My Top 100 list & Tell Me Yours

Wow, I thought I was one of the extremely rare people who had a list like this.

1. The Matrix
2. Die Hard
3. Goodfellas
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. Se7en
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. The Godfather
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Instinct
11. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
12. Ghostbusters
13. Jaws
14. Heat
15. The Godfather: Part II
16. Reservoir Dogs
17. Fight Club
18. Beverly Hills Cop
19. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
20. Casino
21. Aliens
22. Blade Runner
23. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
24. Sudden Impact
25. Full Metal Jacket
26. Predator
27. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
28. The Terminator
29. The Others
30. Dirty Harry
31. Star Trek: First Contact
32. The Usual Suspects
33. The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring
34. Platoon
35. 48 Hours
36. Taxi Driver
37. Men In Black
38. Alien
39. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
40. The World is Not Enough
41. American Beauty
42. Braveheart
43. The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
44. The Outlaw josey Wales
45. Bullet in the Head
46. Magnum Force
47. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
48. Monty Python and the Life of Bryan
49. The Godfather: Part III
50. Midnight Run
51. Hard Boiled
52. The Professional
53. L.A. Confidential
54. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
55. Ran
56. Never Say Never Again
57. Saving Private Ryan
58. Crimson Tide
59. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
60. Apocalypse Now
61. Mission: Impossible
62. GoldenEye
63. Psycho
64. Conan the Barbarian
65. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
66. Dawn of the Dead
67. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
68. The Sixth Sense
69. The Shawshank Redemption
70. Gladiator
71. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
72. Memento
73. The French Connection
74. The Killer
75. Batman Returns
76. Goldfinger
77. Where Eagles Dare
78. Ladyhawke
79. Planet of the Apes (1968)
80. The Shining
81. High Plains Drifter
82. The Spy Who Loved Me
83. Excalibur
84. Five Deadly Venoms
85. Evil Dead II
86. Airplane!
87. Jurassic Park
88. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
89. Highlander
90. Blade
91. The Manchurian Candidate
92. Twelve Monkeys
93. Robocop
94. Army of Darkness
95. North by Northwest
96. For a Few Dollars More
97. Private Parts
98. X-Men
99. Batman
100. Fatal Attraction

Thanks, I thought the same of yours.

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Ok, just to clarify this, I was not embarassed by my list of movies that I put down, I enjoy my tastes in movies very much, regardless of what people think. The only reason I took it down is because after number twenty or so I just started naming some movies that came off the top of my head, and they weren't in any particular order. And I didnt want to have a top 100 list up there if I felt it wasn't my correct top 100 list. If you'd like to see my favorite movies I have my post up on the "Top 10 List" thread. Also, if you could, please keep your comments to yourself if you don't have a mature response. I think it is very rude to put down someone for their beliefs or opinions, I did not find it nice, I wouldn't put down your list regardless of what I thought of the movies. So next time if you could keep the comments to your self please. And for the others who were nice about it, thank you for respecting my opinion.

100 movies is too much. I don't even think I have 100 favorite movies. But in my opinion, some of the great ones are:

The Godfather I & II
Most Tarantino flicks
Snatch and Lock Stock...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
The John Hughes flicks
The Star Wars films
Evil Dead I, II, Army of Darkness
Romero's Dead Trilogy
RoboCop
Conan The Barbarian
Ghostbusters
Casino and Goodfella's
L.A Confidential
Rocky I-IV
Fight Club
Requiem for a Dream
Usual Suspects
Blow
Gladiator
Stanley Kubrick classics: Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Strangelove, Shinnin.
Saving Meg Ryan
Nerd of the Rings
Black Hawk Down
We Were Soldiers


fu*k there's too many!!!

Ok, I've futz with this long enough...here's my list in no particular preference order. I did try to group them by genre.

