All-Time Favorite Movie Lists

[TylerDurden]

Well, since we're starting over,

Updated List (Revised 06/06/08):

1. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubirck, 1968)
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975)
4. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
5. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
6. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, 1953)
7. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
8. The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)
9. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
10. Pinocchio (Animated, 1940)
11. The Godfather, Part II (Coppola, 1974)
12. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
13. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
14. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
15. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
16. Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962)
17. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
18. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
19. Ivan Groznyy I & II (Eisenstein, 1944/1958)
20. Intolerance (Griffith, 1916)
21. Schindler's List (Spielberg, 1993)
22. Rome: Open City (Rossellini, 1945)
23. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
24. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
25. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
26. The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970)
27. Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, 2001)
28. La Strada (Fellini, 1954)
29. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
30. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
31. Singin' in the Rain (Donen & Kelly, 1952)
32. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
33. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
34. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
35. To Kill A Mockingbird (Mulligan, 1962)
36. Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)
37. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford, 1962)
38. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
39. Contempt (Godard, 1963)
40. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
41. Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)
42. Rebel Without a Cause (N. Ray, 1955)
43. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica, 1948)
44. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
45. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
46. The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
47. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
48. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
49. It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
50. Rocky (Avildsen, 1976)
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51. Pather Panchali (S. Ray, 1955)
52. The Blue Angel (Sternberg, 1930)
53. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi, 1954)
54. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
55. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
56. Spartacus (Kubrick, 1960)
57. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
58. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
59. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
60. Solyaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
61. Dumbo (Sharpsteen, 1941)
62. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg, 2001)
63. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
64. Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1964)
65. There Will Be Blood (P.T. Anderson, 2007)
66. Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman, 1973)
67. Charulata (S. Ray, 1964)
68. A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951)
69. Do The Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
70. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini, 1964)
71. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
72. Breathless (Godard, 1960)
73. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
74. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
75. The Cell (Tarsem, 2000)
76. Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
77. Sullivan's Travels (Sturges, 1942)
78. The Truman Show (Weir, 1998)
79. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1989)
80. Fantasia (Animated, 1940)
81. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
82. Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson, 2002)
83. Only Yesterday (Takahata, 1991)
84. Rain Man (Levinson, 1988)
85. Maria Candelaria (Fernández, 1944)
86. Three Colors: Red (Kieslowski, 1994)
87. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
88. Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
89. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles, 1942)
90. Mary Poppins (Stevenson, 1964)
91. Kanal (Wajda, 1957)
92. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
93. The Sound of Music (Wise, 1965)
94. Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961)
95. GoodFellas (Scorsese, 1990)
96. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
97. Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci, 1972)
98. L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
99. The Cameraman (Sedgwick & Keaton, 1928)
100. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Animated, 1977)
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101. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
102. Pandora's Box (Pabst, 1929)
103. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen, 1985)
104. Akira (Ôtomo, 1988)
105. Alphaville (Godard, 1965)
106. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
107. The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980)
108. Magnolia (P.T. Anderson, 1999)
109. The Pianist (Polanski, 2002)
110. The General (Bruckman, 1927)
111. The Trial (Welles, 1962)
112. Paths of Glory (Kubrick, 1957)
113. Fahrenheit 451 (Truffaut, 1966)
114. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
115. Week End (Godard, 1967)
116. Rope (Hitchcock, 1948)
117. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
118. Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
119. A Special Day (Scola, 1977)
120. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988)
121. In the Mood For Love (Kar Wai, 2000)
122. That Most Important Thing: Love (Zulawski, 1975)
123. The Cook, the Theif, His Wife and Her Lover (Greenway, 1989)
124. Los Olvidados (Buñuel, 1950)
125. Mamma Roma (Pasolini, 1962)
126. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (Hand, 1937)
127. Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994)
128. The Sting (G.R. Hill, 1973)
129. Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959)
130. Alien (R. Scott, 1979)
131. Revenge of the Sith (Lucas, 2005)
132. Alice in Wonderland (Animated, 1951)
133. The Third Man (Reed, 1949)
134. The Virgin Spring (Bergman, 1960)
135. Life is Beautiful (Benigni, 1997)
136. Zelig (Allen, 1983)
137. Nashville (Altman, 1975)
138. The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940)
139. The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
140. The Passion of the Christ (Gibson, 2004)
141. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
142. Limelight (Chaplin, 1952)
143. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
144. The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
145. Reds (Beatty, 1981)
146. Road to Perdition (Mendes, 2002)
147. Meet John Doe (Capra, 1941)
148. The Kid (Chaplin, 1921)
149. The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)
150. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Stuart, 1971)
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151. T2: Judgement Day (Cameron, 1991)
152. The Lost Weekend (Wilder, 1945)
153. On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
154. American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
155. Umberto D. (De Sica, 1952)
156. The Ten Commandments (DeMille, 1956)
157. West Side Story (Robbins & Wise, 1961)
158. Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
159. The Green Mile (Darabont, 1999)
160. Orpheus (Cocteau, 1950)
161. To Have and Have Not (Hawks, 1944)
162. Lust for Life (Minnelli, 1956)
163. The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
164. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
165. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
166. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994)
167. Oliver! (Reed, 1968)
168. The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004)
169. The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1953)
170. A Woman Is a Woman (Godard, 1961)
171. 2046 (Kar Wai, 2004)
172. Gattaca (Niccol, 1997)
173. Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki, 1986)
174. Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson, 1970)
175. American Splendor (Berman & Pulcini, 2003)
176. Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
177. Munich (Spielberg, 2005)
178. Stalag 17 (Wilder, 1953)
179. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997)
180. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
181. L.A. Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
182. The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999)
183. E.T. (Spielberg, 1982)
184. I, Vitelloni (Fellini, 1953)
185. Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Malle, 1987)
186. Adaptation (Jonze, 2002)
187. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra, 1936)
188. The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988)
189. Roman Holiday (Wyler, 1953)
190. Babe (Noonan, 1995)
191. The Exorcist (Friedkin, 1973)
192. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
193. Sideways (Payne, 2004)
194. Dumb and Dumber (The Farrellys, 1994)
195. Kill Bill Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Tarantino, 2003/2004)
196. Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968)
197. Les Diaboliques (Clouzot, 1955)
198. Amadeus (Forman, 1984)
199. The Assassination of Jesse James (Dominik, 2007)
200. Hawks and Sparrows (Pasolini, 1966)

