Marlin Brando once said "To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."  Just a short generation later, Jim Carrey would observe "Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass."  Yes, there is no recipe for what makes great acting and no surefire way to distinguish it from the talking asses of the world, perhaps in no small part because when it's at it's best, it doesn't seem like acting at all.  Ranking artistry is never easy, if not downright impossible.  It's undeniably subjective, contentious, and almost sure to offend.  Of course, that's never stopped us before.  

Rankings were made taking into account overall ability and range, strength of the roles taken, longevity, influence, and awards won.  Listed alongside are each actor's best works, also loosely ranked according to how each exemplifies their talents. Actors must have appeared in at least one 21st century feature film for consideration as "modern."

1. Robert De Niro: The Godfather II, The Deer Hunter, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Once Upon a Time in America, Mean Streets, Heat, Cape Fear, Casino, The King of Comedy, Brazil, The Mission, Meet the Parents, Awakenings.
2. Al Pacino: The Godfather II, The Godfather, Scarface, Heat, Scent of a Woman, Carlito's Way, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Donnie Brasco, The Insider.
3. Paul Newman (D): Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Hud, The Sting, The Hustler, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Color of Money, Road To Perdition, The Verdict, Nobody's Fool.
4. Jack Nicholson: The Departed, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Easy Rider, Chinatown, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, Terms of Endearment, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pledge.
5. Peter O'Toole: Lawrence of Arabia, Beckett, The Ruling Class, Goodbye Mr. Chips,  The Stunt Man.
6. Daniel Day-Lewis: There Will Be Blood, Gangs of New York, My Left Foot, The Last of the Mohicans, In the Name of the Father, The Age of Innocence, The Crucible, The Boxer, Nine, A Room With a View.
7. Tom Hanks: Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Road to Perdition, Cast Away, A League of Their Own, Big, Philadelphia, Apollo 13, Catch Me if You Can.
8. Dustin Hoffman: Rain Man, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Lenny, Marathon Man, All the President's Men, Papillon, Sleepers.
9. Clint Eastwood: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Dirty Harry, Gran Torino, Escape from Alcatraz, In the Line of Fire, The Bridges of Madison Country, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Hang Em High.
10. Robert Duvall: The Godfather, The Apostle, Apocalypse Now, Network, Tender Mercies, The Great Santini, Get Low, To Kill a Mockingbird, M*A*S*H, The Natural.
11. Anthony Hopkins: Silence of the Lambs, The Remains of the Day, Shadowlands, Nixon, Amistad.
12. Denzel Washington: Malcolm X, Training Day, Glory, American Gangster, Inside Man, Remember The Titans, Courage Under Fire, Philadelphia, The Hurricane, Crimson Tide, The Bone Collector, The Manchurian Candidate, The Siege, Antwone Fisher, He Got Game.
13. Gene Hackman: The French Connection, Bonnie and Clyde, Unforgiven, The Conversation, Mississippi Burning, Hoosiers, Superman, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Poseidon Adventure, Get Shorty.
14. Morgan Freeman: The Shawshank Redemption, Unforgiven, Se7en, Million Dollar Baby, Glory, The Dark Knight, Gone Baby Gone, Driving Miss Daisy, Street Smart, The Sum of All Fears, Batman Begins, Outbreak, Amistad, Along Came a Spider, High Crimes.
15. Robert Redford: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jeremiah Johnson, Out of Africa, The Natural, All the President's Men.
16. Sean Penn: Mystic River, 21 Grams, Milk, Dead Man Walking, Carlito's Way, The Thin Red Line, I Am Sam, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Colors, Sweet and Lowdown.
17. Michael Caine: Sleuth, Alfie, The Dark Knight, The Cider House Rules, Educating Rita, Hannah and Her Sisters, Little Voice, The Quiet American, The Italian Job, Harry Brown.
18. Ben Kingsley: Gandhi, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog, Sexy Beast, Shutter Island.
19. Harrison Ford: Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Fugitive, Blade Runner, Witness.
20. Sean Connery: James Bond films, The Untouchables, The Hunt For Red October, Murder on the Orient Express, The Rock.
