My Top 100 list & Tell Me Yours

Hmmm..Karl it seems you are a bit of a Clint Eastwood fan with 5 of his movies on your top list. Those are all favorites of mine among his work too, coincidentally. The rest of your list is solid as well. I would particularly praise your selection of The Mission --though I am assuming that you are referring to the Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson film, which is, as you say, great. The score is one of it's strongest points, as it is scored by famed Italian Ennio Morricone, who also scored In the Line of Fire and a few of Clint Eastwood's earlier films, including the "Dollars trilogy."

L.A. Confidential, The Matrix, Shawkshank Redemption and Malcolm X are all particularly good as well.

Karl, just a note, if you are referring to Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar winning masterpiece, the title of the film is Unforgiven , not "The Unforgiven."

liam's 14! cool someone else here thats not already 80 years old!

Karl- like how you say in no particular orde, because after the first 50, we are all just thinking of of movies that we like.

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Yeah... I probably should have put more thought into some of the placings on the list.

19) Police Academy - What the f**k was I thinking?

9) Road Trip - What can I say... I can't help it. Being a teenager, I usaully have to sit through grueling "teen movies" with my friends, and I just thought that out of all of them that I have seen, Road Trip was the best.

I'm going to make another list this time & not be half asleep.

I hate being so young & my friends don't have their love for movies that I do. So I go on the net to find some with the same love of the Art we have all come to know as movies.
And here you are!

Hey, and L.B. Thanks for saying that my list isn't that bad.

Ain't that the truth! Great observation.

Originally posted by AKA23

""Hmmm..Karl it seems you are a bit of a Clint Eastwood fan with 5 of his movies on your top list.""

Not really a big fan. It's just that some of his work is really good.

""The rest of your list is solid as well. ""

Thank you.

""I would particularly praise your selection of The Mission --though I am assuming that you are referring to the Robert DeNiro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson film, which is, as you say, great.""

Yes, that is the film. The Mission is just an all around outstanding film experience. It has beautiful scenery/choreography, great acting, a suspenseful plot, action and, as you mention, a terrific score by Morricone. Plus you have DeNiro and Irons. This has got to be one of the most over-looked movies of all time.

""The score is one of it's strongest points, as it is scored by famed Italian Ennio Morricone, who also scored In the Line of Fire and a few of Clint Eastwood's earlier films, including the "Dollars trilogy.""

He is quite prolific. He also did The Thing, which is in my top ten. Just simple, stark music that perfectly compliments the tone of the film.


""L.A. Confidential, The Matrix, Shawkshank Redemption [/i] and Malcolm X are all particularly good as well.""

LA Confidential is a superb film achievement. Shawshank Redemption is pure entertainment, and Malcolm X is very interesting. I really despise the liberal agenda, and I assume this movie is not too historically accurate (just like Hurricane). But it still makes you think, and I really like the work of Denzel Washington. He typically does a great job. I think he should have won the Oscar in this movie, instead of Pacino for Scent of A Woman, although I realize Al was the sentimental favorite.

""Karl, just a note, if you are referring to Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar winning masterpiece, the title of the film is Unforgiven , not "The Unforgiven." ""

Thanks for pointing that out. I actually thought about that before I typed it in, but thought it still had "The" in it. I was wrong.

Now it's time for your top 100.

The One movie I would strongly disagree with on your list would have to be Aliens. it's got the same looking effects as Cameron's Terminator and a really bad storyline. it uses cheap suspence tricks and tacklicks to keep the audience involved like the little girl and the family at the begininng. Most if not all the characters play to themselfs and the love thingy between weaver and Biehn is sad. You also have to consider that the first one was made a good some 7 years earlier and does a the job so so much better.


all in all, I'd say Alien than Alien III than Aliens than the last one which was pretty sick and twist and I for one expected more from the guy how brought us The City of Lost Children and Delicatessan.




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It has the same effects as Terminator because they are only two yrs apart. I agree with you in that the little girl sub-plot got carried away. But the movie succeeds because it brings the claustrophobia of the original and even increases it in several scenes.

Plus, we already know what the monster is about, so the suspense will not be as intense as the original. It does, IMHO, make up for that by increasing the action to a considerable degree. I think Aliens is a fine, action/sci-fi vehicle. It blows away anything that has come out in the last several years.