[ThaJackaL]

Well I wont give you that many but here is my top 100 list...

My Top 100:
001. STAR WARS: Both Trilogy's (fav in order = Sith, Empire, New Hope, Clones, Jedi, Menece)
002. SCARFACE
003. Juice
004. A Night Mare on Elm Street
005. BATMAN BEGINS
006. SUPERMAN: [All 4 movies in order 3, 1, 2, 4]
007. The X-Files [Fight the future]
008. Back to the Future: Trilogy
009. The Karate Kid: Trilogy
010. BATMAN: [1,2,3]
011. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
012. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
013. The Godfather: Trilogy
014. Half Baked
015. The Goonies
016. The Terminator: Trilogy
017. Forrest Gump
018. The Exorcist
019. Fight Club
020. Old School
021. Scream: Trilogy
022. American Psycho
023. Kung Pow
024. Equilibrium
025. Bubba Ho-Tep
026. Indiana Jones: Trilogy
027. SNATCH
028. Friday: Trilogy
027. Donnie Darko
028. Dumb & Dumber
029. The Grinch
030. Legends of the Fall
031. Revenge of the Nerds 1 & 2
032. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
033. The Majestic
034. Wedding Crashers
035. Poetic Justice
036. The Day after Tomorrow
037. Office Space
038. Frailty
039. Shrek 1 & 2
040. The Lion King
041. Liar Liar
042. Hannibal: Trilogy
043. Legends of the Fall
044. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
045. Lord of the Rings: Trilogy
046. The Matrix
047. The Notebook
048. Saving Private Ryan
049. South Park: The Movie - Bigger longer, and uncut
050. The Sixth Sense
051. GhostBusters 1 & 2
052. RAMBO (1,2,3)
053. Clerks 1 & 2
054. Contact
055. The Green Mile
056. The Truman Show
057. The Count of Monte Cristo
058. Casultys of War
059. Teen Wolf 1 & 2
060. Malcom X
061. Napoleon Dynamite
062. The Fly (Jeff Goldblum)
063. Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2
064. Coming to America
065. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
066. Toy Story 1 & 2
067. Star Gate
068. American Pie (1,2,3)
069. Beverly Hills Cop: Trilogy
070. Van Wilder
072. A Beautiful Mind
073. Ace Ventura 1 & 2
074. Zoolander
075. Teenage Mutant NinJa Turtles: Trilogy
076. Men IN Black 1 & 2
077. Deuce Bigelow Male Gigolo 1 & 2
078. Rocky (1,2,3,4,5)
079. Rush Hour 1 & 2
080. Throw Mama From The Train
081. HELLBOY
082. BoyZ N the hood
083. Police Academy: [All of them]
084. DOGMA
085. Training Day
086. Frequency
087. Made
088. Anchorman
089. Short Circuit 1 & 2
090. There's something about Mary
091. A Night at the Roxbury
092. Road Trip
093. Dodgeball
094. MallRats
095. The Mummy & The Mummy Returns
096. Weird Science
097. Se7en
098. Whats Eating Gilbert Grape
099. Behind Enemy Lines
100. Weekend at Bernies

