Easy-peasy lazy movie meme.
Bold movies you have watched and liked or loved.
Italicize movies you saw and didn’t like.
Leave as is movies you haven’t seen.
I’m not going into big explanations on these. Obviously, there are degrees of like and dislike. But here goes:
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) Hated this. So disturbing.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
American Beauty (1999)
Vertigo (1958)
Amélie (2001)
The Departed (2006) Oh, I don’t know why. I feel guilty because it won Best Picture. But then so did The English Patient. And I’m right about that piece o’ poo.
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) Guess I’m the only one.
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) Not exactly “don’t like,” but have deep ambivalence.
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Forrest Gump (1994) Run, Forrest, run! No, keep running! Away!
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) Uhm, saw this long ago and I wasn’t in the mood. I think admitting this is probably a sacrilege.
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) I can’t remember which “magic” movie this one is. I saw one of them.
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) I LOVE the Kill Bill movies!
Donnie Darko (2001)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The Green Mile (1999) Eh.
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) Don’t know if “like” is the word here.
V for Vendetta (2005) Didn’t I go off on this movie on this blog? Blech.
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) Can’t remember really why.
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) Unless this is the first one. That’s the only one I liked. Johnny Depp notwithstanding.
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)
Wow. The ones left as-is give me some good ideas for Thee Olde Netflix queue!
Oh yes you must Netflix a few. I’d put 12 Angry Men at the top, Batman Begins second (if you don’t want to see it do it for your man), and The Usual Suspects third. I will hesitantly recommend American History X due to the violence and brutality but Edward Norton does a great job.
I remember liking 12 Monkeys too and can’t remember why. odd… huh.
The Curse of the Black Pearl was the first one.
12 Monkeys was directed by Terry Gilliam, my favorite director. While not his best work, I thought it was wonderful.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a great movie if you like that manic, British gangster kind of film. Seeing how you like Tarantino, I bet you’d like this one.
12 Monkeys was a total mind frag – in a good way. I may have to do this as a comedown from all my reality show note-taking and whatnot.
Brian — Oops. I really didn’t like 12 Monkeys. I accidentally bolded that one.
Judgement at Nuremburg is one of those I stop and watch whenever it’s on the guide. I think you’d really like it. AMAZING cast. I REALLY liked American History X. Way more violent than most movies I like. But Edward Norton is stunning in it. It’s one of those movies that is not what you think it’s going to be, very disturbing, yet somehow redemptive.
I can’t stand 2001 a space odyssey either. There is no point to that piece of drek! I also had the great misfortune to be the Events Manager at the Krannert Center when they had HAL’s 25th birthday party (according to the movie he was born at the U of Illinois which is where the Krannert Center is located). We had to host a good portion of the birthday celebrations. What a nightmare week that was! Roger Ebert came down to give a wrap-up lecture and we even had Arthur Clarke call in live over the internet from wherever he was (SriLanka or something I think). The phone bill was astronomical b/c we had to have him on the phone ahead of time to make sure he would do it and then he threatened to hang up when we ran about 5 minutes late and Roger had to run over to the phone and very politely request that he stick around just a little bit longer!
Chick Voice — Yeah, I love Edward Norton just in general. Maybe I’ll put that one on the list.
sam — I feel like I should see it again, I guess. I love Kubrick and I feel like I am supposed to like it; required to like it, and that I’m just some slack-jawed yokel for feeling somewhat “eh” about it.
Well, I guess it’s not fair to say I feel “eh” about it. I mean, listen to me. I’m clearly very invested and paranoid about what people will think of me for not liking it.
What a goob.
Tray – there should definitely be a choice for “eh”!!
Interesting list–and interesting what you’ve seen, T! “Notorious” was on TV last weekend. Love that one. I borrowed “The Pianist” from the library but I haven’t figured out when I’m going to watch it yet.
Out of the Past is fun if you like Noir. See it in the dark late at night with a big bowl of popcorn.
Her: No one is all bad.
Him: Well, she comes the closest.
sheila — Definitely. I liked your idea of putting the ones you loved in red, but I don’t have that feature on this old blog. At least …. that I know of …
Kate P — Oh, “Notorious” is amazing. I need to own that one on DVD, I think, so I can watch it whenever. “The Pianist” — wow. Adrian Brody blew me away. I think you’ll like it.