My wife recently listed Yahoo’s pick of the top 100 movies you should see before you die. She has only seen 21 of those movies so I decided to do the same list and bold the ones I have seen as well.
12 Angry Men
2001: A Space Odyssey
The 400 Blows
8 1/2
The African Queen
Alien
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blow Up
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
The Bridge of the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
China Town
Citizen Kane
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
E.T.
Enter the Dragon
The Exorcist
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
Goldfinger
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Grand Illusion
Groundhog Day
A Hard Day’s Night
In the Mood for Love
It Happened One Night
It’s A Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings
M
M*A*S*H*
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Network
Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Paths of Glory
Princess Mononoke
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raise the Red Lantern
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Rocky
Roman Holiday
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin’ In the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
Star Wars
Sunset Blvd.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Third Man
This is Spinal Tap
Titanic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo
When Harry Met Sally…
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
The Wizard of Oz
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The World of Apu
So I have seen 51. Stacy needs to get on it.
There were only two that Stacy has seen that I haven’t. Can you guess which ones?
March 28, 2009 at 11:15 am |
How about “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “When Harry Met Sally”?
April 6, 2009 at 4:48 pm |
I just wanted to point out that I have blogged 5 times since you did this one. Hurry up and update!
May 29, 2009 at 11:11 pm |
I am going to guess “bringing up baby” and “Singin in the rain”