A few weeks ago, there was a book meme (remember, MrZ hates the word meme - so I use it often) going around. There was this HUGE list of books and you bolded the ones you read, and then added three to the list. I didnt want to take part in that because, well, its books. And unless it was written by Koontz, Cornwell, Patterson, or Brown - I’ve probably not read it.
But today, Oliquig posted a list I can really dig. Its about MOVIES. My friend Junkie watched all of maybe two movies before she was 18 or so. Most of the 80s movies we’ve all seen? She’ll just get a blank look and be all “Huh? E.T.? Whats that?” or “Elizabeth Shue was in the Karate Kid? Huh?”. If she would get herself a blog, we could all go pick on her for that.
Alas, its up to Type A and I to pick on her in REAL life.
My point? I’ve seen some movies. I love movies. More than diet coke. That’s not true, but I do love them. Here is my list of movies. The ones I’ve seen are bolded, and then I added three more on the bottom. Let me know if there are any non-bolded ones that I need to see.
01. Trainspotting
02. Shrek
03. M
04. Dogma
05. Strictly Ballroom
06. The Princess Bride
07. Love Actually
08. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
09. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
11. Reservoir Dogs
12. Desperado
13. Swordfish
14. Kill Bill Vol. 1
15. Donnie Darko
16. Spirited Away
17. Better Than Sex
18. Sleepy Hollow
19. Pirates of the Caribbean
20. The Eye
21. Requiem for a Dream
22. Dawn of the Dead
23. The Pillow Book
24. The Italian Job
25. The Goonies
26. Baseketball
27. The Spice Girls Movie (Spice World)
28. Army of Darkness
29. The Color Purple
30. The Safety of Objects
31. Can’t Hardly Wait
32. Mystic Pizza
33. Finding Nemo
34. Monsters Inc.
35. Circle of Friends
36. Mary Poppins
37. The Bourne Identity
38. Forrest Gump
39. A Clockwork Orange
40. Kindergarten Cop
41. On The Line
42. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
43. Final Destination
44. Sorority Boys
45. Urban Legend
46. Cheaper by the Dozen The original.
47. Fierce Creatures
48. Dude, Where’s My Car
49. Ladyhawke
50. Ghostbusters
51. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
52. Back to the Future
53. An Affair To Remember
54. Somewhere In Time
55. North By Northwest
56. Moulin Rouge
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
58. The Wizard of Oz
59. Zoolander
60. A Walk to Remember
61. Chicago
62. Vanilla Sky
63. The Sweetest Thing
64. Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
65. The Nightmare Before Christmas
66. Chasing Amy
67. Edward Scissorhands
68. Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
69. Muriel’s Wedding
70. Croupier
71. Blade Runner
72. Cruel Intentions
73. Ocean’s Eleven
74. Magnolia
75. Fight Club
76. Beauty and The Beast
77. Much Ado About Nothing
78. Dirty Dancing
79. Gladiator
80. Ever After
81. Braveheart
82. What Lies Beneath
83. Regarding Henry
84. The Dark Crystal
85. Star Wars
86. The Birds
87. Beaches
88. Cujo
89. Maid In Manhattan
90. Labyrinth -
91. Thoroughly Modern Millie
92. His Girl Friday
93. Chocolat
94. Independence Day
95. Singing in the Rain
96. Big Fish
97. The Thomas Crown Affair
98. The Matrix
99. Stargate
100. A Hard Day’s Night
101. About A Boy
102. Jurassic Park
103. Life of Brian
104. Dune
105. Help!
106. Grease OOPS! I forgot to bold that one.
107. Newsies
108. Gone With The Wind
109. School of Rock
110. TOMMY
111. Yellow Submarine
112. From Hell
113. Benny & Joon
114. Amelie
115. Bridget Jones’ Diary
116. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
117. Heavenly Creatures
118. All About Eve
119. The Outsiders
120. Airplane!
121. The Sorcerer
122. The Crying Game
123. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
124. Slap Her, She’s French
125. Amadeus
126. Tommy Boy
127. Aladdin
128. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
129. Snatch
130. American History X
131. Jack and Sarah
132. Monkey Bone
133. Rocky Horror Picture Show
134. Kate and Leopold
135. Interview with the Vampire
136. Underworld
137. Truly, Madly, Deeply
138. Tank Girl
139. Boondock Saints
140. Blow Dry
141. Titanic
142. Good Morning Vietnam
143. Save the Last Dance
144. Lost in Translation
145. Willow
146. Legend
147. Van Helsing
148. Troy
149. Nine Girls and a Ghost
150. A Knight’s Tale
151. Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
152. Beetlejuice
153. E.T.
154. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone
155. Spaceballs
156. Young Frankenstein
157. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
158. American President
159. Bad Boys
160. Pecker
161. Pink Floyd: The Wall
161. X-Men
162. Sidewalks of New York
163. The Children of Dune
164. Beyond Borders
165. Life Is Beautiful
166. Good Will Hunting
167. Run Lola Run
168. Blazing saddles
169. Caligula
170. The Transporter
171. Better Off Dead
172. The Abyss
173. Almost Famous
