Alright, we have a date: January 13th, 2007. Same venue as last year (Scotiabank Place won’t sponsor us after all, those bastards), and same time as last year (10am – 10am). Now it’s on to movie selection. For those of you that are new to this, this will be a two-step process. First, I’d like to gather any and all movie recommendations. If you’ve already submitted something then I’ve probably noted it, but feel free to check against the list below. Get any additional movie suggestions back to me before midnight on Sunday, November 26th.
After that, I’ll circulate the master list in spreadsheet form and ask everyone to rank each selection. When those results are in, I’ll do a little formula magic and see what’s popular. That said, this isn’t a democracy. I’ll take the group rankings under advisement, but at heart I remain a cruel and petty dictator.
And now: the current list. This includes anything that’s been suggested to date, along with the movies that didn’t quite make it last year, but also didn’t rank abysmally. (Sorry Xanadu.)
A Hard Day's Night, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Airplane, Alien, Apocolypse Now, Bad Lieutenant, Badlands, Battle Beyond the Stars, Beavis and Butthead Do America, Being There, Belle De Jour, Best of McLean Eats (Vol. 1 to 25), Billy Jack, Boondock Saints, Boys N the Hood, Brick, Bubba Ho-Tep, Call of Cthulhu, CB4, Chinatown, City of God, Class of 1984, Clerks, Dead Alive, Diner, Dirty Harry, Do the Right Thing, Dolemite, Duck Soup, Eraserhead, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Five Deadly Venoms, Frankenstien, Freaks, Ghostbusters, Glengarry Glenross, Grand Prix, Gray Gardens, Happy Accidents, Harlan County USA, Highway 61, Hostel, I Heart Huckabees, In the Mouth of Madness, Ishtar, Kentucky Fried Movie, King Kong, Kung Fu Hustle, Life is Sweet, MASH, Mean Streets, Midnight Cowboy, Mildred Pierce, Miller's Crossing, North by Northwest, Oldboy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ong Bak, Pink Flamingos, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Pulp Fiction, Raising Arizona, Re-animator, Rear Window, Roadhouse, Rocky, Saw, Shawn of the Dead, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Straight to Hell, Suspiria, Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, The Big Lebowski, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Deer Hunter, The Devil's Rejects, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Fly, The General, The Godfather, The Hitcher, The Jerk, The Mack, The Magnificant Seven, The Outsiders, The Party, The Prince of Darkness, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Seventh Seal, The Shawshank Redemption, The Towering Inferno, The Wicker Man (original), This is Spinal Tap, Trainspotting, Twelve Angry Men, Very Bad Things, Way of the Gun, Wild Reeds.
After that, I’ll circulate the master list in spreadsheet form and ask everyone to rank each selection. When those results are in, I’ll do a little formula magic and see what’s popular. That said, this isn’t a democracy. I’ll take the group rankings under advisement, but at heart I remain a cruel and petty dictator.
And now: the current list. This includes anything that’s been suggested to date, along with the movies that didn’t quite make it last year, but also didn’t rank abysmally. (Sorry Xanadu.)
A Hard Day's Night, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Airplane, Alien, Apocolypse Now, Bad Lieutenant, Badlands, Battle Beyond the Stars, Beavis and Butthead Do America, Being There, Belle De Jour, Best of McLean Eats (Vol. 1 to 25), Billy Jack, Boondock Saints, Boys N the Hood, Brick, Bubba Ho-Tep, Call of Cthulhu, CB4, Chinatown, City of God, Class of 1984, Clerks, Dead Alive, Diner, Dirty Harry, Do the Right Thing, Dolemite, Duck Soup, Eraserhead, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Five Deadly Venoms, Frankenstien, Freaks, Ghostbusters, Glengarry Glenross, Grand Prix, Gray Gardens, Happy Accidents, Harlan County USA, Highway 61, Hostel, I Heart Huckabees, In the Mouth of Madness, Ishtar, Kentucky Fried Movie, King Kong, Kung Fu Hustle, Life is Sweet, MASH, Mean Streets, Midnight Cowboy, Mildred Pierce, Miller's Crossing, North by Northwest, Oldboy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ong Bak, Pink Flamingos, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Pulp Fiction, Raising Arizona, Re-animator, Rear Window, Roadhouse, Rocky, Saw, Shawn of the Dead, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Straight to Hell, Suspiria, Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, The Big Lebowski, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Deer Hunter, The Devil's Rejects, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Fly, The General, The Godfather, The Hitcher, The Jerk, The Mack, The Magnificant Seven, The Outsiders, The Party, The Prince of Darkness, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Seventh Seal, The Shawshank Redemption, The Towering Inferno, The Wicker Man (original), This is Spinal Tap, Trainspotting, Twelve Angry Men, Very Bad Things, Way of the Gun, Wild Reeds.
Comments
I would also add John Carpenter's second best movie, Big Trouble in Little China (you already have his best, In the Mouth of Madness, on the list), the excellent H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Dagon, and the most terrifying movie of all: Dave and Sarah's wedding video. Ooooh, scary stuff, kids.
Looking forward to it.
BTILC.
Such a great movie.
Looking forward to it.
Are we doing the theme drinking?
Big Trouble In Little China is truly a piece of art. Kurt Russell's absolute peek performance.
Jorge, I like the theme of 'Drinking'
But I'm still working on making it to the marathon itself!
Delicatessen. It's freakin' fabulous!