Please note I added a link to my original post to this link. Come on, everyone has movies they missed that they want to get around to. Let's see some.

Clockwork Orange. All the Godfather movies.

I'm curious, Joe. How did you come up with your list? What is the criteria? I didn't think I'd have any problem coming up with a list of movies I've always wanted to see...but, I've only come up with 20 movies thus far and don't know where to go from here.

I started off looking at Roger Ebert's list of great movies and went from there. I didn't choose all of his (or the ones that I hadn't seen on his list), but I did ones that I really thought were essential.

But I also wanted to do classically bad movies ("Plan 9 From Outer Space" for instance), and more modern movies that might not be considered classics but might, say, complete the filmography for a certain filmmaker (like "True Romance," which was written by Quentin Tarantino).

AFI also has lists of great movies of varying genre, and I perused imdb.com's "Top Movies" list for some (though since they're fan-based, you have to take some with a grain of salt). I looked at the Oscar winners list on oscars.org.

I also went off of recommendations from friends and family (my dad contributed a few), That's not hard for me, because often someone will be talking to me about movies and mention one I haven't seen. When I note that, they'll say "You HAVEN'T!?" and sometimes they'll add "and YOU review movies?"

I tried to vary genre and year and tried not to get too heavy on one certain decade or filmmaker. Alfred Hitchcock made dozens of movies, but I didn't want to have 40 Hitchcock films on there, as great as he is.

I also wanted to do a few foreign films, so I added things like "Akira," "Run Lola Run," "Breathless," "Seven Samurai."

I don't know that I have that sort of comprehensive kind of thing in mind for anyone else. It's been a huge time comittment and I've done this at the extreme detriment to my wife's patience, and some of the movies have been real chores to watch.

I think maybe doing 50 or 100 if you're really serious about it would keep things fun and enlightening. Feel free to pick and choose some from my list, or vary the structure-stick to one genre, or choose Best picture winners or nominees. You can always do another one, which I'm considering. Or maybe just try to do your 20 in six months or something.

I did 52...one for each week of the year...and decided each movie had to be at least 10 years old to "qualify". Here's what I came up with:

1. Chinatown - 1974

2. Body Heat - 1981

3. Casablanca - 1942

4. On the Waterfront - 1954

5. All About Eve - 1950

6. Beauty and the Beast - 1946

7. Belle De Jour - 1967

8. Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1961

9. The Godfather - 1972

10. A Hard Day's Night - 1964

11. Hoop Dreams - 1994

12. Manhattan - 1979

13. Taxi Driver - 1976

14. Looking for Mr. Goodbar - 1977

15. Raging Bull - 1980

16. Schindler's List - 1993

17. Singin' in the Rain - 1952

18. Some Like it Hot - 1959

19. Vertigo - 1958

20. Trainspotting - 1996

21. Pretty Baby - 1978

22. Citizen Kane - 1941

23. The Wicker Man - 1973

24. The Crying Game - 1992

25. The Apartment - 1960

26. The Sound of Music - 1965

27. Gandhi - 1982

28. Fargo - 1996

29. JFK - 1991

30. Death Wish - 1974

31. The Seven Year Itch - 1955

32. American Gigolo - 1980

33. Breaking the Waves - 1996

34. The English Patient - 1996

35. Same Time, Next Year - 1978

36. Amadeus - 1984

37. Deliverance - 1972

38. Easy Rider - 1969

39. Gorillas in the Mist - 1988

40. Out of Africa - 1985

41. Annie Hall - 1977

42. Quiz Show - 1994

43. Diner - 1982

44. Love Story - 1970

45. The Joy Luck Club - 1993

46. Play Misty for Me - 1971

47. African Queen - 1951

48. Sex, Lies and Videotape - 1989

49. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 1966

50. Bull Durham - 1988

51. Goodfellas - 1990

52. Cool Hand Luke - 1967

Good list-some really good movies on there, and some I haven't seen!

Wow, Joe, just checked out your list. Impressive. Dawn, yours too. I can't seem to keep up with all the movies I want to see. I do have a recommendation for you though. We just watched The World's Fastest Indian. I saw a recent interview with Anthony Hopkins wherein he named Bill Munro his favorite character of all he has played. Great flick if you haven't already seen it.

"Indian" is a terrific movie. I saw it in theaters last spring when it came out. It must be finding an audience on pay TV because my mom and step-dad just recommended it to me too!