I agree with you about Aliens 3. It was a very underrated film. Everyone was expecting the same action extravaganza as with the first two. I think A3 was delightfully dark and grim. I liked it. It is not as viewable as the first two, but it represented a nice change of pace from the predecessors.

The last film tried too hard to be twisted. It had too much of a European influence on it. Like you said, the director from those two films, plus Ron Pearlman. It had Winona Ryder in it, which was nauseating. However, Brad Dourif's presence cancels her out. The film was still uninspired.

These are the movies we both have in are top 100 so no explian or questions their.

my Substitute for this flick goes to DARK CITY which I consider to be a whole lot better.

Yes one of the best action movies ever constructed.

While I know a lot will not agree part 1 intrest me more plus arnie as a bad guy was pure genius on camerons part. Originality play a good deal to my liking as well.

I guess it's safe to say that Scorsese is your hero. 3 Intresting choices in there Casino The King of Comedy and Cape Fear. but my choices look nothing like yours which usually is the case when it comes to my dear friend Scorsese and me (Age of Innocence,New York,New York,Mean Streets,Taxi Driver,Goodfellas,Casino,After Hours, Raging Bull ruffly in that order).

I dig it, but I founded the sequel to be much more in my taste and humor.

One of the best Popcorn Adventures ever made. I also take it more serious than just popcorn and do like it more than Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

The Pink Panther movies are great and the original takes a back seat to Return of the Pink Panther. Peter Sellers is my fav comedic actor. The First one is also really campy do you fell the campyness of it, just wondering if it's just me.

Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist and remake of Invaders From Mars I likes more, I haven't really seen too much of his stuff thou.

I can tell from this that your list was made off the top of your head. Return is the only one that really choaks my chicken the wrong way. Empire over New Hope as well in my opinion.

Yes Yes Yes great editing great script and dialogue very fast pace as well one of his lesser know or thought as great films.

I know I mentioned this to you before so now I'm wondering if you've had the chance to watch either or both of Sean Penn's movie The Crossing Guard & The Pledge.

Just watch the original a couple of days ago and yeah Cronenberg is the champ.


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Definatly doesn't get mentioned enough give Kill Me Again a try I like it just a bit more done by the same director.

I can't argue again it's in the same field as Die Hard as beinginng one of the best action movie ever constructed. by the way what do you think about HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.

If you like this one than rent everything De Palma's done before and just after and you won't be dissapointed.

Casualties of War (1989)
Untouchables, The (1987)
Scarface (1983)
Blow Out (1981)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Carrie (1976)
Obsession (1976)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Sisters (1973)

I really like to know about this movie could you tell me??




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My rough list of the top 101 movies ever:

1- The Godfather
2- Citizen Kane
3- Casablanca
4- Psycho
5- Schindler's List
6- The Wizard of Oz
7- Lawrence of Arabia
8- Dr. Strangelove
9- Memento
10- Star Wars
11- The Shawshank Redemption
12- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
13- Rear Window
14- Silence of the Lambs
15- The Graduate
16- On the Waterfront
17- Sunset Boulevard
18- To Kill A Mockingbird
19- The Godfather part II
20- Some Like it Hot
21- It's A Wonderful Life
22- Jaws
23- Seven
24- Apocalypse Now
25- Raging Bull
26- 2001: A Space Odyessy
27- Goodfellas
28- North by Northwest
29- All About Eve
30- Raiders of the Lost Ark
31- The African Queen
32- Chinatown
33- The Bridge on the River Kwai
34- The Maltese Falcon
35- Saving Private Ryan
36- Gone with the Wind
37- Mulholland Dr.
38- M
39- Forrest Gump
40- The Manchurian Candidate
41- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
42- Vertigo
43- Bonnie and Clyde
44- Taxi Driver
45- The Sixth Sense
46- The Shining
47- Fight Club
48- The Usual Suspects
49- A Clockwork Orange
50- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
51- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
52- It Happened One Night
53- American Beauty
54- The Grapes of Wrath
55- Das Boot
56- West Side Story
57- High Noon
58- American History X
59- Doctor Zhivago
60- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
61- Rashomon
62- Stagecoach
63- Midnight Cowboy
64- Double Indemnity
65- The Deer Hunter
66- The Third Man
67- The Game
68- Singin' in the Rain
69- Annie Hall
70- Blade Runner
71- The Philadelphia Story
72- E.T: Extra Terrestrial
73- Pi
74- The Searchers
75- Network
76- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
77- Braveheart
78- A Streetcar Named Desire
79- Pulp Fiction
80- Amadeus
81- L.A. Confidential
82- Dark City
83- Unforgiven
84- Life is Beautiful
85- Die Hard
86- Being John Malkovich
87- The Gold Rush
88- The Apartment
89- Glengarry Glen Ross
90- Gladiator
91- M*A*S*H
92- Good Will Hunting
93- Fantasia
94- City Lights
95- Lord of the Rings
96- 12 Angry Men
97- Fargo
98- King Kong
99- The Wild Bunch
100- JFK
101- American Psycho

