It's been three long years, but it hasn't entirely been my fault. The blog option from TV.com disappeared, and then it seemingly disappeared from Gamespot as well; so I thought there was no way that I could continue with my rocking list! But now, I have now found the revamped Gamespot blog function on Gamespot, so I can continue with my rocking list! However, I have seen more movies since I posted here last, and I feel the need to include a few movies that came out before 1939; it's possible that I may expand my list to include movies from 1927 until 2012! That would make 85 movies and 17 volumes total! But first things first, I need to fix the preview list of movies I will include in volume VII, so here they are.

31. "Metropolis," 1927. 32. "Frankenstein," 1930. 33. "The Bride of Frankenstein," 1935. 34. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Disney 1937. 35. "The Adventures of Robin Hood," Warner Bros. 1938.

I will post a new, more detailed blog when I have the time and ability to do so. :idea: Enough said, for now! ;)

It's official, I officially can not blog enough on the TV.com/Gamespot user blogs enough for my own likes and I've gotten so frustrated by it! :( It's not that I CAN'T think of the movies I want to write about next, its just that ever since the website Movie Tome has been removed and replaced by Metacritic.com, figuring out exactly WHO starred in the movies I have seen (even I can't remember all of the important people who contributed to a movie with their acting) has gotten significantly harder! :roll: The biggest reason I'm posting now, is that even though I am having this difficulty, the last blog that I have up with my profile is technically over a year old, so I feel that it is necessary that I say something new now. To show that I am still comitted to telling people about rocking movies, I shall submit a preview of the next five movies I will talk about, once I find out all the important actors and/or actresses who helped make those movies possible.

31. "The Birds." 32. "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" 33. "Bonnie & Clyde." 34. "Two Mules for Sister Sara." 35. "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."

And even though I have seen "Easy Rider," (released in 1969) which would fit into the timeline of this movie period (1962-1971), it does NOT make my list for two good reasons. The first reason is that I could NOT follow the plot as it was completely unstructured and without direction. The second reason is that because of the aimless story and the way the actors and actresses were NOT emoting their lines to a degree that I would consider professional; "Easy Rider" remains OFF my list. :!: HOPEFULLY, it will NOT take me another whole year to update my list with the actors and the actresses who made my listed movies possible. :idea: Enough said, true believers! ;)

This is just a little update to let people that I am indeed still here on TV.com, despite a bunch of people that I have met here over the years, and becoming friends with them, are now not here anymore, and I have no idea where they have gone to. The major reason I am staying on this site is because there are still TV shows still airing with new episodes that I like, and fan-made episodes for those shows that I still want to write. This is also an update of my movie list update of all the movies I have listed up until now, and they are now listed in chronological order, including the most recent movie list I made. Volume VII will be coming soon! But for now, please enjoy this full list of the rocking movies I have listed (so far) just in case anybody missed anything!

1. "The Wizard of Oz;" 1939 MGM / 2. "Gunga Din;" 1939 Warner Bros. / 3. "Pinnochio;" 1940 Disney / 4. "The Grapes of Wrath;" 1940 20th Century Fox / 5. "The Maltese Falcon;" 1941 Warner Bros. 6. "Hoppity Goes to Town;" 1941 Paramount / 7. "Casablanca;" 1942 Warner Bros. 8. "The Three Caballeros;" 1945 Disney / 9. "Make Mine Music;" 1946 Disney / 10. "Fun and Fancy Free;" 1947 Disney / 11. "Singing In the Rain;" 1950 MGM / 12. "Alice In Wonderland;" 1951 Disney / 13. "The African Queen;" 1952 Warner Bros. / 14. "War of the Worlds;" 1953 20th Century Fox / 15. "Rear Window;" 1954 Paramount / 16. "Oklahoma!;" 1955 20th Century Fox / 17. "Bridge On the River Kwai;" 1957 Warner Bros. / 18. "Sleeping Beauty;" 1959 Disney / 19. "The Diary of Anne Frank;" 1959 20th Century Fox/ 20. "The Time Machine;" 1960 Warner Bros. / 21. "Psycho;" 1960 MGM / 22. "One Hundred-One Dalmatians;" 1961 Disney / 23. "Breakfast at Tiffany's;" 1961 20th Century Fox / 24. "Dr. No;" 1962 MGM / 25. "The Sword In the Stone;" 1962 Disney / 26. "Mutiny On the Bounty;" 1962 Warner Bros. / 27. "Mary Poppins;" 1964 Disney / 28. "The Sound of Music;" 1965 20th Century Fox / 29. "The Jungle Book;" 1967 Disney / 30. "Yellow Submarine;" 1968 MGM.

