13 MORE Very Pointless (But Fun) Movie Lists

I'd been missing doing one of my favorite things here on filmicability--making lists--and I've long been noticing my last collection has been getting hits steadily, so here are 13 more dumb, perhaps educational, wastes of time:

10 GREAT MOVIE PUPPET SHOWS
John Cusack's creations in Being John Malkovich
The hilarious finale to Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Punch and Judy show in The 400 Blows
The "Thumbelina" dance in Hans Christian Andersen
Nazi puppeteers demonstrate blood purity in Max
Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles
Jim Henson's The Muppet Movie
Walt Disney's Pinocchio
"The Lonely Goatheard" in The Sound of Music
Shadow puppets in The Year of Living Dangerously


20 GREAT MOVIE FUNERALS
Arnold
Barry Lyndon
The Big Chill
Bye Bye Braverman
Death at a Funeral (both versions)
Departures
Fanny and Alexander
Fatso
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Gandhi
The Godfather
Harold and Maude
I Am Cuba
The Loved One
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Royal Tennenbaums
Sordid Lives
Sunset Blvd.
Tom Sawyer (1973)


10 FILMS ABOUT SKINHEADS
American Hardcore
American History X
Made in Britain
Meantime
Romper Stomper
Rough Cut and Ready Dubbed
SLC Punk!
Steel Toes
The Believer
This Is England


45 GREAT CROSS-DRESSING PERFORMERS
The Queen of cross-dressing: Divine in Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs, Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Lust in the Dust, and Hairspray
Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie
Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria
Cary Grant in I Was a Male War Bride
Gary Busey in Under Siege
Nathan Lane (and Gene Hackman) in The Birdcage
Michel Serrault in La Cage Aux Folles
Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously
Hillary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry
Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love
Helena Bonham Carter in Twelfth Night
Ed Wood in Glen or Glenda
Jack Benny in Charley's Aunt
The cast of Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
John Lone in M. Butterfly
Georges Du Fresne in Ma Vie En Rose
The cast of Paris is Burning
Tilda Swinton in Orlando
Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan D'Arc
Michel Serrault in La Cage Aux Folles
Lou Jacobi in Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex
Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire
Michael Jeter in The Fisher King
Cillian Murphy in Breakfast on Pluto
Veronica Lake in Sullivan's Travels
Katherine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett
Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane in Nuns on the Run
Craig Russell in Outrageous!
Paul Reubens in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Lady Day in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Jeff Bridges in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Johnny Depp in both Ed Wood and Before Night Falls
Martin Lawrence in Big Momma's House
Eddie Murphy in Norbit, The Nutty Professor, and The Nutty Professor 2
Guy Pierce, Hugo Weaving, and Terence Stamp in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes and Patrick Swayze in To Wong Foo, Love, Julie Newmar
James Coburn in The Last of Sheila
The Kings of cross-dressing: the Monty Python troupe in And Now For Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life


10 GREAT MOVIE APES
Bela Legosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Gorillas in the Mist
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
King Kong
Mighty Joe Young
Planet of the Apes
Schlock
Shakma
Tanya’s Island
2001: A Space Odyssey


20 GREAT BUSES IN MOVIES
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Big Bus
Bus 174
Dirty Harry
The Gauntlet
Get On The Bus
The Graduate
Harry and Tonto
The King is Alive
Magical Mystery Tour
Midnight Cowboy
Mr. Thank You (Arigato-san)
Quick Change
Sharkey's Machine
Slap Shot
Speed
Spice World
Strangers in Good Company
The Sweet Hereafter
The Trip to Bountiful


20 GREAT MOVIE RABBITS
The rabbit that's shot for dinner in Bad Company (1972)
Thumper and company in Bambi
Ralph in costume in A Christmas Story
Frank in Donnie Darko
The bunny in the pot in Fatal Attraction
Elwood Dodd's friend Harvey
The sitcom in Inland Empire
Doomed little Trudy in Local Hero
The killer rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The giant bunnies in Night of the Lepus
Rabbits as business in Michael Moore's Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint
The rotting rabbit on a plate in Repulsion
Brer Rabbit in Song of the South
Dorothy Stratten in her Playboy getup in Star 80
The simply named Rabbit in the Winnie The Pooh series
Walt Disney's The Tortoise and the Hare
Nick Park's Wallace and Grommit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Martin Rosen's Watership Down
The biggest bunny of all time: Bugs, in What's Opera, Doc?
Robert Zemeckis' and Richard Williams' Who Framed Roger Rabbit?


