I found myself curious what the worst movies have been and how many of them I've seen. I found a list of the 'Bottom 100' at http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom, and I am happy to report I've only seen two. What are the two horrible movies from the bottom 100? I'll tell you, 'Gigli' and 'Meet the Spartans'. I can't imagine that I am alone when feeling slightly embarrassed in my admission, but I can explain. First 'Gigli' was a movie my wife wanted to watch, and as a married man I understand there are some compromises worth making; luckily it wasn't too bad, but it was bad. Second 'Meet the Spartans' was something I saw while on an airplane, and I have to say that I may have enjoyed my flight a little more if I hadn't watched this cheessaster (that's cheesy-disaster). I can not say that I did not willfully watch either of these movies because that would be a lie, but I can say joyously that I did not like either one. I'm not sure that just because I've only seen two out of 100 of the worst movies means I have excellent taste in movies, but rather lucky or fortunate that I haven't seen more.
When it comes to good movies I can't say that I'm an oracle or anything as I've only seen 59 of the top 100 movies from http://www.imdb.com/chart/top, and I can't say that I loved every single one of the 59. It was a bit disappointing to see that 'Star Wars: A New Hope' (1977) was ranked a mere #16, and 'Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back' (1980) ranked higher at #12, and 'Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was ranked a lowly #96. Even though I would rank the Star Wars movies from best to least-best in that order it was still slightly disturbing that not one of them ranked in the top 10. On the bright side none of the Star Wars prequels ranked even in the top 250, and rightly so. I was amazed at some of the movies that made the top 250. For example 'Ratatouille' ranked #191, and I found it disenchanting that a mediocre animation flick could out rank #196, 'The Princess Bride'. Oh well, I guess it is just further proof of the mind-mush epidemic.
*(Mind-mush epidemic is not an official epidemic, yet)
