Your top 100 favorte movies (1 Viewer)

[jdoggydogg]

Top 20:The ShiningTaxi DriverApocalypse NowReservoir DogsThe ConversationLost HighwayDonnie DarkoClerksPsychoBlade Runner (Director's cut)GoodfellasTalk RadioSilence of the LambsPlanet of the ApesTrue RomanceBlue Velvet

Will you marry me?

Dude, post a list and I won't leave you.

 

[Flying V]

I'm still avoiding the lists themselves (until I post mine), but from the commentary I get the idea that most people have seen no more than 200 movies in their lives, and all of those have been from 1990 onward?

My list would probably only have 15 films from the last 20 years. I'm just a sucker for the classics and it takes a while for a good flick to reach classic status in my mind. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just the way I am.

 

[Iraqi Information Minister]

97. Grand Canyon

Very surprised to see this on anyone's list. Not disappointed, just surprised. Good film, always thought it was underappreciated.

Grand Canyon has one of my favorite movie quotes:"That's part of your problem: you haven't seen enough movies. All of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

I use this one on my family friends all the time.

 

[mon]

55. Monty Python and the Holy Grail56. The Meaning of Life57. Life of Brian

Did you really like The Meaning of Life that much? I thought it was inferior to Holy Grail & Life of Brian.

I just listed those Monty Python's there because I thought of them together. I actually just ranked my top 50, then just let the bottom 50 fall where they may. It probably is a little inferior, but I still loved it.

 

[jdoggydogg]

I'm still avoiding the lists themselves (until I post mine), but from the commentary I get the idea that most people have seen no more than 200 movies in their lives, and all of those have been from 1990 onward?

My list would probably only have 15 films from the last 20 years. I'm just a sucker for the classics and it takes a while for a good flick to reach classic status in my mind. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just the way I am.

I think we need to see classic movies through an entirely different filter. I love classic films for their stories and their mastery of the craft. But the aspect that newer movies have over classic films is realism. The acting is a lot better in modern movies. I know I'm about to start a war here, but so be it.

 

[Keith R]

I'm still avoiding the lists themselves (until I post mine), but from the commentary I get the idea that most people have seen no more than 200 movies in their lives, and all of those have been from 1990 onward?

My list would probably only have 15 films from the last 20 years. I'm just a sucker for the classics and it takes a while for a good flick to reach classic status in my mind. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just the way I am.

I think we need to see classic movies through an entirely different filter. I love classic films for their stories and their mastery of the craft. But the aspect that newer movies have over classic films is realism. The acting is a lot better in modern movies. I know I'm about to start a war here, but so be it.

I don't disagree, especially when it comes to sci-fi, most horror, and a lot of action. However, I abhor the overreliance of CGI.

 

[Flying V]

I'm still avoiding the lists themselves (until I post mine), but from the commentary I get the idea that most people have seen no more than 200 movies in their lives, and all of those have been from 1990 onward?

My list would probably only have 15 films from the last 20 years. I'm just a sucker for the classics and it takes a while for a good flick to reach classic status in my mind. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just the way I am.

I think we need to see classic movies through an entirely different filter. I love classic films for their stories and their mastery of the craft. But the aspect that newer movies have over classic films is realism. The acting is a lot better in modern movies. I know I'm about to start a war here, but so be it.

I can see that based on the fact that it seemed to take forever for actors and directors to realize that acting on film is very different from acting on stage. A lot of what I like about old movies is the setting. It's great to see how different cities and even the countryside looked 50+ years ago. Plus, there was a lot more mystery and romance to life in general before the dawn of the Information Age.

 

[jdoggydogg]

I'm still avoiding the lists themselves (until I post mine), but from the commentary I get the idea that most people have seen no more than 200 movies in their lives, and all of those have been from 1990 onward?

My list would probably only have 15 films from the last 20 years. I'm just a sucker for the classics and it takes a while for a good flick to reach classic status in my mind. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just the way I am.

I think we need to see classic movies through an entirely different filter. I love classic films for their stories and their mastery of the craft. But the aspect that newer movies have over classic films is realism. The acting is a lot better in modern movies. I know I'm about to start a war here, but so be it.

I don't disagree, especially when it comes to sci-fi, most horror, and a lot of action. However, I abhor the overreliance of CGI.

