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Movies I should have seen - Reflections from 2010

I had a running list of movies that I made years ago, probably around 2010, that I wanted to watch. I’ve updated it a few times. Since then, I’ve moved my watchlist around so many times, I can’t find them anymore. Some have been lost to the ethers of the Internet’s walled gardens like my old Netflix watch list. Some movies I started but never finished.

Some are top movies, some are recommendations, some are the ones you see on everyone’s lists, but I still haven’t made the time to watch them all. And we all know - we will never watch them all. There’s too much media to consume.

The Original List, by only the ones that I haven’t seen

13 Assassins

A Clockwork Orange

Ajami

As Good as It Gets

Bad Boys

Bad Boys II

Baraka

Bonnie and Clyde

Catfish

Che: Part One

Che: Part Two

Children of Men

Clerks

Desperado

Dog Day Afternoon

Dogtown and Z-Boys

El Mariachi

Enemy

From Up on Poppy Hill

Frost/Nixon

Glory

High Noon

Hotel Rwanda

Ip Man: The Awakening

JCVD

Magnolia

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Milk

Natural Selection

Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037

Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Philadelphia

Rampart

Requiem for a Dream

Schindler's List

Scrooged

Senna

Sixteen Candles

Spotlight

Synecdoche, New York

The Bad Sleep Well

The Deer Hunter

The Godfather Part III

The Hidden Fortress

The Jackal

The Killer

The Last Samurai

The Legend of Drunken Master

The Mist

The Pianist

The Road

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

The Waiting Room

The Wrestler

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Traffic

Zoolander

And somehow a TV Show slipped in there. 👀

We Shall Remain - technically a TV Show

There’s a small subset of these that I started to watch, but never finished. Or in the case of Apollo 13, walked into it midway while roommates were watching it and only saw the second half.