Next time I write, I promise that I really WILL reveal my movie choices in Volume VI for the rocking movies that rank #31-#35 on my personal picks! :idea: Enough said, true believers! ;)

If there's anyone out there who's wondering WHY I haven't posted a blog up here for two months, the title of this blog is a hint as to why I haven't. Last month, on March 15, I finally got to purchase the greatest video game console in the history of great video game consoles...the NINTENDO WII!!!! :D So needless to say, I've been really enjoying the system by playing from the Virtual Arcade Library the Nintendo Wii can access by playing such old-school video games as "Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man III, Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past, Super Mario Kart, The Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars," and I've even been playing with "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" in order to keep myself up to date with more recent games that are available to play on the Nintendo Wii! But because I care about this web-site as well, I feel pretty bad about leaving my readers hanging for so long, in their wondering if I'm going to continue on with my Rocking Movies List, so I'm going to continue on it right now with Volume 5 of my Rocking Movies List!

21. "Hoppity Goes to Town" Paramount 1941 Featuring the voices of Pinto Colvig, Tedd Pierce, Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer, and Mae Questel. LONG before "The Ant Bully, A Bug's Life," or "Antz" showed us what the life of an insect might be like, this little known animated gym from the Fleischer Studios (shortly before they went bankrupt and got bought out by Famous Knights Kings Studios one year later) was a contemporary look of various bugs just trying to live their life in the big city known as New York, New York. But when a new building is scheduled to be built right on top of the field where a bunch of insects currently live, its up to a brave cricket named Hoppity and his girlfriend to unite all their fellow insects together in the common goal of finding a place where they can live in peace, as well as ensuring that the new owners of the building the insects decide to live on top on, don't hurt the harmless insects. Not only does this film feature good animation, it features music typical of the early 1940's, but its very good and still holds up quite well today. It's a real gem of an animated movie if one knows where to find it. I highly recommend it as a prime, early example that Disney wasn't the only company that knew how to make an animated movie, and its all thanks to the Fleischer brothers who helped pave the way for Hanna-Barbera and other independent cartoon creators to help shake up the animated movie industry and make it a more diverse place for everyone!

22. "Make Mine Music" Disney 1946 Featuring the voices of Dinah Shore, Jerry Colonna, Benny Goodman, Eddy Nelson, and Andy Russell. Although "Fantasia" is often used as the more well-known example of using animated segments to display musical compositions, this is the more popular example (in my opinion) mainly because it doesn't take TWO LONG HOURS to sit through the GOD-AWFUL BORING film, and this is more enjoyable as all the animated sketches actually HAVE watchable plots that can keep a viewer entertained. Who could forget the tunes of "All the Cats Join In, Two Silhouette, Casey At The Bat, The Ballad of Johnny Blue Bonnet," and "The Whale Who Liked to Sing Opera At the Met?" These sketches along with others are what TRUE musical animation entertainment is about, and I highly recommend it over this movies older sibling, "Fantasia." :idea: Enough said! :lol:

