I had a running list of movies that I made years ago, probably around 2010, that I wanted to watch. I’ve updated it a few times. Since then, I’ve moved my watchlist around so many times, I can’t find them anymore. Some have been lost to the ethers of the Internet’s walled gardens like my old Netflix watch list. Some movies I started but never finished.
Some are top movies, some are recommendations, some are the ones you see on everyone’s lists, but I still haven’t made the time to watch them all. And we all know - we will never watch them all. There’s too much media to consume.
The Original List, by only the ones that I haven’t seen
13 Assassins
A Clockwork Orange
Ajami
As Good as It Gets
Bad Boys
Bad Boys II
Baraka
Bonnie and Clyde
Catfish
Che: Part One
Che: Part Two
Children of Men
Clerks
Desperado
Dog Day Afternoon
Dogtown and Z-Boys
El Mariachi
Enemy
From Up on Poppy Hill
Frost/Nixon
Glory
High Noon
Hotel Rwanda
Ip Man: The Awakening
JCVD
Magnolia
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Milk
Natural Selection
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Philadelphia
Rampart
Requiem for a Dream
Schindler's List
Scrooged
Senna
Sixteen Candles
Spotlight
Synecdoche, New York
The Bad Sleep Well
The Deer Hunter
The Godfather Part III
The Hidden Fortress
The Jackal
The Killer
The Last Samurai
The Legend of Drunken Master
The Mist
The Pianist
The Road
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
The Waiting Room
The Wrestler
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Traffic
Zoolander
And somehow a TV Show slipped in there. 👀
- We Shall Remain - technically a TV Show
There’s a small subset of these that I started to watch, but never finished. Or in the case of Apollo 13, walked into it midway while roommates were watching it and only saw the second half.
Original list, watched
I’ll be compiling this in a much long, sorted list that I want to make more interactive. This is part one. More to come.