21. Leonardo DiCaprio: Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Basketball Diaries, Shutter Island, Inception, Gangs of New York, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Catch Me If You Can, Titanic, Revolutionary Road, The Man in the Iron Mask.
22. Geoffrey Rush: Shine, The King's Speech, Quills, Pirates of the Caribbean.
23. Kevin Spacey: Se7en, The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, LA Confidential, The Negotiator, A Time to Kill, Glengarry Glen Ross, Outbreak, Superman Returns, The United States of Leland.
24. Russell Crowe: LA Confidential, Gladiator, The Insider, Cinderella Man, A Beautiful Mind, Romper Stomper, 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, Master and Commander, Blood Oath.
25. Willem Defoe: Platoon, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Boondock Saints, Shadow of the Vampire, To Live and Die in L.A.
26. Ralph Fiennes: Schindler's List, Harry Potter Franchise, The English Patient, The Constant Gardener, Bernard and Doris.
27. Dennis Hopper (D): Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, Hoosiers, Speed, Apocalypse Now.
28. Jon Voight: Coming Home, Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, Runaway Train, Ali.
29. Martin Sheen: Apocalypse Now, The Departed, Badlands, The American President, Wall Street.
30. Ed Harris: Pollock, Apollo 13, The Truman Show, A Beautiful Mind, The Hours, Gone Baby Gone, A History of Violence, Empire Falls, The Rock, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Abyss.
31. Warren Beatty: Bonnie and Clyde, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Bugsy, Bulworth.
32. Richard Dreyfus: Jaws, American Graffiti, The Goodbye Girl, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr. Holland's Opus.
33. Matt Damon: Good Will Hunting, Saving Private Ryan, The Departed, Rounders, The Bourne Identity, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ocean's 11, Syriana, School Ties, Dogma.
34. Brad Pitt: Se7en, Fight Club, The Assassination of Jessie James, Twelve Monkeys, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, Sleepers, Ocean's Eleven, Babel, Inglourious Basterds, Snatch, True Romance, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Legends of the Fall, Interview with the Vampire.
35. Christian Bale: The Machinist, The Prestige, The Fighter, The Dark Knight, American Psycho, Batman Begins, 3:10 to Yuma, Empire of the Sun, Rescue Dawn, I'm Not There.
36. Ian McKellan: Gods and Monsters, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Richard III, X-Men, Apt Pupil.
37. Johnny Depp: Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Blow, Finding Neverland, Donnie Brasco, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Platoon, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood.
38. Edward Norton: Fight Club, American History X, Rounders, The Illusionist, 25th Hour, Primal Fear, Keeping the Faith, The Italian Job, Red Dragon, The People vs. Larry Flynt.
39. Phillip Seymour Hoffman: Capote, Magnolia, Doubt, Almost Famous, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, Charlie Wilson's War, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Flawless, Punch-Drunk Love.
40. Liam Neeson: Schindler's List, Kinsey, Batman Begins, Taken, Michael Collins.
41. Tom Cruise: Rain Man, Magnolia, A Few Good Men, Born on the Fourth of July, Minority Report, Risky Business, The Color of Money, Jerry Maguire, The Last Samurai, The Firm, Mission Impossible, Tropic Thunder, Top Gun, Vanilla Sky, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicle.
42. Christopher Walken: The Deer Hunter, Catch Me If You Can, A View to Kill, The Dead Zone, At Close Range.
43. Tommy Lee Jones: The Fugitive, JFK, No Country For Old Men, In the Valley of Elah, Men in Black.
44. Harvey Keitel: Mean Streets, Bugsy, Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction.
45. Samuel L. Jackson: Pulp Fiction, A Time to Kill, Jackie Brown, The Negotiator, Against the Wall.
46. John Malkovich: Places in the Heart, The Killing Fields, In the Line of Fire, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich.
47. James Earl Jones: The Great White Hope, Field of Dreams, Jack Ryan Franchise, Coming to America, Star Wars.
48. Jeff Bridges: The Big Lebowski, Crazy Heart, True Grit, Starman, The Fabulous Baker Boys.
49. William Hurt: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Children of a Lesser God, Broadcast News, A History of Violence, Too Big to Fail.
    
