I got this list from Tracey ... I changed the rules, though. To me, there's an enormous difference between like and love - so I changed the rules and separated out "like" from "love".
THE RULES
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.
No comments on this one. [UPDATE: comments opened now - thanks for the link House Next Door] You can email me your outrage or support, should you feel it necessary. (Okay, someone just emailed me with one word: "Support." It made me laugh out loud. Thank you!) I'm just fading fast today, and feel kind of anxious. And I have hours to go before I sleep. And a flight out of town tomorrow at the crack of doom (I believe Macbeth says that somewhere. Yes. He does.
'Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!
What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more.')
Anyway. Here's the list. Feel free to do ye olde meme if you want to.
Looking at this list all together it is clear that I am biased towards movies made before 1960. I just prefer them. Also some people go apeshit when they hear I don't like a particular movie. That's okay. I like Finnegans Wake and lots of people think I'm crazy, too.
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) I wish there was a category for "deeply despised"
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)
How about italic red for "despise"? Or to avoid confusion, italic all caps, as in "hate the movie so much I'm shouting"?
Posted by: nightfly at March 3, 2008 11:25 AMI am going to heartily recommend Once Upon a Time In the West.
Henry Fonda is cast completely against type as a vicious, hateful bad guy. He's mesmerizing. Leone was specific in that he wanted Hank's blue eyes to remain blue (Fonda was ready to wear contacts, apparently) to maximize the disconnect between the public's image of him and the dark persona he adopted for this particular screen character.
Charles Bronson is also quietly excellent in this.
Posted by: Noonz at March 3, 2008 11:31 AMMany of my not-seen movies are on my Netflix queue as we speak - and Once Upon a Time in the West is definitely one of them!
Posted by: mitchell sheila at March 3, 2008 11:39 AMOops ... hahahaha it's just me, sheila ... but I'm on Mitchell's computer - which is why I signed "mitchell sheila" ... although it is true that we are so close we are nearly one person.
Posted by: sheila at March 3, 2008 11:41 AMI'd like to second the recommendation of Noonz.
The whole movie was mesmerizing.
I'd love to read your thoughts on it once you do see it.
And if I may, I'd also suggest "Touch Of Evil".
The opening scene is amazing and I couldn't take my eyes of Welles whenever he was in a scene.
I'll also be interested to hear what you think about Once Upon a Time in the West. I did this little exercise on my site and flagged it as a "like," but that's due more to respecting it than actively enjoying it. Also, I have friends whose opinions I generally trust who just detest it.
Back in the 1980s when I first saw it, I recommended it to the guy who was cutting my hair at the time...big mistake. Next haircut, he spent the entire haircut complaining - with passion - about the pointlessness of it all, with special relish devoted to the opening scene. For a minute there, I thought he was going to cut my nose off.
But one thing EVERYBODY seems to agree with is that the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone is magnificent.
Posted by: Jeff at March 3, 2008 8:14 PM
Here is my list.
Here is my list.
Lovely list... lot to agree with there! Touch of Evil, is a very good suggested addition... great film... I love some of Welles's other Shakespeare films, particularly the quizical "Chimes At Midnight" but Sheila... Sheila... What about "It's a Wonderful Life"??
Posted by: Simon C at March 4, 2008 3:52 AMChimes at Midnight is great. It has a bit of a wonky beginning though, but that is a minor concern in an otherwise fine, fine film.
It's a bitch to get hold of, mind...