1. The Women (1939)
2. It Happened One Night (1934)
3. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
4. Holiday (1938*)
5. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
6. Bachelor Mother (1939)
7. Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
8. The Awful Truth (1937)
9. The Thin Man (Series: 1934,1934,1939)

10. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
11. Random Harvest (1942)
12. Pride and Prejudice (1940)
13. Persuasion (1995)
14. Sense and Sensibilty (1995)
15. Emma (1996)
16. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
17. The Princess Bride (1987)
18. Sleepless in Seattle *(1993)
19. You've Got Mail *(1998)
20. While You Were Sleeping (1995)
21. Moonstruck (1987)
22. Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
23. Addicted to Love (1997)
24. Jerry Maguire (1996)
25. On Golden Pond (1981)
26. Scent of a Woman (1992)
27. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
28. A Walk on the Moon (1999)
29. Chocolat (2000)
30. Amelie (2001)

31. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
32. Top Hat (1935)
33. Swing Time (1936)
34. Gay Divorcee (1934)
35. Roberta (1935)
36. Singin' In The Rain (1952)
37. The Band Wagon (1953)
38. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
39. On The Town (1949)
40. Brigadoon (1954)
41. Harvey Girls (1946)
42. Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
43. The Pirate (1948)
44. Easter Parade (1948)
45. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
46. Gigi (1958)
47. An American in Paris (1951)
48. Ziegfield Follies (1946)
49. Holiday Inn*(1942)
50. White Christmas (1954)
51. The Sound of Music (1965)
52. West Side Story (1961)
53. Hello, Dolly! (1969)
54. Victor/Victoria (1982)
55. Les Girls (1957)
56. Tap (1989)

57. A Day At the Races (1937)
58. A Night at the Opera (1935)
59. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
60. Young Frankenstein (1974)
61. Tootsie (1982)
62. There's Something About Mary (1998)
63. Shrek (2001)
64. Roxanne (1987)
65. Bowfinger (1999)
66. Parenthood (1989)
67. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
68. The Mask (1994)
69. Liar, Liar (1997)
70. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
71. Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
72. The Birdcage (1996)
73. The First Wives Club (1996)
74. Ruthless People (1986)
75. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
76. Scrooged(1988)
77. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

78. Captain Blood (1935)
79. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
80. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
81. North to Alaska (1960)
82. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) *
83. Lord of the Rings: FoftR (2001)
84. Raiders of the Lost Arc (1981, 1984, 1989)
85. True Lies (1994)

86. Gone With The Wind (1939)
87. All About Eve (1950)
88. Mr. Skefington (1944)
89. Stage Door (1937)
90. Laura (1944)
91. Gaslight (1944)
92. Rear Window (1954)
93. True Grit (1969)
94. The Fugitive (1993)
95. A Few Good Men (1992)
96. The Firm (1993)
97. The Joy Luck Club (1993)
98. Erin Brockovich (2000)
99. What Lies Beneath (2000)
100. Spy Game (2001)


There's so many other's I would have like to have put on, and still alot of movies I haven't seen. My list would probably vary in a month or so....

You appear to be a fun gal Aniko.

Thank you Lord Slayton, I appreciate it. I wasn't sure if my list was too girlie.

here's my totally unfun list. i tried not to revise it too much, cause otherwise i'd be working on it forever, but here goes.