50. Gary Oldman: JFK, The Dark Knight, Leon, Harry Potter, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
51. Benicio Del Toro: The Usual Suspects, Traffic, 21 Grams, Che, Sin City, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Snatch, Guerrilla, The Argentine, The Pledge, The Way of the Gun.
52. Javier Bardem: No Country For Old Men, Biutiful, Before Night Falls, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Mondays in the Sun.
53. James Caan: The Godfather, Misery, Thief, A Bridge Too Far, Brian's Song.
54. Alan Arkin: Wait Until Dark, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catch-22, Little Miss Sunshine, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.
55. Mel Gibson: Braveheart, The Patriot, Lethal Weapon, Ransom, Mad Max.
56. Christopher Plummer: The Sound of Music, The Insider, Malcolm X, Beginners, The Last Station.
    
57. Will Smith: The Pursuit Of Happiness, Ali, Six Degrees of Separation.
58. Robin Williams: Good Will Hunting, Good Morning Vietnam, One Hour Photo, Dead Poets Society, Mrs. Doubtfire.
59. Don Cheadle: Hotel Rwanda, Traffic, Crash, Devil in a Blue Dress, Ocean's Eleven.
60. Kevin Costner: Dances with Wolves, Field of Dreams, JFK, The Untouchables, Bull Durham.
61. Michael Douglas: Wall Street, Traffic, Wonder Boys, The American President, Basic Instinct.
62. John Hurt: The Elephant Man, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Alien, Scandal, The Hit.
63. Bruce Willis: The Sixth Sense, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkeys, Sin City.
64. Kevin Bacon: Animal House, The Woodsman, Sleepers, Apollo 13, Mystic River.
65. Robert Downey Jr.: Chaplin, Tropic Thunder, Less than Zero, Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes.
66. Nicholas Cage: Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, The Rock, Raising Arizona, Face/Off.
67. Max von Sydow: The Seventh Seal, The Exorcist, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Three Days of the Condor, Never Say Never Again.
68. Paul Giamatti: Sideways, Cinderella Man, American Splendor, The Illusionist, Cold Souls.
69. Billy Bob Thorton: Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, A Simple Plan, The Man Who Wasn't There, Friday Night Lights.
70. George Clooney: O Brother Where Art Thou?, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, Michael Clayton, Up in the Air.
71. James Woods: Salvador, Once Upon a Time in America, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, Contact.
72. Bill Murray: Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Rushmore, Ghostbusters.
73. Joe Pesci: Goodfellas, Raging Bull, My Cousin Vinny, Casino, Lethal Weapon, Home Alone.
74. Kenneth Branagh: Henry V, My Week with Marilyn, Hamlet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing.
75. Heath Ledger: (D) The Dark Knight, Brokeback Mountain, The Patriot, 10 Things I Hate About You, Candy
76. Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Deconstructing Harry.
    
