Alphabetical Movie Project
For anyone new to my blog asking the understandable question “What the hell is this Alphabetical Movie thing he keeps blogging about,” here is a little more information. Basically, I’m watching every movie I own in Alphabetical order. Yes, this is kind of crazy.
If you are interested in the rules of the project, this blog entry covers them.
This page is where I’m going to list every movie I’ve watched and, eventually, I’ll fill it in with links to the blogs I’ve written. I’ve been blogging off and on over the course of the project so sometimes there is a blog entry and sometimes there isn’t. Give me a break, man, I’m only human!
Numbers
7/30/09 300
8/3/09 10 Things I hate about You
8/11/09 12 Angry Men
8/11/09 12 Monkeys
8/17/09 3 Musketeers, The (I cheated on this one because the actual name of the film is The Three Musketeers)
8/20/09 3:10 to Yuma
8/25/09 4 Musketeers, The
9/3/09 13 Conversations about One Thing
9/9/09 101 Dalmations
9/22/09 2001: A Space Oddysey
A (A.I: Artificial Intelligence – The Aviator)
10/8/09 A.I: Artificial Intelligence
10/10/09 About a Boy
10/16/09 Abyss, The
11/4/09 Across the Universe
11/12/09 Adam’s Rib
11/27/09 Adaptation
11/27/09 Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The
11/27/09 Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The
12/2/09 Adventures of Robin Hood, The
12/9/09 Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
12/14/09 Aladdin
12/24/09 Alice in Wonderland
12/24/09 Alien
12/28/09 Aliens
12/29/09 All About Eve
12/30/09 All of Me
1/1/10 Almost Famous
1/4/10 Amadeus
12/30/09 Amelie
1/5/10 American Beauty
1/6/10 American Movie
1/11/10 American President, The
1/13/10 Animal House
1/14/10 Annie Hall
1/18/10 Apollo 13
1/19/10 Around the World in 80 Days
1/21/10 Arsenic and Old Lace
1/25/10 Asphalt Jungle, The
1/27/10 Atlantis: The Lost Empire
1/28/10 Austion Powers: International Man of Mystery
1/30/10 Aviator, The
B (Bad News Bears – Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
2/2/10 Bad News Bears, The
2/3/10 Bad Santa
2/6/10 Baghead
2/7/10 Bambi
2/8/10 Band Wagon, The
2/9/10 Bandits
2/11/10 Bank Job, The
2/15/10 Barcleys of Broadway, The
2/16/10 BASEketball
2/23/10 Batman
3/1/10 Batman Begns
3/1/10 Batman Beyond: The Return of the Joker
3/3/10 Beauty and the Beast
3/4/10 Beckett
3/5/10 Bed of Roses
3/6/10 Beetlejuice
3/12/10 Bell Book and Candle
3/12/10 Best in Show
3/15/10 Better off Dead
3/17/10 Beverly Hills Cop
3/18/10 Big Fish
3/24/10 Big Heat, The
3/25/10 Big Hit, The
3/31/10 Big Lebowski, The
4/1/10 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
4/2/10 Birdcage, The
4/2/10 Bishop’s Wife, The
4/6/10 Black Hawk Down
4/9/10 Blade Runner
4/10/10 Blast from the Past
4/12/10 Blazing Saddles
4/14/10 Bolt
4/14/10 Boogie Nights
4/19/10 Borat
4/20/10 Bound
4/21/10 Bourne Identity, The
4/22/10 Bourne Supremacy, The
4/28/10 Bourne Ultamatim, The
4/29/10 Bowling for Columbine
5/1/10 Brazil
5/5/10 Breakfast at Tiffany’s
5/8/10 Breakfast Club, The
5/13/10 Breaking Away
5/14/10 Bride & Prejudice
5/17/10 Bridge on the River Kwai, The
5/23/10 Bridget Jones Diary
5/25/10 Brigadoon
5/30/10 Bringing up Baby
4/25/10 Brothers Bloom, The
5/30/10 Bug’s Life, A
6/7/10 Bull Durham
6/17/10 Burn After Reading
6/25/10 Business of Strangers, The
6/26/10 Butch Cassidy and the Sundace Kid
C (The Caine Mutiny – The Cutting Edge)
7/8/10 Caine Mutiny, The
7/14/10 Cameraman, The
7/15/10 Cannibal! The Musical
7/17/10 Capote
7/20/10 Cars
7/23/10 Casablanca
7/28/10 Casino Royale
8/3/10 Cast Away
8/18/10 Castle in the Sky
8/23/10 Catch me if you Can
8/25/10 Celluloid Closet, The
