世纪末电影院：80后该看的25部电影

　　Titanic

　　For months before it came out, especially after completely missing its original summer release date, this movie was pegged by the press as the next "Heaven's Gate"-style bomb. An out-of-control production budget skyrocketed to unheard of heights, but when word trickled out that it might actually be good -- and tears began trickling down the faces of teen girls everywhere -- things started looking up for this tragic voyage. As Leo sank to the bottom of the ocean, James Cameron rose to the top of the filmmaking heap. "I'm king of the world!"

　　Toy Story

　　Without its flagship release, Pixar would not have the bulletproof track record for releasing masterpiece after masterpiece it has today. The world's first computer-animated feature film went to infinity and beyond both creatively and financially, also spawning two equally lauded sequels. In the end, the film's success hinged on the bright dynamic created by Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) as they came to life and lit the world's imagination。

　　Good Will Hunting

　　Only an actor as effortlessly winning as Matt Damon -- with the help of cowriter and fellow Best Screenplay winner Ben Affleck -- could pen a part for himself where he gets to be both super buff AND a super genius and not come across like a colossal egotist. Damon's 20-year-old MIT janitor likes solving equations when he's not sweeping floors, but a girl, a college professor and one very persistent therapist in the form of Oscar winner Robin Williams all conspire to dislodge Will from his rut. And remember, "It's not your fault. It's not your fault."

　　Schindler's List

　　This stark black-and-white take on the Holocaust solidified Spielberg as more than a mere popcorn entertainer, but a straight-up artist of the highest caliber. Liam Neeson gives a powerful performance as Oskar Schindler, the German factory owner who saved over a thousand Jews from the clutches of the Nazis during WWII. Forgoing storyboards or crane shots, the director made the film without his usual bag of tricks on real historical locations in Poland. After winning Best Picture and Best Director, Spielberg founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which documented 52,000 interviews with survivors and witnesses。

　　Fight club

　　With the idea to put director David Fincher and star Brad Pitt back together after "Se7en," studio execs must have had visions of dollar signs dancing in their heads. What they probably didn't expect was one of the most boldly subversive mainstream films ever made to escape into the world as Tyler Durden (Pitt) and the Narrator (Ed Norton) blow off their angsty existential steam by pounding each other to oblivion in dark, leaky basements. Fincher used the same flashy high-style sensibilities he'd utilized making TV commercials to create the most homoerotic anti-commercial movie he could in the pre-9/11 era。