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By briantologist | March 6, 2007
Okay, thanks, thanks. I feel a little better. Also thanks to former recent Battlestar Galactica booster Gleemonex for asking me (and you too, Internets) what’s currently at #27–#32 on our household’s Netflix queue. I happen to think it’s a damn fine question.
#27: Love and Death on Long Island
#28: Boys Don’t Cry
#29: Waking Life
#30: Sunset Boulevard
#31: The Apartment
#32: Some Like It Hot
Man, I am never gonna Watch “Boys Don’t Cry.” Not because it’s not a good movie, but because think about this: It’s Friday night, you’ve just put the kid to bed, you’re fucking beat from work, and you’re waiting for the delivery guy to bring your samosas. Tell me how likely this statement is to actually issue forth from your lips: “Honey, I know! Let’s kick back and throw in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’! I hear she gets beaten to death at the end!”
Right. That’s also about how likely it is to happen at our house. Miraculously we made ourselves watch “Hotel Rwanda” under similar circumstances, but I’m thinking that kind of resolve is sort of a fluke.
In other news, apparently I went on a Billy Wilder kick at some point in my queue-building activities.
Topics: Misc., Stuff | 27 Comments »
March 6th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
This is a meme I can get behind.
March 6th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
#27 Thumbsucker
#28 Happy Endings
#29 24 Hour Party People
#30 Blood Simple
#31 Shopgirl
#32 Lipstick and Dynamite
March 6th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
OK, I like this and I’ll get ideas for movies!
#27 The Motorcycle Diaries
#28 Akeelah And The Bee
#29 Arrested Development Season 3, Disk 1
#30 Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man
#31 The Puffy Chair
#32 What the #$*! Do We Know?
Falling is a bummer. I’m sure Henry is fine. Are you OK? I fell on the ice last week. Odd that my first reaction is always to be embarassed when I fall.
March 6th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Funny, that’s why Syriana has mysteriously remained at #16 for months, and Lost Boys of Sudan holds steady at #37 …
March 6th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
This is a sweet meme, I’m getting more movies to queue up!
27. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
28. Conversations With Other Women
29. Le Cercel Rouge
30. Annie Hall
31. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
32. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
March 6th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
27. Auto Focus
28. Before Stonewall
29. Girlhood
30. Paradise Now
31. Teen Witch
32. Reckless Indifference
March 7th, 2007 at 4:24 am
Remind me to tell you the story about how I went to high school with the cousin of the guy who beat Hillary Swank’s character to death.
(Actually, that’s pretty much the story.)
Incidentally, I’d sacrifice a teste to have Ms. Swank trade places with the unfoortunate transgendered one on that fateful evening.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:20 am
27. Downfall
28. Storytelling
29. City of God
30. Wonderland
31. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
32. Man on the Train
Jesus, THAT’s going to be a good weekend. This looks exactly like what I think an insufferable 6th year film studies student would have on their list.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:45 am
27. Criminal
28. Strangers With Candy
29. Slither
30. Awesome: I Fuckin’ Shot That!
31. Lessons of Darkness
32. The Princess Bride (am I the only human who has never seen this?)
March 7th, 2007 at 8:09 am
32. The Princess Bride (am I the only human who has never seen this?)
Yes. You should remove it from your list and just go buy your copy. Right now. Go on…
March 7th, 2007 at 8:16 am
I don’t do netflix and have nothing to contribute, but I did come across this article on the value of the liberal arts degree that I thought you might like to see…
http://education.yahoo.net/degrees/articles/featured_love_of_learning.html
March 7th, 2007 at 8:24 am
27. The Secret Lives of Dentists
28. What Time Is It There?
29. The Battle of Algiers
30. The Bicycle Thief
31. M
32. The Taste of Others
Likelihood I’ll see any of them? Very, very low. I currently have 115 in my queue.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:25 am
I love seeing other people’s queues. Teen Witch is a great choice.
27. The Bicycle Thief
28. Star Wars: Clone Wars Vol. 2
29. Stay
30. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
31. Hannah and Her Sisters
32. History of the World: Part 1
Wow, that is odd that I have the same movie as the person right above me on my list.
March 7th, 2007 at 10:54 am
27. Singin’ in the Rain
28. 24: Season 2, Disc 6
29. It’s a Wonderful Life
30. 24: Season 2, Disc 7 Bonus Material
31. Some Like It Hot
32. 24: Season 3, Disc 1
I can’t believe we both have Some Like It Hot. However, you may have gotten sucked into the AFI Top 100 Film List. That’s what motivated me to go back and add every film from the list that I hadn’t seen to my queue. I’m not saying it will stay that way, but I had the best of intentions.