here is my collection... I think ive shown this before heh.. Diffrent time, and diffrent place.
But yet oh so familur... Anyway this is my collection.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/ThaJackaL/mydvds001.jpg

[bubbachump]

i'll edit it as i go but so far off the top of my head it is:


1. Shawshank
2. The Fugitive
3. T2
4. X2
5. Godfather 2
6. Godfather
7. X-men
8. Titanic
9. Seven
10. Planet of the Apes (1968 not the 2001 crap!)

[TheMovieman]

Top 50:

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. American Beauty (1999)
3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
5. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
6. Schindler’s List (1993)
7. Monster’s Ball (2001)
8. Pulp Fiction (1994)
9. Heat (1994)
10. Casablanca (1942)
11. The Sixth Sense (1999)
12. Se7en (1995)
13. Lost in Translation (2003)
14. The Big Sleep (1946)
15. Chicago (2002)
16. Batman Begins (2005)
17. Gladiator (2000)
18. Match Point (2005)
19. Vanilla Sky (2001)
20. Traffic (2000)
21. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
23. 25th Hour (2002)
24. Crash (2005)
25. Persona (1967)
26. Collateral (2004)
27. Finding Neverland (2004)
28. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
29. Notorious (1946)
30. Rear Window (1954)
31. E.T.: The Extraterrestrial (1982)
32. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
33. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
34. Mulholland Drive (2001)
35. The Truman Show (1998)
36. In the Bedroom (2001)
37. The Sting (1973)
38. The 39 Steps (1935)
39. Strangers on a Train (1951)
40. The Untouchables (1987)
41. Black Hawk Down (2001)
42. L.A. Confidential (1997)
43. Annie Hall (1977)
44. The Graduate (1967)
45. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
46. Raging Bull (1980)
47. Citizen Kane (1941)
48. Memento (2001)
49. A Simple Plan (1998)
50. The Last Samurai (2003)


BTW, nice setup Jackal. I have around 750 DVDs now but they're split up into several areas. One day I'd like to convert my one room to house them all.

[bryan1311]

My top 100 has been under massive upheaval...I'll update it again when I get back next week.

I've lately been watching TONS of foriegn movies such as Shoot the Piano Player, La Dolce Vita, and The 400 Blows(I LOVE Truffaut).

[bryan1311]

Well hell, since I found the archived old forums I'll just post it since I won't have to find the years and directors again...

1.8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
2.Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)
3.Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
4.Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
5.Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
6.All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
7.2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
8.The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
9.Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
10.Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
11.The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1997)
12.Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
13.Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
14.The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
15.Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
16.The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
17.Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
18.Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
19.Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
20.Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
21.Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
22.The Story of Adele H. (François Truffaut, 1975)
23.The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
24.Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
25.Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones, 1975)
26. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
27.Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
28.The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
29.The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
30.Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
31.The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
32.Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978
33.The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
34.12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
35. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
36.To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
37.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
38.Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
39.The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968)
40.Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
41.Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg,1981)
42. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
43.All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930)
44.The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
45.Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
46.Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002)
47.Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)
48.Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
49.Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
50.Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989)
51.A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
52.Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
53.Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
54.Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
55.Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
56.Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
57.Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright, 2005)
58.United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
59.Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut, 1960)
60.Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
61.Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990)
62.The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
63.The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
64.Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
65. X-Men 2(Bryan Singer, 2004)
66.King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
67.Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
68.Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg, 1987)
69.Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)
70.Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
71. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2003)
72.Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004
73.Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
74.Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
75. The Long Goodbye(Robert Altman, 1973)
76.Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
77.The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985)
78.Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale/Kirk Wise, 1991)
79.Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
80.Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
81.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)
82.Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
83.Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
84.Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
85.Master and Commander (Peter Weir, 2003)
86.Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
87.Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
88.Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)
89.Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
90.Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
91.Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
92.Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1997)
93. Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, 2002)
94.The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004)
95.The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
96.The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
97.Dr. Zhivago (David Lean, 1965)
98.M.A.S.H. (Robert Altman, 1970)
99. Finding Nemo (Mike Stanton, 2003)
100.Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)

