I've compiled a running Excel file of the roughly 3000 feature films and shorts I've recorded over the past 3+ years, complete with ratings for the 2000 or so that I've seen at least once. If I ever considered copying and pasting that particular hedge against future memory loss, I'd be thinking more of a hostage situation than anything relating to positive resonance.

I believe that this is also known as "Plaintiff's Exhibit A" in MPAA vs. Andy.


And I've seen two this year -- Argo and the Hobbit -- which is one more than last year. Kids.

M is fantastic. Thin Man movies (mentioned above), also classic. To Be Or Not To Be (the Jack Benny/Carole Lombard original), top-notch. Any Marx Bros movie. Most key Jimmy Stewart flicks...I could go on for literally DAYS about old movies....

EDIT: Almost forgot Three Strangers! If you mention Lorre (or Sydney Greenstreet AKA THE Nero Wolfe....did I mention I am an absolute sucker for OTR?), you have to throw that out there.

which is one more than last year. Kids.

Kids is a perfect excuse to see stuff like Wreck it Ralph!

It's too bad that Lorre's only known for his roles in Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, because I can hardly think of a single movie where he wasn't outstanding.

this may be the exception, Andy

Well, since according to your link, Lorre was literally given 51st billing, I'm not sure that his role could have consisted on much more than an impromptu whistling of Chopin's Funeral March while Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello were plotting some mass murder on the beach.

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I believe that this is also known as "Plaintiff's Exhibit A" in MPAA vs. Andy.

Hey, glad to see you're alive, old buddy. Where you been keeping yourself?

It's too bad that Lorre's only known for his roles in Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, because I can hardly think of a single movie where he wasn't outstanding.

I think people still remember him for Arsenic and Old Lace too.

Movies I saw this year, in order of how much I enjoyed them (sorta hard to distinguish in the middle. Fortunately, I enjoyed all of them, except maybe the Avengers:

Moonrise Kingdom
The Secret World of Arriety
The Master
Dark Knight Rises
Brave
Wreck-It-Ralph
21 Jump Street
Haywire
Avengers

I also recently saw the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. That was a great film. Made me want watch a Kurosawa samurai flick right after (I settled for Samurai Champloo's take on Yojimbo). Really a great film.

To Have and Have Not
any Marx Bros up to and including Day at the Races
Badlands
Miller's Crossing
The Lady Vanishes
Chinatown
Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes
The Last American Hero
Seven Days in May
Pickup on South Street
The Tenant
Repulsion
Great Expectations (David Lean's version)

I think people still remember him for Arsenic and Old Lace too.

I'm a huge Cary Grant fan, but I can't stand this movie. So many stupid things happen I just get pissed off watching it.

Here are the 2012 movies that I have seen thus far, in order of enjoyment (with Criticker score):

Moonrise Kingdom (80)
Looper (80)
Cabin in the Woods (75)
Skyfall (75)
Avengers (75)
Wreck-It Ralph (75)
Frankenweenie (75)
21 Jump Street (70)
Dark Knight Rises (70)
Raid: Redemption (70)
Woman in Black (70)
Prometheus (65)
Hunger Games (65)
Haywire (65)
Dark Shadows (60)
Journey 2 Mysterious Island (Don't ask) (50)

Missed a lot of promising films in the theater this year. Still hope to catch Argo, Lincoln, Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Linings Playbook, and The Hobbit in theaters.

Cabin in the Woods
Ted
Lincoln
End of Watch
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.

#56 - Love Happy was iffy, but no love for A Night In Casablanca? Possibly the source of one of the greatest letters ever written???

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#56 - Love Happy was iffy, but no love for A Night In Casablanca? Possibly the source of one of the greatest letters ever written???

Go West is also at least decent.

# 61 - Indeed!

That'll be 9 dollars change please....

And At the Circus has this jim dandy gem:

Lydia the Tattooed Lady

56: that's a really good list. You had a good year movie-wise.

26: That's a pretty good list, too. Is the High and Low Pabst's or Kurosawa's?

[56 ] Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes...

I enjoyed Fitzcarraldo, too.

Pickup on South Street

Fuller's other films (Big Red One, Park Row, Steel Helmet) are also entertaining.

