30 June 2010

The List

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. Il buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo (1966)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Toy Story 3 (2010)
7. Schindler's List (1993)
8. 12 Angry Men (1957)
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
10. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
11. The Dark Knight (2008)
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
13. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
14. Shichinin no Samurai (1954)
15. Casablanca (1942)
16. Goodfellas (1990)
17. Fight Club (1999)
18. Cidade de Deus (2002)
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
20. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
21. Rear Window (1954)
22. Psycho (1960)
23. The Usual Suspects (1995)
24. C'era Una Volta il West (1968)
25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
26. The Matrix (1999)
27. Se7en (1995)
28. Memento (2000)
29. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
30. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
31. Sunset Blvd (1950)
32. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
33. North by Northwest (1959)
34. Citizen Kane (1941)
35. Léon (1994)
36. Apocalypse Now (1979)
37. Forrest Gump (1994)
38. American Beauty (1999)
39. American History X (1998)
40. Taxi Driver (1976)
41. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
42. Vertigo (1958)
43. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
44. Alien (1979)
45. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
46. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
47. WALL·E (2008)
48. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
49. The Shining (1980)
50. Paths of Glory (1957)
51. The Departed (2006)
52. The Pianist (2002)
53. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
54. Aliens (1986)
55. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (2001)
56. Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
57. M (1931)
58. Double Indemnity (1944)
59. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
60. Chinatown (1974)
61. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
62. L.A. Confidential (1997)
63. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
64. The Third Man (1949)
65. Das Boot (1981)
66. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
67. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
68. City Lights (1931)
69. El Laberinto del Fauno (2006)
70. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
71. Raging Bull (1980)
72. The Prestige (2006)
73. Back to the Future (1985)
74. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
75. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
76. La Vita è Bella (1997)
77. Modern Times (1936)
78. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
79. Some Like It Hot (1959)
80. Amadeus (1984)
81. Der Untergang (2004)
82. Up (2009)
83. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
84. Braveheart (1995)
85. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)
86. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
87. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
88. All About Eve (1950)
89. Rashômon (1950)
90. Metropolis (1927)
91. The Green Mile (1999)
92. Gran Torino (2008)
93. The Elephant Man (1980)
94. The Great Dictator (1940)
95. Sin City (2005)
96. Rebecca (1940)
97. The Apartment (1960)
98. Gladiator (2000)
99. The Sting (1973)
100. The Great Escape (1963)
101. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
102. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
103. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
104. Avatar (2009)
105. Unforgiven (1992)
106. Ladri di Biciclette (1948)
107. Jaws (1975)
108. Batman Begins (2005)
109. Die Hard (1988)
110. Blade Runner (1982)
111. On the Waterfront (1954)
112. Oldboy (2003)
113. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
114. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
115. No Country for Old Men (2007)
116. Touch of Evil (1958)
117. Det Sjunde Inseglet (1957)
118. Fargo (1996)
119. Mononoke-hime (1997)
120. Per Qualche Dollaro in Più (1965)
121. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
122. District 9 (2009)
123. Heat (1995)
124. Strangers on a Train (1951)
125. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
126. Donnie Darko (2001)
127. High Noon (1952)
128. The Sixth Sense (1999)
129. Notorious (1946)
130. The Deer Hunter (1978)
131. There Will Be Blood (2007)
132. Snatch. (2000)
133. Annie Hall (1977)
134. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
135. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
136. The General (1926)
137. The Big Lebowski (1998)
138. Platoon (1986)
139. Yojimbo (1961)
140. Into the Wild (2007)
141. Ran (1985)
142. Ben-Hur (1959)
143. The Wrestler (2008)
144. The Big Sleep (1946)
145. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
146. The Lion King (1994)
147. It Happened One Night (1934)
148. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
149. Life of Brian (1979)
150. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
151. Toy Story (1995)
152. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
153. Smultronstället (1957)
154. Finding Nemo (2003)
155. Trainspotting (1996)
156. Gone with the Wind (1939)
157. Stand by Me (1986)
158. The Terminator (1984)
159. Kick-Ass (2010)
160. Groundhog Day (1993)
161. The Graduate (1967)
162. Scarface (1983)
163. The Thing (1982)
164. Amores Perros (2000)
165. Star Trek (2009)
166. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
167. Ratatouille (2007)
168. Gandhi (1982)
169. V for Vendetta (2005)
170. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
171. Le Salaire de la Peur (1953)
172. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
173. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
174. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
175. El Secreto de Sus Ojos (2009)
176. Casino (1995)
177. The Gold Rush (1925)
178. 8½ (1963)
179. Hotaru no Haka (1988)
180. Les Diaboliques (1955)
181. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
182. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
183. The Incredibles (2004)
184. The Princess Bride (1987)
185. The Killing (1956)
186. The Wild Bunch (1969)
187. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
188. Children of Men (2006)
189. The Exorcist (1973)
190. In Bruges (2008)
191. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
192. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
193. The Kid (1921)
194. Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)
195. The Hustler (1961)
196. Dial M for Murder (1954)
197. Good Will Hunting (1997)
198. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
199. Ed Wood (1994)
200. Harvey (1950)
201. Big Fish (2003)
202. King Kong (1933)
203. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
204. Låt den Rätte Komma In (2008)
205. Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (2007)
206. Sleuth (1972)
207. Magnolia (1999)
208. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
209. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
210. Rocky (1976)
211. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
212. Mystic River (2003)
213. Stalag 17 (1953)
214. Network (1976)
215. Brief Encounter (1945)
216. The African Queen (1951)
217. Rope (1948)
218. Crash (2004)
219. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
220. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
221. La Battaglia di Algeri (1966)
222. Duck Soup (1933)
223. Planet of the Apes (1968)
224. Manhattan (1979)
225. La Strada (1954)
226. Patton (1970)
227. Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)
228. The Conversation (1974)
229. Wo Hu Cang Long (2000)
230. Changeling (2008)
231. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
232. Barry Lyndon (1975)
233. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
234. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
235. The Truman Show (1998)
236. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
237. Toy Story 2 (1999)
238. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
239. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
240. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
241. Spartacus (1960)
242. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
243. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
244. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
245. Ikiru (1952)
246. Tonari no Totoro (1988)
247. Glory (1989)
248. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
249. Rain Man (1988)
250. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

(As of June 30, 2010)

29 June 2010

Mission Statement

To go insane and lose all my friends.

I have decided to watch all of the movies on IMDb's "Top 250" list (as of June 30th, since it changes a lot) and post reviews on them. Why? Because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

It should be noted that I've seen all of the movies at least once already, because there are a lot of movies on the list that are artsy enough that if you only watch them once you'll just be left in a puddle of confusion and not grasp the real meaning (if there is one...) :D

It should also be noted that I have a group of trained house elves (they prefer the term "friends") helping me on my long and tiring journey. Whether or not they'll still be around at the end of the summer, who knows.

My timeline is the summer holidays, the months of July and August. For those of you not good at math, that's about four movies a day! (It's starting to sound a lot more insane now, isn't it?)

My name is Ziggi, and I am a movie-holic.