Guaporense's top 200 - 101 favorite films

[Guaporense]

When I did my top 100 list is pains me to exclude so many great directors and so many good movies that touched me (see my current top 100: http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=904848). So I will do a top 200 - 101 favorite films instead.

200th - Departures
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Surprise, surprise! I begin my top 200 with a Japanese movie. :p This is a fairly conventional movie but it is executed almost flawlessly which lends it an aura of realism that magnifies it's dramatic impact. Interestingly is the stigma that a certain profession in Japan carries. I would never imagine it was so stigmatized. Also, the Joe Hisaishi score for this movie was excellent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72UHlQ4TyHA&list=PLF3B3DF9A1FE6A64D

199th - Kick-Ass
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Forget those Batman movies (either Nolan's dramas or Burton's comedies), Kick-Ass is vastly superior, since it incorporates the concept of superhero and executes it with a certain dose of realism. Also, Kick-Ass has a cute girl with swords and guns and everybody likes watching cute girls firing guns and killing people with swords.

[Guaporense]

198th - Singing in the Rain
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I don't like musicals in general (Les Miserables made me cringe) but this one was really great. The songs were very memorable and I liked them which is impressive given that I am someone who only likes classic heavy metal music.
It's all around excellent with impressive performances.

197th - 3 Idiots
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Who said that Indians make bad movies? This one I watched this week and I was very impressed. While the songs were not very good overall - as this is and Indian movie everybody begins to dance from time to time - and the characters were simplistic the whole movie had a certain magic that made it irresistible, no wonder it is the highest grossing Indian film of all time.

196th - Equilibrium
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This is a very good action movie set in a dystopian society, much like Matrix, indeed an obvious inspiration. The whole concept of a totalitarian society suppressing art and anything that causes emotions to reduce social unrest is very interesting, specially to someone who enjoys films, books and music. Interestingly, it's metascore is only 33/100, while it is certainly a quite flawed movie it certainly delivers and I liked it very much.

195th - Inception
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Enter's Chris Nolan best movie: Inception. While his early effort, Memento, was already very good, he reached his highest point in Inception. His Batman movies are very good too, but I didn't love any enough to crack my top 200.

[Daniel M]

I watched Singin' in the Rain recently and I agree that it is a great film. Some really good choices so far and I am sure there will be many more to come :)

[honeykid]

Also, Kick-Ass has a cute girl with swords and guns and everybody likes watching cute girls firing guns and killing people with swords.
I don't. :p:D

BTW, have you seen Super?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/66/Super_Poster.jpg/215px-Super_Poster.jpg

Oh, and Singin' In The Rain is great. I have it on my 100. :up:

[Skepsis93]

:up: for Singin' in the Rain and Kick-Ass. Yes, check out Super if you liked the latter. But don't say anything bad about it, otherwise I'll have to have you killed.

IMO The Prestige is Chris Nolan's best movie.

[Guaporense]

I don't. :p:D

That's why you don't like anime. :)

BTW, have you seen Super?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/66/Super_Poster.jpg/215px-Super_Poster.jpg



Yes, very good too. I found it slightly weaker than Kick Ass.

Oh, and Singin' In The Rain is great. I have it on my 100. :up:

Yes, it's a very memorable movie.

[Guaporense]

:IMO The Prestige is Chris Nolan's best movie.

I though it was very good. I would rank Nolan's recent movies as follows:

1) Inception
2) Memento
3) The Prestige
4) Batman Dark Knight
5) Batman The Dark Knight Rises
6) Batman Begins

[cricket]

I'd like to give Kick-Ass a shot; looks like a fun movie.

I tried Inception twice and didn't get very far; want to try again when I can focus better.

I would agree with the recommendations for Super.

[honeykid]

That's why you don't like anime.
lol... Well, I'm sure it's one of them. However, the main reason is I simply don't like looking at them. I don't like the drawings/style. :shrug:

[Guaporense]

194th - Falling Down
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Quite disturbing film about a guy who simply breaks down in a traffic jam and begins to act without any of the usual limitations we place in ourselves to live in society. I am afraid I was quite near that point several times.

193th - The 400 Blows
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One of the most powerful coming of age stories ever portrayed on the screen. This quite accessible film from the French new wave is a must watch even though I didn't like the unfinished ending very much.

192th - Inglorious Basterds
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I am not the biggest Tarantino fan in this forum, but this man knows how to make entertaining movies filled with very creative dialog. All his movies are worth watching and this is one of my favorites, indeed, one of my favorites WW2 movies.

[cricket]

Falling down was good. Only saw 20 minutes of Basterds because my wife didn't like it. I want to see the rest.

[Miss Vicky]

Loved Falling Down and Basterds.

Sadly I don't foresee Falling Down making the 90s countdown so it's nice to see it getting recognition somewhere.

[honeykid]

+ rep for Falling Down and The 400 Blows. :up:

I think this list may already be better than your 100 for me. :D

[Sexy Celebrity]

This is definitely Planet News.

[seanc]

Falling down was good. Only saw 20 minutes of Basterds because my wife didn't like it. I want to see the rest.
What did you think of the first 20 because it might be my fave 20 minutes in any movie ever.

[weeman]

Basterds is a fantastic film, and quite possibly the second/third best film Tarantino has made (depending, of course, on how highly you rate Deat...Reservoir Dogs).

[The Gunslinger45]

Falling Down is awesome! Inglorious Basterds... no.

[Deadite]

I was a bit underwhelmed by Inception. It's a good-looking and well-acted film, and had some great action, yet it felt just a little too derivative of other films.

[cricket]

What did you think of the first 20 because it might be my fave 20 minutes in any movie ever.

It looked good, but it's hard for me to get into something when my wife is obviously not interested. And won't shut up for a second.

[Guaporense]

191th - Hidden Fortress
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The first Akira Kurosawa movie to show up in my top 200, Akira Kurosawa is the director who made most movies in my top 200. Here we have the prototype of films such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones full of exciting action and an epic sense of adventure. The way some of the samurai/important characters behave was also very similar to Jedi Knights, an obvious inspiration.

190th - Werckmeister Harmonies
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This incredible 140 minutes film has only about 35 takes, with the average take taking over 200 seconds. For comparison, 300 has 1,500 takes and lasts 20 minutes less! Pure cinema, as Mr. Minio put it, is Tarr's trademark. However, lack of any actual plot besides a guy wandering around and a dead whale in a truck set some central European town, made me love this film a bit less than I was expecting. Still, this is certainly worth watching and very different from anything else I have watched. Tarr ever said that he was bored of the way conventional movies driven by plot are.

189th - The Big Lebowski
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The best movie the Coens ever did IMO. Pure comedy gold and it got funnier every time I watched it. A very modern type of comedy too: I cannot imagine a film like this made in the 1950's, for instance.

188th - Ivan's Childhood
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In my opinion, Tarkovsky's worst full length movie, still better than 95% of the movies out there. A poignant look at the suffering caused by WW2 on the peoples of the Soviet Union. It is also better than Come and See IMO.

[Guaporense]

I was a bit underwhelmed by Inception. It's a good-looking and well-acted film, and had some great action, yet it felt just a little too derivative of other films.

Really? :D http://stayforthecredits.tumblr.com/post/18731199273/bjornstar-inception-vs-paprika

[Guaporense]

Loved Falling Down and Basterds.

Sadly I don't foresee Falling Down making the 90s countdown so it's nice to see it getting recognition somewhere.

Failing Down must make it! It's a awesome movie with an almost apocalyptic atmosphere.

[Daniel M]

The Big Lebowski is far too low, but at least it's there :p I love Inglourious Basterds too, and most of the other films are high up on my watchlist.

[cricket]

I have Lebowski at 159 on my list. It's very enjoyable but overrated IMO. It'll probably make top 5 in the 90's countdown, I don't agree with that. Still, it's a movie made for repeat viewings, while I think a lot of better movies are not. That counts for something.

[LateRegistration]

I love all the one's I've watched on here so far. :yup:

I've never heard of Falling Down until now, but with all the junk surrounding Schumacher's Batman films, I've never become familiar with his work, even though I've heard he has a few good ones (The Client, The Lost Boys.) I'll have to check it out, it sounds like an interesting watch.

[Guaporense]

The Big Lebowski is far too low, but at least it's there :p I love Inglourious Basterds too, and most of the other films are high up on my watchlist.

I have watched a ton of great movies. If I had made a top 200 list 3 years ago The Big Lebowski would be much higher.

[Guaporense]

187th - Sling Blade
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A very powerful movie about a gentle retard that tries to learn to live in society after staying a few decades in a nut house.

186th - Breaking the Waves
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My favorite Lars von Trier film. Very memorable fantasy film about a retarded woman with supernatural powers.

185th - Sonatine
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Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine was a movie that I found rather difficult to follow because of it's lack of adherence to western storytelling conventions. However, after I got it it was extremely worthwhile.

184th - The Little Norse Prince
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Described in a documentary as the first animated film made for young adults. Indeed, this is completely different from anything that had been done by Disney and co., Isao Takahata's first feature length film was incredibly innovative at the time it was made. Today it is a less accessible film given it's dated production qualities but in a pool of animators assembled in 2003, it was voted one of the top 10 greatest animations of all time.

[Guaporense]

I think this list may already be better than your 100 for me. :D

I was a bit looser in making this list up than my top 100, which has a harder entry point, I even included some pure action movies without any actual artistic merit here.

[The Gunslinger45]

Ivan's Childhood was okay, The Big Lebowski is good, and The Hidden Fortress is awesome!

[Gabrielle947]

I'd like to give Kick-Ass a shot; looks like a fun movie.

I tried Inception twice and didn't get very far; want to try again when I can focus better.

I would agree with the recommendations for Super.
you said somewhere that you like violent films.If so,Kick-Ass is a must.I have Super on my watchlist,now I think I'll watch it soon considering that you all say that they're similar. :up:
btw,I also didn't like Inception.

Guaporense,so far from your list I really like Kick-Ass and Inglorious Basterds.I also enjoyed The Big Lebowski and it's on my list,too but it took me two or three viewings to really appreciate it. :)

[cricket]

I also loved Sling Blade, and I love how you throw around the word "retard", it cracks me up. Don't think I'd like the other 3.

[Miss Vicky]

Failing Down must make it! It's a awesome movie with an almost apocalyptic atmosphere.

Oh I absolutely agree that it's an awesome movie and I voted for it, but it's one of those movies that seem to get virtually no mention on these boards. At this point in the countdown I think it's a lost cause.

+rep for Lebowski in the most recent set.

[Guaporense]

183th - The Battle of Algiers
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A very powerful film depicting the tragic efforts of guerrilla fighters in their struggle for independence.

182th - I Was Born But...
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Poignant work by Ozu. Partly comedic but with an extra dose of emotional depth. It is a
bit less subtle that his later work, such as Tokyo Story. Still, that makes it more accessible

181th - UP
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Can be described as possibly Pixar's best film. It is probably their most complex and mature work, dealing with some real themes and represents a significant advance in US animation towards creative freedom away from dim witted plots a-la disney.

180th - The Devil Probably
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Robert Bresson's film about a French youth that is in a state of deep resentment towards society. Like most Bresson's films, the ending is tragic but the audience is consciously distanced from the subject.

[The Gunslinger45]

The Battle of Algiers is a great movie. I have not seen the others.

[Guaporense]

179th - The White Ribbon
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My favorite Haneke film from the few I have watched. Very interesting depiction of German society ca. 1913. The correspondence between the strictly rigid social conventions forced upon the society at the time and the rise of fascism is a rather obvious message of this film.

178th - Letters from Iwo Jima
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An excellent film by the great Clint Eastwood depicting the battle of Iwo Jima. Like his other films, it's quite powerful and effective. Much better than the other film in the duology, Flags of our Fathers.

177th - Early Summer
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Ozu's film with a similar plot to Early Spring but executed as a comedy instead of drama in the first case.

176th - Underground
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An unique comedy depicting the tragic historical trajectory of the former Yugoslavia.

[Guaporense]

Interesting, Clint Eastwood doesn't appear to be very popular around here.

175th - Dark City
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Very impressive example of world building. The science fiction concepts used in the film are similar to Matrix's but with a more noir atmosphere. A great science fiction movie that rightly deserved to show up in the top 100 of the 1990's (though I wished it showed up higher).

174th - Borat
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A movie shot with only two actual actors, Borat is one of the funniest films I ever watched. The homoerotic wrestling match between Borat and Azamat is unforgettable.

173th - Forrest Gump
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A film about a very, very lucky idiot who tours the historical period from the 1950's through the 1990's.

172th - Madadayo
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Kurosawa's last film, where the professor is obviously Kurosawa himself and the film in a way appears to represent his own outlook of life at the age of 83.

[Daniel M]

Interesting, Clint Eastwood doesn't appear to be very popular around here.

I love Eastwood. Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, Mystic River, Unforgiven, The Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter and Play Misty for Me are are all great films. I have yet to see any of his war films though.

And I love Borat :up:

[Guaporense]

Clint Eastwood is one of the best contemporary directors.

[cricket]

Borat is really very funny. I think Forrest Gump is awesome and has become somewhat underrated as people love to talk about the "cooler" movie that game out that year. I didn't make it far into Dark City; maybe another try is warranted.

[honeykid]

I think there's a lot of Eastwood fans on the site. More than I'd have thought, anyway. Maybe they've just not checked out this thread yet? Sadly, I'm not one of them. That's not to say I don't like him, it's just that he doesn't often make films that I want to see and, over the last 10 years or so, when I have I've not liked them very much, regardless of whether I thought they were good or not. Changeling was ok, but you have to go right back to A Perfect World, In The Line Of Fire and Unforgiven to find a film he directed that I really liked. But, for the most part, I'm just not interested in his projects.

[seanc]

A Perfect World, Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider and Letters From Iwo Jima all excellent films.

[The Gunslinger45]

Got to love Clint Eastwood. And Borat is funny as hell!

[honeykid]

Lint Eastwood? What's that? His launderette chain? :p

[The Gunslinger45]

Lint Eastwood? What's that? His launderette chain? :p

It has been a long day in the field, I am tired and dehydrated, buzz off! :p

[Guaporense]

171th - The Life of Oharu
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A great film from one of the greatest directors, the Life of Oharu is a period drama (a popular genre of film during the golden years of Japanese cinema) about the sad life story of a woman during the hard days of feudal Japan. Like other classic films from the period, it is a timeless piece but Mizoguchi's pacing may leave his films a bit hard to watch from the point of view of modern viewers.

170th - Evangelion 1.0
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The first of a four part theatrical remake of the anime series that is a character study dressed as an a mecha/kaiju action show (reminiscent of Pacific Rim at the surface). It is incredible how strongly a person can identify with main character.

169th - Amadeus
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One of the best films of the 1980's that narrates the last years of the life of one of the greatest composers of all time. Mozart and Salieri are portrayed as great fictional characters.

168th - Wild Strawberries
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Bergman's film is another character study of a man who is dealing with his own old age. Well, all four of these movies are character studies.

[Deadite]

Wild Strawberries is haunting yet not as gloomy as one might think.

[Guaporense]

167th - Fireworks
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Another Kitano crime film about a cop whose wife if slowly dying of leukemia and whose partner becomes confined to a wheelchair. Very unique approach to storytelling as one unused to his style may be confused. Has a very good score by Joe Hisaishi.

166th - Kagemusha
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Another great Kurosawa piece. This was the first Kurosawa film I have watched and I still remember quite clearly many of the scenes depicted in this film.

165th - The Three Colors Trilogy
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My favorite out of the three is Red, mostly because it is the climax of the whole trilogy so one needs to watch everything as a single movie. Overall it is one of the best art films of the 1990's and the third best 1990's film that I watched so far this year.

164th - Rocky IV
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What's better than the Three Colors Trilogy, a Kitano's crime film and a Kurosawa period epic? Rocky IV of course, watching Stallone lifting and trowing Dolph Lundgren was epic! Rockyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! :D

[The Gunslinger45]

I must break you! :D

[jiraffejustin]

I must say, the last thing I expected to see here was Rocky IV

[LateRegistration]

The three colors trilogy has been on my Netflix queue for a long time (well, I think only Blue is, but If I see one of them, it'll make me think about the otehrs as well, resulting in me watching the other two afterwords.) Blue has been #1 on there a few times, but then I'm like "OMG, I forgot about this movie, MUST RENT AUUUGH." I'll get to them eventually.

And the first film of Kurosawa's I watched was Rashomon. Although, that, and Red Beard are the only two I've gotten to so far! :dizzy:

[The Gunslinger45]

And the first film of Kurosawa's I watched was Rashomon. Although, that, and Red Beard are the only two I've gotten to so far! :dizzy:

You started with two excellent choices, and two of my all time favorite movies. I suggest Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and The Hidden Fortress next.

[Guaporense]

I must say, the last thing I expected to see here was Rocky IV

Yeah, Rocky IV is a guilty pleasure of mine. I remember I watched it on TV on the same day as Die Hard and I liked Rocky IV more! :D

[Guaporense]

163th - Night on the Galactic Railroad
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Very crazy animated film about anthropomorphic cats that go through an acid trip on a train. It's very surreal and is based on a novel by Kenji Miyazawa that didn't have cats though, instead the characters were just people. Very subtle and touching movie but lacks the complexity and richness of Miyazaki's films so I did not rank it higher.

162th - Boogie Nights
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PTA's film about a star of the porn industry, very melodramatic at some parts but overall a quite satisfying experience. This film was later satirized in the cr*ppy comedy Bucky Larson.

161th - Ben-Hur
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A massive epic film of the 1950's featuring one of the most exciting action setpieces in the history of film. A must for the fans of grandiose spectacle delivered in old school fashion.

160th - Anvil: The History of Anvil
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The dramatic history of a failed heavy metal band that still tours and releases albums year after year after being a commercial failure for well over two decades.

[cricket]

Boogie Nights is one of my faves.

[HitchFan97]

^Same here. I love Boogie Nights.

[Daniel M]

I watched Boogie Nights once again a couple of nights ago as Sky always show it in the UK, must have been my most seen film now. It's a masterpiece and a film that on repeat viewing I notice even more genius from a directorial perspective, so many great shots/scenes in it, great camera work. Obviously my love for the film is clear, it's my #1 film and I wrote a lot about it in my top 150 thread :)

[Guaporense]

Continuing the list:

159th - The Sacrifice
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Tarkovsky made this film with special attention to his Bergmanian influences as this film looks and feels more similar to Bergman's films than his other films (though it is still clearly Tarkovsky in being much more driven by images than Bergman's films) but dialogue has much greater importance.

158th - The Departed
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Scorsese's film featuring tons of coolness and some extreme violence. One of my favorite Scorsese's films.

157th - Amelie
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Very cool French movie about an introverted girl, reminiscent of a fairytale.

156th - The Virgin Spring
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Ingmar Bergman's most visceral film, very powerful and very entertaining/easy to watch as well, compared to his other films at least.

[honeykid]

I love Amelie.

[cricket]

Love The Departed.

[LateRegistration]

Thumbs up for The Departed, and Boogie Nights. I need to rewatch it soon, as well as all of PTA's other films. He's arguably my favorite director. :yup:

I've watched half of Amelie, but I never finished it. I own it on blu ray, though. The others I haven't watched, but most of them have been on my watch list for a while. Your bit on Night on the Galactic Railroad definitely caught my curiosity, I've never heard of it!