9/2/10 Center Stage
9/8/10 Changing Lanes
9/20/10 Chaplin
9/30/10 Charade
10/1/10 Charlie Wilson’s War
10/6/10 Charlie’s Angels
10/12/10 Chicago
10/15/10 Chicken Run
10/27/10 Children of Men
11/3/10 Children of Paradise
11/4/10 Chocolat
11/18/10 Christmas Story, A
11/20/10 Cinderella
11/26/10 Citizen Kane
12/2/10 City of God
12/3/10 City Slickers
12/3/10 Clash of the Titans
12/9/10 Clear & Present Danger
12/21/10 Clerks
12/27/10 Clerks II
12/28/10 Clue
12/30/10 Clueless
12/30/10 Color Purple, The
12/31/10 Confidence
12/31/10 Contact
1/12/11 Contender, The
1/13/11 Cool Hand Luke
1/17/11 Coraline
1/18/11 Crank
1/21/11 Crocodile Dundee
1/24/11 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
1/25/11 Crow, The
1/30/11 Curious George
1/27/11 Cutting Edge, The
D (Dangerous Liaisons – The Duchess)
1/31/11 Dangerous Liaisons
2/3/11 Dark City
2/6/11 Dark Crystal, The
2/8/11 Dark Knight, The
2/14/11 Dark Passage
2/16/11 Das Boot
2/18/11 Dave
2/20/11 Day the Earth Stood Still, The
2/22/11 Dead Again
2/24/11 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
3/1/11 Departed, The
2/23/11 Despicable Me
3/3/11 Destination Mars!
3/3/11 Diamonds are Forever
3/3/11 Die Another Day
3/5/11 Die Hard
3/7/11 Diggstown
3/9/11 Dirty Dancing
3/10/11 Dirty Dozen, The
3/11/11 Dish, The
3/15/11 District 9
3/17/11 DOA
3/17/11 Dodgeball
3/18/11 Dogma
3/18/11 Down with Love
3/21/11 Dr. No
3/22/11 Dr. Strangelove
3/25/11 Dreamgirls
3/25/11 Dressed to Kill
3/25/11 Drop Dead Gorgeous
3/30/11 Duchess, The
E (E.T the Extra Terrestrial – Ever After)
4/1/11 E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
4/1/11 Eagle Eye
4/4/11 Easy Virtue
4/5/11 Ed Wood
4/5/11 Elf
4/7/11 Elizabeth
4/8/11 Emma
4/8/11 Emperor’s New Goove, The
4/8/11 Enchanted
4/8/11 Enter the Dragon
4/8/11 Equilibrium
4/12/11 Erin Brockovich
4/13/11 Escape from New York
4/14/11 Escape to Witch Mountain
4/20/11 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4/22/11 Ever After
F (Fantasia – The Full Monty)
4/22/11 Fantasia
4/25/11 Fantasia 2000
4/27/11 Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
5/5/11 Far and Away
5/11/11 Far from Heaven
5/16/11 Farenheit 9/11
5/18/11 Fargo
5/22/11 Farmer’s Wife, The
5/23/11 Father Goose
5/24/11 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
5/30/11 Fiddler on the Roof
5/31/11 Fifth Element, The
6/2/11 Finding Nemo
6/6/11 First Wives Club, The
6/8/11 Fish Called Wanda, A
6/14/11 Firstful of Dollars, A
6/16/11 Flight of the Navigator
6/15/11 Flying Dueces, The
6/24/11 Follow the Fleet
6/27/11 Footloose
6/28/11 For a Few Dollars More
7/6/11 For Your Eyes Only
7/7/11 Forbidden Planet
7/9/11 Four Weddings and a Funeral
7/11/11 Frailty
7/26/11 Free and Easy
7/14/11 Free Enterprise
7/16/11 French Kiss
7/18/11 Frequency
7/19/11 From Russia with Love
7/27/11 Frost/Nixon
7/28/11 Fugitive, The
7/30/11 Full Monty, The
G (Galaxy Quest – Gunga Din)
8/2/11 Galaxy Quest
8/3/11 Game, The
8/11/11 Gandhi
8/15/11 Gattaca
8/16/11 Get Shorty
8/20/11 Ghost
8/26/11 Ghost World
8/26/11 Ghostbusters
8/29/11 Gigi
9/3/11 Glory
9/7/11 Godfather, The
9/21/11 Godfather Part II, The
9/27/11 Godfather Part III, The
9/28/11 Going my Way
10/4/11 Goldeneye
10/6/11 Goldfinger
10/7/11 Gone With the Wind
10/7/11 Good Night and Good Luck
10/8/11 Good Will Hunting
10/8/11 Goofy Movie, A
10/13/11 Gosford Park
10/25/11 Graduate, The
10/28/11 Great Dictator, The
10/26/11 Great Escape, The
10/28/11 Great Race, The
10/29/11 Green Hornet, The
10/31/11 Green Mile, The
11/2/11 Gremlins
11/14/11 Groundhog Day
11/18/11 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
11/23/11 Gun Crazy
