New Movie ... thing...

[mrsvalden]

Someone wrote this as their MySpace blog, and it really interested me. So I worked on mine the past couple days.

You pick your favorite movie from every year that you've been alive. So for me that would be my favorite movie from 1971 to now. And you can only pick one movie from each year. So that's tough sometimes. So you might not actually have a list of your favorite movies...because maybe your favorite two movies came out the same year. You can only pick one for this game. And some years there might be NO movies you liked. I had a few like that. But I had to pick something. So I did...but I didn't necessarily really like them.

Also...Wikipedia is a big help, because they have what they call "year in film." Like "1971 in film" and it lists all the movies released in 1971. Very helpful, otherwise I wouldn't remember. Here's the link:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_in_film
(and then the other years are listed in the upper right corner to click on)

So here's mine...anyone else wanna' try? Like I said, it took me 2 days.

1971 - Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Nothing to choose from!)

1972 - The Cowboys

1973 - American Graffitti

1974 - Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (Again...nothing!)

1975 - Apple Dumpling Gang (see above...nothing...the 70s sucked!)

1976 - King Kong

1977 - Star Wars

1978 - Revenge of the Pink Panter

1979 - Never came up with anything. Blech!

1980 - The Empire Strikes Back

1981 - The Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982 - ET

1983 - A Christmas Story

1984 - Places in the Heart

1985 - The Goonies

1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

1987 - The Princess Bride

1988 - Willow

1989 - Steel Magnolias

1990 - Goodfellas

1991 - My Girl (Nothing to choose from again.)

1992 - League of their Own

1993 - Tombstone

1994 - Muriel's Wedding

1995 - Toy Story

1996 - A Time to Kill (Didn't really like much of anything here.)

1997 - Full Monty

1998 - Saving Private Ryan

1999 - Office Space

2000 - Gladiator

2001 - Bridget Jone's Diary (I had a hard time deciding for this year...Amelie and Shrek were high up there too.)

2002 - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Not much else to choose from for me.)

2003 - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

2004 - Napolean Dynamite ("Can I have some of your tots?")

2005 - 40-yr-old Virgin

2006 - Little Miss Sunshine

2007 - Juno

2008 - I haven't watched any movies yet this year.

[starchaser022]

This is a great idea mrsvalden!! And thank you so much for the wikipedia link, it helped out a lot for the earlier years!

Here is my list:

1988 Beetlejuice

1989 The Little Mermaid

1990 Home Alone

1991 Beauty and the Beast

1992 The Mighty Ducks

1993 Look Who's Talking Now

1994 The Santa Clause (The Lion King was a very close second)

1995 Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

1996 Fly Away Home

1997 TITANIC

1998 The Man in the Iron Mask

1999 Big Daddy

2000 The Family Man

2001 Pearl Harbor

2002 Catch Me if You Can

2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

2004 13 Going on 30

2005 Monster In-Law

2006 The Departed

2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2008 The Dark Knight (This will most likely be changed to Revolutionary Road when it is released on 12/26/08)

[drewashe]

1974 The Sugarland Express I remember seeing part of this one at least.
1975 Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976 Carrie Seen it more than once.
1977 Star Wars
1978 Grease
1979 The Muppet Movie
1980 9 to 5
1981 Arthur
1982 Porky's
1983 The Outsider's
1984 Gremlins
1985 The Breakfast Club
1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987 The Princess Bride
1988 Die Hard
1989 Chances Are
1990 Ghost
1991 Backdraft
1992 The Cutting Edge
1993 Benny and Joon
1994 Drop Zone
1995 Hackers
1996 The Rock
1997 As Good as It Gets
1998 Armageddon
1999 The Sixth Sense
2000 X-Men
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 Spider-Man
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2004 Cellular
2005 Hitch
2006 Last Holiday
2007 Transformers
2008 Wall-e

[karajoy]

O.K. I must be a couch potato, cause I had ALOT of years that I loved more than one movie and had a hard choice, there were only a couple years I didn't really LOVE anything..

