The cinetrix is climbing the walls because she's stuck in that strange caesura between the end of classes and the beginning of paper grading. This means she's been screwing around on the Internets even more than usual. The latest discovery? The top 10 movies in her various academic affiliate networks [according to the increasingly pernicious Facebook]. Oh, the horror.
Read this now, so you can draw your own conclusions [the kids still love Fight Club] and skip the inevitable Times trend piece in about six months. You're welcome.
Here's where I teach:
Wedding Crashers
The Notebook
Old School
Boondock Saints
Anchorman
Gladiator
Fight Club
Braveheart
Office Space
Top Gun *
Here's my alma mater:
Love Actually
Garden State
Amelie
Little Miss Sunshine
Crash
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Zoolander
Finding Nemo
Fight Club
The Princess Bride
Here's one grad school where I studied film:
Fight Club
Love Actually
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Wedding Crashers
Garden State
The Notebook
Pulp Fiction
Little Miss Sunshine
Crash
American Beauty **
And here's the other:
Fight Club
Little Miss Sunshine
Pulp Fiction
Office Space
Gladiator
American Beauty
Lord Of The Rings
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Casablanca
Napoleon Dynamite
* There's no easy way to break this to you. Some of my current students were probably conceived to "Take My Breath Away." The others were still just discrete masses of cells housed in their respective parents-to-be. Yeah, welcome to my nightmare.
** I know, still?