OK, I know what you are all thinking…
“John, it has been three months since your last post – you stink as a blogger!”
And you would be right. I have several reasons – but really no excuses. I have kind of let myself get sidetracked by a number of things. I am also likely get sidetracked again in just a few weeks (for those of you living under a rock – World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is just a few weeks from release – woot!).
However, I promise to try to make a better effort to keep this little journey on track.
And if I fail it will be Beth’s fault. :)
Without further ado, here is the next four movies on our list:
94. An American in Paris (1951) -- Blu Ray
93. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) -- DVD
92. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966) -- DVD
91. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) -- Blu ray
John
THIS IS BETH - IT WILL NOT BE MY FAULT...NOTHING EVER IS MY FAULT REMEMBER! LOL
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Movie List for May, 2010
Hey Folks,
Well, we are gaining some ground as far as the blog to real-life is concerned, but not as much as would like. In our defense however, Beth and I have been fairly busy this month (July). In case there is in fact anyone out there reading this blog, that doesn’t know Beth and I in real life, Beth and I got married this month. Yay us!! So, the last couple of months have been fairly hectic. I promise, however, to make a more concerted effort to post more frequently in the future and bring this Blog and real-life more into synch.
With that in mind, here are the movies that we will be watching in “May”:
98. Goodfellas (1990)
97. Wuthering Heights (1939)
96. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
95. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
John
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
The First 25: A Recap
Hey Folks,
So, we are 1/5 of the way through the list. I think that calls for a little recap. Here are the movies that make up the first 25:
125. Toy Story (1995)
124. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
123. Blade Runner (1982)
122. Do the Right Thing (1989)
121. The Last Picture Show (1971)
120. A Place in the Sun (1951)
119. My Fair Lady (1964)
118. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
117. The Jazz Singer (1927)
116. Swing Time (1936)
115. Patton (1970)
114. Frankenstein (1931)
113. 12 Angry Men (1957)
112. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
111. A Night at the Opera (1935)
110. The Sixth Sense (1999)
109. Fargo (1996)
108. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
107. Giant (1956)
106. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
105. Spartacus (1960)
104. All the President’s Men (1976)
103. Pulp Fiction (1994)
102. Dances with Wolves (1990)
101. Titanic (1997)
Plus we had two “Bonus Movies” that got added to the list:
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
El Dorado (1967)
Making for a grand total of 27 movies screened so far. One thing for certain, those 27 movies do represent a nice cross section of flim history. We have 2 movies from the 1920’s, 5 movies from the 1930’s, 1 movie from the 1940’s, 3 movies from the 1950’s, 4 movies from the 1960’s, 3 movies from the 1970’s, 3 movies from the 1980’s, and 6 movies from the 1990’s. So, the 1990’s are the most well represented decade for movies so far.
Keeping in mind that our Ranking Scale (which we borrowed from Netflix) is: 1 Star - Hated It, 2 Stars - Didn't Like It, 3 Stars - Liked It, 4 Stars - Really Liked It, 5 Stars - Loved It; from a Ranking standpoint, the films break down like this:
1. Pulp Fiction (5 Stars)
2. Toy Story (5 Stars)
3. A Night at the Opera (5 Stars)
4. 12 Angry Men (4 ½ Stars)
5. Patton (4 ½ Stars)
6. Dances with Wolves (4 ½ Stars)
7. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (4 ½ Stars)
8. My Fair Lady (4 ½ Stars)
9. The Sixth Sense (4 ¼ Stars)
10. Do the Right Thing (4 Stars)
11. Fargo (4 Stars)
12. Blade Runner (4 Stars)
13. Spartacus (4 Stars)
14. Swing Time (4 Stars)
15. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (4 Stars)
