My top 10 films may not be the best films but they have a story/meaning behind them
1) batman - this was the first film I really looked forward to, I mean I collected everything that was batman related. unfortunately this was one of the first films here in the uk to be given a 12a rating and I was about 10 or 11 at the time. I had to wait until the end of it's cinema run until I got to see it and I remember the woman asking my dad how old I was and he had to memorizes a different birth date for me
2) ghost busters – after seeing this film I built my own proton pack and ghost buster catcher, my grandad got me a boiler suit from work and for a year I was the fifth ghost buster. To this day my family still reminds me of this and bill murray is my hero
3) highlander - me and the family went on holiday to skegness and the hotel we stayed in had cable which was a big thing at the time. my parents went out for the evening leaving me and my sister alone and we started to watch this film highlander that just blew me away
4) anchorman – I was at a very low point in my life and needed to cheer myself up. I went into this film not knowing a great deal about it (I didn't know who will ferrell was at the time) but I needed a laugh and this film really delivered. I will always defend will ferrell against his haters
5) robocop – I must have been about 10 or 11 when I saw this film and I never saw the violence or heard the language I just saw this cool character and copied his walk and added my own sound effects
6) eternal sunshine of the spotless mind – I see a lot of films at the cinema and I say 95% of the films I see don't really effect me in any way. After I saw this film I knew I had seen something very special, something very unique that I find hard to describe
7) Rambo – I think when your young your dad almost forces you to watch a film that he loves (a passing of the torch if you will) and this was it
8) planes trains and auto-mobiles – john candy’s speech you wanna hurt me (look it up on you tube) means a real lot to me. I was bullied at school so the line 'I like me' was a something that meant a lot to me at the time and still does. I remember the day he died and my mum telling me and feeling genuinely upset, a true talent lost
9) pulp fiction – the mid 90's for me was a really good period we had the hole brit-pop era and I was about 16 at the time. My parents had gone away on holiday leaving me alone for the first time and so I had friends round. At the time I was to young to watch this film at the cinema but someone had a copy and it was the must see film of the time. I remember watching this in the afternoon and my friends had fallen asleep (I think I had threw a party the night before) and I was just transfixed by what I was seeing.
10) Labyrinth/the muppets 2011 – the last day's of school before holidays here in the uk you get to watch a film and I remember seeing labyrinth for the first time. I used to watch fraggle rock and muppet babies when I was young (was probably too young for the muppet show) and like john candy the news of Jim henson's death was really sad for me. This year my nephew has started to get into the muppets, and I take him to the cinema a lot and so it was a fantastic experience seeing the muppets with him. since then when ever he's slept over he's watched the muppet show and labyrinth for the first time.