[Guaporense]

Night of the Galactic Railroad is a very special movie.

[JayDee]

164th - Rocky IV
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Much of your tastes don't really line up with mine but with this pick you just earned a whole new level of respect from me. :D Of all the films in the world I could have predicted would show up, that would be amongst the very last.

Also a few other great choices so far such as Singin' in the Rain, Forrest Gump, Amadeus, Amelie etc. And I'd never seen Falling Down until quite recently but thought it was a great flick. :yup: There's a review of it in my Movie Musings just now if you're interested

[Guaporense]

155th - To Kill a Mockingbird
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Nice movie about racism which is always a subject that I find interesting in films.

154th - First Blood
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Stallone kicking some ass in a rather dramatic fashion. Vastly superior to it's sequels (which share nothing with the original besides Stallone and action scenes).

153th - Good Morning
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Ozu doing far jokes. May be the best movie ever made with fart jokes.

152th - 300
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This is SPARTA! Brings out the inner teenager boy that is inside of everyone.

[JayDee]

Not seen the last two there but the first two are great, especially First Blood.

[Miss Vicky]

Not seen the last two there but the first two are great, especially First Blood.

You haven't seen 300?

You're not missing anything.

[Sane]

Good list so far. Particularly impressed with inclusion of Fireworks (Hana-bi) and The Story of Anvil - I think both made me cry :)

[Gabrielle947]

You're not missing anything.
well,it's a pretty unique film so I'd recommend it but I think that its style fails to serve the story.Found this film quite boring.

[honeykid]

I thought 300 was terrible. Much worse than I imagined it would be. First Blood, on the other hand, is an HK 100 film.

[cricket]

To Kill a Mockingbird and First Blood are awesome and I haven't seen the other 2.

[The Gunslinger45]

You haven't seen 300?

You're not missing anything.

Don't listen to her! Watch 300! ;)

[Guaporense]

Yeah, 300 can be enjoyed by anyone who has the "sensibility" required. It is obviously a love or hate it movie like The Tree of Life and 8 1/2 (though it appeals to considerably different sensibilities). It is a movie worth watching because you might love it, or hate it. Kinda like The Tree of Life as well.

[Guaporense]

I thought 300 was terrible. Much worse than I imagined it would be. First Blood, on the other hand, is an HK 100 film.

Yeah, First Blood is one of Stallone's finest hours.

[Guaporense]

151th - Rear Window
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Hitchcock shows how he can build up tension in this movie one of my favorites from the famous director.

150th - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy.jpg

Joke after joke like a machine gun. While Life of Brain has a certain epic quality this one is the leader in terms of pure joke firepower.

149th - Spider Man 2
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Spider_Man_2.jpg

IMO this is a criminally underrated superhero film because it truly translates into the theater screen the true feeling of a comic book hero. It's very different from those pseudo-serious Nolan's films that (IMO) fail in translating the hero to the screen and also don't work as well as their fans believe as a drama film. Spider Man 2 works perfectly in transmitting the themes and substance of spider man, the single most interesting major superhero character.

148th - Magnolia
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Magnolia.jpg

PTA doing what he does best. Also the rain of frogs is a very memorable scene as well as being the film with has some of Tom Cruise's finest performance.

[honeykid]

150th - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy.jpg

Joke after joke like a machine gun.
... Firing blanks. :p

Spiderman 2 felt like typical superhero fare to me and, as such, I didn't like it. Which was a pity, because I really did like the first.

Rear Window's a good film, while Magnolia isn't something I've bothered to sit through. I'm not exactly adverse to it, but while I loved Boogie Nights, nothing else PTA has made has even appealed to me to see and There Will Be Blood is the only other that I've seen and I thought that was truly dull.

[cricket]

I saw Rear Window for the first time at the cinema about 15 years ago and it was awesome. I would have a lot of Hitchcock on my favorites list but I've only seen most once, and it's been a while.

I used to love the Monty Python television show but just never got into their movies.

I don't remember Spider Man 2 well, but do know that I enjoyed it.

I remember seeing Magnolia and having mixed feelings. I love Boogie Nights, and since seeing There Will be Blood and thinking it's brilliant, I want to watch it again to see what I didn't get the first time.

[JayDee]

Wow talk about your mixed bags. Rear Window is an excellent film and I love Spider-Man 2 (got a review of that coming up in the near future). However I despised Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it's about the only DVD I've ever gotten rid of after watching it. And I also just watched Magnolia a few days ago for the first time. Despite the huge amount of love it gets around here I've got to say that I was damn close to truly hating it.

[Guaporense]

147th - Gran Torino
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Gran_Torino.jpg

Very moving film from the current living master of macho melodrama.

146th - Harakiri
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Harakiri.jpg

I have watched only a few Kobayashi films but all those I have watched were unforgettable and Harakiri is pretty much a nearly perfect film a must watch.

145th - The Castle of Gagliostro
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/The_Castle_of_Cagliostro.jpg

Miyazaki's first film, considered a masterpiece it is a very memorable film though I don't think it had the emotional power of his later works.

144th - Jaws
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Jaws.jpg

Spielberg's breakthrough film and easily one of the most influential films ever made since 1975.

[The Gunslinger45]

Two of my all time favs. Jaws and Gran Torino. Good choices dude.

[HitchFan97]

Jaws, Magnolia, and Rear Window are all favorites of mine. :up:

[cricket]

I thought Gran Torino was good but I don't get it's popularity. I just don't see what is exceptional about it.

Jaws is classic.

[Guaporense]

143th - Yojimbo
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Yojimbo.jpg

One of Kurosawa's most entertaining films featuring Mifune in another one of his bravura performances. The whole genre of spaghetti westerns was heavily influenced by this movie.

142th - Rhapsody in August
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Rhapsody_in_August.jpg

And yet another Kurosawa film, this time a late product of his work. Very slowly paced, like other Kurosawa's late films, and carries with it a certain air of wisdom that reflects on the fact that Kurosawa was self conscious of being the greatest living director at the time (ca. 1991).

141th - Raiders of the Lost Ark
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Raiders.jpg

This film can be described in two words: Epic fun. It is not anything very ambitious or unusual, just a typical Hollywood blockbuster that was exceptionally well made (like Jaws in that regard).

140th - Woman in the Dunes
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Woman_in_the_Dunes_poster.jpg

And yet another Japanese film, but not directed by one of their most famous directors. Still a great film nonetheless. Interestingly, it was in Tarkovsky's top 10 favorite list, certainly a film that everybody should watch, if you can watch black and white Asian films.

[cricket]

My average reaction to one of your sets; I've seen one(Raiders), and it is brilliant. The fact that most of your favorites that I've seen, I love, almost makes me think I should try your other crazy(to me) favorites.

[Camo]

Glad you like Sling Blade so much after your first viewing :) . I still think it's one of the best to turn up on the 90's countdown so far. +1 for alot of other films that i can't be bothered going back to find out what ones they were :p

[bluedeed]

Has nobody addressed the absurdity of having a top 200 list of favorite movies? I think that assigning a top ten is incredibly difficult, and usually very arbitrary between ranks. Swapping positions could occur depending on my mood or a film's development in my mind, or anything. To have a top 200 is to have the most arbitrary collection of films that you slapped a number on, it's certainly no remotely serious or fun engagement with movies.

[cricket]

I did a top 200 not long ago and it would be different now. I don't care, it was fun. I don't identify with Guap's taste a lot, but I like reading Guap and would enjoy reading his top 500.

[Guaporense]

Has nobody addressed the absurdity of having a top 200 list of favorite movies? I think that assigning a top ten is incredibly difficult, and usually very arbitrary between ranks. Swapping positions could occur depending on my mood or a film's development in my mind, or anything. To have a top 200 is to have the most arbitrary collection of films that you slapped a number on, it's certainly no remotely serious or fun engagement with movies.

Well, Roger Ebert had his top 366 favorite films list (his "great movies list"). Anyway, I first made a top 100, then I had several films as honorable mentions, them I watched several films that managed to crack my top 100 and so I accumulated a large number of films that I loved but that I didn't include in my top 100, so I decided to do a top 200 films list.

The precise ordering is not very important, though I might say that it's approximate preference: the film at 134th place would be preferred to the film in the 189th place.

Also, it's easier to do a top 200 than to do a top 10 favorites since you don't have to exclude so many films you love. In the top 10 displayed in my posts is actually my favorite film from each director who made films that cracked my top 25, so that I can cite the work of several different directors.

[bluedeed]

The precise ordering is not very important, though I might say that it's approximate preference: the film at 134th place would be preferred to the film in the 189th place.

Also, it's easier to do a top 200 than to do a top 10 favorites since you don't have to exclude so many films you love. In the top 10 displayed in my posts is actually my favorite film from each director who made films that cracked my top 25, so that I can cite the work of several different directors.

The ordering makes a spectacle out of the whole list and basically enforces all of the negatives, or dull parts out of movie discussion, which is just high-fiveing each other's movies instead of really talking about them, it's too many movies, people pick and choose something nice to say out of it.

It might be easier to do a top 200 than top 10, but what's the point of it? A top 10 might have some legitimacy as it boils down tastes into their essentials and gives a pretty clear portrait of a person's film interests. I can usually look at a person's top 10 and see whether they're more inclined to read something like David Bordwell or fanboy reviews on the IMDb top 250. 200 films bloats things into massive generality and showmanship.

EDIT: Roger Ebert died prematurely, with a lot of unfinished work. First of all, I doubt he considered his list finished, or definitive. Second, they were not ordered and he expressly voiced his opinion on lists and how ultimately pointless they are. Lastly, ebert's great movies collection is a group of independently written pieces on films designed to increase the dialogue on certain films. They are written by a critic with an established knowledge on film and were never meant to be considered as a list of his favorite films, but were written because it is his great pleasure to write about films and he wanted to call certain films to attention, or add a unique perspective on them. He was not making a list, but doing something much more difficult and valuable, writing.

