Bonnie and Clyde

"Bonnie and Clyde", #27/42, 1967

Oh, this was a good movie. It's about Bonnie and Clyde. You should watch it. And then you'll understand when people reference Bonnie and Clyde. 
It'll be great. 

A Clockwork Orange

"A Clockwork Orange" #46/70, 1971

I wasn't done... more cleaning turned up more drafts. They were just so far down the list, I didn't see them.

Okay, here we go...

This movie was super interesting. I often try to guess what the ending of a movie is going to be, or even what's going to happen within any given scene. Well, couldn't do that with this one. I don't think I could have predicted anything that happened in this movie. Maybe that's because I new nothing about it beforehand? But, even then, it's got some strange events in it. 

It's about this guy, Alex Delarge. He lives in futurist Britain. But not what someone would invent as futurist Britain now. What someone would have invented as futurist Britain in 1970's. So the lack of modern technology that is so prevelent now, kind of gave it a post-apocalyptic feel for me, but that's not what they were going for.
Alex is played by a young Malcolm McDowell, who does a really awesome job in the role. 

Well, Alex is our main guy, but he's not exactly our protagonist. He's kind of terrible. And does a couple terrible things with his droogs. The term in all the plot summaries is "ultra-violence."
He ends up in jail. And gets rehabbed with this experimental therapy. So instead of being a delinquent, he's supposed to be an upright citizen. And that doesn't totally work out for the government. But it doesn't totally work out for Alex either. 

Not the happy ending movie. Or the feel good movie. But it was super interesting.
I would consider watching it again. But, it's not one that I would watch all that often. The ultra-violence and all. 

The Lord of the Rings

"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", New/#50, 2001

Well, I just got all caught up with all of the drafts I had. And then next step in organization is to cross these off my list. (I love crossing things off to-do lists). And I noticed that I could cross off another movie! After posting about it, of course.

I watched the Lord of the Rings movies a few months ago. For the first time ever. I wasn't really into them when they were coming out. And then, once they were all out, and they all were so long, with tons of extra footage, they were just too intense to watch. But, I had wanted to watch them for a while. So, I decided to just watch parts of them, like an hour, and then stop. So I wouldn't get overwhelmed. I think it took me about a week. Watching a little in the evenings after work, and then finishing up on the weekend.

And, turns out, they're great movies. Shocker, I know. Only the first movie on is on the Top 100 list, but really, you have to watch all three. Legitimately, there's no conclusion until the end of the three movie. Actually, the third book too. Because, fun fact, the Lord of the Rings is just one book, but it was split into three to make printing easier. And because people read for entertainment, and not for an exercise. 

So yeah, it's a lot to take in, but it is a well-assembled story line. The cohesiveness of the fantasy world is great. The epicness of the journey is there. All of it. All good things.

Now I just have to watch all of the Hobbits... Which is also three movies, though that was one, normal sized book. 

Psycho

"Psycho" #18/14, 1960

Oh, Psycho. This is an excellent horror movie. 
I'm sure you've all seen a clip of the shower stabbing scene, or at least hear the music, so I'm not really giving much away there. But, there were things in this movie that I was not expecting. And I'm not going to give those away. I know I often ruin movie plot lines on here, but you should see this movie. 
The basic set up is that a bunch of stuff goes down at the Bates Motel. 
So just go watch it. 
Because it's classic. And it's Alfred Hitchcock. 
So, even if you're like me and you don't like horror movies, just watch this one. For the experience of it :)

MASH

"MASH" #56/54, 1970

Oh Mash. The movie. 
I am much more familiar with the TV show. This show was on during many dinners at my house growing up. I gave most of the seasons' DVDs to my dad for Christmas. (I should check to see if there are any he still needs... notes for next December...)
So, I was pretty familiar with the characters - Hawkeye, Trapper, Houlihan, Frank Burns, Henry Blake, Father Mulcahy, Radar. It's just that I didn't recognize any of them except Radar. I think he was the only actor in the film that continued on in the TV series. 
There were some well know actors in this, but they were much younger versions of Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall than I am used to seeing. 

This movie is worth watching if you have any love for the TV show. I would guess that if you don't like the show, you wouldn't like this movie.

For me, and my dad who watched it with me, it was entertaining. 

The Gold Rush

"The Gold Rush" #74/58, 1925

I took no notes on The Gold Rush. 
Rediscovering that the writer, star, and director was Charlie Chaplin assures me that it was a great movie.

