The Tom Zone Question of the Day

What are five movies you love far more than you probably should?
(Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Casablanca, et al, are on lots of people's favorites.  Name five movies that just work for you, even if critics hate it and your friends roll their eyes)

1) Brighton Beach Memoirs.  My ex-Jenny and I watched this one about 500,000 times.  It has so many great lines--"Where am I going, to a nightclub?" "THERE ARE NO BONES IN LIVER!" "The whole world whacks off."--and I always end up laughing before they say them.

2) Tommy Boy.  Critics hate this one, but I laugh my ass off every time, especially the scene with "Superstar".  Total guilty pleasure movie.

3) Tombstone.  Kurt Russell is okay as Wyatt Earp, but it's Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday that steals the movie.  Powers Boothe, Sam Elliot, and Michael Biehn are also fantastic.  And I love Dana Delaney.

4) The Cotton Club.  I love the music, the tap-dancing, the 19 year-old Diane Lane, and some really well-drawn characters: Dutch Schultz, Bumpy the gangster, and Owny and Frenchy.

5) tie: South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, and Monty Python's Meaning of Life.  SP just killed me, especially the songs ("Uncle F*cker", eg) and Cartman's exultant torrent of profanity that zapped Saddam Hussein back to hell.  MPMoL had some great songs as well ("The Penis Song", eg), but it was just so wonderfully silly as it made fun of everybody that it cracks me up, regardless of my mood or blood-chemistry.

Sure, I love the "classics," too.  But I'll watch these five (six, actually) whenever they're on, and love every minute. 

(Thanks to Kelly the Culture Maven for the inspiration)