The Movie Forums Top 100 of All-Time Refresh: Countdown

To what pretty place can a young man go to find those blooming skyscrapers?

Okay, I'll go a step further with the hint and say that "young man" is there for a specific reason, and that "blooming" points to both films.

8 1/2 is one of my favorite films of all-time, possibly top ten. Where do I even begin? This film is a nightmare, hallucination, and blissful dream all at once. It's a film about filmmaking, yes, but it's also about a man making sense of the unapologetic world around him –– one where a 'writer's block' is an excuse, not a genuine issue. The surrealistic imagery is what many recall. But I also want to credit Fellini's storytelling, which infuses a sense of focus with a clear goal and stakes: The main character, Guido, must complete a science fiction movie in time. As someone who's both struggles with mild anxiety and loves being creative (often failing), a lot of this film speaks to me. Fellini made it so I don't have to.

I'm also a huge fan of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid! It's a movie you can turn to enjoy and relax without having to feel guilty afterwards. Hilarious banter, awesome action –– even by today's standards –– and two iconic performances. Easy Top 100 material.

My guess is: Star Wars Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)

Im going to take a guess..

Dark City
Inception

Love the Persona callback in Mulholland Drive. I am sure you know the one I mean.

Yea, funny story. Someone had recommended Mulholland Drive to me at... I want to say I was at a friend's house playing M:TG or board games or something back then. This was on a Saturday night, so the next day, I went down to Blockbuster Video and rented the Mulholland Drive DVD. My GF at the time and I watched it, and I remember being fairly angry that i had wasted my time on the thing. GF just shrugged her shoulders and said "some scenes were kind of cool, but that didn't make any sense."

I was so pissed, I drove back to blockbuster just before they closed, handed the DVD to the guy, and said something along the lines of it being the worst **** I had ever seen etc. etc., to which the guy replied that i could grab another film free of charge if I wanted. I don't recall what I picked then, so it was clearly something forgettable.

A funny thing happened, though. The next day, all day, while I was at work, I just couldn't stop thinking about the film. Some tiny, crawling, Lynchian worm was in me brain. By the time I got out of work, I did what anyone who had watched a film the previous night and hated it would do - I went a bought a copy of the DVD. I managed 6 more viewings in the following week. I became rather obsessed with Mulholland Drive for quite a while after that, and still count it among my favorites, even if its hold over me has lessened over time, falling off my Top 10 a while back.

I was about to say that there's no way in hell Dark City makes it on the list, but I see it made your 2010 list. If it did make it now, that would make me very, very happy. Happier if The Matrix didn't make it

Speaking of Fellini and to follow the tradition of past films on the list, as someone who has only seen 8 1/2, where should I go next?

Here's a question I was thinking about looking at my list. How many of your 25 have you only seen once? I have 3. I love to rewatch movies but there is so much left out there to see that many times I skip a rewatch for something new. I really value that initial watch too. Maybe more than I should considering my memory. Thoughts?

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

(repeated) "Who ARE those guys?"

This is the second film I had actually remembered seeing in my very early life at the Drive-In at around 3 years old. (The first was Romeo & Juliet). I remember being utterly heartbroken at the now famous ending. Sitting in the very back of the family station wagon, paralyzed with shock and remorse at the two outlaws I had found so lovable as we pulled away with the credits rolling.
That sadness remained on the countless viewings since then. Even today, knowing the movie back and front, I still feel that pang of sadness as Butch pauses before they step out. "You didn't see Le Fors out there, did ya?" "No." "Good. For a second there, I thought we were in trouble."

With a large part of the film actually correct and what remains being just good entertaining film making, we get a look at one of the final legendary outlaw men of the West; Butch Cassidy aka Robert LeRoy Parker and his partner, The Sundance Kid aka Harry Longabaugh.
An absolutely fun romp brim filled with the charismatic performances of Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The rapport between the two shines in the little nuances, side looks and the sarcastic quips between the two that continues throughout to the final scene.

Directed by George Roy Hill who adds splashes of grittiness and employs, in the opening as well as a montage in the middle, a sepia toned imagery creating a bridge to the turn of the century of 1900 when the actual gang etched their names into the West's History.

Along with the very beautiful Katherine Ross as Etta Place, there is also some great cameos in this film that include Kenneth Mars as the unsuccessful Sheriff attempting to raise a posse in Wixom after the first train robbery, a rather spicy Cloris Leachman playing prostitute Agnes who curls up with Butch during their hiding out from Le Fors and his daunting posse. Strother Martin playing the "colorful", tobacco spitting payroll officer in Bolivia, and, yes, the towering, bass voiced Logan who threatens to take over Butch's gang IS Ted Cassidy who many of us old timers remember as Lurch from the TV Show The Addams Family.

A beloved, very well known movie that is always a delightful watch and, quite obviously, a huge favorite of mine.

Newman & Redford are bosses, #6 from my Western ballot.
Glad Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made it without my help. +

Haven't seen 8 ˝, is Kim Basinger in it?

Seen: 15/20

Watchlist:
Suspiria, The Seventh Seal, The Castle of Cagliostro, A Man For All Seasons, Irreversible, Army of Darkness, The 10th Victim, Malena, Sunday in New York, Ikiru, Cabaret, Harold and Maude, 8 ˝

Late response to a question posted a few pages ago.. Next Wilder I'm viewing is Stalag 17 because; Ed + Holden + Real Holden; should be good.

There are no films from my 25 I've seen only once.

Speaking of Fellini and to follow the tradition of past films on the list, as someone who has only seen 8 1/2, where should I go next?

...My parents took me to see Blazing Saddles.


Now you know why I am like I am

( I hate comedies )

Gosh I hated Blazing Saddles, then again I can't stand Airplane! either.

Gosh I hated Blazing Saddles, then again I can't stand Airplane! either.

Watched it for the first time this year, I didn't like it either. Tried to rewatch Airplane a few years ago,that didn't take. I'm afraid to rewatch Naked Gun now. I loved that movie in my teens. Never laughed so hard in a theater.