- Hey everyone.

It's your girl Jenn

and today I am talking about

10 of my favorite movies of all time.

Obviously, you don't need to watch these before you die.

I just thought it would tie in really well

with my favorite books video.

After I uploaded that, a lot of you guys

were requesting a movie version, so here I am, filling that.

It was freaking hard to narrow it down to 10, but I did.

These are all movies that have changed my life

or I just thoroughly enjoyed.

So let's get started with he countdown.

At the top of the list

I have Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

This has been my favorite movie, since I was 15

and it's always such a pain to say it,

because the title's so long,

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,

but it is still my favorite film today.

I've seen it a million times and I never get sick of it,

because this love story is so freakin' real.

It's about a couple named Joel and Clementine

and one day Joel wakes up and he realizes

that Clementine has completely erased him

and the relationship from her mind

and obviously, he's really confused and hurt

and so he decides to get that same procedure done

and erase her from his memories.

And so you see the whole process

of them removing the memories.

At the beginning of the film

you don't really know their relationship at all,

but as they're removing each memory,

one by one, you see how they fell in love

and how they fell apart.

During heartbreak, sometimes you're tempted

to think, you know, I wish I could just

erase this freakin' person from my mind,

but you see, in the film, that sometimes

it doesn't really work that way.

And maybe sometimes it's better

that you have those memories,

because you could learn from them.

But yeah, it is my favorite film,

very thought provoking, super surreal.

I love the visuals of the film

and it's at the top of my list.

Coming in at number two I have the film Rushmore.

I have always been a huge fan of Wes Anderson films,

but this is my favorite one by far.

Part of the reason why I love it

is because it's set in a private school setting.

I've always enjoyed that setting,

because maybe when I was younger

I always wanted to go to private school.

It's about a gifted student named Max Fischer

and he is very, very involved in the school.

He's the president of all the clubs,

like in a million extracurricular activities,

but unfortunately his grades don't reflect that,

because he's too busy exhausting his energy

on everything else.

But basically he needs to get his act together.

But he ends up falling in love with a teacher at school

and wooing here becomes his main objective.

And I love Max Fischer, because he is a character

that really gets whatever he wants,

or almost whatever he wants, because he's so confident

and he's just like a bullshit talker.

He's just this je ne sais quo to him

and I love the dynamic between all the characters.

It's just like a bizarre love triangle.

You'll see.

Next up, I have a very enlightening movie for you.

It is called Fantastic Planet.

I first saw this in college

and it's one of those movies where after you watch it

you're like, whoa life man, because it really

shakes up your perspective of the world.

It's about a planet where big, giant aliens are the rulers

and they take humans captive

and humans are just like little pets.

They're domesticated.

They're just for the amusement of the aliens

and one day one of the little humans runs away

and he discovers a world

where there's like other humans living a civilization.

It's just a really trippy film

and I just love the animation.

It's very old school sci-fi cartoons.

It was made in the 70s and oh,

it's also completely in French,

so I highly recommend you watch the French version

with English subtitles, because the dubbed English

just sounds bizarre.

It's just a preference thing.

I believe you can watch it on YouTube.

You can rent it.

I'll leave a link down below, if I can find it.

So go check it out.

Moving on, I have The Holy Mountain.

This is probably one of the most fucked up,

but visually entrancing films

I've ever seen in my entire life.

Some parts were kind of hard to see,

because they're very graphic, gory,

a lot of nudity, but I just

couldn't take my eyes off the screen.

It's insane.

It was kind of like watching this really crazy dream unfold

and I love that if you pause at any moment of the film

it's something beautiful or very intense.

It makes you feel some type of way

and I feel like that's what art is about.

It's supposed to evoke a feeling out of you,

whether it's joy or whether it makes you uncomfortable.

This is one of my favorite films

to discuss with other people, because I love

hearing their interpretations of it.

It's coded with symbolism.

For me, I thought that this film was about

realizing that the world is just a projection of images

and you are the director behind the screen.

This film is a psychedelic masterpiece

and I highly recommend you watch it.

Not for the faint of heart though.

If you are looking for like a happy, easygoing film

probably wouldn't watch it.

Coming in at number five,

I have The Shining by Stanley Kubrick.

I normally am not a huge fan of horror films,

but this movie is just a complete exception for me.

It is about a tortured writer

who decides to caretake this big hotel

that is very, very isolated and he takes his wife

and his son there and his son

starts to see weird things at the hotel.

He starts to see previous guests that stayed there

and just really freaky stuff that happened in the past.

Jack Nicholson's performance is outstanding.

He plays a crazy guy so well.

It's insane.

There are iconic scenes in that film

that will never be taken out of my brain.

For example, I love the Grady twins in the hallway

and the woman in the tub.

That was freaking freaky.

I think it's a really awesome time to watch it as well,

because it's like Halloween.

It's a little spooky, so go check it out.

My next film favorite is Donnie Darko.

This will always have such a soft spot in my heart,

because it pretty much encapsulates

how I felt during my teenage angsty years.

It's about a troubled boy named Donnie Darko.

He's played by Jake Gyllenhaal.

He was so moody and so fine,

but he survives this freak accident

and since then he starts seeing weird visions,

particularly this man in a bunny suit named Frank.

And Frank is the one that kinda persuades him

to do all this gnarly stuff.

It's very thought provoking, open ended

and I feel like it could be a hit or miss

with a lot of people, because some people

might watch it and be like, "What was the point of that",

and other people would be like,

"Didn't you see, the point is right there".

I think this is one of the first films I saw

that just got me hooked into the sci-fi genre.

Next up I have The Matrix.

I would say this is probably the only film

you should watch before you die,

because if you haven't you are severely missing out.

I first saw this film when I was in fifth grade.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

My brother put it on the TV and I was just like watching

and slowly my mind started to enlighten

and absorb what was actually happening on the screen.

The matrix is about a man

who's just living his ordinary life

and one day he is presented with a question

whether he wants to live and continue his normal life

or find out the truth

and obviously he picks the truth

and it just unravels the fact

that the world is just a simulation of images.

I believe it's a depiction of

Plato's The Allegory of the Cave

and it does such a cool job explaining that.

It's honestly the movie that got me into sci-fi.

I thought it was Donnie Darko,

but The Matrix was actually the movie

that just like broadened my horizons

and made me think of things in a different way.

Next up I have a lighthearted film for you.

It' is called Wayne's World.

I grew up listening to rock music

and Wayne's World was a film

that really incorporated the rock and roll lifestyle

with comedy.

And it's about two dudes that love rock music

and they have a TV show where it's on public access network,

but basically that show starts to get some traction

and you get to just follow their story.

And it's one of those really lighthearted,

goofy, silly movies that doesn't take itself too seriously.

This movie is the reason why I know

the entire lyrics for Bohemian Rhapsody.

That scene is just iconic

and it's probably the first of it's kind

for carpool karaoke.

So go check it out, if you want a good laugh.

Now I'm gonna bring the mood back down.

My next film is Mysterious Skin.

This is a very disturbing yet touching film.

It follows the story of two boys

that have undergone something

very, very traumatic in their childhood.

And you just see how they both cope with the abuse.

One of them is just obsessed with space and aliens

and abductions and the other becomes a male prostitute.

So it's a very sad story, but it's very engaging.

It is like a very interesting coming of age story.

I don't know.

I feel like some people might find it

really difficult to watch, so maybe check out

the subject matter before you watch it.

My last film is Ex Machina.

I wanted to pick something that was a little more current,

because a lot of my picks are throwbacks.

But this was released in 2015

and I actually saw this in theaters, which was insane.

My jaw was dropped the entire time.

I couldn't believe my eyes, honestly.

It was a really haunting cool storyline,

very visually pleasing.

It's about a programmer who is interacting with

artificial intelligence and it's in the form

of this gorgeous robot lady.

Her face is just like a woman, but her body is a robot.

And the programmer needs to decide

whether this AI is conscious or not.

And it just raised a lot of questions in my head.

After I saw it, I was like

I just kept on thinking about it for days.

It's one of those films that just like kind of

eat away at you, but I would recommend it.

I have always found AI so fascinating,