1. modern times (1936, chaplin)
2. wild strawberries (1957, bergman)
3. wings of honneamise (1987, yamaga)
4. the seventh seal (1957, bergman)
5. aguirre: the wrath of god (1979, herzog)
6. tokyo fist (1995, tsukamoto)
7. steamboat bill, jr. (1928, keaton)
8. tokyo story (1953, ozu)
9. the 5,000 fingers of dr. t. (1953, rowland)
10. sunset blvd. (1950, wilder)
11. gorsch the cellist (1981, takahata)
12. the gold rush (1925, chaplin)
13. lawrence of arabia (1962, lean)
14. akira (1988, otomo)
15. sanjuro (1962, kurosawa)
16. to live (1994, yimou)
17. men with guns (1997, sayles)
18. tampopo (1986, itami)
19. faust (1994, svankmajer)
20. laputa (1986, miyazaki)
21. ballad of narayama (1982, imamura (still have to find the original)
22. all quiet on the western front (1930, milestone)
23. horus: the little norse prince (1968, takahata)
24. dr. strangelove (1964, kubrick)
25. nosferatu (1979, herzog)
26. once upon a time in the west (1969, leone)
27. spirited away (2001, miyazaki)
28. kiki's delivery service (1989, miyazaki)
29. tokyo drifter (1966, suzuki)
30. time bandits (1981, gilliam)
31. romper stomper (1992, wright)
32. redbeard (1965, kurosawa)
33. matewan (1987, sayles)
34. atlantic city (1980, malle)
35. magnificent ambersons (1941, welles)
36. crimes and misdemeanors (1989, woody allen)
37. hate (1995, kassovitz)
38. raise the red lantern (1991, yimou)
39. henry portrait of a serial killer (1986, mcnaughton)
40. batman, mask of the phantasm (1993, radomski)
41. gundam 0079 trilogy + char's counter attack (1981-1988)
42. ran (1985, kurosawa)
43. tetsuo (1988, tsukamoto)
44. black rain (1989, imamura)
45. branded to kill (1967, suzuki)
46. millennium actress (2001, kon)
47. burden of dreams (1982)
48. fire festival (1985, Yanagimachi)
49. jin roh (1998, okiura)
50. mr. death (1999)
51. snow white and the seven dwarves (1937)
52. whispers of the heart (1995, kondo)
53. thin red line (1998, malick)
54. the eel (1997, imamura)
55. ugetsu (1953, mizoguchi)
56. m (1931, lang)
57. the magic flute (1975, bergman)
58. story of qui ju (yimou)
59. the bicycle thief (1948, de sica)
60. the blue kite (1993, tian)
61. a taxing woman (1987, itami)
62. the third man (1949, reed)
63. the road home (1999, yimou)
64. an american werewolf in london (1981, landis)
65. high noon (1952, Zinnemann)
66. night of the hunter (1955, laughton)
67. fantasia (1940)
68. report on the party and the guests (1966, nemec)
69. unforgiven (1992, clint eastwood)
70. black narcissus (1947)
71. gate of flesh (1964, suzuki)
72. love and anarchy (1973, wertmuller)
73. seven samurai (1954, kurosawa)
74. deliverance (1972, boorman)
75. the funeral (1985, itami)
76. taxi driver (1976, scorsese)
77. for a few dollars more (1965, leone)
78. do the right thing (1989, spike lee)
79. solaris (1972, tarkovsky)
80. twilight of the cockroaches (1987, yoshida)
81. rosemary's baby (1969, polanski)
82. mystery of kaspar hauser (1974, herzog)
83. videodrome (1984, cronenberg)
84. dawn of the dead (1978)
85. white dog (1982, fuller)
86. discreet charm of the bourgeoisie (1972, bunuel)
87. fitzcarraldo (1982, herzog)
88. where the green ants dream (1984, herzog)
89. kind hearts and coronets (1949, hamer)
90. the trial (1963, welles)
91. el topo (1970, jodorowsky)
92. point blank (1967, boorman)
93. belle de jour (1967, bunuel)
94. king of hearts (1966, de broca)
95. seconds (1966)
96. f for fake (1975, welles)
97. the general (1927, keaton)
98. blood simple (1984, coen bros.)
99. network (1976, lumet)
100. week end (1967, goddard)

hey, i had no idea boorman directed excalibur, slayton. and here i was thinking he didnt have a decent film to his name besides deliverance and point blank.

You're one of a kind at this forum, palsey. Cool list. I'll have to broaden my horizons methinks.
What first got you started with your Japanese fixation?

