All-PiggyHawk 100 Movies!

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After almost 24 hours of debate and deliberation, Hawk & I devised 100 movies that we love. Some you may never have heard of. Some are just odd little things that we may be the only ones in the world who like them. Some are glaringly obvious.

Many are not technically brilliant or “classic” but we find them all entertaining. The main criterion was this question: “If I were flipping around the guide and I saw that this movie was on, I would stop seeing what else is on and watch it.” Therefore certain films that we like (Mildred Pierce, A Beautiful Mind, Stripes, etc.) did not make the cut and others (Trading Places, Groundhog Day) did.

Movies with a year after them generally means that there’s another movie from another year with that title and they’re not to be confused.

Also either (1) both of us had to have seen it all the way through and agreed it was cool or (2) one of us has seen it all the way through and said, “This has to go on the list.” That’s how our few silents made it on, I admit.

There are many cool movies we have never seen (Bonnie & Clyde, Chinatown, The French Connection) and therefore we couldn’t rank them. Rest assured these are on our Netflix list (and yes I’m peeved that they’re hitching their wagon to the Wal-Mart star. I bet I get edited movies now *snark*)

In response to Mudge who, like the American he is, demands that someone “win” the list, this was the order in which they sprang to mind. They’re not really ranked. But insofaras we agree on any movie being the be-all, end-all of all time for our collective viewing pleasure, our #1 is #1.

I also refuse to rank films in a series against one another or waste slots with 3-6 movies in a series. So #4, #5, #17, #18 and #77 count as a single entry. B/c it’s my list and I say so. So there.

If you make your own list, I’d love to see it. Feel free to comment on what we’ve missed. We worked for, oh, several minutes on this list so we’re sure we didn’t leave anything off. But we might have. We’re parenting a toddler. Our brains hurt.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Boogie Nights
3. Minority Report (see previous post)
4. Star Wars (series)
5. The Lord of the Rings (series)
6. The Sixth Sense
7. Almost Famous
8. Gone With the Wind
9. Psycho
10. Modern Times
11. City Lights
12. Pandora’s Box
13. Dracula (1933)
14. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
15. The Muppet Movie
16. The Wizard of Oz
17. Indiana Jones series
18. Toy Story 1 & 2
19. American Beauty
20. The Ice Storm
21. Last of the Mohicans
22. Saving Private Ryan
23. Good Will Hunting
24. Amadeus
25. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
26. A Christmas Story
27. It’s a Wonderful Life
28. The Color Purple
29. Out of Africa
30. Dr. Strangelove
31. Duck Soup
32. Fargo
33. Goldfinger
34. Groundhog Day
35. Pandora’s Box
36. The Sound of Music
37. Mary Poppins
38. Rear Window
39. Vertigo
40. Rebecca
41. Wuthering Heights (1939)
42. The Silence of the Lambs
43. Sunset Boulevard
44. Some Like It Hot
45. The Lion In Winter
46. This Is Spinal Tap
47. Unforgiven
48. A Hard Day’s Night
49. Citizen Kane
50. The Women
51. The Graduate
52. M*A*S*H*
53. Annie Hall
54. L.A. Confidential
55. A Streetcar Named DEsire
56. Jaws
57. Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein
58. Young Frankenstein
59. Fahrenheit 9/11
60. When Harry Met Sally…
61. Sense and Sensibility
62. That Thing You Do!
63. The Philadelphia Story
64. Fantasia
65. Gladiator
66. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
67. A Clockwork Orange
68. Trainspotting
69. Kill Bill
70. Ed Wood
71. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
72. The Sting
73. Sixteen Candles
74. The Princess Bride
75. Trading Places
76. The Count of Monte Cristo
77. The Mummy (1932 and 1999)
78. A Beautiful Mind
79. Haunted
80. Dead Again
81. Wild Things
82. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
83. The Full Monty
84. Full Metal Jacket
85. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
86. The Royal Tenenbaums
87. The School of Rock
88. Grosse Pointe Blank
89. Blade Runner
90. Office Space
91. Animal House
92. Rushmore
93. Unforgiven
94. Barefoot In The Park
95. Superman
96. It Happened One Night
97. Rocky
98. Bull Durham
99. A Fish Called Wanda
100. True Lies

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