[Guaporense]

I don't think so. Since I have watched well over 10 times that number of films there are tons of famous films that I have excluded from my top 200, so overall, I think a top 200 actually gives more information about a person's taste than a top 10, which is too restrictive, a top 200 allows for more interesting stuff like guilty pleasures, for instance.

[Deadite]

What do you think of my top ten then, eh? :bashful:

[Camo]

What do you think of my top ten then, eh? :bashful:

I'm not even going to attempt to read through your top top ten :rolleyes: ;) . After a quick glance, you deserve a thumbs up for including Exorcist 1 and 3 :) .

[bluedeed]

I don't think so. Since I have watched well over 10 times that number of films there are tons of famous films that I have excluded from my top 200, so overall, I think a top 200 actually gives more information about a person's taste than a top 10, which is too restrictive, a top 200 allows for more interesting stuff like guilty pleasures, for instance.

It's too broad of a base to really distill anything down about your film knowledge. Besides that fact that you've seen a bunch of films (yay). When you just have a melting pot of random bits of cinema like Raiders of the Lost Ark along with Ohayo and Wild Strawberries, it's too broad to draw conclusions from that. But the real issue is that in just tossing so many names around, nothing productive is said. You can't write a sentence or two like "Bergman's film is another character study of a man who is dealing with his own old age. Well, all four of these movies are character studies." That hardly says anything about the film and its strange segues into a disastrous household and the way that it doesn't restrain itself to its central character's viewpoint (if it does restrain itself).

When critics write lists, they're writing from a point of authority, and even that is usually garbage. You're writing as if already from some point of authority instead of actually writing about film. What authority can I draw from your list on the subject of film when you hardly say anything about the films? I want to see people actually write about film, not just show off their total screen time.

[bluedeed]

I'm not even going to attempt to read through your top top ten :rolleyes: ;) . After a quick glance, you deserve a thumbs up for including Exorcist 1 and 3 :) .

Remember when I said all of this list stuff is just about giving each other high fives?

[cricket]

Point of authority? I don't give 2 turds about anyone's knowledge of film. I like to hear regular people talk about their favorite, and not so favorite films. I want experts when I need a doctor or lawyer.

[bluedeed]

Point of authority? I don't give 2 turds about anyone's knowledge of film. I like to hear regular people talk about their favorite, and not so favorite films. I want experts when I need a doctor or lawyer.

He's not talking about them, he's saying basically, "this is a film that I have seen by this person that basically concerns this." That mentioning a film, not talking about them.

[Camo]

Remember when I said all of this list stuff is just about giving each other high fives?

What list stuff :confused: ? Deadite posted this - What do you think of my top ten then, eh? Click on his favourite movies, and you'll see what i mean. I think you need a high five or most likely a hug though, you sound like you need some love :D . http://i41.tinypic.com/2ewcglu.jpg

[bluedeed]

What list stuff :confused: ?

List stuff as in lists here seem to have no purpose here. All that happens is people post films, and then other people say good job for liking the same films as me, and nothing of substance gets said about film.

[Camo]

List stuff as in lists here seem to have no purpose here. All that happens is people post films, and then other people say good job for liking the same films as me, and nothing of substance gets said about film.

Why did you quote my comment then? I was responding to Deadite, and this isn't his thread.

[Deadite]

Many movie lists out there don't include much heavy analysis, whether it's a top 10, 100, or 200. If anything is written, they're often fairly brief summaries noting highlights and expressing admiration.

Of course it's nice to weigh in on a particular film but it's not like anyone is obligated to write a detailed essay on each one.

[cricket]

He's not talking about them, he's saying basically, "this is a film that I have seen by this person that basically concerns this." That mentioning a film, not talking about them.

Sometimes Guap goes into excruciating detail about films I've never heard of. He seems very knowledgeable but it's hard for me to read it sometimes. Most people's favorites list, like this one, is just formulated differently. I like just quick thoughts on a list like this, otherwise it would be too much.

[bluedeed]

Why did you quote my comment then? I was responding to Deadite, and this isn't his thread.

Because it was a perfect example of that kind of thing happening.

Many movie lists out there don't include much heavy analysis, whether it's a top 10, 100, or 200. If anything is written, they're often fairly brief summaries noting highlights and expressing admiration.

Of course it's nice to weigh in on a particular film but it's not like anyone is obligated to write a detailed essay on each one.

But there's a huge disparity, take this comparison between decade lists:
http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=31548&highlight=decade
http://www.reverseshot.com/section/decade

Which has more movies? Which is more valuable?

What's the purpose of a person on this forum making a list then? Why would we bother reading them if they aren't saying anything, I just think they're annoying and time hogging.

[cricket]

Your posts are "annoying and time hogging", and not relevant. Read a different thread then, everyone else is enjoying it.

[mark f]

There are a lot of people here for a lot of different reasons. Some want to discuss films seriously and some just want to make and read lists and briefly comment. Some post a lot but rarely even discuss movies. I can only type with one hand due to a recent stroke, so my days of long, thorough posts are behind me, at least for now, but I've left a few here and there. Hopefully you can find enough people to discuss what you want and how you want to do it.

P.S. When I first got here I argued with everybody, so I'm a little tired of doing it now. I do bite my tongue from saying (typing) many things daily though. :)

[Deadite]

Because it was a perfect example of that kind of thing happening.



But there's a huge disparity, take this comparison between decade lists:
http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=31548&highlight=decade
http://www.reverseshot.com/section/decade

Which has more movies? Which is more valuable?

What's the purpose of a person on this forum making a list then? Why would we bother reading them if they aren't saying anything, I just think they're annoying and time hogging.

Look, I agree in principle. It's nice to really chew on a film. Depth is good. Of course it is.

But the way you're going about this is coming off as a bit bratty and entitled. Why don't you just do that yourself instead of bothering to criticize how someone else does their own list? KWIM?

[Camo]

Because it was a perfect example of that kind of thing happening.



But there's a huge disparity, take this comparison between decade lists:
http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=31548&highlight=decade
http://www.reverseshot.com/section/decade

Which has more movies? Which is more valuable?

What's the purpose of a person on this forum making a list then? Why would we bother reading them if they aren't saying anything, I just think they're annoying and time hogging.


In what way was it a "perfect example of that kind of thing happening" the thing is some people like the same films :eek::eek::eek: . ******* conformists http://i39.tinypic.com/2u9o0eu.jpg

[bluedeed]

Look, I agree in principle. It's nice to really chew on a film. Depth is good. Of course it is.

But the way you're going about this is coming off as a bit bratty and entitled. Why don't you just do that yourself instead of bothering to criticize how someone else does their own list? KWIM?

Because nobody seems to respond to that, I want to move the discussion, which is why I started writing on this thread. Most of my previous posts of recent have been long readings of small parts of films, and nobody cares to read through or respond at all.

[Deadite]

Because nobody seems to respond to that, I want to move the discussion, which is why I started writing on this thread. Most of my previous posts of recent have been long readings of small parts of films, and nobody cares to read through or respond at all.

If you have something to say about a film here, say it. People will respond or not respond as they like, however they like.

If you feel the conversation here is too superficial for your taste, move along. Find a better one. Maybe find another site if this one bores and frustrates you too much.

But don't hang around lecturing, and don't condescend to explain to us about the way it should be done.

[Guaporense]

He's not talking about them, he's saying basically, "this is a film that I have seen by this person that basically concerns this." That mentioning a film, not talking about them.

Well, you are being a bit exaggerated here. Anyway, I don't have any talent for writing criticism of art (either films, music, literature, painting, etc): I can only say: "I liked this movie and stuff".

For instance, I could never write something like this after watching a movie like Pacific Rim:

http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2013/07/pacific-rim-guillermo-del-toro-antoine.html

The kaiju (giant faintly reptilian/crustacean monsters in the Japanese postnuclear apocalypse movie tradition) lumber majestically; they rise to the ocean surface from an interdimensional portal like behemoths on loan from Poseidon and stomp or lean on or hide among skyscrapers like kids amongst towering sandcastles (you feel the urge to either admire and knock the elaborate structures down). With their mechanical counterparts they're larger than life, larger than legend, even--primal figures resurrected from our collective memories to raise havoc, perhaps even hell.

And they're crafted. This is no Michael Bay shitpile where the director orders his team of digital SFX minions to manufacture robots by the crateload; the designs were carefully mulled over and show signs of wit.

[cricket]

Well, you are being a bit exaggerated here. Anyway, I don't have any talent for writing criticism of art (either films, music, literature, painting, etc): I can only say: "I liked this movie and stuff".

You're not giving yourself enough credit Guapo; that's not like you.:skeptical:

[Guaporense]

139th - Ghost in the Shell
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Ghost_in_the_Shell.jpg

I think it might be classified as one of the smartest science fiction movies ever made.

138th - Mouchette
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Mouchette.jpg

I think this may be one of Bresson's most melodramatic films (yet, it manages to be incredibly cold).

137th - Gertrud
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Gertrud.jpg

A very subtle but poignant film by the famous Danish director.

136th - Children of Men
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Children_of_Men.jpg

A very interesting science fiction film about how society would cope with a world without a future.

[Guaporense]

You're not giving yourself enough credit Guapo; that's not like you.:skeptical:

Well, the fact is that my writing skills were never my strong point. At my college's entry exam (we have these in Brazil) my writing scores were the lowest among the 10 different subjects. I can write a lot about academic subjects or things like that but I cannot write reviews of films, books or music well, those require a certain finesse I don have.

[Deadite]

Do you prefer Ghost In The Shell 2.0, Guapo, or the original?

[cricket]

I liked Children of Men, but not as much as everyone else here seems to have. However, I think maybe it's just one I didn't get the first time, thus requiring another watch.

