Generally when something is popular I avoid it like the plague, and this seems to go double for movies. The more people rave about it, the more top ten lists it ends up on and awards it receives, the less I want to see it. This can apply to movies in general and the science fiction & fantasy films beloved by my fellow geeks. Some are more popular than critically acclaimed and some are movies I might like to see one day. This isn't a brag list - more of an, "I'm tired of being expected to have seen these."

These are in no particular order and I'm too lazy to italicize them all. Well, they were in no particular order and then I noticed some patterns. Checkmarks are for movies I've watched since creating this list.

• The French Connection
• The Conversation
• The Last Emperor
• The Seventh Seal
• In The Realm of the Senses
• Last Year at Marienbad
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• My Dinner With Andre
• Do the Right Thing
• Being There
• Neverwhere
• Mirrormask
• ✔ Coraline
• ✔ Stardust
• A Passage to India
• A Room With A View
• ✔ Howards End
• Amelie
• The Bicycle Thief
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Belle de Jour
• My Beautiful Laundrette
• Cinema Paradiso
• Once
• Il Postino
• The Sea Inside
• Ma Vie En Rose
• Raise the Red Lantern
• Ju Dou
• Big Fish
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Babel
• Amores Perros
• Crash
• Slingblade
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Seabiscuit
• Into the Wild (I'm pretty OK with never seeing this)
• ✔ The Pianist
• Annie Hall
• The Mask
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Traffic
• ✔ Monster
• ✔ City of God
• Whale Rider
• ✔ The Station Agent
• American Splendor
• Transamerica
• Magnolia
• Requiem for a Dream
• The Virgin Suicides
• Adaptation
• Closer
• Finding Neverland
• Rushmore
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• ✔ Little Miss Sunshine
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Garden State
• Juno
• Lost in Translation
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Barton Fink
• The Hours
• Far From Heaven
• Mulholland Drive
• The French Lieutenant's Woman
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Chicago
• Dreamgirls
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• The Fifth Element
• Spirited Away
• ✔ Pan's Labyrinth
• ✔ Parfum
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Letters From Iwo Jima
• Ray
• Walk the Line
• ✔ Gangs of New York
• The Aviator
• The Departed
• ✔ Donnie Brasco
• Scent of a Woman
• Heat
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Carlito's Way
• I am Sam
• Dead Man Walking
• Raging Bull
• The Hurricane
• Ali
• Cinderella Man
• The Wrestler
• JFK
• Born on the Fourth of July
• ✔ Zodiac
• ✔ There Will Be Blood
• No Country for Old Men

As long as this list is, it's nothing compared to the movies I actually have seen.