77. Josh Brolin: No Country for Old Men, W., Milk, True Grit, Goonies.
78. Tim Robbins: The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, The Player, Bull Durham, Bob Roberts.
79. Joaquin Pheonix: Gladiator, Walk the Line, Quills, The Yards, Ladder 49.
80. Jim Carrey: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Man on the Moon, The Truman Show, Ace Venture, Dumb and Dumber.
81. Forest Whitaker: The Last King of Scotland, Good Morning Vietnam, Bird, Panic Room, American Gun.
82. John Travolta: Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Primary Colors, A Civil Action.
83. Donald Sutherland: M*A*S*H, JFK, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Ordinary People, The Dirty Dozen.
84. Colin Firth: The King's Speech, A Single Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
85. Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler, Sin City, Diner, Barfly, Angel Heart.
86. Martin Landau: Ed Wood, North By Northwest, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Rounders.
87. Viggo Mortenson: Lord of the Rings, A History of Violence, The Road, Eastern Promises.
88. Steve Buschemi: Fargo, Reservoir Dogs, Ghost World, Living in Oblivion, The Big Lebowski.
89. Albert Finney: Murder on the Orient Express, Tom Jones, The Dresser, Under the Volcano, Erin Brockovich.
90. Gary Sinise: Forrest Gump, Of Mice and Men, Ransom.
91. Laurence Fishbourne: The Matrix, Apocalypse Now, What's Love Got to Do with It.
92. Nick Nolte: Affliction, The Thin Red Line, The Prince of Tides, Cape Fear.
93. Ryan Gosling: Half-Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl, Blue Valentine, Drive, The Ides of March.
94. John Turturro: Barton Fink, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Quiz Show, The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing.
95. Roy Scheider (D): Jaws, The French Connection, All That Jazz, Klute, Sorcerer.
96. William H. Macy: Fargo, Seabiscuit, Boogie Nights.
97. Daniel Craig: Casino Royale, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Road to Perdition, Defiance, Munich.
98. Casey Affleck: Gone Baby Gone, The Assassination of Jesse James, Good Will Hunting, Ocean's Eleven, Chasing Amy.
99. Guy Pierce: Memento, LA Confidential, The King's Men.
100. Jeremy Renner: The Hurt Locker, The Town, Dahmer.

*Best Actor/Supporting Actor Academy Award winning performances appear in italics

Definitive Dose presents the 40 best directors working in Hollywood today.

1. Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Departed, Raging Bull, Gangs of New York, Casino, Shutter Island, The Last Waltz, Cape Fear, The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Aviator, The Age of Innocence, Mean Streets, Kundun.
2. Steven Spielberg: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E:T: The Extra Terestrial, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jurassic Park, Poltergeist, Catch Me if You Can, Minority Report, The Color Purple, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Amistad, Munich, War of the Worlds.
3. Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather, The Godfather II, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, You're A Big Boy Now.
4. Christopher Nolan: Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Insomnia, Following.
5. Joel/Ethan Cohen: No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, The Man Who Wasn't There, Blood Simple, A Serious Man, The Hudsucker Proxy.
6. James Cameron: Terminator 2, Avatar, Titanic, Aliens, The Abyss.
7. Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Jackie Brown.
8. David Fincher: Se7en, Fight Club, The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Zodiac.
9. Darren Aronofsky: Requiem For a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Pi, Below.
10. P.T. Anderson: There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Hard Eight, Punch-Drunk Love.
11. Oliver Stone: Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers.
12. Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Mystic River, The Bridges of Madison County.
13. Roman Polanski: Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist, Tess, Pirates.
14. Brian De Palma: Scarface, Carlito's Way, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables, Carrie.
15. Robert Zemeckis: Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Cast Away, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Romancing the Stone.
16. Ridley Scott: Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down, Thelma and Louise, American Gangster.
17. Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Bullets Over Broadway, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Purple Rose of Cairo.
18. Peter Jackson: The Return of the King, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, King Kong, The Lovely Bones.
19. David Lynch: Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man, Wild at Heart, The Straight Story.
20. Milos Forman: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Ragtime, Man on the Moon.
21. Ron Howard: A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Frost/Nixon, Cocoon, Apollo 13.
22. Steven Soderbergh: Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Ocean's Eleven, Che, Out of Sight.
23. Tim Burton: Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, Batman, Big Fish.
24. Terry Giliam: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
25. Ang Lee: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain, Sense and Sensibility, Life of Pi, The Ice Storm.
26. Michael Mann: Heat, The Insider, The Last of the Mohicans, Collateral, Ali.
27. Mel Brooks: History of the World Part I, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Young Frankenstein.
28. Rob Reiner: A Few Good Men, This is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, Misery.
29. Gus Van Sant: Goodwill Hunting, Milk, Finding Forrester, Drugstore Cowboy, Elephant.
30. Edward Zwick: Glory, Blood Diamond, Courage Under Fire, The Last Samurai, The Siege.
31. Sam Mendes: American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road, Jarhead, Away We Go.
32. John Carpenter: Halloween, The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, Big Trouble in Little China.
33. Kevin Smith: Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
34. Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Darjeeling Limited.
35. Alejandro González Iñárritu: 21 Grams, Amores Perros, Babel, Biutiful.
36. Barry Levinson: Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam, The Natural, Sleepers, Bugsy.
37. Spike Lee: Malcolm X, Clockers, Do the Right Thing, Inside Man, 25th Hour.
38. Terrance Malick: The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life, Days of Heaven.
39. Danny Boyle: Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 127 Hours, 28 Weeks Later, The Beach.
40. Guillermo Del Toro: Pan's Labrynth, Hellboy, Cronos.

