Sunday, 4 December 2005
ABC : My Favourite Film

Following the success of "My Favourite Book", the ABC went back and polled it's viewers for "My Favourite Film".

IMHO, the Top 10 reflects a major Gen-X bias, which is a good thing ;)

  1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  2. Amelie
  3. Blade Runner
  4. The Shawshank Redemption
  5. Donnie Darko
  6. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
  7. Pulp Fiction
  8. The Princess Bride
  9. Gone With The Wind
  10. Fight Club
  11. The Sound of Music
  12. To Kill A Mockingbird
  13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  14. Casablanca
  15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  16. American Beauty
  17. Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  18. Monty Python's Life of Brian
  19. Lawrence Of Arabia
  20. Apocalypse Now
  21. Cinema Paradiso
  22. Doctor Zhivago
  23. The Matrix
  24. The Castle
  25. Singin' in the Rain
  26. A Clockwork Orange
  27. The Blues Brothers
  28. Withnail and I
  29. Life is Beautiful
  30. The Godfather
  31. Moulin Rouge
  32. Some Like it Hot
  33. Lost in Translation
  34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  35. Local Hero
  36. The Third Man
  37. Brazil
  38. Serenity
  39. Breakfast at Tiffany's
  40. A Room with a View
  41. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  42. Dead Poets Society
  43. Harold and Maude
  44. The Big Lebowski
  45. The Wizard of Oz
  46. Out Of Africa
  47. Picnic at Hanging Rock
  48. The Usual Suspects
  49. Cabaret
  50. Forrest Gump
  51. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  52. The Piano
  53. Pirates of the Carribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
  54. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
  55. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  56. The City of Lost Children
  57. The African Queen
  58. Love Actually
  59. Strictly Ballroom
  60. Wings of Desire
  61. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  62. Babette's Feast
  63. The Fifth Element
  64. Spirited Away
  65. Aliens
  66. It's a Wonderful Life
  67. Napoleon Dynamite
  68. Rear Window
  69. Romeo And Juliet
  70. Dirty Dancing
  71. Kill Bill: Vol 1.
  72. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
  73. Trainspotting
  74. Muriel's Wedding
  75. When Harry Met Sally
  76. The Great Escape
  77. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  78. Gallipoli
  79. Lantana
  80. Garden State
  81. Sin City
  82. Chariots of Fire
  83. The English Patient
  84. This is Spinal Tap
  85. Chocolat
  86. Fargo
  87. Look Both Ways
  88. Goodfellas
  89. Aliens
  90. Grease
  91. All About Eve
  92. Citizen Kane
  93. Stand By Me
  94. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  95. Mulholland Drive
  96. Back to the Future
  97. High Fidelity
  98. The Thin Red Line
  99. Being John Malkovich
  100. Dead Man
[listening to: Crazy Frog - Axel F ]
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Top selling DVDs of all time in Australia

The SMH posted a recent article featuring the Top selling DVDs of all time in Australia. It's an update to a similar list from earlier in the year. I hilighted the DVDs we owned on that list, so in keeping with the tradition, here's the update - I score 33 out of the 40.

  1. Finding Nemo
  2. Shrek 2
  3. Pirates of the Caribbean
  4. The Fellowship of the Ring
  5. The Return of the King
  6. The Two Towers
  7. Shrek
  8. Monsters Inc
  9. Gladiator
  10. The Incredibles
  11. The Lion King
  12. Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
  13. Shark Tale
  14. The Fast and the Furious
  15. The Matrix
  16. Star Wars trilogy box set
  17. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  18. Troy
  19. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  20. Four Weddings and a Funeral
  21. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  22. Meet The Fockers
  23. Matrix Revolutions
  24. Star Wars 2: Attack of the Clones
  25. Matrix Reloaded
  26. Love Actually
  27. The OC Season 1
  28. Robots
  29. Lilo and Stitch
  30. XXX
  31. 8 Mile
  32. Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace
  33. The Day After Tomorrow
  34. Ever After
  35. The Last Samurai
  36. Spider-Man
  37. Indiana Jones box set
  38. Ice Age
  39. Gone In 60
  40. Seconds Bridget Jones's Diary
[listening to: Wave a White Flag - Elvis Costello ]
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It feels like only yesterday I took my boys to see the third Harry Potter movie, when it's time to see the next installment.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a lot darker than the previous 3 movies, but I found it a lot more enjoyable. It had the epic story of good versue evil, as well as the story of the coming of age of three, as the gang gets ready for the Yule ball and have to get a date for the dance.  As the summary from IMDB says:

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire takes us deeper into the characters' minds and the darkness of the Wizarding World. At the Quidditch World Cup, Voldemort's followers gather and wreak havoc. Then, at Hogwarts, a legendary event takes place. The Triwizard Tournament! The Goblet of Fire judges who gets in and who doesn't. On the fateful night, three champions are selected. But then the Goblet spits out one other. Harry's. These two major events point to the return of Lord Voldemort. Dumbledore and the other teachers sense it, but it is inevitable. And Harry is no longer safe at Hogwarts. This fourth installment is the most dramatic, and also the scariest. Let me just say that all does not necessarily end well...

As we left the theatre, I pondered the mythology of Harry Potter. The good versus evil theme is pretty uniersal, but it feels to me like Star Wars. I wonder if Harry is Voldemort's son? 

[listening to: Alison - Elvis Costello ]
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