101.Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005)
102.The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
103.A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, 2006)
104.North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

[TylerDurden]

I'm probably going to Netflix Shoot the Piano Player sometime in July. :yes4lo:

I also hope to catch some of the Antoine Doinel sequels before the year is over.

[TheMovieman]

List your 100 best movies:

1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
2. American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
3. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)
5. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004)
6. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
7. Monster’s Ball (Marc Forster, 2001)
8. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
9. Heat (Michael Mann, 1994)
10. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
11. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999)
12. Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
13. Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola, 2003)
14. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
15. Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)
16. Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
17. Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
18. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005)
19. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001)
20. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
21. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998)
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
23. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
24. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1967)
25. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
26. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005)
27. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
28. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
29. E.T.: The Extraterrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
30. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)
31. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004)
32. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
33. Crash (Paul Haggis, 2005)
34. The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
35. In the Bedroom (Marc Forster, 2001)
36. The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
37. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
38. Finding Neverland (Marc Forster, 2004)
39. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
40. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987)
41. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001)
42. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
43. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
44. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
45. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
46. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
47. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
48. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2001)
49. A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi, 1998)
50. The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick, 2003)
51. Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995)
52. Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott, 2003)
53. Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
54. Seabiscuit (Gary Ross, 2003)
55. Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
56. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, 2004)
57. Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
58. Cinderella Man (Ron Howard, 2005)
59. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)
60. Untitled: Almost Famous the Bootleg Cut (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
61. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005)
62. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, 2004)
63. Adaptation (2002)
64. Office Space (1999)
65. Big Fish (Tim Burton, 2003)
66. The French Connection (1971)
67. The Horse Whisperer (1998)
68. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
69. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
70. Speed (Jan De Bont, 1994)
71. Man on Fire (Tony Scott, 2004)
72. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
73. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan, 2002)
74. The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999)
75. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
76. Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995)
77. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)
78. Walk the Line (James Mangold, 2005)
79. The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson, 2004)
80. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)
81. King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
82. Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson/Kelly Asbury/Conrad Vernon, 2004)
83. Ray (Taylor Hackford, 2004)
84. Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)
85. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989)
86. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
87. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
88. Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)
89. The Game (David Fincher, 1997)
90. The Poseidon Adventure (Ronald Neame, 1972)
91. Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989)
92. Superman (Richard Donner, 1978)
93. The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993)
94. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)
95. Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953)
96. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
97. Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
98. The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004)
99. Mr. Holland’s Opus (Stephen Herek, 1995)
100. House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman, 2003)

PS: I'm adopting Tyler's method (and am currently doing so on my Word file) so I can figure out how many movies I've seen by director. So there are still some on here not done yet (either I missed it or wasn't sure).

[Kolt]

STAR WARS

THE PHANTOM MENACE
ATTACK OF THE CLONES
REVENGE OF THE SITH
A NEW HOPE
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
RETURN OF THE JEDI

INDIANA JONES

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
THE LAST CRUSADE
INDY' 4....my fingers are crossed


The films above are my champions. Hands down.

MY TOP 10: (These are the ones that come close 2nd to Star Wars and Indiana Jones)

1. Conan the Barbarian.
2. Jaws
3. Bram Stokers Dracula
4. Apocalypes Now
5. Bladerunner
6. Lost In Translation
7. Big Trouble In Little China
8. Fantasia
9. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Below are the rest of my all time favorites. (Not quite my top 10 but they definitely belong here.)

In no particular order.



