#10 30 Days Of Night: Utilidor bloodshed

Director: David Slade
Genre: Horror
Key Players: Josh Hartnett

Your friend and partner is turning into an angry vampire right before you - what do you do? Chop his fucking head off with a giant axe, of course. What else is there?

AAAARGH - SPLAFF - FLASHP

#9 The People Vs Larry Flynt: The speech

Director: Milos Forman
Genre: Drama

Key Players: Edward Norton, the supreme court

It doesn't matter if it's Tom Cruise's Lt. Daniel Kaffee, Denzel Washington's regular Joe or Matlock himself, everybody loves a good speech. In Milo Forman's Oscar nominated tale The People vs. Larry Flynt, we follow Larry Flynt (a brilliant Woody Harrelson), creator and publisher of porno-mag Hustler Magazine, his drugged up love interest (a drugged up Courtney Love) and his young attorney and their many run-ins with the law and the Christian lunatics that run the US of A.

Like in all good courtroom dramas you need a grand speech. Cue Edward Norton's idealistic attorney at law, standing up for, not necessarily Flynt's agenda of peddling hairy beavers to the people, but for our right to choose and decide for ourselves, whether we want to buy it or not, and not just do as we are told by some self appointed morality police, in this case, the smug god-fearing fundamentalists on the right. When censorship and freedom of speech are being tampered with by religious retards, we need someone to stick it to them, a figure to rally behind. If that person's a questionable libertarian hero/crazy smut-uncle in a wheelchair, so be it. Nontheless, we need that speech.

#8 Matrix Revolutions: Brawling in the rain

Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Genre: Action/Sci fi
Key Players: Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving (by the thousands)

There's a couple of things that is unique for the Matrix Revolutions: A) It's not the original and far superior The Matrix, B) Monica Bellucci's massive cleavage and C) there's an outstanding hand to hand combat scene between Neo (The One) and Agent Smith (the other ones) in the end. Sure, while the first fight between them revolutionized pretty much all we knew about cinema at the time, this last and final confrontation is just good ol' wholesome fun for the whole family: there's heavy rain, lightning all around, they are trading punches in mid-air, buildings and streets are obliterated and turned to dust. And all in glossy green glow. It's just like a comic book, only, that it isn't. It's better. And no other superhero comic book movie have, so far, come close to matching any of the innovative action that can be seen in any of the Matrix trilogy. And all you naysayers, fuck off. It's not The Matrix Repetition, who wants that? It's a cool movie, let us leave it at that.

#7 Starship Troopers: Brain bug

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Genre: Action
Key Players: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Patrick Muldoon (could not care less about any of them), slimey snail-like brain monster

More with the Verhoeven, but who cares?! Upon it's release, most people dismissed The Hoeves playful (perhaps campy?) sci-fi actioneer as a commercial for fascism, when it really was the other way around. You know, being filled with suggestive political and social themes concerning media, propaganda and equality (listen to the audio commentary for further enlightenment). However, none of that really matters when you see millions of bugs, the sizes of cars, attacking a small fort in the desert resulting in a slaughter of green goo. That specific moment, is the very highlight of Starship Troopers. Intense and a lot of fun (especially when you're a youngster). But there's a giant snail in the end that sucks brain juice with a trunk and looks like a vagina in the face. Nuff said.

#6 The Fountain: Death is the road to awe

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Genre: Drama
Key Players: Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman

Whether you like it or not, Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, is a feast, if not for the mind, then at least for the eye. With a smart and overlapping narrative, Aronofsky tells the story of a man (or several), through different times in history (past, present, future), in pursuit of cheating death in order to save his loved one (a wife, a queen, a tree). As Hugh Jackman's futuristic scientist travels through the golden nebula Xibalba, and it finally supernovas, we're treated to a stunning visual sequence: by accepting his inescapable death, his body explodes in a flash of gold, light and motion, rebirthing his dying tree in a fashion words can't do justice. Although I try.