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-ahh! well heres a few of my favourites-

dogma, pulp fiction, blackhawk down, jay and silent bob strike back, evil dead( s ) ( army of darkness especially), full metal jacket, silence of the lambs, platoon, starwars ( all of them), the matrix, clerks, psycho, chasing amy, princess bride, snatch, lotr,blade(1,2) mallratts, the exorcist, behind ememy lines, along came a spider, aliens ( all), saving private ryan, casualties of war, high crimes, we were soldiers, monty pyton and quest for the holy grail . . .
PLUS a whole lot more. . im just too lazy to type. Also ide like to see a lot more older movies (considering anything pre 1987 is before my time) lol

yeah, you need to broaden your horizons, man, like say, how about a top fifty that's all anime, followed by a bottom half of various non-animated japanese films? heh, just kidding, i think your list stacks up just fine.

What first got you started with your Japanese fixation?

fixation? naw....i wouldnt quite call it a fixation, only about 30 japanese films made my list . seriously, i'm affraid the answer is kind of boring...if i had to pinpoint a start, it was probably akira, back when i was young and impressionable, followed closely by various kurosawa films.

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Seenz..it's interesting that people OTHER than me have top 100 movies lists. I just so happen to have one (this is my one to date...I have made atleast 7). Well, here goes nothing.

