This is a hard one 'cause I love movies and estimate I've seen upwards of 10,000 in my life, maybe more. I came to this figure after spending almost all of an 8 hr. overnight hospital shift checking off movies I had seen from a listing of all the videos at a local shop. I counted almost 2,000 at that time. In 1989. The figure really surprised me at the time. But I just got cable a year ago for the first time. Before that I rented movies. I watched around 10 movies a week no problem That's only a couple movies a night. Aprox, 3-4 hrs. avg. And yeah, I sat in front of the tube almost every night after work. I've been dealing with chronic pain since I was 25. Living with mod-sev chronic pain lends itself to a sedentary lifestyle. Way long winded but nobody has to read this if they don't want to, and it occupy's time. Some of my favorite movies:
Paul Newman favs
Hud
Cool Hand Luke
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Long, Hot Summer
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Hustler
The Sting
Butch Cassidy
Slapshot
The Verdict
The Color of Money
Jack Nicholson favs
About Schmidt
Ironweed
Prizzi's Honor
Chinatown
Easy Rider
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Five Easy Pieces
The Last Detail
The Departed
Mars Attacks!
Marlon Brando favs
A Streetcar Named Desire
On the Waterfront
Apocalypse Now
The Fugitive Kind
The Wild One
The Godfather 1 & 2
Al Pacino favs
The Godfather 1 & 2
Scent of a Woman
Heat
Scarface
Glengarry Glen Ross
Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
Donnie Brasco
Carlito's Way
The Mechant of Venice
Robert DeNiro favs
Mean Streets
The Godfather Pt. 2
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Raging Bull
The King of Comedy
Angel Heart
The Untouchables
Midnight Run
Cape Fear
Casino
Jackie Brown
Meet the Parents
Wag the Dog
Dustin Hoffman favs
The Graduate
Rainman
Midnight Cowboy
Straw Dogs
Papillon
Marathon Man
American Buffalo
Stranger Than Fiction
Clint Eastwood favs
Unforgiven
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
Gran Torino
Hang 'em High
High Plains Drifter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Million Dollar Baby
Gene Hackman favs
The French Connection
Bonnie & Clyde
Young Frankenstein
Mississippi Burming
Geronimo: An American Legend
The Royal Tennenbaums
Just a list:
The Third Man
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The African Queen
Badlands
Ben-Hur
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Carousel
Dial M for Murder
East of Eden
From Here to Eternity
Sullivan's Travel's
High Noon
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Night of the Hunter
North by Northwest
The Old Man and the Sea
Old Yeller
Peter Pan
Rebel Without a Cause
Roman Holiday
The Searchers
Singin' in the Rain
Shane
Some like it Hot
Stalag 17
Strangers on a Train
The Apartment
Touch of Evil
Treasure Island
The Great Escape
The Pink Panther (and sequels)
Annie Hall
American Graffiti
Animal House
Grease
The Odd Couple
The Bad News Bears
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Children Underground
Snatch
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shining
Eyes Wide Shut
Dr. Strangelove
A Clockwork Orange
The Wizard of Oz
Casablanca
The Grapes of Wrath
Key Largo
The Lost Weekend
The Best Years of Our Lives
Notorious
Psycho
The Trouble With Harry
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Razor's Edge
Johnny Got His Gun
Blazing Saddles
Night on Earth
Quadrophenia
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Jaws
Star Wars (all of them)
Star Trek (most of all of it, TV, too)
Catch 22
The Longest Yard (BR)
Mad Max
The Road Warrior
The Man Who Would Be King
Midnight Express
MASH
Monty Python (Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life)
Inherit the Wind
Nosferatu
Deliverance
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Wrestler
True Grit (Jeff Bridges)
The Omega Man
Planet of the Apes
The Wicker Man (1973)
Westworld
Dirty Harry
Last Tango in Paris
The Lord of the Rings (extended version)
Carrie
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Gulliver's Travels
Grand Hotel
Gunga Din
Lost Horizon
M
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Prisoner of Zenda
Reefer Madness (1936, hilarious propaganda)
A Tale of Two Cities
The Thin Man
Ghandi
Disraeli
Memento
Pi
RoboCop
Sergeant York
Judgement at Nuremburg
Captains Courageous
Birdman of Alcatraz
Lawrence of Arabia
The Buddy Holly Story
The Elephant Man
Amadeus
Immortal Beloved
Sid and Nancy
The Last Emperor
Salvador
Matewan
The Accused
Eight Men Out
Talk Radio
Born on the Fourth of July
Glory
My Left Foot
Good enough for now.