174. The Red Violin
175. Contact
176. Stand and Deliver
177. Clueless
178. William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet
179. Dangerous Laisions
180. I Am Sam (I saw this, on a plane, with no headphones)
181. The Usual Suspects
182. U-571
183. Capricorn One
184. The Little Shop of Horrors
185. Die Hard
186. The Flamingo Kid
187. Night of the Comet
188. Point Break
189. Empire Records
190. Down With Love
191. The Sound of Music
And I’m going to Add
192. The Lost Boys
193. Pump up the Volume
194. The Last Unicorn
Hah, I’ve seen all three of your add ons.
How can you not have seen Clueless, its on TBS forty times every other weekend!
And Grease! Same thing!
If you liked Moulin Rouge, you should see Strictly Ballroom.
OMG you have to see the following:
Trainspotting (i love me some Ewan McGregor)
Baseketball is totally dumb, but if you like the South Park guys, see it
the original Cheaper by the Dozen, just for the classic-ness of it
Amadeus, for the classical-ness
The Red Violin, little bizarre but that’s good
Dangerous Liaisons, great costuming
and the three i’m gonna add to my post!
I know you’ve seen Grease….entirely too many times, for that matter.
Ok, now for the listed ones you NEED TO SEE: Trainspotting, Donnie Darko, Mystic Pizza, North by Northwest, Adventures of Priscilla:Queen of the Desert, *Heavenly Creatures, *The Crying Game, *Pecker, & *Dangerous Liasons…the last several being (to me) the best.
OK, just to show you how movie literate I’ve become even though I was oppressed for the first 17 years of my existence? I’ve seen 23 of the movies you haven’t. And of the 27 here that you’ve seen, and I haven’t? 18 of them are 80’s or before…so I’ve been busy watching ever since then!
Ok, I’m done now.
Oh yeah, one more thing…I really didn’t know Elisabeth Shue was in Karate Kid until I read this! I have seen the 2nd one, though.
You should absolutely see Trainspotting, Mystic Pizza, Priscillia Queen of the Desert, Muriel’s Wedding, Big Fish, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine, Run, Lola, Run (great soundtrack), and The Red Violin. I would even loan you the last two, if, y’know, we didn’t live like, a gazillion, miles apart.
ok zoot, put on your most comfy of comfy sweat pants, get your favourite blankie ready, turn the phone down, tell the neighbourhood kids to not come a knockin’, have a large bottle of water and tonnes of popcorn at hand because you are in for a wonderous movie marathon. these are not suggestions, they are MUST SEES (in no particular order):
trainspotting, strictly ballroom, donnie darko, cheaper by tghe dozen the orginal, prascilla queen of the desert, croupier, muriels wedding, chocolat, big fish, amelie, heavenly creatures, the crying game, snatch, boondock saints, lost in translation, life is beautiful, run lola run, the red violin.
Trainspotting,Baseketball,Blade Runner,Snatch,Tank Girl, Blazing Saddles,The Transporter - gotta see those
I keep telling Zoot to watch Trainspotting, but she is stubborn (like me). She has this thing where, if she knows that a child is going to die in a movie - she won’t watch it. I’m the same way with dogs though (I will NEVER watch “My Dog Skip”), so I guess I can’t bitch at her too much I guess.
I guess it’s been a long day at work I guess..
/won’t get it unless you read my previous comment
ABSOLUTELY see Run, Lola, Run and Heavenly Creatures. I am all over this meme!
Okay, either I’m weird (probably) or my husband’s taste in movies has caused me to see (and like) a couple you didn’t bold and no one yet has suggested.
Swordfish - John Travolta. need I say more?
How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days - because, um, Matthew McConaughey?
Of course HTLAGI10D wasn’t hubby’s pick. I just couldn’t pass up MMcC.
i cried big time at my dog skip
You really should see Spirited Away. It’s wonderful. Though I would recommend watching it in Japanese with the subtitles, because the English voice actors just aren’t as good.
God, I’m such a geek.
if you enjoy love movies you would enjoy Somewhere in Time.
Clueless is one of those cheesy rich girl flicks that you have to see atleast once and Mystic Pizza was a goodie as well. : )
I totally thought I was going to be the only one to recommend Mystic Pizza. And Priscilla: Queen of the Desert? One of my top 5 favourite movies of all time.
Boondock Saints is up there too. Uber-violent but very well done.
My recomends? Chocolat, Maid in Manhattan, Big Fish (I’ve heard it’s great and am trying to find time to watch it myself), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (very, very, VERY funny), Tank Girl (funny in the weird messed-up way), and Empire Records (I can’t believe you’ve not seen that! It’s my favorite on your list of movies)
Just a little input…Cheaper by the Dozen (the original) and
How to lose a guy in 10 days…
You know how many movies I watch…