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

  2. 2.
    10 Rillington Place [Region 2]
    by Richard Fleischer

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

  4. 5.
    8 Women
    by François Ozon

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

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

  7. 9.
    A Night in Casablanca
    by Archie Mayo

  8. 11.
    Akira
    by Katsuhiro Ohtomo

  9. 12.
    Alfie
    by Lewis Gilbert

  10. 14.
    All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alan J. Pakula

  11. 15.

  12. 16.
    Alphaville (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  13. 17.

  14. 18.
    An American in Paris

  15. 19.
    An American Werewolf in London
    by John Landis

  16. 20.
    Animal Crackers
    by Victor Heerman

  17. 21.
    Animals Are Beautiful People

  18. 22.
    The Accused
    by Jonathan Kaplan

  19. 23.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

  20. 24.
    The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
    by Irving Reis

  21. 25.
    Bang the Drum Slowly

  22. 26.
    The Bank Dick (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward F. Cline

  23. 27.
    The Beguiled
    by Don Siegel

  24. 28.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

  25. 29.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

  26. 30.
    Big Trouble in Little China
    by John Carpenter

  27. 31.

  28. 32.
    Blow Out
    by Brian De Palma

  29. 33.
    Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
    by Lawrence Kasdan

  30. 34.
    Bound for Glory
    by Hal Ashby

  31. 35.
    The Boys From Brazil

  32. 36.
    Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
    by Charles Barton

  33. 37.
    Bullets Over Broadway
    by Woody Allen

  34. 38.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Robert Wiene

  35. 39.
    The Caine Mutiny (Combat Classics)
    by Edward Dmytryk

  36. 41.
    D.O.A.
    by Rudolph Mate

  37. 42.
    Dark City (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
    by Alex Proyas

  38. 43.
    The Dark Crystal
    by Jim Henson

  39. 44.
    Dark Passage (Keepcase)
    by Delmer Daves

  40. 45.
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    by Robert Wise

  41. 46.
    Dead of Night
    by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer

  42. 47.
    Death in Venice

  43. 49.
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    by Jeff Feuerzeig

  44. 50.
    The Devil Rides Out

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Created by kthejoker on Jul 25, 2008.
 

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