Joining the Queue Continuum

JohnL came up with this idea - list the movies in your Netflix queue and highlight the ones you have not seen before.

Thanks to the facts that a) I've only had a Netflix account for a couple months and b) I never clean out my email in box, I've actually got a complete record of my Netflixing activities right at my fingertips. So here goes. As always, I take the liberty to add commentary as I see fit:

MOVIES ALREADY WATCHED:

* This is Spinal Tap - I think you have to be in a very specific mood for this. I also think you need to watch it many times to catch all the jokes. I frankly think I probably started too late to get everything.
* The Awful Truth - Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
* Stop Making Sense
* The Italian Job
* High Fidelity - Box to your weight. Sound advice.
* The Commitments - What a great little movie. 'Mustang Sally' never sounded so good.
* Notorious
* Kind Hearts and Coronets- Not the greatest of Alec Guinness movies but pleasant enough.
* Being John Malkovich
* Rio Lobo - Not too bad, but I think the Duke did the same basic story better with Rio Bravo and El Dorado.
* Sixteen Candles - Actually, I've still never seen this movie all the way through. This pick was for the Missus.
* Breaker Morant
* To Catch a Thief
* His Girl Friday - Rosalind Russell. Rowwl!
* The Big Lebowski - I can get into the Dude.
* Jerry Seinfeld: I’m Telling You For The Last Time - Like watching 90 minutes' worth of the opening monologues from the show. Still pretty funny.
* The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - It makes the ganglia twitch!
* Sideways- Cripes, what a lousy movie, after all the hype I'd heard. Pathetic people behaving badly and then whining about it.
* Firefly (the complete series) - Shiny!
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
* Ray - What a great film. I don't pay much attention to the Oscars as a rule, but I was delighted that Jamie Foxx got one for this.
* Hitch - I dozed off in the middle so can't tell you what I think.
* Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl - Well, certainly a lot better than the crappy Disney World ride.
* Star Trek: Insurrection - Captain Picard and the Lost Planet of Aging Baby Boomers.
* The War Wagon - This was the movie that convinced me John Wayne probably didn't like Kirk Douglas very much.
* Big Jake - Another one during which I dozed off.
* Grosse Point Blank - The second time I saw this I began to ask myself why I had thought Minnie Driver was all that originally.
* Dear Franky - Another one for the Missus. I didn't watch it.
* Ocean’s Twelve - The appeal of Julia Roberts continues to elude me.
* Frosty the Snowman - This DVD also included Frosty's Return, a sequel so awful that even the Llama-ettes complained about it.
* My Favorite Wife - Another Grant/Dunne vehicle, I was disappointed that this turned out to be just a warmed over version of The Awful Truth.
* The Horse Soldiers - Pretty good John Wayne Civil War flick.
* The Far Country - Solid Jimmy Stewart Alaskan frontier cowboy flick.
* So I Married an Axe Murderer - Head! Move! Now!
* The Lavender Hill Mob - Can't quite compete with The Ladykillers, but still a fun Alec Guinness/Ealing Studios production.
* Bandolero! - Jimmy Stewart and Rachel Welch. I mean, come on!
* Serenity- More shiny!
* Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith - Okay, I saw it. Don't feel the need to do so again.
* The Madness of King George - Not too bad, what, what?
* South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut - I had forgotten all about the international version of Cartman's "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch". Ha ha ha ha.
* The Man From Laramie - Not as good as some of the other Jimmy Stewart/Anthony Mann westerns IMHO, but still worth watching.
* Life of Brian

MOVIES CURRENTLY IN THE QUEUE AND NOT YET WATCHED:

* Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
* The Talk of the Town - Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. I saw this once years and years ago and retain a good impression.
* Restoration - It's the reign of Charles II, so it HAS to be good.
* The Thin Man - I don't believe the Missus has met Nick and Nora Charles. She's in for a treat.
* The Cowboys - This is the one where John Wayne leads a group of boys on a cattle drive. I've only seen it the once, but recall enjoying it.
* My Big Fat Greek Wedding
* Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Is this not THE quintessential 80's flick?
* Three O’Clock High - It's been a while since I saw this, but I recall enjoying it a great deal.

There! If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged.