Movie meme

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Snagged from pfeifferpack. I generally have a poor showing on these types of things, since I was apparently raised under a rock and never saw any good movies. I've got Blockbuster online now, so I'm starting to catch up, but it's still pretty pitiful.

Top 250 movies on IMDb.
Bold the ones you've seen.

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Schindler's List (1993)
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - I've seen the play, does that count?
8. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
9. Casablanca (1942)
10. Shichinin no samurai (1954)
11. Star Wars (1977)
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
13. 12 Angry Men (1957) - Again, I've seen the play...
14. Rear Window (1954)
15. Goodfellas (1990)
16. Cidade de Deus (2002)
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
18. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
19. C'era una volta il West (1968)
20. The Usual Suspects (1995)
21. Psycho (1960)
22. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
23. Citizen Kane (1941)
24. Fight Club (1999)
25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
26. North by Northwest (1959)
27. Memento (2000)
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
29. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
30. There Will Be Blood (2007)
31. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
32. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - only because I had to, we watched it in my world history class in high school
33. The Matrix (1999)
34. Se7en (1995)
35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
36. Taxi Driver (1976)
37. American Beauty (1999)
38. Léon (1994)
39. Vertigo (1958)
40. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
41. No Country for Old Men (2007)
42. American History X (1998)
43. The Departed (2006)
44. Paths of Glory (1957)
45. M (1931)
46. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - What's up with me and theater? I've seen the play of this one, too (and read the book).
47. The Third Man (1949)
48. Chinatown (1974)
49. Leben der Anderen, Das (2006)
50. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
51. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
52. Alien (1979)
53. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
54. Laberinto del fauno, El (2006)
55. The Shining (1980)
56. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
57. The Pianist (2002)
58. Double Indemnity (1944)
59. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
60. Forrest Gump (1994)
61. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
62. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
63. L.A. Confidential (1997)
64. Boot, Das (1981)
65. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
66. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
67. Untergang, Der (2004)
68. Aliens (1986)
69. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
70. Raging Bull (1980)
71. Metropolis (1927)
72. Rashômon (1950)
73. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
74. Modern Times (1936)
75. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
76. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
77. Sin City (2005)
78. Rebecca (1940)
79. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
80. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)
81. All About Eve (1950)
82. Some Like It Hot (1959)
83. On the Waterfront (1954)
84. Vita è bella, La (1997)
85. City Lights (1931)
86. Amadeus (1984)
87. The Great Escape (1963)
88. Touch of Evil (1958)
89. The Prestige (2006)
90. The Elephant Man (1980)
91. Jaws (1975)
92. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
93. Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
94. The Sting (1973)
95. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
96. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
97. Braveheart (1995)
98. The Apartment (1960)
99. Strangers on a Train (1951)
100. Blade Runner (1982)
101. The Great Dictator (1940)
102. Batman Begins (2005)
103. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
104. Salaire de la peur, Le (1953)
105. Ladri di biciclette (1948)
106. High Noon (1952)
107. Ran (1985)
108. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
109. The Big Sleep (1946)
110. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
111. Notorious (1946)
112. Back to the Future (1985)
113. Fargo (1996)
114. Oldboy (2003)
115. Unforgiven (1992)
116. Ratatouille (2007)
117. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
118. Donnie Darko (2001)
119. Mononoke-hime (1997)
120. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
121. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
122. Yojimbo (1961)
123. Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
124. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
125. The Green Mile (1999)
126. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
127. Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957)
128. Battaglia di Algeri, La (1966)
129. Gladiator (2000)
130. Annie Hall (1977)
131. Die Hard (1988)
132. Ben-Hur (1959)
133. The Deer Hunter (1978)
134. The Sixth Sense (1999)
135. Into the Wild (2007)
136. The General (1927)
137. It Happened One Night (1934)
138. Platoon (1986)
139. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
140. Life of Brian (1979)
141. The Killing (1956)
142. Smultronstället (1957)
143. Amores perros (2000)
144. Finding Nemo (2003)
145. Diaboliques, Les (1955)
146. The Incredibles (2004)
147. V for Vendetta (2005)
148. The Wild Bunch (1969)
149. Children of Men (2006)
150. Juno (2007)
151. Heat (1995)
152. Brief Encounter (1945)
153. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
154. The Princess Bride (1987) - OMG best movie EVER!
155. The Graduate (1967)
156. 8½ (1963)
157. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
158. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
159. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
160. Crash (2004) - seriously awesome
161. The Big Lebowski (1998) - I completely don't understand why everybody loves this movie.
162. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
163. Stand by Me (1986)
164. Gandhi (1982) - this was another "because I had to" shown in class
165. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
166. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
167. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
168. Snatch. (2000)
169. Harvey (1950)
170. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
171. The African Queen (1951)
172. The Thing (1982)
173. Trainspotting (1996)
174. Gone with the Wind (1939)
175. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
176. Wo hu cang long (2000)
177. Belle et la bête, La (1946)
178. American Gangster (2007)
179. The Gold Rush (1925)
180. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - I thought this one was terrible!
181. Groundhog Day (1993)
182. The Conversation (1974)
183. Scarface (1983)
184. Patton (1970)
185. Duck Soup (1933)
186. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
187. Toy Story (1995)
188. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
189. Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920)
190. Twelve Monkeys (1995) - I impressed my first boyfriend by figuring this movie out before it was over. Apparently, it took him multiple viewings to get it.
191. The Terminator (1984)
192. Umberto D. (1952)
193. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
194. Sleuth (1972)
195. Stalker (1979)
196. The Hustler (1961)
197. Glory (1989)
198. Grindhouse (2007)
199. Ed Wood (1994)
200. King Kong (1933)
201. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
202. Hotaru no haka (1988)
203. The Exorcist (1973)
204. The Lion King (1994)
205. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
206. Spartacus (1960)
207. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
208. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
209. Stalag 17 (1953)
210. The Lost Weekend (1945)
211. Magnolia (1999)
212. Lola rennt (1998)
213. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
214. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
215. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
216. Frankenstein (1931)
217. Out of the Past (1947)
218. Big Fish (2003)
219. Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)
220. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
221. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
222. Casino (1995)
223. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
224. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
225. Toy Story 2 (1999)
226. A Christmas Story (1983)
227. Mystic River (2003)
228. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
229. Ikiru (1952)
230. Hot Fuzz (2007)
231. Mou gaan dou (2002)
232. Manhattan (1979)
233. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
234. Young Frankenstein (1974)
235. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
236. Dial M for Murder (1954)
237. Rope (1948)
238. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
239. Roman Holiday (1953)
240. The Searchers (1956)
241. Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007)
242. Ying xiong (2002)
243. In Cold Blood (1967)
244. His Girl Friday (1940)
245. Haine, La (1995)
246. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
247. Samouraï, Le (1967)
248. Idi i smotri (1985)
249. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
250. Barry Lyndon (1975)

