The List 2006

The Most Ridiculous List(s) ever Kept or Posted by a Sane Person:

Okay, Let me explain. It started back when I had no money in the winter of 2004, and could no longer buy the ridiculously priced books I was reading from the Christian bookstore chain. So I turned to the New York Public Library, and re-entered the world of fiction which I had been on vacation from for quite some time. I started with Harry Potter. (Take that Overpriced Christian Publishing!!) No longer able to look at my bookshelf and admire the bookbindings of those I'd read, I started keeping a list of books I read from the library. I did this through all of 2005 (maybe I'll post that list and really bore you). Once I got rolling with the whole online-library-book-request thing, I thought "Hey, why aren't I getting free movies out of this?" So I started checking them out too. After the first three weeks, or first fifty DVDs I checked out, I can't remember which came first, I began to wish I had a list of the movies I'd seen. Hence, with the new year, I started listing those as well. So the fruit of that sad, strange, year-long endeavor, is this even stranger list mix of quaint romantic comedies and disturbing Scottish independant noiresque films. Have I said enought about this, or should the LIST just speak for itself? Oh, and I also listed Big Screen movies I went to too. tu-tu. Bishop Desmond Tutu...

2006 Movies I Saw On The Big Screen
1. Walk The Line
2. Walk The Line
3. V For Vendetta
4. American Dreamz (2econd Stage Screening)
5. Friends With Money
6. The Notorious Bettie Page
7. Sherrybaby (Sundance At BAM)
8. X-Men 3 The Last Stand
9. A Prairie Home Companion (Last Movie In NYC)
10. Superman Returns
11. Nacho Libre
12. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
13. Cars (Grandma Hazelton’s Birthday)
14. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
15. Lady In The Water
16. Monster House
17. The Devil Wears Prada
18. An Inconvenient Truth
19. Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
20. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
21. Scoop
22. Little Miss Sunshine
23. Marie Antoinette
24. Marie Antoinette
25. Marie Antoinette
26. The Queen
27. Happy Feet (Worst Film Ever Made)
28. The Prestige
29. The Fountain
30. The Prestige


2006 Movies At Home: First Viewings And Revisits

(List does not, for the most part, include movies I own and/or watch super regularly like Moonstruck, Gosford Park, Galaxy Quest, Harry Potter 3 or of course Lord of the Rings)

1. To Die For
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Big Lebowski
4. The Opposite Of Sex
5. The Theory Of Flight
6. King Arthur (On Vacation In Scotland)
7. Sahara (“ “)
8. Kingdom Of Heaven (“ “)
9. Calendar Girls (“ “)
10. Vanity Fair
11. Faerie Tale Theatre Complete Series
12. The Velvet Goldmine
13. Elizabeth
14. Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, And His Music
15. The Ballad Of Jack & Rose
16. Crash
17. Run Lola Run
18. 28 Days Later
19. Young Adam
20. Human Nature
21. Code 46
22. Monster’s Ball
23. Pollock
24. Beyond The Sea
25. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
26. The Notebook
27. Elizabethtown
28. The Family Stone
29. It’s All About Love
30. Gladiator
31. Walk The Line
32. The Fly
33. Batman Begins
34. Pride & Prejudice ‘05
35. Smoke
36. The Manchurian Candidate ‘62
37. Shakespeare In Love
38. Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy ‘05
39. X-Men
40. X-Men 2
41. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
42. Tristan & Isolde
43. The New World
44. BBC The Office Series One
45. Jarhead
46. BBC The Office Series Two
47. Persuasion
48. The Interpreter
49. Oscar & Lucinda
50. Stay
51. The Squid And The Whale
52. Just Like Heaven
53. Equilibrium
54. Alexander
55. Last Of The Mohicans
56. Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire (Last Movie In NYC)
57. She’s The Man (On Airplane To Arizona)
58. Wedding Crashers
59. Superman
60. Electric Horseman
61. Starman
62. Continental Divide
63. Local Hero
64. 12 Monkeys
65. MASH
66. Serenity
67. Mrs. Henderson Presents
68. The Poseidon Adventure
69. Broken Trail
70. Brokeback Mountain
71. Winter Passing
72. Match Point
73. In Her Shoes
74. Beautiful Girls
75. You’ve Got Mail
76. A History Of Violence
77. Eight Men Out
78. Breaking Away
79. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
80. Bed Of Roses
81. Mission To Mars
82. The Flamingo Kid
83. Hanging Up
84. Ever After
85. Diner
86. Star Trek First Contact
87. Sweet Home Alabama
88. Straight Talk
89. Casanova
90. Everything Is Illuminated
91. Ned Kelly
92. Almost Famous
93. The Frisco Kid
94. A Nun’s Story
95. The Whole Nine Yards
96. The Legend Of 1900
97. Angel And The Bad Man
98. Back To The Future 3
99. The Incredibles
100. Rain Man
101. Toy Story 1
102. Toy Story 2
103. Heavenly Creatures
104. The Burbs
105. War Games
106. Muriel’s Wedding
107. Lost In America
108. The Mosquito Coast
109. Broken Flowers
110. Coffee & Cigarettes
111. Lost In Translation
112. 24-Hour Party People
113. Out Of Sight
114. Unforgiven
115. The Life Aquatic
116. The Secret Garden
117. Sid And Nancy
118. Everyone Says I Love You
119. Snatch
120. Being John Malkovich
121. Home Movie
122. Firefly The Complete Series
123. Office Space
124. Ocean’s Eleven
125. Dead Man Walking
126. Shadowlands
127. A Bugs Life
128. Happy Gilmore
129. Lost Season 2
130. Remains Of The Day
131. The Name Of The Rose
132. Stand By Me
133. Smoke Signals
134. Amadeus
135. My Own Private Idaho
136. Real Women Have Curves
137. Shopgirl
138. Happenstance
139. Amelie
140. Tristram Shandy; A Cock And Bull Story
141. Rushmore
142. Three Musketeers ‘95
143. The Jungle Book ‘95
144. X-Men 3
145. Million Dollar Baby
146. Regency House Party Complete Series
147. The Island
148. Gremlins
149. Arrested Development Season 2
150. The Emperor’s New Groove
151. Nightmare Before Christmas
152. Monster’s Inc
153. A Christmas Story
154. The Thin Man
155. Win A Date With Tad Hamilton
156. Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel And Laurence


2006 Movies Viewed in Theatre and at Home
Walk the Line
X Men 3