Number 18 – Top 100 Movies, Done

It’s just a couple of days until my 28^th birthday, so what better time to finally make some progress on me 30-Before-30 list and get Number 18 done and dusted.
      Over the past few years I have worked my way through the official IMBD Top 100 Movies of all time (correct when the list was pulled in 2012), which for me is really quite an achievement.

            At the start of the challenge I had only seen around 30 of the films on the list (and that was almost entirely due to my love of Fred Astaire films, and obvious choices like Indiana Jones and It’s a Wonderful Life), but thanks to two years of LoveFilm membership and Nicks impressive collection of movies stored on his hard-drive, I have finally seen everything from the Godfather movies, to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, right through each Starwars film. I’ve also ticked off some classics like the original Korean Old Boy, and anime classic Spirited Away which I would certainly have never watched without encouragement, but which were all brilliant and great to have seen.

            There are many films on the list that I had never heard of before, and a number that I struggled to get hold of (thankfully a lot of the old Charlie Chaplin movies were available via YouTube when all other searches failed), but the list is done now, and the 18^th item has been officially ticked off the list. Only 12 more to go!