As usual with Internet memes, the default assumption is that one is a teenager, so therefore having seen 85 or more of these movies (unspoken assumption: in the five years or so you've had to watch movies that don't feature talking fish) means that "you have no life." Those of us who have had a somewhat longer time to see movies should adjust accordingly.
I've bolded the ones I've seen; the original idea seems to have been to put an "X" in front of the title.
- Rocky Horror Picture Show (in a theater, twice, at midnight, with toast and water guns, back in the early '80s when it was still mildly transgressive)
- Grease
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest (and the third one, too)
- Boondock Saints
- Fight Club
- Starsky and Hutch (not the movie, but I did watch the TV show quite a bit in my misspent youth)
- Neverending Story
- Blazing Saddles
- Airplane
- The Princess Bride
- Anchorman
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Labyrinth (in a theater, on a date with the woman who later became my wife)
- Saw
- Saw II
- White Noise (there's a movie based on DeLillo's White Noise!? That is so cool! Oh, wait, it's some dumb modern "horror" movie. Nevermind.)
- White Oleander
- Anger Management
- 50 First Dates
- The Princess Diaries
- The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
- Scream
- Scream 2
- Scream 3
- Scary Movie
- Scary Movie 2
- Scary Movie 3
- Scary Movie 4
- American Pie
- American Pie 2
- American Wedding
- American Pie Band Camp
- Harry Potter 1
- Harry Potter 2
- Harry Potter 3
- Harry Potter 4
- Harry Potter 5 (and, as of Friday night, #6 as well)
- Resident Evil 1
- Resident Evil 2
- The Wedding Singer
- Little Black Book
- The Village
- Lilo & Stitch
- Finding Nemo
- Finding Neverland
- Signs
- The Grinch
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
- White Chicks
- Butterfly Effect
- 13 Going on 30
- I, Robot
- Robots (If I'm remembering the name of the animated movie with Ewan MacGregor and Robin Williams correctly, yes)
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
- Universal Soldier
- Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
- Along Came Polly
- Deep Impact (I did see most of the other really stupid meteor movie, though)
- KingPin
- Never Been Kissed
- Meet The Parents
- Meet the Fockers
- Eight Crazy Nights
- Joe Dirt
- King Kong (both of them; do I get extra credit?)
- A Cinderella Story
- The Terminal
- The Lizzie McGuire Movie
- Passport to Paris
- Dumb & Dumber
- Dumber & Dumberer
- Final Destination
- Final Destination 2
- Final Destination 3
- Halloween
- The Ring
- The Ring 2
- Surviving Xmas
- Flubber
- Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
- Practical Magic
- Chicago
- Ghost Ship
- From Hell
- Hellboy (I did see Hellboy II, though)
- Secret Window
- I Am Sam
- The Whole Nine Yards
- The Whole Ten Yards
- The Day After Tomorrow
- Child's Play
- Seed of Chucky
- Bride of Chucky
- Ten Things I Hate About You
- Just Married
- Gothika
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- Sixteen Candles (first run in a theater, you whippersnappers!)
- Remember the Titans
- Coach Carter
- The Grudge
- The Grudge 2
- The Mask
- Son Of The Mask
- Bad Boys
- Bad Boys 2
- Joy Ride
- Lucky Number Slevin (The Wrong Man)
- Ocean's Eleven
- Ocean's Twelve
- Bourne Identity
- Bourne Supremacy
- Bourne Ultimatum
- Lone Star
- Bedazzled
- Predator I (though it wasn't "I" back then, it was just Predator)
- Predator II
- The Fog
- Ice Age
- Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
- Curious George
- Independence Day
- Cujo
- A Bronx Tale
- Darkness Falls
- Christine
- ET (and I still haven't gotten that taste of rancid schmaltz out of my mouth, even now)
- Children of the Corn
- My Bosses Daughter
- Maid in Manhattan
- War of the Worlds (but not the one they mean)
- Rush Hour
- Rush Hour 2
- Best Bet
- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- She's All That
- Calendar Girls
- Sideways
- Mars Attacks
- Event Horizon
- Ever After
- Wizard of Oz (again just a couple of weeks ago, in fact, because Thing 2 had never seen it)
- Forrest Gump
- Big Trouble in Little China
- The Terminator
- The Terminator 2
- Terminator 3
- X-Men
- X-2
- X-3
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man 2
- Sky High
- Jeepers Creepers
- Jeepers Creepers 2
- Catch Me If You Can
- The Little Mermaid
- Freaky Friday (the '70s one)
- Reign of Fire
- The Skulls
- Cruel Intentions
- Cruel Intentions 2
- The Hot Chick
- Shrek
- Shrek 2 (I'm pretty sure I've seen one of the Shrek movies all the way through, but I'm also pretty sure it was #3)
- Swimfan
- Miracle on 34th Street (on TV about half a million years ago. And here's something that was more amusing long ago: The Wife used to always misremember the title and call it "Miracle on 42nd Street." Very different kind of miracle, I guess....)
- Old School
- The Notebook
- K-Pax
- Krippendorf's Tribe
- A Walk to Remember
- Ice Castles
- Boogeyman
- The 40-year-old Virgin
- Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
- Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
- Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Heathen! There's no "Indiana Jones" in that title.)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Baseketball
- Hostel
- Waiting for Guffman
- House of 1000 Corpses
- Devil's Rejects
- Elf (I've seen about five amusing minutes of it with Peter Dinklage, but then that cretin in the green suit showed up and spoiled everything.)
- Highlander
- Mothman Prophecies
- American History X
- Three
- The Jacket
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Shaolin Soccer
- Night Watch
- Monsters Inc. (It was the first movie I ever took Thing 1 to see in a theater, and only his second-ever big-screen movie.)
- Titanic
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (probably as many times as everything else on the list put together, back in the old days of Cinemax and VCRs)
- Shaun Of the Dead
- Willard
- High Tension
- Club Dread
- Hulk
- Dawn Of the Dead
- Hook
- Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
- 28 days later
- Orgazmo
- Phantasm
- Waterworld
- Kill Bill vol 1
- Kill Bill vol 2
- Mortal Kombat
- Wolf Creek
- Kingdom of Heaven
- The Hills Have Eyes
- I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
- The Last House on the Left
- Re-Animator
- Army of Darkness
- Star Wars Ep.I The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars Ep.II Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars Ep.III Revenge of the Sith
- Star Wars Ep.IV A New Hope
- Star Wars Ep.V The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars Ep.VI Return of the Jedi
- Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
- Ewoks The Battle For Endor
- The Matrix
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Matrix Revolutions
- Animatrix
- Evil Dead
- Evil Dead 2
- Team America: World Police
- Red Dragon
- Silence of the Lambs
- Hannibal
Grand Total: 49
And I'm a guy who saw, and wrote about, 117 movies last year -- including Paul Blart, Mall Cop, and over a dozen-and-a-half James Bond films, in case you're thinking of calling me some kind of elitist. This is a very, um, targeted list of movies.
1 comment:
What an odd group of movies. I saw 165 of them. But then, I'm not a teenager.
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