I went through my Netflix ratings and wrote down what ratings I gave each.
I loved 28 movies (5 stars).
I really liked 52 movies (4 stars).
I liked 25 movies (3 stars).
I didn't like 5 movies (2 stars).
Keep in mind three things:
(1) I'm generous when I rate and I'm not sure why. A bunch of 3s should probably be 2s and a bunch of 4s could be 3s or 5s.
(2) Of the 320 movies, these were probably close to the 100 that I wanted to see the most, which might contribute to why I liked most of them.
(3) I made the list and intentionally left off movies I didn't think I'd like, which is another factor.
Here are the 28 movies I've loved:
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (thanks to Christian Larson)
Cooler, The (thanks to Dan Colon)
Dark City
Desperado
El Mariachi
Exterminating Angel, The (thanks to Jordan Polan-Clarke)
Following
Four Rooms
Ghostbusters II
Gran Torino (thanks to Coryn Blank)
High Noon
Into the Wild (thanks to Dan Colon)
Lynch (One)
Oldboy
Punch-Drunk Love (thanks to Dan Colon)
Run Lola Run
Searchers, The
Shadow of a Doubt (thanks to Dan Poeschl)
Shogun Assassin
Sting, The
Stranger Than Fiction
Sullivan's Travels
Taken (thanks to Andrew Cerulli)
This Film is Not Yet Rated
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Virgin Suicides, The
Wizard of Gore (thanks to Steve Payson)
Wrestler, The (thanks to Eric Drewes)
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8.09.2009
4.08.2009
20 Movies in 20 Days
Okay, so I’ve made the list of 320 movies to see. My goal when doing these lists is three movies a week, which I think is totally doable. Sometimes at school I fall behind, but I generally am able to make up for it in the summer.
That’s what makes what I’ve done all the more confusing and astounding to myself. In the first 20 days since I’ve started this new list, I’ve watched 20 movies. I figured it was a good time to rank them or something, in terms of how much I like them.
I think it’d be this:
1 Dark City
2 Synecdoche, New York
3 In Bruges
4 Run Lola Run
5 Wall Street
6 The Lives of Others
7 The Wizard of Gore
8 Elephant
9 Gummo
10 Alien
11 Eulogy
12 Videodrome
13 A History of Violence
14 Fear of a Black Hat
15 Waking Life
16 Paprika
17 Jerry Maguire
18 Saved!
19 Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
20 Employee of the Month
What I do when ranking movies like this is basically decide which I’d be most likely to watch again. That’s how I came up with my favorite movies. I thought, ‘If they were all on TV at the same time, what would I put on?’ I’m pretty sure this is how these 20 would be ranked.
Can I keep up my pace? Do you even care? Stay tuned!
That’s what makes what I’ve done all the more confusing and astounding to myself. In the first 20 days since I’ve started this new list, I’ve watched 20 movies. I figured it was a good time to rank them or something, in terms of how much I like them.
I think it’d be this:
1 Dark City
2 Synecdoche, New York
3 In Bruges
4 Run Lola Run
5 Wall Street
6 The Lives of Others
7 The Wizard of Gore
8 Elephant
9 Gummo
10 Alien
11 Eulogy
12 Videodrome
13 A History of Violence
14 Fear of a Black Hat
15 Waking Life
16 Paprika
17 Jerry Maguire
18 Saved!
19 Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
20 Employee of the Month
What I do when ranking movies like this is basically decide which I’d be most likely to watch again. That’s how I came up with my favorite movies. I thought, ‘If they were all on TV at the same time, what would I put on?’ I’m pretty sure this is how these 20 would be ranked.
Can I keep up my pace? Do you even care? Stay tuned!
4.04.2009
Movie List: Redux
I’ve written on here before about my past movie list (I made up a list of 160 movies to watch). I saw 158 of them (the second and third Lord of the Rings movies still outstanding), so I decided to make a second list. I didn’t know how big to make it. While I was going through the first list, I had somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 movies ready to go, but I didn’t know how many more I’d end up adding.
I asked a ton of friends what five movies I should see, and I got more responses than I anticipated. As it stands now, the list is at 320. There are alternates (in case I can’t find some), so there is somewhere in the neighborhood of about 330-340 movies on (or near) my list. Here’s the 320.
I thought 320 was a good place to draw the line. Aside from the fact that it’s an insane number of movies, it’s also exactly twice the length of my previous list. (As a side note, what I’m scared about is making my next list… 640?) Anyway, my goal of three movies a week would put the end date somewhere around January 1, 2012. That’s fun.
In the two and a half weeks that I’ve been going through this list, though, I’ve seen 16 movies from the list. At this rate, I’ll finish in a year! Too bad I can’t keep this pace up. The 16 I’ve seen have been a good mix of great movies (Synecdoche New York, In Bruges, Dark City, The Lives of Others, Run Lola Run), good movies (Wall Street, Waking Life) and movies so bad that they’re good (The Wizard of Gore, Fear of a Black Hat).
It’s been a solid start so far, but there’s still quite a ways to go.
I asked a ton of friends what five movies I should see, and I got more responses than I anticipated. As it stands now, the list is at 320. There are alternates (in case I can’t find some), so there is somewhere in the neighborhood of about 330-340 movies on (or near) my list. Here’s the 320.
I thought 320 was a good place to draw the line. Aside from the fact that it’s an insane number of movies, it’s also exactly twice the length of my previous list. (As a side note, what I’m scared about is making my next list… 640?) Anyway, my goal of three movies a week would put the end date somewhere around January 1, 2012. That’s fun.
In the two and a half weeks that I’ve been going through this list, though, I’ve seen 16 movies from the list. At this rate, I’ll finish in a year! Too bad I can’t keep this pace up. The 16 I’ve seen have been a good mix of great movies (Synecdoche New York, In Bruges, Dark City, The Lives of Others, Run Lola Run), good movies (Wall Street, Waking Life) and movies so bad that they’re good (The Wizard of Gore, Fear of a Black Hat).
It’s been a solid start so far, but there’s still quite a ways to go.
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