Jesse Ventura's Top Five Movies Kick Ass

Maybe he ain't got time to bleed, but Jesse Ventura had time to sit down with Rotten Tomatoes to reveal his top five films. And I have to say, it's a pretty damn good collection. A co-star of Schwarzenegger in Predator, the former pro wrestler and Minnesota governor has a new show that debuted this week called Conspiracy Theory. In fact, it garnered 1.6 million viewers on truTV, a record for a debut on the cable outlet. If you read Ventura's latest book, you know he's pretty deeply entrenched in conspiracy theories, and I think for a lot of people, they're quiet obsessions - UFOs, JFK, 9/11, and on and on. There's even a conspiracy theory movie on his top five, and it's the best example of that sort of thing we have. I like that Ventura specifically mentions the editing in JFK, because I don't know that I've ever seen a better edited film. 1 - Jaws
2 - Full Metal Jacket
3 - JFK
4 - Riding Giants
5 - Caddyshack On his number three film, the germane JFK:

"I have had a passion for it and I think Oliver Stone's editing between now and then was done remarkably well. The film had great flow to it. He threw all the mud on the wall and he allowed you to sift your way through it and choose what you wanted to believe and what you didn't. I thought the acting in it was just outstanding with the full array of all the characters. It's a marvelous cast and done very accurately."

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I can't help but be a bit shocked by his inclusion of Riding Giants... It is a wonderful documentary (one of my favourite lighter-hearted docs) but still a shocker to see a surfing doc on his list of all time five.