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Now don't get mad at me I'm glad you made a list but your list looks like AFI's top 100 there no real movies that I could Identify with you. No movies in their that I could say wow that movie in your top 100 there all movies that are loved & cherished by all expect for a few.

I'd say Dark City is a real intresting pick most people go with Matrix.

Stagecoach I like, but there's a good 5 other John Wayne or John Ford movies I like more (Rio Bravo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Red River The Searchers & The Quiet Man than comes StageCoach).

King Kong I didn't particularly like it's all about man and there destructive nature with a big monster to bring people in and the remake is all about the greed of humans both I like but not top 100 material for me.

81- L.A. Confidential - I don't see the appeal like other do same thing I like it but not Top 100 also the director in my opinion maybe a much better picture called Wonder boys.


I'll make some more comments on your list later





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Crazy. You are right though, my list does have many from the AFI list. Quite frankly, I agree with a lot of what they picked. (and also disagreed with some) Why? They are great movies, some of the greatest ever made. I added some newer ones as well, some that I thought were very well done. How you can look at my list and find any that arent excellent movies is beyond me. My list is pretty accurate.

See the first word of my rant.

Notice your use of the word "I." Does that mean you speak for everyone?

King Kong comes across as a very intriguing movie in my book. Not only the visuals (for 1933), but the story as well.

it's not that I don't find most of them good to great it's just that there nothing in there that jumps out at me everything seems to be what ever body else says is great.


I'm not trying to say that your list is in any way worser than mine or that you are playing it safe by listing the majority of what others love or for that matter that your list isn't honest to you. I just fell like there a lot of neglected films espically foreign films and films that I could say "that's an intresting choice". that's for me thou. keep up the good work and thanks for saying more than just CRAZY .






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How do you know this? I don't think I've ever met you before, so tell me. I like these movies, it's not to "blend" in with everyone else.

"I" as in me just me that's it and that's all

you may disagree with what movies "I" like more and put before stagecoach.





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I don't know this but I don't think you would have taken the time to make such a list if that were not true.




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There's no one here over 40; BTW. I want to know something about these lists of movies you are all coming up with. Are these your personal favorites or the top 100, if you were the last word in movie greatness?

Those are what I think are the best ever.

fair enough.

I hate to admit this; because I am such a lover of movies...but I honestly don't qualify to make a list like these. I can list about 100 of my favorite movies, but I can no way, shape or form, claim to know what is the best. First, I haven't seen a lot of the movies that OTHERS claim are the greatest. There are so many movies out there...most of my movie watching experience comes from movies that I've seen in the last 10 or so years. The only exsposure I've ever had to older movies, are the ones my mom rented and I just watched out of curiosity. How many of you can say that you could pass up the new release section for the oldies? Be honest. I mean, movie greatness doesn't start the year you were born, kids.

honest sades, that's pretty much all I really rent is older films anyting from 1996 to 1920. I think in the last 5 years i've watch maybe 150 of the new releases that have come out and that out of at least 1000 movies made in hollywood alone not counting foreign films. A perfect example is that fact that I just recently watch American Beauty for the first time.

Also watching movies in the theatre which I go to about 2 or 3 times a month. other than that new releases cost to much I'm not rich so I stick with the cheaper ones 2 movies for a dollar in the older movie section.






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