16. Sophie’s Choice (3 ½ Stars)
17. El Dorado (3 ¼ Stars)**
18. Titanic (3 Stars)
19. Giant (3 Stars)
20. Bride of Frankenstein (3 Stars)
21. The Jazz Singer (3 Stars)
22. The Last Picture Show (3 Stars)
23. Frankenstein (3 Stars)
24. Mutiny on the Bounty (3 Stars)
So, we are 1/5 of the way through the list. I think that calls for a little recap. Here are the movies that make up the first 25:
125. Toy Story (1995)
124. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
123. Blade Runner (1982)
122. Do the Right Thing (1989)
121. The Last Picture Show (1971)
120. A Place in the Sun (1951)
119. My Fair Lady (1964)
118. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
117. The Jazz Singer (1927)
116. Swing Time (1936)
115. Patton (1970)
114. Frankenstein (1931)
113. 12 Angry Men (1957)
112. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
111. A Night at the Opera (1935)
110. The Sixth Sense (1999)
109. Fargo (1996)
108. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
107. Giant (1956)
106. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
105. Spartacus (1960)
104. All the President’s Men (1976)
103. Pulp Fiction (1994)
102. Dances with Wolves (1990)
101. Titanic (1997)
Plus we had two “Bonus Movies” that got added to the list:
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
El Dorado (1967)
Making for a grand total of 27 movies screened so far. One thing for certain, those 27 movies do represent a nice cross section of flim history. We have 2 movies from the 1920’s, 5 movies from the 1930’s, 1 movie from the 1940’s, 3 movies from the 1950’s, 4 movies from the 1960’s, 3 movies from the 1970’s, 3 movies from the 1980’s, and 6 movies from the 1990’s. So, the 1990’s are the most well represented decade for movies so far.
Keeping in mind that our Ranking Scale (which we borrowed from Netflix) is: 1 Star - Hated It, 2 Stars - Didn't Like It, 3 Stars - Liked It, 4 Stars - Really Liked It, 5 Stars - Loved It; from a Ranking standpoint, the films break down like this:
1. Pulp Fiction (5 Stars)
2. Toy Story (5 Stars)
3. A Night at the Opera (5 Stars)
4. 12 Angry Men (4 ½ Stars)
5. Patton (4 ½ Stars)
6. Dances with Wolves (4 ½ Stars)
7. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (4 ½ Stars)
8. My Fair Lady (4 ½ Stars)
9. The Sixth Sense (4 ¼ Stars)
10. Do the Right Thing (4 Stars)
11. Fargo (4 Stars)
12. Blade Runner (4 Stars)
13. Spartacus (4 Stars)
14. Swing Time (4 Stars)
15. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (4 Stars)
16. Sophie’s Choice (3 ½ Stars)
17. El Dorado (3 ¼ Stars)**
18. Titanic (3 Stars)
19. Giant (3 Stars)
20. Bride of Frankenstein (3 Stars)
21. The Jazz Singer (3 Stars)
22. The Last Picture Show (3 Stars)
23. Frankenstein (3 Stars)
24. Mutiny on the Bounty (3 Stars)
25. Yankee Doodle Dandy (3 Stars)
26. All the President’s Men (2 ½ Stars)
27. A Place in the Sun (1 ½ Stars)
Pulp Fiction, Toy Story, and A Night at the Opera are the only movies so far with perfect scores, while Yankee Doodle Dandy, All the President’s Men and the pathetically bad A Place in the Sun round out the bottom of the list.
We will revisit this again after the next 25 movies, but at the moment, that is how everything has shaken out. So, I guess all that is left to do at this point is to plow on ahead into the next 25 films – the next on the list being Number 100, the 1967 Sidney Poitier classic, In the Heat of the Night.
John
** What can I say, Official Friends of Beth and John’s Movie Odyssey – TJ and Jeff – both really like this movie., so we have a bit of a statistical aberration on our hands.
Pulp Fiction, Toy Story, and A Night at the Opera are the only movies so far with perfect scores, while Yankee Doodle Dandy, All the President’s Men and the pathetically bad A Place in the Sun round out the bottom of the list.
We will revisit this again after the next 25 movies, but at the moment, that is how everything has shaken out. So, I guess all that is left to do at this point is to plow on ahead into the next 25 films – the next on the list being Number 100, the 1967 Sidney Poitier classic, In the Heat of the Night.
