There are Movie Stars and there are Movie Superstars, then there are Silver Screen Gods. Brad Pitt comes as close to be a Silver Screen God as anyone can. His transition from a goofy handsome young man in the early stages of his career to serious roles like Tyler Durden in Fight Club, legendary Achilles in Troy and more recently Ben Rickert in The Big Short has just one word for it – Amazing!
FYI – I screamed out loud when I saw Brad pit on FRIENDS season 8. That really took me off by surprise. Today I’ll mention my top 10 favorites movies Starring the only: Brad Pitt.
Fight Club (1999)
A man who is suffers insomnia and living a boring life joins cancer support group only to find out that people there get together to cry on other’s chest. Then on to his flight back home he meets Tyler Durden who happens to run a fight club. So he decides to form a fight club which he does successful and soon the club becomes sensation between the young crowd. But after few months the club goes out of control. Also, his wife starts to cheat him with Tyler.
Inglorious basterds (2009)
America sends a group of soldiers to kill Nazis. They soon become fearful sensation among the Germans who call them “Basterds”. On other side, a young late organizes an premier in his theatre in which she invites all the major German leaders in order to kill Col. Hans Lada who slaughtered her family. This premier gets Basterd’s attention and they start of march towards killing the German soldiers. Which bring crash between the two.
Moneyball (2011)
Billy Beane is a General manager of Oakland A’s team. He and his team gets lowest salaries in the baseball industry. The team loses to Yankees in playoff and then loses its 3 main players to another agency. Billy tries a different approach to baseball management, he hires Yale Graduate Peter Brand to uses statistical data to manage players and their position to which every other member of Oakland A’s management disagrees. How will he convince them and how will he get a breakthrough?
Benjamin Button (2008)
Daisy Williams is on her death bed and asks her granddaughter to read Daisy’s diary. When She starts to read she comes to a point where the dairy mentions Benjamin Buttons, who has a unusual disease of aging backwards. The dairy tells the story of how daisy meets Benjamin and how they love each other at the point where they were at the same age. After that Daisy keeps getting older and Benjamin gets younger.
World War Z (2013)
While being stuck in a traffic jam Garry Lane, former U.N. investigator, realizes that it’s not an ordinary jam. The city is infected by a deadly virus which is turning people in zombies all around the world. Garry escapes the chaos somehow and is determined to find a cure to this disease. So he travel the world in order to get the cure and faces relentless trouble in his way.
Meet Joe Black (1998)
William Parrish is a media star who is on his way to his 65th birthday. But death has different plans, she sends Joe Black to take William Parrish with him from the earth. But Joe agrees with William that he will delay his demise if he tours him about the life. In between the tour Joe falls in love with William’s daughter. How will Joe take William’s life now?
Once upon a time in Hollywood (2019)
Rick Dalton is Actor who was once very famous for his TV series but now is in ending of his career because of few bad performances. He is friends with his stunt double Cliff Booth, who is now getting older and with almost no work. They both have to make difficult decision whether to quit the whole thing or to do something to regain the fame and glory they both once enjoyed.
Troy (2004)
Helen, queen of Sparta, runs away with the Trojan prince to sail to Troy. Her husband Menelaus finds out about it and asks his brother Agamemmon for help. They both sails to Troy with 1000 ships and 50000 Greek Soldiers. They take help of Achilles to fight the undefeated Trojan. But things do go as planned when The Trojan Prince arrives in the battlefield.
Ad Astra (2019)
Roy McBride goes to Neptune to find his missing father who went on a space mission on the same planet 30 years ago but lost due to break of communication. Now some strange activities are spotted by the US scientists on Neptune concerning survival of planet earth and it might be signal of Roy’s father’s existence. So Roy goes to find out it in the space.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Jane smith and John smith poses as a couple to get out from a heist. They find each other attractive and marry which turns out to be no so good and they are now living a boring life hiding their real identity from each other as they both are secret agents working from different employers. Their employers find out about their marriage and use a man as a bait and order them both to kill the man. They encounter each other and finds out about each other and the fact that they’ve been tricked. They plan to take revenge from their employers.
Final Words
That’s it guys, my favorite top 10 Brad Pitt movies of all times. I’m pretty much convinced that You and I have a large number in common from this list. Though It took me by surprise when I saw brad pit as an astronaut in Ad Astra, such a talent.
