25 Must See Movies

Yahoo has released a list of the 100 movies to see before you die. I have not seen every movie on the list, but I think that is my new summer goal. But as I read through their list I thought that I should make my own list. Well, I didn’t want to write a list of 100 movies, so I decided I would do 25.

There are some movies I think everyone should see before they die: The Godfather, The Graduate, Citizen Kane, basically I think Yahoo did a good job. But those films are not included on the Andy Green list. Its not that I don’t think those films are good, because they are. But I wouldn’t bring those on a desert island with me.

In no particular order

Shawshank Redemption

Dances with Wolves

Field of Dreams

Fargo

V for Vendetta

No Country for Old Men

Batman

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

Seven

Army of Darkness

Dead Poet Society

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Back to the Future

Ghostbusters

Toy Story

Shaun of the Dead

Apocalypse Now

Duck Soup

Tropic Thunder

Ed Wood

Pulp Fiction

Star Wars

Jurassic Park

The Silence of the Lambs

Young Frankenstein

LOST-3/4-La Fleur

This week we finally got to see a little bit of the four-toed statue. Upon further inspection, and an idea from Erin Knoble, the statue looks like on of the Egyptian gods, either Anubis or Osiris. It makes sense, seeing that there are hieroglyphs on the temple, and the mysterious wall that Ben pushes to control the smoke monster, and the countdown sequence in the Swan station. I think it is Anubis, who happens to be the Egyptian god of the afterlife.
What happened to Bernard, Rose, and Vincent? As far as we know they survived the flaming arrow attack, but Vincent's leash was found by Sawyer before they found the Indian canoes. I understand Rose and Bernard chilling on the beach during the time flashes, but I don't believe they've been sitting around for three years. Sawyer has two weeks to find the rest of his crew according to Horace, does that mean he will go to the beach to pick up Rose and Bernard? Will we just see them at the Dharma barracks with no explanation, acting as if they've been there all along with the rest of the Losties?
I don't think the young girl with red hair is Charlotte. When Daniel saw her it was 1974, and according to Ben in season 4 Charlotte was not born until 1979.
I think that the 316 flight that crashed on the Hydra Island is still in 2008. In 1974-77, the Hydra station would be full of Dharma staffers and polar bears. So where does that leave Locke, Ben, Lapidus, maybe Sun, and the rest of the red shirts that are currently on it?

Gitmo

I read a headline today that read, “U.S. government vows not to use “waterboarding.”

It is sad that our world has come to that. We need to announce that we no longer endorse torture. Torture. Isn’t there something in the Geneva Convention that tells us we can’t torture people? Does the fact that we were attacked eight years ago give us the right to drown America’s moral values? We have a Patriot Act that basically ignores the freedoms given to us by the Constitution and embraces the future given to us by George Orwell.

There are people out there that are upset about the fact that the Obama Administration is shutting down Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo Bay is a detention facility in Cuba were we store Afghanistan and Iraq citizens that we assume are terrorists. Now, if there was an island off the coast of Iraq were American citizens were taken after being drug out of their houses in the middle of the night, then were tortured by simulated drowning, held without trial, and forced to watch guards rip pages out the Bible that were then flushed down a toilet: do you think American’s would be angry about this and want this stopped? What gives us the right?