Movies I saw in the theaters in 2012
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
Haywire
John Carter
21 Jump Street
American Reunion
The Cabin in the Woods
The Avengers
The Raid: Redemption
The Dictator
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
Cool Hand Luke
Moonrise Kingdom
The Amazing Spiderman
Brave
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Premium Rush
Lawless
Celeste and Jesse Forever
Looper
The Master
Argo
Skyfall
Lincoln
The Sessions
Killing them Softly


That is all.
Best movie I saw this year....Goon

And At the Circus has this jim dandy gem:

At the Circus is good as long as you're watching it on DVD and can skip all of the horrible romantic subplot that culminates in a man leading his finacee through a horse-dancing routine.

[56 ] Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes...

I enjoyed Fitzcarraldo, too.

I saw them at a double feature at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago-which is better known for something else.

Yeah, except for Duck Soup, Horsefeathers, and Monkey Business, all the Marx Brothers movies have parts that need to be skipped. Well, Animal Crackers, too, I guess, except that it is such a primitive talkie that the technological constraints sometimes really creak.

I'm a huge Cary Grant fan, but I can't stand this movie. So many stupid things happen I just get pissed off watching it.

It is a stupid movie, and everyone overplays. Grant hated his performance, and I don't think
Capra was simpatico with the material. I like it; it's fun, but I can see its critics' point. Grant is too frenetic--the director needed to tell him to dial it down, just as Hawks in His Girl Friday kept telling him to dial it up.

#69 - That is a big part of why I like Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers so much, it's more a filming of a vaudeville sketch then it is a movie. Horse Feathers and Monkey Business seem much more polished.

Some of Lorre's Mr. Moto movies are fun, if you can pocket your PC sensibilities for the time it takes to see the movie.

Lorre, besides M, is better in small doses. In fact, in most his movies he wasn't even ever the prime supporting player. In Casablanca he has only a few minutes face time. And in some, like Beat the Devil, he's really not more than window dressing. He's good with Vincent Price in what should have been his swan song, The Comedy of Terrors, where they parody themselves. And his role there is substantial.

71: yeah, there is a fresh improvisational quality to those two early talkies of theirs. I really like Animal Crackers. Groucho has a great song and dictates a mean letter and does a spot on parody of Eugene O'Neil. Cocoanuts is really sluggish in spots, but it has a couple of nice set pieces (that entering into a contract bit is great).

#73 - Love the 'clerk' bit in Casablanca, with 'Mr and Mrs Smythe'. Classic

25 of my all-time favorite films, more or less in chronological order:

Broken Blossoms
Girl Shy
The Crowd
Show People
The Smiling Lieutenant
One Way Passage
Horse Feathers
It Happened One Night
Twentieth Century
My Man Godfrey
Libeled Lady
Stagecoach
The Shop Around The Corner
Citizen Kane
To Be Or Not To Be
Double Indemnity
Sunset Boulevard
All About Eve
Singin' In The Rain
Macao
On The Waterfront
The Apartment
A Hard Day's Night
Sleeper
The Purple Rose Of Cairo

Great stuff on that list, Terp! I'd recommend just about every single movie on that list to those who haven't seen then.

Except Hard Days Night.

Prometheus ... a film about somewhere-the-hell-out-in-space filmed on Earth.

Prometheus ... a film about ... definitely something. Well, I am sure it made sense to someone. Probably.

That's a great list, #75. Including A Hard Day's Night.

Great list Terp. I've seen about 2/3 of your list, and love every one I've seen. Including A Hard Day's Night!

My list would skew MUCH more recent. While I love tons of classic films, not many of them seem to be able to penetrate my pantheon. I just connect with them the same way I do a great modern movie. There are a couple of exceptions. I'll drop my list in a bit.

Glad people generally liked the list. I concede it's skewed toward the "classic" era (particularly the 1930s) because to me that's the decade when American moviemaking most permeated our society. Most people then went to the movies regularly, and films found a way to appeal to diverse audiences in a way they haven't since 1950 or so, when the dual demons of television and suburbanization spelled the end of the moviegoing habit for many. And the list is also skewed toward comedy, but when William Powell and Carole Lombard are your all-time favorite actor and actress (and Ernst Lubitsch your all-time favorite director), one can't help it.

