February 29, 2008
Swiped from Sheila.
Here are the rules:
Bold movies you have watched and liked.
Turn red movies you have watched and loved.
Italicize movies you saw and didnÂ’t like.
Leave as is movies you havenÂ’t seen.
You got it? Read the rules a few times for good measure, so that this list makes sense. You ready? Ok. away we go.
The Godfather (1972)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
SchindlerÂ’s List (1993)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (The best entry in the entire series. Hands down.)
One Flew Over the CuckooÂ’s Nest (1975)
Casablanca (1942)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) (just because I was happy it was finally over with.)
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) (Any fondness I had for it evaporated with repeated viewings. Weak.)
City of God (2002)
Once Upon a Time in the West (196
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) ("SPACE MONKEY!")
Memento (2000)(Trippy little tale.)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)(You want to understand Arabs? Watch this movie. You'll get it afterwards.)
ItÂ’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Matrix (1999) (perhaps the color should be green?)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Se7en (1995)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
American Beauty (1999) (Yeeuch!)
Vertigo (195
Amélie (2001)
The Departed (2006)
Paths of Glory (1957)
American History X (199
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Chinatown (1974)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Third Man (1949)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
PanÂ’s Labyrinth (2006)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (194
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 (199
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Forrest Gump (1994) (Loathe this film. Really and Truly. Mr. H. and I were recently discussing how, one day in the future, Tom Hanks will be ashamed he won an Oscar for this role. )
Metropolis (1927)
Aliens (1986)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rashômon (1950)
SinginÂ’ in the Rain (1952)
Rebecca (1940)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Sin City (2005) (Visually interesting, but not all that good in the scheme of things.)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
All About Eve (1950)
Modern Times (1936)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
2001: A Space Odyssey (196
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Great Escape (1963)
Amadeus (1984)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Touch of Evil (195
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Prestige (2006)
Vita è bella, La [Life Is Beautiful] (1997)
Jaws (1975) (Nope. I've never seen it. Sue me.)
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 (198
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) (But not because of the damn Ewoks!)
Fargo (1996) (I just DO NOT GET what was so great about this movie.)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Unforgiven (1992)
Back to the Future (1985)
Ran (1985)
Oldboy (2003) (I actually wanted to shower after watching this, if that gives you any indication how gross it is. Not recommended. AT ALL.)
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 (197
Life of Brian (1979)
Die Hard (198
The General (1927)
American Gangster (2007)
Platoon (1986)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Graduate (1967)
The Princess Bride (1987) ("Have fun stormin' the castle!")
Crash (2004/I) (Tried to watch this. Way too pretentious for my tastes.)
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 (199
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 (199
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Magnolia (1999)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
In Cold Blood (1967)
RosemaryÂ’s Baby (196
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) (Call me crazy, but these films are lacking what most people would call "a plot.")
Rope (194
Cinderella Man (2005) (Even though Renee Z. is in this film, and she is HIGHLY annoying with that cloying New Jersey accent that just makes you want to wash out your ears after hearing, this film is still pretty good. I just wish they would have marketed differently. There was no need to see it after they blew the ending in the commercials and the trailers)
The Searchers (1956)
Finding Neverland (2004) (Cried buckets. Freddie Highmore is one gifted kid. His performance is astounding.)
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)
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