Do you have a bucket list of movies to see?

Perhaps the idea has merit. The Yahoo! Movies staff has published a list of “100 Movies to See Before You Die.”

Based on the Yahoo! Movies list, I have some serious movie-watching to do. But it also seems I have seen more than my share of classic films.

Here are the flicks I have seen (so far) on their list.

• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The African Queen (1952)
• All About Eve (1950)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Breathless (1960)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Chinatown (1974)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
• Die Hard (1988)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Enter the Dragon (1973)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• The French Connection (1971)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Godfather, Part II (1974)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• The Graduate (1967)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Jaws (1975)
• King Kong (1933)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• The Lord of the Rings (2001)
• M*A*S*H (1970)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
• Network (1976)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
• Princess Mononoke (1999)
• Psycho (1960)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Rocky (1976)
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Schindler’s List (1993)
• The Searchers (1956)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Sunset Blvd. (1950)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• Titanic (1997)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Toy Story (1995)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Vertigo (1958)
• When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)

And here are the films I have not yet seen from the Yahoo roster.

• 400 Blows (1959)
• 8 1/2 (1963)
• Alien (1979)
• The Battle of Algiers (1967)
• The Bicycle Thief (1948)
• Blow Up (1966)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Grand Illusion (1938)
• In the Mood for Love (2001)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• M (1931)
• Modern Times (1936)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• Paths of Glory (1958)
• Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
• Rashomon (1951)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• The Third Man (1949)
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Wild Strawberries (1957)
• Wings of Desire (1988)
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
• The World of Apu (1959)

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How many of these 100 movies have you seen?

Do you agree with the Yahoo! list? What must-see movies did their editors miss? Which of these movies do you think should be skipped? Why?

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