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July 15 We have some terrible news developing on the subject of my youth, or lack thereof.
These songs have two things in common:
constant rotation on every Contemporary radio station in NYC,
Explicit Lyrics that are completely essential to the song.
Now, heres the terrible part. God help me, I actually prefer the censored radio versions. I try to console myself by saying that the producers really did a great job of using samples and what not to disguise the curses. I tell myself that leaving a bit to the imagination just makes things better. I tell myself that "ish" and "skeet" are lightly velied inside jokes, and that hearing them is actually better than hearing their more common counterparts.
Wait till you see my "OHHH!".
This ish is bananas! b-a-n-a-n-a-s!
Once the excuses are gone, I'm left with the obvious. I'm officially getting old.
So, every once in a while, us Geeks astound ourselves by our own ability to propagate mindless drivel across the web. We then take an incredibly interesting, complex, social construct, and missapropriate it's name to describe what we're doing.
Without Further Ado, I present the Movie List Meme.
I don't really know where this list comes from; first guess is box office rankings, or something like that. There are, however, some great movies that aern't on this list, that I would highly recommend.
- The quasi-psuedo intellectual/existential/cool looking movies:
- The memory centric movies:
- The most "baletic fight scenes you've ever seen" movies:
- Honorable mentions:
- Finding Nemo, listed below at 11, almost makes it onto the second list, mainly because of Dory.
- Apparently, Requiem for a dream should also be on the first list, but I haven't seen it yet.
- Run Lola Run was underwhelming, but a honorable mention for the first list.
And now, onto the actual meme. (Ironically, the lists above are more memetic than the list below...)
Here’s the rules:
Copy this list onto your own blog. Link back to my blog (add a trackback as well, if your software supports it).
Italicize the ones you've seen and Bold the ones you actually liked.
- Titanic (1997) - $600,779,824
- Star Wars (1977) - $460,935,665
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - $434,949,459
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - $431,065,444
- Spider-Man (2002) - $403,706,375
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - $377,019,252
- Passion of the Christ, The (2004) - $370,025,697
- Jurassic Park (1993) - $356,784,000
- Shrek 2 (2004) - $356,211,000
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) - $340,478,898
- Finding Nemo (2003) - $339,714,367
- Forrest Gump (1994) - $329,691,196
- Lion King, The (1994) - $328,423,001
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) - $317,557,891
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) - $313,837,577
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) - $310,675,583
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - $309,125,409
- Independence Day (1996) - $306,124,059
- Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) - $305,411,224
- Sixth Sense, The (1999) - $293,501,675
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - $290,158,751
- Home Alone (1990) - $285,761,243
- Matrix Reloaded, The (2003) - $281,492,479
- Shrek (2001) - $267,652,016
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - $261,970,615
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - $260,031,035
- Jaws (1975) - $260,000,000
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) - $255,870,172
- Batman (1989) - $251,188,924
- Men in Black (1997) - $250,147,615
- Toy Story 2 (1999) - $245,823,397
- Bruce Almighty (2003) - $242,589,580
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - $242,374,454
- Twister (1996) - $241,700,000
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) - $241,437,427
- Ghost Busters (1984) - $238,600,000
- Beverly Hills Cop (1984) - $234,760,500
- Cast Away (2000) - $233,630,478
- Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997) - $229,074,524
- Signs (2002) - $227,965,690
- Rush Hour 2 (2001) - $226,138,454
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) - $219,200,000
- Ghost (1990) - $217,631,306
- Aladdin (1992) - $217,350,219
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) - $216,119,491
- Mission: Impossible II (2000) - $215,397,30
- X2 (2003) - $214,948,780
- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) - $213,079,163
- Back to the Future (1985) - $210,609,762
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) - $205,399,422
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - $204,843,350
- Exorcist, The (1973) - $204,565,000
- Mummy Returns, The (2001) - $202,007,640
- Armageddon (1998) - $201,573,391
- Gone with the Wind (1939) - $198,655,278
- Pearl Harbor (2001) - $198,539,855
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - $197,171,806
- Toy Story (1995) - $191,800,000
- Men in Black II (2002) - $190,418,803
- Gladiator (2000) - $187,670,866
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - $184,925,485
- Dances with Wolves (1990) - $184,208,848
- Batman Forever (1995) - $184,031,112
- Fugitive, The (1993) - $183,875,760
- Ocean's Eleven (2001) - $183,405,771
- What Women Want (2000) - $182,805,123
- Perfect Storm, The (2000) - $182,618,434
- Liar Liar (1997) - $181,395,380
- Grease (1978) - $181,360,000
- Jurassic Park III (2001) - $181,166,115
- Mission: Impossible (1996) - $180,965,237
- Planet of the Apes (2001) - $180,011,740
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - $179,870,271
- Pretty Woman (1990) - $178,406,268
- Tootsie (1982) - $177,200,000
- Top Gun (1986) - $176,781,728
- There's Something About Mary (1998) - $176,483,808
- Ice Age (2002) - $176,387,405
- Crocodile Dundee (1986) - $174,635,000
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - $173,585,516
- Elf (2003) - $173,381,405
- Air Force One (1997) - $172,888,056
- Rain Man (1988) - $172,825,435
- Apollo 13 (1995) - $172,071,312
- Matrix, The (1999) - $171,383,253
- Beauty and the Beast (1991) - $171,301,428
- Tarzan (1999) - $171,085,177
- Beautiful Mind, A (2001) - $170,708,99
- Chicago (2002) - $170,684,505
- Three Men and a Baby (1987) - $167,780,960
- Meet the Parents (2000) - $166,225,040
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) - $165,500,000
- Hannibal (2001) - $165,091,464
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) - $164,435,221
- Big Daddy (1999) - $163,479,795
- Sound of Music, The (1965) - $163,214,286
- Batman Returns (1992) - $162,831,698
- Bug's Life, A (1998) - $162,792,677
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - $161,963,000
- Waterboy, The (1998) - $161,487,252
NOTE TO FUTURE AUTHORS OF LAME WEB TYPE MEME THINGGEES:
if your going to do these web/blog based meme thingees, at least make them web friendly. I manually converted this list into a proper ordered list. If i had the time, I would have went through the painstaking effort of linking each item to amazon. In fact, if you had done that, you could have made a nice chunk of change on affiliate click through, and could have used that as an interesting measure of propogation... oh well, maybe next time?
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