{"id":513,"date":"2006-03-31T12:34:20","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2006-03-31T12:34:20","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T12:34:20","slug":"bennions_alltime_favorite_movi_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/03\/31\/bennions_alltime_favorite_movi_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennion’s All-Time Favorite Movies: The Short ‘n’ Sweet Version"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now, as a public service to all those who don’t have the time or inclination to wade through my long, self-indulgent ramblings about why I like the movies I like but who still harbor a certain voyeuristic curiosity about the subject, here are the titles only, in convenient list format:<\/p>\n

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    \n
  1. Star Wars<\/i> (1977)<\/li>\n
  2. The Empire Strikes Back<\/i> (1980)<\/li>\n
  3. Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/i> (1981)<\/li>\n
  4. Casablanca<\/i> (1943)<\/li>\n
  5. Superman: The Movie<\/i> (1978)<\/li>\n
  6. Alien<\/i> (1979)<\/li>\n
  7. Hopscotch<\/i> (1980)<\/li>\n
  8. The War Of The Worlds<\/i> (1953)<\/li>\n
  9. The Thin Man<\/i> (1934)<\/li>\n
  10. Escape From New York<\/i> (1981)<\/li>\n
  11. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/i> (1982)<\/li>\n
  12. Tron<\/i><\/li>\n
  13. American Graffiti<\/i> (1973)<\/li>\n
  14. The Terminator<\/i> (1984)<\/li>\n
  15. The Road Warrior<\/i> (1982)<\/li>\n
  16. Footloose<\/i> (1984)<\/li>\n
  17. Highlander<\/i> (1984)<\/li>\n
  18. Back to the Future<\/i> (1985)<\/li>\n
  19. Thelma and Louise<\/i> (1991)<\/li>\n
  20. Die Hard<\/i> (1988)<\/li>\n
  21. The Sting<\/i> (1973)<\/li>\n
  22. The Hunt for Red October<\/i> (1990)<\/li>\n
  23. The Time Machine<\/i> (1960)<\/li>\n
  24. Ocean’s 11<\/i> (2001)<\/li>\n
  25. Blade Runner<\/i> (1982)<\/li>\n
  26. Almost Famous<\/i> (2000)<\/li>\n
  27. National Lampoon’\u0080\u0099s Vacation<\/i> (1983)<\/li>\n
  28. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/i> (2001)<\/li>\n
  29. Jaws<\/i> (1975)<\/li>\n
  30. The Rocketeer<\/i> (1990)<\/li>\n
  31. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/i> (1989)<\/li>\n
  32. Big Trouble in Little China<\/i> (1986)<\/li>\n
  33. Sneakers<\/i> (1992)<\/li>\n
  34. Predator<\/i> (1987)<\/li>\n
  35. The Fifth Element<\/i> (1997)<\/li>\n
  36. Ghostbusters<\/i> (1984)<\/li>\n
  37. Ferris Bueller’\u0099s Day Off<\/i> (1986)<\/li>\n
  38. The Maltese Falcon<\/i> (1941)<\/li>\n
  39. Some Like It Hot<\/i> (1959)<\/li>\n
  40. Gotcha!<\/i> (1985)<\/li>\n
  41. Stand by Me<\/i> (1986)<\/li>\n
  42. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension<\/i> (1984)<\/li>\n
  43. Aliens<\/i> (1986)<\/li>\n
  44. The Right Stuff<\/i> (1983)<\/li>\n
  45. Diner<\/i> (1982)<\/li>\n
  46. A Fish Called Wanda<\/i> (1988)<\/li>\n
  47. Blaze<\/i> (1989)<\/li>\n
  48. An Officer and a Gentleman<\/i> (1981)<\/li>\n
  49. Dirty Dancing<\/i> (1987)<\/li>\n
  50. Wonder Boys<\/i> (2000)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Print it out and keep it in your wallet as a handy quick reference. You never know when you may be confronted by a pop-quiz on some blogger’s questionable tastes. And if you suddenly become inspired to seek out the long, rambling copy that goes with this list, here are the requisite links:<\/p>\n

    Part 1: The Introduction<\/a>
    \n    Part 2: The First 25<\/a>
    \n    Part 3: The Second 25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    And now, as a public service to all those who don’t have the time or inclination to wade through my long, self-indulgent ramblings about why I like the movies I like but who still harbor a certain voyeuristic curiosity about the subject, here are the titles only, in convenient list format:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}