John
** What can I say, Official Friends of Beth and John’s Movie Odyssey – TJ and Jeff – both really like this movie., so we have a bit of a statistical aberration on our hands.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Movie List for March, 2010
We are slowly getting the blog caught up to real life. Yay! Hopefully, we won’t have to continue our little temporary fiction that our blogging and our movie viewing are all happening simultaneously for much longer. In the mean time, however, here are the movies will be “watching” in the month of March, 2010. We encourage those of you who want to, to “watch along with us". The movies are:
109. Fargo (1996)
107. Giant (1956)
105. Spartacus (1960)
103. Pulp Fiction (1994)
John
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Movie List for February, 2010
Hey Folks,
In continuing with our little temporary fiction that our blogging and are viewing are all happening at the same time, here are the movies will be “watching” in the month of February, 2010. We encourage those of you who want to, to “watch along with us". The movies are:
117. The Jazz Singer (1927)
116. Swing Time (1936)
115. Patton (1970)
114. Frankenstein (1931)
113. 12 Angry Men (1957)
112. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
111. A Night at the Opera (1935)
John
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Our Rating System!
To rate the top 125 movies we are watching, we have borrowed the Netflix "5 Star" Rating system.....
Here is the rating system
1 Star - Hated It
2 Stars - Didn't Like It
3 Stars - Liked It
4 Stars - Really Liked It
5 Stars - Loved It
Since John and I both score each movie individually, there will be times where the numbers of Stars are averaged....For example, if I rate a movie a 2 and John rates the same movie a 4...we will average it out to be a 3!
This movie watching project has been so exciting. I have watched movies I've never heard of before and they range from silent movies from the 20's to the great movies such as "The Godfather" (that's further up the list LOL). It will take us some time to watch the whole list (We are thinking maybe 2 years or a little longer)...but it's been great!
I hope everyone enjoys this adventure of ours as much as we do.
Here is the rating system
1 Star - Hated It
2 Stars - Didn't Like It
3 Stars - Liked It
4 Stars - Really Liked It
5 Stars - Loved It
Since John and I both score each movie individually, there will be times where the numbers of Stars are averaged....For example, if I rate a movie a 2 and John rates the same movie a 4...we will average it out to be a 3!
This movie watching project has been so exciting. I have watched movies I've never heard of before and they range from silent movies from the 20's to the great movies such as "The Godfather" (that's further up the list LOL). It will take us some time to watch the whole list (We are thinking maybe 2 years or a little longer)...but it's been great!
I hope everyone enjoys this adventure of ours as much as we do.
What the Heck is this all about?
As the brief description at the top of the page suggests, the purpose of this blog is to document the adventure of a guy and a gal watching the 125 (actually 123, but more on that later) movies that make up the two AFI "100 Years… 100 movies" lists. Why are we doing this? For the same reason why people climb mountians -- becuase the lists were there. That, and the fact that it sounded like a good idea when we out drinking with our friends one night. :)
For those of you that do not know about these lists, a brief description is in order.
In 1997 and again in 2007, The American Film Institute created lists of the 100 greatest American movies (One could argue that movies such as Lawrence of Arabia and The Third Man are more accurately described as British movies – they simply had Americans producing and / or acting in them – but that is a discussion for another post). As one would probably guess, these two lists were obviously not the same. Not only were the rankings different but each list contained 23 movies that were not on the other one. So, to make things easier on ourselves, Beth and I decided to create one list. We combined these two lists in the follow manner:
First, the twenty-three movies that did not appear on the 1997 list, but did appeared on the 2007 list, were given ranks of 101 - 123 based on their position in the 2007 list. For example, The General (ranked 18th in 2007), did not appear on the 1997 list, but since it was the highest ranking "new" film on the 2007 list, we placed it on the 1997 list as if it held the 101st position; Intolerance (ranked 49th in 2007) was placed at 102nd; Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (ranked 50th in 2007) was placed at 103rd on the 1997 list, and so on.
Second, the 23 movies from the 1997 list that did not make the 2007 list were assigned ranking of 101-123, based upon were they ranked on the original 1997 list. So, Doctor Zhivago (ranked 39th in 1997) was assigned the 101st position on the 2007 list; The Birth of a Nation (ranked 44th in 1997) was assigned the 102nd position on the 2007 list; From Here to Eternity (ranked 52nd in 1997) was assigned the 103rd position in the 2007 list; and so on.
