A Contract With Manish

Manish Patel and I are bound by a contract.

Manish was a friend of mine in high school and he was (and i'm sure still is) a huge movie buff. he could name the director of most any modern movie you threw at him. we would talk about movies and he would always be baffled at the movies that i had not seen. everyone has movies that they haven't seen that most people in the world have, and when you mention that you haven't seen that movie, those around you say "I cant believe you haven't seen that!" Manish said that with nearly every movie.

our senior year ('02-'03) he finally got fed up with me not seeing certain movies. he wrote on an index card some of the movies that he thought i should see and made me sign it certifying that "Before I Die" i would see the movies on this card. we added to the list up until we graduated in June '03. of the 28 movies that made the list, i have crossed off 9.

here are the movies. those in italics, i have crossed off the list.

1. The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers - 1999)
   
2. Fight Club (David Fincher - 1999)
   
3. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan - 2002)
   
4. Se7en (David Fincher - 1995)
   
5. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer - 1995)
6. Annie Hall (Woody Allen - 1977)
7. Clerks. (Kevin Smith - 1994)
8. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont - 1994)
9. JFK: Director's Cut (Oliver Stone - 1991)
10. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith - 2001)
11. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock - 1958)
12. The Big Lebowski (The Coen Brothers - 1998)
13. Ben-Hur (William Wyler - 1959)
14. The Cell (Tarsem Singh - 2000)
15. Friday (F. Gary Gray - 1995)
16. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarentino - 1994)
    
17. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith - 1997)
18. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant - 1997)
19. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard - 2001)
20. Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh - 2001)
    
21. Payback (Brian Helgeland - 1999)
22. Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans - 2001)
23. Memento (Christopher Nolan - 2000)
24. Training Day (Antoine Fuqua - 2001)
25. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott - 2001)
26. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese - 2002)
27. Frailty (Bill Paxton - 2001)

what do you think of these movies? agree? disagree? would you like to help me cross off one or some of these? holler back

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