In honor of the wonderful Gilmore Girl Challenge – Lisa over at Lit and Life asked me if I would do a Mini Challenge and I was honored to do so. If you are familiar with the series (and I hope you are!) This mother/daughter quick whit team refers to so many books…. well so many – that there is a Gilmore Girl Challenge.
Another thing they refer to almost as much as books, is movies. Since Lisa has the book part of this Challenge well covered, I am going to take the movie part. I think many of us who love books, also love good movies! So here is my Challenge to you. Over these winter months we tend to watch more tv…. SO – your task, my fellow Gilmore Girl addicts….. is to watch and review some of these wonderful choice movies!
This Challenge will start today and go through March 8, 2010. To do this challenge you need to watch and review any of the movies on the list below. As you do your reviews, use Mr Linky to link directly to your movie review for this mini challenge. Be sure to link DIRECTLY to the review so I can count it. For each review you do on the movies from the Gilmore Girls, you will receive one entry for a change to win choice – either The Gilmore Girls Soundtrack or the Coffee AT Luke’s book.
One more thing… You must be signed on for the Gilmore Girl Challenge in order to participate in this one. What! You are not signed up? Well it is not too late! Pop over and look at the challenge – the books are a wonderful selection and it is going to be a ton of fun!
The Movie List
2000 Year old man
2001
3 Days
8 mile
9 1/2 weeks
AI
Alive
All About Eve
All the President’s Men
American Gigolo
American in Paris
Amistad
An Affair to Remember
Animal House
Annie Hall
Apocaplypse Now
Arthur
Attica
Autumn in New York
Babe
Babe II
Bambi
Banger Sisters
Basic Instinct
Batman
Battlestar Galactica
Beautiful Mind
Ben Hur
Benji
Bewitched
Billy Jack
Blades of Glory
Blood on the Highway
Blue Crush
Blue Lagoon
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Bonnie & Clyde
Boogie Nights Boxing Helena
Breakfast Club, The
Breaking Away
Bride of Chucky
Bridge On The River Kwai
Brigadoon
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Bringing up Baby
Brokeback Mountain
Bugsy Malone
Bull Durham
Bye Bye Birdie
Byron
Cabaret
Cabin Boy
California Suite
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Casablanca
Champ, The
Charlemagne: Holy Barbarian
Charlie’s Angel’s Full Throttle
Chico & the Man
Chinatown Christmas Carol (Also on the book list!)
Cinderella
Citizen Kane
Cocktail
Cocoon
Coming Home
Cool Hand Luke
Courtship of Eddie’s Father, The
Crimes & Misdemeanos Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Crucible, The
Damned, The
Dances with Wolves
Dangerous Liasons
Das Boot
Dead Calm
Dean Martin Roast Don Rickles
Deerhunters, The
Delovely
Desperately Seeking Susan
Detective, The
Dick Tracy
Dig
Diner
Dirty Dancing
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Dog Day Afternoon
Dollhouse,The
Dr. Dolittle Dream A Little Dream
Driving Miss Daisy
Duece Bigalow
Dumbo
Easter Parade
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Electric Boogaloo
Endless Love
Endless Summer
Enter the Dragon
Erin Brockovich Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Everest
Exorcist, The
Fair Pentitent, The
Fame
Farenheit
Fast & the Furious, The
Fatal Attraction
Fatso
Ferris Bueller’s Day off
Fiddler on the Roof Field Of Dreams
Final Destination (1,2,3)
Flashdance
Fletch,
Fly, The
Footloose
For Keeps
Forty-Year-Old Virgin
Freaky Friday
Fried Green Tomatoes From Here to Eternity Funny Face
Funny Girl
G.I. Jane
Gaslight Ghost Ghostbusters, The
GI Jane
Gigi
Girl, Interrupted
Glitter
Godfather, The
Gone with the Wind
Good Morning Vietnam
Good Night & Good Luck
Good Ship Lollipop
Goonies, The Graduate, The
Gray Gardens
Grease
Great Santini
Grease
Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Hairspray
Hamlet
Hannibal Lector Movies
Hardbodies
Harold & Maude
Harvey
Heathers, The
Heidi
High Noon
His Girl Friday
Hitch
Hoosiers Hotel Rwanda
Hudson Hawk
Ice Castles
Inconvenient Truth, An
Inherit the wind
Into the Woods
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
Ironweed (ALSO ON THE BOOK LIST!)