Actually, I wasn't even thinking of effects when I wrote that. There's a certain odd cadence in the dialogue in old films - a rhythm. It probably goes to stage acting. But while the writing was often fantastic in these great old movies, the acting just seems silly when viewed through the modern eye.

 

[jdoggydogg]

I'm still avoiding the lists themselves (until I post mine), but from the commentary I get the idea that most people have seen no more than 200 movies in their lives, and all of those have been from 1990 onward?

My list would probably only have 15 films from the last 20 years. I'm just a sucker for the classics and it takes a while for a good flick to reach classic status in my mind. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just the way I am.

I think we need to see classic movies through an entirely different filter. I love classic films for their stories and their mastery of the craft. But the aspect that newer movies have over classic films is realism. The acting is a lot better in modern movies. I know I'm about to start a war here, but so be it.

I can see that based on the fact that it seemed to take forever for actors and directors to realize that acting on film is very different from acting on stage. A lot of what I like about old movies is the setting. It's great to see how different cities and even the countryside looked 50+ years ago. Plus, there was a lot more mystery and romance to life in general before the dawn of the Information Age.

Sure. What I like about old movies, and this is something rarely captured in modern films, is the use of silence and quiet moments. It seems like Independent cinema is one of the only surviving genres that understands that the viewer doesn't need every single second filled with noise.

 

[Gadfly]

Oh yeah, the acting Predators is a lot better than the acting in Casablanca or Citizen Kane.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Oh yeah, the acting Predators is a lot better than the acting in Casablanca or Citizen Kane.

Sure. That's exactly what I meant.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I'm still avoiding the lists themselves (until I post mine), but from the commentary I get the idea that most people have seen no more than 200 movies in their lives, and all of those have been from 1990 onward?

My list would probably only have 15 films from the last 20 years. I'm just a sucker for the classics and it takes a while for a good flick to reach classic status in my mind. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just the way I am.

I think we need to see classic movies through an entirely different filter. I love classic films for their stories and their mastery of the craft. But the aspect that newer movies have over classic films is realism. The acting is a lot better in modern movies. I know I'm about to start a war here, but so be it.

I don't disagree, especially when it comes to sci-fi, most horror, and a lot of action. However, I abhor the overreliance of CGI.

Actually, I wasn't even thinking of effects when I wrote that. There's a certain odd cadence in the dialogue in old films - a rhythm. It probably goes to stage acting. But while the writing was often fantastic in these great old movies, the acting just seems silly when viewed through the modern eye.

Agree 100%. I usually take flak for being a movie lover and not having a boner for the classics, but this is the main reason why. There seems to be a weird, wooden delivery that a lot of times starts to grate on me. I do enjoy them because the great ones had to be plot and dialogue driven and that's what I like for movies in general, but it is a love/hate relationship for me.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Oh yeah, the acting Predators is a lot better than the acting in Casablanca or Citizen Kane.

That's a little extreme. Just compare the great actors in the past with actors now, and tell me there isn't a huge difference. How about Bogart vs. DDL ?

 

[Mr. Know-It-All]

Best I could do - sure I am missing several, but these are just taken from the movies I have on hand:

A Perfect World

Alien

Anchorman

Animal House

Apocalypse Now

Beauty and the Beast

Big Fish

Big Red One

Billy Madison

Blazing Saddles

Boogie Nights

Braveheart

Breakfast Club

Brooklyn Tale

Bugs Life

Bull Durham

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Caddyshack

Casino

Christine

Christmas Vacation

Chronicles of Narnia

Dances with Wolves

Deliverance

Die Hard (all)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Elf

Excalibur

Executioners Song

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Field of Dreams

First Blood

Forrest Gump

Full Metal Jacket

Gettysburg

Gladiator

Godfather, 1 & 2

Gods and Generals

Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Goodfellas

Goonies

Green Mile

Groundhog Day

Highlander

History of the World

Jaws

Lion King

Little Shop of Horrors

Long Riders

Lord of the Rings (all)

Magnificent Seven

Major League

Mary Poppins

Matrix

Mississippi Burning

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

My Blue Heaven

My Life

Natural

O Brother Where Art Thou

Office Space

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Outlaw Josey Wales

Pale Rider

Passion of the Crist

Patriot

Philadelphia

Pirates of the Caribbean (all)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Predator

Princess Bride

Raging Bull

Raiders of the Lost Ark (all)

