I ran across this awesomer page at Movies.com titled "The Top 25 Movies You've Never Seen". I always find it interesting to see what others consider "underground", or basically only the things the uber-hip and well-informed are supposed to know about it. Now I wonder how they knew we've never seen these? Maybe they have carefully and strategically placed spies all over the country! Just to be safe, I suggest we all do this. Just to be safe...
But Movies.com also call these "the box office left-behinds" which makes more sense. So let's see who has watched the most of the movies on this list. I'll start with me. Out of all these movies, I have seen (drum roll ...............) six! They are:
1. Falling Down
2. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
3. Bubble Boy (I even own that one!)
4. Time After Time (surprisingly)
5. Idiocracy
6. The Boondock Saints
7. I'm a little hazy on Three O'Clock High. I want to say I've seen it but when I read the plot it just didn't trigger anything in my mind (which happens more and more these days...) So I guess I'm not gonna count that one. Plus it'll give you guys a better chance of winning!
I really shouldn't be too hard to beat on this one. Just post a comment here and tell us how many movies you've seen from the list and tell us the titles. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize! See the easy contest rules below.
Contest Rules
1. The cash prize will be given to the person who posts in the comments of this posting the actual number of movies from the list that they have actually seen before reading this blog.
2. Each movie watched must be verified by providing me with recordings of you watching each movie, complete with time-stamping features embedded in the video (to verify date). Verification must be in real-time and must show the entire process, including your initial thought about deciding to watch the movie in the first place and the course of action taken to watch the movie (i.e. trip to the theater or movie store, which must also be submitted as video to me.)
3. The verification video must be in BetaMax format. You must supply me with a new, in the box, never before opened BetaMax player to view the verification video on.
4. The verification video containing all movies you have watched must be able to fit onto one BetaMax video tape.
5. You must have enjoyed each individual movie to the point of not only going out and buying a copy of it for yourself, but also for everyone that you knew at the time of viewing. Anyone you met after the viewing of the movie is also included in this and considered someone that you knew at the initial time of viewing.
6. You must have enjoyed the movie so much that you also went so far as to buy the actual reel from the movie house/theater that you initially saw the movie at. If you saw the movie for the first time at home, you must have subsequently purchased the ORIGINAL movie master from the distributor of the film which they used to make transfers given to movie theaters.
7. You must have also enjoyed the movie so much that you went so far as to change your legal name to the name of the movie star who received first billing of each movie you claim to have seen from the list, whether their gender is similar to yours in any way or not.
8. You must also provide to me a verification video of the application process of item 7 above. I will also need a verification video of the mailman/maillady delivering the approval letter into your mailbox, whether you were home or not.
9. All verification videos mentioned above must be delivered before the end of the contest, whenever that is, and must be given directly to my secretary (which I do not have) at my present location, wherever that is. For help on locating my present location, see the link above, or in leiu of there being no link above, simply click here.
10. Entrants may not be employees of the film distributor, ad agency, management company, or employees of any company related to the film industry or not related to the film industry. If you are not employed at all, you may not participate in this contest. Basically, if you are alive, have ever been alive, or are going to ever be alive, you are ineligible to receive previously mentioned cash prize. In lieu of receiving the cash prize, you may receive a big bowl of stupid, but not from me, my company, my representatives, my associates, my friends, family, or anyone else on this planet or that abides in the same solar system, galaxy, universe, or other possible universes, known or not. Any person, place, or thing existing anywhere, ever, may not be eligible to participate. Please see rules above for more details.
Good luck!!!
