Tagged by the Alphabet Movie Meme: this time it’s personal.

See, this is what the blogging mindset does to you: just because my pal Piper tagged me with this Alphabet Meme nearly a week ago – which is roughly four months in blogging years – I feel haunted and vexed and tormented to respond, despite the fact that I’ve been unable to craft an exciting, dynamic and otherwise interesting response.

The rule of the meme is to create a list of movies from A to Z. That’s about it. No twist, no trick, no other hook into my particular insight or critical thinking, merely an exercise to prove that I remember all of the letters of our customary alphabet. So it’s taken me six days to conjure the list below only because I was trying like hell to put my own spin on it, and have more or less completely, grievously, failed.

I will say that this list is built out of my own humble DVD collection, with the exception of seven titles. Feel free to guess which seven and compete for exciting and valuable prizes*.

The Alphabet Movie Meme, In No Particular Order:

Airplane!
Back to the Future
Cool Hand Luke
Die Hard
The Empire Strikes Back
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Grand Canyon
Heat
Iron Giant
Jurassic Park
Krull
Last of the Mohicans
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
No Country For Old Men
Once
The Player
Quick Change
Rounders
Speed
Traffic
The Untouchables
Vanilla Sky
The Wizard of Oz
Xanadu
You’ve Got Mail
Zorro, The Gay Blade

This is the part where I’m supposed to task five others to complete this meme, but everybody I don’t hate in the bloguverse has seemingly already been tagged. For me to wrestle up five names of people I like – and fail doing so – seems kind of pathetic, so we’ll do it this way: if you have your own blog, consider yourself tagged.

I think Fletch at Blog Cabins started this thing, so go ahead and give him an earful if you’d like.

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*Exciting and valuable prizes not available in the U.S. or any continent on Earth. Residents of Pluto are subject to additional intergalactic trade restrictions and embargoes. Vogons should really know better and not even ask. Void where prohibited.