[Guaporense]

Do you prefer Ghost In The Shell 2.0, Guapo, or the original?

I haven't watched it yet. I plan to watch sometime in the future.

[Guaporense]

135th - Watchmen
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/Watchmen_film_poster.jpg/220px-Watchmen_film_poster.jpg

Forget The Dark Knight or Spider Man 2, the best comic book hero film of all time is Watchmen. It's a deconstruction of the whole genre, though, so it's strength is in showing how absurd the concept of superhero really is.

134th - A Man Escaped
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/A-man-escaped.jpg

The realism of Bresson's depiction of prison life that gives this film it's strength. Compared to other prison escape films, this one actually doesn't feel like a film and more like I am actually there!

133th - The Place Promised in your Early Days
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Kumo_no_mukou.jpg/230px-Kumo_no_mukou.jpg

Makoto Shinkai is the only non-Ghibli director who almost reduced me to tears in his films, including this one.

132th - Commando
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNVmXyZUerg

Highest bodycount in any Arnie film: 87 corpses. I need to say more? Best pure action film. Watched it for the first time when I was 5 and I still remember that watch.

[The Gunslinger45]

Commando! F**K YEAH!

[honeykid]

I don't often give + rep just for one film, but it's Commando.

[cricket]

Commando is classic Arnold and a real fun movie.

I've been interested in seeing Watchmen and seeing it on your list just makes my interest stronger.

[Daniel M]

But there's a huge disparity, take this comparison between decade lists:
http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=31548&highlight=decade
http://www.reverseshot.com/section/decade

Which has more movies? Which is more valuable?

What's the purpose of a person on this forum making a list then? Why would we bother reading them if they aren't saying anything, I just think they're annoying and time hogging.

Two totally different types of website. One seems like a more professional and serious website where time, research and effort are put in to posts, it is a film magazine that obviously aims for high quality content. This is a forum that anyone can join and contribute, and talk about films, there's a wide range of posters and what I love about this place is the mixture of different types of movie watchers here, you get people who hate 'arthouse' or more serious work and would prefer to watch a JCVD or Arnie film to an Orson Welles one, and then you get others who are the opposite who seem to refuse to enjoy any type of non serious or non artistic film, then there's some in the middle who have their own tastes.

The purpose of threads on here are, often, for quick posts that aim for a large number of responses, anyone can contribute, it's easy and enjoyable, everyone knows if you want something more serious or education then there's certain places or threads for that. There's lots of quality stuff on here too, there's just specific threads for that :)

[Guaporense]

All right, I have to finish this list one day.

131th - Ordet
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Ordet.jpg

Very cool Danish movie that gives us a glimpse of the Nordic mentality. Perhaps not as powerful as his other works, it is still an extremely good movie that looks amazing to watch filmed in beautiful black and white.

130th - Wolf Children
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Wolf_Children.jpg

Hosoda's last film, from 2012, is probably the newest film in my top 200. It's a film that Hosoda said was made primarily for people who are parents of young children and tend to identify the story of the main character.

129th - Wall-E
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/WALLE.jpg

Pixar's best film in my opinion and the best feature length western animation I ever watched.

128th - Psycho
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Psycho.jpg

I once had it in my top 100 but now it fell a bit after I re-watched it and it's power faded a bit. Still an extremely influential and iconic film.

[LateRegistration]

All right, Wall-E! My favorite animated movie of all time, and that's probably never going to change. I'd have to say Pixar made their best stuff from 2007 to 2010 for me. :)

[cricket]

I fell asleep during Wall-E. It's not my kind of movie but I wasnt hating it.

Psycho is great but you don't need me to tell you that.

[Guaporense]

127th - Akira

http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Akira.jpg

Extremely famous, in fact, perhaps the most well known anime film in the west.

126th - Diary of a Country Priest

http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Diary_of_a_Country_Priest.jpg

Another great film from Bresson. This is my second favorite among his films. Interesting, this film has some similarities with Taxi Driver and it was Tarkovsky's favorite movie when he made his list in 1972.

125th - District 9

http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/District_9.jpg

One of those great science films that received poor attention in the west. Note that it was in my top 100 before but some movies were driven out by the new entries.

124th - 12 Angry Men

http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/12_Angry_Men.jpg

A movie from the 1950's that takes place inside a room with a group of men. Apparently nothing great can come out of this, but it did. Also a former member of my top 100 that was driven out by new entries.

[The Gunslinger45]

+rep for 12 Angry Men

[Guaporense]

All right, Wall-E! My favorite animated movie of all time, and that's probably never going to change. I'd have to say Pixar made their best stuff from 2007 to 2010 for me. :)

Have you seem PMMM the movie parts 1 & 2? :D

[Deadite]

I adore Akira, and based on your previous comments I was more emotionally connected to it than you were. I do think it's flawed in its storytelling, but they're minor imperfections in a jewel of a film.

[Guaporense]

Akira is excellent and a very powerful film, I rate all movies above the 130th or 140th place at 4_5. I was of course more emotionally connected with Miyazaki's films than Akira but that doesn't mean I wasn't very connected with Akira. :) It's in this list after-all.

It's just that when I compare anime films with Miyazaki's films, the contrast can make it appear that I wasn't very connected to the other film but that's not true. I was once so emotionally connected to PM that I wasn't able to sleep or think in anything else for 48 hours after I watched it, compared to that anything else appears weak but it may be not: if it make into my top 200 that's because I was affected by it more than 90% of everything else I have watched and I connected with it quite strongly it's just that I have an almost insane connection with that particular set of films.

[cricket]

12 Angry Men is awesome.

I just taped District 9 and will watch it this week.

[Godoggo]

District 9 is great and I love Akira.

[Guaporense]

Well, now most of these films were in my top 100 that I posted 7-8 months ago but were displaced, so I will list all of them without comments except the new ones:

123 - Master and Commander
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Master_and_Commander_The_Far.jpg

122 - Rocky
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Rocky.jpg

121 - High and Low
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/High_and_Low.jpg

Kurosawa study of class warfare remains one of his top 10 best films, in my opinion. And considering Kurosawa that's saying a loot!

120 - The Aviator
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/The_Aviator_2004.jpg

119 - Gauche the Cellist
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Gauche_the_Cellist.jpg

118 - The Passion of Joan D'Arc
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/The_Passion_of_Joan_of.jpg

An extremely powerful film by Dreyer, it's probably my second or third favorite silent film. Some say that Falconeti's performance was like "greatest performance ever", though that's true considering the historical context: it was beyond anything else existing at the time.

117 - Pickpocket
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Pickpocket.jpg

And yet another Bresson film, this time one of his most entertaining films given the tension involved in the art of "pickpocketing" (don't know it that's the right word for it).

116 - The Elephant Man
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/The_Elephant_Man.jpg

[Mr Minio]

And yet another Bresson film, this time one of his most entertaining films given the tension involved in the art of "pickpocketing" (don't know it that's the right word for it). Thief is such an unpleasant word. Let's call it collector of goods. ~ from some RPG game I can't remember the name of.

[Daniel M]

I liked Pickpocket but no where near as much as you and some others, I think 12 Angry Men is a really good film, not seen any of the others of the last two sets, as a David Lynch film The Elephant Man interests me the most :)

[The Gunslinger45]

Pick pocket, The Elephant Man, and The Passion of Joan of Arc are great films! The Aviator and Rocky are good films, and I have not seen High and Low yet.

[Camo]

I'm not a fan of Master and Commander or The Elephant Man. :up: for The Aviator and 12 Angry Men. Rocky is average imo and i haven't seen the rest.

[mark f]

118 - The Passion of Joan D'Arc
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/The_Passion_of_Joan_of.jpg

An extremely powerful film by Dreyer, it's probably my second or third favorite silent film. Some say that Falconeti's performance was like "greatest performance ever", though that's true considering the historical context: it was beyond anything else existing at the time.


How many silents have you seen? I won't argue that it is perhaps the greatest female performance of the era, but as far as male ones, you could start with several from Lon Chaney and Emil Jannings. :)

[Guaporense]

I haven't watched many so I may be ignorant of many great performances of the silent period.

[Camo]

How many silents have you seen? I won't argue that it is perhaps the greatest female performance of the era, but as far as male ones, you could start with several from Lon Chaney and Emil Jannings. :)

Any specific recommendations Mark? I want to get into a few silent movies, i was thinking of starting with Chaplin and Keaton.

[Mr Minio]

I would start from Murnau movies ;)

[Camo]

I would start from Murnau movies ;)

What would you suggest first, Nosferatu?

[mark f]

Silent movies are a broad topic. Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd are essential, as well as Lang and Murnau. D.W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein also, plus the enormous cult of Tod Browning and Lon Chaney. That's just scratching the surface. :)

[Camo]

Silent movies are a broad topic. Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd are essential, as well as Lang and Murnau. D.W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein also, plus the enormous cult of Tod Browning and Lon Browning. That's just scratching the surface. :)

Thank i was aware of all of them except Browning and Browning, i'll check them all out :)

[Guaporense]

I have already watched some Chaplin, Keaton, Lang, Murnau and Eisenstein. Need to watch a bit of Lloyd, Browning and Chaney.

Also you shouldn't forget the silent movies by Ozu, Mizoguchi and Dreyer.

[Gideon58]

FALLING DOWN was awesome...for me, Michael Douglas' best performance. I like THE BIG LEBOWSKI too, though I don't think it's the be all and end all of film comedies like many on these discussion boards do, but Jeff Bridges rarely makes a bad move in my book.

[honeykid]

Have you seem PMMM the movie parts 1 & 2? :D
You mean you aren't into Attack On Titan yet? :D

[Guaporense]

You mean you aren't into Attack On Titan yet? :D

I watched a few episodes, it's boring and melodramatic.

