In case you're planning on dying soon, here is the list of 50 movies you should see before said impending doom according to the Sunday Mail website:
1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey
7 North by Northwest
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko
10 Manhattan
11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation
13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
15 Pulp Fiction
16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
19 Boyz n the Hood
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera
24 Erin Brockovich
25 Trainspotting
26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
31 Scarface
32 Terminator 2
33 Three Colours: Blue
34 The Royal Tenenbaums
35 The Ladykillers
36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands
I like it, it's a good list, obviously some glaring absences: Star Wars (at least the first one), Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia; but all-in-all it's a good variety. It was compiled by a group of experts, but we don't know who they are, the story didn't elaborate. For the record I've seen 27 of them, so I guess I better take care of myself, I have quite a bit of viewing to do before I go.
In other news, can you guess today's birthday boy by the characters he's played?
Jim Williams
Verbal Kint
Lester Burnham
Bobby Darin
Lex Luthor
That's right... Kevin Spacey is 47 today and shares birthdays with Sandra Bullock, Kate Beckinsale and the late Stanley Kubrick
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That sure seems like a random list, lots of genres there. I better get cracking; I've only got three out of the top ten down.
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