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100 Movies in 60 Minutes (Digit - Sam Wisestock
100 Movies in 60 Minutes (Digit - Sam Wisestock
Here is the list of the 100 movies in this book (in order of
appearance):
Titanic – Reservoir Dogs – Back to the Future – Citizen Kane –
Amelie – Dirty Dancing – Basic Instinct – Falling Down – Forrest
Gump – American Beauty – The Godfather – Karate Kid – King Kong
– Lawrence of Arabia – Kill Bill Vol. 1 – Gone with the Wind – One
Flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest – The Lord of the Rings – Casablanca –
Raiders of The Lost Ark – Chinatown – Silence of the Lambs – E.T.
The Extraterrestrial – Toy Story – The Terminator – Taxi Driver –
Alien – Wall E – A Clockwork Orange – The Gold Rush – Star Wars
– Pulp Fiction – Once Upon a Time in the West – The Great Dictator
– The Dark Knight – Inception – Fight Club – 2001 Space Odyssey –
The Elephant Man – Up – Die Hard – Fargo – Jaws – Snatch –
Godzilla, King of the Monsters – The Wizard of Oz – Psycho – The
Matrix – The Big Lebowski – Annie Hall – Platoon – Scarface –
Trainspotting – District #9 – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels –
The Graduate – The Life of Brian – Finding Nemo – V for Vendetta –
My Neighbor Totoro – Avatar – Gandhi – Poltergeist – Rocky –
Rambo – Kill Bill Vol. 2 – Monsters, Inc. – The 36th Chamber of the
Shaolin – Kung Fu Panda – Bambi – Brazil – Das Boot – Dirty Harry
– James Bond – Scream – M – Singin’ In the Rain – The Birds –
Duck Soup (The Marx Brothers) – Pirates of the Caribbean – It – The
Lion King – Ghostbusters – The Maltese Falcon – Mad Max – A Fish
called Wanda – Escape from New York – Wild at Heart – Men in
Black – Barbarella – Shrek – Jurassic Park – The Hangover – Cast
Away – Superman – Ben Hur – Apollo 13 – Tarzan, The Ape Man –
The Way of The Dragon – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for
Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Titanic (1997)
Plot: Unsinkable ship sinks and some douche bag still goes for the
romantic thingy instead to try and get to his first and last real orgy.
Plot: Guys in black suits give each other funny names with colors so
their identities are kept secret, perform a heist and then torture and
shoot each other, due to their identities being secret.
Plot: Incest movie where mad professor and young guy go back in
time and the guy gets harassed by his own mother.
Don’t ask: what the professor did that whole time in the past.
Citizen Kane (1941)
Don’t ask: how the guy came to notice all this on his deathbed and
not before.
Amelie (2001)
Plot: A lawn gnome travels around the world and sends pictures
from all the sights he visits. In an equally realistic side story, the
sweetest girl ever doesn’t fall for the biggest asshole around.
Plot: Bored chick on holidays with her family does what bored chicks
do: Hit on the dancing teacher.
Plot: Super duper hot and mega intelligent bisexual orgy loving chick
writes novels about murders and commits them afterwards, banging
the brains of the investigating cop out and gets away with it.
Plot: Dumb dude makes the world go round but can’t find love.
Don’t ask: how the real creator of the smiley reacted to the movie.
American Beauty (1999)
Don’t ask: how the guy can still be the narrator after his death.
The Godfather (1972)
Plot: Old guy runs family business but two of the three sons are
unable to take over. The youngest has to pitch in, and the content
father can peacefully die while growing tomatoes and playing with
his grandson.
Don’t ask: how they know that a fish refers to Luca Brasi and not
someone else.
Karate Kid (1984)
Don’t ask: why the old guy doesn’t use his skills for sexual
adventures.
King Kong (1934)
Plot: Huge ape goes apeshit over unfulfilled love to human chick.
Plot: English dude in a burka leads Arab army in war against Turks.
Don’t ask: why anyone thought the story could carry someone’s
attention for three and half hours.
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
Plot: Extremely cool broad kills a bunch of other super cool broads.
