Guest Bloggers Wanted – IMDB Top 250 Challenge

Hi everyone! Okay, so… When I started this blog a little over a year ago, I knew that the main thing I wanted to do besides reviewing the films I go out to see in the cinema/theater was make myself watch & review the rest of the IMDB Top 250 films I hadn’t yet seen by that point. I’m (very slowly) working my way through them. I’d already watched 150 before starting the blog and have watched & reviewed 24 more since (link to the challenge HERE).

Anyway – I’ve been wanting to have guest reviews from fellow bloggers for a while as I love the whole community thing going on here but I wasn’t sure what to have people review. I’m really excited about the John Hughes Blogathon in March (anyone can still join in on that! 🙂 ) but I want an ongoing thing as well. Anyone interested in doing guest reviews of films from the IMDB Top 250?

I think there may be similar projects on WordPress as a lot of people are interested in the IMDB Top 250. My only catch is that, since it’s a personal project, I still want to work my way through the ones I have yet to see. So I’d like guest reviews of the 150 I’d already seen. The list of the ones you can choose from is below. Don’t count them – there aren’t 150. Several will be CPD Classics at some point so I’ve taken those out. 😉

If you’re interested, let me know in the comments below or email me at tableninemutant at hotmail dot com. I’d like just one review for each film and, for now, I think I’ll limit it to five reviews per person. Depending on how much interest there is, that may change. I’m hoping to post at least one guest review a month but, again, that’ll depend on how many want to join in. No deadlines, either – I want this to be an ongoing thing.

(By the way – this is the IMDB Top 250 as of 01/01/13. It changes so often I have to work off one list. If these are all eventually done, I’d update it with a current version)

List:

**2 The Godfather 1972
**3 The Godfather: Part II 1974
4 Pulp Fiction 1994
**6 12 Angry Men 1957
**7 The Dark Knight 2008
8 Schindler’s List 1993
**9 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003
**10 Fight Club 1999
**13 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
**14 Inception 2010
15 Goodfellas 1990
**18 The Matrix 1999
**19 Forrest Gump 1994
**21 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
**23 Se7en 1995
**24 The Silence Of The Lambs 1991
**25 Casablanca 1942
**26 The Usual Suspects 1995
**29 Psycho 1960
**30 It’s a Wonderful Life 1946
**31 Léon 1994
**33 Memento 2000
**34 American History X 1998
35 Apocalypse Now 1979
**36 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
**37 Dr. Strangelove 1964
**38 The Dark Knight Rises 2012
**39 Saving Private Ryan 1998
42 North by Northwest 1959
43 Spirited Away 2001
48 Vertigo 1958
49 The Pianist 2002
**50 The Departed 2006
**51 American Beauty 1999
**53 Taxi Driver 1976
**65 The Green Mile 1999
**67 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
**70 Reservoir Dogs 1992
**72 The Third Man 1949
73 Requiem for a Dream 2000
**75 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind 2004
**78 Chinatown 1974
79 The Lion King 1994
**83 Braveheart 1995
**84 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
**86 Singin’ in the Rain 1952
**88 Amadeus 1984
92 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
**95 All About Eve 1950
**96 The Apartment 1960
98 The Sting 1973
101 Die Hard 1988
**103 Batman Begins 2005
**106 Pan’s Labyrinth 2006
**108 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
**112 Snatch 2000
**113 Inglourious Basterds 2009
116 The Elephant Man 1980
117 The Seventh Seal 1957
**119 Heat 1995
**121 The Maltese Falcon 1941
122 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012
**123 Rebecca 1940
125 Gran Torino 2008
**127 Fargo 1996
**129 The Avengers 2012
130 Scarface 1983
**131 The Big Lebowski 1998
134 The Deer Hunter 1978
**135 Cool Hand Luke 1967
136 Sin City 2005
**138 Strangers on a Train 1951
**142 Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels 1998
143 The Sixth Sense 1999
144 Platoon 1986
**151 Trainspotting 1996
152 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003
**157 Good Will Hunting 1997
158 Gone with the Wind 1939
**161 Into the Wild 2007
**162 Life Of Brian 1979
164 V For Vendetta 2005
**165 My Neighbor Totoro 1988
**166 How to Train Your Dragon 2010
167 Dial M for Murder 1954
169 Ben-Hur 1959
171 Network 1976
173 There Will Be Blood 2007
**176 Donnie Darko 2001
**177 Black Swan 2010
**178 Groundhog Day 1993
**180 Twelve Monkeys 1995
**182 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007
186 The Graduate 1967
195 Argo 2012
**198 A Beautiful Mind 2001
**200 The Manchurian Candidate 1962
**205 The Exorcist 1973
**210 District 9 2009
216 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003
228 Beauty And The Beast 1991
**229 Rosemary’s Baby 1968
231 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
**233 The Wrestler 2008
**234 Rain Man 1988
**235 Shutter Island 2010
239 Mystic River 2003
242 Big Fish 2003
**247 Jurassic Park 1993
**250 Let The Right One In 2008

**** I can’t keep up with replies! Thanks for all the replies already – I’m going to put stars next to the ones chosen NOW before I lose track…. 🙂