Here’s my running list of TV shows, movies, music and games that I seem to have missed on their first trip through the zeitgeist that I’ll be sampling…and judging:
Movies:
- Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
- Any “Rocky” movie
- The Notebook
- The Little Mermaid
- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
- Pretty in Pink
- Ghost
- The Freshman
- Heavy Metal
- The Piano
- Arthur
- Midnight Express
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
- Rachel Getting Married
- The Way We Were
- Dirty Harry
- Midnight Cowboy
- Love Story
- Network
- Annie Hall
- Chinatown
- Drugstore Cowboy
- The Jerk
- The French Connection
- The Grifters
- Sid & Nancy
- The Insider
- To Live & Die in LA
- Little Monsters
- Young Guns (I or II)
- Howard the Duck
- Talk Radio
- From Here to Eternity
- St. Elmo’s Fire
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- TRON
- Just One of the Guys
- Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus
TV
- Square Pegs
- SOAP
- The L Word
- Dexter
- Fat Actress
- The Tick
- Chicago Hope
- China Beach
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- The Wire
- The Shield
- The finale of “Roseanne”
- Hill Street Blues
- In the Heat of the Night
- St. Elsewhere
- Marcus Welby, M.D.
- Upstairs, Downstairs
- The Prisoner
- “City of Death” episode of Doctor Who (with Tom Baker, apparently)
- The A-Team
- thirtysomething
Music
- The complete Rumours album
- Blonde on Blonde
- Songs in the Key of Life
- Tapestry
- Exile on Main Street
- The Chronic
Games
- Anything with the words “Final Fantasy” in it
- anything with the words “Metal Gear Solid” in it
- Settlers of Katan
- Uncharted
- LittleBigPlanet
- Diablo II
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Okami
- Tomb Raider anything
Books/Stories/etc.
- ”Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
- ”The Library of Babel”
- ”Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”
- ”The Circular Ruins”
- ”The Garden of Forking Paths”
Places
- Disneyland
- The Mystery Spot
Expect this list to grow, and grow, and grow as I come across more and more stuff that I’ve just missed out on. As things get crossed off the list, they’ll get crossed off on this list.
What am I missing? Use the comments section below to add to or mock this list as appropriate.
I’d add to movies “This is Spinal Tap”. And turn it up to 11.
Totally seen it already. Great movie.
You haven’t seen Dirty Harry?! Put that at the top of your queue.
Here are definite musts for your movie list:
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Airplane!
Risky Business
The Graduate
Taxi Driver
Midnight Cowboy
Love Story
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Network
Annie Hall
Chinatown
Easy Rider
Drugstore Cowboy
The Jerk
Monty Python- Life of Brian
The French Connection
The Grifters (another great John Cusack movie)
And for video games, you might try Pong. I think Atari makes it. : >
A great list, but let’s handle them one by one with things I’ve seen getting crossed off:
Blazing SaddlesYoung Frankenstein
Airplane!
Risky Business
The Graduate
Taxi Driver
Midnight Cowboy (already on my list)
Love Story (also on the list)
Rocky Horror Picture ShowNetwork (all I know is “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”)
Annie Hall
Chinatown
Easy RiderDrugstore Cowboy
The Jerk
Monty Python- Life of BrianThe French Connection (I know it’s Popeye Doyle, that’s about it)
The Grifters (another great John Cusack movie)
So that’s a few new ones to add to the list. Look for those reviews soon.
But I thought you’d have more to say about the Music list.
JT
What about books? Or are those no longer considered culture?
Suggest some books then…
Have you seen Little Monsters? Old school Fred Savage movie! Loved it when i was a kid but havent seen it in a long while. I used to be mad when they only had it in Beta cause I rented it ALOT.
I haven’t but I’ve heard people talk about how much they love it. It goes on the list!
Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges
–“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
–“The Library of Babel”
–“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”
–“The Circular Ruins”
–“The Garden of Forking Paths”
TV:
–The Prisoner (the original!)
Brilliant, paranoid genius.
And the Doctor Who episode “City of Death” with Tom Baker. Written by Douglas Adams, cameo by John Cleese, and the baddie is played by Donovan from Last Crusade.
Add the book “Eleven Minutes” Paulo Coelho