*Best Director Academy Award winners in italics

After much deliberation, here are Definitive Dose's picks for the 100 most memorable, iconic, and downright quotable movie quotes of the past forty years....

1. "Make him an offer he can't refuse."--The Godfather
2. "May the force be with you"--Star Wars
3. "Go ahead, make my day."--Sudden Impact
4. "I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner."--Silence of the Lambs
5. "The truth? You can't handle the truth!"--A Few Good Men
6. "Bond. James Bond."--James Bond
7. "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." --Forrest Gump
8. "Heeeere's Johnny!"--The Shining
9. "Say hello to my little friend!"--Scarface
10. "If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"--There Will Be Blood
11. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."--Apocalypse Now
12. "My precious."--Lord of the Rings
13. "But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"--Dirty Harry
14. "You talkin' to me?"--Taxi Driver
15. "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"--Network
16. "Yippee kay-ay motherfucker"--Die Hard
17. "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."--Pulp Fiction
18. "E.T.  Phone home" --E.T the Extra-Terrrestrial
19. "Freeedooooom!!"--Braveheart
20. "I see dead people." --The Sixth Sense
21. "I'll be back." --Terminator
22. "Houston, we have problem"--Apollo 13
23. "Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin' man, L-I-V-I-N."--Dazed and Confused
24. What's in the box?!!"--Se7en
25. "Keep your friends close but your enemies closer."--The Godfather II
26. "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone."--The Usual Suspects
27. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." --Wall Street
28. "Show me the money!"--Jerry Maguire
29. "Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!!"--A Time to Kill
30. "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?"--No Country For Old Men
31. "Juuuuust a bit outside."--Major League
32. "You're going to need a bigger boat" --Jaws
33. "These go to eleven"--Spinal Tap
34. "I have had it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' plane!"--Snakes on a Plane
35. "If you build it, he will come"--Field of Dreams
36. "Yo, Adrian!"--Rocky
37. "I guess it comes down to one choice really.  Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'"--The Shawshank Redemption
38. "Are you not entertained?!!!!!" --Gladiator
39. "Heineken?!! Fuck that shit.  Pabst Blue Ribbon!!--Blue Velvet
40. "It's not your fault." --Good Will Hunting
41. "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads."--Back to the Future
42. "Wax on.  Wax off."--The Karate Kid
43. "I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?"
    Goodfellas
44. "Attica! Attica! --Dog Day Afternoon
45. "I'm the king of the world!"--Titanic
46. "King Kong ain't got shit on me!"--Training Day
47. "I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them."--Full Metal Jacket
48. "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."--Fight Club
49. "When I was your age they would say we can become cops, or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?"--The Departed
50. "He's not the Messiah.  He's a very naughty boy!"--Life of Brian
51. "Warriooors. Come out and plaaaay"--Warriors
52. "I feel the need--the need for speed."--Top Gun
53. "Aaaallllrighty then"--Ace Ventura
54. "Now. Where was I?"--Memento
55. "I like them French fried potaters."--Sling Blade
56. "Why so serious?"--The Dark Knight
57. "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."--The Godfather III
58. "There's no crying in baseball!" --A League of Their Own
59. "I told that Kraut a fuckin' thousand times, I don't roll on shabbos!"--The Big Lebowski
60. "Whoo-ah!"--Scent of a Woman
61. "Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?"--Speed
62. "I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal...people know me...I'm very important.  I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."--Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
63. "Do you like scary movies?"--Scream
64. "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."--Ferris Bueller's Day Off
65. "We have an old saying in Delta House: don't get mad, get even."--Animal House
66. "I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"--Trainspotting
67. "You have smoked yourself retarded"--Half Baked
68. "I wish I knew how to quit you."  --Brokeback Mountain
69. "I am serious.  And don't call me Shirley."  --Airplane!
70. "It's good to be the king."--History of the World: Part 1
71. "Hello.  My name is Inigo Montoya.  You killed my father.  Prepare to die! --The Princess Bride
72. "Get in my belly."--Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
73. "I have no legs. I have no legs. I have no legs. I have no legs. May God bless you. I have no legs..."--Kids
74. "That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned."--Unforgiven
75. "I am a golden god!"--Almost Famous
76. "One time at band camp..."--American Pie
77. "Bring out your dead."--Monty Python and the Holy Grail
78. "America. Fuck yea!"--Team America: World Police
79. "Look what ya did ya little jerk!"--Home Alone
80. "Excuse me while I whip this out."--Blazing Saddles
81. "RU-DY! RU-DY! RU-DY!"--Rudy
82. "Just when I thought you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this...and completely redeem yourself!"--Dumb and Dumber
83. "I have nipples, Greg, could you milk me?"--Meet the Parents
84. "Nobody puts baby in a corner."--Dirty Dancing
85. "Cinderella story.  Outta nowhere.  A groundskeeper, now about to become the Master's champion.  It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!"--Caddyshack
86. "We're on a mission from God."--The Blues Brothers
87. "Beatlejuice!  Beatlejuice!  Beatlejuice!"--Beatlejuice
88. "We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."--Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
89. "We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass."--Ghostbusters
90. "You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and i will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let's go to work."--Remember the Titans
91. "Free your mind, your ass will follow."--Platoon
92. "Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."--Billy Madison
93. "Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler."--Office Space
94. "To infinity, and beyond."--Toy Story
95. "Come out, come out, wherever you are!"--Cape Fear
96. "I know it's pretty baby, but I didn't take it out for air."--Requiem For A Dream
97. "If you're gonna spew, spew into this."--Wayne's World
98. "He may have advanced dilusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage.  But he is a very gentle person!"--Me, Myself, and Irene
99. "Feel the rhythm!  Feel the rhyme!  Get on up, it's bobsled time! COOL RUNNINGS!"--Cool Runnings
100. "Never underestimate the power of denial."--American Beauty

1. Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, North By Northwest, Strangers on a Train.
2. Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot, Sunset Blvd, The Apartment, The Lost Weekend.
3. John Ford: The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach, How Green Was My Valley, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
4. Charlie Chaplin: City Lights, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, Modern Times, The Immigrant.
5. John Huston: The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, Key Largo.
6. Orson Welles: Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Othello, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger.
7. Frank Capra: Mr Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, Mr Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It With You.
8. Elia Kazan: On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden, Gentleman's Agreement, America America.
9. David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India, Great Expectations.
10. Howard Hawks: Scarface, Bringing Up Baby, The Big Sleep, His Girl Friday, Red River.
11. Victor Fleming: The Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Joan of Arc, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Reckless.
12. Michael Curtiz: Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Four Daughters, Angels With Dirty Faces, White Christmas.
13. William Wyler: Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives, Mrs. Miniver, Roman Holiday, Funny Girl.
14. Fred Zinnemann: High Noon, From Here to Eternity, A Man for All Seasons, Julia, Oklahoma!.
15. D.W. Griffith: Birth Of A Nation, Intolerance.
16. Joseph L. Mankiewicz: All About Eve, The Barefoot Contessa, A Letter to Three Wives, 5 Fingers, Sleuth.
17. Robert Wise: The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still, I Want to Live!, The Sand Pebbles.
18. George Stevens: Shane, Giant, Diary of Anne Frank, A Place in the Sun, Swing Time.
19. Sam Wood: The Pride of the Yankees, A Night at the Opera, Goodbye Mr Chips, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Day at the Races.
20. Stanley Kramer: Judgement at Nuremberg, Inherit the Wind, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Defiant Ones, Ship of Fools.

Honorable Mentions: George Cukor, John Frankenheimer, Cecil B. Demille, Erich Von Stroheim, Otto Preminger.

