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December 21, 2006 AT 10:27AM | Comments (1)

Dear Santa:
I'm a blogger for a comedy channel and I know it's hard to even keep me on the "Nice" list, much less figure out what I want for Christmas. So I thought I'd share a list I made last year of my favorite 100+ movies of all time. It's a funny list and it will give you some ideas for others, too. Just slap a big ol' "Recommended by Kittenpants" label on any of these DVDs and finish up your last minute shopping.

[Excerpts from] My List of 100+ Favoritest Movies of All Time

04. THE GOONIES
For centuries, our ancestors relayed all of history orally, passing from one generation to the next, until the invention of written language. And now there's my brother and me, quoting this movie line-for-line.

05. WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER
I won a costume contest when this movie made its second premiere a few Halloweens ago. I dressed as a refrigerator being "humped" by Christopher Meloni's "Gene" character. I got a standing ovation from a theater full of screaming kids who (unlike me) were not way too old to be dressing up in a box for attention. Paul Rudd told me I was "f*@king rad," though, so, it was totally worth it.

06. WEIRD SCIENCE
Singlehandedly responsible for my inability to pronounce "baloney" without a faux British accent.

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08. NIGHT OF THE COMET
Sir Thomas More envisioned Utopia as a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, where all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed and vice were nonexistent. I prefer one where a comet completely wipes out Earth's population, save for two gun-toting Valley girls, a Mexican truck driver, and some scientist-zombies.

10. ELECTRIC DREAMS
The idea that a sh*tty Radio Shack PC could take over someone's entire life (in the days before the internets) may seem laughable, but as it turns out, if you spill champagne on the keyboard, your computer comes alive. Steal his girl, and he gets pissed! Stars a pre-Oscar-y Virginia Madsen and a pre-oblivion Lenny Von Dohlen, who I love.

11. THE EVIL DEAD/EVIL DEAD II
I asked Bruce Campbell to tell me something awesome about the making of the Evil Dead movies. He said, "To get the last shot of [EVIL DEAD] (where an evil entity races through the woods and runs into me) Sam Raimi mounted a camera on a motorcycle and rode it, full speed, into me. He screwed up his knees and I cracked a few ribs, but it's for art, right? Right?"

14. BETTER OFF DEAD
For several years, John Cusack held the title of number one underdog-next-door type that every girl my age wanted to date when she got older. Unfortunately, sensitive, sweater-wearing, goofball f@ckups aren't as awesome in real life.

17. CARRIE/THE FURY
I couldn't decide between Brian DePalma's two odes to telekinetic teenage girls. Carrie has that "Bible thing" that really used to scare me in the seventies (differently than the way it scares me now). Nancy Allen's character has to be the most loveable/hateable b!tch in the history of movies. And PJ Soles' baseball cap should have won a Golden Globe. Then again, The Fury has an exploding-headed John Cassavettes.

34. D.A.R.Y.L.
In real life, I probably would have been scared to have a robot living in the house.

39. SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL
The way I heard it, there was such an outcry after Pretty in Pink's Andie gave Ducky the cold shoulder that John Hughes immediately re-wrote the same movie, but gave it the proper overlooked-best-friend-wins ending. And as a result, the world was given Elias "this-is-what-my-girlfriend-would-look-like-without-skin" Koteas. Thank you.

47. GREASE
A movie with a central theme of, "Be yourself, but whore-ier." It's genious. Stockard Channing became a modern-day slut-icon for every girl my age; we so sympathized as she sweetly crooned, "There Are Worse Things I Could Do." Years later she proved it with Practical Magic.

50. BREAKIN'/BREAKIN' 2
If movies from the 1980s taught me anything, it's that you can fight everything with dancing. You can save the youth center, you can win the gang fight, you can rescue Baby from the corner... If you were good at either dancing or video games, you were untouchable.

52. GHOST BUSTERS
They say that time-travel technology could be dangerous in the wrong hands. If I had it, I'd use it to go back to 1984 and make out with Harold Ramis. I guess they have a point.

54. ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL
I wish I had lost my virginity while watching this movie.

70. DREAM A LITTLE DREAM
This movie is terrible, and yet, if you watch it 275 times over the course of a year, it grows on you.

77. THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
78. PERFORMANCE
79. DOGS IN SPACE
I suggest that if you don't like Nicholas Roeg, smoking, or skinny, wet rock stars in bathtubs, you should consider dropping out of film school.

80. THE NINTH CONFIGURATION
Try inserting one of this film's signature lines ("Colonel, what are you holding?" or "I cut off his head with a wire") into any Smiths song. If you are as entertained by this as I am, please call.

82. THE MONSTER SQUAD
For ratings' sake, the kids weren't allowed to say "nuts" and they weren't allowed to say "nads." And so the child exclaimed, "Wolf-Man's got nards!" And the rest is history.

102. JUST ONE OF THE GUYS
Wins some kind of prize for the line, "Dresses like Elvis Costello, looks like the Karate Kid. I'm gonna get him." You know, I saw Billy Jacoby in a commercial the other day and it killed me. He should be in every movie ever made.

103. MAZES AND MONSTERS
Before parents were worried about the dangerous influence of rap music and video games, they obsessed about the possibility that D&D might provoke their kids to commit suicide. Turns out, it's retarded parents that are generally to blame.

Read the full list here.

Recent Comments

The sad thing about this list, I've seen all of them. Night of the Comet is the greatest "end of the world", "space dust zombie", chick flick of all time!

Posted by JonP | Dec 21, 2006 4:19:15 PM

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