Rain Man

Rocky (all)

Saving Private Ryan

Scarface

Shining

Silence of the Lambs

Sixteen Candles

Sixth Sense

Smokey and the Bandit

Sound of Music

Stand By Me

Star Wars (all)

Ten Commandments

Thing

This Boys Life

Tommy Boy

Top Gun

Toy Story

True Romance

Uncle Buck

Unforgiven

Vacation

Waterboy

We Were Soldiers

Weird Science

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory(original)

Wizard of Oz

 

[wikkidpissah]

I'm still avoiding the lists themselves (until I post mine), but from the commentary I get the idea that most people have seen no more than 200 movies in their lives, and all of those have been from 1990 onward?

My list would probably only have 15 films from the last 20 years. I'm just a sucker for the classics and it takes a while for a good flick to reach classic status in my mind. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just the way I am.

I think we need to see classic movies through an entirely different filter. I love classic films for their stories and their mastery of the craft. But the aspect that newer movies have over classic films is realism. The acting is a lot better in modern movies. I know I'm about to start a war here, but so be it.

I don't disagree, especially when it comes to sci-fi, most horror, and a lot of action. However, I abhor the overreliance of CGI.

Actually, I wasn't even thinking of effects when I wrote that. There's a certain odd cadence in the dialogue in old films - a rhythm. It probably goes to stage acting. But while the writing was often fantastic in these great old movies, the acting just seems silly when viewed through the modern eye.

It doesnt have as much to do with theatrical style as it does the evolution of public psychology. The media-saturated generations dont understand how differently the worldwise communicate with each other to their even very recent ancestors.My favorite example is sarcasm. As a practitioner of the art for half a century, I can tell you that the world didnt begin to catch up to those for whom it came naturally until the mid to late 70s, when the cultural upheaval of the 60s & Watergate began to let people feel comfortable with not respecting/fearing our institutions enough to laugh at them. The deadpan assertions of the ridiculous which is a great part of social style these days was actually largely brought to America by having David Letterman in homes five days a week.Back to the original point, though - the ham-fisted movie dialogue of its early generations. It comes from the fact that people simply did not have inner monologues, by & large, til the movies and radio taught them how to. Behavioral styles were set in churches until the World Wars brought people from so many strata of society together under extraordinarily dramatic & immediate circumstances. At the same time, stories were first being told to mass audiences in media, so writers of same had to come up with both new expositional styles for the capacity for telling stories which occured over significant periods of time and express the reaction to same by the principals. It grew from the odd, declarative style of traditional theater into, largely thru the pathos & bathos of Yiddish theater & vaudeville, into stylized approximations of personality types. The number & variety of those expanded when naturalism and confessional methods of expressing oneself followed the aftershocks of WW2 and art & life have grown together in the decades since. The true beauty of language is how it grows and our communicative options have expanded almost as quickly as our technological ones. Speech, both personal & theatrical, has therefore become as different from that of 60-70 yrs ago as a microwave has from an wood cooking stove. I guess I'm lucky to have crossed enough of the history of mass media to be able to contextualize most of it, but i can assure you that you would sound no less ridiculous to a person in 1938 than they do to you. Failure to appreciate that robs one of so much depth in understanding of whence we sprang.Those interested in understanding it further should go back to the beginning. The wonderful critic Harold Bloom has written a book "Shakespeare: Invention of the Human" that showed how the Bard helped free people from the notion that all their instincts were part of the Voice of God by creating archetypes of personality into which to escape. wikkid say check it.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Actually, I wasn't even thinking of effects when I wrote that. There's a certain odd cadence in the dialogue in old films - a rhythm. It probably goes to stage acting. But while the writing was often fantastic in these great old movies, the acting just seems silly when viewed through the modern eye.

Agree 100%. I usually take flak for being a movie lover and not having a boner for the classics, but this is the main reason why. There seems to be a weird, wooden delivery that a lot of times starts to grate on me. I do enjoy them because the great ones had to be plot and dialogue driven and that's what I like for movies in general, but it is a love/hate relationship for me.

I'll watch classic films any time. I like them a lot. Just saying that acting has morphed over the generations into something more believable.

 

[timschochet]

Oh yeah, the acting Predators is a lot better than the acting in Casablanca or Citizen Kane.

