- Less than Zero. It's not a good movie. It's a trainwreck, actually. But between the score and the art direction and the colossally '80s ness of it all it ends up as a personal icon of mine. - Back to the Future 1, 2 and sometimes 3. The original BttF is perhaps one of the most intricately masterful exercises in screenwriting I've ever witnessed. - Kevin Reynolds' The Beast. You've never seen it, and you'll have a hard time changing that. - The African Queen. Bogart. Hepburn. Huston. "Tohr...pee does." - The Naked Prey of, for and by Cornell Wilde. - Head. The Monkees you never knew. Directed by Jack Nicholson. - Gary Cooper in Sergeant York. - Alien. - 2001. - Forbidden Planet. - Bad Influence with Rob Lowe & James Spader. - Nausicaa. - Renaissance. Best noir since Blade Runner. No, not Brick. Fuck Brick. Edited to add tremors which is far and away the best B-movie ever made, possibly the best B-movie that ever can be made.
Interesting list. Not what I expected. But I love that you have the African Queen and Head on the list! I almost put Robin and Marian, just for the best sword-fighting scene in all Christendom, but ... I didn't.
The biggest failing I had as a screenwriter was that I would, per advice, write the stories that interested me. The scripts I ended up optioning were the throwaway bullshit ones I did for other people on ideas I didn't particularly find interesting. I should have put The Lion in Winter, just for the best verbal sword-fighting scenes in all Christendom, but... I forgot.