J-Bang Rankings Present: My Top 10 Favorite Movies

Welcome to the inaugural edition of J-Bang Rankings. Here, at J-Bang Rankings, we (as in me) rank a list of top 10 favorites. Since this is the first, I've decided to go with a simple topic: Top 10 favorite movies. If you want to know more about the movies listed, go to re-read previous reviews. This is an opinionated piece, so don't piss your pants when your favorite movie doesn't end up on the list or is ranked lower than you thought it would be. But also know, everything is OPEN FOR DISCUSSION. So Yeah, now that we're done explaining why the 1st Amendment exists, let's begin....

#10. Forrest Gump

#9. One Flew's Over the Cuckoo's Nest

#8. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

#7. King Kong (the 2005 version)

#6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

#5. The Dark Knight

#4. The Departed

#3. The Shawshank Redemption

#2. Marvel's the Avengers

and my number one favorite movie is......................................................................................

#1. Jaws. Released into theaters June 20, 1975, it put fear into the hearts of audiences all around the world while simultaneously creating the phenomenon we now call the "Summer Blockbuster." With a movie with such a simple plot (A small summer town is being terrorized by a killer great white shark and it's up to the town's sheriff, a marine biologist and an eccentric fisherman to find it and kill it), you would think that it was the plot of a "B movie" just from reading it but I kid you NOT, this is not the case with Jaws! Thanks to a $9 million dollar budget provided by Universal Studios, an all-star cast of Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss, and a film under the superior direction of a young, but brilliant Steven Spielberg, this movie turned out to become an "A+" action, adventure, "creature feature" filled with enticing suspense and gory horror that I enjoyed from the first minute to the last minute.

22 Jump Street

J-Bang Reviews present "22 Jump Street." THE UNCENSORED VERSION! 22 Jump Street is fucking hilarious. It manages to combine toilet humor and awkward situations into a successful formula that simultaneously tells a compelling storyline. And the storyline itself is a joke. Right off the bat, the characters hint that the movie is going to do the "exact same thing" as the first movie did. "21 Jump Street" took place in high school, where the two cops, Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill) go undercover as students to find and arrest a drug dealer who is selling a deadly new drug to students."22 Jump Street" tells the EXACT. SAME. STORY. But instead of high school, it takes place in College. The fact that it tells the same story as the first one doesn't discredit its value. As a matter of fact, I appreciate that the film's formula is the same because certain franchises tend to try and tell a different story in the sequel and in the end, the film is a disaster. I could name drop a couple of films that do this, but to save time, I'll move on. But just to note, not all movies that follow the same formula as the first movie are successful either, so in this case, 22 Jump Street got lucky. The chemistry between Tatum and Hill is spectacular as usual. Both prove to be funny and easy to relate to. I believe that these two are the next dynamic duo in Hollywood that can and will make us laugh as long as they're together on screen along with such tag teams like James Franco and Seth Rogen, and Jim Carry and Jeff Daniels. The movie is pretty long but manages to keep the audience engaged from minute to minute unlike other movies I've seen *cough Wolf of Wall Street *cough The Amazing Spider-Man 2 *cough...Need. WATER. NOW!! Anyhow, 22 Jump Street delivers memorable moments and awesome cameos that is worth buying a ticket to see. I can't say it's better than the first. I can't say it's worst than the first. That's because it's exactly like the first. And so, it gets the same score as the first. "22 Jump Street" gets a 4 out of 5.