Yes I know I'm a geek

I am a list freak. You know like those reading lists your high school English teacher gives you? I still have the ones from my Jr and Sr years.

Well anyway, a few years ago, when The Academy Awards were celebrating the 70th anniversary, I thought it would be cool to make the list of all Best Picture winners. I was surprised I had not even seen half of them. So I made the list up and started working through them. But, right after that the AFI came out with their 100 best films of all time, so I added all those to my list. When I went to the AFI website, they actually had 400 movies to pick from, only ranking the top 100. So I printed out the complete list and have been slowly working my way through the ones I haven't seen.

Just in the last week I have seen Deliverance (yes, I know everyone in the free world has already seen it), Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, The Caine Mutiny, Five Easy Pieces, Touch of Evil, the Magnificent Ambersons, Chinatown and a few others I haven't seen.

Some of the 400 I wonder how the hell they made the list. But I have found a couple of gems I never knew existed. Run Silent, Run Deep - a Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster submarine movie. It was quite good, actually. My favorite though has been The Awful Truth with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Slapstick comedy at its finest.

I'm down to only 140 to go.