How It All Started

So today at work, I read an article that they were opening up the case on the death of Natalie Wood. I announced that to my coworkers nearby and I got a few "who?"'s in response.

...  hmm Ok. Well I give my slightly younger coworkers the benefit of the doubt. I think my generation and probably a majority of those that came after haven't heard of Natalie Wood. I explained who this was thinking that most people have seen West Side Story. 

I was wrong. Or those that knew OF West Side Story had no idea of Natalie Wood.  So this sparked a conversation about other older actors and actresses and the movies they were in. Most of which they had NO idea. My friend Heather, (thank GOD) knew if I said "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" that it was a movie starring James Stewart. 

We got to talking and I was reminded of the AFI's Top 100 Movies of the last 100 Years list. I brought this up and got to searching. I found the list of the 10th Anniversary of said list (2008) and decided to print it out and see which ones I have seen or not. Top 100 List to take a look at it yourself! I must admit my list is pretty sad but atleast I know the movies on the list and can tell you who starred in it and/or directed. 

So I decided that I was going to sit and watch all the movies on this list! Looking at it I kinda figured that AFI might be a bit "formal" about their selections -- more classics and true epic films, but I wanted another vantage point and some newer films so I'm also going to include the IMDb's list of Top 250 Movies voted by users. (*As of today 11/18/2011). The IMDb List if you'd like to take a gander at it yourself. I decided not to check off a movie as "seen" if I can't really recall anything about it or haven't seen it all the way through...   Oh boy, this might take a while.. 

I have a pretty big list it looks like but I'm excited to start. I figured I'd start a blog (I know.. late to the game) to give my opinions on movies and hopefully share some knowledge and spark interest in those glorious films that a lot of my generation is missing out on! 

I decided not to watch them in any particular order so I asked a coworker for a random number to pick the first movie off of the IMDb list (just happened to be the list I was looking at at the time). He chose 171 which is "The Graduate"! (If you start humming "Mrs. Robinson" you're in the same boat I have been in all day) 

Now I do have 1 movie that's been sitting on my shelf for a while from my Netflix queue so I'm going to watch that first before starting on my list. On with THE MOVIES!