Blog Topic #1 - COMMENT by 9:00 p.m. on Wed., 2/13

Comment by creating an annotated list of 5 movies with a theme: 5 all-time favorites, 5 funniest comedies, 5 worst sci-fi movies ever, 5 great movies of 2012, etc. Be creative!

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Be sure to

• Give your list a TITLE that identifies its theme.
• NUMBER the movies in your list and give their titles.
• Follow each movie with a completely original 2-3 SENTENCE ANNOTATION explaining why it made your list.
• PROOFREAD your comment before you submit it! Comments that are not proofread will not count as having completed the assignment.
• SIGN your comment by ending with your FIRST NAME & LAST INITIAL.

Use my list below as a model:

Daszenski's 5 All-time Favorite Hitchcock Films

1. The Birds (1963) - Even though the special effects are no longer so special, this is still one of the best 'When Nature Goes Nuts' films. Night of the Living Dead owes a lot to Hitchcock: people trapped in a house during an unnatural apocalypse, no real closure, and enough claustrophobia to fill 3 movies.
2. North By Northwest (1959) - Madison Ave. executive or CIA assassin? Cary Grant plays Roger Thornhill who is chased across North America by the good guys and the bad guys for a crime he didn't commit. With his good looks and fancy suits, Thornhill was licensed to kill before James Bond ever hit the silver screen. 
3. Rear Window (1954) - Maybe the most intense ending of any Hitchcock film, this will teach you not to spy on your neighbors, no matter how bored you are.
4. Lifeboat (1944) - It's WWII and survivors from a ship torpedoed by the Nazis struggle to stay alive on the high seas. But what happens when one of the "survivors" is actually a Nazi? Oh, those Hitchcockian twists...
5. Notorious (1946) - Unforgettable war-time spy thriller set in South America with Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains.

- Jim D.