The movie takes place in the Klondike area. Lots of snow. 
I remember one of the recurring jokes including the intense cold outside, and the nice warmth inside the cabin. 

I remember a cute girl that the tramp likes. Sorry. Charlie doesn't play that tramp in this one. The lone prospector. I remember a cute girl that the lone prospector likes. 
I remember a dance hall. 

And I do remember liking it. I would watch it again. Which is what I would need to do in order to tell you anything more about this. 

High Noon

Well, it's been another year... and a half. Yikes...
One post in the last three years. That is not a good track record.

Turns out I kind of needed a break from this little project of mine. There were so many other things to watch. I started getting together with a group every other week to watch a movie from RedBox. i.e. recent popular movies. Netflix and all their TV shows. (I couldn't figure out the plural of series...)



"High Noon" #33/27 1952 

Also, remember how I was going to use this blog as a way to remember all of these movies?
That would require blogging about a movie soon after watching it. And not waiting over a year...

I had at least started this post, with some random thoughts that I wanted to get in here.

Okay, High Noon.

A Western.

The movie includes a lot of conversations. Over the course of one day. There is this bad guy coming back into town. And everyone is terrified. Except the Marshal Will Kane. (Cue Gary Cooper)

The Marshal is ready to take the guy on. (again, that's why the bad guy is not currently in the town). 

And he starts recruiting help. He goes around, struggling to get people on board, people who were on board jump ship. And basically every would rather run away and hid in fear than face the baddie and his buddies. 

So, the Marshal takes him on alone. Well, not entirely, his wife is actually there, which is kind of awesome. (played by Grace Kelly. Also awesome)

When the gang arrives, in the final moments leading up to the big fight, there was intense background music and long shots of every character. Every single character. And it was this big climatic moment, and I found it hilarious. Did we need to get everyone's individual reaction shot on that?

Well, like any good western, the good guy wins! He and his wife take down the group. And the people of the town crawl out of their cowering places and surrounds them as they climb onto a horse-pulled carriage. This was the Marshal's last act, he is leaving town.

Before going, he needs to give his Marshal badge to his successor. He takes it off, and looks around at the people who deserted him, and throws it onto the ground.

Which was epic.

I felt so good that his final small gesture was so powerful. 

Now, I don't know that the awesomeness of those three seconds is worth watching the whole movie. But, I know that I do love a good ending. 

Titanic

"Titanic", New/#83, 1997


Well hello there. To say it's been a while would be an extreme understatement. It's been over a year since I've posted. And, in 2012, I only managed to watch three of these movies. But, good news is I'm feeling a little fired up about it, so I'll start to watch them again. And I'll get the write-ups about those few done soon!
Also, I'm going to be using the public library to help me! Though, my discovery of the joys of the public library may have contributed to the lack of movie watching in general. But alas, now I'm going to use it help my movie watching endeavor. 

So Titanic, one of those movies I've seen a few times previously. In fact, I saw it in theaters when it was released. Little 8 year-old-Paula out for an evening with the family.
I'm sure I'm not the only one with some sentimental attachment to Titanic. It was a huge movie at it's release, and huge for years after that. Also, literally huge, as it took two VHS tapes to contain the awesomeness of the movie. Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" was played non-stop on the radio (every radio station) for an entire summer. And it continued on in my house for long after that once the piano sheet music was purchased (bless you Mom & Dad).

I will admit, that I usually would only watch the first tape. Right up to where they hit the iceberg. Because it just gets so sad. And it continually gets worse and worse. And I can't stand it.
But, it needed to be watched in its entirety! And, lucky me, I got to do that in a theater again. Since 3D is the big sweeping trend, Titanic in 3D was re-released. [[Side-note, I kind of hate this digital 3D thing, and it really needs to stop]]
But to the theater I went, to see Titanic in 3D for the first time ever, and for the first time in it's entirety for several years.
And guess what. It was spectacular. There's no denying that it is an awesome movie. In storyline, dialogue, cinematography, special effects... I really could go on. 

If you haven't seen it, please crawl out from under rock and get that taken care of ASAP. Just be aware you are in store for a long, emotional ride.
And I don't at all feel bad for any spoilers I've just given away, because you seriously had 16 years and two theatrical releases to get your act together.

