Quest For Pop Culture

I wish I would have done this earlier in life, but I guess better late than never right? I've basically created my own version of what Julia, from the movie Julie and Julia, did (come on.. I know you saw that movie, didn't you?) but instead of cooking recipes, I'm watching movies!

I've decided to embarking on a quest to get educated in pop culture. Some (and by some, I mean Bob) may say that it seems as if I've lived under a rock for 21 years. Some are absolutely stunned while I sit silently as everyone around me is laughing at a Ferris Beuer, Mork and Mindy, Animal House, A Christmas Story... well, lets face it, pretty much almost every classic or 'must see' movie joke/reference/quote. Heck, I've even had someone say I made a part of themselves died inside after I stated that the only part of Ghostbusters I’ve ever seen was the part when the guy is using a vacuum to get the ghost.

I guess I'm ready to be the one jumping in on the jokes, laughing along, and-gasp- even maybe some day the one MAKING the funny jokes in reference to these classic movies.

So, I asked my friends on SeasonedGamers to come up with a list of 'must see movies' for me and they did with much success. So much success in fact that watching just one movie a week would take me 130 weeks to see them all. That is over 2 years (I tried to break it down into years, months, and days... but alas, I’m going to go with simply saying 'over 2 years').Yup, that's right folks. I now have a list of 130 movies to watch. And trust me, that list could have been longer, but in hopes that I don't end up trying to pry my eyes out with a fork from watching so many movies, I cut off  the movie submissions when the list reached 130.

What's the plan? Watch at least a movie a week. As I knock out movie after movie on the list, I plan to write a review and post it on my blog, but lets be real... I doubt I'll write a blog review on each and every one. Hell, I"m hoping that I stick to my guns here and actually watch EVERY movie on this list. I will say though, that I promise to do my best and I will update the list, crossing out movies I watch as I go until every one has a strike through it. So, without further adieu I present you 'The List":

12 Monkeys
A League Of Their Own
Airforce One
 Airplane!
Akira
Aliens
American History X
Animal House
Best in Show
Better Off Dead
Big Trouble in Little China
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Boondock Saints
Bull Durham*
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Caddyshack
Casino
Casablanca
Chasing Amy
Child's Play
Christine
Clerks
Cliffhanger
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cobra
Commando
Con Air
Dazed and Confused
Deliverance
Demolition Man
Dirty Harry
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Down Periscope
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Evil Dead: The Army of Darkness
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Field of Dreams*
Fight Club
Fletch
Fletch Lives
Flight of the navigator
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II
Glory
Gremlins
Heat
Heathers
Highlander
Hot Shots
Jaws
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 
Johnny Dangerously
Jurassic Park II
Jurassic Park: The Lost World
Lethal Weapon I
Lethal Weapon II
Life as a House
Lost in Translation
Mallrats
Momento
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Blue Heaven
My Neighboor Totoro
National Lampoon's Vacation
No Country for Old Men
Office Space
One Crazy Summer
Pale Rider
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Platoon
Porkys
Predator
Primer
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rambo: First Blood
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Raw Deal
Real Genius
Red Dawn
Reservoir Dogs
Romancing the Stone
Say Anything
Scarface 
Short Circuit
Sixteen Candles
Spaceballs
Spies Like Us
Stand By Me
Stripes
Terminator: Salvation
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The 6th Day
The Big Lebowski
The Breakfast Club
The Fugitive
The Godfather
The Golden Child
The Good the Bad and the Ugly 
The Goonies
The Great Outdoors
The Jerk
The Karate Kid
The Monster Squad
The Naked Gun
The Natural
The Professional
The Running Man
The Terminator
The Three Amigos
The Usual Suspects
The Virgin Suicides
The Warriors
Top Gun
Top Secret
True Romance
Uncle Buck
Unforgiven
Untouchables*
Weird Science
What about Bob
Young Frankenstein
Young Guns I
Young Guns II


Wish me luck!