I feel a bit guilty about some of the talents who aren't represented in the 25 -- Chaplin, Keaton, Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Irene Dunne -- but rest assured their work would certainly appear in a second tier of 25. And there are a few offbeat choices, not just "A Hard Day's Night" (the film that both captures the spirit of the '60s and defines why the Beatles were beloved), but "Macao" (Mitchum and Russell have wonderful chemistry, and I prefer this to "His Kind Of Woman") and "Horse Feathers" (sorry, but there was no way Margaret Dumont was going to play a college widow, so Thelma Todd makes a sexy substitute). And while "Safety Last" is a classic, "Girl Shy" is wittier and has a brilliant, multimodal chase sequence through 1924 Los Angeles.

when William Powell and Carole Lombard are your all-time favorite actor and actress (and Ernst Lubitsch your all-time favorite director),

I now see why we have a similar taste in film.

1)  I have made numerous efforts to define and measure clutch performance, none of which has been at all successful or has created any resonance in the analytical community

Maybe because the analytical community measures clutch performance by methods James didn't create? We've had Leverage Index for a few years now, and in turn WPA/LI. Those work fine.

James had the fortune of seeing a number of pet inventions catch on: Game Score, Similarity Scores, Favorite Toy. But those are constructed with arbitrary numbers and adjustments that James cobbled together because they felt good and passed a smell test. I'd like to see something with more mathematical rigor replace those systems, as Leverage Index has kept out James' other attempts at clutch performance. Like, the positional factors in Similarity Scores should be able to be derived from WAR fielding positional adjustments. Favorite Toy could and should also be based on real-world data, like the actual historical distribution of remaining seasons for a 35-year-old shortstop.

56: that's a really good list. You had a good year movie-wise.

thank you Morty--but I'm embarrassed that I didn't include Singin' In The Rain

Poster, if you're not aware of the classic Hollywood site I run focusing on the lovely Lombard, Carole & Co., please check it out.

Terp, thank you VERY much! Love it!

Some of Lorre's Mr. Moto movies are fun, if you can pocket your PC sensibilities for the time it takes to see the movie.

Lorre, besides M, is better in small doses. In fact, in most his movies he wasn't even ever the prime supporting player.

he and Greenstreet were very good in The Mask Of Dimitrios

I enjoyed the fact that the most recent film on Terp's list is itself about old film nostalgia.

Pretty much agree with the criteria expressed in the first paragraph of #80 above. As I've said on a number of occasions, I don't watch anything but old movies practically. The ones below make are 25 of my favorites that I viewed (well, re-watched really) this year. I could have named a totally different 25 that I think just as highly of, though:

Trouble In Paradise
Top Hat (or Swing Time)
It's A Wonderful Life
Hide-Out
Destry Rides Again
His Girl Friday
Bringing Up Baby
Sullivan's Travels
The Great McGinty
The Lady Eve
How Green Was My Valley
The Searchers
Comanche Station
The Big Sleep (Hawks)
Vertigo
Rear Window
The More the Merrier
Easy Living
North By Northwest
Psycho
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
El Cid
The Far Country
Heaven Can Wait (Lubtsch)
Out of the Past

thank you Morty--but I'm embarrassed that I didn't include Singin' In The Rain

If you see a lot of movies, especially classics, there comes a time when you come probably do a total substitution on your list, like I said. Singin' in the Rain is great, but so are those others. Sometimes you just have to go with the feeling of the moment.Again, like I said.

Petition drive to get Dan Szymborski to remake the official favorite toy.

26: That's a pretty good list, too. Is the High and Low Pabst's or Kurosawa's?

Kurosawa's. Didn't even know about Pabst's, but now I do, and thanks for the tip.

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BTW for anyone who wonders what it is that some of us see in "old" movies, check out the December, January & February schedules for TCM. For those not aware of this network, it's the only non-premium cable network solely devoted to the 24/7 screening of "classic" movies, always shown uninterrupted without commercials.

