The Top 100 Movie Challenge

100 - Lawrence of Arabia (8.3) The first film in the list is the 1962 epic, Lawrence of Arabia. It's synopsis on IMDB says it's  The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. Based on a true story, and lasting for a very, very long 3 hours and 47 minutes, this took us about 5 sittings to watch. I had not seen it before and knew nothing of the story. The only thing I did know was parts of it were filmed in Morocco ( Aït Benhaddou ) and Jordan (Wadi Rum), both places where I've been on holiday and been told by excited guides "this is where they filmed Lawrence of Arabia". The film stars Peter O' Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif and was directed by David Lean. In 1963 it won 7 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography (Color), Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Music Score, Best Art Direction and was...

The challenge: Watch the top 100 best movies as according to IMDB. No time limit, and in a rough order starting at 100 (Lawrence of Arabia) and working toward number 1 (Shawshank Redemption). The list can be found here:  https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/ Its actually the top 250 list, but that seemed a bit overwhelming to start with. If the top 100 challenge works well we might go back and go from 101 to 250... We started this at the beginning of the year, so we're already about 20 movies in. There's been a couple of great movies, some terrible movies and some that surprised me with how much I enjoyed them. There are many on the list that I've seen before, some that I've liked and some that I haven't. I'm intending to watch everything with an open mind (even three whole Star Wars films) and to be present whilst watching - not scrolling at the same time. Or napping!  Some films we've had to watch in several sittings due to length and need for sleep, anything wi...