11/25/11 Gunga Din
H (Hairspray – The Hustler)
12/1/11 Hairspray
12/2/11 Hangover, The
12/13/11 Hard Day’s Night, A
12/14/11 Harry Potter & the Socerer’s Stone
12/15/11 Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets
12/22/11 Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
12/27/11 Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire
12/28/11 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
1/4/11 Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince
1/6/11 Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
1/7/11 Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
1/10/12 Harvey
1/11/12 Hatari!
1/17/12 Haunting, The
1/20/12 Heartbreakers
1/25/12 Heat
1/30/12 Hellboy
1/31/12 Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2/1/12 Hercules
2/1/12 Henry V
2/4/12 Hero
2/14/12 Hidden Fortress, The
2/18/12 High and Low
2/23/12 High Fidelity
2/26/12 High Noon
2/29/12 Highlander
3/3/12 His Girl Friday
3/7/12 History of Violence, A
3/13/12 Holiday Inn
3/14/12 Hollywoodland
3/15/12 Home Alone
3/20/12 Home for the Holidays
3/22/12 Home Fries
3/27/12 Hot Fuzz
3/28/12 Hot Shots
3/30/12 Hot Tub Time Machine
3/31/12 Hotel Rwanda
4/7/12 House of Flying Daggers
4/9/12 House of Wax
4/13/12 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
4/13/12 How to Train your Dragon
4/14/12 Howl’s Moving Castle
4/14/12 How to Steal a Million
4/22/12 Hugo
4/17/12 Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
4/24/12 Hunt for Red October, The
5/1/12 Hurt Locker, The
5/2/12 Hustler, The
I (I was a Male War Bride – It’s a Wonderful Life )
5/16/12 I was a Male War Bride
5/19/12 Ice Age
5/22/12 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
5/24/12 Impossible Years, The
5/26/12 In Bruges
5/29/12 In the Bedroom
6/3/12 Inception
6/4/12 Incredible Hulk, The
6/5/12 Incredibles, The
6/6/12 Independence Day
6/8/12 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
6/10/12 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6/18/12 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
6/19/12 Indiscreet
6/19/12 Inglorious Basterds
6/20/12 Inherit the Wind
6/25/12 Innerspace
6/22/12 Inside Man
6/26/12 Insomnia
7/2/12 Intolerable Cruelty
6/30/12 Irma La Duce
7/13/12 Iron Giant, The
7/14/12 Iron Man
7/21/12 Iron Man 2
7/31/12 It Happened One Night
8/15/12 It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
8/18/12 It’s a Wonderful Life
J (Jackie Brown – Just Like Heaven)
8/29/12 Jackie Brown
8/30/12 Jackie Chan’s First Strike
9/2/12 Jamaica Inn
9/5/12 January Man, The
9/6/12 Jason and the Argonauts
9/10/12 Jaws
9/11/12 Jewel of the Nile, The
9/20/12 John Carter
9/21/12 Johnny Mnemonic
9/25/12 Josie and the Pussycats
10/1/12 Journey to the Center of the Earth
10/3/12 Juno and the Paycock
10/6/12 Jungle Book, The
10/5/12 Jurassic Park
10/5/12 Just Like Heaven
K (The Karate Kid – Kung Fu Panda II)
10/11/12 The Karate Kid
10/16/12 Keeping the Faith
10/29/12 Kennel Murder Case, The
10/18/12 Kick-Ass
10/20/12 Kiki’s Delivery Serivce
10/22/12 Kill Bill, Volume 1
10/23/12 Kill Bill, Volume 2
10/24/12 Kim Possible: So the Drama
10/31/12 King and I, The
11/5/12 King Kong (1933)
11/15/12 King Kong (2005)
11/19/12 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
11/21/12 Knight & Day
11/22/12 Kung-Fu Hustle
11/22/12 Kung-Fu Panda
11/23/12 Kung-Fu Panda II
L (L.A. Confidential – Lover Come Back)
11/24/12 L.A. Confidential
11/27/12 L.A. Story
12/1/12 Labyrinth
12/2/12 Lady and the Tramp
12/5/12 Lady Jane
12/11/12 Lady Vanishes, The
12/11/12 Ladyhawke
12/27/12 Last Action Hero
12/31/12 Last Train from Gun Hill
1/5/13 Lawrence of Arabia
