WASHINGTON — Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.

…is not something you’ll hear from this collection of movies. Not even close.

Movie industry pub The Hollywood Reporter has released the top 10 movies most rented on Netflix.

So much for a diversity of epochs. The oldest movie is from 2004.

“It saddens me that so many folks my age don’t know the history of where their favorite movies come from,” says WTOP Writer Jason Fraley, founder of the film appreciation blog The Film Spectrum. “They say, ‘If you don’t know your history, you’re doomed to repeat it,’ so if we as a culture don’t know our movie history, we’re doomed to repeat what hasn’t worked. What’s worse, we’ll miss the chance to improve upon what has worked. For all this, it’d be easy to predict the gloomy death of film as art. All signs point to it. But the optimist in me hopes this explosion in web-streaming and instant IMDB response will actually get more people to discover the classics. What better time to educate yourself than this post-Millennium era of best lists and director audio commentaries?”

The amalgamation certainly seems to favor mainstream, gritty and new movies. “Crash” is the oldest at #9, followed by 2006’s Boston crime drama “The Departed” in the fifth slot. Robert Downey Jr. has certainly recovered from the 1990s with his movies Sherlock Holmes in 2009 and Iron Man in 2008 clinching the fourth and second spots.

Check out these trailers from the top three. You can see the full list by following this link.

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