{"id":81,"date":"2005-03-21T12:43:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T17:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/21\/the-imdb-250-meme\/"},"modified":"2005-03-21T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T17:55:24","slug":"the-imdb-250-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/21\/the-imdb-250-meme","title":{"rendered":"The IMDb 250 Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IDMb meme is where you post a copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/chart\/top\">top 250 films on IMDb<\/a> and then highlight the ones you have seen. I saw this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilturner.me.uk\/2005\/Mar\/18\/the_imdb_meme.html\">Neil&#8217;s World<\/a> and though I&#8217;ll give this a try. Movies I have seen are in <strong>bold<\/strong> and movies I own on DVD are astricked &#8220;*&#8221;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 1. <strong><em>The Godfather (1972)<\/em><\/strong> *<br \/>\n   2. <strong>The Shawshank Redemption (1994)<\/strong><br \/>\n   3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)<br \/>\n   4. <strong><em>The Godfather: Part II (1974)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n   5. Seven Samurai (1954)<br \/>\n   6. Casablanca (1942)<br \/>\n   7. Schindler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s List (1993)<br \/>\n   8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)<br \/>\n   9. Citizen Kane (1941)<br \/>\n  10. <strong>Star Wars (1977)<\/strong><br \/>\n  11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nest (1975)<br \/>\n  12. Pulp Fiction (1994)<br \/>\n  13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)<br \/>\n  14. Star Wars: Episode V &#8211; The Empire Strikes Back (1980)<br \/>\n  15. Rear Window (1954)<br \/>\n  16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)<br \/>\n  17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)<br \/>\n  18. The Usual Suspects (1995)<br \/>\n  19. <strong>Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)<\/strong><br \/>\n  20. City of God (2002)<br \/>\n  21. 12 Angry Men (1957)<br \/>\n  22. Memento (2000)<br \/>\n  23. Psycho (1960)<br \/>\n  24. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)<br \/>\n  25. North by Northwest (1959)<br \/>\n  26. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)<br \/>\n  27. <strong><em>Am\u00c3\u00a9lie (2001)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n  28. Goodfellas (1990)<br \/>\n  29. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)<br \/>\n  30. Sunset Boulevard. (1950)<br \/>\n  31. <strong>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Wonderful Life (1946)<\/strong><br \/>\n  32. American Beauty (1999)<br \/>\n  33. <strong><em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n  34. Apocalypse Now (1979)<br \/>\n  35. <strong>The Matrix (1999)<\/strong><br \/>\n  36. Paths of Glory (1957)<br \/>\n  37. Fight Club (1999)<br \/>\n  38. Vertigo (1958)<br \/>\n  39. The Third Man (1949)<br \/>\n  40. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)<br \/>\n  41. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)<br \/>\n  42. Singin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the Rain (1952)<br \/>\n  43. Double Indemnity (1944)<br \/>\n  44. Das Boot (1981)<br \/>\n  45. Taxi Driver (1976)<br \/>\n  46. M (1931)<br \/>\n  47. The Pianist (2002)<br \/>\n  48. Rash\u00c3\u00b4mon (1950)<br \/>\n  49. <strong>Se7en (1995)<\/strong><br \/>\n  50. All About Eve (1950)<br \/>\n  51. The Maltese Falcon (1941)<br \/>\n  52. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)<br \/>\n  53. Requiem for a Dream (2000)<br \/>\n  54. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)<br \/>\n  55. Chinatown (1974)<br \/>\n  56. Some Like It Hot (1959)<br \/>\n  57. L.A. Confidential (1997)<br \/>\n  58. L\u00c3\u00a9on (1994)<br \/>\n  59. <strong>Saving Private Ryan (1998)<\/strong><br \/>\n  60. <strong>Alien (1979)<\/strong><br \/>\n  61. American History X (1998)<br \/>\n  62. Modern Times (1936)<br \/>\n  63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)<br \/>\n  64. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)<br \/>\n  65. <strong>The Wizard of Oz (1939)<\/strong><br \/>\n  66. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)<br \/>\n  67. The Sting (1973)<br \/>\n  68. On the Waterfront (1954)<br \/>\n  69. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)<br \/>\n  70. Raging Bull (1980)<br \/>\n  71. Ran (1985)<br \/>\n  72. Amadeus (1984)<br \/>\n  73. Life is Beautiful (1997)<br \/>\n  74. Touch of Evil (1958)<br \/>\n  75. The Great Escape (1963)<br \/>\n  76. A Clockwork Orange (1971)<br \/>\n  77. City Lights (1931)<br \/>\n  78. Reservoir Dogs (1992)<br \/>\n  79. The Apartment (1960)<br \/>\n  80. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)<br \/>\n  81. Metropolis (1927)<br \/>\n  82. <strong>The Shining (1980)<\/strong><br \/>\n  83. High Noon (1952)<br \/>\n  84. <strong>Jaws (1975)<\/strong><br \/>\n  85. <strong>Aliens (1986)<\/strong><br \/>\n  86. Finding Nemo (2003)<br \/>\n  87. Annie Hall (1977)<br \/>\n  88. <strong>Braveheart (1995)<\/strong><br \/>\n  89. Million Dollar Baby (2004)<br \/>\n  90. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)<br \/>\n  91. Fargo (1996)<br \/>\n  92. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)<br \/>\n  93. Oldboy (2003)<br \/>\n  94. Yojimbo (1961)<br \/>\n  95. The Incredibles (2004)<br \/>\n  96. Blade Runner (1982)<br \/>\n  97. Strangers on a Train (1951)<br \/>\n  98. Donnie Darko (2001)<br \/>\n  99. The Sixth Sense (1999)<br \/>\n 100. The Princess Bride (1987)<br \/>\n 101. The Seventh Seal (1957)<br \/>\n 102. The Great Dictator (1940)<br \/>\n 103. It Happened One Night (1934)<br \/>\n 104. Full Metal Jacket (1987)<br \/>\n 105. <strong>Forrest Gump (1994)<\/strong><br \/>\n 106. Before Sunset (2004)<br \/>\n 107. Cinema Paradiso (1989)<br \/>\n 108. The General (1927)<br \/>\n 109. <strong>Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)<\/strong><br \/>\n 110. Mononoke-hime (1997)<br \/>\n 111. Rebecca (1940)<br \/>\n 112. Duck Soup (1933)<br \/>\n 113. The Philadelphia Story (1940)<br \/>\n 114. The Bicycle Thief (1948)<br \/>\n 115. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)<br \/>\n 116. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)<br \/>\n 117. The Big Sleep (1946)<br \/>\n 118. Notorious (1946)<br \/>\n 119. Smultronst\u00c3\u00a4llet (1957)<br \/>\n 120. The Graduate (1967)<br \/>\n 121. Hero (2002)<br \/>\n 122. Unforgiven (1992)<br \/>\n 123. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)<br \/>\n 124. The Deer Hunter (1978)<br \/>\n 125. Patton (1970)<br \/>\n 126. <strong><em>Run Lola Run (1998)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n 127. <strong><em>Toy Story 2 (1999)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n 128. The Night of the Hunter (1955)<br \/>\n 129. Hotel Rwanda (2004)<br \/>\n 130. The Gold Rush (1925)<br \/>\n 131. Star Wars: Episode VI &#8211; Return of the Jedi (1983)<br \/>\n 132. Cool Hand Luke (1967)<br \/>\n 133. The Elephant Man (1980)<br \/>\n 134. <strong><em>Back to the Future (1985)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n 135. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)<br \/>\n 136. <strong>Glory (1989)<\/strong><br \/>\n 137. <strong>The Green Mile (1999)<\/strong><br \/>\n 138. Ben-Hur (1959)<br \/>\n 139. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)<br \/>\n 140. Grande illusion, La (1937)<br \/>\n 141. Manhattan (1979)<br \/>\n 142. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)<br \/>\n 143. Platoon (1986)<br \/>\n 144. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)<br \/>\n 145. Gone with the Wind (1939)<br \/>\n 146. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)<br \/>\n 147. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)<br \/>\n 148. Shrek (2001)<br \/>\n 149. <strong>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)<\/strong><br \/>\n 150. The African Queen (1951)<br \/>\n 151. His Girl Friday (1940)<br \/>\n 152. Ikiru (1952)<br \/>\n 153. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)<br \/>\n 154. The Searchers (1956)<br \/>\n 155. Mystic River (2003)<br \/>\n 156. Die Hard (1988)<br \/>\n 157. Amores perros (2000)<br \/>\n 158. Bringing Up Baby (1938)<br \/>\n 159. Hotaru no haka (1988)<br \/>\n 160. A Christmas Story (1983)<br \/>\n 161. The Wild Bunch (1969)<br \/>\n 162. Life of Brian (1979)<br \/>\n 163. Stalag 17 (1953)<br \/>\n 164. Big Fish (2003)<br \/>\n 165. The Hustler (1961)<br \/>\n 166. Charade (1963)<br \/>\n 167. Gladiator (2000)<br \/>\n 168. Young Frankenstein (1974)<br \/>\n 169. Sideways (2004)<br \/>\n 170. