Monday, June 16, 2008

Movie Challenge

Most people know that I LOVE movies. I try to make at least one new release each week. Someone asked me, “What are your favorites from each decade”? That was simple, but I thought I challenge myself and pick out my favorite from each year since sound came into film.

Some things I’ve found out there are some years that were hard to pick because there are so many good films, then there are the years that had nothing honestly good (2005 for example). Some older years, I couldn’t find anything that I’ve seen or sincerely enjoyed so I’ve skipped over them. Another thing I found out is that I’m a sucker for anything with Wil Smith, Johnny Depp and Jim Carrey in it. And lastly, I found out that I might just have too much time on my hands some days.
:-P

Here’s my list and I encourage you to take the same challenge when you got the spare time.

1927 ~ The Magician

1928~ Daughters of Eve

1929 ~ The Virginian

1930 ~ Animal Crackers

1931 ~ The Maltese Falcon

1932 ~ The Mummy

1933 ~ 42nd Street

1934 ~ It happened One Night

1935 ~ A Tale of Two Cities

1936 ~ Juggernaut

1937 ~ Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1938 ~ The Switch

1939 ~ Gone with the Wind (Wizard of Oz coming in a close 2nd)

1940 ~ Rebecca

1941 ~ The Maltese Falcon

1942 ~ Bambi

1943 ~

1944 ~ Meet Me in St. Louis

1945 ~ Rhapsody in Blue

1946 ~ The Best Years of Our Lives

1947 ~ Miracle on 34th Street

1948 ~

1949 ~ Little Women

1950 ~ Harvey (Cinderella coming in a close 2nd)

1951 ~ The Lemon Drop Kid

1952 ~ The Quiet Man

1953 ~ Peter Pan

1954 ~ Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1955 ~ Rebel Without a Cause

1956 ~ The King and I

1957 ~ The Bridge over the River Kawi

1958 ~ Gigi

1959 ~ Some Like It Hot

1960 ~ Psycho

1961 ~ Blue Hawaii

1962 ~ What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1963 ~ Cleopatra

1964 ~ My Fair Lady (along with Father Goose and A Hard Day's Night coming up close)

1965 ~ Help! (and Doctor Zhivago coming in a close 2nd)

1966 ~ Frankie and Johnny

1967 ~ Camelot

1968 ~ The Producers

1969 ~ Midnight Cowboy

1970 ~ Tora! Tora! Tora!

1971 ~ Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

1972 ~ The Godfather

1973 ~

1974 ~ Benji

1975 ~ Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1976 ~ Rocky

1977 ~ Star Wars (as much as I don't like this film, it's the only one I can remember for this year)

1978 ~ Grease

1979 ~ The Muppet Movie

1980 ~ Friday the 13th

1981 ~ Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982 ~ E.T.

1983 ~ The Outsiders

1984 ~ Amadeus (Gremlins is a close 2nd since I loved Gizmo so much)

1985 ~ Back to the Future

1986 ~ Crocodile Dundee

1987 ~ The Lost Boys

1988 ~ Willow

1989 ~ Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (yeah...I admit, I still enjoy this show)

1990 ~ Pretty Woman

1991 ~ Beauty and the Beast

1992 ~ A League of Their Own

1993 ~ Benny an Joon

1994 ~ Forrest Gump (Ave Ventura a close 2nd)

1995 ~ Batman Forever

1996 ~ Independence Day

1997 ~ Men in Black

1998 ~ Ever After: A Cinderella Story

1999 ~ The Matrix

2000 ~ U-571

2001 ~ Monsters, Inc.

2002 ~ My Big Fat Greek Wedding

2003 ~ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

2004 ~ 50 First Dates

2005 ~ Hitch

2006 ~ Eight Below (even though this is my favorite movie for this year, I'll never see it again. Way to emotional!)

2007 ~ Transformers (yeah...I'm sure y'all are surprised on that one. I did see it 14 times in the theater alone)

2008 ~ The Fall

2 comments:

Crystal said...

I'm so happy you posted this. I've been wondering if my movie likes/dislikes are similar to your to see if I should truly consider seeing or not seeing a movie based on your review. This list of movies helps me see that our likes are very much the same. Although I haven't seen many of the movies you have listed the ones I have seen, I love!! I am a netflix girl so I will be loading up our queue with some of your faves!! Thanks!!

orangemily said...

Of the movies I recognized, I like most of them!