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. 201.
    Taking Off
    by Milos Forman

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  2. 202.
    Tarnation

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  3. 204.
    Tenant (1976) (Ws Sub)

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  4. 205.
    The Thin Blue Line
    by Errol Morris

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  5. 208.
    To Have and Have Not (Keepcase)
    by Howard Hawks

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  6. 209.
    Top Hat
    by Mark Sandrich

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  7. 210.
    El Topo
    by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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  8. 211.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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  9. 212.
    Support Your Local Sheriff
    by Burt Kennedy

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  10. 213.
    Suspicion

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  11. 214.
    Swing Time
    by George Stevens

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  13. 216.
    Ulzana's Raid
    by Robert Aldrich

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  14. 217.
    Umberto D. - Criterion Collection
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  15. 218.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Philip Kaufman

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  16. 219.
    Unfaithfully Yours (Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

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  17. 221.
    The Verdict (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Sidney Lumet

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  18. 222.
    The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

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  19. 223.
    Walkabout - Criterion Collection
    by Nicolas Roeg

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  20. 224.
    Westworld
    by Michael Crichton

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  21. 225.
    Where Eagles Dare
    by Brian G. Hutton

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  22. 226.
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    Whistle Down the Wind
    by Bryan Forbes

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  23. 227.
    Wife vs. Secretary
    by Clarence Brown

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  25. 230.
    Winter Light
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  27. 232.
    Witness For the Prosecution
    by Billy Wilder

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  28. 233.
    The Wolf Man
    by George Waggner

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  29. 234.
    Wonder Boys

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  30. 235.
    Woyzeck
    by Werner Herzog

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  31. 236.
    The Yakuza
    by Sydney Pollack

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  32. 237.
    Yojimbo - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  33. 238.
    Young Mr. Lincoln - Criterion Collection
    by John Ford

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  34. 239.
    Zelig

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  35. 240.
    The Mirror
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  36. 241.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  37. 242.
    Wall-E

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  38. 243.
    The Dark Knight
    by Christopher Nolan

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  39. 244.
    The Pianist

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  40. 245.
    Used Cars
    by Robert Zemeckis

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  41. 246.
    Legend (Ultimate Edition)
    by Ridley Scott

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  42. 247.
    Dragonslayer
    by Matthew Robbins

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  43. 248.
    Hancock [Theatrical Release]

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  44. 249.
    Breach (Widescreen Edition)
    by Billy Ray

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  45. 250.
    Blood & Black Lace
    by Mario Bava

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