I chose to use the list from 1998 because it didn't have Titanic on it.

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like It Hot
15. Star Wars
16. All About Eve
17. The African Queen
18. Psycho
19. Chinatown
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. The Grapes of Wrath
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Raging Bull
25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
27. Bonnie and Clyde
28. Apocalypse Now
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
31. Annie Hall
32. The Godfather Part II
33. High Noon
34. To Kill a Mockingbird
35. It Happened One Night
36. Midnight Cowboy
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. Double Indemnity
39. Doctor Zhivago
40. North by Northwest
41. West Side Story
42. Rear Window
43. King Kong
44. The Birth of a Nation
45. A Streetcar Named Desire
46. A Clockwork Orange
47. Taxi Driver
48. Jaws
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
51. The Philadelphia Story
52. From Here to Eternity
53. Amadeus
54. All Quiet on the Western Front
55. The Sound of Music
56. M*A*S*H
57. The Third Man
58. Fantasia
59. Rebel Without a Cause
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark
61. Vertigo
62. Tootsie
63. Stagecoach
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
65. The Silence of the Lambs
66. Network
67. The Manchurian Candidate
68. An American in Paris
69. Shane
70. The French Connection
71. Forrest Gump
72. Ben-Hur
73. Wuthering Heights
74. The Gold Rush
75. Dances with Wolves
76. City Lights
77. American Graffiti
78. Rocky
79. The Deer Hunter
80. The Wild Bunch
81. Modern Times
82. Giant
83. Platoon
84. Fargo
85. Duck Soup
86. Mutiny on the Bounty
87. Frankenstein
88. Easy Rider
89. Patton
90. The Jazz Singer
91. My Fair Lady
92. A Place in the Sun
93. The Apartment
94. Goodfellas
95. Pulp Fiction
96. The Searchers
97. Bringing Up Baby
98. Unforgiven
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy

Seen, but saw a long time ago so don't remember
Saw an edited version, please can I just leave it at that?
Watched

I continue to have no desire whatsoever to watch "Grapes of Wrath" or "Shane", but I think I've made some progress since the last time.

The difference between now and then would have been more impressive if I had been correct in believing that "Rebel Without A Cause" and "Rocky" had been watched more recently than 2008.

Movie Quotes Meme

Via Dan and Srah and reposted from Facebook

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search or other search functions

1. "Last night, I counted five thousand sheep in those three beds, so I had to have another bed to sleep in. You wouldn't want me to sleep with the sheep, would you?" A Night at the Opera, guessed by Srah

2. "He is not Judge Judy and Executioner!" Hot Fuzz, guessed by Srah

3. "Tea can do many things, Jane, but it can't bring back the dead." Death at a Funeral, guessed by Srah

4. "You blew the best thing you had going for you. You blew the element of surprise." The Italian Job, guessed by Jess

5. "Nobody messes with a dwarf in a red raincoat." Unconditional Love, guessed by my Mom

6. "Indeed it is. I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible." Pride & Prejudice, guessed by Srah

7. "Oh, the English, and their STUPID sense of fair play!"

8. "Oh! It was the killer! I saw him... he was... horrible. He was a tall guy... short too. And he was wearing this really nice suit, though it was kinda shabby. And he, and he had blackish, brownish, reddish, blondish, kinda whitish hair. And, and he definitely went downstairs, or, or maybe it was up."

9. "Come on! If you don't drink your fatty drinks, you'll never really achieve quality cellulite." Sliding Doors, guessed by Srah

10. "For 90% of a given day, you're adjustin' your bollocks... scratchin' your bollocks... or otherwise playin' with your bollocks!" The Closer You Get/American Women, guessed by Srah

11. "Well, nobody's perfect." Some Like It Hot, guessed by Srah

12. "No. If you were your father, I doubt very much if I would have kissed you."

13. "If you fit into my pants I will kill myself." While You Were Sleeping, guessed by Srah

14. "Right, I'm regular, I am a regular man. I want... but that's not the point! The point is, who are YOU? WHO ARE YOU?" A Life Less Ordinary, guessed by Srah

15. "Croup. Of the croup, she died, leaving me and my mentally ill brother, 'ere, to fend for ourselves. Murdered, she was, in 'er bed by one of 'er johns. Y'see, sir, she sold 'erself to feed us. She compromised 'erself for oursakes, leaving us all alone and 'ungry and 'omeless and my poor brother needs a brain operation and my glaucoma's gettin' worse and sir... SIR!... SIR? I can't see you sir! I can't see you sir! AHH... AHH... I'M BLIND!... AHHHHHHH!" The Impostors, guessed by Srah

My progress on the AFI's (orginal) list of the Greatest 100 American films

I chose to use the list from 1998 because it didn't have Titanic on it.

