Seriously, what kind of child of the 80s could've missed Caddyshack!?!
[Editor's note: Gwilym Hughes was the world record holder for movie watching. When he died, at age 65, he had watched more than 28,000 movies. The Internet Movie Database has approximately 700,000 registered films listed, and that doesn't take into account the plethora of independent films that have never seen the light of day or have only been seen by the handful of filmmakers who made them. Even the man who had watched the most movies in the world hadn't seen them all. Now, I'm not saying that we here at Shooting the Script are going to try to see every movie ever made... well, most of us aren't going to... Bryan might... if nothing else, I'm sure now that he knows what the world record for movie watching is, he'll try to beat it. The point of this new column is to focus on the iconic movies that we've somehow shamefully missed. In fact, that's what inspired the name of this column, even though it's not on his list, Bryan has never seen Howard Hawks original 1932 Scarface (aka Scarface: Shame of a Nation). Each one of our contributors has prepared a list of the top ten films they are most ashamed to have missed. Stay tuned as each of us reveals the awful truth about the classic films we've yet to see... Veritas vos liberabit.]
Ever since 1998 I’ve been obsessing over lists. That was the year the American Film Institute released their first list of the “100 greatest American films.” I hadn’t seen much of anything then, so I headed to Blockbuster and rented some videos. (How outdated is that sentence?) Continue reading
