The Most Un-Watched List

Having recently contributed my first post to my friend's online magazine (Cult)ure on the topic of reflection (timed to coincide with the start of the new year - natch), I got to thinking about lists.

We love lists. I'm fairly sure it's quite high on the "stuff white people like" meter, mostly because it allows us an opportunity to categorize and manage parts of our daily lives. Grocery lists tell us what to pick up, black lists tell us which exes to avoid and movie lists...well movie lists either tell us what we should be watching or what we're missing.

Looking around my apartment I realized that I don't ever need to rent another movie...or leave the house again. Over the years I've managed to collect an astounding number of films that I have never cracked open, much less popped in the DVD player. And so, in the spirit of the post-holiday sharing season, I thought that I could at least draft a list of all of my most famous ohmygod-you're-a-film-student-and-you-haven't-seen-this un-watched films (partially compiled from IMDB's top 250):

The Godfather Part 2
North By Northwest
Lawrence of Arabia
The Pianist
Das Boot
Rashomon
Raging Bull
The Apartment
The Great Escape
Braveheart
The Manchurian Candidate
Cool Hand Luke
It Happened One Night
The Deer Hunter
Ben-Hur
Platoon
Into The Wild
Life of Brian
Diabolique
8 1/2
Dog Day Afternoon
Network
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
All the President's Men
Ghandi
Harvey
Groundhog Day
The African Queen
The Hustler
Midnight Cowboy
Umberto D
The Conversation
Casino
Anatomy of a Murder
Patton
Glory
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
Spartacus
In The Heat of The Night
Manhattan
Roman Holiday
Rocky
La Dolce Vida
Harold and Maude