A blog is re-born!! August 2, 2006
Posted by Mark in : General, Movies, Movie Marathon 2006, C4 Top 50 Movies , add a commentOkay so this is how it went, I started of with best intentions back in January to rattle through the top 100 movies from the imdb.com top 250 list in the Movie Marathon 2006. Well here we are over half way through the year and I’ve still got thirty five to watch.. very slack!
Anyway the old blog has gone (I was made redundant and hosting had to go as did my screen select membership) and I now have this shiny new FREE blog thanks to the kind folks at thedvdforums/filmjournal. So I’ve transferred my posts across although unfortunately sans images… 
and I’ve got myself a sofacinema.co.uk trial and I’m getting back on the wagon.
Oh and if you were wondering about the title of the blog, well is a well known phrase, poignant when your talking about blogs I thought, a quote from the excellent Fight Club (which I can’t believe is now seven years old) and Mark is my name so I just thought it was as good a name as any for my new blog.
So I’ll be continuing my Movie Marathon 2006 and I’ll have it nailed by the end of the year, but I also watched the Top 50 movie countdown on Channel 4 recently which was on about the same time Film Four became free (albeit with adverts, but hey it’s better than a poke in the eye right??) and there was a lot of movies on that list that I haven’t seen and which aren’t in the top 100 from imdb.com. So I now have a second list which I’ll be working on in parallel. I’m telling you I’m going to be a film guru by the end of it… if only I didn’t have the memory of a goldfish and was actually able to retain some of the memories… ah well.. it’ll be fun trying.
Here’s an article with some more info and here s the list with the ones I’ve seen crossed off.. I’m going to be a busy chap!
Apocalypse Now
The Apartment
City of God
Chinatown
Sexy Beast
2001: A Space Odyssey
North by Northwest
A Bout de Souffle
Donnie Darko
Manhattan
Alien
Lost in Translation
The Shawshank Redemption
Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
Pulp Fiction
Touch of Evil
Walkabout
Black Narcissus
Boyz n the Hood
The Player
Come and See
Heavenly Creatures
A Night at the Opera
Erin Brockovich
Trainspotting
The Breakfast Club
Hero
Fanny and Alexander
Pink Flamingos
All About Eve
Scarface
Terminator 2
Three Colours: Blue
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Ladykillers
Fight Club
The Searchers
Mulholland Drive
The Ipcress File
The King of Comedy
Manhunter
Dawn of the Dead
Princess Mononoke
Raising Arizona
Cabaret
This Sporting Life
Brazil
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Secrets and Lies
Badlands
I don’t expect anyone will be overly interested in my posts about my movie journey of discovery but it’ll make interesting reading for me at the end of the year at the very least.
It feels good to be back!
Mark