. But nowadays, as a young adult, I appreciate movies like Dark Knight. I like films with intensity. I like films with grit. I like films that talk about major important functions and values of life. The Dark Knight may have scared me, but it also toughened me up, and told me that there's more to movies than just silly cartoon characters or dopey comedians, and I'm thankful for my mom for taking me to the movies to see it. I don't know whether I'd love movies as much as I do now without watching it. Although ironically, I still haven't seen The Dark Knight in its entirety since the first time I saw it in 2008, nor any of the other films in the Nolan Batman trilogy...maybe that'll change soon.

So that must mean this movie's really good, eh? That sounds good to me, but it sucks I have to wait longer for this movie.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/07/12/sneak-peek-exclusive-a-monster-calls-movie/86955404/ New trailer's out, and it looks so bloody delightful.

The colors! The actors!

Speaking of which... #12 Finding Nemo Directed by Andrew Stanton "Fuck you, Dory" Box Office: $380.8M Domestic Lifetime, $936.7M WW IMDB Summary: After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home. Why it's so Meaningful to Me: A lot of old-timers on the forum may not know this, but for a kid growing up in the 2000s, Finding Nemo was easily one of the most defining childhood films for my generation. I was about 5 when it came out, so my memory is rather fuzzy, but I do remember that the film being popular was a severely gross understatement. Every single kid watched it, and every single kid loved it. We talked about all of the cool chase scenes, we quoted all of the iconic lines, we talked about all of our favorite characters; it was a gigantic touchstone to the average 2000s kid. And much like the other important relic of 2000s kids media I mentioned in the #15 slot, my family went nuts over it. Everyone in the family absolutely loved it for its colors, its characters, its story, its comedy, its adventure, its heart, its sense of fun, and everything else that makes it so good. To this day, we still quote lines from the movie with one another, and it's still regularly watched to this day. Much like any good family film, Finding Nemo is well aware that to leave a long-lasting impression, it can't talk down to kids, and make each element just as entertaining for a grown adult as it would to a child (well, except to grumpy, old grouches, like Baumer ), and each sequence is well aware of that fact, putting the audience in wonderfully crafted scenes that only the masters of Pixar can bring. If anything, I'd dare say that Finding Nemo is an almost perfect movie. I know that it's a bold claim, and nostalgia could be a part of this reasoning, but I do genuinely feel that. Every single sequence and character, as well as its pacing and tone is so masterfully handled, successfully giving out danger, laughs, joy, tears, heart, and wonder all in one glorious package. It's so perfectly paced, edited, and written that taking or adding anything would severely damage its quality. More recently, whenever I rewatch the film, I go in saying to myself, "Okay, this is the one where I notice something off. It'll still be good, but I'm taking off my rose-colored glasses, and I'll find something to complain about". And yet, that still hasn't happened. It's still just as funny, just as exciting, and just as memorable as my first viewing. If your movie is still able to be just as masterful and impressive to me, an 18 year old, as when I first saw it when I was 5, then you're pretty much amazing in my book. Finding Nemo defined a generation, it's a huge soft spot for the family, and it's a perfect movie. What more do you really need?

@Ethan Hunt

1. Passengers 2. Rogue One 3. Suicide Squad 4. Jason Bourne 5. La La Land 6. Moana 7. Spider-Man: Homecoming 8. Fantastic Beasts 9. Kubo 10. Beauty and the Beast

It's so obviously gonna be 2019. Disney's building the Frozen franchise bit by bit every year. 2013: The movie 2014: Once Upon A Time 2015: Frozen Fever 2016: Frozen: Live at the Hyperion and Frozen Ever After 2017: Frozen: The Christmas Special 2018: Frozen on Broadway They keep giving the fans a new thing every year in different shapes and forms, each one bigger and better than the last. If some new major Frozen thing comes out each and every year, then the sequel's a definite, as where else can you really go?

The Obvious Conjuring 2 ID:R Tarzan Ghostbusters Trek Bourne Suicide Squad Pete's Dragon Mag 7 Storks Strange Fantastic Beasts Moana Rogue One Sing Passengers The Likely Bad Moms Sausage Party Sully Deepwater Horizon Miss Peregrine Girl on the Train Trolls Billy Lynn La La Land Patriots Day Silence The Longshots Ice Age The Founder Snowden The Accountant Birth of a Nation Jack Reacher Inferno Assassin's Creed

#13 The Lion King Directed by Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers "Remember who you are." Box Office: $422.8M Domestic Lifetime, $968.5M WW IMDB Summary: Lion cub and future king Simba searches for his identity. His eagerness to please others and penchant for testing his boundaries sometimes gets him into trouble. Why it's so Meaningful to Me: In hindsight, The Lion King is a pretty ridiculous idea. Take hundreds of elements from many Shakespeare plays, in particular Hamlet, MacBeth, and Henry IV, put it in a family film with talking animals, have a cast consisting of Darth Vader, Mr. Bean, Ferris Bueller, that guy whose in every Broadway play, and that kid from Home Improvement, and add in songs created by Elton John? Yeah, it sounds like something that would crash and burn, and even Disney felt the same thing. During the film's production, Pocahontas was being made in conjunction, and most of the top dogs in the animation and writing department were focusing on all of their resources on that film, while Lion King was more or less the "B-movie", the one that was just going to do alright critically and financially compared to the big dog. Obviously, that hasn't happened, and it has endured as a modern classic, and a childhood favorite of many, including myself. Most people know me as a huge Disney geek, and Lion King, very much like Aladdin, was a huge part in my love for the company. I watched it plenty on VHS, but when it was rereleased on DVD in 2003, this was easily something that was rewatched over and over and over again. But what puts this above Aladdin on this list is its overall theme on responsibility and the importance of the past. Coming from someone who more often than not wants to run away from problems, as well as someone who self-loathes himself whenever I make a mistake, this message really hits close to home. It's basically telling the viewer that not only should you be defined by your past, but it's important to learn from that past to better yourselves and take your rightful place to be who you truly are and who you are supposed to be. It really clicked with me when I saw the movie a couple years ago, as a teenager trying to find his own place and connection to who I am and who I want to be. It works as a strong allegory of coming of age, and it's done exceptionally well thanks to its memorable characters and gorgeous animation. Just the ending as Simba climbs up to Pride Rock, and accepts his place and who he's supposed to be makes this film terrific, and in all honesty is one of the best endings to any movie I've seen, and perfectly illustrates the power of destiny, self-discovery, and self-acceptance. For being important to me as a kid, as a teenager, and very likely as an adult, The Lion King holds a special place to my heart.

Well Jurassic Park's based off of a book, so...

No love for Static Shock or Teen Titans?