TCM Schedule December 2012 Star of the Month - Barbara Stanwyck, with 55 of her films

TCM Schedule January 2013 Star of the Month - Loretta Young, with over 40 of her films, the majority pre-codes made before mid-1934

TCM Schedule February 2013 - February is always devoted entirely to Oscar-winning films in all categories, and since its official title is "31 Days of Oscar", it actually runs through March 3rd.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that TCM is one of the most important institutions for cultural preservation in the United States. There's nothing else remotely like it anywhere AFAICT, at least in the English-speaking world. Imagine a non-premium TV network where you could see complete videos of many thousands of baseball games going back to the beginning of the 20th century, both the famous games and the obscure midweek snoozers between the Browns and the Macks, and you'll get an idea of what an amazing treasure trove TCM is.

Agree with 91 RE: TCM. Also have the same feeling for the Internet Archive, which houses just about every OTR show and some great news broadcasts, a little bit of everything, etc.

Peter Lorre was fantastic in two early Hitchcocks, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Secret Agent. He even makes those Mr. Moto movies fun.

Loretta Young's films will run Wednesday nights in January, usually going into Thursday mornings, honoring the centenary of her birth on Jan. 6. I must admit that I had never been much of a Young fan, thinking her this prim and proper Catholic (who strayed, got pregnant by Clark Gable on location shooting "Call Of The Wild," had the daughter in secret, then gained adoptive custody and never admitted she had actually borne her until she was on her deathbed). But set that aside for a moment and focus on her films, particularly those from the pre-Code period:

* She is ethereal in her beauty, comparable to Gene Tierney at her peak or, on the blonde side, Lombard or Michelle Pfeiffer.
* She played a slew of really sexy roles, including "Employees' Entrance" with Warren William (king of pre-Code cads) and the William Wellman-directed "Midnight Mary," and she's very good in them.
* She made many of these films at an astoundingly youthful age. Her first starring role, opposite Lon Chaney (Senior!) in the silent "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," came when she was 15. She played a big-city newspaper reporter in Frank Capra's "Platinum Blonde" at 18 (Jean Harlow, the titular character, was all of 20). The pre-Code era ended in mid-1934, a few months after she turned 21.
* For decades, few of these films were available, as they were deemed too racy for family television packages in the '50s and '60s, so this side of Loretta receded from view. When they finally emerged, first through the original incarnation of TNT, then with TCM after it began in 1994, it was a revelation. (Forget Ted Turner's brief foray into colorization; he more than made up for it with his work preserving the film libraries he accumulated.) Suffice it to say that, with the possible exception of Norma Shearer, no actress' reputation was more rehabilitated from the pre-Code revival than Loretta Young, and I'm glad to say she experienced some of that before she left us in August 2000.

If the only Loretta you know is from her later films or TV anthology series (and she deserves credit for being a smart businesswoman), you're in for a treat.

My list is below. These are my 25 FAVORITE, not a list of the 25 best. It's a blend of what I consider to be great movies (Out of the Past), movies that have me grinning from ear to ear during the entire runtime (Joe Versus the Volcano), movies that spark up nostalgia (Titanic), movies boosted by an amazing performance (The Wrestler), and movies whose originality can't be overlooked (Eternal Sunshine). I have no illusions that all of the films on my list are great. The only thing I can pretty much guarantee is that there probably isn't another list quite like mine.

Top 28 (had a hard time finding 3 more to eliminate), in chronological order:

Casablanca
Notorious
Out of the Past
Once Upon a Time in the West
Blade Runner
Die Hard
Cry Baby
Edward Scissorhands
Joe Versus the Volcano
Before Sunrise
Titanic
Out of Sight
Rushmore
Almost Famous
In the Mood for Love
Memento
Minority Report
Kill Bill (Volume 1 if I have to pick one)
Lost in Translation (my all-time favorite film)
Love Actually
Before Sunset
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Before Sunset
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Brick
The Last Kiss
The Wrestler
(500) Days of Summer

I'm a little confused by that answer to the second question in the excerpt. If none of his efforts to define and measure clutch performance have been at all successful, why would they create resonance in the analytical community?

My sarcastotronica is probably broken, but I'm sure that's supposed to be a "nor" there.

I think James meant that there are useful failures, on the order of, he was not able to prove clutch hitting or pitching existed, but his efforts spurred people in the analytical community to do more and interesting research--something he felt didn't happen.