One more thing...the list you're about to see...I haven't seen all the films in them. AND they are all in order by years and date...so be prepared...1. The Gold Rush - 1925 - Charlie Chaplin
2. All Quiet On The Western Front - 1930 - Lewis Milestone
3. Cimarron - 1931 - Wesley Ruggles
4. King Kong - 1933 - Merian Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack
5. 42nd Street - 1933 - Lloyd Bacon
6. Mutiny On The Bounty - 1935 - Frank Lloyd
7. Jezebel - 1938 - William Wyler
8. Gone With The Wind - 1939 - Victor Flemming*
9. The Wizard Of Oz - 1939 - Victor Flemming
10. Wuthering Heights - 1939 - William Wyler
11. Stagecoach - 1939 - John Ford
14. The Grapes of Wrath - 1940 - John Ford
15. The Philidelphia Story - 1940 - George Cukor
16. Citizen Kane - 1941 - Orson Welles*
17. How Green Was My Valley - 1941 - John Ford
18. Seargent York - 1941 - Howard Hawks
19. Casablanca - 1941 - Michael Curtiz*
20. Yankee Doodle Dandy - 1942 - Michael Curtiz
21. Mrs. Miniver - 1942 - William Wyler
22. Double Indemnity - 1944 - Billy Wilder
23. The Lost Weekend - 1945 - Billy Wilder
24. The Best Years of Our Lives - 1946 - William Wyler
25. A Double Life - 1947 - George Cukor
26. The Treasure Of Sierra Madre - 1948 - John Huston
27. Twelve O’ Clock High - 1949 - Henry King
28. Sunset Boulevard - 1950 - Billy Wilder
29. A Streetcar Named Desire - 1951 - Elija Kazan
30. Singin’ In The Rain - 1952 - Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
31. High Noon - 1952 - Fred Zinnerman
32. From Here To Eternity - 1953 - Fred Zinnerman
33. Julius Ceasar - 1953 - Joseph Mankiewicz
34. The Caine Mutiny - 1954 - Edward Dmytryk
35. Giant - 1956 - George Stevens
36. Around The World In 80 Days - 1956 - Michael Anderson
37. The Searchers - 1956 - John Ford
38. Paths Of Glory - 1957 - Stanley Kubrick
39. Some Like It Hot - 1959 - Billy Wilder
40. Ben~Hur - 1959 - William Wyler
41. Psycho - 1960 - Alfred Hitchcock
42. Judgement At Nuremburg - 1961 - Stanley Kramer
43. West Side Story - 1961 - Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins
44. Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 - David Lean
45. The Miracle Worker - 1962 - Arthur Penn
46. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - 1962 - John Ford
47. Doctor Zhivago - 1965 - David Lean
48. The Sound Of Music - 1965 - Robert Wise
49. The Graduate - 1967 - Mike Nichols
50. Bonnie & Clyde - 1967 - Arthur Penn
51. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? - 1967 - Stanley Kramer
52. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968 - Stanley Kubrick
53. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - 1969 - George Roy Hill
54. The Wild Bunch - 1969 - Sam Peckinpaw
55. Patton - 1970 - Franklin Schaffner
56. A Clockwork Orange - 1971 - Stanley Kubrick
57. The Godfather - 1972 - Francis Ford Coppalla*
58. The Exorcist - 1973 - William Friedkin
59. The Sting - 1973 - George Roy Hill
60. Mean Streets - 1973 - Martin Scorsese
61. The Godfather: Part II - 1974 - Francis Ford Coppalla
62. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - 1975 - Milos Foreman
63. Network - 1976 - Sidney Lumet
64. Taxi Driver - 1976 - Martin Scorsese
65. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977 - Steven Spielberg
66. Annie Hall - 1977 - Woody Allen
67. Apocolypse Now - 1979 - Francis Ford Coppalla
68. Ordinary People - 1980 - Robert Redford
69. Raging Bull - 1980 - Martin Scorsese
70. The Elephant Man - 1980 - David Lynch
71. Chariots Of Fire - 1981 - Hugh Hudson
72. On Golden Pond - 1981 - Mark Rydell
73. Reds - 1981 - Warren Beatty
74. Gandhi - 1982 - Richard Attenborough
75. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - 1982 - Steven Spielberg
76. Terms Of Endearment - 1983 - James L. Brooks
77. Amadeus - 1984 - Milos Foreman
78. Places In The Heart - 1984 - Robert Benton
79. The Color Purple - 1985 - Steven Spielberg
80. Ran - 1985 - Akira Kurosawa
81. Out Of Africa - 1985 - Sydney Pollack
82. Platoon - 1986 - Oliver Stone
83. Hannah and Her Sisters - 1986 - Woody Allen
84. The Last Emperor - 1987 - Bernardo Bertolucci
85. Moonstruck - 1987 - Norman Jewison
86. Rain Man - 1988 - Barry Levinson
87. Mississippi Burning - 1988 - Alan Parker
88. Driving Miss Daisy - 1989 - Richard Zanuck
89. Dead Poet’s Society - 1989 - Peter Weir
90. Born On The Fourth Of July - 1989 - Oliver Stone
91. Glory - 1989 - Edward Zwick
92. Dances With Wolves - 1990 - Kevin Costner
93. Goodfellas - 1990 - Martin Scorsese
94. The Silence of the Lambs - 1991 - Jonathan Demme
95. Beauty and The Beast - 1991 - Don Haln
96. JFK - 1991 - Oliver Stone
97. Thelma & Louise - Ridley Scott
98. Unforgiven - 1992 - Clint Eastwood
99. A Few Good Men - 1992.- Rob Reiner
100. Schindler’s List - 1993 - Steven Spielberg*
101. The Piano - 1993 - Jane Campion
102. Forrest Gump - 1994 - Robert Zemeckis
103. Pulp Fiction - 1994 - Quinten Tarantino
104. The Shawshank Redemption - 1994 - Frank Darabont
105. Apollo 13 - 1995 - Ron Howard
106. Braveheart - 1995 - Mel Gibson
107. Nixon - 1995 - Oliver Stone
108. The English Patient - 1996 - Anthony Minghella
109 Titanic - 1997 - James Cameron
110. Saving Private Ryan - 1998 - Steven Spielberg
111. The Green Mile - 1999 - Frank Darabont
112. American Beauty - 1999 - Sam Mendes
113. Gladiator - 2000 - Ridley Scott
114. A Beautiful Mind - 2001 - Ron Howard

MY ACTUAL TOP TEN AT THE MOMENT
#1.) The Godfather
#2.) Schindler's List
#3.) Gone With The Wind
#4.) Lawrence of Arabia
#5.) Citizen Kane
#6.) Gandhi
#7.) Titanic
#8.) The Sweet Smell of Success
#9.) Casablanca
#10.) The Graduate

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Why would you have movies in your 100 favorite films if you haven't seen them? Also what does the, "Seenz" at the beginning of your posts signify?

