Friday, October 28, 2011

No Accounting for Taste

I saw NRO's list of the presidential candidates' favorite films, including Obama's: Casablanca, The Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

The above doesn't sound right to me, so I've created a list that I think is more realistically representative of Obama's favoritest movies:


-A-

Action Jackson
Adam & Steve
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
All About the Benjamins
Avatar

-B-

B.A.P.S.
Battlefield Earth
Beaches
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Becoming Barack
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
The Birdcage
Bowling for Columbine
Boys N the Hood
Black Caesar
Black Devil Doll from Hell
Blackenstein
The Black Gestapo
The Black Godfather
The Black Hole
Black Knight
Black Like Me
Black Mama, White Mama
Black Shampoo
The Black Stallion
Blacula
Boogie Nights
Breakin'
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Born on the Fourth of July
Boys Don't Cry
Brokeback Mountain
Brother from Another Planet
Bruno
Burlesque
By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

-C-

Che!
Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town
Cleopatra Jones
Coming to America
Crack House
The Crying Game

-D-

Dances with Wolves
The Day After Tomorrow
Deliverance
The Devil Wears Prada
Dirty Dancing
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Dollman Vs. Demonic Toys
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

-E-

Eat, Pray, Love
The Emperor's New Groove

-F-

Fahrenheit 9/11
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
The First Wives Club
Foxy Brown
Frankenfish
Friday
The Full Monty

-G-

Gang Related
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Gigli
G.I. Jane
Godsend

-H-

Halloween III
Hamlet 2
The Happening
Happy Feet
He Got Game
House Party franchise
Howard the Duck
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
How to Be a Player

-I-

I Am Legend
I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka!

-J-

JFK
Juice
Jungle Fever

-K-

Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!

-L-

Lake Placid 3
The Last Temptation of Christ
Leprechaun: In the Hood

-M-

Malcolm X
Mandela
Mannequin 2
Mansquito
Mega Shark Vs. Crocosaurus
Menace II Society
Morons from Outer Space
My Own Private Idaho

-N-

New Jack City
Norma Rae
Night of the Lepus

-O-

Out of Africa
Old Skool Thugz

-P-

Panther
Pinnocchio
Pitch Black
Plan 9 from Outer Space
The Princess Diaries

-R-

Reds
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

-S-

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The Scarlet Letter (Demi Moore Version)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Scream, Blacula, Scream
Senator Obama Goes to Africa
Sex and the City franchise
Shaft (1971)
Sharktopus
Showgirls
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
Snakes on a Plane
Something to Believe In
Soul Plane
Stalin
Steel Magnolias
Superfly
Surf Nazis Must Die

-T-

The Terror of Tiny Town
Thelma and Louise
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
Titanic 2
To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Troll 2
The Twilight franchise

-W-

Waiting to Exhale
Wall Street
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
The Wiz

-#-

1984 (both versions)
27 Dresses

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