Taking a cue from Tina, here’s The Movie List. I was curious to see how many of these I’d actually seen.

Per instructions, I’ll be adding three to the end of the list – if you pick up the list, you should do the same.

OK, here I go. Movies I’ve seen (either in theatres, as a rental, or on TV) are in bold.

01. Trainspotting
02. Shrek
03. M
04. Dogma
05. Strictly Ballroom
06. The Princess Bride
07. Love Actually
08. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
09. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
11. Reservoir Dogs
12. Desperado
13. Swordfish
14. Kill Bill Vol. 1
15. Donnie Darko
16. Spirited Away – PLEASE MISTER I NEED A JOB PLEASE.
17. Better Than Sex
18. Sleepy Hollow
19. Pirates of the Caribbean
20. The Eye
21. Requiem for a Dream
22. Dawn of the Dead (the George Romero version)
23. The Pillow Book
24. The Italian Job
25. The Goonies – but it’s been a REALLY long time.
26. Baseketball
27. Spice World – I was having a hard time sleeping, it was late, and it was on HBO27, or something.
28. Army of Darkness
29. The Color Purple
30. The Safety of Objects
31. Can’t Hardly Wait
32. Mystic Pizza
33. Finding Nemo
34. Monsters Inc
35. Circle of Friends
36. Mary Poppins – a long time ago, but who hasn’t seen this movie?
37. The Bourne Identity
38. Forrest Gump
39. A Clockwork Orange
40. Kindergarten Cop
41. On The Line
42. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
43. Final Destination
44. Sorority Boys
45. Urban Legend
46. Cheaper by the Dozen (not the Steve Martin version)
47. Fierce Creatures
48. Dude, Where’s My Car
49. Ladyhawke
50. Ghostbusters
51. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
52. Back to the Future
53. An Affair To Remember
54. Somewhere In Time
55. North By Northwest
56. Moulin Rouge
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – saw it on cable…didn’t get it.
58. The Wizard of Oz – every Thanksgiving on CBS – how could I avoid it?
59. Zoolander
60. A Walk to Remember
61. Chicago
62. Vanilla Sky
63. The Sweetest Thing
64. Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
65. The Nightmare Before Christmas
66. Chasing Amy
67. Edward Scissorhands
68. Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert
69. Muriel’s Wedding
70. Croupier
71. Blade Runner
72. Cruel Intentions
73. Ocean’s Eleven (I’m assuming this is the recent remake, but I haven’t seen either)
74. Magnolia
75. Fight Club
76. Beauty and The Beast
77. Much Ado About Nothing (I’m assuming this is the 1993 Branagh version)
78. Dirty Dancing
79. Gladiator – ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
80. Ever After
81. Braveheart
82. What Lies Beneath
83. Regarding Henry – Regarding crap.
84. The Dark Crystal
85. Star Wars (ep. 4, A New Hope)
86. The Birds
87. Beaches
88. Cujo
89. Maid In Manhattan
90. Labyrinth
91. Thoroughly Modern Millie
92. His Girl Friday
93. Chocolat
94. Independence Day
95. Singing in the Rain
96. Big Fish
97. The Thomas Crown Affair (the 1999 remake with Pierce Brosnan and Renee Russo)
98. The Matrix
99. Stargate
100. A Hard Day’s Night
101. About A Boy
102. Jurassic Park
103. Monty Python’s The Life of Brian
104. Dune – long and confusing, but yeah, I sat through the whole thing.
105. Help!
106. Grease – just because I’ve seen it doesn’t mean I liked it.
107. Newsies
108. Gone With The Wind
109. School of Rock
110. Tommy
111. Yellow Submarine
112. From Hell
113. Benny & Joon
114. Amelie
115. Bridget Jones’ Diary
116. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
117. Heavenly Creatures
118. All About Eve
119. The Outsiders
120. Airplane!
121. The Sorcerer
122. The Crying Game
123. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
124. Slap Her, She’s French
125. Amadeus
126. Tommy Boy
127. Aladdin
128. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
129. Snatch
130. American History X
131. Jack and Sarah
132. Monkey Bone
133. Rocky Horror Picture Show – …what?
134. Kate and Leopold
135. Interview with the Vampire
136. Underworld
137. Truly, Madly, Deeply
138. Tank Girl
139. Boondock Saints
140. Blow Dry
141. Titanic
142. Good Morning, Vietnam
143. Save the Last Dance
144. Lost in Translation
145. Willow – so long ago that I don’t remember much of it, but yeah, I saw it.
146. Legend
147. Van Helsing
148. Troy
149. Nine Girls and a Ghost
150. A Knight’s Tale
151. Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey – Station!
152. Beetlejuice
153. E.T.
154. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone
155. Spaceballs
156. Young Frankenstein
157. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
158. American President
159. Bad Boys
160. Pecker
161. Pink Floyd: The Wall
161. X-Men
162. Sidewalks of New York
163. Children of Dune (note: not a theatrical movie – this was made-for-cable)
164. Beyond Borders
165. Life Is Beautiful
166. Good Will Hunting
167. Run Lola Run
168. Blazing Saddles – Howard Johnson is RIGHT!
169. Caligula
170. The Transporter
171. Better Off Dead
172. The Abyss
173. Almost Famous
174. The Red Violin
175. Contact – one of the worst endings ever committed to film.
176. Stand and Deliver
177. Clueless
178. William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet
179. Dangerous Liasions
180. I Am Sam
181. The Usual Suspects
182. U-571
183. Capricorn One
184. The Little Shop of Horrors (the Roger Corman version)
185. Die Hard
186. The Flamingo Kid
187. Night of the Comet
188. Point Break
189. Chatterbox
190. Secretary
191. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
192. Predator
193. Escape From New York
194. The Thing (with Kurt Russell)
195. 10 Things I Hate About You
196. The Terminal – I am delayed…long time.
197. Holes
198. Head (the Monkees Movie)
199. The World According to Garp
200. 24 Hour Party People
201. Monster
202. Nosferatu
203. Shallow Grave
204. Walking and Talking
205. Charade (the original, not the ‘Charlie’ remake)
206. Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
207. Swingers
208. Clerks

And here are my additions:

208. The Blues Brothers
209. Star Trek II: The Wrath of KhanKHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
210. Touch of Evil

Looking back, I can’t help but notice how many “chick flicks” are on this list. I suppose I could have used one of my three slots for “stuff blowed up real good” movies, but I chose films that are genuinely my favorites.

So, how many have you seen?