[jiraffejustin]

Silent movies are a broad topic. Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd are essential, as well as Lang and Murnau. D.W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein also, plus the enormous cult of Tod Browning and Lon Chaney. That's just scratching the surface. :)

What do you think of Victor Sjostrom and Josef von Sternberg? Some of my favorite non-comedy silents are their works. Underworld and The Phantom Carriage specifically.

[Guaporense]

Only commenting on new additions:

115 - Ponyo
114 - The Killing

113 - Summer Days With Coo
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Summer_Days_with_Coo.jpg
Keiichi Hara's best film yet, Summer Days With Coo is a lovely film fundamentally about family and finding yourself a place in a new world.

112 - Paprika
111 - Das Boot
110 - In the Name of the Father
109 - Throne of Blood
108 - Dune

[mark f]

What do you think of Victor Sjostrom and Josef von Sternberg? Some of my favorite non-comedy silents are their works. Underworld and The Phantom Carriage specifically.
I like Sjostrom's The Wind, He Who Gets Slapped and The Scarlet Letter, and von Sternberg's The Last Command and The Docks of New York. If you want more dramatic silent directors, I'd recommend Frank Borzage, King Vidor, Abel Gance, Erich von Stroheim, Fred Niblo and of course DeMille. Still only a drop in the bucket. :)

[Daniel M]

The Killing is great and so is In The Name of the Father, excellent DDL film although I last watched it ages ago. More films I want to watch to, Throne of Blood I will when I watch more Kurosawa, Dune is on TV in a few days and I will watch it to see just how/good bad this Lynch is.

[Guaporense]

Finishing this off:

107 - Tale of Tales
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Tale_of_Tales.jpg
Imagine a Tarkovsky film made using stop motion animation. It's considered to be a film similar to The Mirror, though in my opinion it is still not quite as great.

106 - Eyes Wide Shut
105 - Robocop
104 - Terminator 2
103 - 5 Centimeters per Second
102 - Nostalghia

101 - Au Hasard Balthazar
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Au_hasard_Balthazar.jpg
I could even call it an epic life story of a donkey, filmed in beautiful black and white. Nothing more and nothing less.

[Guaporense]

A statistic of my top 200.

Number of titles by decade:

pre-50's: 9 titles
1950's: 27 titles
1960's: 27 titles
1970's: 23 titles
1980's: 36 titles
1990's: 36 titles
2000's: 45 titles
Since 2010: 6 titles

Naturally, the 2000's have the largest number of titles since most films I have watched are from that period, though there are many bad 2000's movies I have watched so only about 5% of these movies actually made into my top 200.

[Daniel M]

I watched Tale of Tales for the short film tournament and I loved it.

[Mr Minio]

Awaiting Come and See to end up being second and Tree of Life being first. Trolollololo.

[linespalsy]

Thank i was aware of all of them except Browning and Browning, i'll check them all out :)

He meant Tod Browning and Lon Chaney, and I'd recommend West of Zanzibar.

[HandyApe]

Have you seen Kurosawa's High and Low? It's probably my favorite of his, and if you're a fan of his films I definitely recommend it. :)

[Pussy Galore]

I watched a few episodes, it's boring and melodramatic.

WHAT?????????? It's one of the best anime i've seen. The manga is great to. You should give it a second chance and watch it threw episode 19

[Guaporense]

I think I will try to continue watching Attack on Titan but it has been only a medium quality series up to now. For me the peak of shonen anime (i.e. for male teenagers) would still be Gurren Lagann. (se opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCX299HKp_w)

These shone anime series are pretty much the inheritors of films such as Seven Samurai, featuring a combination of epic plot, great action scenes and rich character development. Though Gurren Lagann has as much testosterone as Commando.

[Guaporense]

Have you seen Kurosawa's High and Low? It's probably my favorite of his, and if you're a fan of his films I definitely recommend it. :)

It should be on this exact thread.

[Guaporense]

Awaiting Come and See to end up being second and Tree of Life being first. Trolollololo.

At my worst movies ever list of course.

[Guaporense]

My complete top 200 list:

1) PMMM duology (2012) - Shinbo
2) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) - Miyazaki
3) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) - Miyazaki
4) Ikiru (1952) - Kurosawa
5) Tokyo Story (1953) - Ozu (jumped 82 places)
6) Stalker (1979) - Tarkovsky
7) Princess Mononoke (1997) - Miyazaki
8) Late Spring (1949) - Ozu
9) Spirited Away (2001) - Miyazaki
10) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Kubrick
11) Porco Rosso (1992) - Miyazaki
12) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - Takahata
13) Apocalypse Now (1979) - Coppola
14) Ugetsu (1953) - Mizoguchi
15) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) - Miyazaki
16) Castle in the Sky (1986) - Miyazaki
17) The Mirror (1975) - Tarkovsky
18) Star Wars (1977) - Lucas & The Empire Strickes Back (1980) - Kershner
19) Seven Samurai (1954) Kurosawa
20) 8 1/2 (1963) - Fellini
21) Only Yesterday (1991) - Takahata
22) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) - Leone
23) If You Listen Closely (1995) - Kondo
24) Barry Lyndon (1975) - Kubrick
25) Aguirre the Wrath of God (1972) - Herzog
26) Bicycle Thieves (1949) - De Sica
27) Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Kubrick
28) The Human Condition (1959-1961) - Kobayashi
29) The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) - Jackson
30) Andrei Rublev (1966) - Tarkovsky
31) Blade Runner (1982) - Scott
32) Persona (1966) - Bergman
33) The Godfather (1972) & The Godfather II - Coppola
34) Aliens (1986) - Cameron
35) The Terminator (1984) - Cameron
36) There Will Be Blood (2007) - Anderson
37) Back to the Future (1985) - Zemeckis
38) Day of Wrath (1943) - Carl Dreyer
39) For a Few Dollars More (1965) - Leone
40) Gladiator (2000) - Scott
41) Dersu Uzala (1975) - Kurosawa
42) Citizen Kane (1941) - Welles
43) Rashomon (1950) - Kurosawa
44) City Lights (1931) - Chaplin
45) Taxi Driver (1975) - Scorsese
46) Pulp Fiction (1994) - Tarantino
47) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Lean
48) Gattaca (1997) - Niccol
49) The Lives of Others (2005) - von Donnersmarck
50) Schindler's List (1993) - Spielberg
51) Ran (1985) - Kurosawa
52) Solaris (1972) - Tarkovsky
53) The Matrix (1999) - The Wachowskis
54) City of God (2002) - Meirelles
55) A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Kubrick
56) Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal (1999) - Furuhashi
57) Red Beard (1965) - Kurosawa
58) Paths of Glory (1957) - Kubrick
59) Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - Mizoguchi
60) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) - Miyazaki
61) Dreams (1990) - Kurosawa
62) Alien (1979) - Scott
63) Umberto D. (1952) - De Sica
64) Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Lynch
65) Millennium Actress (2001) - Kon
66) Evangelion 2.0 (2009) - Anno
67) Summer Wars (2009) - Hosoda
68) Eraserhead (1975) - Lynch
69) An Autumn Afternoon (1962) - Ozu
70) The Road Warrior (1981) - Miller
71) La Jetée (1962) - Marker
72) The Thing (1982) - Carpenter
73) Shutter Island (2010) - Scorsese
74) The Shining (1980) - Kubrick
75) Der Untergang (2005) - Hirschbiegel
76) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Spielberg
77) The Man Who Planted Trees (1988) - Back
78) Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Kubrick
79) Life of Brian (1980) - Jones
80) The Pianist (2002) - Polanski
81) Planet of the Apes (1968) - Schaffner
82) Enter the Dragon (1973) - Clouse (more like Bruce Lee )
83) Cries and Whispers (1972) - Bergman
84) M (1931) - Lang
85) Duck Soup (1930) - Marx Brothers
86) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Darabont
87) The Wrath of Khan (1982) - Meyer
88) Kill Bill (2003-2004) - Tarantino
89) Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below (2011) - Shinkai
90) Vertigo (1958) - Hitchcock
91) Robocop (1987) - Verhoeven
92) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Leone
93) The Fly (1986) - Cronenberg
94) Goodfellas (1990) - Scorsese
95) Unforgiven (1992) - Eastwood
96) Drive (2011) - Refn
97) Leon (1994) - Besson
98) The Truman Show (1998) - Weir
99) The Hitcher (1986) - Harmon
100) Fanny and Alexander (1982) - Bergman
101) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - Bresson
102) Nostalghia (1983) - Tarkovsky
103) 5 Centimeters per Second (2007) - Shinkai
104) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Kubrick
105) Galaxy Express 999 (1979) - Rintaro
106) Terminator 2 (1991) - Cameron
107) Tale of Tales (1979) - Norstein
108) Dune (1984) - Lynch
109) Throne of Blood (1957) - Kurosawa
110) In the Name of the Father (1993) - Sheridan
111) Das Boot (1981) - Petersen
112) Paprika (2006) - Kon
113) Summer Days With Coo (2006) - Hara
114) The Killing (1956) - Kubrick
115) Ponyo (2008) - Miyazaki
116) The Elephant Man (1981) - Lynch
117) Pickpocket (1959) - Bresson
118) The Passion of Joan D'Arc (1928) - Dreyer
119) Gauche the Cellist (1982) - Takahata
120) The Aviator (2004) - Scorsese
121) High and Low (1963) - Kurosawa
122) Rocky (1976) - Stallone
123) Master and Commander (2003) - Weir
124) 12 Angry Men (1957) - Lumet
125) District 9 (2009) - Blomkamp
126) Diary of a Country Priest (1951) - Bresson
127) Akira (1988) - Otomo
128) Psycho (1960) - Hitchcock
129) Wall-E (2008) - Stanton
130) Hot Fuzz (2007) - Wright
131) Wolf Children (2012) - Hosoda
132) Ordet (1955) - Dreyer
133) Commando (1985) - Lester
134) The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) - Shinkai
135) A Man Escaped (1956) - Bresson
136) Shoah (1985) - Lanzmann
137) Watchmen (2009) - Snyder
138) Children of Men (2006) - Cuaron
139) Gertrud (1964) - Dreyer
140) Mouchette (1967) - Bresson
141) Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Oshii
142) Woman in the Dunes (1964) - Teshigahara
143) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Spielberg
144) Rhapsody in August (1991) - Kurosawa
145) Yojimbo (1961) - Kurosawa
146) Jaws (1975) - Spielberg
147) Castle of Cagliostro (1979) - Miyazaki
148) Harakiri (1962) - Kobayashi
149) Gran Torino (2008) - Eastwood
150) Spider Man 2 (2004) - Raimi
151) Boogie Nights (1997) - Anderson
152) Monthy Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - Gillian & Jones
153) Rear Window (1954) - Hitchcock
154) 300 (2007) - Snyder
155) Ohayo (1958) - Ozu
156) First Blood (1981) - Stallone
157) To Kill A Mocking Bird (1962) - Mulligan
158) The Virgin Spring (1960) - Bergman
159) Amelie (2001) - Jeunet
160) The Departed (2006) - Scorsese
161) The Sacrifice (1986) - Tarkovsky
162) Anvil: The History of Anvil (2008) - Gervasi
163) Ben-Hur (1959) - Wyler
164) Magnolia (1999) - Anderson
165) Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985) - Sugii
166) Rocky IV (1985) - Stallone
167) Three Colors Trilogy (1994) - Kieslowski
168) Kagemusha (1980) - Kurosawa
169) Fireworks (1998) - Kitano
170) Wild Strawberries (1957) - Bergman
171) Amadeus (1984) - Forman
172) Evangelion 1.0 (2007) - Anno
173) The Life of Oharu (1952) - Migozuchi
174) Madayo (1993) - Kurosawa
175) Forrest Gump (1994) - Zemekis
176) Borat (2006) - Charles
177) Dark City (1998) - Proyas
178) Underground (1995) - Kusturica
179) Early Summer (1951) - Ozu
180) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Eastwood
181) The White Ribbon (2009) - Haneke
182) The Devil, Probably (1977) - Bresson
183) UP (2009) - Docter & Peterson
184) I Was Born But... (1932) - Ozu
185) The Battle of Algiers (1966) - Pontecorvo
186) Horus: Prince of the Sun (1968) - Takahata
187) Sonatine (1993) - Kitano
188) Breaking the Waves (1995) - Lars von Trier
189) Sling Blade (1996) - Thornton
190) Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Tarkovsky
191) The Big Lebowski (1998) - Coens
192) Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - Tarr
193) The Hidden Fortress (1958) - Kurosawa
194) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Leone
195) Inglorious Basterds (2009) - Tarantino
196) The 400 Blows (1959) - Truffaut
197) Failling Down (1993) - Schumacher
198) Inception (2010) - Nolan
199) The Fountainhead (1949) - Ayn Rand
200) The Apartment (1960) - Wilder

