The 50 best films of the last 30 years

So about a week ago my friend Jared suggested since I'm such a movie rube that I rank my favorite movies of all time.  I thought well that could be a fun little task even if no one cares my personal preference.  Little did I know I would become so OCD over my list and it would take hours to fill it out just right.  What I did to get my list, was use lists from IMDB.com, Rottentomatoes.com, the AFI top 100, and my own DVD collection.  When I went through all the lists the first time around I wrote down movies that I thought would make my top 50 and ended up with 124 films.  So coming up with a top 50 was a huge task but I finally narrowed it down.  I wanted to break down each film so I decided to make this a daily list all this week and today before I reveal my list I wanted point out some fun facts that I noticed with the 50 greatest films of the last 30 years.

• No Harry Potter films made the list. I feel that as a series I liked these movies but none really stood out as their own great one.
• My favorite director of all time Christopher Nolan has three films on the list.
• Speaking of Nolan only one of his three Batman movies of the trilogy made the list.
• My favorite actor Leonardo Dicaprio is in two movies on the list.
• My favorite actress Anna Kendrick has been in one movie on the list.
• A total of five animated films made the list. However Aladdin and Lion King did not.
• One documentary made the top 50.
• Just three sports movies made the list even though I'm a huge sports rube.  Goes to show I don't really like sports movies based on true events.
• The late great John Candy even though he died in 1994 managed to be in 7 movies, easily my all time favorite actor.
• Five films that won an Oscar for best picture made the list.
• Not to give anything away but it is a wide range of films as my number one and number two films on the list were made 20 years apart.

So make sure to check back daily and tomorrow we reveal the start of the list 50-41.