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As with last time, here's a list of all the titles from the previous version of the list that didn't make the cut this time around...
Stand By Me (#100)
Reiner, King, and period-piece coming-of-age movies are all represented on my list by much better movies.
Near Dark (#98)
Still a pretty cool movie and all, but I have to admit that cool only gets you so far these days.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (#96)
Think I always wanted to like this one more than I do.
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (#95)
I don't think I've even watched the show in like 10 years, let alone this.
Super Troopers (#94)
If you were wondering why I dropped or cut so many comedies on this latest version of the list, having films like this on the last version was a big contributor. Also fell prey to the aforementioned problem of being a more quotable comedy than a watchable one.
Team America: World Police (#93)
Definitely find Parker and Stone's politics more questionable than I used to, plus the novelty of "blockbuster with marionettes" has run its course.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (#91)
Including this always did feel like I just wanted to rep the show more than because I thought the movie itself was particularly great.
Once Upon a Time in America (#90)
More interesting films for me to spend four hours on these days.
Trainspotting (#88)
Just another one of those cool filmbro movies that fell by the wayside as the years wore on. Still Boyle's best, though.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (#87)
There are great moments scattered throughout, of course, but Raiders is the only one of these that feels truly essential.
Star Wars (#86)
Who knows, maybe next time around I'll have dropped Empire off the list as well.
Naked (#81)
This is probably still great, but it's such a bleak and miserable film that I basically never feel like revisiting it to make sure.
Full Metal Jacket (#80)
Still pretty solid even with its notoriously lopsided structure but Kubrick has definitely done better at outlining the absurdity of war.
Ed Wood (#78)
Don't have much use for Burton or Depp these days, much less this well-intentioned exercise in mining the titular director's cinematic shortcomings for humour and pathos.
Se7en (#77)
I still like Fincher well enough but I think I'm more likely to pick Zodiac and Social Network as favourites even if this one's influence on the modern thriller is still undeniable.
Children of Men (#75)
Long takes aren't cool anymore.
Commando (#74)
I've got enough Arnold on the list already, though this is probably his most flat-out fun movie to watch.
Airplane! (#69)
Pour one out for another victim of my "less comedies" ruling.
They Live (#66)
I already have multiple Carpenter films and The Matrix on the list, so as fun as this is, it felt a little like overkill.
Blue Velvet (#65)
Decided to go one-and-done when it came to putting Lynch on the list, plus this does just feel more like something he'd build on more than anything else.
Hot Fuzz (#63)
As noted, probably my least favourite of the Cornetto films. Still pretty good, though.
Reservoir Dogs (#61)
I still dig its cool heist thing even if it does start looking rougher as the years go by both as Tarantino refines his approach and as I see more of the films that influenced it.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (#60)
Definitely fine leaving this one in my childhood as opposed to revisiting it with any regularity.
The Evil Dead (#59)
The sequel proves a better rep of the franchise's whole deal, though I can't deny this one's effectiveness as a straight horror (cheapness and camp be damned).
Clerks (#58)
Ah, Kevin Smith. I guess it was inevitable that this would fall off the list entirely even if it is still the best thing he's ever made by some distance.
Harold and Maude (#57)
Once I realised this was basically a manic pixie dream girl movie where the girl was 80 years old, it started to lose a little of its charm - not much, but enough.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (#54)
Another great film that I'm never really in the mood for revisiting.
Midnight Cowboy (#51)
See above.
Excalibur (#50)
Still about as enjoyable as sword-and-sorcery movies tend to get outside of Lord of the Rings, but they don't need representation that badly.
Glengarry Glen Ross (#45)
A great talky movie, though that doesn't necessarily translate to repeat viewings.
Fight Club (#36)
I think Taxi Driver does a good enough job of covering the misanthrope side of things that this Gen X successor can be left off just fine.
Miller's Crossing (#34)
The Coens also get the one-and-done treatment so this enjoyable little gangster caper, while still one of their better ones, is going to be shifted off the list.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (#27)
Does feel like it's trying too hard at times to overcompensate for the less enthusiastic reaction to Temple, but outside of that it's still a classic I left off for franchise representation reasons.
Die Hard (#21)
As great as it is, I get the feeling that watching this every single Christmas has made me a little sick of it.
A Clockwork Orange (#18)
Definitely weird to realise how much of a hit Kubrick's taken even if I'm still including three of his films on this latest iteration - as with Full Metal Jacket, you can argue that everything he covers here is covered better in other films.
Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (#15)
I think including Barry Lyndon on this list for the first time manages to compensate for all three of the Kubricks I left off this time - the wartime absurdity of Full Metal Jacket, the brutal society of A Clockwork Orange, and the acidic satire of this film can all be found in that one.
Army of Darkness (#13)
Like I said about the original Evil Dead, II covers all the bases as far as the franchise is concerned. This one's still pretty fun, though.
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I shall work my way through it at some point but just to quickly say that I've added it to the favourite movies list
