I have a queue, too!

Sheila inspired me to join the 21st century and sign up for Netflix, too! Got me a free two-week trial and got started on my queue. All this and a cellphone, too?! Thoroughly Modern Millie, I am, I am.

So this is it, so far — the queue — The Q!

(Sheila was kind and put imdb links on all of her queue movies. I have not. Draw your own conclusions.)

My first 30. Why only 30? Because, well, if you must know, I felt a massive movie gorge coming on where I would neverever leave that site and I had to stop. I’m supposed to be, oh, getting ready to open my damn coffeehouse. I am now some kind of Coffee Messiah in the neighborhood. Random people — strangers, even — who desperately miss their Beanhouse coffee and peeps have literally accosted me on the sidewalk or in the grocery store, pleading, “When? When?! When will you be open??” I ran into another one today. She asked and I told her next week and she started to CRY. Which is nice, but I probably coulda barfed all over her from the pressure of it all. It’s really okay to say, “Oh, great. I’m excited.” Please don’t cry about it. Please. Because then I’ll start crying — or barfing — and you’ll totally misunderstand, oh, believe me, WHY I’m standing there crying and barfing.

Which is just a little off point from what this is all about.

All righty.

Asterisk by films I’ve seen before but must see again:

* Das Boot — Yes, I moved Das Boot to the top spot, because I’m just in a Das Booty kind of place. Which really doesn’t look right typed out. Whatevs. It’s my Das Booty call. Deal with it.

Babel

For Your Consideration

Syriana

* Double Indemnity

The Searchers

The Grapes of Wrath — I can’t believe I’ve never seen this.

* Bringing Up Baby

* His Girl Friday

Only Angels Have Wings

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

* Jezebel

* Sunset Boulevard

Brief Encounter

Brokeback Mountain — I have a sneaking suspicion I’ll be watching this one alone.

Devil’s Playground

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Mad Hot Ballroom

Tsotsi

The Bicycle Thief

Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noel)

* Diva

Amelie

* My Brilliant Career

* Heavenly Creatures

Vincent: Life and Death of Van Gogh

Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait

8 Replies to “I have a queue, too!”

  1. Thanks, Jeannine!

    And, ooh, “Jezebel,” isn’t that a great one? Bette Davis is so amazing in that movie. I’d always heard that she was given that role as a consolation for not getting Scarlett O’Hara. Not sure if that’s just an old Hollywood myth or not, though.

  2. Brian,
    my dd once reduced a college party to silence by remarking brightly “Das Boot? That’s, like, my mom’s favorite movie!”
    Um, tell us more about your mother, Sissy…

    Brief Encounter? Oh, okay – it’s too long, I admit.

    But the scene where they’re sitting in the train canteen and just chit-chatting and looking at each other and they’re not really hearing anything the other is saying b/c they’re just looking at each other. And then when his train is called and he says… Oh, man. What a great movie.

    We do not have Netflix, or cable. I know better than to put that sort of temptation in my way.

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