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Shawn's Top Ten Films List

Top Ten lists are pretty pointless.  Whether it’s a respected artist detailing their favorites in their profession, an academic listing the most influential works in their field, or simply a phantatic with a blog ranting, it is impossible to reach a definite, objective top ten list in anything.  Ironically, there was a list, a top 100 list in fact, that changed my life. I watched the American Film Institute Top 100 Tenth Anniversary list on T.V. when I was twelve upstairs on a Friday night with my older sister.  I don’t know what it was but I remember seeing commercials for it for about a month and every time I saw it I desperately wanted to watch it. I don’t know if it was because of the dozens of VHS’s my family owned and the hundreds of hours I had watched those movies growing up.  I’d like to think it was a calling from God to spread my love of film to others but that might be a stretch. I had never really seen many of the movies on the list but somehow as ...