Kobe Bryant watches movies while healing sprained ankle

Adi Joseph, USA TODAY Sports | USATODAY

Kobe Bryant watches movies to heal. The Los Angeles Lakers star tweeted Thursday, one day after spraining his ankle, that he spent the night watching 2012 hits Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty and This Is 40.

He added that he got one hour of sleep, which might not be good for the typical human being. But are you going to question Bryant, particularly when he's angry?

The man knows his body and decided last night that movies would help him recover from a severe sprain, which has him out indefinitely. But he chose the wrong ones: Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty were runners-up for best picture, and This Is 40 wasn't even nominated.

Kobe Bryant is a winner. He needs to watch winners. But maybe he decided Argo wasn't the right choice, or maybe he'd seen it already. Either way, USA TODAY Sports ranks 10 best picture flicks that should help an NBA star's recovery:

10. Ben-Hur

CHARIOT RACE!

9. Ordinary People

Let the anger wash over you as you consider this film, which is fine on its own merits, beat Raging Bull.

8. Forrest Gump

Think you're never getting out of that brace? Just snap it off like our title character. Run, Kobe! Run!

7. The Sound of Music

You can say what you want, but sometimes Julie Andrews' lovely voice can be the necessary balm on an injured ankle. We suppose My Fair Lady would be a reasonable substitute. But the hills aren't alive in that one.

6. The Hurt Locker or Platoon

Do you think soldiers complain about sprained ankles? This is war. This needs perspective.

5. Rocky

It's Rocky. Duh.

4. The English Patient

For one, we could see Bryant rehabbing in a monastery. But really, the man needs his sleep. And while we respect the integrity of the film, this one can put anyone down for the count.

3. Gladiator

Bryant leads the league in technical fouls this season. We're pretty sure Maximus Decimus Meridius led the league in technical fouls in 180 A.D. Besides, can't you imagine Bryant turning to the Staples Center crowd and screaming, "Are you not entertained?!"

2. Gandhi

Passive resistence is the backbone of rehab. Bryant can get kind of aggressive sometimes, but it would serve him well to take some advice from Ben Kingsley. It would serve us all well to take some advice from Ben Kingsley.

1. Braveheart

"I am Kobe Bryant! And I see a whole army of my teammates, here in defiance of the Utah Jazz. You've come to fight as Lakers, and Lakers you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?"

"Fight? Against that? No! We will quit. And we will play next year."

"Aye, fight and you may lose. Quit, and you'll play again — at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, you would be willin' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our rivals that they may take our stars, but they'll never take OUR PLAYOFF BERTH!"