If anything exists I'll guess it's clutch pitching. It seems more possible to dial up a certain pitch or short sequence of pitches than it does to suddenly decide to see more clearly or react faster.

Yeah, casting a list in terms of "favorite" is always in some defensible. Interesting choices, though. Selections without explanations beg to be ignored. What would be interesting would be to know what movies he's seen--how widely "read" is he?

Being There?

"Favorite" is interesting when compared to "Best" or "Greatest".

There are a number of movies I recognize as great, but don't want to watch often or in a couple of cases, ever again; I also recognize that some of the movies I've watched the most just aren't all that good. I'm guessing most people also distinguish between Favorite and Greatest.

Top 10 movies I've watched this year, in alphabetical order:

Absence of Malice...

Speaking of Newman, have you caught The Verdict? A bit ordinary in places, but talk about a top shelf cast, and I love that it dealt with redemption in old age.

Background music as standard issue didn't really catch on until about the mid-1930's, but in the case of M, Lorre's continual whistling of The Hall of the Mountain King more than makes up for it. It's too bad that Lorre's only known for his roles in Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, because I can hardly think of a single movie where he wasn't outstanding.

Speaking of one of the least attractive actors who ever acted, I was thinking the other day how small a handicap it is to not be handsome when we're talking about the great actors. It doesn't hurt, and I'm not saying Clooney is one of the all-time greats, but especially since Pacino got started being Clooney-handsome hasn't been a prerequisite (if it ever was--think Bogie, who was good-looking as a juvenile lead, but pretty quickly got pretty ugly).

Great stuff in #75, but I admit to being completely confused at the love for The Apartment. It was slow, not very deep, and there are very few memorable lines or scenes for a film that's gotten such good press for such a long time.

Prometheus ... a film about somewhere-the-hell-out-in-space filmed on Earth.

Prometheus ... a film about ... definitely something. Well, I am sure it made sense to someone. Probably.

Man, that was as disappointing as any movie I've seen in a while. I had reasonably high hopes, but from the science to the plot holes to the dialogue to the ridiculous behavior no scientist would ever engage in, it was all but unwatchable.

Great stuff in post 82. I've thought for a long time it would be worth millions of bucks in research costs to any team that could nail down a reliable version of sim scores.

Top 28 (had a hard time finding 3 more to eliminate)...

I found one:

Love Actually

edit > Also, listing Before Sunset only once would eliminate another one. But maybe you just like it that much?

Oh, and regarding TCM, for many of its fans, their least favorite month is February ("31 Days Of Oscar"). Not that the films aren't good, but there's only a limited number the channel can choose from (films that were either Oscar winners or nominees). It's as if for one month, your favorite free-form FM station was stuck playing the likes of "Respect," "Satisfaction," "Proud Mary" and "Eight Days A Week."

In contrast, TCM fans cherish "Summer Under The Stars," an annual August event since 2003 in which every day of the month is dedicated to 24 hours (starting at 6 a.m. Eastern or so) of a particular star. The channel blends the familiar (John Wayne, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis) with relatively obscure stars (last year featured the likes of Eva Marie Saint, child star Freddie Bartholomew and pre-Code fave Kay Francis), even an international star or two (in past years, SUTS has included Jean Gabin and Toshiro Mifune). Here's the complete list of SUTS honorees (from Aug. 1 to 31 each year); it's pretty diverse:

August 2012
John Wayne, Myrna Loy, Johnny Weismuller, Marilyn Monroe, Claude Rains, Van Heflin, Sidney Poitier, Rita Hayworth, Toshiro Mifune, Lionel Barrymore, James Mason, Ginger Rogers, Deborah Kerr, James Cagney, Lillian Gish, Elvis Presley, Katharine Hepburn, Freddie Bartholomew, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Quinn, Kay Francis, Jack Lemmon, Gene Kelly, Irene Dunne, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper, Jeanette MacDonald, Ava Gardner, James Caan, Warren William, Ingrid Bergman

August 2011
Marlon Brando, Paulette Goddard, Bette Davis, Ronald Colman, John Garfield, Lucille Ball, Charles Laughton, Orson Welles, Ann Dvorak, Shirley MacLaine, Ben Johnson, Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Ralph Bellamy, Lon Chaney, Joanne Woodward, Humphrey Bogart, Jean Gabin, Debbie Reynolds, Montgomery Clift, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt, Joan Blondell, Burt Lancaster, Peter Lawford, Linda Darnell, Carole Lombard, Anne Francis, Howard Keel, Marlene Dietrich

