kthejoker's "Movies I Watched in 2008"

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I generated a list of all the movies on IMDb with a rating of 7.0 or better and more than 750 votes. (There are about 4,500.)

I cut out the ones I would never really want to watch (mostly romances and melodramas) – that left 2,778. (And I’d already seen something like 500 of them.)

Went through them, prioritized them based on my own preferences (generally mysteries and comedies, though I gave bonuses to some essential films I’d never watched, like The Bicycle Thief and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and then started renting them when they were available, and borrowing them from friends here and there.

I’m hoping to have about 500 done by the end of the year, including all of the "essentials" on my list, and then I may start getting pickier.

Top 10 from this list (as of 12.1):

10. Seven Samurai
9. Strangers on a Train
8. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
7. Hangmen Also Die!
6. Duck You Sucker
5. Rebecca
4. Cool Hand Luke
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. High Plains Drifter
1. Picnic at Hanging Rock

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  1. 1.
    ...And Justice For All
    by Norman Jewison

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    10 Rillington Place
    by Richard Fleischer

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  3. 3.
    300 [Blu-ray]
    by Zack Snyder

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  4. 5.
    8 Women
    by François Ozon

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  5. 6.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  6. 7.
    A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  7. 9.
    A Night in Casablanca
    by Archie Mayo

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  8. 10.
    Across the Universe (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Julie Taymor

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    Akira (Special Edition)
    by Katsuhiro Ôtomo

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  10. 12.
    Alfie
    by Lewis Gilbert (II)

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    All About Eve

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    All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alan J. Pakula

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    Alphaville - Criterion Collection
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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  15. 17.
    American Graffiti (Collector's Edition)
    by George Lucas

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  16. 18.
    An American in Paris
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  17. 19.
    An American Werewolf in London

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  18. 20.
    Animal Crackers
    by Victor Heerman

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  19. 21.
    Animals Are Beautiful People

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  20. 22.
    The Accused
    by Jonathan Kaplan

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    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

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  22. 24.
    The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
    by Irving Reis

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  23. 25.
    Bang The Drum Slowly
    by John D. Hancock

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  24. 26.
    The Bank Dick - Criterion Collection
    by Edward F. Cline

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  25. 27.
    The Beguiled
    by Don Siegel

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  26. 28.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  27. 29.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  29. 32.
    Blow Out
    by Brian De Palma

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  30. 33.
    Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
    by Lawrence Kasdan

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    Bound for Glory
    by Hal Ashby

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  32. 35.
    The Boys From Brazil
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

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  33. 36.
    Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
    by Charles Barton

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  34. 37.
    Bullets Over Broadway
    by Woody Allen

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    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
    by Robert Wiene

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  36. 39.
    The Caine Mutiny (Collector's Edition)
    by Edward Dmytryk

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  37. 40.
    A Clockwork Orange (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Stanley Kubrick

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    D.O.A.
    by Rudolph Maté

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    The Dark Crystal
    by Jim Henson

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  41. 44.
    Dark Passage (Keepcase)
    by Delmer Daves

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    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    by Robert Wise

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  43. 46.
    Dead of Night
    by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer

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  44. 47.
    Death in Venice
    by Luchino Visconti

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  45. 49.
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    by Jeff Feuerzeig

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  46. 50.
    The Devil Rides Out
    by Terence Fisher

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