I've seen a great many of fantastic movies within the past couple of weeks and I figured I'd give my ratings for each of them. I figure a simple 5 star system would suffice just fine for each of the films to be broken down as follows:

1 Star - Stay away
2 Stars - TV only
3 Stars - Rent it
4 Stars - To the movies!
5 Stars - Must own

City Lights
1931

Plot: A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl.

Rating: 5/5 Stars







A Clockwork Orange
1971

Plot: Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a violent juvenile in the near future, is caught after a number of brutal rapes and murders. While imprisoned, he submits to a controversial experiment to make criminals ill at the mildest suggestion of violence or conflict or anything sexual. Now Alex's victims want to welcome him back into society with the same enthusiasm Alex had always exhibited when performing his crimes.

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars


2001: A Space Odyssey
1968

Plot: In 2001 a monolith is found buried on the moon. When sunlight hits it, it sends a radio message telling aliens we have arrived. A space mission is launched to Jupiter to check it out. One member of the crew is HAL - a sentient, self-aware computer. Unfortunately HAL has been instructed to lie - something contrary to his very nature. This drives him to desperate measures.

Rating: 5/5 Stars


Across the Universe
2007

Plot: In a film based on Beatles songs, a dock worker, Jude, travels to America to find his estranged father. There he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy.

Rating: 3.5/5 Stars




Rio Bravo
1959

Plot: Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) arrests a murderer, Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), the brother of powerful rancher Nathan Burdette (John Russell). The rancher's men quarantine the town in order to break Burdette out of jail. The only help Chance has are his deputies Dude (Dean Martin), an alcoholic, and Stumpy (Walter Brennan), a cripple.

Rating: 5/5 Stars


For a Few Dollars More
1965

Plot: Two bounty killers, Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) and a mysterious loner (Clint Eastwood), are after the ruthless outlaw Indio. Wanted dead or alive, Indio has a scheme of his own: to steal a supposed invincible safe from a bank.

Rating: 4/5 Stars



We Own the Night
2007

Plot: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.

Rating: 4/5 Stars





Planet of the Apes
1968

Plot: In the year 3978 A.D., a spaceship with a crew of four crashes down on a distant planet. They soon learn that the planet is much like their own, but inhabited by intelligent apes. George Taylor (Charlton Heston), the lone survivor of his crew, befriends some of the apes but is feared by most. After being put on trial he escapes and helps his friends escape a religious heresy trial.
Rating: 2/5 Stars


An Affair to Remember
1957

Plot: Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant) is a rich famous bachelor. On a cruise he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and they fall in love. They are both engaged to others, but they agree to meet on the top of the Empire State Building in six months to reunite their love.

Rating: 5/5 Stars