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I guess I just like liking things

It’s actually the Top 250, but after 100 the list gets more and more ridiculous and I couldn’t bring myself to deal with it. Case in point: Star Trek Into Darkness is listed at 201. It was an okay enough movie, but 201 of all time?  And the fact that 2009’s Star Trek is listed at 228 makes it even more ridiculous, as that one was way better than Into Darkness, even if it also does not belong in the all-time top 250.  Agent Kay in Men in Black said, “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.” and I can’t help but think he’d been reading the IMDb rankings.

So of the top 100 ranked movies on IMDb I have seen 68. The unseen ones are listed below, grouped by my interest in eventually seeing them:

Planning to see

  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • American History X (1998)
  • Chinatown (1974)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Metropolis (1927)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
  • The Apartment (1960)
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • The Intouchables (2011)

Maybe some day

  • Cinema Paradiso (1988)
  • City of God (2002)
  • Life Is Beautiful (1997)
  • Oldboy (2003)
  • Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  • Princess Mononoke (1997)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • The Pianist (2002)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

No interest

  • Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  • Das Boot (1981)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • The Lives of Others (2006)

No opinion

  • All About Eve (1950)
  • City Lights (1931)
  • Modern Times (1936)
  • Paths of Glory (1957)

What are your numbers? What ones are you planning to see? What ones would you like to correct my thinking on?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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