For now, I leave you with a link for Titanic vs. Aladdin : http://themetapicture.com/aladdin-vs-titanic/ 
Click on it... it's funny.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", #20/33, 1975
This movie is about McMurphy, played by Jack Nicholson, who is a criminal who moves from prison to an insane assylum. And he makes friends with the other patients there, and makes enemies with one particular nurse (with a fitting name), Nurse Ratched.
As you can image, there are great antics that arise from McMurphy stirring up trouble. The actors that make up the wide variety of insane patients are brilliant, and the character dynamics really are tremendous.
Shout outs specifically to Christopher Lloyd (Taber), Will Sampson (Cheif), Josip Elic (Bancini), Vincent Schiavelli (Fredrckson), and especially Danny DeVito (Martini) who I didn't recognize until well into the movie, and even then, it was only with the help of imdb.
So... I liked this movie until probably the last 10-15 minutes. Then I did not like it. At all. And I don't really appreciate a movie with a bad ending.
Watch it if you want to, because the majority of the movie is good, but just know that the end of the movie is not the main character against all odds triumph that you really hope happens.

Tootsie

"Tootsie", #62/69, 1982
This is a funny movie! I mean, come on... it's Dustin Hoffman in drag. He plays the role of a struggling actor, who dresses up as a women to get a role. Then (standard dressing up as the opposite gender storyline), he befriends a girl and than falls in love with a her, and a man falls in love with him, and it all falls apart in the end.
The funniest part of this movie surrounds what role Hoffman's character plays as a women. It's for a soap opera. And the movie makes fun of soap operas so, so much.
It's hilarious.
Watch it!

Do the Right Thing

"Do the Right Thing" New/#96, 1989

Interesting tidbit... this is the first movie from the 1980's that I've watched on the list so far. There are others on the list, but it's the first one I've watched so far.

I actually really liked this movie. It takes place during one ubber-hot-summer day in Brooklyn. And it follows Mookie, a pizza delivery guy and all the characters along the street and those at Sal's pizza place. One of the best things about this was all the character names: Da Mayor, Mother Sister, Buggin Out, Mookie, Radio Raheem, Pino, Coconut Sid, Sweet Dick Willie, Smiley,  Mister Senor Love Daddy.
And the other notable thing about it, is it has a ton of black actors in it (and a couple noteworthy non-black actors): Martin Lawrence, Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn (the cop in "Sister Act"), John Turturro (the Sector 7 Special Agent in "Transformers" and a bunch of Adam Sandler movies, like "Mr. Deeds"). It just seemed like every new character that was introduced was an actor I recognized.

Anyways, the movie has a ton of swearing, specifically using the f-word about once every two minutes. And it's about racism and violence, specifically one big violent mob at the movie's climax.
But, I like that the movie showcased one day of this neighborhood. And it really showed how violence was not a way to fight racism. So, I did like it, and I would recommend it in certain contexts. But it's not exactly a family- or kid-friendly movie.

At the very end of the movie, two great quotes, one from Martin Luther King, Jr., and one from Malcom X that finish out the film. They are:

"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral brecause it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys communinities and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violoence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self defense, I call it intelligence." - Malcom X

North by Northwest

"North by Northwest" #40/55, 1959
This was kind of a funny movie. A New York executive gets mistaken for a government agent by some baddies and they hunt him down. It's funny to see Cary Grant so bewildered by all the spy stuff. And of course there is a pretty young love interest that forces him to keep up with the spy stuff.
At the end, there is this epic, though intensely unrealistic, chase scene on the top of Mount Rushmore. It really was just so fake and unrealistic, but oh well.
I liked the movie, and of course, as he does in most of his movies, Alfred Hitchcock has a nice cameo at the beginning of the movie, where he runs into the door of a bus as he is attempting to board. And I'm not quite sure why, but it really made me laugh.
Here's a video of the opening credits, and his cameo takes place at the very end, around 1:45. Ah... makes me laugh every time.
This movie is not really all that great or bad. I give it a shoulder shrug and an "eh."

The Godfather, Part II

"The Godfather: Part II", #32/32, 1974

This movie posed an interesting problem. I hadn't seen the first Godfather movie, so how could I watch the sequel before the original? But, I couldn't watch the original because it's in the Top 10, and I was saving those for the end. In the end, I decided to watch part one, then watch part two, and I'll re-watch part one as I'm going through the Top 10.
I figured that was the best way to go about it considering I've already seen some of the movies, but am rewatching them in this process.
So... The Godfather: Part II...
This  movie was a really interesting overlap of two stories... current Godfather Michael Corleone going about his mafia business, and a flashback to Vito Corleone's childhood and how he got into the family business back before (and slightly after) Michael was born.

