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My life in film
Micah did this meme eight million years ago over a month ago and I made a note to myself to do it too. Now I am finally getting around to it.
This is a list of my favorite movies for every year I've been alive. Please note that favoritism is frequently based on entertainment value rather than quality, so I am not trying to say that The Fugitive is better than Schindler's List, but rather that I can (and do) watch The Fugitive, like, five or six times a year and I haven't seen Schindler's List again since I saw it in the theatre. Also, there may be things missing from the list because - like Micah - I consulted Wikipedia's list of years in film rather than trying to do this all from memory.
- Airplane! (Yes, this was the year The Empire Strikes Back came out, but I have only recently developed an appreciation for that movie, whereas I have watched Airplane! approximately eight billion times)
- The Great Muppet Caper (I can't believe I'm passing over Raiders of the Lost Ark, but TGMC doesn't have melty faces in it.)
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (I have a feeling if I had seen Tootsie more than once it might edge out DMDWP. Maybe I should watch it again.)
- Return of the Jedi
- Romancing the Stone (Runner up: Revenge of the Nerds. Not in the running: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which is terrible.)
- Clue
- I am not feeling very strongly about any of these, but I guess I'll go with Labyrinth over An American Tail and Little Shop of Horrors. Boo, 1986 in film. You also gave us Lindsay Lohan.
- The Princess Bride. This was a big year for war movies, but TPB is more upbeat than Au Revoir Les Enfants or Empire of the Sun.
- A Fish Called Wanda, although if you had asked me this in 1988, it would have definitely been Oliver and Company.
- Aw geez! I am forced to choose between Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and When Harry Met Sally...? Harrison Ford is much more attractive than Billy Crystal, so... I guess we'll go with Indy. I'm still not happy about having to choose, though.
- I'm mostly going with Cyrano de Bergerac because I own the video, whereas I've only seen Edward Scissorhands once.
- Beauty and the Beast
- Newsies (Also worth mentioning: Noises Off and A League of Their Own)
- The Fugitive. I thought about just stopping when I got to F, but I decided to skim through the rest of the list as a courtesy to the other movies. Sucks to be you, Schindler's List.
- Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (Honorable mentions: Four Weddings and a Funeral, which was my favorite romantic comedy of the year, but which - despite the lovely lovely John Hannah - I cannot list as my favorite movie of the year because I always fast-forward through any parts with Andie MacDowell; Airheads, which I remember nothing about, except that the main characters - in the hopes of of being declared insane if their bank heist or kidnapping or whatever it was came to trial - made a series of increasingly ridiculous demands, including a football helmet filled with cottage cheese, and naked pictures of Bea Arthur. This has really stuck with me.)
- While You Were Sleeping (Clueless, Sabrina and French Kiss all came out in 1995 too! Why couldn't some of them come out in craptastic 1994?)
- Emma (which is not on the list, but which I happen to know came out in 1996. Trainspotting is also good, and weirdly enough, has something in common with Emma. Do you know what?)
- Con Air. DON'T JUDGE ME!
- Mulan (Can't Hardly Wait had it clinched until partway through the alphabet. Also, it doesn't make any sense that I always list Sliding Doors among my top 5 favorite movies and Mulan just beat it. But I do love Mulan.)
- Office Space (Runners-up: 10 Things I Hate About You, The Sixth Sense, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut)
- Chicken Run (narrowly beating out Billy Elliot and Snatch)
- Amélie (#2: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra)
Attack of the ClonesHA HA! Um... Whale Rider?- Love Actually
- Here are four for Glen Coco (you go, Glen Coco!): Mean Girls, Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite and Shaun of the Dead. I guess if I hafta pick a favorite, I'll go with Napoleon Dynamite. GOSSSSHH.
- Unless I missed something, the 2005 movie on the list that I liked most was Guess Who, starring Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac. I liked it, but I never thought it would end up on a list of favorites. Really, 2005?
- Maybe it's because they're so recent, but 2006 is not inspiring me much, either. I guess... Inside Man?
- Lars and the Real Girl
- (so far) The Dark Knight
srah - Sunday, 17 August 2008 - 11:41 AM
Tags: memes, movies
Comments (7)
Serene - August 17, 2008 - 5:25 PM - ℓ
This was really fun to read, srah! Con Air is a secret guilty pleasure too- for Steven Buscemi and John Malkovich mostly (and maybe the bunny)... As for 2005, I'd go with either "Batman Begins" or "Junebug" maybe?
Princess Sparklepants - August 17, 2008 - 11:24 PM - ℓ
Ha ha... Yeah. Of the movies on here that I have actually seen, I like 'em, and I approve of your taste. I shame-facedly like Con Air too, so there's that. And... it's bugging me that I can clearly remember the year you were born.
Fraulein N - August 18, 2008 - 2:27 PM - ℓ
Yay, Newsies! I can't believe I've actually seen a good chunk of the movies on this list.
allthewine - August 22, 2008 - 11:28 PM - ℓ
where'd you get the cartoon version of yourself?
And yes, Lars and the Real Girl was excellent. I can't remember liking another movie last year. That is sad. I usually end up just rewatching the same five.
I think you were the one who told me to fast forward through the Andie MacDowell parts in Four Weddings and a Funeral, and you were right because that makes it such a better movie. She is horrible.
Emma & Trainspotting have Ewan MacGregor in common.