1/9/13 Left Behind
1/14/13 Legally Blonde
1/16/13 Leon: The Professional
1/17/13 Lethal Weapon
1/21/13 Lethal Weapon 2
1/22/13 Lethal Weapon 3
1/24/13 License to Kill
1/28/13 Lifeboat
1/230/13 Lightning Strikes Twice
2/3/13 Lilo & Stitch
2/3/13 Lineup, The
2/9/13 Lion in Winter, The
2/9/13 Lion King, The
2/10/13 Little Mermaid, The
2/10/13 Little Shop of Horrors
2/13/13 Live and Let Die
2/18/13 Living Daylights, The
2/25/13 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
2/26/13 Lodger, The
3/2/13 Lolita
3/5/13 Long Kiss Goodnight, The
3/5/13 Look Who’s Talking
3/11/13 Look Who’s Talking Too
3/12/13 Look Who’s Talking Now
3/12/13 Looper
3/14/13 Looney Tunes: Back in Action
3/16/13 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The
3/19/13 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The
4/5/13 Lost in Translation
4/8/13 Lost World: Jurassic Park, The
4/10/13 Love Actually
4/16/13 Lover Come Back
M (Madagascar 3 – )
4/18/13 Madagascar 3
4/22/13 Made for Each Other
4/23/13 Madness of King George, The
4/30/13 Magnificent Seven, The
5/14/13 Magnolia
5/20/13 Magnum Force
5/16/13 Major League
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- March 29, 2012 -
OK, there’s nothing that I find more enjoyable, after a late night of trolling Yahoo Answers — “Help! I just swallowed 30 zantac instead of my low dosage aspirin, don’t cha know that it prevents Alzheimer as well as improves long term cardiovascular disease, am I going to die?”; “I think my boyfriend is gay! I just caught him Gagnam Style, like 100 times in a row — have to admit though the dub beat is really catchy”; “OMG, I need to loose five pounds by Monday or I’ll never be able stand up and audition for this year’s Brainard Brainard Community theater’s Grease. -_-
Then to surf the Internet at Google sub 1,000,0000, i.e. http://millionshort.com/ Which, of course, is nothing negative to say about you blog, except perhaps that your not in the Alexa 100. Or, perhaps even in the upper 50%… And that your target demographic might skew somewhat heavily toward feline, domesticated animals that stray too close to undefended blue tooth keyboards and wifi moorchers who are forced to enter their email address on you’re landing page in order to log onto the Internet through your ancient linksys routher that you never could figure out how to turn authentication on for. But certainly it’s not for me to pass judgment.
My only suggestion was, while organizing and scheduling movie viewing acts around, their titular collation sequence and certainly warrants honorable mention in my own, personal “OCD — Misc. Achievements in Modern, European/Americas popular Visual Media” score card. Could I suggest, what would be perhaps a more organic approach, though less mnemonic (unless you, for instance happen to be a triathlon or marathon runner) Would be to organize your movies my date. I actually watched something on the order of 1000 movies, from lumiere brothers and Méliès to Edison and Grithith, back again for Schreck, Murnau and Lang and then finally the explosion of talkies and the late 1929/1930 musicals: Gold Diggers! Top Hat! Flying Down to Rio! (twice).
After the first couple of weeks you actually find yourself in the mindset of the turn of the (20th) century film goer, only compressed and accelerated. Every week brings a new style and sensibility. Every month new techniques, whole technologies or conception of what cinema is. Actors appear on the scene, grow, master, command, and self destruct before your eyes in literal time lapse photography!
Well, at least that’s my two cents.