Don’t ask: what Martin Luther King would have said about the
movie.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Plot: Convict guy pretends to be mad and learns that mad is not so
bad.
Don’t ask: why we feel with a rapist and nut jobs when watching the
movie.
The Lord Of The Rings (general)
Don’t ask: why scumbag Gandalf can fly around anywhere but lets
his friends walk for months to reach Mordor.
Casablanca (1942)
Plot: Realistic story of a former freedom fighter who lost his first love
in Paris, meets her again while running the best nightclub of an
African town and is chased by Nazis.
Don’t ask: why actors and director thought the movie was lame but
became a classic.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
Plot: Science guy with a whip steals treasures from bush people in
South America and is chased by Nazis who do the same.
Plot: A private detective gets his nose cut and exposes incest,
corruption and murder tied to the water supply of some city.
Plot: Young and inexperienced FBI agent needs the help of a killer
who ate human livers to find another killer who skins his victims.
Plot: Super cute alien makes friends with some kids but it still
doesn’t want to stay with them.
Don’t ask: how one poor cute little thingy travels alone in a
goddamn spaceship.
Toy Story (1995)
Plot: Toys who come to life when no one watches are jealous of
each other, but then bond as their “life” is threatened.
Don’t ask: why Woody doesn’t gun down the astronaut prick right
away.
The Terminator (1984)
Plot: Robot covered with human flesh travels back in time to kill the
mother of a guy who gets on the robot owner’s nerves in the future.
Don’t ask: why they didn’t travel back to kill his great-great-
grandfather.
Taxi Driver (1976)
Plot: Guy falls in love with a whore, realizes that life is a bitch and
runs amok.
Don’t ask: Will they really be smoking like two packs a day in the
future?
Wall E (2008)
Don’t ask: why a cool chickbot would fall in love with a garbage
dude.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Plot: Guy looks for gold, finds love, and in the course of it needs to
eat his shoe.
Plot: Good guy turns evil, so evil that he doesn’t support his kids and
destroys planets, and is taken down by his own son in the end.
Don’t ask: why super modern lasers that kill without blood or pain
miss their target all the time.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Plot: Big bold black dude gets screwed over by four kids and a
boxer, hires two really cool killers who shoot the kids, but the boxer
kills one of them and gets away.
Plot: Guy with a harmonica protects hot widow from badass and
gets help by other strange guy.
Plot: Dictator guy hates Jews but looks like one who holds a speech
to his whole Empire disguised as him.
Plot: Batman wants to wipe out all criminals for altruistic reasons,
but a badass named “Joker” makes it really, really personal.
No-No-comment: Why don’t they just dream that they win? // Smart
comment: In a realistic version of the movie, we would stare at
sleeping guys.
Plot: Insurance guy loses it and literally beats up himself from time
to time. Others join to beat others up, so things get out of hand.
Don’t ask: why this should have happened ten years ago.
The Elephant Man (1980)
Plot: Ugly guy is ugly and becomes cool dude when un-uglied by
mad professor.
Don’t ask: how the real story the movie is based on turned out.
Up (2009)
Plot: Old dude is tired of being old and flies away with his house.
Don’t ask: why we don’t care about the dead granny after 5 mins.
Die Hard (1988)
Plot: L.A. needs a New York cop to deal with German terrorists led
by Hans Gruber.
Don’t ask: what our hero would have done if his wife wasn’t
involved.
Fargo (1996)
Don’t ask: why it takes so long for the first jaw to show up.
Snatch (2000)
Plot: Gypsy boxer loves his mother and could have been world
champion in boxing if it weren’t for smoking, drinking and being a
moody bitch. Misses out on a huge diamond, too.
Don’t ask: why the guy who made that movie married Madonna.
Godzilla – King Of The Monsters (1956)
Don’t ask: why the American reporter in the movie is named “Steve
Martin”.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Plot: Shoe-fetishist girl teams up with three freaks to win over bigger
freak.
Plot: Guy goes nuts over killing his mother, therefore killing others in
a small motel.
Plot: Weed-smoking bowler loses rug that really held the room
together.