Third, the numerical rankings given the combined list of 123 movies was then averaged, to come up with a single value. I then re-ordered the list based on that new “combined” ranking.
Then we added the other two Lord of the Rings movies to the list (giving them the same value as The Fellowship of the Ring). In our opinion, more so than any other sequels we can think of, those three movies are much more one really long single movie than three separate ones – plus it made the list the 125 movies long, which feels more “complete” than 123. :)
Finally, I adjusted the list slightly for "continuity". For example, if you were watching the movies in ascending order (starting with # 125, obviously) -- which is what Beth and I are doing – watching Godfather II before The Godfather would be chronologically incorrect. So, despite the fact The Godfather ranked higher on the list than Godfather II, I moved The Godfather, Part II up about 20 spots to be ranked "ahead" of The Godfather, so that we would end up watching The Godfather first.
This little odyssey of ours started back in December, 2009, and as of today, Beth and I have watched movies #125 - #101 already, but fear not, we will be posting our views on those movies as well the movies #100 - #1 as we watch them from now on. We invite you to watch these movies along with us and comment on them as well.
There will likely be some additional “preliminary” posts to follow before we get into the actual movie discussions – but we will get to the movies soon enough. :)
John
For those of you that do not know about these lists, a brief description is in order.
In 1997 and again in 2007, The American Film Institute created lists of the 100 greatest American movies (One could argue that movies such as Lawrence of Arabia and The Third Man are more accurately described as British movies – they simply had Americans producing and / or acting in them – but that is a discussion for another post). As one would probably guess, these two lists were obviously not the same. Not only were the rankings different but each list contained 23 movies that were not on the other one. So, to make things easier on ourselves, Beth and I decided to create one list. We combined these two lists in the follow manner:
First, the twenty-three movies that did not appear on the 1997 list, but did appeared on the 2007 list, were given ranks of 101 - 123 based on their position in the 2007 list. For example, The General (ranked 18th in 2007), did not appear on the 1997 list, but since it was the highest ranking "new" film on the 2007 list, we placed it on the 1997 list as if it held the 101st position; Intolerance (ranked 49th in 2007) was placed at 102nd; Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (ranked 50th in 2007) was placed at 103rd on the 1997 list, and so on.
Second, the 23 movies from the 1997 list that did not make the 2007 list were assigned ranking of 101-123, based upon were they ranked on the original 1997 list. So, Doctor Zhivago (ranked 39th in 1997) was assigned the 101st position on the 2007 list; The Birth of a Nation (ranked 44th in 1997) was assigned the 102nd position on the 2007 list; From Here to Eternity (ranked 52nd in 1997) was assigned the 103rd position in the 2007 list; and so on.
Third, the numerical rankings given the combined list of 123 movies was then averaged, to come up with a single value. I then re-ordered the list based on that new “combined” ranking.
Then we added the other two Lord of the Rings movies to the list (giving them the same value as The Fellowship of the Ring). In our opinion, more so than any other sequels we can think of, those three movies are much more one really long single movie than three separate ones – plus it made the list the 125 movies long, which feels more “complete” than 123. :)
Finally, I adjusted the list slightly for "continuity". For example, if you were watching the movies in ascending order (starting with # 125, obviously) -- which is what Beth and I are doing – watching Godfather II before The Godfather would be chronologically incorrect. So, despite the fact The Godfather ranked higher on the list than Godfather II, I moved The Godfather, Part II up about 20 spots to be ranked "ahead" of The Godfather, so that we would end up watching The Godfather first.
This little odyssey of ours started back in December, 2009, and as of today, Beth and I have watched movies #125 - #101 already, but fear not, we will be posting our views on those movies as well the movies #100 - #1 as we watch them from now on. We invite you to watch these movies along with us and comment on them as well.
There will likely be some additional “preliminary” posts to follow before we get into the actual movie discussions – but we will get to the movies soon enough. :)
John
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