*sits back and waits for the "OMG, you've never seen (fill in the blank)??" to start*

Comments

[clawofcat.livejournal.com]

So, I just did this meme to satisfy my own curiosity and apparently I've seen 96/250 movies. That's... a lot. But I love movies and I used to be a bit of an indie snob in high school. Every week I'd see a movie with my friend Ethan. It was freakish,, but I look back fondly at it.

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Hey, I've seen 48, which is actually a much higher number than I expected. (Of course, I won't tell you how many of those I've watched in the last year since I've had Blockbuster online, lol.)

[devylish.livejournal.com]

70 out of the 250....

i can't decide if that's good... or bad!

sigh... some of the ones i haven't seen i totally think i HAVE to see now... crap... more on my list of to do's!

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I know what you mean... I'm thinking, "Should I just add this entire list to my Blockbuster queue??" But I've got over 200 movies to watch, which will more than double my queue!

[beloved-77.livejournal.com]

"The Shawshank Redemption" is one of my favorite movies. It's surprisingly good. However, I'm surprised Stephen King did not get sued by whomever wrote "Escape from Alcatraz." "To Kill a Mockingbird" is also good, though I did see it in class after reading the book. Not having regular class can make things seem brighter :-P

And, yes, "The Princess Bride" is the best movie ever :-)

[philips.livejournal.com]

The Shawshank Redemption has some of the most powerful moments I've ever seen. Morgan Freeman finding the box and deciding to go on always kills me. Get busy living, or get busy dying. I love that movie.

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Yeah, Shawshank is one of those movies I feel like everyone has seen, and I really ought to get my ass on that. :)

An interesting exercise

[selinde2.livejournal.com]

Well I got to 88 - which is all those boring Saturday afternoons, and a long relationship which centred on the University Cinema. I'm not sure about some of the foreign films, so I've guessed. There's a few on the list that I wonder about (Shaun of the Dead? Really? and The Incredibles?) And one or two I think should be there - Babette's Feast, Enchanted April, Strictly Ballroom - but I always feel that with a Best Of list, don't you? Anyway, thanks for sharing. Oh, and I think the Princess Bride should be much further up the list!

Re: An interesting exercise

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Yeah, I wondered about some of the movies on this list. I'm not sure how they picked them - I think it's just the 250 highest rated movies on IMDb, which probably isn't the most objective system, and doesn't necessarily guarantee quality. :) A lot of it seems like just really popular movies, not necessarily the best.

[molliemole.livejournal.com]

I've seen 107. I have to admit, most of the foreign films I've not only not seen, I've never even heard of them.

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I've actually had to watch a fair amount of French films (I was a French minor in college), but the only one that made the list was Amelie... oh well.

[devylish.livejournal.com]

couple of my favorite french films:
the return of martin guerre (created sommersby of of this)....

and cafe au lait!

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Oh, I've seen The Return of Martin Guerre, but it was in high school so I don't remember much. I do remember seeing an American movie later that was the exact same story, but I can't remember what it was, lol. It wasn't Sommersby - it was something that didn't claim to be a remake, even though it totally was.

I don't think I saw the other one.

[devylish.livejournal.com]

cafe au lait is lovely... written (i think), directed and starred in by mathieu kasiovetz (sp?) adorable love interest from Amelie!

[philips.livejournal.com]

Since the invention of the kiss there have been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The End.

Best ending ever.

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Heh, I have to admit, much as I love The Princess Bride movie, I think the book is even better. And the "five greatest kisses" bit is waaay in the beginning, right before Westley leaves for America. :)

[devylish.livejournal.com]

the book kicked A$$!!!!!!!

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[riccadonna.livejournal.com]

I've got a fair number, considering that when in doubt with the foreign titles I didn't check them even if I've probably seen some with other names. But, don't you have avant-garde cinema theaters over there? You are missing all of the great black & white ones, plus don't you feel deprived for lack of Hitchcock? PLEASE, at least get Some Like It Hot...it would work on TV screen, and it's got probably the best ever ending sentence, and I'm really sorry that you missed 2001 on the anniversary, because that one needs the total immersion of the big screen. And I thought I was cut out...

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Holy crap. I was starting to think my 48 wasn't so bad, but now I'm feeling like a slacker again.

We may possibly have avant-garde theaters here, but since I rarely go to the movies anyway, I don't know where they are, lol.

[randi2204]

*snort* I really can't say anything about what movies you haven't seen because I really suspect I've seen fewer on this list than you have.