Wednesday, July 16, 2014; 8:12:12 AM Eastern
Movies for me at 20
- I have a friend who's 20, a guy, like me. I know him through is father, since he was a little boy, and we've always gotten along grandly. He was a really funny kid, but now he's an earnest 20-year-old. But still at his core a really good friend.
- Anyway, we've been to two Mets games in the last couple of weeks, happy to report that as a result now the Mets are winning. They seem to be energized by our presence. Love that. But I would still enjoy it if they sucked. That's part of what make the Mets philosophy so robust, rugged and enduring.
- The conversation got around to movies, and it turns out this young guy hasn't seen a lot of the movies that at least I think were very basic to forming the culture we now live in, the one he's growing up into. So I started making a list. As it turns out the best way to explain it is these are the movies I would recommend to myself, if I were 20 today. I keep adding items to the list, so there's no way I would claim it's complete.
- #### Here's the list
- 2001
- Amadeus
- Annie Hall
- Any Given Sunday
- Apocalypse Now
- As Good as it Gets
- Big Lebowski
- Blade Runner
- Chinatown
- Contact
- Dr Strangelove
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- Fargo
- Fight Club
- Forrest Gump
- Ghostbusters
- Godfather I and II
- Goodfellas
- Good Will Hunting
- Groundhog Day
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Heat
- Jackie Brown
- Jaws
- Kill Bill
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Manhattan
- Moonstruck
- No Country for Old Men
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Platoon
- Prizzi's Honor
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- Rushmore
- Scarface
- Silence of the Lambs
- Sixth Sense
- Stand By Me
- The Excorcist
- The Departed
- The Matrix
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- The Shining
- There Will Be Blood
- Traffic
- Waynes World
- When Harry Met Sally
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?