Note: February 2014 edit.

[Mmmm Donuts]

Great list, man. I love how diverse your tastes are, in terms of foreign movies.

I typed in PMMM, and I wasn't expecting that kind of anime to be at the top of your list, at least looking purely at the art style and the screenshots. Puella Magi Madoka Magica, right? I'll definitely give it a watch, after reading your praise of it!

[Guaporense]

New entry:

Shoah
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Shoah.jpg

Around 150th place, a great documentary.

[Guaporense]

Great list, man. I love how diverse your tastes are, in terms of foreign movies.

They are not as diverse as some other members here, though.

I typed in PMMM, and I wasn't expecting that kind of anime to be at the top of your list, at least looking purely at the art style and the screenshots. Puella Magi Madoka Magica, right? I'll definitely give it a watch, after reading your praise of it!

Well, it's superficial art style is designed to manipulate your expectations. Though I like pure cute movies like My Neighbor Totoro.

[Mmmm Donuts]

Alright. I'll definitely give the first few episodes a try!

[Guaporense]

Alright. I'll definitely give the first few episodes a try!

Watch the first 3 at least. It's on the third episode, corresponding to the 45th minute of the movie, that the real stuff begins.

[hoang26]

Such a boring, pretentious, stupid topic!

[Mmmm Donuts]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/045/n725075089_288918_2774.jpg

[Guaporense]

Such a boring, pretentious, stupid topic!

Pardon?

[Guaporense]

Edit: Just added Hot Fuzz at the 130th place in my top 200 list.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/HotFuzzUKposter.jpg/220px-HotFuzzUKposter.jpg

[cricket]

Edit: Just added Hot Fuzz at the 130th place in my top 200 list.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/HotFuzzUKposter.jpg/220px-HotFuzzUKposter.jpg

Interesting pick from you; I'm going to give it a go now.

[Guaporense]

I watched it in 2011 though. Remembered to put it into my top 200.

New pick for my top 200:

Gravity (2013)
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Gravity.jpg

Put it into the 199th place.

[Deadite]

Such a boring, pretentious, stupid topic!

Such a boring, pretentious, stupid criticism.

[Deadite]

My complete top 200 list:

(sorry Departures, due to PMMM you were kicked out of my top 200)

1) PMMM duology (2012) - Shinbo
2) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) - Miyazaki
3) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) - Miyazaki
4) Ikiru (1952) - Kurosawa
5) Tokyo Story (1953) - Ozu (jumped 82 places)
6) Stalker (1979) - Tarkovsky
7) Princess Mononoke (1997) - Miyazaki
8) Late Spring (1949) - Ozu
9) Spirited Away (2001) - Miyazaki
10) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Kubrick
11) Porco Rosso (1992) - Miyazaki
12) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - Takahata
13) Apocalypse Now (1979) - Coppola
14) Ugetsu (1953) - Mizoguchi
15) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) - Miyazaki
16) Castle in the Sky (1986) - Miyazaki
17) The Mirror (1975) - Tarkovsky
18) Bicycle Thieves (1949) - De Sica
19) Seven Samurai (1954) Kurosawa
20) 8 1/2 (1963) - Fellini
21) Only Yesterday (1991) - Takahata
22) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) - Leone
23) If You Listen Closely (1995) - Kondo
24) Barry Lyndon (1975) - Kubrick
25) Aguirre the Wrath of God (1972) - Herzog
26) Star Wars (1977) - Lucas & The Empire Strickes Back (1980) - Kershner
27) Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Kubrick
28) The Human Condition (1959-1961) - Kobayashi
29) The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) - Jackson
30) Andrei Rublev (1966) - Tarkovsky
31) Blade Runner (1982) - Scott
32) Persona (1966) - Bergman
33) The Godfather (1972) & The Godfather II - Coppola
34) Aliens (1986) - Cameron
35) The Terminator (1984) - Cameron
36) There Will Be Blood (2007) - Anderson
37) Back to the Future (1985) - Zemeckis
38) Day of Wrath (1943) - Carl Dreyer
39) For a Few Dollars More (1965) - Leone
40) Gladiator (2000) - Scott
41) Dersu Uzala (1975) - Kurosawa
42) Citizen Kane (1941) - Welles
43) Rashomon (1950) - Kurosawa
44) City Lights (1931) - Chaplin
45) Taxi Driver (1975) - Scorsese
46) Pulp Fiction (1994) - Tarantino
47) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Lean
48) Gattaca (1997) - Niccol
49) The Lives of Others (2005) - von Donnersmarck
50) Schindler's List (1993) - Spielberg
51) Ran (1985) - Kurosawa
52) Solaris (1972) - Tarkovsky
53) The Matrix (1999) - The Wachowskis
54) City of God (2002) - Meirelles
55) A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Kubrick
56) Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal (1999) - Furuhashi
57) Red Beard (1965) - Kurosawa
58) Paths of Glory (1957) - Kubrick
59) Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - Mizoguchi
60) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) - Miyazaki
61) Dreams (1990) - Kurosawa
62) Alien (1979) - Scott
63) Umberto D. (1952) - De Sica
64) Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Lynch
65) Millennium Actress (2001) - Kon
66) Evangelion 2.0 (2009) - Anno
67) Summer Wars (2009) - Hosoda
68) Eraserhead (1975) - Lynch
69) An Autumn Afternoon (1962) - Ozu
70) The Road Warrior (1981) - Miller
71) La Jetée (1962) - Marker
72) The Thing (1982) - Carpenter
73) Shutter Island (2010) - Scorsese
74) The Shining (1980) - Kubrick
75) Der Untergang (2005) - Hirschbiegel
76) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Spielberg
77) The Man Who Planted Trees (1988) - Back
78) Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Kubrick
79) Life of Brian (1980) - Jones
80) The Pianist (2002) - Polanski
81) Planet of the Apes (1968) - Schaffner
82) Enter the Dragon (1973) - Clouse (more like Bruce Lee )
83) Cries and Whispers (1972) - Bergman
84) M (1931) - Lang
85) Duck Soup (1930) - Marx Brothers
86) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Darabont
87) The Wrath of Khan (1982) - Meyer
88) Kill Bill (2003-2004) - Tarantino
89) Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below (2011) - Shinkai
90) Vertigo (1958) - Hitchcock
91) Robocop (1987) - Verhoeven
92) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Leone
93) The Fly (1986) - Cronenberg
94) Goodfellas (1990) - Scorsese
95) Unforgiven (1992) - Eastwood
96) Drive (2011) - Refn
97) Leon (1994) - Besson
98) The Truman Show (1998) - Weir
99) The Hitcher (1986) - Harmon
100) Fanny and Alexander (1982) - Bergman
101) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - Bresson
102) Nostalghia (1983) - Tarkovsky
103) 5 Centimeters per Second (2007) - Shinkai
104) Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Kubrick
105) Robocop (1987) - Verhoeven
106) Terminator 2 (1991) - Cameron
107) Tale of Tales (1979) - Norstein
108) Dune (1984) - Lynch
109) Throne of Blood (1957) - Kurosawa
110) In the Name of the Father (1993) - Sheridan
111) Das Boot (1981) - Petersen
112) Paprika (2006) - Kon
113) Summer Days With Coo (2006) - Hara
114) The Killing (1956) - Kubrick
115) Ponyo (2008) - Miyazaki
116) The Elephant Man (1981) - Lynch
117) Pickpocket (1959) - Bresson
118) The Passion of Joan D'Arc (1928) - Dreyer
119) Gauche the Cellist (1982) - Takahata
120) The Aviator (2004) - Scorsese
121) High and Low (1963) - Kurosawa
122) Rocky (1976) - Stallone
123) Master and Commander (2003) - Weir
124) 12 Angry Men (1957) - Lumet
125) District 9 (2009) - Blomkamp
126) Diary of a Country Priest (1951) - Bresson
127) Akira (1988) - Otomo
128) Psycho (1960) - Hitchcock
129) Wall-E (2008) - Stanton
130) Hot Fuzz (2007) - Wright
131) Wolf Children (2012) - Hosoda
132) Ordet (1955) - Dreyer
133) Commando (1985) - Lester
134) The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) - Shinkai
135) A Man Escaped (1956) - Bresson
136) Shoah (1985) - Lanzmann
137) Watchmen (2009) - Snyder
138) Children of Men (2006) - Cuaron
139) Gertrud (1964) - Dreyer
140) Mouchette (1967) - Bresson
141) Ghost in the Shell (1995) - Oshii
142) Woman in the Dunes (1964) - Teshigahara
143) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Spielberg
144) Rhapsody in August (1991) - Kurosawa
145) Yojimbo (1961) - Kurosawa
146) Jaws (1975) - Spielberg
147) Castle of Cagliostro (1979) - Miyazaki
148) Harakiri (1962) - Kobayashi
149) Gran Torino (2008) - Eastwood
150) Spider Man 2 (2004) - Raimi
151) Boogie Nights (1997) - Anderson
152) Monthy Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - Gillian & Jones
153) Rear Window (1954) - Hitchcock
154) 300 (2007) - Snyder
155) Ohayo (1958) - Ozu
156) First Blood (1981) - Stallone
157) To Kill A Mocking Bird (1962) - Mulligan
158) The Virgin Spring (1960) - Bergman
159) Amelie (2001) - Jeunet
160) The Departed (2006) - Scorsese
161) The Sacrifice (1986) - Tarkovsky
162) Anvil: The History of Anvil (2008) - Gervasi
163) Ben-Hur (1959) - Wyler
164) Magnolia (1999) - Anderson
165) Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985) - Sugii
166) Rocky IV (1985) - Stallone
167) Three Colors Trilogy (1994) - Kieslowski
168) Kagemusha (1980) - Kurosawa
169) Fireworks (1998) - Kitano
170) Wild Strawberries (1957) - Bergman
171) Amadeus (1984) - Forman
172) Evangelion 1.0 (2007) - Anno
173) The Life of Oharu (1952) - Migozuchi
174) Madayo (1993) - Kurosawa
175) Forrest Gump (1994) - Zemekis
176) Borat (2006) - Charles
177) Dark City (1998) - Proyas
178) Underground (1995) - Kusturica
179) Early Summer (1951) - Ozu
180) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Eastwood
181) The White Ribbon (2009) - Haneke
182) The Devil, Probably (1977) - Bresson
183) UP (2009) - Docter & Peterson
184) I Was Born But... (1932) - Ozu
185) The Battle of Algiers (1966) - Pontecorvo
186) Horus: Prince of the Sun (1968) - Takahata
187) Sonatine (1993) - Kitano
188) Breaking the Waves (1995) - Lars von Trier
189) Sling Blade (1996) - Thornton
190) Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Tarkovsky
191) The Big Lebowski (1998) - Coens
192) Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - Tarr
193) The Hidden Fortress (1958) - Kurosawa
194) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Leone
195) Inglorious Basterds (2009) - Tarantino
196) The 400 Blows (1959) - Truffaut
197) Failling Down (1993) - Schumacher
198) Inception (2010) - Nolan
199) Gravity (2013) - Cuaron
200) 3 Idiots (2009) - Hirani