August 2010
Basil Rathbone, Julie Christie, Steve McQueen, Ethel Barrymore, Woody Strode, Ingrid Bergman, Errol Flynn, Bob Hope, Warren Beatty, Kathryn Grayson, Walter Matthau, Norma Shearer, Robert Ryan, Gene Tierney, Margaret O'Brien, Robert Stack, Maureen O'Hara, Ann Sheridan, Walter Pidgeon, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, John Mills, Elizabeth Taylor, John Gilbert, Lauren Bacall, Lee Remick, Olivia de Havilland, Peter O'Toole, Henry Fonda, Thelma Todd, Clint Eastwood

August 2009
Henry Fonda, James Mason, Marion Davies, James Coburn, Harold Lloyd, Judy Garland, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Dirk Bogarde, Audrey Hepburn, Clark Gable, Gloria Grahame, Sidney Poitier, Deborah Kerr, Elvis Presley, Jennifer Jones, John Wayne, Red Skelton, Miriam Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Sterling Hayden, Angela Lansbury, Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Yul Brynner, Ida Lupino, Frank Sinatra, Peter Sellers, Jean Arthur, Claire Bloom

August 2008
Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Gregory Peck, Marie Dressler, Claude Rains, Anne Bancroft, Greta Garbo, James Garner, Fred MacMurray, Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Kim Novak, Peter Lorre, Greer Garson, Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Jack Palance, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Ava Gardner, Trevor Howard, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Henry Fonda, Ingrid Bergman, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy

August 2007
Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole, Joan Crawford, William Holden, James Stewart, Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Vincent Price, Doris Day, Alan Ladd, June Allyson, Ernest Borgnine, Joan Bennett, Elvis Presley, Maureen O’Hara, Spencer Tracy, Errol Flynn, Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Ann Miller, Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Broderick Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Loretta Young, Roy Rogers, Mary Astor, Buster Keaton, Sean Connery

August 2006
Angela Lansbury, Groucho Marx, Susan Hayward, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Doris Day, Burt Lancaster, Claire Trevor, Jane Powell, John Garfield, Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Walter Matthau, Lana Turner, Richard Dix, Joseph Cotten, Carole Lombard, Bela Lugosi, Audrey Hepburn, Lee Marvin, David Niven, Rita Hayworth, Van Johnson, Ann Sothern, James Stewart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman, Sidney Poitier, Barbara Stanwyck

August 2005
Lauren Bacall, James Cagney, Joel McCrea, Alec Guinness, Katharine Hepburn, John Wayne, Judy Garland, Shelley Winters, Ray Milland, Lena Horne, Kirk Douglas, Jane Wyman, Cary Grant, Glenn Ford, Fred Astaire, Donna Reed, James Garner, Irene Dunne, Marlon Brando, James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Joan Crawford, Basil Rathbone, Sophia Loren, Norma Shearer, Randolph Scott, Spencer Tracy, William Holden, Constance Bennett, Deborah Kerr, Humphrey Bogart

August 2004
John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, Bob Hope, Debbie Reynolds, Sidney Poitier, Lucille Ball, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda, Jean Harlow, Laurence Olivier, Doris Day, Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Ginger Rogers, Charlie Chaplin, Shirley MacLaine, Claudette Colbert, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck, Esther Williams, Kirk Douglas

August 2003
James Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Peter O'Toole, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Katharine Hepburn, Steve McQueen, Gene Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Myrna Loy, Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman, Doris Day, William Holden

Top 28 (had a hard time finding 3 more to eliminate)...



I found one:

Love Actually

More than any other on the list, I consider that a guilty pleasure. Even though my brain is telling me it's an awful movie, I grin like an idiot for most of it's runtime. I'm also a sucker for Christmas.

edit > Also, listing Before Sunset only once would eliminate another one. But maybe you just like it that much?

Doh! I guess it's a top 27 list!

Didn't even know about Pabst's, but now I do, and thanks for the tip.

Well of the many things you have been accused of, being a hipster has never been one of them.