Ishtar
It Happened One Night
James Bond Movies
Jarhead
Jerk, The Jerry McGuire
Joe vs. the Volcano
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
Julia
Karate Kid
Ken Burns Boring Sod Documentary that I couldn’t find
Kill Bill
Kiss My Grits
Kujo
La boheme
Lady & the Tramp
Lake House, The
Last Tango in Paris
Legend of Bagger Vance, The
Les Miserables License To Drive
Little House on the Prairie
Little Man Tate
Little Rascals, The
Lord of the Rings
Love in the Afternoon
Love Story
M. Night Shyamalan movies
Mad About Ballroom Mad Max
Magnolia
Marathon Man
March of the Penguins, The
Mary Poppins
Mask
Master & Commander
Matrix, The
Midnight Express
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Milton, John
Misery
Mission Impossible
Moment by Moment
Mommie Dearest
Money Pit, The Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Monster
Moose Murders
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Mr. Baseball
Music Man, The
Mystic Pizza
National Velvet
Nell
Network
Norma Rae
Not Without my Daughter
Officer & a Gentleman
Old Yeller
Open Water
Othello
Out of Africa Oxford Blues
Paper Moon
Parent Trap, The
Passion of the Christ
Philadelphia Story Pippi Longstocking
Pleasantville
Poseidon Adventure, The
Postman, The
Power of Myth, The Pretty In Pink
Primary Colors
Princess Bride, The
Producers
Psycho Pulp Fiction
Purple Rain
Pursuit of Happyness, The
Rainman
Rent
Reversal of Fortune
Richard III
Riding the Bus with my Sister
Risky Business
River Wild The
Rocky Horror Picture Show The
Room with a View
Rosemary’s Baby
Sabrina
Saint Elmo’s Fire
Sandra Oh
Saturday Night Fever
Saw II Say Anything
Schindler’s List
Seventh Samurai
Shaft
Shakespeare in Love
Shallow Hal
Shane
Shanghai Express
Shoah
Showgirls
Silent Movie
Silkwood
Singing in the Rain
Sixteen Candles
Sleeping Beauty
Snakes on a Plane
Snow Dogs
Sophie’s Choice
Sound of Music, The
Space Odyssey
Speed St Elmos Fire Star Is Born
Star Wars
Sting, The
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Taboo Broadway Show
Taxi Driver
Terms of Endearment Thelma and Louise
Them
This is Spinal Tap
Thomas Crown Affair, The
Titanic To Kill A Mockingbird (Also on the book list!)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Turning Point
Untouchables, The
Urban Cowboy
Valley of the Dolls
View from the Top
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Guthman
Wall Street
Way We Were, The
Welcome to the Dollhouse
West Side Story
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Witches Of Eastwick, The
Wizard of Oz
Working Girl
Xanadu
Yearling, The
Young Frankenstein
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
*Remember to link each movie review here – the more reviews the more chances you have to win! Now grab your popcorn and lets get started!
Lorelai: So, apparently, I’m now the Reigning Lorelai.
Rory: Huh. I guess you are.
Lorelai: It’s a lot of responsibility.
Rory: Well, sure.
Lorelai: I mean, it’s mostly ceremonial stuff nowadays. Declaring knighthoods, opening supermarkets. But now and then, you get to banish someone or pose for a stamp.
Rory: Neat. And coins.
Lorelai: Yeah, and coins. You know, someday you’ll be the Reigning Lorelai.
Rory: I don’t like that idea!
Lorelai: Why not? You get a cape.
Rory: Because if I’m the Reigning Lorelai, then that means you’ll be gone.
Lorelai: Gone? No, not me. I’ll step down way before that. I’m not going to pull a Queen Elizabeth on you, make you wait around forever, force you to develop interests in polo and architecture.
Rory: I am scared of horses.
Lorelai: I know that.
Rory: So there’s a cape, huh?
Book Journey 
So much fun! I’m signing up for this – thank goodness for Netflix!
Oh Lydia! YAY!!!
Good luck with your challenge! Think I’ve reached my challenge limit this year, but wishing you the best! Although if there were a cape involved…. *L*
I am just hosting this one Alexia…. 🙂
Wow! I am so tempted, but I’ve signed up for so MANY challenges already!
But as I peruse the list, I see several movies I’ve already watched and they are fun!
This is just a bonus mini challenge off the Gilmore one, Laurel… its not a big commitment at all…. hint hint….LOL
Wow! I had no idea this many movies were mentioned. This was a lot of work to put together. And I know it meant spending hours poring over the episodes which was probably just torture for you-ha! I’m going to pull out a couple of these movies to watch this weekend while I’m doing Blogiesta.
Lisa – I know -t he more I researched the bigger it got…. I like your idea of watching them during the blogiestsa – I should do that too! 🙂
Good luck with your challenge. I love the Gilmore Girls!
Thanks Jenifer I really love them too…. every time I watch them I am in awe of how witty they are!
For the Mister Linky, do you want us to leave our name or the movie’s name in the top space?
Great question Lydia….. do it like this
Lydia (________________________________)
with the title in the blank, and then the link to the review under it.
What a wonderful mini challenge! I love it. 🙂
Thanks Christina!
There are a lot of movies on this list I have not seen in years. I may have to take a closer look at the list or print it out. I would love to watch a few of these movies again. Almost like the first time again since its been so long. I think my son and I could do these together.
Thanks for the great challenge!
Hi Melissa – I know… it was fun to go through them and recall them in the shows. What a fun thing to do with your son!
I can’t think of a more fitting challenge for gilmore girls than to try to watch a some of the movies mentioned throughout the show. I’m definitely in!
Dana – thank you. I wanted to help promote Lisa’s G ilmore challenge but I didnt want to do the same thing she was. This works! 🙂
Thanks for coming up with this challenge. I love the series and had not realized so many movies were mentioned. I miss the Gilmore Girls and although I have the complete series, I miss watching a program that made me laugh, brought back memories from the 80’s and was so rich in pop culture.
Hi Christina – yeah they talk movies all the time! 🙂 I love the pop culture as well.
Sad to say I have never watched the Gilmore Girls. ABC isn’t a network we watch. I’ll have to check it out. I am familiar with many of the movies on the list, many are on my “I really want to see that one some day” list.
I’ll have to decide about this challenge.
Pat Gilmore Girls is my all time favorite tv show…. I am a total addict!
Great – a list to take to dvd shop!
We shall see how many we can watch.
Love Leanne