So this is where my life went

[altariel]

1 The Godfather (1972)
2 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
5 Schindler's List (1993)
6 Citizen Kane (1941)
7 Casablanca (1942)
8 Seven Samurai (1954)
9 Star Wars (1977)
10 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
11 Memento (2000)
12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
13 Rear Window (1954)
14 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
15 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
17 The Usual Suspects (1995)
18 Amelie (2001)
19 Pulp Fiction (1994)
20 North by Northwest (1959)
21 Psycho (1960)
22 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
23 12 Angry Men (1957)
24 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25 It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
26 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
27 Goodfellas (1990)
28 American Beauty (1999)
29 Vertigo (1958)
30 The Pianist (2002)
31 Sunset Blvd. (1950)
32 Apocalypse Now (1979)
33 Some Like It Hot (1959)
34 The Matrix (1999)
35 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
36 Taxi Driver (1976)
37 The Third Man (1949)
38 Paths of Glory (1957)
39 Fight Club (1999)
40 Das Boot (1981)
41 L.A. Confidential (1997)
42 Double Indemnity (1944)
43 Chinatown (1974)
44 Requiem for a Dream (2000)
45 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
46 Singin' in the Rain (1952
47 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
48 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
49 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
50 All About Eve (1950)
51 M (1931)
52 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
53 Raging Bull (1980)
54 Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
55 Se7en (1995)
56 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
57 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
58 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
59 La Vita e bella (1997) (aka Life is Beautiful)
60 American History X (1998)
61 The Sting (1973)
62 Touch of Evil (1958)
63 The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
64 Alien (1979)
65 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
66 Rashomon (1950)
67 Leon (1994)
68 Annie Hall (1977)
69 The Great Escape (1963)
70 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
71 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
72 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
73 The Sixth Sense (1999)
74 Jaws (1975)
75 Amadeus (1984)
76 On the Waterfront (1954)
77 Ran (1985)
78 Braveheart (1995)
79 High Noon (1952)
80 Fargo (1996)
81 Blade Runner (1982)
82 The Apartment (1960)
83 Aliens (1986)
84 Toy Story 2 (1999)
85 Strangers on a Train (1951)
86 Modern Times (1936)
87 The Shining (1980)
88 Donnie Darko (2001)
89 Duck Soup (1933)
90 The Princess Bride (1987)
91 Lola rennt (1998) (aka Run Lola Run)
92 City Lights (1931)
93 The General (1927)
94 Metropolis (1927)
95 The Searchers (1956)
96 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
97 Notorious (1946)
98 Manhattan (1979)
99 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
100 Graduate, The (1967)





1 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2 Blade Runner (1982)
3 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
4 Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
5 E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
6 Metropolis (1927)
7 Brazil (1985)
8 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
9 Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
10 Alien (1979)
11 Aliens (1986)
12 Matrix, The (1999)
13 Back to the Future (1985)
14 Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
15 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
16 Terminator, The (1984)
17 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
18 Planet of the Apes (1968)
19 Dark City (1998)
20 Contact (1997)
21 12 Monkeys (1995)
22 King Kong (1933)and the remake
23 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
24 La Jetee (1962)
25 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
26 Solaris (1972)
27 Road Warrior, The (1981) (a.k.a. Mad Max II)
28 Thing, The (1982)
29 Jurassic Park (1993)
30 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
31 Robocop (1987)
32 Forbidden Planet (1956)
33 Abyss, The (1989)
34 Alphaville (1965)
35 Dr. Strangelove (1964)
36 Donnie Darko (2001)
37 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
38 Iron Giant, The (1999)
39 Frankenstein (1931)
40 Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957)
41 Truman Show, The (1998)
42 Videodrome (1983)
43 Pi (1998)
44 Fly, The (1986)
45 Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
46 Time Machine, The (1960)
47 Jacob's Ladder (1990)
48 War of The Worlds, The (1953)
49 Independence Day (1996)
50 City of Lost Children, The (Cite des enfants perdus, La) (1995)
51 Invisible Man, The (1933)
52 Gattaca (1997)
53 Altered States (1980)
54 Trip to the Moon, A (Le Voyage dans la Lune) (1902)
55 Ghostbusters (1984)
56 Stalker (1979)
57 Fifth Element, The (1997)
58 Thing From Another World, The (1951)
59 Tron (1982)
60 Them! (1954)
61 Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976)
62 Starship Troopers (1997)
63 Night of the Living Dead (1968)
64 Superman: The Movie (1978)
65 Strange Days (1995)
66 Quatermass and the Pit (a.k.a. Five Million Years To Earth) (1967)
67 Edward Scissorhands (1990)
68 They Live (1988)
69 Things to Come (1936)
70 Sleeper (1973)
71 Mad Max (1979)
72 Cell, The (2000)
73 Fantastic Voyage (1966)
74 Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
75 Dead Zone, The (1983)
76 Dawn of the Dead (1978)
77 Akira (1988)
78 Time Bandits (1981)
79 eXistenZ (1999)
80 Invaders from Mars (1953)
81 On the Beach (1959)
82 Silent Running (1971)
83 Total Recall (1990)
84 Open Your Eyes (Abre los Ojos) (1997)
85 Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
86 THX 1138 (1970)
87 Seconds (1966)
88 Starman (1984)
89 Village of the Damned (1960)
90 Until the End of the World (1991)
91 Fantastic Planet (Planete sauvage, La) (1973)
92 Men In Black (1997)
93 Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The (1984)
94 Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975)
95 Highlander (1986)
96 Andromeda Strain, The (1971)
97 Time After Time (1979)
98 Escape from New York (1981)
99 Slaughterhouse Five (1973)
100 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Comments

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to do this one but it looks like an awful lot of effort.

I really have to watch The Godfather someday.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

It was less effort to do than the thing I was actually meant to be doing.

I only watched the Godfather very recently - it really is as good as everyone says.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

Now if you can work 'leave the gun, take the canolli' into one of your Tolkien fics, I'll be mightily impressed :-D

Glad you liked the Memorial Day fic - I don't think I'll take it any further, although those characters want to come out to play again at some point.

Your ramblings read just fine, and I am pondering them. I'll take a peek at your cookie too when I get back from the library.

[archbishopm.livejournal.com]

I only watched the Godfather very recently - it really is as good as everyone says.

Well, I'll try. But I'm not watching Braveheart. I watched the first hour or so once. Life's too damn short.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

I have no intention of ever watching 'Braveheart' either. Life really is too short for some things.

a wasted life

[communicator.livejournal.com]

I think I've wasted my life even more comprehensively: I've seen 79 of the mainstream films, and 71 of the SF films. (cf Una: 64, 60) I've got about ten years' head start on you though.

Where do these latest lists come from anyway?

Re: a wasted life

[altariel.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, Mr A. has seen 88 of the first list, and 78 of the second list - and he doesn't even like SF films. That's what insomnia does for you. But he also draws the line at 'Braveheart'.

The first list is the IMDB top 100, but I pulled it from yonmei's page. The second one came with it.

Re: a wasted life

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think I should get some kind of award for that.

Depends which three you haven't seen.

Re: a wasted life

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not sure about the award, because Mr A. has seen 'The General'...

Maybe a little award.

Re: a wasted life

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you're going to have to try harder than that *g* - Mr A. has seen both of those that many times too.

Re: a wasted life

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I was forced to sit through an awful lot of splatter videos with friends as a teenager, although I can't remember the first thing about them, and certainly not the titles! They all blend into one after a bit. I admire that you can distinguish them!

Re: a wasted life

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Have you seen 'Bad Taste' and 'Brain Dead'?