That's a little extreme. Just compare the great actors in the past with actors now, and tell me there isn't a huge difference. How about Bogart vs. DDL ?

Both are great actors. Day-Lewis is more of a modern, "method" type actor, but Bogart is excellent too- ever see him as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny? In addition to acting skills, there is such a thing as screen presence that has value as well- making a figure on screen the one you always notice. Many actors have this, but Bogart may have had more of it than anyone in movie history.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Actually, I wasn't even thinking of effects when I wrote that. There's a certain odd cadence in the dialogue in old films - a rhythm. It probably goes to stage acting. But while the writing was often fantastic in these great old movies, the acting just seems silly when viewed through the modern eye.

It doesnt have as much to do with theatrical style as it does the evolution of public psychology. The media-saturated generations dont understand how differently the worldwise communicate with each other to their even very recent ancestors.My favorite example is sarcasm. As a practitioner of the art for half a century, I can tell you that the world didnt begin to catch up to those for whom it came naturally until the mid to late 70s, when the cultural upheaval of the 60s & Watergate began to let people feel comfortable with not respecting/fearing our institutions enough to laugh at them. The deadpan assertions of the ridiculous which is a great part of social style these days was actually largely brought to America by having David Letterman in homes five days a week.Back to the original point, though - the ham-fisted movie dialogue of its early generations. It comes from the fact that people simply did not have inner monologues, by & large, til the movies and radio taught them how to. Behavioral styles were set in churches until the World Wars brought people from so many strata of society together under extraordinarily dramatic & immediate circumstances. At the same time, stories were first being told to mass audiences in media, so writers of same had to come up with both new expositional styles for the capacity for telling stories which occured over significant periods of time and express the reaction to same by the principals. It grew from the odd, declarative style of traditional theater into, largely thru the pathos & bathos of Yiddish theater & vaudeville, into stylized approximations of personality types. The number & variety of those expanded when naturalism and confessional methods of expressing oneself followed the aftershocks of WW2 and art & life have grown together in the decades since. The true beauty of language is how it grows and our communicative options have expanded almost as quickly as our technological ones. Speech, both personal & theatrical, has therefore become as different from that of 60-70 yrs ago as a microwave has from an wood cooking stove. I guess I'm lucky to have crossed enough of the history of mass media to be able to contextualize most of it, but i can assure you that you would sound no less ridiculous to a person in 1938 than they do to you. Failure to appreciate that robs one of so much depth in understanding of whence we sprang.Those interested in understanding it further should go back to the beginning. The wonderful critic Harold Bloom has written a book "Shakespeare: Invention of the Human" that showed how the Bard helped free people from the notion that all their instincts were part of the Voice of God by creating archetypes of personality into which to escape. wikkid say check it.

Great post.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Oh yeah, the acting Predators is a lot better than the acting in Casablanca or Citizen Kane.

That's a little extreme. Just compare the great actors in the past with actors now, and tell me there isn't a huge difference. How about Bogart vs. DDL ?

Both are great actors. Day-Lewis is more of a modern, "method" type actor, but Bogart is excellent too- ever see him as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny? In addition to acting skills, there is such a thing as screen presence that has value as well- making a figure on screen the one you always notice. Many actors have this, but Bogart may have had more of it than anyone in movie history.

Bogart is a great actor, and he always will be.

 

[Abrantes]

I really am looking forward to seeing these lists and posting my own.

 

[krista4]

I really am looking forward to seeing these lists and posting my own.

OK, I will. Had a preliminary list when my computer went wacky and would have to start again. Will do it, for you.

 

[Abrantes]

I really am looking forward to seeing these lists and posting my own.

OK, I will. Had a preliminary list when my computer went wacky and would have to start again. Will do it, for you.

Victory is sweet.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

"That's part of your problem: you haven't seen enough movies. All of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

 

[Kenny Powers]

Might as well take some movie out of my Top 100 and put Inception in there somewhere. I guess Bio Dome might have to go.

 

[dude]

Might as well take some movie out of my Top 100 and put Inception in there somewhere. I guess Bio Dome might have to go.

 

[jdoggydogg]

I really am looking forward to seeing these lists and posting my own.

OK, I will. Had a preliminary list when my computer went wacky and would have to start again. Will do it, for you.

This year?

 

[simey]

i know there are some movies i'm forgetting, but here is a top 100 that i can think of now in no particular order...

