Film Rotisserie - NSpan's 600th Ultimate Box Office Challengiverse Game

by NSpan Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:44 am

here's some accompanying music that should be appropriate for what lies above and below the video itself:

And Now... For Your Time-Capsule Consideration........

100 Essential Movies that EVERY American Should See

Movies are cultural--get over it. It's impossible to make a list of movies that everybody in the WORLD "should" see. It just doesn't make sense. These are the 100 movies that, in my opinion, are critical in understanding, appreciating, (and participating in) modern American culture. This is NOT my "favorite" 100 movies. And it's not the 100 "most important" movies. And, this part was difficult for me, but this is not 100 movies that everyone with an interest in the history of film should see... These are 100 movies that EVERY person living in America needs to see. I even included several films that I personally dislike--but that I found necessary to be included on the list. Even more painfully, I left off many of my absolute favorite films (including 8 1/2, Buffalo '66, Barton Fink, Bottle Rocket, Ed Wood, and Barry Lyndon) to make room for movies more appropriate to the list. My heart hurts. Anyway, here goes:

American Graffiti
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Austin Powers
Back to the Future
Badlands
Beetlejuice
Big
The Big Lebowski
The Blair Witch Project
Blazing Saddles
Boyz n The Hood
The Brave Little Toaster
Braveheart
The Breakfast Club
Caddyshack
Children of Men
Chinatown
A Christmas Story
Citizen Kane
Clue
The Conversation
Cool Hand Luke
Dazed and Confused
The Deer Hunter
Die Hard
Dirty Harry
Disney's Robin Hood
Dog Day Afternoon
Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dumb and Dumber
Easy Rider
The Elephant Man
Elf
The Empire Strikes Back
Fantasia
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club
A Fish Called Wanda
Fletch
The Fly
The Fox and the Hound
Full Metal Jacket
Ghostbusters
Glory
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Halloween
Hannah and Her Sisters
Harold and Maude
Harvey
High Fidelity
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Iron Giant
The Jerk
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Maltese Falcon
MASH
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Muppet Movie
Nashville
National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Vacation
Network
Night of the Living Dead
Office Space
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
The Princess Bride
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
RoboCop
Rocky
The Royal Tenenbaums
Scream
The Secret of NIMH
Seven
The Shining
Spiderman
Soylent Green
Stand By Me
Star Wars
Taxi Driver
The Terminator
The Three Amigos
Tommy Boy
Tremors
WALL-E
Wayne's World
Willow
The Wizard of Oz
Young Frankenstein

ps. i realize that Tetris might seem a bit obvious--but i thought it fit the theme of the post well.. it's a freakin' classic!