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)<br \/>\n 171. The Straight Story (1999)<br \/>\n 172. Talk to Her (2002)<br \/>\n 173. To Be or Not to Be (1942)<br \/>\n 174. The Killing (1956)<br \/>\n 175. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)<br \/>\n 176. A Night at the Opera (1935)<br \/>\n 177. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)<br \/>\n 178. Passion de Jeanne d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Arc, La (1928)<br \/>\n 179. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)<br \/>\n 180. Spartacus (1960)<br \/>\n 181. <strong><em>Lost in Translation (2003)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n 182. <strong>Monsters, Inc. (2001)<\/strong><br \/>\n 183. Magnolia (1999)<br \/>\n 184. Harvey (1950)<br \/>\n 185. Strada, La (1954)<br \/>\n 186. Ed Wood (1994)<br \/>\n 187. Sling Blade (1996)<br \/>\n 188. <strong>The Terminator (1984)<\/strong><br \/>\n 189. <strong><em>Toy Story (1995)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n 190.<strong> Groundhog Day (1993)<\/strong><br \/>\n 191. Untergang, Der (2004)<br \/>\n 192. All the President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Men (1976)<br \/>\n 193. The Lion in Winter (1968)<br \/>\n 194. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)<br \/>\n 195. Roman Holiday (1953)<br \/>\n 196. Festen (1998)<br \/>\n 197. <strong>Twelve Monkeys (1995)<\/strong><br \/>\n 198. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)<br \/>\n 199. Trainspotting (1996)<br \/>\n 200. 8\u00c2\u00bd (1963)<br \/>\n 201. Finding Neverland (2004)<br \/>\n 202. Laura (1944)<br \/>\n 203. Brazil (1985)<br \/>\n 204. The Conversation (1974)<br \/>\n 205. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)<br \/>\n 206. The Insider (1999)<br \/>\n 207. Almost Famous (2000)<br \/>\n 208. Dogville (2003)<br \/>\n 209. The Station Agent (2003)<br \/>\n 210. Gandhi (1982)<br \/>\n 211. <strong>Stand by Me (1986)<\/strong><br \/>\n 212. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)<br \/>\n 213. Persona (1966)<br \/>\n 214. King Kong (1933)<br \/>\n 215. Fanny och Alexander (1982)<br \/>\n 216. The Exorcist (1973)<br \/>\n 217. The 39 Steps (1935)<br \/>\n 218. Rain Man (1988)<br \/>\n 219. Mulholland Drive (2001)<br \/>\n 220. Stagecoach (1939)<br \/>\n 221. Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)<br \/>\n 222. Being John Malkovich (1999)<br \/>\n 223. The Big Lebowski (1998)<br \/>\n 224. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)<br \/>\n 225. Rio Bravo (1959)<br \/>\n 226. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)<br \/>\n 227. Network (1976)<br \/>\n 228. Snatch. (2000)<br \/>\n 229. 21 Grams (2003)<br \/>\n 230. The Thin Man (1934)<br \/>\n 231. For a Few Dollars More (1965)<br \/>\n 232. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)<br \/>\n 233. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)<br \/>\n 234. Sullivan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Travels (1941)<br \/>\n 235. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)<br \/>\n 236. Midnight Cowboy (1969)<br \/>\n 237. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)<br \/>\n 238. The Right Stuff (1983)<br \/>\n 239. Barry Lyndon (1975)<br \/>\n 240. In the Heat of the Night (1967)<br \/>\n 241. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)<br \/>\n 242. Miller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Crossing (1990)<br \/>\n 243. <strong><em>Garden State (2004)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n 244. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)<br \/>\n 245. <strong><em>Spider-Man 2 (2004)<\/em><\/strong>*<br \/>\n 246. The Untouchables (1987)<br \/>\n 247. Heat (1995)<br \/>\n 248. The Last Picture Show (1971)<br \/>\n 249. Fa yeung nin wa (2000)<br \/>\n 250. Kumonosu j\u00c3\u00b4 (1957)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seen 32 movies and own 11. Thats 12.8 % for seen movies. Not to bad for not being a film buff.  To bad it also looks like I have also seen 5 movies from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/chart\/bottom\">Bottom 100<\/a> list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IDMb meme is where you post a copy of the top 250 films on IMDb and then highlight the ones you have seen. I saw this at Neil&#8217;s World and though I&#8217;ll give this a try. 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