When describing Desert Island DVD’s I suggested you imagine you were stuck on a desert island with just eight movies to watch. Now in an Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 type of thing imagine we are all on the same island and have agreed to pool our entertainment, a sort of Desert Island DVD Rentals. If my calculations are correct 41 42 bloggers selected 231 237 Movies or TV Shows (thanks to Darren from the mOvie blog for collating the movie list and sorry to Common Sense Movie Reviews who was originally missed off). Here are the movies:
- (500) Days of Summer
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 28 Days Later
- 9 Songs
- The Abyss
- Adaptation
- Alice in Wonderland (animated verstion)
- Aliens
- Almost Famous
- Amelie
- American Beauty
- Anchorman
- Animal Factory
- The Apartment
- Apocolypse Now
- Arrested Development (TV Show)
- As Good as it Gets
- The Aviator
- Back to the Future
- Bad Boys
- Basket Case
- Batman Begins
- North & South (TV show)
- Be Kind Rewind
- Beaches
- Beauty & The Beast
- Before Sunrise
- The Big Lebouski
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Billy Elliot
- Billy Madison
- Black Rain
- Blazing Saddles
- Bogy of Lies
- Boogie Nights
- The Bourne Identity
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- The Breakfast Club
- Braveheart
- Brazil
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Breakfast on Pluto
- Bride & Prejudice
- Brokeback Mountin
- The Brothers Bloom
- Cannibal: The Musical!
- Casablanca
- Casion Royale
- Castaway
- Chuck - Season 2 (TV Show)
- Cinderella Man
- Clerks
- Cloverfield
- Clue
- Clueless
- Con Air
- Cool Hand Luke
- The Count of Monty Cristo
- The Dark Knight
- Dawn of the Dead
- Dazed and Confused
- Dear Frankie
- Deep Rising
- The Departed
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Die hard
- Do the Right Thing
- Donnie Darko
- Double Indemnity
- Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
- Easy Virtue
- Elizabethtown
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness
- Fanny & Alexander
- Farther of the Bride
- Ferris Buellers Day Off
- Field of Dreams
- The Fifth Element
- Fight Club
- Finding Nemo
- Finding Neverland
- Freestyle
- From Here to Eternity
- Fuber
- Gamers: Dorkness Rising
- Gattaca
- Ghost Busters
- Gladiator
- The Godfarther
- Godzilla (crappy American remake)
- Goodfellas
- The Good The Bad & The Ugly
- A Good Year
- The Goonies
- The Great Dictator
- The Green Mile
- Gross Point Blank
- Groundhog Day
- Halloween
- The Hangover
- Happiness
- Harry Potter & The Order of the Pheonix
- Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone
- Heat
- Heavens Gate
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- High Fidelity
- The Hunchback if NotreDame
- Idiocracy
- I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay
- Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
- Indiana Jone & the Temple of Doom
- Inglourious Basterds
- Inside Nab
- The Island
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Joe v’s The Vocano
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Jurassic Park
- The Karate Kid: Part II
- Kill Bill: vol. 1
- The Kingdom of Heaven – Directors Cut
- King Kong (original version)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- A Knights’ Tale
- LA Confidential
- La Dolce Vita
- Labyrinth
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Lilo and Stich
- The Lion King
- The Lives of Others
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Lost in Translation
- The Lost Weekend
- Love Actually
- Love Me if You Dare
- Magnolia
- The Major & the Minor
- Mallrats
- The Matrix
- Memento
- Metalica: Some Kind of Monster
- Midnight Run
- Million Dollar Baby
- NirrorMask
- Monsers Inc.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Moulin Rouge!
- Mulan
- Mullholland Dr.
- The Murderers are Among Us
- Mystic River
- The Myth of Fingerprints
- The New World
- Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- North by Northwest
- Office Space
- Oldboy
- On the Waterfront
- Once
- Once Upon a Time in China 2
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Pete’s Dragon
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Planet Terror
- Pretty Woman
- Primer
- The Princess Bride
- The Proposal
- Pulp Fiction
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Re-Animator
- The Red Shoes
- Rent (recoding of live Broadway show)
- Richard Pryor: Live at the Sunset Strip
- Ringu
- Risky Business
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Roman Holiday
- Romeo + Juliet
- Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion
- The Room
- The Rules of Attraction
- Sabrina (0riginal Billy Wilder)
- Saving Private Ryan
- Se7en
- Sense and Sensibility
- Serenity
- Seven Samurai
- Shaun of the Dead
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Shock Treatment
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Slither
- Some Like it Hot
- The Sound of Music
- Southland Tales
- Spaceballs
- Spirited Away
- Stalig 17
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- The Station Agent
- Sunset Boulevard
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- The Thin Man
- The Thin Red Line
- Thunderball
- Tommy Boy
- Top Hat
- Toy Story
- Traffic
- Transformers
- Tremors
- Troy
- The Truman Show
- Two-Lane Blacktop
- Under Siege
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
- Unfaithful
- Up
- The Vampire Lovers
- The Warriors
- Wedding Crashers
- The Wire (TV Show)
- Without Limits
- The X-Files (TV Show)
- X-Men II
- Yes Man
- Zeroes (Not currently available on DVD, awaiting distribution deal!)
What would you like to rent?
Hahaha, you just wait til Zeroes hits Blu-Ray. That thing is gonna FLY off the shelves I tell ya. That’s a crazy amount of movies though, man. Very cool. Did I mention this project rocked?
And let me be the first to say that Con Air Cool Hand Luke sounds like the best movie EVER.
fixed that one now, it did sound cool though!
I know these 2 are right next to each other but Big Trouble in Little China and Boogie Nights sounds like a fun night of film watching!
Love that 2 of my movies have posters up there… BOOYA!
42 bloggers… someone missed me and my picks
you are up now sorry!
Hot damn! That is a lot of movies! Nice to see so much variety amongst us movie geeks. Thanks for running this, Andy. It was awesome, and it’s inspired me to host one of my own (to be determined at a later date).
You know what? This is the best plan ever.
Not only do I get my eight DVDs, I get to bogart all of yours! It’s brilliant!
Thanks for compiling the list Andy. Jaysus, we’re a diverse group, aren’t we?
But none of us thought to bring The Godfather Part II
what a load of shit movies
And the Desert Island meme continues. I think you may have created a monster here.
Weird how all three Bourne and LOTR films got picked.
I reckon that list coudl keep me happy for a good while….
(Billy Elliot Billy Madison….? Might want to look into that ;P)
Haven’t you seen Billy Elliot Billy Madison it is often shown as a double bill with Con Air Cool Hand Luke!
Both errors now corrected, any more I have missed?
[...] Andy has now compiled the list of all the movies that were chosen by the 42 bloggers involved, and it makes for interesting [...]
One question – what was the most popular choice?
Actually two questions – who was the dirty birdie who chose 9 SONGS?
I don’t know for sure, Darren from the mOvie blog collated them. Off the top of my head lots of movies got three or four I think The Dark Knight was top with five or six.
9 songs was Ross McD’s choice, justified by the great use of music with the footnote “Seriously though. I’m gonna need some smut”. at least he’s honest. On that subject Lady Hatter did say she wanted her own island so I guess your on your own! Joking aside 9 Songs is actually a good movie although not Michael Winterbottom’s best it is strangely beautiful.
Ahhh, so Ross McD is the pervy bastard huh?
I kid. I was actually more surprised because I’ve never met anyone else who’s actually seen that film besides me – and I swear I saw it for the music!
Dude, that’s one helluva list! We’ll never get bored now, although we’ll spend a lot of time fighting about inane details, like whether “Casablanca” is better than “Some Like It Hot.” ‘Cause we’re movie nerds like that.
Can’t see my “sundryandco” ones on there – Although, I suspect I am probably the only person with deep nostalgia for The Santa Claus movie. Not to worry, I’ll be on another island with my DVD selection all to myself!
Great selection of DVDs on the list, particularly X-Files, Terminator and Jurassic Park
Casablanca isn’t as good as Some Like It Hot, M!
Dan
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