I really enjoyed the overlapping stories. I think it was handeled really well, and I liked the movie as a whole. There was a terrible moment at the end, when Michael could have redeemed and fixed two close relationships, but instead he did not, and he really did the opposite of what I wanted. So, that sucked, but still, a good movie.

The Birth of a Nation

"The Birth of a Nation", #44/Removed, 1915

Via the trivia available on imdb.com, I found out that after director D.W. Griffith made this film (which has some racial overtones-I'll get to that), he was criticized as being racist, and he was very hurt by this. So, he then made "Intolerance", which is also on the top movie list.

Now, this movie really is rather racist. It shows the American Civil War from the point of the South. And it shows the start of the KKK as a way to protect the southerns from the horrible new black-supremists that were terrorizing the place. In true 1910's style, this is a three hour long silent film, and D.W. Griffith didn't write a script or screen play at all. He came up with all the shots in his head, and simply explained to all the actors prior to each shot what was going on. I'm sure it really helped that it was a silent film, since he could then shout to the actors in the middle of scenes what he wanted them to do.

One of the things I liked the most about this was the soundtrack/score. Each character had their own theme music that would come on when a scene focused on them. So, it was probably the same eight songs played over and over again, with maybe a couple extra songs thrown in.

The first part of the movie shows two families who are long time friends - the Northern Stonemans and the South Camerons. They show them visiting each other prior to the war, and how much the two families care for each other. [[Major spoiler alert... but really, you probably won't be watching this movie ever, so who cares if I spoil it]] Then there is a really interesting scene where two men of the families (close friends) meet up on the battle field (fighting each other). One man is wounded on the ground, and the other man is approaching and about to stab him with the bayonet attached to his musket, and then he realizes who he is about to stab, and then embraces him as a brother and attempts to help him, but then they are both shot down, and die in each others' arms.
It was a very interesting scene that contrasted how much the North hated the South in general terms, but there was still a brotherhood love between individuals who were friends.

Good film, but a long, racist movie. I won't be watching it again, nor would I suggest it to anyone.

The African Queen

"The African Queen", #17/65, 1951
This movie takes place in 1914, at the very beginning of World War I. It takes place in Africa, and the African Queen is the name of a boat that Humphrey Bogart's character, Charlie, operates. He's a rough around the edges, blue collar worker, with a heart of gold. And he teams up (through a series of unfortunate events) with Katherine Hepburn's character, Rose, who is a proper, timid missionary (pretty petticoat and fancy hat).

The film was originally #17, and then drastically dropped to #65, which was the biggest drop in rank (without being removed from the list entirely).

This film has all sorts of interesting trivia to it. First of all, the first choice of actors for the two lead roles were not Hepburn and Bogart. But, it seemed to work out well for the filmmakers to end up with these two, as they are true superstars. Just like the Top 100 Movies list, AFI has a list of 100 Stars. Humphrey Bogart is the #1 male star, and Katherine Hepburn is the #1 female star.

Rose is living in an African village with her brother, as missionaries. Charlie has some kind of connection with them, I think delivering mail and just being the missionaries' connection to the outside world. Charlie shows up, and has lunch with them. There is this pretty hilarious scene over lunch with long, awkward, silent pauses between their forced small talk, and Charlie's stomach keeps growling in the pauses.
Then, the movie really kicks off when the Nazi Germans come in and destroy the whole village. And it was the most awful scene, they just run in with guns and set everything on fire and round up the villagers and haul them off somewhere, and leave Rose and her brother. But, dealing with the travesty proves too much for the brother and he passes away. Shortly after that, Charlie shows up and rescues Rose from this helpless, empty state she's left in and they board the African Queen.

The rest of the movie is this cute story of them living on this boat, getting to know each other, falling in love with each other, and having these desperate attempts to stop the Nazis. It gets really drawn on and slowly paced, but at the same time, it wasn't bad. The slowness just gave the audience the same feeling that the characters in the movies had of this drawn-out, never ending but still striving feeling, growing ever more hopeless, but still filled with this incredible motivation to get things done.

Nearing the end of their journey, there was a part where the river gets so narrow, covered by weeds, and current-less, that the boat simply won't move, so Charlie gets out, walks through the water while pulling the boat. (I tried to find the clip on youtube, but no such luck). When he gets back in the boat, he's covered in leeches. And Charlie is freaked out and shaking over them while Rose is putting salt on them to get them off. It's a scene that shows great acting by Bogart, and when asked in an interview about it, Bogart assured everyone that it was not great acting, he was thoroughly afraid of leeches.