(List refers to directors who spent the majority of their careers working in America, which would otherwise include Igmar Bergman, Akira Kirosawa, Sergio Leone, and F.W. Murnau.)

*Best Director Academy Award winners are in italics.

Say what you will about Ben Affleck the person, but its getting harder and harder to argue with the merits of Ben Affleck the screenwriter and director.  Bennifer 2.0 has come along way since the hollywood punchline days of Gigli and Daredevil (both of which garnered him a worst actor golden raspberry) and has found new life as the screenwriter and director of Gone, Baby, Gone and the newly acclaimed The Town.  Even better, he's gone above and beyond to put Boston back on the cinematic map.  Seemed like a good time to break out the ten best Boston-based flicks of the generation.

1. The Departed
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Gone, Baby, Gone
4. Boondock Saints
5. Mystic River
6. The Town
7. Blown Away
8. Monument Ave
9. Soul Man
10. 21

1. Sean Connery- James Bond, Marko Ramius (The Hunt For Red October), John Mason (The Rock)
2. Arnold Swarteznegger- The Terminator, Harry Tasker (True Lies), Douglas Quaid (Total Recall), Jack Slater (The Last Action Hero)
3. Charles Bronson Paul Kersey (Death Wish)
4. Sylvestor Stallone- John Rambo (Rambo Series), Gabe Walker (Cliffhanger),
5. Bruce Lee- Enter the Dragon, Game of Death, Fist of Fury
6. Steven Seagal Casey Ryback (Under Siege), John Hatcher (Marked For Death), Orin Boyd (Exit Wounds).
7. Jean-Claude Van Damm Frank W. Dux (Bloodsport), Luc Devereaux (Universal Soldier), Chance Boudreaux (Hard Target), Guile (Street Fighter), Max Walker (Time Cop).
8. Chuck Norris Cordell Walker (Walker, Texas Ranger), Scott McCoy (Delta Force)
9. Kiefer Sutherland- Jack Bauer (24)
10. Bruce Willis- John McClane (Die Hard), John Hartigan (Sin City)

1. James Bond --22 films by 6 Bonds with no end in sight.
2. Star Wars
3. Lord of the Rings
4. The Godfather
5. Harry Potter -- Highest grossing film series of all time at $7.5 billion.
6. Indiana Jones
7. Rocky--The series that taught roman numerals to a generation.
8. Terminator
9. The Clint Eastwood Dollars Trilogy--The third installment of "The Man With No Name," The Good, the Bad and the Ugly might be the greatest western ever made.
10. Die Hard
11. The Bourne Trilogy--An fourth film, The Bourne Legacy is in the works with Jeremy Renner the new headliner.
12. The Hannibal Lector Movies
13. Matrix
14. Spiderman
15. Batman (The Shumacher-Keaton Series)
16. Superman
17. X-Men
18. Star Trek--The JJ Abrams installment (11th overall) was a huge success, and 2 more are in the works.
19. Alien
20. Back to the Future
21. Lethal Weapon
22. Shrek--The highest grossing animated film series ever at nearly $3 billion.
23. Pirates of the Carribean--One decent movie and three stinkers.  Still, you can't argue with $3.7 billion grossed.
24. Dirty Harry
25. Cheech and Chong
26. Naked Gun--OJ's second greatest acting job.
27. National Lampoon's Vacation
28. Austin Powers
29. Friday the 13th-- 12 films and counting...
30. Beverly Hills Cop
31. Jurassic Park
32. Nightmare on Elm St
33. Halloween-- 10 films and counting...
34. Ocean's Trilogy--The modern day rat-pack earned over a billion on this trio.
35. Scream
36. Saw
37. Jaws
38. Mad Max
39. Robocop
40. Karate Kid
41. The Exorcist
42. Major League--Would be much higher if not for the putrid Back to the Minors installment.
43. Rush Hour
44. Child's Play --A "darker and scarier" remake of the original 1988 Child's Play is supposed to be in the works.
45. Blade
46. The Mummy
47. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles--Another TMNT is reported to be likely.
48. The Fast and the Furious
49. Mighty Ducks
50. Rambo