WELCOME TO MACHO-THON We've
already established that my movie-watching is primarily motivated by shame. My current greatest for-shamer is a list that sits angrily at the bottom of my Flickchart profile. It's called "Movies I Haven't Seen," and it shows
the highest ranked films on the site I that "haven't seen." I'm putting haven't seen in scare quotes because there are actually a few films on this list that I have seen (
Die Hard,
Ghostbusters,
Jaws). These films I feel are discussed so often that my hazy recollection of them really isn't sufficient.
But why "macho-thon"?From the
Flickchart blog:
It’s always fascinating to me to compare all these Flickchart rankings to see what they say about the Flickchart community. For instance, When in Rome has been ranked less than Mary and Max above despite being much higher profile. This tells me: A. That Flickcharters are awesome as a whole and watch good, interesting movies more than bad ones, B. that there are not a lot of females here, and C. Flickcharting guys have as great taste in girls as they do in movies, and they aren’t forced to go see fluff like this.
As demonstrated in both the content and the rhetoric (not that rhetoric isn't a form of content...) above, Flickchart is kind of bro-town. Actually, before I decided on (the much more simple) "The Macho-thon," I thought about calling this the "Brotion Pictures Marathon." Yeah, Macho-thon is better.
So, as it turns out, the films that confront me on that dreaded profile list are heavily action, mob, and sci-fi-oriented. Left without any motivation to watch (or re-watch) these films, I just would not get the job done. This situation calls for a marathon.
The FilmsI am including all 21 films I have listed as "unseen" from the Flickchart top 100, plus 1 bonus that immediately came to my dad's mind when I told him about this project. I will be watching the films in order of reverse ranking, except where a franchise becomes involved.
1.
Donnie Darko (#90)
2.
The Bourne Supremacy (#86)
3.
The Bourne Ultimatum (#78)
4.
Clerks (#84)
5.
American History X (#77)
6.
The Prestige (#75)
7.
Taxi Driver (#73)
8.
A Clockwork Orange (#69)
9.
12 Monkeys (#68)
10.
Full Metal Jacket (#63)
11.
Blade Runner (#51)
12.
Aliens (#47)
13.
Jaws (#46)
14.
The Shining (#44)
15.
The Terminator (#39)
16.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (#62)
17.
The Usual Suspects (#25)
18.
Goodfellas (#22)
19.
Reservoir Dogs (#21)
20.
Die Hard (#20)
21.
Ghostbusters (#15)
Special Leslie's Dad Bonus:
Mad Max (#549)
Let the gunfire begin!