E.T.
Close Encounters
The Magnificent Seven
Scarface
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Taxi Driver
Master and Commander
Heat
Dr. No
Goldfinger
Highlander
The Maltese Falcon
Ferris Bullers Day Off
Tombstone
Star Trek II Wrath of Khan
Witness
Mad Max
Mad Max Road Warrior
Bambi
Pulp Fiction
A Few Dollars More
V for Vendetta
Quigley Down Under
The 13th Warrior
Saving Private Ryan
Dragonslayer
Alien
The Aviator
Rob Roy
Superman Returns
Minority Report
The Hunt for Red October
Monty Pythons The Holy Grail
Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
True Romance
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai
The Departed
Jason and the Argonauts

[Fletch]

I might have said you had a great list, but the fact that any (yea, I said ANY) of the Star Wars prequels are on a "Top Movies" list pretty much negates it.

I don't care if you gave birth to Lucas - those movies suck chrome off bumpers.

[Kolt]

Yeah, I get that a lot. What can I say....


When it comes to the Star Wars prequels I've found that I really only have two options.

1. Dive - head first - into a full all encompassing detailed explanation as to why I like these films and why I think they are vasty underrated and missunderstood. This would require me to layout a multiple page thesis discussing all aspects of, not just Star Wars, but the art form of cinema itself. Or at least my view of it.

2. Keep my response to a basic: "I like 'em cause' I like 'em" .


The point is that there is no in between. I can't just half ass my reasons with a few summed up paragraphs. It's either all or nothin'.

But I'm not going to get on your case just because you don't like what I like. I'm cool with it.

Though I would like to see your favorites list. And I hope you incorporate Fletch Lives. That movie's pimp.

[Fletch]

I do like me some Fletch Lives, but it won't making my top 10 list anytime soon. The first one, however, definitely would (obviously).

I'd love to see a thesis on those movies, if for no other reason than to shoot holes in all the logic presented.

Trust me, I've tried to like them. Tried to let all the kiddie stuff go. I can't do it. They get exponentially worse every time I see them.

Yes, there are good scenes here and there, but (much like with the two Matrix sequels), their mere existence makes the ones that came before them that much worse.

But I'm willing to let it go (I think). ;)

[LemonLyman]

I have seen 89 of the films on your list Mr. Durden.

I will hopefully have an updated list up relatively soon of my top 100 films.

[LemonLyman]

My top 100 list. I might try to do a 101-200 list as well soon.

Enjoy.

1.JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
2.Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
3.Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
4.Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
5.Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
6.Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
7.Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
8.The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
9.Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
10.Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
11.A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
12.The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
13.Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
14.Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
15.Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
16.Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
17.2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
18.The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
19.Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
20.Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)
21.Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
22.The Tragedy of Macbeth (Roman Polanski, 1971)
23.Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
24.The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965)
25.The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
26.The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
27.L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
28.Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, 2001)
29.Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
30.Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
31.To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
32.Big Fish (Tim Burton, 2003)
33.The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
34.Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
35.Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
36.Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
37.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
38.American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999)
39.A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
40.The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
41.It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
42.A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1992)
43.Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
44.Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
45.Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998)
46.Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
47.Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
48.Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, 2002)
49.Schlinder’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
50.Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
51.Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
52.Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
53.Romeo & Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968)
54.Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
55.Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
56.The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
57.The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
58.Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989)
59.Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
60.The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
61.Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981)
62.Nixon (Oliver Stone, 1995)
63.West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
64.Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
65.E.T. (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
66.Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
67.The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
68.The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
69.The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999)
70.The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
71.Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988)
72.The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956)
73.Beauty of the Beast (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, 1991)
74.Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
75.12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
76.Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
77.The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2004)
78.The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
79.Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)
80.The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
81.Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
82.Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone, 1989)
83.Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
84.Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1998)
85.Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates, 2007)
86.The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
87.William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996)
88.Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990)
89.Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks, 1983)
90.Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
91.Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
92.Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Animated/No Official Director, 1937)
93.John Grisham’s The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola, 1997)
94.Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
95.The War Room (Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker)
96.Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000)
97.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuaron, 2004)
98.As Good as it Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997)
99.Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980)
100.Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002)

[The Mighty Celestial]

10. Empire Strikes Back - For the movie itself, what can I say about it that hasn't already been said?
Instead, I'll just relay my opinion on the experience of this film.
This was back when movies would stay in theatres, not for weeks at a time, but for months.
I think that, on the majority, audiences today have been so desensitized from so-so blockbusters being released every other week-end, that they will never get to experience the feeling a big movie-event like Star Wars. The year of Empire was one of my fave summers ever as a kid. It was really cool knowing that I could hop on the city bus at any point during the season & go watch TESB. And every time that I did, the other audience members were just as excited to be seeing this film at the end of the summer as they were at the beginning. Every year that one of the 3 original films was released, you could not only feel the power of the "Force" within the air, but also, you could feel it in the air all season long.

