1. Tie between ” The Godfather” and ” The God father, Part II “.

The two greatest American films ever made.

2. ” Do The Right Thing”.

I still get chills when I see the cops throw the lifeless Radio Raheem in the squad car and drive away.

3. ” Good Fellas ”

” For as long as I can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster.”

4. ” Malcolm X “.

You knew what was going to happen, but you had to see it for yourself. Spike’s high water mark as a director.

5. ” Traffic”.

The drug war shown from three different perspectives. When Erika Christansen first did heroin, the look on her face made me understand how some one could get hooked.

6. ” Cadyshack”

This movie could not be made in today’s PC-driven society. I still laugh watching it.

7. ” Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back.”

Far and away, the best of the original trilogy.

8. ” The Killer”

John Woo’s American movies are pure crap, but this, ” Hard Bolied”, and ” A Better Tomorrow”, should be watched by those who want to make action films.

9. ” Once Upon A Time In America”

DeNiro and James Woods. Chec out the Directors Cut.

10. ” The Last King Of Scotland.”

Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin. One of the best performances ever.

11. ” Rocky”

Just a raw, real movie. When I watch this, it makes me sad to see what became of Stallone.

12. ” The Matrix”

The first ten minutes hooked me. If I have another girl, I’m gonna name her Trinity

13. ” True Romance ”

” I’m not gay, but I’d fuck Elvis.”

14. ” Heat ”

Great cast. Pacino & DeNiro, but Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Haysbert, Ashley Judd.

15. ” Belly ”

Hype Williams’ movie debut. Nas, DMX, Taral Hicks, and Method Man. Wow.

16. ” La Femme Nikita”

If you’re familiar with this film, the american version, ” Point Of No Return” should disgust you.

17. ” Love Jones”

Made the spoken word sexy. Nia Long, yeah.

18. ” Pulp Fiction ”

I’m sorry, it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. Great cast, and dialogue I’d never forget.

19. ” The Dark Knight ”

I went to a 10AM show the day after it opened. It lived up to the hype and then some.

20. ” Boogie Nights ”

Another great cast.

Wow forgot about Boggie Nights, Dead Presidents, The Professional, The French Connection, Unforgiven.

Classic line from Eastwood in that movie:

Gene Hackman: “You sonofabitch, you just shot an unarmed man.”

Eastwood: “Well he shoulda armed himself if he was gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.”

“You killed my brutha, he was my only brutha and you kilt him.” and Winky Dinky Dogs. Wow.

I was thinking about Car Wash this weekend. “I am the Fly, bbbbbbbbbbuuuzzzzzzzzz.”

Also curious, why don’t we like Tarantino? I like his movies. Please don’t jump on me.

1. Antwone Fisher
2. The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
3. The Fugitive (Harrison Ford/Tommie Lee Jones’ version)
4. Batman Begins
5. Malcolm X
6. The Game (Michael Douglas & Sean Penn)
7. Shawshank
8. Trading Places
9. The Matrix
10. Coming to America

I absolutely LOVED the original Carmen Jones – Dorothy Dandridge was all that as the vixen Carmen!

I could watch The Color Purple, Boomerang,The Birdcage on constant loops too.

1. Sunshine State – Another great ensemble movie about development and loss of community with Angela Bassett, Timothy Hutton, Ralph Waite and Eugene Mc Daniel

2. Titus – A great Shakespere movie by Julie Traymor and Larry Lennix is totally fiendish along with Jessica Lange and Anthony Hopkins

3. School Daze – 20 years have been kind to Spike Lee’s classic movie on class and color conscious and slamming soundtrack and score

4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Groundbreaking with Christopher Lloyd and Bob Hopkin and Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit

5. Kagemusha – One of Akira Kurosawa underrated movies, saw it with a friend of mine at his house and could’nt believe how good it was in my opinion better than “Ran”

6. Revenge of the Nerds – Sometimes I just like dumb shit that makes no sense it’s anti P.C. attitude is still funny.

7. I Got the Hook – Up – A movie so bad that it’s entertaining to watch Master P do a movie that is not interested in being a postive black movie for neither whites or blacks. A B-Movie classic, watching Helen Martin smoke weed is hillarous.

8. Wattstax – a better music festival movie than Woodstock a reminder of what we used to be as a race that somehow got lost being more concerned about utopian politics

9. Return of the Living Dead – Linnea Quigley (the sexy red-headed punk dancing on the tomb ) can eat my brain anytime great scary movie and soundtrack and watching Miguel Nunez with a Jheri Curl bought back memories of my mullet.

10. Paris Is Burning – My favorite Documentray about the gay/drag balls in Harlem during the 80′s that started the vouge dance revolution. A touching and sad protrayal of black and latino gay people developing their own scene with great humor and strength.

Also forgot about the professional.

They would both get an Honorable mention.

And if you are throwing in made for TV movies/Mini Series then it would be

1. Roots

2. The Day After

3. V and V final Battle

4. The Stand

1. Malcolm X

2. Blues Brothers

3. Do the Right Thing

4. School Daze

5. Dead Presidents

6. Jungle Fever

7. The spook who sat by the door

8. Deep cover

9. Menace II Society

10. Predator

11. The Hidden

12. Star Trek Wrath of Kahn

13. Drumline

14. Aliens

15. How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Yeah I said it)

16. Star Wars

17. Boyz in the Hood

18. Star Wars Return of the Jedi

19. Matrix Reloaded

20. Transformers the movie (And no not that crap that came out last year by Michael Bay who loves to have black men look like fools in his movies) I am talking about the cartoon. The original cartoon movie where megatron turns into a gat. When optimus got smoked trying to save hot Rod. When the original Unicron (not Jason Whitlock) was flying around in space eating planets.

Honorable mentions

1. When the levees broke.

2. Supersize me.

3. Why did I get married

4. Hoodlum

5. Clockers

And like many of you I can’t stand Quentin Tarrintino and will not watch any of his movies. Thumbs down to all his stuff and screw that fool Samuel Jackson for even defending that mess and caling him a honorary brotha. I can’t stand his @ss either.