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like It Hot
15. Star Wars
16. All About Eve
17. The African Queen
18. Psycho
19. Chinatown
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. The Grapes of Wrath
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Raging Bull
25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
27. Bonnie and Clyde
28. Apocalypse Now
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
31. Annie Hall
32. The Godfather Part II
33. High Noon
34. To Kill a Mockingbird
35. It Happened One Night
36. Midnight Cowboy
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. Double Indemnity
39. Doctor Zhivago
40. North by Northwest
41. West Side Story
42. Rear Window
43. King Kong
44. The Birth of a Nation
45. A Streetcar Named Desire
46. A Clockwork Orange
47. Taxi Driver
48. Jaws
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
51. The Philadelphia Story
52. From Here to Eternity
53. Amadeus
54. All Quiet on the Western Front
55. The Sound of Music
56. M*A*S*H
57. The Third Man
58. Fantasia
59. Rebel Without a Cause
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark
61. Vertigo
62. Tootsie
63. Stagecoach
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
65. The Silence of the Lambs
66. Network
67. The Manchurian Candidate
68. An American in Paris
69. Shane
70. The French Connection
71. Forrest Gump
72. Ben-Hur
73. Wuthering Heights
74. The Gold Rush
75. Dances with Wolves
76. City Lights
77. American Graffiti
78. Rocky
79. The Deer Hunter
80. The Wild Bunch
81. Modern Times
82. Giant
83. Platoon
84. Fargo
85. Duck Soup
86. Mutiny on the Bounty
87. Frankenstein
88. Easy Rider
89. Patton
90. The Jazz Singer
91. My Fair Lady
92. A Place in the Sun
93. The Apartment
94. Goodfellas
95. Pulp Fiction
96. The Searchers
97. Bringing Up Baby
98. Unforgiven
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy

Seen, but saw a long time ago so don't remember
Saw an edited version, please can I just leave it at that?
Watched

I don't know if I'll ever complete this list because there are a lot of movies on here that I have no interest in watching *cough* Shane *cough* The Grapes of Wrath *cough*.

What's that? I disappeared for months?

I'm trying to get into the Christmas spirit by watching Christmas movies, so I'm trying to make a list of all the movies to watch before the day (in no order, other than the order I think of them in).

1. The Muppet Christmas Carol (Michael Caine! Muppets!)
   
2. Elf
3. The Polar Express
4. Christmas in Connecticut (Mmmmmm, Dennis Morgan)
5. White Christmas (Danny Kaye! Dean Jagger is adorable! Mary Wickes! Dancing!)
6. Die Hard
7. Die Hard 2: Die Harder
8. A Blackadder Christmas Carol
9. Miracle on 34th Street
10. In the Good Old Summertime (I'm really sorry I thought you died thirty years ago, Van Johnson!)
11. Love Actually
12. Holiday Inn
13. While You Were Sleeping
14. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
15. A Christmas Story (Blergh)
16. Scrooge
17. A Christmas Carol
18. Annie
19. The Bells of St. Mary
20. Going My Way
21. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Clearly this was intended as a joke, because Chevy Chase sucks.)
22. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
23. It's A Wonderful Life
24. The Man Who Came to Dinner (A fellow alum again! Penguins!)
25. Scrooged
26. Home Alone
27. Prancer (I've never heard of this.)
28. Bridget Jones's Diary
29. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    

Feel free to comment your suggestions.

"I just remembered my Charlemagne."

Marie and I have just decided that we both want to be Sean Connery when we grow up.

Mamma Mia!

As you may have heard, Mamma Mia! is coming to the big screen! If you like ABBA, this is good news. If you are my father or godfather, this is terrifying news because the women in your life will probably drag you to see it in the cinema, just like they did in the theater.

