Star Wars

Plot: Luke Skywalker, born on a desert planet with dreams of seeing the stars stumbles into the biggest adventure of his lifetime. He meets an old friend of his father and trains to become a Jedi. They board the Millennium Falcon and head to the Death Star.

Total grossing: $786,598,007 

Personal thoughts: This movie has some of the most iconic characters and sets of anything in pop culture history. I saw this for the first time when I was five and I have loved these movies ever since. The whole movie is just such a joy to watch from start to finish. You will watch every scene with anticipation of what will happen no matter how many times you have watched this movie or how many times you will. You will always remember that it’s no moon but a space station!

 

Alien

Plot: A commercial ship is delivering its cargo when they receive a mysterious call from an uninhabited planet. The go down with nothing more than they need but come back up for more than they bargained for.

Total grossing: $203,630,630 

Personal thoughts: My brother and I watched Alien for the first time a year ago we loved the story of a monster slowly killing off the crew. I especially love the feeling of suspense you get in the final confrontation between Ripley and the Xenomorph. The second one is also really good but I wouldn’t want to burst this list like something else I know.

 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Plot: Roy Neary sets out to investigate a power outage when his truck stalls and he is bathed in light from above. After this, strange visions and five musical notes keep running through his mind. Will he find the meaning of the visions, and who - or what - placed them in his mind?

Total grossing: $337,700,000

Personal thoughts: To get to the bottom line with no delay, this is an amazing movie with an incredible soundtrack composed by a legend [John Williams]

 

Grease

Plot: After Danny saves Sandy from drowning a summer romance blossoms on those summer nights {it had them a blast}. But once fall approached they cut it off because they thought that they would never see one another ever again, unknown to them but they were both off to the same high school.

Total gross: $387,513,770

Personal thoughts: The optimal way to view this movie is when you are prepared to sing along to every song. The soundtrack makes the movie fly by [almost as fast as greased lightning], I mean the movie moves along fine without them but it wouldn’t be held at the same place in pop culture history if it didn’t have the songs. Every single stereotypical teen movie has been based off of this one single movie for all of eternity and that will probably never change.

 

Charlie and the Chocolate factory

Plot: Willy Wonka is the eccentric owner of the worlds greatest candy factory in the entire world and he has placed 5 golden tickets in five separate candy bars. Any person who finds one gets a complete tour of the factory. When all but the last ticket has been found Charlie, a sweet boy from a poor family finds it and gets to go to the legendary factory that he has walked past on his way to and from school his whole life. When he finally gets there things are all a little off but in the middle of it all is the jolly Willy Wonka.

Total grossing: $4,000,000

Personal thoughts: This movie was magical when it first came out in 1971 and still is to this very day, even with the awful remake butchering it. Gene Wilder plays the famous Willy Wonka that pays nothing but respect to Roald Dahl’s book character. The kids are all spoiled except for Charlie who is the only one to last through the tour and I guess that that may be the message behind this movie…or not, I really don’t know. An additional thing I love about this movie is the fan theory that Willy Wonka was a serial killer and each stop was actually a trap. This isn’t a legit part of the movie but it is interesting especially since there wasn’t a seat on the boat for Augustus…