Have you ever looked at your film
collection and thought: “I should really watch that movie I bought two
Christmases ago…” and then caved in to your familiarity cravings and picked up Lord Of The Rings for the two hundred
and thirteenth time? Or been unable to choose even which genre of movie you want
to fill a spare two hours with – let alone which particular film? How do you
even choose between Super, Superbad and Super 8? Answer: make a list and do what it tells you to do. Sure,
that sounds a little ‘Dice Man’ at
first, but hey, if it means that you’re finally
going to get around to watching the two Home
Alone films without Macaulay Culkin in them, then that’s got to be a good
thing. At least once you’ve watched them, you’ll know that you should have
bought the first two films on their own rather than invested in the box set.
Even if it was cheaper.
On Stacey’s laptop, there is a
list of all the films we can remember ever watching (her: 1,571, me: a
comparatively puny 1,128 at the time of writing). There is a list of every film
we own (around the 1,000 mark).
Then there’s THE list. It’s a
list of every film we own that we haven’t watched since we made the list.
Whatever is top gets watched. No arguments, no stress, no choice. Of course,
this means that Battlefield Earth is
going to get watched one day, but hey, sacrifices are going to have to be made
in pursuit of the perfect film.
We’ve already rated the nearly
500 films we’ve seen at home or at the cinema since we created the list in late
2011 (they’re all on another list, of course). “What’s 124th on that
list?” I hear you ask. Why, it’s Robert De Niro and Al Pacino facing off in Heat. “Is Roman Holiday better than Heat?”
would probably be a sensible follow up question. Well, Roman Holiday is our 11th favourite black and white
film, 12th favourite comedy and 139th favourite film
overall. So no, it isn’t better than Heat. Conclusive proof; argument averted.
In this household at least…In time we will put our thoughts on those previously viewed movies onto the blog, but for now it’s going to be our pleasure to review the upcoming films on The List! Roll on Magnum Force…
