Saturday, June 5, 2010

The Cap'n Presents His Movie Meme

As promised, I will now provide you with 239 movies. Feel free to cut and paste the following to your Facebook account to show all of your friends up:

People say there's no such thing as watching "too many movies," but once I filled this out, I started to wonder. The titles are familiar, but how many have you watched? Cut and paste this to your account, place an "X" next to the movies you've seen, and see where you stand.

() Lawrence of Arabia
() The African Queen
() Beetlejuice
() Do the Right Thing
() The Third Man
() Breakfast at Tiffany's
() Forbidden Planet
() The Searchers
() North by Northwest
() Bringing Up Baby
Total:

() The City of Lost Children
() Amelie
() Goldfinger
() Blade Runner
() The Blues Brothers
() The Great Escape
() From Here to Eternity
() The Incredibles
() Metropolis
() Sexy Beast
() Punch-drunk Love
() Enter the Dragon
() Citizen Kane
() Touch of Evil
Total so far:

() M
() The Bicycle Thieves
() La Strada
() 8 1/2
() Jules and Jim
() The 400 Blows
() The Virgin Spring
() The Seventh Seal
() Rashomon
() Seven Samurai
() Yojimbo
Total so far:

() A Fistful of Dollars
() For a Few Dollars More
() The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
() Hang 'em High
() Unforgiven
() Where Eagles Dare
() Dirty Harry
() The Bridges of Madison County
() The Outlaw Josey Wales
() Every Which Way But Loose
Total so far:

() Casablanca
() The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
() The Happening
() The Graduate
() Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
() Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
() Sleeping Beauty
() Alice in Wonderland (1951)
() Young Frankenstein
() Ferris Bueller's Day Off
() Pretty in Pink
Total so far:

() Tron
() The Goonies
() Commando
() The Piano
() Love Story
() Faces of Death
() The Godfather
() The Godfather Part II
() The Godfather Part III
() Apocalypse Now
() The Deer Hunter
() Gojira
Total so far:

() A Fish Called Wanda
() The Fugitive Kind
() Robocop
() The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
() Pootie Tang
() Back to the Future
() Escape from New York
() Troll 2
() Pee Wee's Big Adventure
() The Big Lebowski
() The General
() Pan's Labyrinth
() The House on Haunted Hill
() The Sound of Music
Total so far:

() Dazed and Confused
() Slacker
() The Thing from Another World
() The Thing
() In Bruges
() Oldboy
() Taxi Driver
() Goodfellas
() After Hours
() The Departed
Total so far:

() Time Bandits
() Brazil
() Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
() Dead Man
() Say Anything
() Black Dynamite
() Pineapple Express
() Heathers
() The Fifth Element
() Bull Durham
() Field of Dreams
() Real Genius
() Ed Wood
() Pink Flamingos
() The Natural
Total so far:

() The Rock
() Sunset Boulevard
() Stranger Than Fiction
() The Thief of Bagdad
() Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
() Easy Rider
() The Kid Stays in the Picture
() What's Up, Doc?
() Sling Blade
() Point Blank
() Alien
() The Wild Bunch
() American Graffiti
() Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
() Ghostbusters
() Desperately Seeking Susan
Total so far:

() Network
() Night of the Living Dead
() Doctor Zhivago
() Harlan County, USA
() Jaws
() Close Encounters of the Third Kind
() Caddyshack
() City Lights
() The Fountain
() Cool Hand Luke
() Spartacus
() Annie Hall
Total so far:

() Hoop Dreams
() Slap Shot
() The Apartment
() Singin' in the Rain
() Jackie Brown
() My Fair Lady
() One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
() Chinatown
() The 'Burbs
() Arsenic and Old Lace
() 2001: A Space Odyssey
() A Clockwork Orange
() Full Metal Jacket
() The Shining
Total so far:

() Heat
() Carnival of Souls
() My Own Private Idaho
() Leon: The Professional
() The City of Lost Children
() Monster Squad
() The Thin Blue Line
() Stagecoach
() Heist
() The Jerk
() Bonnie and Clyde
() The Prestige
() The Aristocrats
() South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
() Sleepy Hollow
() Modern Times
() The Gold Rush
() The Great Dictator
Total so far:

() The Maltese Falcon
() A Christmas Story
() It's A Wonderful Life
() Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
() No Country for Old Men
() There Will Be Blood
() Pride and Prejudice
() Howards End
() Elizabeth
() The Big Sleep
Total so far:

() Batman (1989)
() Batman Returns
() Batman Forever
() Batman & Robin
() Batman Begins
() The Dark Knight
Total so far:

() Lost Highway
() The Elephant Man
() Blue Velvet
() Scanners
() Videodrome
() The Exterminator
() Rushmore
() The Royal Tenenbaums
() The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
() Fantastic Mr. Fox
Total so Far:

() Drunken Master 2
() Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior
() Double Indemnity
() Under Siege
() Die Hard
() Avatar
() The Frighteners
() Dog Day Afternoon
() All the President's Men
Total so far:

() Friday the 13th
() The Road Warrior
() Lethal Weapon
() An Officer and a Gentleman
() Dirty Dancing
() Showgirls
() Night of the Lepus
() The Toxic Avenger
() Hearts of Darkness
() A Scanner Darkly
Total so far:

() Conan the Barbarian
() The Nightmare Before Christmas
() Gladiator
() Rock 'n Roll High School
() The Philadelphia Story
() Dracula
() Frankenstein
() The Bride of Frankenstein
() The Wolf Man
() The Mummy
Total so far:

() JFK
() Platoon
() Clerks
() Cannibal! The Musical
() Plan 9 from Outer Space
() The Last Man on Earth
() The Omega Man
() I Am Legend
Total so far:

() Gone with the Wind
() Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
() C.H.U.D.
() Shaft
() Being John Malkovich
() Miller's Crossing
() Hamlet
() Planet of the Apes (1968)
() Robinson Crusoe on Mars
() Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

193, or 191 if you don't count the duplicates. And I'm pretty sure at least a dozen of those were your copies.
jh

Cap'n Howdy said...

That should have fixed it, but if you see any more please let me know. The second sentence could be in reference to several things, so a point of clarification might be handy there too.

Anonymous said...

112, not counting partials
-- The Old Dude