Listmania!

Greetings loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader will rise to the challenge of the Minister of Agriculture. Firstly let your Maximum Leader say that he is glad to have the M of A suggest a topic. Your Maximum Leader was looking forlornly at his blog wondering what to write. No longer!

The list alluded to by the M of A, the one that marriage (not Mrs. Villain specifically) put a stop to, was the infamous list entitled: The most desireable women in the universe ever. While I do not retain a copy of this list anywhere I do remember many of the Top 10. (And this was a Top 10 listed in no particluar order.)
1. Vivian Leigh
2. Helen of Troy
3. Heidi Klum
4. Margaret Thatcher
5. Paulina Porizkova
6. Benazir Bhutto
7. Olivia DeHavilland
8. Julie Christie
9. Raquel Welch
10. "The future Mrs. Villain"

That was more or less the Top 10 at one point. There were about 50 other "Honorable Mentions" on the list. And the list got updated according to your Maximum Leader's whim every few weeks/months. If he was called upon to make another list, but this time updated to the year 2003 (as the last time this list appeared was 1993) that list would look like this:
1. Vivian Leigh (still one of the hottest women ever.)
2. Heidi Klum (yeah baby yeah!)
3. Salma Hayek (you can't hear my drooling can you?)
4. Jennifer Love-Hewitt (still can't put a finger on the fascination...)
5. Margaret Thatcher (women with power... grrrr)
6. Lisa Ling (glad that she left "The View" and is now on National Geographic)
7. Laurie Dhue (on Fox News. I could watch her read the news all damn day.)
8. Angelina Jolie (if I can't describe why I like JLH, I REALLY can't describe my attraction to AJ. She should strike me as sorta trashy and revolting, but she isn't...)
9. Lucy Liu (all this, and she can still take me.)
10. Mrs. Villain (remember this list is in no particular order.)

As for the list actually requested by the M of A... Here goes:

15 Movies your Maximum Leader wouldn't want to do without:
1. The Lion in Winter. Possibly your Maximum Leader's favourite flick ever. (It is by far the best Christmas movie ever.)
2. Lawrence of Arabia. When I think of an epic film, this is the one I think of.
3. Bridge on the River Kwai. Humm, two of the top three are David Lean films; and two of them star Peter O'Toole?
4. The Godfather Parts 1 & 2. These really are one film, and when they were made, I think Coppola envisioned them as one.
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As they say on Comedy Central, this is the greatest movie ever.
6. The Empire Strikes Back. The best of the Star Wars flicks. One I saw 13 times in the cinema. Countless times on video.
7. Army of Darkness. "Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun."
8. Tombstone. "I'm your huckleberry."
9. Empire of the Sun. Stephen Spielberg doing what he does best, directing kids.
10. The Usual Suspects. Great drama.
11. The Seven Samurai. Kurosawa's greatest film.
12. Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick's greatest film.
13. Dr. Zhivago. Love in the taiga.
14. The English Patient. Love in the desert.
15. The Lord of the Rings Cycle. (Pending the outcome of the last film, which by rights should be great.)

Update: Your Maximum Leader really wants to go to a top 20. Then he could add some films he forgot like: Blade Runner, Touch of Evil, Ben Hur, Ian McKellan's Richard III, and Lawrence Olivier's King Lear.

Your Maximum Leader couldn't limit his list to 10. It was just not possible.

Carry on.