#10 An American Tail
For anyone who has never watched An American Tail (weirdos), it is the story of a russian-jewish family of mice whos village is destroyed by evil cats. They then decide to do what anyone who realizes Russia is a horrible place to live does. They immigrate to The United States of America! Along the way, they loose their son Fievel and assume he is dead. Fievel (Not dead) get sold to a sweat shop. shortly after, he meets a politician who helps him wage a war on the cats and Fievel is then reunited with his family... In AMERICA!
#9 Independence Day
Do you remember how back in the 90's every other movie was about aliens coming to eath and America being the only ones who had the balls to stand up to them? If all of those movies tend to blend together for you, this is the one with The Fresh Prince, The dad from Casper, and the suave scientist from Jurrasic Park. One good thing did come out of this movie though. Independence Day has its very own drinking game. Any time Will Smith says a cheese-tastic one liner, you take a drink. Warning!!! You will need an excess amount of booze for this game to work.
#8 The Patriot
Let me just say, if you have not watched this movie, you need to put down your computer and watch this right now. Even if you have seen it, go watch it again. This is a great movie. It has a crazed Mel Gibson ( Pre-antisemetic rant), Heath Ledger trying to get into a girls pants (surprise!), and the best tomahawk scene I have ever seen (seriously, I wish I could watch that scene every day). Mel Gibson even stabbs the evil general with the american flag. The art of badassery is revealed.
#7 Armageddon
This is the movie that proves the American dream is real. Similar to Deep Impact ( which came out about 3 months earlier), Armageddon is about a gigantic asteroid plowing into the earth. Can you guess who they send to stop it? No, not top scientists at NASA or skilled astronauts. They send a group of blue collar Americans. Remember this when we are being threatened with impending doom. The only people skilled enough and smart enough to break up an asteroid are deep core oil drillers.
#6 Field of Dreams
What is more American than Kevin Costner and baseball? Field of Dreams is about an Iowa man whos corn field tells him he should build a baseball field to get out of debt. After all the hard work and the bank getting ready to take his house, it tells him hes not done yet. He has to convince an old retired James Earl Jones to come home with him and live in Iowa. After convincing him to come back to his field, Costner has teams of dead baseball players come out from the corn and everyone shows up to watch ghost baseball.
#5 Saving Private Ryan
Perhaps the best WWII movie since Patton, Saving Private Ryan is about a team of soldiers dispatched to bring home the last surviving son of the Ryan family serving in the war. The catch? He is listed as M.I.A. in Normandy. So Tom Hanks leads his team into battle to find him. Once they do, shit hits the metaphorical fan. More than 50 German troops and 2 tanks decide to use this time to take the city. This is where one of the greatest battle scenes in history goes down. I dont want to give anything away, but only 3 (including Ryan) survive the fight as allied troops show up and kick the Germans out. The movie ends with elderly Ryan standing over Tom Hank's grave asking his wife if he lead a good enough life to earn that sacrafice.
#4 Lethal Weapon
Thats right, crazy Mel Gibson makes the list again. In Lethal Weapon, LAPD Sgt. Murtaugh (Glover) is partnered with crazy Vietnam vet Riggs (Gibson). After the death of Rigg's wife, he goes over the edge. Riggs is very much a shoot first ask questions later cop, and all Murtaugh wants is to retire and avoid the explosions that seem to surround Riggs, because he's "getting too old for this shit". Nothing says America like a crazed Vietnam vet who loves to shoot people in the head and blow shit up.
#3 Rocky 4
What can I say about Rocky 4? Rocky 4 is proof that all it took was 1 Itallian-American to end the Cold War. In this movie, Rocky stands for the hard working American. He says no to drugs and yes to chopping wood lumberjack style. Ivan Drago, on the other hand, is the evil corrupt soviet. He uses steroids and challenges Rocky to a fight on his turf. When Rocky showed up not 1 person cheered for him.... not one person cheered for America. But you know what Rocky did to win them over? He kept getting back up. He never backed down. When he delivered that final blow to Ivan Drago everyone cheered on Rocky.... Everyone cheered for America! That is how Rocky ended the Cold War.
#2 Top Gun
Top Gun is one of those movies that you never want to admit you love. To my knowledge, Top Gun is the only guy movie with a shower scene involving no women and a beach vollyball scene with not one bikini. This batantly homoerotic film did however coin some of the best lines of our time. Where would we be without line like " Your egos writing checks your body can't cash!" or "I've got the need. The need...... for speed!". Those 2 lines alone earned Top Gun its place at #2.
#1 Die Hard
Could my #1 really have been anything else? John McClane is a New York City cop who just wants to see his wife for Christmas. Things don't go as planned though. A group of German terrorist ( lead by Hans Gruber) decide Christmas is the perfect time to attack the Nakatomi building where Holly McClane works. Bad move guys, John McClane is a total badass and you really pissed him off. McClane spends the entire movie barefoot and running through glass/bullets. What a perfect way to spend your christmas vacation. At the end of the day, McClane kills all the terrorists, throws Gruber from the top of a building. America throwing terrorism off a building. It doesnt get any better than that.
Yippie Ki Yay Mother Fucker.
And there we have it. My top ten list of the greatest Go America movies of all time. I've got about 5 minutes of battery life left on my laptop, so I'm just going to wrap this up now. Everyone have a great night, enjoy the rest of your holliday, and if anyone wants more lists in the future, just let me know. Happy 4th Everyone.
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