This is not what has me so excited. The fact that Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Amanda Seyfried are in it is not the exciting thing either. The exciting thing is that there are rumors of the casting of the father of Sweden's Sexiest Man 1999 and Mr. Darcy as Bill and Harry!

Oh crap. That means they sing.

Whatever, she likes Thomas Ian Nicholas

As Sarah is back for the family viewing of 1776, I feel it is time to come clean.

When I was younger, about six, I had crushes on these two men: this one and this one*.

I tell you this so that Sarah can never use them as ammunition against me.

* He likes American History and one of his favorite movies is a Bond film.....heehee.

Reasons why I almost peed my pants during "The DaVinci Code"

#1 - There was a preview for the new James Bond movie. *snort*
#2 - As the child of archivists, every time they touched ancient documents I screamed a little inside.
#3 - The characters were very different than I expected them to be, so I kept expecting stuff to happen and it didn't.
#4 - Scenes in Scotland = Happy me!

Also, I just really had to pee. Don't buy large drinks during long movies.

It was "scrumtralescent."

At the request of Cheryl, I have finally decided to blog about The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold.

This is the greatest movie ever. Nothing about this movie sucked at all. It was maaaaaaahvelous.

*crickets*

Ok, that was a lie.

I knew this movie was going to suck before I watched it and I was not disappointed. The sucking began when the movie started at a skating competition, in which the star's father was doing the play-by-play with Oksana Baiul. The sucking continued with the sniping between the male and female leads - it was cute and well done in the original film, now it's just stupid and poorly written.

I did laugh when the male lead was learning how to skate (yeah, he had never been on ice skates before) and the five year old girls in his skating class were shouting "Toe-pick!" at him. I wanted to hit the female lead when she did the same.

Also, the male lead being able to go from not ever skating to being an Olympic calibre skater within three months - not going to happen.

Apparently, Kate and Doug DID win the gold medal - there was a crappily Photoshopped picture of them that appeared to be from the 60s, 70s, or 80s, definitely not 1992 in Albertville.

IT SUCKED SO BAD and the female lead was the most painful part.

Darn you, Joel!

Joel let me borrow some of his movies. I borrowed Braveheart and For the Love of the Game. I started crying at the end of one. Take a guess which.....

OMG

They're making a sequel to The Cutting Edge. Without D.B. Sweeney.

Whatever. It's going to suck without him.

Oh gross

Does Kate Bosworth at least know who Lois Lane is? She certainly didn't know who Sandra Dee was.

If the only redeming feature is Colin Firth in leather pants, why would I go see it?

The answer: Because it has Colin Firth wearing leather pants. I want to punch Amanda Bynes. She gets to be in a movie with Colin Firth. I think I'm going to go watch Pride and Prejudice. Darn her....

Smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, doesn't eat

That pretty much sums up Megan's celebrity crush. We discussed him at the pancake supper before we went to see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It made me feel better because she forgot my celebrity crush's name and calls him "Big Nose" instead.

That's weird

I am the number 161 search request for "bowling for columbine" quotes. Yay for me...maybe I should actually go see it.

I am not kidding Disney, it's time to stop!

Apparently, Disney feels that all of its movies require sequels. We've had 3 Aladdins (possibly more), 2 Hunchback of Notre Dames, 2 Little Mermaids, 2 Cinderellas, 2 Pocahontases (and many more others), but they are now making this...

Magnum and the Last Crusade

Yesterday morning, after my 8am viewing of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, I watched Magnum P.I. In case you didn't know, Tom Selleck was supposed to play Indiana Jones, but was busy with his new series, Magnum P.I. and the role went to Harrison Ford instead. Anyway, on this episode, Magnum was searching with an ex-fiancee and Higgins for the Lost Art. Magnum dressed like Indy, acted like Indy, the plot was like that of an Indiana Jones movie and the music was similar. It was funny and I wished that I still had IJ and the Last Crusade here with me at school.

Heehee

One of my favorite characters in the movie Can't Hardly Wait was the Foreign Exchange Student. I read his bio on IMDB. It turns out that Alexander Martin is not only American, but the grandson of Dean Martin. That is cool! Dean Martin is one of my favorite singers.

I am such a nerd.

I watched this movie last night (but only the last hour) and today I'm watching the last hour again. But this time I thought ahead.

Why would anyone make this film?

yay...i have my own blog! snow dogs sounds like a REALLY stupid movie.