1969 - Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
1970 - Airport (none really)
1971 - Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
1972 - Snoopy Come Home
1973 - Live and Let Die
1974 - Man with the Golden Gun
1975 - The 4 Musketeers
1976 - The Bad News Bears
1977 - Star Wars
1978 - Grease
1979 - The Jerk
1980 - Empire Strikes Back
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - Poltergeist
1983 - Return of the Jedi
1984 - The Natural
1985 - Witness
1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1987 - Overboard
1988 - Willow
1989 - Turner and Hooch
1990 - Dances With Wolves
1991- Sleeping With The Enemy
1992 - A League of Their Own
1993 - Sleepless in Seattle
1994 - The Shawshank Redemption
1995 - French Kiss
1996 - That Think You Do!
1997 - Nothing To Lose
1998 - Elizabeth
1999 - The Mummy
2000 - The Patriot
2001 - Lord Of the Rings
2002 - Star Wars 2
2003 - Finding Nemo
2004 - The Notebook
2005 - Chronicles of Narnia - Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe
2006 - The Illusionist
2007 - Spider Man 3
2008 - ?

[redracyma]

1976 The Omen

1977 Smokey & The Bandit

1978 Halloween

1979 The Jerk

1980 Airplane

1981 The Great Muppet Caper

1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

1983 Mr. Mom

1984 Ghostbusters

1985 The Goonies

1986 Little Shop of Horrors

1987 The Lost Boys

1988 Big Business

1989 Heathers

1990 Cry Baby

1991 Boyz N the Hood

1992 Juice

1993 Menace II Society

1994 Clerks

1995 Higher Learning

1996 The Cable Guy

1997 Chasing Amy

1998 There’s Something About Mary

1999 The Cider House Rules

2000 American Psycho

2001 Donnie Darko

2002 Home Room

2003 Bad Santa

2004 The Notebook

2005 The 40 Year Old Virgin

2006 Grandma’s Boy

2007 Alpha Dog

2008 dont' know yet

[mrs"e"]

1979 - The Jerk
1980 - Airplane!
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1983 - Mickey's Christmas Carol
1984 - The Karate Kid (This year has lots of my favorites.)
1985 - The Breakfast Club
1986 - Crocodile Dundee
1987 - The Princess Bride
1988 - Crocodile Dundee II
1989 - Turner & Hooch
1990 - Home Alone
1991 - What About Bob?
1992 - Rock-a-Doodle
1993 - The Three Musketeers
1994 - Natural Born Killers
1995 - Billy Madison
1996 - The Craft
1997 - Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1998 - Half Baked
1999 - Dogma
2000 - Scary Movie
2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 - Kung Fu Hustle
2005 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2006 - Grandma's Boy
2007 - Superbad
2008 - Kung Fu PandaEDIT:Batman: The Dark Knight

Well, I've never felt so old. That took about an hour.
I got so mad when I had to choose one movie over another. But a very fun game!

[starchaser022]

Mrs e, I loved Rock-doodle!! My aunt and I used to go around saying, "Rock-a-doodle rock", all day long when I was like four!

[mrs"e"]

I love it!

Cockadoo what a day
The sun is shinin' brightly
Cockadoo sunny day
Down here on the farm
Cockadoo stay away
You big ol' wet ol' rain cloud
Or I'll cry out loud with this voice of mine

........

Well, my daddy taught me how to sing
And that's why this voice means everything
Sun do shine, you better shine

[mrsvalden]

I have never heard of Rock-Doodle. I'll have to look that one up.

[♥ Kathryn ♥]

1995- Toy Story

1996- The Nutty Professor

1997- Men In Black

1998- A Bugs Life

1999- The Sixth Sense ( I LOVED that movie!)

2000- How the Grinch Stole Christmas

2001- Shrek

2002- Signs (Also loved this movie, but I was young at the time. I slept in my parents room for many nights after that saying, "The aliens won't come, right Mom?".)

2003- Finding Nemo

2004- The Incredables

2005- The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe (Narnia)

2006- Cars

2007- The Simpsons Movie

2008- Horton Hears A Who. (The only one I have seen)

[bookjunky]

I am not much of a couch potato and there is no way I can go back to 1957 and pick out a movie a year!