Movies Floating at the Top of Consciousness

This was a friend's post on Facebook. (My list follows, with thoughts.)

Movies Floating at the Top of Consciousness Rules: Don't take too long to think about it and don't feel you need to actually do this. It's just for fun. Fifteen films you've seen that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall.

1. Harold & Maude
2. Love Actually
3. Wuthering Heights
4. Life is Beautiful
5. The Big Lebowski
6. Modigliani
7. Fight Club
8. Train Spotting
9. Truly Madly Deeply
10. Fargo
11. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
12. Saturday Night Fever
13. O Brother Where Art Thou
14. L.A. Stories
15. The Hours

Nice list, with some real surprises for me. Here's mine

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Wristcutters: A Love Story
3: The Thomas Crown Affair (McQueen, not Brosnan)
4. Barefoot in the Park
5. Key Largo
6. Babette's Feast
7. The Day the Earth Stood Still
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. North by Northwest
10. The Virgin Spring
11. Winter Light
12. Groundhog Day
13. Fiddler on the Roof
14. Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
15. The Wizard of Oz
addendum: Shadowlands

Now that I look at this, I see that only one of mine was made within the last ten years. What's up with that? After I made this list, other films kept coming to mind that I wished I'd listed, but they werent first in my mind. What does that say about me?

There isnt a single Woody Allen film listed. Only two Bergmans, one Hitchcock, and one Neil Simon. Hmm...

So what made these the first to come to mind when I've enjoyed so many movies recently? I cant break it down. Some are comedies. Some are musicals. Others are action/drama. Where's Star Wars? I didnt list any of the Aliens or Terminator series. There are no westerns. (High Noon? The Searchers? Nevada Smith? Stagecoach?) Nothing from Kenneth Branagh? What about The Blues Brothers? I did cheat and squeeze Shadowlands into an addendum, but there are four or five other Anthony Hopkins and/or Emma Thompson pieces that will be with me forever.

I wonder if there might be some kind of subliminal link from each to the next. You know. A little spark that said,"Oh, that reminds me of ......".

Well, whatever the connection, you now know of 31 movies that I and a friend have watched. I'm not recommending all of them, you understand. Nearly half of them werent mine. The sixteen that are simply came to mind in that order. Just because I recall a thing doesnt mean I think you should see it. A lot of what I watch is junk, like reading comic books or listening to random conversations in a restaurant.