23. "Fun and Fancy Free" Disney 1947 Starring Edgar Bergen, Dinah Shore, Luana Patten, and featuring the voices of Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, and Cliff Edwards. Presenting TWO fun stories for the price of one with a blend of live-action and animation, Jimminy Cricket showcases the fun stories of Bongo the Bear read by Dinah Shore, plus Jack and the Beanstalk with a Disney twist! Bongo is a circus performer who loves the sights of sounds of being number one in the limelight, but being a bear just like any other bear, he one day gets the urge to go back to his roots in nature. Although wild life turns out to not be what Bongo expects it to be, he soon adapts to it in his own special way, and even manages to win the girl of his dreams in the process! Jack and the Beanstalk is read by famous ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, and it features Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, as Jack and his two farmer friends respectively, who are content with enjoying the simple things in life. The land they live in is a happy and prosperous one, until an awful day comes where someone steals the magical singing harp that has brought the good fortune to the kingdom where Jack and his farmer friends live. Without the harp, a severe drought plagues their farm and many others, choking all of the water out of ponds and rivers, rendering it a nearly arid, barren desert wasteland. But when Mickey trades the farm cow for three magic beans, the luck they all have begins to change. As they sleep, they are raised high into the sky, up to a point where the clouds are SO thick, that when the farmers wake up, they discover that they can actually WALK on the clouds! Not only that, but there's gigantic plants, trees, and animals up here! But the best part of all is that there's a gigantic castle with gigantic FOOD inside! But the biggest drawback of the giant castle is the huge giant named Willy, who can change his very form! But while evading Willy, Mickey discovers that it was the giant who stole the harp from the kingdom where Mickey and his friends live! Mickey undergoes a perilous rescue while Willy's asleep and takes back the magical harp. But then Willy wakes up and the farmers have to make a MAD dash for miles across the clouds and down the beanstalk. Their only hope is that they can saw the Beanstalk down in time before Willy can get down it! They succeed, and Willy hits his head hard on the ground! Thankfully, the bump Willy received on his head did him some good, because after the injury, Willy became a much better giant in future endeavors, as he once got to be the Spirit of Christmas Present (1983, "Mickey's a Christmas Carol") and as one of Mickey's recurring friends on "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" (2005-?.) This is a fun movie and I highly recommend it not just because it features Mickey, it features Walt Disney voicing Mickey Mouse for the last time in an animated cartoon! :!:

24. "The Bridge On the River Kwai" Columbia 1957 Starring Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, and James Donald. If you want to watch an entertaining action movie based on actual history, it's hard to top the adventure and plot contained in the World War II biopic based on the story novel of the same name. Long before the original trilogy of "Star Wars" ever came out, Alec Guinness proved he was a master thespian as a general absolutely committed to getting a bridge built across the River Kwai, while he's equally at odds with opposing soldiers played by William Holden, Jack Hawkins, and James Donald who are all also equally committed to opposing the building of this bridge, and determined to stop it by any means necessary! One of director David Lean's finest works, he would later go on to direct another masterpiece. Namely, "Lawrence of Arabia." 8)

25. "Dr. No" MGM 1962 Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee, Joseph Wiseman, Anthony Dawson, Peter Burton, Maxwell Shaw, Jack Lord, and Lois Maxwell. Sean Connery makes the spy-movie genre cool in the first James Bond movie where he battles against Dr. No! Whether you're interested in intrigue, interesting villains, exciting action-adventure, or if you want to see how an old-school spy got the job done (before all the special effects and gadgets) this movie is an absolute must for the avid Sean Connery/action-adventure movie viewer. I liked it, and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good time! :)

That's my list for today. Stay tuned for next time when I will reveal and review my choices for movies 26-30. :P Enough said! ;)

Last afternoon, I saw a movie which (figuratively) blew my mind! :O The movie was "Avatar," the most epic, compelling, thrilling, jaw-dropping, eye-popping, completely awe inspiring movie of the Double O decade of the 21st century! :D The graphics and the story are out of this world, and 3D is definitely the wave of the future! 8) But everything that made "Avatar" would not have been possible were it not for 70 years of movie innovation before it. :idea: Movies that pushed the boundaries of our imagination, turning the once impossible, and expanding the realm of fantasy, while blurring the edges between reality and fiction, until it's hard to tell what is live-action, or what is animation! :shock: To commemorate the mastery of "Avatar," and my encyclopedic knowledge of the past 70 years of movie making, I'm going to try to pick 69 movies which led up to "Avatar" becoming a possible movie to make, and explain my reasons for picking them. Except for the first movie I list, all of the other movies are listed in chronologic order from the least recent movie, to the most recent movie. This is only Volume 1 of a LONG blog project I'm going to try to make concerning the first five movies I'm going to list. :arrow: The 1st movie is ranked according to it's importance of being the most innovative, and my personal favorite of all time!

