I have compiled a list of every movie I’ve ever seen!

I’d often thought about creating this list, but dismissed the idea as too difficult, too time consuming and ultimately impossible.

That all changed when I joined Netflix last month.  After poking about the Netflix website I realized that their user movie-rating system was perfect for compiling my list.

The first 500 movies were easy.  I started by sorting through lists of popular movies, then movies by genre, checking off every movie that I’d seen.  After that I started pulling up filmographies of actors.  I’d check off every Robert DeNiro movie that I’d seen.  Then I’d pick an actor that had been in a movie with DeNiro (say James Caan in the Godfather) and I’d check off every James Caan movie that I’d seen.  This could go on for hours.

After 500 it got tough.  At 750 I thought I was done.  I scoured my memory and somehow came up with more.  Benji the Hunted, Suburban Commando, Monkey Shines, all the Ernest Movies – movies like these kept popping up out of the dark recesses of my memory.

The list is over 850 movies long now and it is done.  I just can’t think of any more.