Favorite Movies of the Past 50(+1) Years (Part II)

Let's not waste any time.

1986 - Aliens
1987 - Full Metal Jacket
1988 - Die Hard
1989 - Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - The Silence Of The Lambs
1992 - Reservoir Dogs
1993 - Jurassic Park
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1995 - The Usual Suspects
1996 - Fargo
1997 - Men In Black
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1999 - Fight Club
2000 - X-Men
2001 - LOTR: The Fellowship Of The Ring
2002 - LOTR: The Two Towers
2003 - LOTR: The Return Of The King
2004 - Anchorman
2005 - Serenity
2006 - The Departed
2007 - 300
2008 - The Dark Knight
2009 - Watchmen
2010 - Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1

And unsurprisingly, my pick for 2011 is Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2. This was a fun project, with way too much time spent on Wikipedia going through the lists of movies for each year.

Favorite Movies of the Past 50(+1) Years (Part I)

I'm a nerd. I like lists. Used to make them all the time. Since I'm kinda starved for ideas, either song or rant, I thought I'd resurrect a little list project I was working on a while back.

The concept is simple - favorite movie from each of the last 50 years. Not the "best" movie - the movie that you would choose to watch if you were channel surfing and ran across it. As to be expected, there are quite a number of "guy movies".

1961 - The Guns Of Navarone
1962 - The Longest Day
1963 - The Great Escape
1964 - Goldfinger
1965 - Battle Of The Bulge
1966 - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
1967 - The Dirty Dozen
1968 - Bullitt
1969 - True Grit
1970 - MASH
1971 - Dirty Harry
1972 - The Godfather
1973 - The Sting
1974 - Blazing Saddles
1975 - Monty Python & The Holy Grail
1976 - Rocky
1977 - Star Wars
1978 - Animal House
1979 - The Jerk
1980 - The Empire Strikes Back
1981 - Raiders Of The Lost Ark
1982 - Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
1983 - Return Of The Jedi
1984 - The Terminator
1985 - Back To The Future

Part II upcoming.