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06 March 2008

great big movie list meme

Or in other words, Elliott's to-do list of movies to have me watch.


The list looks like it’s IMDB’s Top 250.

The rules are simple:
Bold movies you have watched and liked.
Turn red movies you have watched and loved.
Italicize movies you saw and didn’t like.
Leave as is movies you haven’t seen.

  • The Godfather (1972)

  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

  • The Godfather: Part II (1974)

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

  • Pulp Fiction (1994)

  • Schindler’s List (1993)

  • Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • No Country for Old Men (2007)
  • Goodfellas (1990)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  • City of God (2002)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  • The Usual Suspects (1995)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • North by Northwest (1959)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  • Fight Club (1999)
  • Memento (2000)
  • Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • Se7en (1995)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • American Beauty (1999)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • Amélie (2001)
  • The Departed (2006)
  • Paths of Glory (1957)
  • American History X (1998)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  • Chinatown (1974)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  • Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  • Alien (1979)
  • The Pianist (2002)
  • The Shining (1980)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • L.A. Confidential (1997)
  • Leben der Anderen, Das [The Lives of Others] (2006)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  • Boot, Das (1981)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  • Forrest Gump (1994)
  • Metropolis (1927)
  • Aliens (1986)
  • Raging Bull (1980)
  • Rashômon (1950)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  • Rebecca (1940)
  • Hotel Rwanda (2004)
  • Sin City (2005)
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • Modern Times (1936)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • The Seventh Seal (1957)
  • The Great Escape (1963)
  • Amadeus (1984)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • Touch of Evil (1958)
  • The Elephant Man (1980)
  • The Prestige (2006)
  • Vita è bella, La [Life Is Beautiful] (1997)
  • Jaws (1975)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  • The Sting (1973)
  • Strangers on a Train (1951)
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  • The Apartment (1960)
  • City Lights (1931)
  • Braveheart (1995)
  • Cinema Paradiso (1988)
  • Batman Begins (2005)
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  • Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  • Notorious (1946)
  • Salaire de la peur, Le [The Wages of Fear](1953)
  • High Noon (1952)
  • Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
  • Fargo (1996)
  • The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
  • Unforgiven (1992)
  • Back to the Future (1985)
  • Ran (1985)
  • Oldboy (2003)
  • Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  • Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
  • Donnie Darko (2001)
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  • The Green Mile (1999)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  • Gladiator (2000)
  • The Sixth Sense (1999)
  • Diaboliques, Les [The Devils] (1955)
  • Ben-Hur (1959)
  • It Happened One Night (1934)
  • The Deer Hunter (1978)
  • Life of Brian (1979)
  • Die Hard (1988)
  • The General (1927)
  • American Gangster (2007)
  • Platoon (1986)
  • V for Vendetta (2005)
  • Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • The Princess Bride (1987)
  • Crash (2004/I)
  • The Wild Bunch (1969)
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
  • Heat (1995)
  • Gandhi (1982)
  • Harvey (1950)
  • The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  • The African Queen (1951)
  • Stand by Me (1986)
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
  • Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  • The Big Lebowski (1998)
  • The Conversation (1974)
  • Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
  • Wo hu cang long [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ] (2000)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  • Gone with the Wind (1939)
  • 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
  • Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das [The Cabinet of Dr Caligari] (1920)
  • The Thing (1982)
  • Groundhog Day (1993)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  • Sleuth (1972)
  • Patton (1970)
  • Toy Story (1995)
  • Glory (1989)
  • Out of the Past (1947)
  • Twelve Monkeys (1995)
  • Ed Wood (1994)
  • Spartacus (1960)
  • The Terminator (1984)
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  • The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  • The Exorcist (1973)
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  • The Hustler (1961)
  • Toy Story 2 (1999)
  • The Lion King (1994)
  • Big Fish (2003)
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • Young Frankenstein (1974)
  • Magnolia (1999)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • In Cold Blood (1967)
  • Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
  • Dial M for Murder (1954)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  • Roman Holiday (1953)
  • A Christmas Story (1983)
  • Casino (1995)
  • Manhattan (1979)
  • Ying xiong [Hero] (2002)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  • Rope (1948)
  • Cinderella Man (2005)
  • The Searchers (1956)
  • Finding Neverland (2004)
  • Inherit the Wind (1960)
  • His Girl Friday (1940)
  • A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  • Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

7 comments:

  1. I cannot type all of my thoughts because that is a really long list but . . .
    I can't believe you haven't seen Little Miss Sunshine. We saw it in the theaters (and we never do that) and it was soooooooo good. I will fully admit that I laughed and cried at the same time. Sooooo good.
    And I liked 3:10 to Yuma a lot more than I expected. I don't really love westerns and I can't handle that much violence, but the movie was just very good. Can't think of a single bad thing to ever say about Christian Bale!

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  2. Movies I've seen, but you haven't:
    Rear Window (1954)
    Psycho (1960)
    The Maltese Falcon (1941)
    Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    Rebbecca (1940)
    Some Like it Hot (1959)
    Million Dollar Baby (2004)
    Gladiator (2000)
    The African Queen (1951)
    Big Fish (2003)

    I think it's pretty interesting that of the 10 movies on that list, 7 are from 1960 or earlier (and four of them are by Hitchcock).

    And, as for Shindler's List, well, we did record it off TV.

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  3. Is Rebbecca based on the book of the same name? First wife (Rebbecca) dies under mysterious circumstances, second (young) wife not liked by staff and spooked?

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  4. Why yes, Melissa. Rebecca is based on that book.

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  5. Rebbecca was written by Daphne du Maurier who was, I believe the only author to have multiple works turned into movies by Alfred Hitchcock. She had 3: Rebbecca, The Birds and Jamaica Inn.

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  6. Though it should be noted that The Birds was only a short story, not a novel.

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  7. Yeah, so much for Schindler's List, eh? I think after twelve years or so, I have to finally admit I'm not going to watch that tape. Time to rent it, I guess.

    Seems like I hated a lot more movies than the rest of you did.

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