This movie is not one I would particularly seek out to watch again, but if I was flipping through channels and came across it, I would stop and watch, at least for a little while. I think ultimately, the slow pace would lead me to change the channel again. But, it really was a great film, and I certainly think it belongs on the top movie list.

And, the last piece of trivia for you... The role of Charlie in the "African Queen" is the only Oscar of Humphrey Bogart's career.

Some Like It Hot

"Some Like It Hot", #14/22, 1959
This was a cute movie! It takes place in 1929, during prohibition. Though, everyone seems to know where to find the alcohol.
The movie is about two men who are musicians struggling to find a job. And there is a perfect job for them, except it requires two women. Then, when the men need to leave town (Chicago) to avoid getting killed, they decide to take the perfect job and get over the one thing that's not perfect, by dressing up as women.
It has the standard humor surrounding many comedies about men dressing up as women... getting used to high heels and nylons, and of course, our guys falling in love for women who are confiding in them as friends because they think our guys are women, and men who fall in love with our guys, thinking they are women.
The one particular women they're infatuated with is Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, played by Marilyn Monroe. With a name like Kowalczyk, it has to be good. Just kidding, they clearly called her Sugar (just don't tell the feminists).
This movie was pretty entertaining. It had good humor, great comedic timing, a relatively unique approach to the whole switch-gender thing, some good chase scenes, some nice musical numbers, and ultimately some pretty clever lines/scenes. I would definitely watch this again, and recommend it to others.
Here are some good lines, which may not make sense if you haven't seen the movie, but they certainly make me smile.

Jerry: Will you look at that! Look how she moves! It's like Jell-O on springs. Must have some sort of built-in motor or something. I tell you, it's a whole different sex!

Jerry: I'm engaged.
Joe: Congratulations. Who's the lucky girl?
Jerry: I am!
Joe: There's another problem.
Jerry: Like what?
Joe: Like, what are you gonna do on your honeymoon?
Jerry: We've been discussing that. He wants to go to the Riviera but I kinda lean towards Niagara Falls.

And, my favorite part, which I can't find the exact quote for, and I don't remember exactly how it goes as I watched this movie back in September (about 4 months ago), is when the two men are about to take the car out of the garage, and the garage attendant asks if they needs some gas (for their 100 mile trip) and they ask for 'about 50 cents worth' or something like that. I don't remember the exact quote, but I remember wishing that gas prices today were much more like gas prices back then.

Oh, one more thing I just remembered! Spats! There was this baddie named Spats Colombo, and I suppose he got his name from his love for spats. Spats are this kind of shoe covering. They go under pants and over the top of the shoe. And Spats Colombo was very particular about his spats, and it was super entertaining. These need to make a comeback in the world of fashion.

Midnight Cowboy

"Midnight Cowboy", #36/42, 1969
So I watched this movie back in November, but apparently, I never wrote about it. Whoops.

And, I wrote those lines back in July and never finished the post. Which means it's been over a year since I watched this movie, and I'm about a dozen movies behind blogging in general. So, major whoops on that. Apologies to the one person who reads this blog.

This movie has some really great acting by the young Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight.
The opening scene is this montage between a whole bunch of southern diner workers shout "Where is that Joe Buck?" and Joe Buck, played by Voight, getting all gussied up as a cowboy. He then goes into the diner, announces he's quitting the dinner and moving to New York. And he does.
Joe Buck goes to New York with this great plan that he could be this suave southern cowboy and easily gain money by prostitution. He finds out that it's not quite the easy, carefree, rich lifestyle he'd planned on. But, he meets Ratso, played by Hoffman, who is used a street-smart thief who is used to the tough life of being beyond broke in New York. And they become friends.
And that's really the heart of the story. The odd deep friendship these two have and how they take great efforts to provide for each other. Ultimately caring more about the welfare of the other person over their own.
The content of the movie (prostitution, stealing, etc.) but, it was very sweet to see their unique and loving friendship. I guess I can't be too certain, since it has been a year since I've seen it, but I think I'd watch it again.