1. The Wizard of Oz (1939, MGM. Starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Margaret Hamilton, Ray Bolger, and Billie Burke.) Honestly, I HAD to list this movie first! It was really no contest! For years...decades really, this was THE movie that defined the pinnacle of how movies should be made! Before this movie was made, most Hollywood endeavors were simple projects that explored character behavior, wacky mishaps, and color experiments that really didn't go that deep into explaining a fantasy world that would take us to another time or place. But this movie took the whole concept of movies completely OUT of the early days of Tinseltown, and forever cemented Hollywood, California as the place to go to make movies! While no movie is complete without its actors (who were fantastic, by the way) this movie was innovative on so MANY levels, and at such a high level of degree, it took other movie companies DECADES just to match the level of innovation this movie came up with! Before this movie came along, nobody had ever successfully depicted a Twister, complete with roaring wind and flying debris; nobody ever made a good witch or bad witch travel in different magical ways; nobody put together such a large, diverse group of actors in a strange setting with strange buildings and wonderful paintings as backdrop; nobody did such a good job of make-up and costumes as evidenced in the Wicked Witch of the West, Glinda the Good Witch of the North, The Scarecrow, The Tin-Man, The Cowardly Lion, The Talking Trees, and the Sinister Flying Monkies; nobody ever simulated a working crystal ball before; nobody ever created a snowstorm out of thin air; nobody made an Emerald City look greener than anything else that could be seen; nobody created air smoke writing, nobody ever magically projected a floating green head constantly engulfed by fire; nobody ever showed a Wicked Witch being repelled by the magic of the Ruby Slippers; nobody ever depicted a person melting away before; nobody ever attempted a balloon take-off before; and no one ever attempted to magically transport someone back home before! All of these things that couldn't be done before this movie came out, now could be done! And yet, it would be some time before any other movie came out that would be close to matching this movies innovative brillance both in terms of scale and design!

2. "Pinocchio" (1940, Disney. Featuring the voices of Richard Jones, Cliff Edwards, and Mel Blanc.) I guess that I have a soft spot for Disney movies. While some of them REALLY show signs of aging in terms of political correctness and feminist movement strong points, this one still manages to charm me. This movie really helped push the envelope that animated movies could be just as good, and in some cases, sometimes better than live-action movies! Not only did the characters and artwork have brillant artists behind them, the characters were well-rounded in their behavior as being believable characters that people could relate to on some level. And this movie REALLY tackled with the idea of irony and exploited it for more than was ever asked for in a movie before. And the scenes of the Donkey transformation and Monstro the Whale chase, are STILL some of the scariest moments ever committed on a screen before! And if for nothing else, this movie has brought hope to generations of people, that by having faith in your behavior and your intentions, your dreams could come true.

3. "Casablanca" (1942, Warner Bros. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Peter Lorre.) This is the film that really put Noir Mystery movies on the map. Not only did it have a compelling score, it had a compelling story, with compelling actors to tell it! And it introduced a bunch of instant hit one-liners that are still said and parodied to this day. Just don't be surprised if you hear someone misquoting the movie by saying, "Play it again, Sam." That sentence, never happened.

4. "The Three Caballeros" (1945, Disney. Featuring the voices of Clarence Nash and Sterling Holloway.) This blend of live-action and animation is still a feast for the eyes! Sure, it's an outdated picture of Mexican and South American culture, but its still a fun one all the same. The stories about a penguin going north to a warmer climate, the trip to Bahia with the crazy Kookabura bird, "The Three Caballeros" song, Feliz Navidad, and getting to see Donald Duck, Jose Carioca, and Panchito interacting in live locations is definitely amazing by 1940's standards, and still stands strong today! It's a highly enjoyable feast of animation!

5. "Alice In Wonderland" (1951, Disney. Featuring the voices of Kathryn Beaumont, Bill Thompson, Sterling Holloway, Ed Wynn, Jerry Colonna, and Verna Felton.) Sure, there's a live-action remake of this movie just around the corner, but the original is still in a league of its own. While many other movie studios have tried before and after, they still can't match the depth that Disney managed to capture! A world full of white rabbits, dodos, walruses and carpenters, oysters, lizards named Bill, a garden full of talking flowers, a caterpillar, a Chesire Cat, Mad Hatters, March Hares, Dormouses, mad tea parties, unbirthdays, Momeraths, walking packs of cards, flamingoes doubling as croquet mallets, and talking doorknobs, is a world that could only be fully realized in the realm of animation! And many of the special effects and facial characterizations are still pretty amazing even by today's standards! Not bad for Disney's unlucky '13th' animated feature!

Well, that's all for now. I'm going to log in some other time and create another blog listing some more movies concerning the advance of graphical and storytelling innovations. :idea: Enough said, for now! ;)