Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Movie Madness, on my part.

I enjoy movies. I like to think that I've seen a large number of movies, and would know quite a bit about cinema too. Now, I'm bragging, far from it actually. For a while now I've known that despite all the films I've seen, there are a near unsurpassable amount of 'classics' or must-see films that I have not seen. What makes this worse is that I have a serious amount of said classics/must-sees at home on DVD, but have never watched.
So I've decided it is time to take action. Never again shall conversations among housemates read

'Have you seen Blaah*?'
'Yeah it's class!'
Me: 'Nope, never got round to watching it.'
'David, you're a disgrace!'

*Blaah is not an actual movie, but if anyone wants to make it, please send me it when your done! :)

So as of last weekend, I have started to watch every unwatched DVD in my possession.
From memory the following are DVDs I won but have not seen:

  • Heat

  • Casino

  • Goodfellas

  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

  • Battle Royale

  • North By Northwest

  • Giant

  • Maltese Falcon

  • Three Colours trilogy

  • Pan's Labyrinth

  • 12 Angry Men

  • Casablanca

  • Citizen Kane

  • Raging Bull

  • The Elephant Man

  • Strangers on a Train

  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

  • The African Queen

  • Dial M for Murder

  • Mystic River

  • Now to the above list add the following films which I haven't seen but don't have. Still not excusable I know, so if anyone wants to loan me some, that'd be a wee bit awesome alright!

  • Godfather trilogy

  • Alien series

  • Rocky series

  • Rambo series

  • Snatch

  • Grosse Point Blank

  • Schindler's List

  • Any Sergio Leone films

  • Predator Series

  • Låt den rätte komma in

  • Memento

  • Evil Dead series

  • Pi

  • Die Hard 1,2,3

  • Independence Day

  • Hard Boiled

  • Lethal Weapon series

  • Fargo

  • The Big Lebowski

  • ...of the Dead series

  • Se7en


Just for the record I chose Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells and High Fidelity as the movies to kick start this plan!

Please leave other suggestions in the comments section!

/buys popcorn company


8 comments:

  1. You've never watched Alien or Predator? David, you're a disgrace! ;) I want to watch Pan's Labyrinth for the HANDEYES. Watch Låt den rätte komma in!

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  2. Ooh I've heard good things about it!

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  3. I have Låt den rätte komma in if you want it

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  4. Sweet, I'll get it off you when we start filming!

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  5. I will make you watch the ones on my list.
    Movie Marathon FTW!

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  6. Can I borrow Dial M for Murder? After you check it from your list of course. : )

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  7. Can lend you "Memento" David, it has to be seen! :D

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