Don’t ask: how anyone can love movies that make you feel bad.
District #9 (2009)
Plot: Friends lose half a million in a poker game to gangsters but get
away since they make all gangsters in town kill each other.
Don’t ask: how the guys could ever turn the guns into money.
The Graduate (1967)
Plot: With a little luck, guy could have made his way into the bible.
Plot: Unfunny clownfish saves his kid and learns his lesson.
Don’t ask: why he didn’t hit on that blue chick every 5 minutes until
it worked.
V for Vendetta (2009)
Plot: Two girls and magic forest spirits magically live through
magical adventures.
Plot: Blue forest creatures would rather die than leave their magical
holy tree, but white army guy goes in there trying to convince them
that they should, anyway.
Plot: Underdog Italian boxer beats them all, no matter how big and
scary.
Plot: Underdog ex-Green Beret beats them all, no matter how big
and scary.
Plot: Super cool broad that killed a bunch of other broads now kills
Bill.
Don’t ask: if the five pointed palm exploding heart technique really
exists.
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Plot: Monsters scare kids, but secretly fear them. In the end, they all
love each other.
Plot: Good bold guys impressively fight against bad bold guys.
Don’t ask: how you can produce something like this during World
War II.
Brazil (1985)
Plot: Guy tries to do the right thing but has to experience that no one
is interested in that, claiming he does the wrong thing.
Don’t ask: about the music that one German main actor produces in
his primary career.
Dirty Harry (1971)
Plot: Super slick dude saves mankind from crazy guy with world
domination fantasy and gets laid several times in the process.
Don’t ask: why all the chicks fall for the guy.
Scream (1996)
Plot: Killer kills loads of teens until they remember all the movies
they saw.
Plot: Police can’t catch a child murderer, so other murderers try to.
Don’t ask: if “G’s” must have been rare those days: Singin’ Swingin’
Glorious Feelin’.
The Birds (1963)
Don’t ask: if you can teach a parrot some lines from the film.
The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup (1933)
Plot: Freak dictator of freak state declares war on other freak state
that sends freak spies.
Plot: Pirate captain fights his former crew that now consists of
zombies, together with a blacksmith who is in love with the
governor’s daughter. Classic story.
Plot: Evil badass clown terrorized a town and comes back 30 years
later.
Plot: Bunch of funny nerds chase cute ghosts that slime people,
gaining experience that lets them beat an ancient god ghost in the
end.
Plot: Private detective gets lured into complicated case by hot chick
that of course is not who she said she was.
Plot: Four people team up for a diamond robbery but then everyone
tries to betray the other. Fish is merely involved.
Don’t ask: if there really are chicks with a foreign language fetish.
Escape From New York (1981)
Don’t ask: why we wouldn’t choose some Tundra land in Alaska for
a prison.
Wild At Heart (1990)
Plot: Guy named Sailor knocks up chick named Lula. Freaks that
were hired by Lula’s mom to kill Sailor don’t give a f*ck.
Plot: White and black dudes are super secret agents who save
Earth from outer space terrorists.
Don’t ask: why the credits say the aliens were in no way mistreated;
since they are the scum of the Universe.
Barbarella (1968)
Plot: Super hot fur lingerie wearing chick does the Universe.
Plot: Ugly and stinking but nice and lovable ogre gets the princess.
Plot: Scientists clone dinosaurs and then lose control over them.
Plot: Four guys get so wasted they lose one of them and spend the
entire next day reconstructing what happened.
Plot: Super lonely guy is lonely and gayishly falls in love with a
volleyball.
Don’t ask: why they couldn’t wait another one or two decades until
real special FX were developed.
Ben Hur (1959)
Plot: Guy grows up in the jungle, then realizes humping trees wasn’t
the real thing when he meets Jane and rescues her from violent
dwarfs.
Plot: Guy works in restaurant and fights off street gang, which all
serves as an excuse to stage an epic fight between Chuck Norris
and Bruce Lee.
Don’t ask: why the good guy wears black and the bad guy wears
white.
Borat – Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit
Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (2006)