100 Films Meme
I don't generally like memes (I'm not a me-too kinda guy), but I liked the one I saw at GemmaK. The way it works is you copy the list of movies and show in bold the ones that you've seen. I took that a step further and gave a one-to-five star rating to the ones I've seen. It didn't seem fair to give ratings to the ones I haven't seen. 
1. Citizen Kane 
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like It Hot
15. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
16. All About Eve
17. The African Queen
18. Psycho
19. Chinatown
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. The Grapes Of Wrath
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Raging Bull
25. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
26. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
27. Bonnie and Clyde
28. Apocalypse Now
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
31. Annie Hall
32. The Godfather, Part II
33. High Noon
34. To Kill a Mockingbird
35. It Happened One Night
36. Midnight Cowboy
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. Double Indemnity
39. Doctor Zhivago
40. North by Northwest
41. West Side Story
42. Rear Window
43. King Kong
44. The Birth of a Nation
45. A Streetcar Named Desire
46. A Clockwork Orange
47. Taxi Driver
48. Jaws
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
51. The Philadelphia Story
52. From Here to Eternity
53. Amadeus
54. All Quiet on the Western Front
55. The Sound of Music
56. M*A*S*H
57. The Third Man
58. Fantasia
59. Rebel Without a Cause
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark
61. Vertigo
62. Tootsie
63. Stagecoach
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
65. The Silence of the Lambs
66. Network
67. The Manchurian Candidate
68. An American in Paris
69. Shane
70. The French Connection
71. Forrest Gump
72. Ben-Hur
73. Wuthering Heights
74. The Gold Rush
75. Dances with Wolves
76. City Lights
77. American Graffiti
78. Rocky
79. The Deer Hunter
80. The Wild Bunch
81. Modern Times
82. Giant
83. Platoon
84. Fargo
85. Duck Soup
86. Mutiny on the Bounty
87. Frankenstein
88. Easy Rider
89. Patton
90. The Jazz Singer
91. My Fair Lady
92. A Place in the Sun
93. The Apartment
94. GoodFellas
95. Pulp Fiction
96. The Searchers
97. Bringing Up Baby
98. Unforgiven
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy
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i like the wizard of oz and also thanks for sharing your avatar hack for blogger. By the way, i have one q. Is it possible to apply smileys by using your hack but modified of course?
Some of those movies I can't remember if I saw or not. It could go either way. I'm impressed that you not only remember, but are able to give a rating.
There were two or three I couldn't be sure if I'd seen or not, so I looked them up on Netflix. There may be one or two more that I did see but have no recollection of.
Don't assign too much value to the stars I assigned; they were a quick gut reaction to my memories of each one, some of which I haven't seen since I was a teen.
I find that often I like a movie much better right after I've seen it, but over time my rating of it falls as the exhiliration of having just seen it wears off. It's the ones that get high ratings, even after much time has passed, that are truly classics in my book.
Sadly, many of my favorites are missing from the list.
Below is a list of movies that I gave 5 stars to in my Netflix account:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Die Hard (1988)
The Emerald Forest (1985)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Hitch (2005)
Hopscotch (1980)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
The Incredibles (2004)
Independence Day (1996)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
LotR: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
LotR: The Return of the King (2003)
LotR: The Two Towers (2002)
March of the Penguins (2004)
The Matrix (1999)
The Mechanic (1972)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
Practical Magic (1998)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Roxanne (1987)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Silverado (1985)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
The Stunt Man (1980)
The Terminator (1984)
True Lies (1994)
Waking Life (2001)
Zardoz (1974)
It's a bit difficult to give a rating to a movie if you don't know what year it was produced and, therefore, if it is indeed the movie that you viewed and liked.
Take Wuthering Heights, for instance. The original black and white movie was a classic in my book, but I never cared for any of the remakes.
Neil Diamond made a film called The Jazz Singer, but there was also a much earlier movie, which I did not see, with the same name.
It surprises me that you have not seen (or do not remember seeing) Schindler's List, The Philadelphia Story, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Silence of the Lambs, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Searchers, Bringing Up Baby and The Grapes of Wrath to name a few.
Are there some movies that you purposely avoid due to their content? Too violent? Too depressing? Too much slapstick?
My imagination gets carried away when it comes to horror films. Such films frequently cause me to have nightmares. Hence, I'm not in the habit of seeing that particular genre.
BTW, what exactly is a meme?
We also loved:
My couisn Vinnie
Who framed Roger Rabbit?
Ten
Good catch, Connie. Netflix seems to drop movies from the favorites list, even if they have five stars. I should start a web page just for favorite movies.
There are movies I avoid, like Schindler's List (too painful, I lost family in the holocaust), or Silence of the Lambs (I don't like most horror movies, psychological thrillers or movies that are otherwise too dark without redeeming feaures). Life's too short to furnish my head with ugliness. And some I just never got around to watching.
A meme is a contagious idea, like a gene that passes from person to person.
I've added a link to the sidebar: Favorite Movies that I'll try to remember to maintain. :)
Nice ratings Dave. What was the movie "Shane" about? I don't even think i've heard of it.
This is what I have in my Blogger profile. It's not in any particular order. Plus, I ran out of room due to the limited space that was provided.
Bladerunner
The Terminator
Zardoz
Logan's Run
Silent Running
X-Men
Earth Girls Are Crazy
Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark
Big Fish
The Lord of the Rings
Jason & The Argonauts
Schindler's List
Something's Gotta Give
Forrest Gump
As Good As It Gets
Roman Holiday
Always
Old Yeller
The Yearling
Harold & Maude
I could easily add more:
Chicago
Finding Nemo
True Grit
City of Angels
Meet Joe Black
The Green Mile
The King and I
The Mask of Zorro
Sleepless in Seattle
Cyrano De Bergerac (Ferrer)
Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli)
The Chronicles of Narnia
King Kong (most recent release)
And, there are several that I could easily add from your list:
Pirates of the Carribean
March of the Penguins
The Incredibles
and more...
Maybe it's time that I made a list of my own. I do love movies. :)
I understand your decision not to see Schindler's List. Admittedly, I was reluctant to see it at first. Certainly, it was a painful film for Spielberg to make and, yes, it was definitely a poignant film to watch.
Although I, too, lost family in the Holocaust as well as the pogroms in Russia, it was important to me on a very personal level to view the film.
I will say that Spielberg did succeed in conveying the one very positive aspect regarding the individuals that this one man managed to save from certain death, that Schindler made a difference and that his actions had a domino effect for generations to come.
From IMDb:
Shane (1953) Western:
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act.
Ack!!!!
How could I forget?
Most likely, my absolute favorite science fiction movie!
The Day the Earth Stood Still
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