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. 9.
    A Night in Casablanca
    by Archie Mayo

  7. 11.
    Akira
    by Katsuhiro Ohtomo

  8. 12.
    Alfie
    by Lewis Gilbert

  9. 15.

  10. 16.
    Alphaville (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  11. 17.

  12. 18.
    An American in Paris

  13. 19.
    An American Werewolf in London
    by John Landis

  14. 20.
    Animal Crackers
    by Victor Heerman

  15. 21.
    Animals Are Beautiful People

  16. 22.
    The Accused
    by Jonathan Kaplan

  17. 23.
    The Awful Truth

  18. 24.
    The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
    by Irving Reis

  19. 25.
    Bang the Drum Slowly

  20. 26.
    The Bank Dick (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward F. Cline

  21. 27.
    The Beguiled
    by Don Siegel

  22. 28.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

  23. 29.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

  24. 30.
    Big Trouble in Little China
    by John Carpenter

  25. 31.

  26. 32.
    Blow Out

  27. 33.
    Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
    by Lawrence Kasdan

  28. 34.
    Bound for Glory
    by Hal Ashby

  29. 35.
    The Boys From Brazil

  30. 36.
    Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
    by Charles Barton

  31. 37.
    Bullets Over Broadway
    by Woody Allen

  32. 38.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Robert Wiene

  33. 39.

  34. 41.
    D.O.A.

  35. 42.
    Dark City (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
    by Alex Proyas

  36. 43.
    The Dark Crystal
    by Jim Henson

  37. 44.
    Dark Passage (Keepcase)

  38. 45.
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    by Robert Wise

  39. 46.
    Dead of Night
    by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer

  40. 47.
    Death in Venice

  41. 49.
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    by Jeff Feuerzeig

  42. 50.
    The Devil Rides Out

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Created by kthejoker on Jul 25, 2008.
 

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