Favourite Films

Continuing with the "list" theme - here is my list of favourite films.

I am no major film critic and have a very wide range of genres that I watch - in fact there are some fairly odd combinations here ranging from extremely popular to a few "cult" types. I have missed out Star Trek ..... and Sky Captain and some others as although I really liked them my main criteria was "would I watch again and again"

I have also not yet included some I would like to see - and there are still a few !

Only 60 + on this list too so not quite as laborious as the 100 and have done in alphabetical order as I would find it quite hard with some of them to actually position - I'd have about 8 number 1's !!!!

6th Sense

Along Came a Spider

American Tail (Fieval)

An Officer and a Gentleman

Avatar

Big Trouble in Little China

Blood Diamonds

Bone Collector

Bourne Trilogy

Breakfast Club

Cool Runnings

Die Hard

Dirty Dancing

Dogma

Educating Rita

Erin Brokovitch

Fallen

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Forrest Gump

Full Monty

Gladiator

Heat

Hercules (Disney)

High Plains Drifter

Ice Age

Inception

Indiana Jones

Karate Kid

Last of the Mohicans

Legends of the Fall

Leon

Lethal Weapon

Lion King

Lock Stock and 2 smokin barrels

Long Kiss Goodnight

Lord of the Rings 1/2/3

Love Actually

Lucky Number Slevin

Mad Max 2

Moonlight & Valentino

Pelican Brief

Pirates of the Carribbean

Pitch Black

Pretty in Pink

RED Resident Evil

Santa Claus the Movie

Saving Private Ryan

Schindlers List

Shawshank Redemption

Shutter Island

Sleeping with the Enemy

Sleepless in Seattle

St Elmo's Fire

Sum of all Fears

Swordfish

T4

Terminator 2

The Italian Job

The Lovely Bones

The Rock

The Untouchables

Titanic

UP

Usual Suspects

Withnail and I

Young Guns 1 & 2

A more realistic book choice ....

Ok ...so after the last post and several friends laughing at me for actually putting in that I would read .....War & Peace ..... and Crime & Punishment ..... I guess I never will really.

Maybe I was trying to be too highbrow ..... after all - I actually missed off a couple of my absolute favourites!

The Sword by James Herbert -  I have read all of his books .... my favourite author.

The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith - again another of my favourite authors although I have not quite read all of his.

BUT also ... maybe I was not highbrow enough ...... I missed out Shakespeare and YES I genuinely do like most of his plays and have read many - My favourite being King Lear

So - like many Lists ....sometimes you get caught up in the actual writing of them and miss the obvious items .... just going through the motion of getting to the "100" or "50" or "25" - whatever number you have set and therefore putting pressure on yourself to complete the list!

However, ...it won't stop me from doing these lists - I have my top 50 films etc and love the process  ..... right - back to my "things to do" list LOL !!!

Top 100 books for me that I have read or want to read ....

Probably not in preferential order here .......... Haven't yet read all of these but will get round to them !!!! 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie