It was really tough to knock out nearly half of the movies on the previous list. The result, though, is a list of 100 films that I think people of our generation need to watch. Movies made the list for various reasons, and as I mentioned before, not just because they’re my favorites.
For instance, I don’t like “Clerks” at all, but Kevin Smith has had a big effect on our generation, and Clerks is his masthead, so to speak.
Scream is an odd entry, but it really created a new genre of teenage comedy horror and has led to multiple copycats and parodies.
Had I the time, I’d be happy to go through each and every movie and explain why I added it, and what I think it adds to movies in general and to our generation in particular. Maybe I will at some point. In the meantime, here’s the list, in handy meme form.
Take it, repost it, see how ya do. I think most people my age will have seen most of these, though certainly not all of them. But I’m curious to find out.
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() 01 Alien (and Aliens)
() 02 Amelie
() 03 American Beauty
() 04 Austin Powers
() 05 Back to the Future
() 06 Batman
() 07 Blade Runner
() 08 Braveheart
() 09 Breakfast at Tiffany’s
() 10 Casablanca
() 11 Citizen Kane
() 12 Clerks
() 13 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
() 14 Das Boot
() 15 Dead Poets Society
() 16 Die Hard
() 17 Dirty Dancing
() 18 Donnie Darko
() 19 Dr. No
() 20 Dr. Strangelove
() 21 E.T.
() 22 Evil Dead II (and Army of Darkness)
() 23 Fargo
() 24 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
() 25 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
() 26 Fight Club
() 27 Finding Nemo
() 28 Footloose
() 29 Forrest Gump
() 30 Ghost
() 31 Ghost Busters
() 32 Gladiator
() 33 Goldeneye
() 34 Good Will Hunting
() 35 Grease
() 36 Groundhog Day
() 37 Halloween
() 38 Heat
() 39 Independence Day
() 40 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
() 41 It’s a Wonderful Life
() 42 Jaws
() 43 Jean de Florette
() 44 Jerry Maguire
() 45 Jurassic Park
() 46 Kill Bill v. 1-2
() 47 Labyrinth
() 48 Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, all 3)
() 49 Mission Impossible
() 50 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
() 51 Office Space
() 52 Pretty Woman
() 53 Princess Mononoke
() 54 Psycho
() 55 Pulp Fiction
() 56 Rebel Without a Cause
() 57 Rocky
() 58 Romeo and Juliet (1996)
() 59 Run Lola Run
() 60 Rushmore
() 61 Saving Private Ryan
() 62 Say Anything
() 63 Scream
() 64 Shrek
() 65 Silence of the Lambs
() 66 Sin City
() 67 Singin’ in the Rain
() 68 Spiderman
() 69 Star Wars (ep. 4-6)
() 70 Superman
() 71 Taxi Driver
() 72 Terminator (and Terminator II)
() 73 The Big Lebowski
() 74 The Blues Brothers
() 75 The Breakfast Club
() 76 The Exorcist
() 77 The Fugitive
() 78 The Godfather (and The Godfather II)
() 79 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
() 80 The Goonies
() 81 The Last Temptation of Christ
() 82 The Lion King
() 83 The Matrix
() 84 The Muppet Movie
() 85 The Nightmare Before Christmas
() 86 The Passion of the Christ
() 87 The Pink Panther (1963)
() 88 The Princess Bride
() 89 The Professional
() 90 The Ring
() 91 The Shining
() 92 The Sixth Sense
() 93 The Truman Show
() 94 The Usual Suspects
() 95 Thelma and Louise
() 96 Titanic
() 97 Top Gun
() 98 Toy Story
() 99 Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
() 100 Willow