9. Ghandi - The British Empire, humbled via one man & the power of peaceful resistance.
Nuff said.

8. House Of Flying Daggers - Growing up, it always frustrated me whenever the majority of big budget action flicks or martial arts movies of the time often seemed to sacrifice on story to make room for the big bangs & the action effects. It was generally said, that in these types of movies, you couldn't really have both. And I was one those kids who always asked "Why not?"
And then came the House Of Flying Daggers. And with it's beatufil story of love & intrigue, combined with lavish costumes, great performances & unique individually themed action sequences, it seemed to asked the very same question.

7. Raiders Of The Lost Ark - Simply, the best action/adventure movie ever.

6. Good Will Hunting - It's surprising that after winning an Oscar for the script, Damon & Affleck have not written more stuff for Hollywood.

5. Goodfellas - You just can't beat this gangster movie for charismatic energy. Scorcese pays close attention to the minute details that the mafia engage in for the sake of maintaining the lifestyle that they have become accustomed to. And then director shows how that type of self-contained lifestyle can only eventually crumble as the outside world continually changes & evolves.


4. Aliens - This movie has everything that I look forward to in a sci-fi adventure. Suspenseful action, solid story, distinct characters (with great chemistry) , great visuals, kick-ass aliens, a turning plot-twist ( we all thought for sure, that Bishop couldn't be trusted), & of course, a catch-phrase that made the entire theatre roar (" Get away from her, you bitch!").

Mannnn.... I wish I had acid for blood.

3. Close Encounters Of The 3rd. Kind - For me, the most realistic handling of a story of aliens ( inspiring films like Contact & Signs which tried admirably to emulate), that it made it almost believable for me that extra-terrestrials do exist. Also, it was done with such a sense of awe-inspiring hope & elegant beauty, that it almost made me wish that they did indeed exist( & maybe aliens do, but that's an entirely different website, altogether).

Mannnn.... I wish a UFO would come down & fly me away into the limitless potential of space.
(Sans anal-probes, of course.)

2. Superman - Yep. The fact that this #2 of my favorite movies ever is evidence that I am a huge comicbook nerd. And since admitting that usually doesn't garner much respect, I only expect the best when a project interprets my favorite medium up on the big screen. We comicbook fans don't need any more ammunition to makes us seem any more goofy. We can do that all by ourselves. ALL by ourselves.
And no matter what anyone says, this is the original gangsta of superheroes. So it is only fitting that the last son of Krypton's big-budget movie debut should turn out to be the one that all other comic-book based superhero movies must be measured by. And while I know that this movie does have it's dated flaws, it was, just like the character whom it portrayed, the one that started on how epic the idea of a superhero could truly be.

1. The Godfather - I could go on & on with why I agree with so many people of why this is such a great movie, but instead, I'll do a top ten within a top ten.
Top 10 reasons why I like the Godfather:

10. The late great John Cazale.
9. Marlon Brando is back with a performance uniquely his own.
8. James Caan. IMO, his best performance ever & the best character in the movie.
7. All the "oranges=death/violent act" scenes.
6. Apollonia!!! :gyes:
5. Vito Corleone's "...And that I do not forgive" speech during the meeting of the criminal masterminds.
4. Lines like "Sleeping with the fishes" or " Time to take out the mattresses", phrases that have since become part of popular culture.
3. Sonny's death scene.
2. The theme song.
1. Francis Ford Coppola's masterful use of foreshadowing.
Example:When Luca Brasi ( the guy who ends up sleeping with the fishes) goes to make a deal with the rival crime-family, he walks thru a glass door that leads to the bar where he will meet his end. As the door closes, the scene is shot looking at Luca from behind, setting up the shot to so that you will notice fish designs that have been engraved into the glass & give the impression that they are surrounding Luca's body.
Awesome. Simply awesome.