Sandy Kilpatrick Versus The Cinematic World
The Reel Deal • Published 5 Jan 2011 15:20
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I have an obsession. It's expensive, controversial, and growing. Exponentially.
I love DVDs.
But while Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly can be deemed modern classics the likes of The House Bunny, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and White Chicks, aren't. Sake.
It's here where the advice of former film critic turned Chronicle Editor, reclusive author and misanthrope, Douglas Skelton comes to the rescue.
I pestered him into it. ^_^
After watching Julia & Julia starring the red headed princess from Enchanted (Amy Adams) and Meryl Streep (Mamma Mia, The Devil Wears Prada) I decided I wanted to write a blog as well. Actualisation FTW.
So here's the deal. 100 films chosen by Douglas. Deadline. 365ish days.
Problem. While being a reporter might be glamorous chasing cop cars and fire engines, rooting out conspiracy in Watergate, and changing in phone booths to fight crime, it don't pay.
I'll have to view movies opportunistically using SkyPlayer, renting and borrowing. Foresight. I Sky+'d JFK to get a head start. And I would have it under my belt too if it wasn't for those meddling parents, Jill & Andy...
While this may take away many hours from my other favourite pastime of re-deading the living impaired in Left 4 Dead, raiding tombs* and chopping the limbs off necromorphs when Dead Space 2 finds it's way to my xbox 360 by Winter-een-mas 2011, Douglas assures me, this will educate me.
Game over, man. Game over. ¬_¬
The List So Far...
1. White Heat.
2. Sunset Boulevard.
3. Ace In The Hole.
4. His Girl Friday.
5. The Thing (original)
6. Casablanca.
7. Training Day.
8. Robin Hood (Errol Flynn version)
9. Cool Hand Luke.
10. The Big Sleep.
11. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid,
12. The French Connection,
13. The Taking of Pelham 123 (original)
14. Rocky.
15. Soylent Green,
16 Planet of The Apes (original)
17 The Great Escape.
18 A Bridge Too Far.
19 Citizen Kane.
20 Lawrence of Arabia.
21 Doctor Zhivago.
22 The Dirty Dozen,
23 Angels With Dirty Faces.
24 Shane.
25 Red River.
26 Executive Decision
27 Dirty Harry.
28 When Harry Met Sally (Not a sequel to 27)
29 Absence of Malice.
30 Outland.
31 The Man Who Would Be King.
32 Flight of the Phoenix.
33 The Departed.
34 JFK.
35 The Paper.
36 Naked Gun.
37 Reign Over Me.
38/39 Miracle of 34th Street. Original and remake.
40 The Italian Job. (Original)
41 Zulu.
42 The Ipcress File,
43 Maltese Falcon.
44 Where Eagles Dare.
45 The Exorcist.
46 The Omen,
47 Four Weddings and a Funeral.
48 The Haunting 1962.
49 The Odd Couple.
50 Blade Runner.
51/52/53 The Godfather Trilogy.
54 Halloween.
55 Magic.
56 The Lion In Winter.
57 Goodbye Girl.
58 High Plains Drifter
59 Stagecoach.
60. Twelve Angry Men
61 Bullitt
*Douglas gave up on Julia & Julia after Julia - the young one - killed the lobster. Bitch.
*The last DVD I bought was Scott Pilgrim Versus The World £12.99 from HMV, Ayr.
*The first DVD I got was a Aliens. It was a Christmas present from my cousin Steven in 2001.
*There's not been a decent Tomb Raider (with the exception of the XBLA Guardian of Light) since Anniversary. I have high hopes for the re-imagining of Lara Croft currently in the works.
*Douglas has only picked 61 films so far. I'll get the rest when I watch these bad boys. Apparently...
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