this one's probably pretty accurate:

The Exorcist, Halloween, From Dusk til Dawn (if you have to ask, you haven't seen the movie!) Nosferatu, American Werewolf In London - GREAT soundtrack.

Does "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" count?

another list...which will be hitting often, at least until this w/e and next w/e when i hope to get caught up on my OTHER reading and ranting

Family movies, in no specific order

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Cars

Toy Story

Shrek

Finding Nemo

So what am I missing?

Have topped 1000 movies....finding a LOT of classics that AREN'T in the Db that should be, which degrades the system, but it's still been fun.

My current top "Buddy" films:

Thee Magnificent Seven

Rounders

The Sting

The Blues Brothers

Deliverance

Maverick, Batman Forever and O' Brother...  just miss the cut currently

So what am I missing?

"Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." -- Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington, February 2, 2007.

"I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God." – Evan Thomas on Hardball, June 5, 2009.

Top 5 currently stand as folows:

Casino, Unforgiven, Lord of the Rings, Stadust, Chicago ..... needs some work

Buddy Films: Ocean's 11 (original), Rounders, Magnificent Seven, The Professional and Oh Brother Where Art Thou (with Blues Brothers, Batman Forever and Deliverance on the brink)

Crime movies: Casino, Godfathr 1 & 2, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Sin City

A few more lists when I hit 900

The Brown University faculty has voted to change the name of Columbus Day to . . . Fall Weekend.  

In the first place don't they realize that October occurs during Spring in the Southern Hemisphere?  Haven't the aboriginal peoples of Australia suffered enough without this insensitivity?

In the second place don't they know that Columbus Day is a big holiday for Italian Americans?  Why are they inflicting this pain on a minority group?

And in the THIRD place, shouldn't they change the name of the school to something a little more color-neutral?

WOW!  What a great underrated 50's sci fi film  Every bit as good as TDTESS.  THIS is the movie they need to remake.  Can't believe that here I sit on the doorstep of 51 and had never seen this.

Starring Gene (War of the Worlds/Burke's Law) Barry, directed by William (Bewitched/3rd husband of Elizabeth Montgomery) Asher.

Next time it's on TCM I recommend putting on the popcorn.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050085/ 

I'm thinking about adding a category called ITWB (If this was Bush ...)

from Jay Nordlinger

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The headline in the Washington Post is "Abortion Rights Backers Get Reassurances on Nominee." The article begins, "The White House scrambled yesterday to assuage worries from liberal groups about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's scant record on abortion rights, delivering strong but vague assurances that the Supreme Court nominee agrees with President Obama's belief in constitutional protections for a woman's right to the procedure."   Would the headline "Anti-Abortion Groups Get Reassurances on Nominee," in the event of a pro-life president's selection, be a teeny-weeny bit of a problem?

www.flickchart.com

Rather than rating movies 1-100 or on a 5 star system, this site gives em to you 2 at a time...you pick the better one....and it accumulates your rating.  You can play by "all" movies, withing a genre, decade or even year......and see where movies are rated by all users.  The more you rate the more your rating adds to the overall.  the site is currently dominated by fanboys and techies so the top 20 is heavily skewed to Batman, the Stars (War and Trek), and LOTR.......takes about 5 days to get the response email once you sign up but it's been a TON of fun.......so over the next few days I'll regail you with a few of my select top 10's .....the more movies you rate of course the more accurate your list.....i'm currently just over 700.....sign on and share!

I seem to have accumulated a lot of these over the last few weeks....is it me?  Or someone else?

from the AP, May 21 : President Barack Obama sees his secretary of defense just about every day, but he still flubbed Robert Gates' name on Thursday. Gates was in the crowd for Obama's national security speech. Pointing him out, the president said "William Gates" was on hand. Perhaps Obama was thinking of Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire. Well, that would explain the Pentagon's new "Blue Screen of Death" weapons program.