1 - dog day afternoon

2 - on golden pond

3 - papillon

4 - north by northwest

5 - forrest gump

6 - psycho

7 - halloween

8 - jaws

9 - raising arizona

10 - butch cassidy and the sundance kid

11 - dirty harry

12 - saturday night fever

13 - urban cowboy

14 - goodfellas

15 - parenthood

16 - ordinary people

17 - one flew over the cuckoos nest

18 - the shining

19 - willie wonka and the chocolate factory

20 - what's eating gilbert grape

21 - the brady bunch movie

22 - a very brady sequel

23 - the last picture show

24 - slingblade

25 - breaking away

26 - the verdict

27 - the deer hunter

28 - bringing up baby

29 - smokey and the bandit

30 - the conversation

31- the apartment

32 - deliverance

33 - body heat

34 - silence of the lambs

35 - we were soldiers

36 - glengarry glen ross

37 - mask

38 - a time to kill

39 - blazzing saddles

40 - the rose

41 - vertigo

42 - network

43 - chinatown

44 - the godfather

45 - godfather II

46 - the days of wine and roses

47 - the departed

48 - the graduate

49 - frailty

50 - coming home

51 - gladiator

52 - boyz n the hood

53 - some like it hot

54 - whatever happened to baby jane

55 - hush hush sweet charlotte

56 - a perfect world

57 - the game

58 - chitty chitty bang bang

59 - the sound of music

60 - lady and the tramp

61 - the wizard of oz

62 - for a few more dollars

63 - tootsie

64 - the color purple

65 - misery

66 - national lampoons vacation

67 - a shot in the dark

68 - the green mile

69 - the pianist

70 - schindlers list

71 - fandango

72 - the jerk

73 - carlitos way

74 - cool hand luke

75 - the searchers

76 - terms of endearment

77 - 12 Angry men

78 - se7en

79 - double indemnity

80 - fried green tomatoes

81 - patton

82 - dangerous liasons

83 - the life of david gale

84 - when a stranger calls (original)

85 - this is spinal tap

86 - overboard

87 - ray

88 - fargo

89 - rear window

90 - a christmas story

91 - traffic

92 - trains, planes, and automobiles

93 - dead poets society

94 - cape fear

95 - almost famous

96 - the notebook

97 - gran torino

98 - tombstone

99 - the omen

100 - shawshank redemption

 

[Gottabesweet]

Memento

Big Fish

The Illusionist

The Prestige

Taxi Driver

Toy Story

Silence of the Lambs

Punch Drunk Love

Departed

Elf

Field of Dreams

Rudy

Jaws

Do The Right Thing

Some Like It Hot

Usual Suspects

Sixth Sense

Wizard Of Oz

Dog Day Afternoon

Halloween

Network

Schindler's List

12 Angry Men

A Christmas Story

The Dark Knight

Slumdog Millionare

Rocky

Ocean's 11

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Dumb and Dumber

Invictus

Happy Gilmore

Inglorious Bastards

Bad Santa

Wedding Crashers

No Country For Old Men

The Blind Side

Miracle

A Beautiful Mind

Rain Man

Old School

The Wrestler

 

[wikkidpissah]

The groundswell for Punch-Drunk Love (the only of the star's & director's movies ive thoroughly enjoyed) is interesting. Is it becoming the successor to Shawshank as the movie which reflects what's in the heart of the 30yo man?

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

60 - lady and the tramp82 - dangerous liasons85 - this is spinal tap87 - ray98 - tombstone

Overall, a very interesting list. Especially love these entries.

 

[krista4]

Working on it. Have it down to nine pages.

 

[krista4]

If I did this again five minutes from now, I'd come out with different answers. Probably fewer foreign films than some would expect. Only two Mongolian documentaries.

