AFI Update

So I talked about my movie binge last post. Here's a more complete update of the films I've seen on the 2007 AFI 100 Years...100 Movies List

Movies I've seen with AFI rankings next to them:
#1 Citizen Kane
#2 The Godfather
#3 Casablanca
#4 Raging Bull
#8 Schindler's List
#9 Vertigo
#10 The Wizard of Oz
#11 City Lights
#12 The Searchers
#13 Star Wars
#14 Psycho
#17 The Graduate
#19 On The Waterfront
#21 Chinatown
#24 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
#25 To Kill A Mockingbird
#26 Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
#32 The Godfather Part II
#33 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
#34 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
#39 Dr. Strangelove
#50 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
#51 West Side Story
#57 Rocky
#66 Raiders of the Lost Ark
#71 Saving Private Ryan
#72 The Shawshank Redemption
#76 Forrest Gump
#83 Titanic
#89 The Sixth Sense
#92 Goodfellas
#99 Toy Story

And I'll keep things posted as we go along. Take care fans.

P.S. You can find the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years..._100_Movies_(10th_Anniversary_Edition)

Thank The Flu For The Movie Binge

Hello fans,

First, I want to apologize for not posting in quite some time. When I was ready for another post last week, I got smacked with the flu. It began on Monday afternoon and ended sometime between last Thursday afternoon and last Friday. Because I couldn't do much, I figured that it's a good time to catch up on my movies. You can deduce how much time I spent in bed from the list of movies I watched since I was sick.

• The Godfather
• The Godfather Part II
• The Godfather Part III
  
• West Side Story
• Rain Man

After those movies, I was inspired to print out the list of AFI's top 100 movies that was published in 2007, which was the 10th anniversary of the original list. I'm looking to watching most, if not all, of the movies on the list. As of right now, I have watched 22 movies on the list. And I'm only counting those movies where I can recollect at least 2/3 of the movie. So there are some movies that I've seen when I was little and don't remember much, and I have therefore not counted them. Right now, I'm watching Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Most of the ones I watched on the list I really enjoyed, but there are some that I didn't enjoy much. I didn't expect to fall in love with all the movies on this list, but I have grown to appreciate them and understand why they're on the list.

Things in the classroom have been good so far. A challenge I've been facing with is how to deal with the material that I was supposed to cover when I was sick. I think that the class has been able to recover nicely since I was sick, and I've been trying to backfill the material when I can. As time goes on, I consider more and more the possibility of getting a PhD in Statistics Education or something of the like. It's something that I love and want to make a serious career out of it, and there's plenty of time to decide what to do.

As for this weekend, I'm going to watch some more excellent movies. Here's some of the movies that I'm looking to watch over the weekend.

• On The Waterfront
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Scarface
• Silence of the Lambs
• City Lights
• The Graduate

I know it'll be a stretch to watch all of those movies, but I can try. Have a great weekend, everyone.