I have been a list-maker since birth. One of the things I love the most about Gavin is his openminded nature. I know I can count on him for being down for just about anything. I have recruited him to do a number of things that I consider my silly idiosyncracies, including listmaking. One of our first comprehensive lists was made on our drive to Pensacola recently. We both love movies. Although, I think I am much more of a movie nerd than Gavin. So, it seems fitting that our first list would be…
“Our favorite movies of ALL time.”
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Gavin’s List
- 2001: Space Odyssey
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Schindler’s List
- The Godfather Trilogy
- The Mission
- Million Dollar Baby
- Platoon
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Amici Miei Trilogy
- The Shining
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- Amelie
- Schindler’s List
- Goodfellas
- Cool Hand Luke
- The Godfather Trilogy
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Fight Club
- Fog of War
- City of God
Just so you know, we do not take our list-making lightly. I think it’s also interesting to note that we have different strategies for making lists. Gavin likes to brainstorm a pre-list and then make final choices by insuring that each genre is represented. On the other hand, I like to choose based on originality in narrative structure, cinematography and how often I would like to watch them. I admire the variety in Gavin’s choices. I feel that some certain genres maybe overrepresented in my list.
Becky is right, it was very hard indeed to choose just 10 movies. There were many more that mean a lot to me and keeping them out of my list was not easy. I am pretty sure that if I would rewrite it in ten days, it would be a different list! If Becky agrees we might add our favorite movies that never got an Oscar nomination... There are a lot of great films out there that have been somewhat ignored from the mainstream industry.