Other than the ordering, this is a pretty great list.

[honeykid]

You're right about the ordering, Deadite. Jaws at #146? WTH is that about?!? :p

[mark f]

But that's higher than IMDb!

- Guapo

[Sexy Celebrity]

189th - The Big Lebowski
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/The_Big_Lebowski.jpg

The best movie the Coens ever did IMO. Pure comedy gold and it got funnier every time I watched it. A very modern type of comedy too: I cannot imagine a film like this made in the 1950's, for instance.


Where is the support group meeting for people who don't think this movie is funny?

I'd like to join it, if it even exists.

[Daniel M]

You have RoboCop on your list twice, at 91 and 105. Maybe Departures can go back in after all.

[Sexy Celebrity]

149th - Spider Man 2
http://www.criticker.com/img/films/posters/Spider_Man_2.jpg

IMO this is a criminally underrated superhero film because it truly translates into the theater screen the true feeling of a comic book hero. It's very different from those pseudo-serious Nolan's films that (IMO) fail in translating the hero to the screen and also don't work as well as their fans believe as a drama film.

Spot on. The Nolan Batman movies don't do anything interesting with Batman. Batman has never been made interesting, yet. The only thing that's been truly fascinating with Nolan's Batman stuff is the phenomenon of Heath Ledger's Joker, which I believe was largely deepened and made more creepy and spooky by the fact that Heath Ledger died so shockingly before the film's release. It made The Dark Knight feel like you were looking into the abyss of the mystery of death itself.

I love Spider-Man 2. I saw it in the movies when it came out not expecting much and found it to be a spiritual experience.

[Guaporense]

Note: edited my top 200, added three movies (the first one over Robocop at 105th place, the last two ones ones over the 199th and 200th places):

Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
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The Apartment (1960)
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The Fountainhead (1949)
http://www.coolcinematrash.com/images/movies/Fountainhead/fountainhead_head.jpg

The Fountainhead is possibly the worst/best movie ever made.

[Guaporense]

But that's higher than IMDb!

- Guapo

It's at 201st place at the top 250, note that Fanny and Alexander at 202nd place is higher on my top 200. Nausicaa, at 203rd, place is 2nd place in my top 200. Persona at 195th place is very high as well. While Stalker, at 212th place, is in my top 10. The films around Jaws are better than the ones at the top 10 on the IMDB. :)

Spot on. The Nolan Batman movies don't do anything interesting with Batman. Batman has never been made interesting, yet. The only thing that's been truly fascinating with Nolan's Batman stuff is the phenomenon of Heath Ledger's Joker, which I believe was largely deepened and made more creepy and spooky by the fact that Heath Ledger died so shockingly before the film's release. It made The Dark Knight feel like you were looking into the abyss of the mystery of death itself.

I love Spider-Man 2. I saw it in the movies when it came out not expecting much and found it to be a spiritual experience.

Indeed. It's a great movie. It's the first superhero film that Roger Ebert said he could recommend to people as simply a great film and the first one that he gave 4 stars. Indeed, it's the best "pure" superhero film ever made.

[Guaporense]

Other than the ordering, this is a pretty great list.

You know me and Miyazaki. :D

I regard the stuff Miyazaki made between 1984 and 2001 as "technically" superior to anything ever made (among those I watched). Only due to a massively emotional reaction that I would rank these films above Kiki's Delivery Service, even though they are certainly inferior to Kiki Delivery service on a "technical level".

[Cobpyth]

I regard the stuff Miyazaki made between 1984 and 2001 as "technically" superior to anything ever made (among those I watched). Only due to a massively emotional reaction that I would rank these films above Kiki's Delivery Service, even though they are certainly inferior to Kiki Delivery service on a technical level.

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[Guaporense]

Kiki's Delivery Service is technically the best movie ever made. It's just absolutely perfect in all levels. 2nd place is Nausicaa. When I watch other movies and I watch a Miyazaki from 1984 to 2001, the Miyazaki movie's technical superiority stands out like a sore thumb. That's my subjective impression.

In regards to Citizen Kane, I watched that movie on the same day as My Neighbor Totoro and Akira. Three very different movies. Three great movies. I rank'en as follows: 1 - Totoro, 2 - Citizen Kane, 3 - Akira. Totoro is vastly superior to the others, though, on a technical level, it just flows much more naturally and gracefully, while having perfectly elegant visuals and perfectly balanced music. Akira and Kane are great movies on a technical sense as well, but they look amateurish compared to Totoro.

Another case: I watched Dark City, Boggie Nights and Princess Mononoke on the same day. Again, PM felt like a sore thumb compared to the other movies, it just flows so much better. And yet another case: I watched Nausicaa, K-ON!: The Movie and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (3 anime films this time), and again, Nausicaa's technical superiority felt gigantic, made the other movies appear extremely amateurish.

This sensation happened to me dozens of times, of the difference in technical quality between a Miyazaki movie and anything else I watched at a close time interval, even Kurosawa and Kubrick's films, which are usually near perfect if compared to anything else, appeared amateurish to me next to Miyazaki's work. It also happened to TV series since I watched the fourth season of Breaking Bad just after a Miyazaki movie. Breaking Bad felt like According to Jim.

You all know that I "like" Miyazaki's work.

[bluedeed]

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[Guaporense]

Playtime looked to me something like a Dream Theater album. Perfectly executed but lacking in visceral quality.

[bluedeed]

Playtime looked to me something like a Dream Theater album. Perfectly executed but lacking in visceral quality.

It is exactly what it's trying to be. So add it to the Miyazaki films as technically perfect. :)