Meme too

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This "Movie meme" thing has been going around, like the flu. You take the following list of 100 rather random movies (purportedly at one point the top 100 from IMDB) and bold the ones you've seen. In the interests of full Outside Food disclosure, here are my results. I did not include the movies I've seen so much of I'd might as well consider them completely seen; only the movies I have watched, uninterrupted, from end to end. So, while I'd like to say I've seen, for instance, Twelve Angry Men and Apocalypse Now and so much of Taxi Driver there must only be a few frames left to surprise me, I feel that doesn't count as a proper experience of a film.

1. Godfather, The (1972)
   
2. Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
   
3. Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
   
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)
   
5. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)
   
6. Casablanca (1942)
   
7. Schindler's List (1993)
   
8. Shichinin no samurai (19(The Seven Samurai)
   
9. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)
   
10. Citizen Kane (1941)
    
11. Star Wars (1977)
    
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
    
13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
    
14. Rear Window (1954)
    
15. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
    
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
    
17. Memento (2000)
    
18. Usual Suspects, The (1995)
    
19. Pulp Fiction (1994)
    
20. North by Northwest (1959)
    
21. Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Le (2001) (Amelie)
    
22. Psycho (1960)
    
23. 12 Angry Men (1957)
    
24. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
    
25. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
    
26. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
    
27. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
    
28. Goodfellas (1990)
    
29. American Beauty (1999)
    
30. Vertigo (1958)
    
31. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
    
32. Pianist, The (2002)
    
33. Matrix, The (1999)
    
34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
    
35. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    
36. Some Like It Hot (1959)
    
37. Taxi Driver (1976)
    
38. Paths of Glory (1957)
    
39. Third Man, The (1949)
    
40. C'era una volta il West (1968) (Once Upon a Time in the West)
    
41. Fight Club (1999)
    
42. Boot, Das (1981)
    
43. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) (Spirited Away)
    
44. Double Indemnity (1944)
    
45. L.A. Confidential (1997)
    
46. Chinatown (1974)
    
47. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    
48. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
    
49. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
    
50. M (1931)
    
51. All About Eve (1950)
    
52. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
    
53. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
    
54. Se7en (1995)
    
55. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
    
56. Cidade de Deus (2002) City of God
    
57. Raging Bull (1980)
    
58. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
    
59. Rashomon (1950)
    
60. Sting, The (1973)
    
61. American History X (1998)
    
62. Alien (1979)
    
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
    
64. Leon (The Professional) (1994)
    
65. 2002 Space Odyssey (1968)
    
66. Vita bella, La (1997) (Life Is Beautiful)
    
67. Touch of Evil (1958)
    
68. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
    
69. Wo hu cang long (2000) (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
    
70. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
    
71. Great Escape, The (1963)
    
72. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
    
73. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
    
74. Annie Hall (1977)
    
75. Amadeus (1984)
    
76. Jaws (1975)
    
77. Ran (1985)
    
78. On the Waterfront (1954)
    
79. Modern Times (1936)
    
80. High Noon (1952)
    
81. Braveheart (1995)
    
82. Apartment, The (1960)
    
83. Sixth Sense, The (1999)
    
84. Fargo (1996)
    
85. Aliens (1986)
    
86. Shining, The (1980)
    
87. Blade Runner (1982)
    
88. Strangers on a Train (1951)
    
89. Duck Soup (1933)
    
90. Metropolis (1927)
    
91. Finding Nemo (2003)
    
92. Donnie Darko (2001)
    
93. Toy Story 2 (1999)
    
94. Princess Bride, The (1987)
    
95. General, The (1927)
    
96. City Lights (1931)
    
97. Lola rennt (1998) (Run Lola Run)
    
98. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
    
99. Notorious (1946)
    
100. Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) (The Seventh Seal)

Now, the movies I've seen that aren't on the list? I wonder how long it would take to write them all down.... Longer than I'd want to spend on it, I'm sure. Maybe there's some clever way to use the IMDB to begin to assemble such a list.

There. That's something lighthearted for the blog today.