What is a Szirbi?! (And my Top Movies list)
E-mails which spoof the Classmates.com site by sending messages saying “there is an update on friend information”, or send a video link with a message stating, “Here’s a link of you doing something stupid” contain links which will infect your computer with Scirzi and turn it into a spambot.
So many people have been infected this way that spam has tripled in the last week. This article, Szirbi Botnet Causes Spam To Triple In A Week explains further.
And please folks, don’t click the links in e-mails. If you really must go to the site, type the link into your browser bar.
Folks, it is summertime here where I live, and old Tech Paul is fixin’ to put on his flip flops, bermuda shorts, straw hat and just “chill out” for well-deserved several days of vacationing.
I will post some prior articles, and maybe a small article, but I won’t do any heavy lifting.
In the spirit of goofing off, and taking it easy, I spent a little time thinking about what movies I needed to gather up for my popcorn-and-favorite-movies-marathon, scheduled for sometime this week.
I wound up assembling a Top 30 Movies Of All Time list (I was aiming at 20.. then 25..) which I posit to you here for your consideration.
True Grit
Saving Private Ryan
Unforgiven
Forrest Gump
North by Northwest
The Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
Key Largo
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Big Sleep
Dr. Strangelove
Rear Window
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
Casablanca
The Caine Mutiny
The Shootist
Anatomy of a Murder
Best Years of Our Lives
Fargo
It Happened One Night
Arsenic and Old Lace
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Searchers
The African Queen
Full Metal Jacket
The Sting
The Wild Bunch
It’s a Wonderful Life
Die Hard
Night of the Living Dead
Rocky
* Lonely are the Brave
* The Usual Suspects
I did spend a little time arranging them in order, but.. I am not convinced this is my final version of this list and that I’ll want to “tweak” it some. I am also fairly certain that shortly after posting this, I’ll have a slap-my-forehead moment and remember a title that should have been included… that’s how it usually works with me.
Your comments, input, and critiques are welcome.
[Note: I am not of the female persuassion, and so a chick flick (aka "romantic comedy") will never appear on my Top Movies list. Please don't bother to suggest any.]
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Hey Paul,
Bit of an Alfred Hitchcock fan are ya?
Great list – one I might add is “Platoon” – otherwise it looks pretty much like my own list, except for some that I hadn’t thought of adding.
Good one!
BM
Yes.
In an effort to not overload my list with war films (there isn’t a war flick I haven’t seen), I decided to list either Platoon or Full Metal Jacket.
I decided to go with Full Metal Jacket because it has drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman [talk about your "unforgetable characters"!], and Platoon has a Sheen.
Platoon is on the AFI Best Movies list and Full Metal Jacket ain’t.. wonder why?
If you can watch war films, Das Boot should be on your list.
I have say that Kramer verses Kramer is one of my favorites.
As being “not of the female persassion”, surely you would appreciate a young Liz in National Velvet.
Jason–
You got me.
However, I have a very hard time watching Mickey Rooney.. and aside from Elizibeth Taylor at age 19, there’s not much in National Velvet that “does it for me”.
I have never heard of some of these
I see that you have True Grit as your #1 film. There is a sequil to that called “Rooster Cogburn” which also stars Katherine Hepburn.
Sir or Madam–
John Wayne reprised his notable antihero role, U.S. Marshall Rooster J. Cogburn, in 1975’s Rooster Cogburn.
It is almost as good as True Grit, and I can highly recommend it.
I have been told that people of the feminine persuasion also enjoy this film.. Katherine Hepburn’s portrayal of Eula Goodnight is quite.. noteworthy too, and she matches him scene for scene.
It is a pleasure to watch these two legends perform.. in some of their last work.