The Beginning

Today is January 1st, 2013. To me it is crazy that it is all of a sudden 2013. I always think about how fast time seems to be going as I get to the ripe old age of 20. Even though 20 is a young age to me it represents how I am no longer the little kid who would run around naked, but I have some new responsibilities and running around naked would now be considered a crime. So to start off the new year and to accomplish something before I turn 20 I have given myself a challenge. Instead of my usual new years resolution to have a great year, I am being more specific. My friends from where i go to school made me make a bucket list of all the things I want to accomplish in life in November. So it seemed only natural that my new years resolution should be to cross something off of my list. A lot of the things on my bucket list are day to day activities that I want to carry with me for the rest of my life, such as making a difference. One thing on my list in particular is to watch all the classic movies of the 20th century. So my challenge starting today is to finish 100 classic movies of the twentieth century before I turn 20 on May 20th. I have found a list of movies from AMC and I will be posting the list below. If anyone ends up reading this and gets involved with my challenge, I will also be taking requests from people. If there is any movie from the 20th century that you adore, let me know, and I will add it as a bonus! Each movie that I watch, I will write a critique about it and voice my personal opinions about the movie. So if you are reading this and are not already bored with my challenge, sit back, grab some popcorn, and relax for this is going to be a crazy 5 months!

MY LIST FROM AMC (the ones crossed off i have already seen but i will write up something about them soon):

TOP 100 MOVIES OF 20^TH CENTURY
1.      The Shawshank Redemption

2.      The Godfather (film series)

3.      Star Wars (film series)

4.      Casablanca

5.      It’s a Wonderful Life

6.      Schindler’s List

7.      Gone with the Wind

8.      The Wizard of Oz

9.      To Kill a Mockingbird

10.             One Flew over the cuckoo’s Nest

11.             Pulp Fiction

12.             Psycho

13.             Citizen Kane

14.             Rear Window

15.             Jaws

16.             North by Northwest

17.             Vertigo

18.             Apocalypse Now

19.             Taxi Driver

20.             Ben-Hur

21.             E.T

22.             The Bridge on the River Kwai

23.             Lawrence of Arabia

24.             Singing in the Rain

25.             The African Queen

26.             The Maltese Falcon

27.             Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

28.             King Kong

29.             2001: A Space Odyssey

30.             The Grapes of Wrath

31.             Some Like It Hot

32.             Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

33.             Raging Bull

34.             High Noon

35.             Blade Runner

36.             The Graduate

37.             On the Waterfront

38.             Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

39.             The Searchers

40.             Chinatown

41.             Bonnie & Clyde

42.             West Side Story

43.             NotoriousàAlfred Hitchcock

44.             The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

45.             Fantasia

46.             A Streetcar Named Desire

47.             Shane

48.             Sunset Boulevard

49.             All Quiet on the Western Front

50.             Rebecca

51.             Double Indemnity

52.             The Quiet Man

53.             The Philadelphia Story

54.             It Happened One Night

55.             Stagecoach

56.             Rebel Without a Cause

57.             The Adventures of Robin Hood

58.             The Third Man

59.             Roman Holiday

60.             All About Eve

61.             Red River

62.             The Big Sleep

63.             Easy Rider

64.             Midnight Cowboy

65.             Bringing Up Baby

66.             The Wild Bunch

67.             The Best Year of Our Lives

68.             Modern Times

69.             Duck Soup

70.             Yankee Doodle Dany

71.             The Night of the Hunter

72.             Annie Hall

73.             Paths of Glory

74.             My Darling Clementine

75.             Touch of Evil

76.             The Bride of Frankenstein

77.             His Girl Friday

78.             City Lights

79.             The General

80.             Wuthering Heights

81.             A Night at the Opera

82.             Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

83.             Meet Me in St.Louis

84.             An American in Paris

85.             The Gold Rush

86.             Top Hat

87.             A Star is Born

88.             The Birth of a Nation

89.             The Magnificent Ambersons

90.             The Lady Eve

91.             42^nd Street

92.             Out of the Past

93.             Sunrise

94.             Ninotchka

95.             Greed

96.             Trouble in Paradise

97.             Letter from an Unknown Woman

98.             Nashville

99.             Intolerance

100.        The Crowd