Alphabet MeMe

It's a simple concept (my favorite kind) - pick your favorite film for each letter of the alphabet. Some will be tough because there's too many choices (R, S, T, L, N, E...wait a sec - that's Wheel of Fortune) and others will be tough because there are so few choices that you have trouble finding much of anything (Q, anyone?). I'm sure I missed some great ones and I'm hoping that you find them.

The Rules

1. Pick one film to represent each letter of the alphabet.

2. The letter "A" and the word "The" do not count as the beginning of a film's title, unless the film is simply titled A or The, and I don't know of any films with those titles.

3. Return of the Jedi belongs under "R," not "S" as in Star Wars Episode IV: Return of the Jedi. This rule applies to all films in the original Star Wars trilogy; all that followed start with "S." Similarly, Raiders of the Lost Ark belongs under "R," not "I" as in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Conversely, all films in the LOTR series belong under "L" and all films in the Chronicles of Narnia series belong under "C," as that's what those filmmakers called their films from the start. In other words, movies are stuck with the titles their owners gave them at the time of their theatrical release. Use your better judgement to apply the above rule to any series/films not mentioned.

4. Films that start with a number are filed under the first letter of their number's word. 12 Monkeys would be filed under "T."

5. Link back to Blog Cabins in your post so Fletch can eventually type "alphabet meme" into Google and come up #1, then make a post where he declares himself the King of Google.

6. If you're selected, you have to then select 5 more people.

Aliens

Big Fish

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Dark City

Empire Strikes Back, The

Fight Club

Good Will Hunting

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Into the Wild

JFK

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

L.A. Confidential

Mist, The

Nightmare Before Christmas

Orphanage, The

Pulp Fiction

Queen, The

Robocop

Shawshank Redemption, The

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Unbreakable

V For Vendetta

Walk the Line

X2: X-Men United

Young Frankenstein

Zodiac

Notes:

I don't even really like "The Queen," but it's the only movie I could think of for Q. There's no way I could live with myself if I put "Quarantine" on there, and it's not like "The Quick and the Dead" is exactly cinematic excellence.

Tagged:

Shea at Shea of the Dead
Martha at Notions on Being
Red at Red-Letter Day
Asterisk at A Blog About Nowt
Minor at The Citizen Blog