Hmm. Let’s face it, the amount of films out there that try to deliver high spiritual truth the audience can be counted on the fingers of one hand. (In fact, at the moment I’m struggling to count them on the fingers of one finger) So of course - we have to settle for the next best thing, which is: movies that don’t make me go to bed afterwards and have bad dreams about being hunted down by the CIA, or some variant thereof.
I just watched Oceans 13 - I do like that whole Oceans series; most action stories nowadays are relying on increasingly ruthless and sadistic villians to keep the suspense screws tightening, but instead the focus in these films is on always the ingenuity of the scheme, and the bonhomie between the cast, you almost even feel all the good and bad guys could sit down together over sushi and reminisce about it all afterwards. 
Another film I also like very much is Star Trek: Insurrection. “An appealing millennial throwback to the hippie dream that is part and parcel of Star Trek’s utopian ethos.”, wrote the reviewer in the New York Times. I always liked the utopian ethos of Star Trek, everyone getting along and all that. I never liked those sci-fi film where the future is just as messed up as the present is. Plus I’d watch paint dry if Patrick Stewart were painting it. In days gone by, I used to imagine myself directing King Lear with him in the lead role. What else? Ah, yes. Close your eyes and don’t laugh: Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. There, I said it. I think because it’s just good storytelling, and good storytelling warms the heart. And some of it is extremely funny, like the bit where (at a time when the Arabs were like the Silicon Valley of the Middle Ages) the Moorish guy played by Morgan Freeman gives the technologically-backward Kev a little telescope to see the approaching enemy, and then the camera pans back to see 
Kev fearfully holding out his sword as if trying to prod the soldiers he sees in the telescope; Morgan then snatches the scope from him in despair and wonders aloud how these fools ever captured Jerusalem. Oh, wait, there’s actually a spiritual bit in this, where the little kid asks Morgan did God paint him, and Morgan says yes, because Allah loves wondrous variety. So there. I’ve kind of always had a soft spot for Kevin Costner, I have to admit, some of the films he’s done have had a very idealistic core.
(hmm, I believe the blog falls a little short of the comprehansive listing that the title might have suggested, but it appears these days you have to couch the title of your post in the words “the most..(insert something) Ever!!!” to get any attention, so who am I to disagree?).