8½

25th Hour

After Hours

All about My Mother

Amadeus

Apocalypse Now

The Apostle

Au Hasard Balthazar

Babe

The Barbarian Invasions

The Battle of Algiers

Beauty and the Beast (the French one from the 1940s)

Being There

The Best Years of our Lives

The Bicycle Thieves

Buena Vista Social Club

Central Station

Children of Heaven

Chinatown

A Christmas Tale

Cinema Paradiso

City of God

The City of Lost Children

A Clockwork Orange

The Color of Paradise

Dancer in the Dark

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Do the Right Thing

Double Indemnity

Down By Law

Dr. Strangelove

The Elephant Man

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Fitzcarraldo

Gandhi

Genghis Blues

George Washington

Ghost Dog

Glengarry Glen Ross

Godfather

Godfather II

The Graduate

Harold and Maude

Hoop Dreams

Ikiru

In the Bedroom

The Iron Giant

It’s a Wonderful Life

The Jerk

The Killing Fields

Kings and Queen

Limbo

The Lives of Others

Lone Star

Lost in Translation

Magnolia

Miller’s Crossing

Monsoon Wedding

North by Northwest

Once

One Day in September

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Pan’s Labyrinth

The Player

The Princess Bride

Pulp Fiction

Rashomon

Rear Window

Reservoir Dogs

Roger & Me

Roman Holiday

Roxanne

Rushmore

Schindler’s List

Searching for Bobby Fischer

The Shining

Seven Samurai

The Seventh Seal

The Silence of the Lambs

Spellbound (the documentary, not the Hitchcock)

The Shop on Main Street

Sling Blade

The Story of the Weeping Camel

The Straight Story

The Sweet Hereafter

Tender Mercies

There Will Be Blood

The Thin Blue Line

Three Colors: Red/White/Blue (trilogy)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Umberto D.

The Up Series

The Vanishing

Waiting for Guffman

Waking Life

When the Levees Broke

When We Were Kings

Wings of Desire

Yi-Yi

 

[krista4]

60 - lady and the tramp82 - dangerous liasons85 - this is spinal tap87 - ray98 - tombstone

Overall, a very interesting list. Especially love these entries.

The first three were some of my very last cuts to my list.

 

[krista4]

A Simple Plan American Beauty American SplendorDangerous Liasons Dead Man Walking Diabolique (1955) Donnie Darko L.A. Confidential No Country For Old MenRequiem For A Dream The Third Man You Can Count On Me

These were all in the last 20 or so cuts I made. Particularly surprised/happy to see Diabolique and You Can Count on Me on someone's list!ETA: Just noticed Love and Death, too. In the last five I cut.

 

[krista4]

My top 100:

Very interesting. Deeply saddened Memento didn't make your top 100. It's in my top ten. Eternal Sunshine is in my top 25.I'll have to put together a list - this is going to be tough.ETA: Damn - no Mary Poppins either.

Memento was another of my final cuts.

 

[krista4]

A hundred? Oof. Here's the first ones that popped up, in no order.6. Ikiru8. High and Low45. Heaven Can Wait82. Before Sunrise90. Lilo & Stitch

I decided I could only fit one of "Ikiru" and "High and Low" and chose Ikiru. Heaven Can Wait was #101 for me. I had both Before Sunrise and Before Sunset near the end, but they just missed the cut.Lilo & Stitch?!? It was the last animated that came off the list. I didn't know anyone else loved that movie.

 

[krista4]

Did my top 50 here before, but never my top 100. Here they are, for now.64. Whale Rider85. Waking Life

Whale Rider another that would have made top 150. And I can't believe someone else had Waking Life. (I also had Dazed and Confused but cut it near the end.)

 

[wikkidpissah]

Being ThereOnce

- Not as many "huh?!" movies as i thought- I knew your list would influence a coupla changes on mine, but i cant BELIEVE I forgot "Being There". Punched the author @ Elaine's back in my glory days. Turns out he was a masochist & taunted yokels til they swung as a matter of sexual release. His "Painted Bird" is the book i would choose to film if i had my choice of any.- And "Once" tears me up just thinkin how much i love it. And the "making of" on the DVD actually does bring a tear to see what a labor of love it was.- No Macedonian or Quechuan?! You're slippin....- Like what you did sneakin all the Ups & colors in there as single pieces. Such a greedy *****.

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

I also had Dazed and Confused but cut it near the end.

I gotta work that one into my top 100.

 

[Bojang0301]

Way too hard but I'll put in some time... probably next weekend or weekend after before I'm done though.

 

[krista4]

Being ThereOnce

- Like what you did sneakin all the Ups & colors in there as single pieces. Such a greedy *****.

I wondered who would catch that. I did split the two Godfathers, though.

 

[Abrantes]

Lilo & Stitch?!? It was the last animated that came off the list. I didn't know anyone else loved that movie.

