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Here are my picks for the top 10 films ever made about fate vs. free will:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Godfather
3. Apocalypse Now
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
5. The End of Evangelion
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Seven Samurai
8. Mulholland Dr.
9. Twin Peaks
10. Taxi Driver

What would YOU add?
March 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
So conclude my picks for the top 10 scariest scenes in film history, from 10 to one. Spoilers ahead!

1. HAL 9000 calmly refusing to let Dr. David Bowman back onto the Discovery One spacecraft in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
February 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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2. A drunken Einsatzkommando laughing and cheering while burning the entire village of Perekhody alive in COME AND SEE
February 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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3. Michael Corleone’s eerie calm at his nephew’s baptism, juxtaposed against the brutal assassinations of all his Mafia rivals in THE GODFATHER
February 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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4. Capt. Benjamin Willard’s assassination of Col. Walter Kurtz, juxtaposed against the ritual slaughter of a water buffalo in APOCALYPSE NOW
February 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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5. Lilith initiating the Third Impact and liquefying all of humanity into LCL to the soundtrack of “Komm, süsser Tod” in THE END OF EVANGELION
February 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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6. Maynard, Zed, and the Gimp capturing and tormenting Butch Coolidge and Marsellus Wallace in their pawnshop basement in PULP FICTION
February 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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7. Writer slowly and carefully venturing through the Zone’s sacrificial “Meat Grinder” anomaly, which ultimately makes a bird disappear in STALKER
February 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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8. The chaotic final battle between surviving villagers and rōnin amidst a muddy rainstorm in SEVEN SAMURAI
February 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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9. Michael Corleone hugging his brother Fredo at their mother’s funeral, only to silently signal for an enforcer to execute said brother in THE GODFATHER: PART II
January 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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10. Chihiro Ogino watching her parents transform into pigs shortly after eating “abandoned” amusement park food in SPIRITED AWAY
January 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM