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This is the third time, man, that I’ve seen The Third Man, man. 

(Gets better every time.)

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This review may contain spoilers.

Best drug trip in a movie I’ve ever seen.

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This list is pretty definitive and important.

• The First Omen
• The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• The Third Man
• The Fourth Protocol
• The Fifth Cord
• The Sixth Sense
• The Seventh Seal
• The Eighth Day
• The Ninth Configuration
• The Tenth Month

The titles go: Definite Article (The), Flowery Descriptor (Manchurian), and Intriguing Noun (Candidate). There's something about this very specific type of title that was so popular in the late 60s through the early 80s. I think the trend came from Robert Ludlum novels but also existed prior to those and I'm fascinated with it as some kind of unspoken, yet agreed upon cinematic convention. If your political or espionage thriller didn't have The Burlingame Balls (Universal Pictures, 1976) to have a title like this, it might as well have been a Disney flick. Still, some titles flirt with the model but don't quite go all the way. 'The Deadly Affair' or 'The Black Windmill' come close but lack that florid second word. I’m also just realizing that those two have the stress on the third word while the others stress the second (this is important work I’m doing). 'The English Patient' and 'The Quiet American' have a nice geographic affiliation, but a mere location is no replacement for a ten dollar descriptor. ‘The Venetian Affair’ just barely makes the list because a specific city is more evocative than an entire country, and ‘Affair’ has a real Man From U.N.C.L.E title ring to it. 'The French Connection' makes it as well by the sole fact that it's so hard-boiled. I've also found a handful that simply end in 'Man.' 'The Jigsaw Man,' 'The Illustrated Man,' 'The Mackintosh Man,' etc. Marathon Man comes close in style but without a 'The' it can fuck right off, we have standards to maintain. Finally, the last qualification for this sort of film is that it must be delightfully, and interminably boring — which most of these certainly are. Anyway, here are the entries I've found so far. In an (im)perfect world I'd watch all of these and do a podcast about it. We'll see. Maybe in retirement. Let me know if you know of any others and we’ll see if they cut the mustard. I'm forever on the hunt.

• The Quiller Memorandum
• The Holcroft Covenant
• The Osterman Weekend
• The Parallax View
• The Ipcress File
• The Eiger Sanction
• The Internecine Project
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The China Syndrome
• The Anderson Tapes

...plus 108 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This one drops steadily as it goes. Into the inky-hue stinky queue.

1. Aliens
2. Alien
3. Alien³
4. Alien: Covenant
5. Prometheus
6. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
7. Alien Resurrection
8. Alien: Romulus
9. Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

They’re either engraved, unique looking, or otherwise cool and significant to the plot. Let’s hear about ‘em.

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

  Dunhill Unique: ‘To George from Ann All my love’

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

  ‘To George from Ann All my love’

• Licence to Kill

  Dunhill Unique: ‘James, Love Always, Della and Felix.’

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

  Zippo Shamrock

• BUtterfield 8

  ‘BU 8’

• Strangers on a Train

  ‘A to G’ with tennis racket emblem

• The Man with the Golden Gun

  Along with cufflinks and a pen, it’s a golden gun!

• Roman Holiday

  Echo 8 lighter camera 

• The Tamarind Seed

Why do I feel fear in posting this particular list? Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to the realization that I'm quoting one of the prequels. Forget what you've seen here.

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Star Wars
4. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Solo: A Star Wars Story
7. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
8. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
9. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
10. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

What else am I missing? Contribute away!

• Parasite
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Bad Ronald
• Flowers in the Attic
• The People Under the Stairs
• Flowers in the Attic
• Hider in the House
• Room
• The Boy
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For the With Gourley and Rust Holiday Horrors season.

• Black Christmas
• My Bloody Valentine
• April Fool's Day
• New Year's Evil
• Leprechaun

The eight selections from our With Gourley and Rust season.

1. Fatal Attraction
2. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
3. Fear
4. Sleeping with the Enemy
5. Pacific Heights
6. Consenting Adults
7. Sliver
8. Raising Cain

This order feels good to me. It may not exactly jibe with my rankings on the IN MYERS WE TRUST podcast but hey, we're living in turbulent times. This list subject to change. Daily even. Certainly seasonally.

1. Halloween
2. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
3. Halloween
4. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
5. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
6. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
7. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
8. Halloween II
9. Halloween Ends
10. Halloween: Resurrection

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Bride of Chucky
• Child's Play
• Child's Play 3
• Child's Play 2
• Seed of Chucky
• Child's Play
• Cult of Chucky
• Curse of Chucky

Films covered on our Patreon.

• Halloween
• Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
• Predator
• The Thing
• The Shining
• Creepshow 2
• They Live
• Poltergeist
• The Amityville Horror
• Return of the Jedi

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is just their main Paramount and Thalberg MGM films.

• Duck Soup
• A Day at the Races
• A Night at the Opera
• Horse Feathers
• Monkey Business
• Animal Crackers
• The Cocoanuts

My current order of preference. Subject to change daily. (Will change daily.)
Amended 4/3/20

1. Casino Royale
2. A View to a Kill
3. Skyfall
4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
5. Live and Let Die
6. No Time to Die
7. The Living Daylights
8. Quantum of Solace
9. Octopussy
10. From Russia with Love

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Watching along With Gourley and Rust.

• Jaws
• Jaws 2
• Deep Blue Sea
• Jaws: The Revenge
• Orca
• Jaws 3-D
• Piranha
• The Meg
• Cruel Jaws
• Open Water

You know, squibs, stabs, feathers flying.

Know of another? Why not add it below? We all win.

This is my favorite list I’ve ever made.

• Red Dawn
• Fargo
• An American Werewolf in London
• Scanners
• Sleepaway Camp

Still completing this list, but even the bad ones are good.

1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3. Smiley's People
4. The Night Manager
5. The Constant Gardener
6. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
7. The Deadly Affair
8. The Little Drummer Girl
9. A Perfect Spy
10. The Russia House

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Current mood rankings.

1. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
2. Friday the 13th Part 2
3. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
4. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
5. Friday the 13th
6. Friday the 13th
7. Friday the 13th Part III
8. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
9. Freddy vs. Jason
10. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are fresh so don’t judge. The last two run together in my mind so I’m ranking based on original ratings. And that remake isn’t so bad.

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
4. Freddy vs. Jason
5. New Nightmare
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
8. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

This is probably standard acceptance

• Die Hard
• Die Hard With a Vengeance
• Die Hard 2
• Live Free or Die Hard
• A Good Day to Die Hard

My heart's not really in this list.

1. Batman
2. Batman Begins
3. Batman
4. The Dark Knight
5. Batman Returns
6. Batman & Robin
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Batman Forever
9. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

The little bits of film score that end each I Was There Too episode's theme song. Listed in order of release.

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Wizard of Oz
• Superman
• The Godfather
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Beverly Hills Cop
• The Sound of Music
• The Empire Strikes Back
• The Great Escape
• Halloween

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This one's just release order for me. Move along.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

If I find someone that has the same ranking I'll divorce my wife.

1. Rambo: First Blood Part II
2. Rambo III
3. First Blood
4. Rambo: Last Blood
5. Rambo

Films from the I Was There Too Podcast. Featuring whatever movies and secondary movies I watch for an interview. Also a sneak peak at the subjects of episodes. Not a comprehensive list. There was an episode on Deadwood and a collected stories episode. But listen, we gain nothing by losing our heads.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Aliens
3. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
4. The Untouchables
5. Caddyshack
6. Captain EO
7. Speed
8. GoodFellas
9. Inglourious Basterds
10. The Exorcist

...plus 99 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.