40 GREAT MOVIE APARTMENTS
The Apartment
Apartment Zero
Barefoot in the Park
The Crowd
Dial M For Murder
Eraserhead
Eyes Wide Shut
Flashdance
The Goodbye Girl
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Last Tango in Paris
Letter From An Unknown Woman
Hannah and Her Sisters
Manhattan
Men Don’t Leave
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The More The Merrier
Mulholland Dr.
Nobody Knows
Play It Again, Sam
The Plumber
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
The Odd Couple
Office Space
Rear Window
[rec]
Repulsion
Rope
Rosemary’s Baby
Scarlet Street
Se7en
The Seven Year Itch
Sisters
Shallow Grave
A Streetcar Named Desire
Taxi Driver
10 Rillington Place
The Tenant
They Came From Within
Three Colors: Blue


20 GREAT MOVIE HATS
The greatest hat of all time: Indiana Jones’ fedora in Raiders of the Lost Ark
The shoe hat Katherine Helmond dons in Brazil
Jimmy Doyle’s porkpie hat in The French Connection
Carmen Miranda’s fruity number in The Gang’s All Here
Tommy Rettig’s beanie topped with a hand in The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T
All the hats, on heads and flitting through forests, in Miller’s Crossing
Joe Buck’s black cowboy hat in Midnight Cowboy
The sweat-stained hat Jimmy Stewart wore in all his westerns with Anthony Mann
Addie Pray's headgear--perfect for hiding cash--in Paper Moon
The Gold Hat worn by Alfonso Bedoya in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Odd Job’s metal chapeau in Goldfinger
The feathered creations atop the town ladies in The Music Man
Bonnie’s fuzzy beret in Bonnie and Clyde
Lou Gehrig’s straw boater that’s eaten in The Pride of the Yankees
The hats worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blues Brothers
The various hats worn by the Droogies in A Clockwork Orange
Charlie Chaplin’s signature top as The Tramp
Buster Keaton’s inimitable headpiece
The bowlers worn always by Laurel and Hardy
Marge Gunderson’s wintertime police issue in Fargo


20 GREAT MOVIE CONTESTS
The sheep wrangling competition in Babe
The write-in contest in Christmas in July
The karoke showdowns in Duets
The cross country dash in The Gumball Rally
Contestants go all the way for a new car in Hands On A Hard Body
The rush to the big W in It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Tatum O' Neal and Kristy MacNichol race to lose their virginity in Little Darlings
The Donkey Kong match in King of Kong
The Jackrabbit Slim's dance contest in Pulp Fiction
The shootouts in The Quick and the Dead
The rigged $64,000 Question in Quiz Show
The disco-off at Club 2001 in Saturday Night Fever
Reality shows take a deadly turn in Series 7: The Contenders
The small-town beauty contest in Smile
The spelling bee in Spellbound
The grueling dance marathon in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Gilley's dance and bull-riding events in Urban Cowboy
The education lottery in Waiting For Superman
Who'll inherit the prize in Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory?
The shooting competition that begins Winchester ‘73


20 MOVIES FEATURING THE DRIVE-IN
American Movie
Blue Thunder
Dead End Drive-In
Drive-In
Drive-In Massacre
Drive-In Movie Memories
Explorers
Grease
Heat
Hey Folks, It’s Intermission Time
Hollywood Boulevard
I Am Cuba
Lolita
The Outsiders
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Red Dawn
The Sugarland Express
Targets
The Thin Blue Line
Twister


 

20 LANDMARK EXAMPLES OF FILM EDITING
The ladies auxiliary meeting in The Manchurian Candidate
Sonny catches the police trying to break into the bank in Dog Day Afternoon
Jake La Motta has his last fight with Sugar Ray Reynolds in Raging Bull
Editors are seen assembling scenes of Russian life in Man With A Movie Camera
The lobby shootout in The Matrix
The frogs fall in Magnolia
The “Roxanne” Tango in Moulin Rouge!
The bone turns into a spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey
The final bloodbath in The Godfather
The opening to Apocalypse Now
The Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin
The D-Day barrage at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan
The car chase in Bullitt
The opening to The Magnificent Ambersons
The entirety of High Noon
The forest love scene in Ryan’s Daughter
Howard Beale is killed in Network
The tryouts in Fame
The opening to All That Jazz
Albert Brooks and Bruno Kirby build a B-movie in Modern Romance


12 GREAT MOVIE INSECTS
Spiders rule in Arachnophobia
Flame-shooting roaches burn in Bug
The entire phylum in A Bug’s Life
E.G. Marshall battles cockroaches in Creepshow
Grasshoppers infest the wheat in Days of Heaven
Both versions of The Fly
More cockroaches in Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
Insects on their own level in Microcosmos
Gigantic ants in Them!
The world is overtaken by ants in Phase IV and by all insects in The Helstrom Chronicle.