Jaws

"Jaws" #48/56, 1975
Again, this is a movie that is on TV frequently, but I haven't seen it. I kind of enjoyed it. Before I watched it, my roommate informed me that it is incredibly predictable. Which, I agree with, to a point. The music, patterns in dialog, and other things would very clearly lead up to each shark attack. So, I did know that it was coming, but... I jumped every single time.
I could go on quite a few rants about how unrealistic the movie was (especially the ending), bad script, bad acting, just a lot of problems.
But... I have to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed it. Seriously. I loved watching it.
I don't think I'll go out of my way to watch it again, but, if I'm flipping through the channels and I come across this, I will most likely stop and watch it. You should do the same.

The General

"The General", New/#18, 1927
This is the highest ranked addition to the list. Again, it's really interesting to me when a movie is added to the anniversary list, even though it was around when the original list was put out. But, I support this addition. It's kind of interesting because it centers on the Civil War, and Buster (the protagonist) is from the South. And, since I've spent 99% of my life in Union states, it was really foreign for me to be rooting for a Confederate. So, in case you don't know, the American Civil War was one of (if not the) first industrial war. Which, along with a lot of other things, means that the railroads played a very important part in the war. And, turns out, that The General is a type of train. And, the entire story pretty much takes place on trains.
It was actually highly entertaining. Maybe I need to rethink my opinions about silent films. Because for hating them, I think I have actually liked the majority of the ones I've watched so far. And, the silent comedies are actually really good. Because they don't really have much dialogue, almost all of the comedy is physical comedy, which is hilarious. And Buster Keaton is hilarious.
Maybe I should talk about him for a little bit... Or, I guess write, since I'm not actually talking. Anyways... Buster was a nickname that Harry Houdini gave him. How awesome is that? he started his career in a vaudeville act with his parents. You can google vaudeville, but it was a theater type of entertainment, so people would go to a theater/arena/venue of some king and they would watch the acts. But, the big thing that Buster was known for was always having a solid poker-face, which was typically described as deadpan. I didn't research this, but I'm pretty sure he did all of his own stunts. He definitely did this really epic one in a movie called Steamboat Bill Jr., where a whole side of a house falls on him, and he miraculously is standing right where the window will be, so he doesn't get hit. You should watch it on YouTube. That scene is actually referenced in an episode of Arrested Development, when the 2nd model home falls apart and Buster Bluth is standing right where the window is.
But, back to Buster Keaton. He was a great comedy, and extremely well know in his time and still today. Well, he's probably not that well know by the public, but he is covered in any TV special about the great comedians of all time. The guy made over 100 movies. That's kind of ridiculous. And I would know about triple digits of movies.

Anyways, back to the review of The General... It was pretty good. It had a good mix of comedy with a little drama, a love story, a lot of action. I would watch it again, but I think there needs to be maybe a year or two in between viewings just because the entire movie follows this train around, so it really is this long continuous train ride. So you do need a little time as a view to recover from that.

BONUS: Julie & Julia

This was a cute movie!
But it is totally not on the Top 100 movie list.
However, this is the movie that my friends mentioned when they convinced me to write a blog. There are a lot of similarities between me and Julie Powell. We both took on a ridiculous challenge. Mine was 123 movies, hers was 300-some recipes. Both were not great health choices. She eats a lot of food, I sit around and watch movies. We both spend our day in a cubicle. We both blog. But, then there are a lot of differences. She's married; I'm not. She's good at cooking; I would like to be. She's a writer, (even though she didn't finish her book), and I'm definitely not.
However, we do agree on the definition of a writer. In the movie, she says "You're not a writer unless someone publishes you." And that is exactly how I feel. Exactly. Seriously, go check out my very first blog that introduced this whole thing.
Okay, back to the movie... Her husband says, "See, that's what's so great about blogs, you don't have to be published, you can just go online, press enter, and there it is, out there." And it's true. With a blog, you just publish yourself.
But, that doesn't mean that people read it. In the movie, Julie's blog gains popularity, and people read it. But, according my blog's current stats, that's just not what's going to happen with mine. Haha! But again, in my very first post, I said this was not for other people to read, because I'm sure this is a really boring blog for other people. The whole blog is for me. So that one day, when I'm old, I can read through it and remember it. Or at least have some sort of guide to help me keep all of these movies separate. Because, let's face it, after watching 123 movies (and more, because I still watch fun movies), I am really going to struggle to matching movie titles with what actually happens. Or, maybe I won't ever reread this. But, watching movies & blogging about is slightly more productive than just watching movies, because at least this way, I am exercising my brain by forming complete sentences.