I See Dead People (no. 2)

[koganbot]

Look, this is really sad. No list of all-time great movies whose top ten includes only movies I've already seen can be credible.* Or if it is credible, this is a sad world. Not to denigrate my own tastes, judgments, and habits, but round '78 I decided that I didn't have the time or money to watch a lot of movies. And in 1999 I made the decision, I

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Chuck Eddy's horrible taste in movies

[anonymous]

Hey Frank -- No idea what I'll watch next, and I'm pretty much incapable of listing favorites when it comes to movies (weird how that works, huh?), but here are the 26 movies I've Netflixed since start of 2011, in reverse order of renting: Amreeka, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Bang The Drum Slowly, The Sandlot, The Hangover, Take Shelter, The Myth Of The American Sleepover, More American Graffiti, Moneyball, Bridesmaids, Everything Must Go, Super 8, Outsourced, Red Dawn, The Town, Another Year, The Wanderers, Goodbye Solo, The Lords Of Flatbush, The Terminal, Greenberg, The Blind Side, Sugar, The Social Network, The Kids Are All Right. (Liked some way more than others. Mostly we get TV shows. Don't care about super heroes or lots of other heavy metal things.)

Re: Chuck Eddy's horrible taste in movies

[koganbot]

I think you threw a perfect game with this. I haven't seen a single one of these, unless you accidentally misspelled The Kids Are Alright. (Possibly saw a couple scenes from Red Dawn while channel surfing. And I saw the coming attraction for Super 8.)

My top 10

[talrose]

At work, which means I really don't have time to be doing this, but this thread is too good. I really hope to revisit this. In chronological order:

1. The Kid (Chaplin, 1919)
2. Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1942)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
4. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
5. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 196)
6. 3 Women (Altman, 1977)
7. Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)
8. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
9. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg, 1988)
10. Carlos (Assayas, 2010)

Tomorrow night I'm seeing Ozu's "A Hen in the Wind," which is playing at a moribund local theater called the Portage. Last contemporary movie I saw was "Dark Knight Rises," which wasn't very good. Last really good movie I saw was Richard Linklater's "Bernie."

Re: My top 10

[koganbot]

You pass the test, in that I haven't seen some of these - in particular, have yet to look at La Dolce Vita, Bad Timing, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Dead Ringers, and Carlos (and I honestly don't remember if I ever saw The Kid; if so, it was when I was a teenager or perhaps even when I was a kid).

What's next up in your viewer? [EDIT: Oops, you already told me. Keeping track of something longer than two sentences is obviously beyond me this morning.]