The Stewart Adams Project

 

August 6, 2008

Brady’s Top 9 Favorite Films of All Time

Posted at 9:34 am

Most of the time I tend to think that other people are much more interesting than myself and so today I will share The Top 9 (because everyone does top 10) Favorite Films of All Time of my friend Brady Pritchett. This list in no way reflects the views or opinions of the Stewart Adams Project or its affiliates and was compiled without Brady’s permission or prior knowledge. Trailers and links provided by the Internet Movie Database.

09. Three Amigos
This comedic tale of everyone’s three favorite artificial banditos gives us a unique and accurate look into the Mexican culture of the 1980’s. This movie makes Brady’s list not because of the brilliant performances by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Chevy Chase but rather because of this piece of dialog alone:
El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?
Jefe: A what?
El Guapo: A “plethora.”
Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora.
El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
Jefe: Why, El Guapo?
El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.
Jefe: Forgive me, El Guapo. I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?

08. Evil Roy Slade
John Aston (Yes, Samwise Gamgee’s Daddy) stars as the meanest most cutthroat vile and detestable criminal the world has ever seen on film. You think Heath Ledger’s Joker was evil? Try Evil Roy Slade, he’s so evil they had to put it in his name. Parental warning: Slade cheats at poker, steals bank pens, kisses his female robbery victims (the pretty ones), carries a vast arsenal of weaponry, kills Bell Bing, and spreads HAVOC across the west.

07. Pride & Prejudice (the 5-hour A&E Version)
Few understand why a strapping young man with a crew cut and a Thundercats tshirt such as Brady would like a sappy boring made for TV chick flick. To be honest I don’t quite understand it myself, the film can basically be summed up in a few sentences: Some ugly sisters are desperate for husbands but even more desperate for husbands with money. Most men are jurks (yes, with a u) and all old people are match making busy bodies. Somehow there is a happy ending…at least for the characters, not so much for the audience who fell a sleep 2 ½ hours ago when the movie was half way over. Yes, Brady has lost many a man-card over this one.

06. The Dirty Dozen
There are very few movies that can make men cry, The Dirty Dozen is one of them, but I mean who didn’t cry? Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these air shafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin [sniff sniff] were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis… (Brady: [Crying too] Stop, stop!) And Trini Lopez…(Brady: Yes, Trini Lopez!) He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines…(Brady: Stop!) And Richard Jaeckel – at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet…( Brady: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh Man! I loved that movie…). For the record, no men cried at the end of Sleepless in Seattle.

05. High School Musical
HSM did something for the Disney Channel that none of the other 10 thousand made-for-tv Disney movies had done…it actually became popular and made money. And why not? It is pretty much a cinematic revolution of epic proportions in Brady’s opinion. It’s hard to mess up a movie when it has Troy Bolton dancing and singing while playing basketball. The cheesy dialogue and over the top emotions are reminiscent of the classic Rogers and Hammerstein films but HSM easily surpasses them as the quintessential original Musical about High School students.

04. The Little Mermaid
The animated classic we all grew up on still carries the same inspiring themes that it did when we were kids…only now we understand what they are: Teenage rebellion to authority, immodest dress, fathers losing their tempers and becoming violent, octopusian witchcraft, falling in love with members of a different species…etc. etc. But hey! There were some really catchy songs, right? And what song could be better than Kiss the Girl? Right, there isn’t one…this song by itself qualifies the movie for at least 7 Oscars and a place on Brady’s top 9 favorite films list.

03. High School Musical 2
Ah, the sequel to a great movie that set cable tv viewership records when it first aired on the Disney channel. Using the same formula as the first film, High School Musical 2 is at least 7 times better than the original despite the fact that the entire film takes place during the summer when school is out…? Anyway, HSM 2 provided at deeper look into the romance of Troy and Gabriella as they finally realize they love each other and kiss at the end of the movie. Filled with more of those catchy songs that make Brady want to dawn a tiki princess costume and punch dance out his rage on a golf course…HSM 2 is more of what made HSM so great, whatever that was.

02. High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Theatrical Teaser Trailer)
Although HSM 3 has not yet been released, Brady has seen the preview trailer. So why would Brady put a less than 2 minute promotional video on his top 9 favorite films of all time list? The truth is that trailer by itself is better than 90% of everything else that has ever been shown on the silver screen. It’s got everything, Troy Bolton pumping his fist, that Sharpay up to her usual shenanigans, Troy Bolton grabbing his basketball jersey, Troy Bolton in a tux…yeah.

01. Napoleon Dynamite
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Napoleon Dynamite is at the top of Brady’s favorite films list as it should be on everyone else’s too. Brady saw this movie in the theater before anyone else knew anything about it and before it was ‘cool,’ therefore becoming a bona fide trend setter (I was there, so I can vouch for him). I don’t even have to mention how great this movie is, it is evident by the massive overuse of the movie’s quotes and dialog. The only way this movie will ever be dethroned is if Jon Heder signs on to make ND 2.

Stewart

Filed under Blog Entries | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “Brady’s Top 9 Favorite Films of All Time”

  1. Blake Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Too bad John Aston didn’t die of legal-drug overdose before “Evil Roy’s” release, than HE would have been nominated for the Oscar as evilist character.

  2. Bethany Says:
    August 8th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    I cried during the Dirty Dozen also.

    And don’t knock Pride and Prejudice just because you aren’t entertained by witty dialogue and a pair of fine eyes.

  3. Stewart Says:
    August 8th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    It’s not that I don’t enjoy witty dialogue and I can even manage to endure a fine eye here and there…these things are clearly not what is wrong with the film – even a rotting gazelle carcass has a few good, positive and useful purposes…

    01. The nitrogen cycle is allowed to continue, um, cycling….
    02. Buzzards and maggots get a free meal.
    03. The grass under the body will come back thicker and greener than ever.

  4. Bethany Says:
    August 8th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    That’s true. I didn’t consider that pretty much everything except the witty dialogue and the fine eyes is the cinematic equivalent of a rotting gazelle carcass…

    P.S. I love administrative privileges.

  5. Stewart Says:
    August 8th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Actually, after a little more thought…I was wrong. Pride and Prejudice is a shining example of literary genius admirably adapted to film.

    In fact, I think I’m going to watch it again this weekend. It’s that good.

Leave a Reply