Classic Movie Meme

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Ben tagged me to take part in this meme. I won’t tag anyone else, but if you want to have a go, feel free.

Get the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Movies list and answer the following questions:

1) Your favorite 5 movies that are on the list:

Casablanca
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars

Casablanca

2) 5 movies on the list that you didn’t like at all:

The Graduate (I fell asleep during it)
On the Waterfront (I lost interest after a while)

Those were the only two I could find, and I probably just wasn’t in the right mind-space to appreciate them.

The Graduate

3) 5 movies on the list you haven’t seen but want to:

Psycho
Chinatown
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Silence of the Lambs
Some Like It Hot

Chinatown

4) 5 movies on the list that you haven’t seen and have no interest in seeing:

Citizen Kane (actually after seeing this review I’m considering renting it)
Apocalypse Now
All Quiet on the Western Front
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Mutiny on the Bounty

Citizen Kane

5) Your favorite 5 movies that aren’t on the list:

Secretary
Little Miss Sunshine
Die Hard
The Matrix
Collateral

I’ve limited myself to American movies, in the spirit of the original list.

Secretary

5 Responses to “Classic Movie Meme”

  1. 1
    Becca:

    Citizen Kane is wonderful! And I was pretty resistant to seeing Yankee Doodley Dandy but it was actually a pretty great film. Cagney can do no wrong, he’s one of my favorite actors! XOXO

  2. 2
    Nicholas:

    I loved Kane, and All Quiet on the W F. This is an intersting post. I’ll have a go at it myself.

  3. 3
    PJ:

    Hi Becca, I’ll probably watch those movies at some point. There are too many movies to watch!

    Nicholas: I look forward to your take on this meme, did you see your tag for the movie festival meme?

  4. 4
    DeJaMo:

    Apocalypse Now is probably the finest war/anti-war/Vietnam movie ever made.

  5. 5
    PJ:

    I’m sure you’re right, DeJaMo. I just hate watching war movies.