March 7th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Ah, you’ve inspired me to take a good hard look at the old queue…
27. What the #$*! Do We Know!?
28. November
29. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
30. Hurlyburly
31. 13 Moons
32. The Wedding Banquet
And it’s probably been that way for months on end, too…will I ever put any of these movies up toward the top?! Not bloody likely…
March 7th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
That was totally what got those movies in my queue, the AFI 100! Also Ebert’s list, I think.
March 7th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Add me to the “Some Like It Hot” roster – that’s really weird:
27. Tales Of The City: Disc 1
28. Some Like It Hot
29. Arsenic And Old Lace
30. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
31. All Quiet On The Western Front
32. Father Of The Bride (1950)
Guess I was on a tour of the Classics section that day. Oh, and #33? The Bicycle Thief.
March 8th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Perhaps everyone could put Some Like It Hot at the top of their queue and watch it before next week. Then we can all discuss.
March 8th, 2007 at 8:40 am
I watched “Dancer in the Dark” under those circumstances. Never again. Those movies should only be watched at home in the afternoon where you can pause it and go outside and smell a flower or pet a puppy.
March 8th, 2007 at 9:49 am
27. I Heart Huckabees
28. The Wire: Season 2: Disc 2
29. Dog Day Afternoon
30. The Wire: Season 2: Disc 3
31. The Lake House (for some reason my husband is obsessed with seeing this movie)
32. The Wire: Season 2: Disc 4
March 8th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Dog Day Afternoon is awesome, I say. Also I watched Serpico when I was home sick yesterday, and it’s also very good. So big ups to the Sidney Lumet/Al Pacino pics, is what I guess I’m saying here.
This “Everybody Watches ‘Some Like it Hot’” idea isn’t bad! Anybody else up for this?
March 8th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Y’all go ahead — I saw it in two different film classes back when I was a wee undergrad, was tested on it and wrote papers involving it, and that’ll do me for a lifetime … ;-)
March 8th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
27. Goodfellas: Sepcial Edition: Bonus Disc
28. The Bicycle Thief
29. Lewis Black: Black on Broadway
30. Batman the Animated Series: Vol. 2: Disc 4
31. The Untouchables
32. Gilmore Girls: Season 2: Disc 2
March 8th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
We watched that Scorcese My Voyage to Italy which forced all of these obscure and/or legendary Italian movies in to our queue. The Bicycle Thief is on 3 of the queues listed above – are we all watching the same things?
I’d be up for Some Like it Hot, but the S.O. (same one who has friggin animated batman on the list) hasn’t watched what we currently have at home in time for Some Like It Hot to get here. Of course I’ve seen it before, so perhaps I could participate in such a discussion.
March 8th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
I’d be up for a Some Like It Hot rally.
March 10th, 2007 at 8:01 am
OK, ‘fess up, who else moved stuff around before doing this, thus not ending up with this:
27. Night Porter
28. Master and Commander
28. We Were Soldiers
30. Before Sunrise
31. Before Sunset
32. Marathon Man
and instead ending up with something like this?
27. Alphaville
28. Sholay
29. Lumumba
30. Kagemusha
31. Spook Who Sat By the Door
32. Kandahar
Am I the only one that contemplated using this as an excuse to seem brainy and committed? Or is just that, like me, everyone else moves the abominations that they’re embarrassed to admit they have on their queue (King Arthur? Really?) up to the top 10?
I think the best (lowbrow) part of Netflix is the anonymous watching of horrible, horrible movies; movies you’d be embarrassed to even be in the same section as in real life. Movies like “A Cup of My Blood” which I got because the woman that Microsoft has cast in their terrible live person search engine gets nekkid in it.
It wasn’t worth it. I knew it wasn’t going to be, but I had to know FOR SURE. Yeah, it wasn’t.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
(I haven’t dropped by your blog for ages. Hope all is well with the family!)
“Love and Death on Long Island” was terribly disappointing. I certainly appreciated the one poster’s comment about “Dancer in the Dark”. If I’d had that bit of advice before watching it, I might have felt an ounce better afterwards. But as it was, those damn hand-held cameras make me queasy as hell, which didn’t help my disposition in the end. Beautiful movie though. “Some Like It Hot” is a favorite. Enjoy!