I figured that one might catch people off guard. I just looooooove Chris Sanders' designs and everything about the animation involved. Nothing groundbreaking about the story, but it's just really well done. Great timing on everything, and just a heaping plate of awesome.And Tender Mercies just missed the cut for me.

 

[drfeelgood]

Being ThereOnce

- Not as many "huh?!" movies as i thought- I knew your list would influence a coupla changes on mine, but i cant BELIEVE I forgot "Being There". Punched the author @ Elaine's back in my glory days. Turns out he was a masochist & taunted yokels til they swung as a matter of sexual release. His "Painted Bird" is the book i would choose to film if i had my choice of any.

I really liked "Being There" when it first came out at the theaters, but I watched it again about a year ago and it wasn't as good as I remembered.

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

I really liked "Being There" when it first came out at the theaters, but I watched it again about a year ago and it wasn't as good as I remembered.

I'm just the opposite. It got better with each viewing for me.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Being ThereOnce

- Not as many "huh?!" movies as i thought- I knew your list would influence a coupla changes on mine, but i cant BELIEVE I forgot "Being There". Punched the author @ Elaine's back in my glory days. Turns out he was a masochist & taunted yokels til they swung as a matter of sexual release. His "Painted Bird" is the book i would choose to film if i had my choice of any.

I really liked "Being There" when it first came out at the theaters, but I watched it again about a year ago and it wasn't as good as I remembered.

Understandable. Satire has had a really good run the last quarter century & may have dulled the edges on this. It's quiet nature really set it apart from the noisy lambasts of the form back then, but we seen all the speeds by now, so feeling that it falls back to the pack makes sense. I mostly watch it these days for the Chance to marvel at Sellers.

 

[jdoggydogg]

25th HourThe Barbarian InvasionsBeauty and the Beast (the French one from the 1940s)Cinema ParadisoIn the BedroomMagnoliaOncePan's LabyrinthWhen We Were Kings

I don't remember liking 25th Hour as much as the critics did, but maybe I should see it again. It's possible you and I are the only two people on the board that have seen Barbarian Invasions. Excellent movie. That Beauty and the Beast is so haunting. I saw it as a child, and I saw it recently at the local university. A beautiful movie. Surprised to see Cinema Paradiso and In the Bedroom on your list. Paradiso was very overrated. In the Bedroom was good, but I'm surprised you think it belongs on your 100 all time list.The inclusion of Magnolia makes me want to renew my wedding vows to you. Once is really good. This great friend of mine mailed me a copy of that once upon a time, and we liked it so much we bought the soundtrack. I can't say enough good things about Pan's Labyrinth. Finally saw it this year, and I loved it. Incredible movie. When We Were Kings is such a phenominal movie. Ali is probably the coolest guy that ever lived. And this documentary...it's so stunning. It's one of those rare documentaries where the filming is so lush, it's almost like watching a fictional film.

 

[jdoggydogg]

82 - dangerous liasons

Overall, a very interesting list. Especially love these entries.

The first three were some of my very last cuts to my list.

Love Dangerous Liasons. More people should see this movie.

 

[jdoggydogg]

A Simple Plan American Beauty American SplendorDangerous Liasons Dead Man Walking Diabolique (1955) Donnie Darko L.A. Confidential No Country For Old MenRequiem For A Dream The Third Man You Can Count On Me

These were all in the last 20 or so cuts I made. Particularly surprised/happy to see Diabolique and You Can Count on Me on someone's list!ETA: Just noticed Love and Death, too. In the last five I cut.

Diabolique is such a freaky movie. Loved it. You Can Count on Me is really a small movie, and I can see why it won't make some people's lists. But I thought it was pitch perfect.

 

[wikkidpissah]

It's possible you and I are the only two people on the board that have seen Barbarian Invasions. Excellent movie.

Au contraire, bien chien. The NFBC has been responsible for half the great small media I've taken in over the last 40 yrs (even my favorite TV show is Canadian - DaVinci's Inquest). Ever since the wonderful Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz with RDreyfuss and RQuaid ive kept a close eye on their wonderful, very human stories & BI was one of the best. Vive les Quebecois!!

 

[KarmaPolice]

OK, these are in no particular order, just listing my favorites until I get to 100:

Frankly, I expected to see a lot more musicals.