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Out of your list I'd say these's were the only films I really dislike The Return of the Jedi, Braveheart, Rocky, There's Something About Mary. Mary for me has no repeat quailtiy and was seriously bad on the second viewing very little of the humor work. Jedi is fluffy and doesn't even come close to the first 2. Braveheart makes a hero out of someone in history that wasn't. It's also lopsided in it's views and opinions. Rocky in just plain trifle. Raging Bull destorys this film.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way and out of my system there tons and tons of intresting and magnificent films in your list.
The Outsiders while not nearly my favorite Coppola it's still a solid flick. L.A. Confidential intresting what do you think of Wonder Boys i'm defaintly a Hanson supporter and major fan of the man. John Boorman's Excailbur & Deliverance are amazing films I'm a huge huge love of the man's canon.

A for the guy who posted.

hey, i had no idea boorman directed excalibur, slayton. and here i was thinking he didnt have a decent film to his name besides deliverance and point blank.

You should check out The Emerald Forrest, Hope and Glory Hell in the Pacific etc, etc, etc.


Steve McQueen is one of my favorites and Papillon is upper there with the greats. What do you think of Schaffner Patton. The Matrix I'll take Dark City any day it's way better. Driving Miss Daisy, is there anything else of the director that you like. Lord of the Flies a good film but the Original is amazing. I love all the Lean's you mentioned but my favorite as of right now isn't there Oliver Twist if you haven't seen it, check it out. Quite a few Spileberg in you list what's your thoughts on 1941. I have The Messenger on DVD but haven't put it on so far. Any comments would be awesome also do you like Leon, Le Dernier Combat, Subway & The Big Blue. The Begin of Aliens is terrible after the get out of there sleep it picks up thou and is pretty good.

Forrest Gump there's so many Zemericks I put before this film to name a few Contact, Who Frammed Roger Rabbit & Back to the Future part I & II. The Thing Carpenter's revamping of the original is magnificent. Right now this is my favorite Carpenter. Army of Darkness what do you think of the first 2. [i]Love to know about these films any comments would be much obligied Dead End & We're No Angels. Is it safe........Marathon Man love it. Serpico is one heck of a cop film one of thee best what do you think of other Lumet's. A Clockwork Orange if i'm wrong tell me but, this is the only Kubrick to make your list. what do you think of his filmography.

It's a good film Bonnie and Clyde but I can't say i'm a huge fan. The Days of Wine and Roses amazing did I say amazing. hhhmmm, The Grapes of Wrath great film but there's quite a few other Ford's I love more. Platoon I'm really off and on with this film. Everytime I see it again my opinion changes for being great to good. Affliction wow, I thought I maybe the only person that digs this film. Some Reco's Blue Collar, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, Light of Day & Cat People. Bringing Out the Dead I love this film but it seems to get a lot of bad critism. The Deer Hunter uncredible I love love Cimino check out [Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Heaven's Gate & Year of the Dragon I also really like Desperate hours & The Sicilian. Hamlet I think Branagh's version is way better but this film is pretty good.

I would be very interested in why you think that…

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The Return of the Jedi is my least favorite of the original trilogy, but I am loathe to leave it out. I still wanna be Hans when I grow up. Braveheart is one of my favorites regardless of the fact that there is really very little real documentation on William Wallace. If you think about it, there is very little documentation on Joan of Arc also, but The Messenger still made it on to my top 100 list. Braveheart is the ipitomy of the epic battle movie, my favorite. Not to mention, Mel Gibson has been a favorite since I saw Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, and The Bounty. Rocky is there because it was one of the first movies I got to see in the theater, and I was so excited, I almost wet myself. I was, after all, only eight years old. It will always be a special movie to me, but none of the sequels will. There's Something About Mary may not have a lot of replay value, because it is after all, a shock movie. But what a shock first run, it is funny as hell, and I feel good about listing it. The Outsiders was one of my first favorites, it came out when I was a teen and I could relate well to Dallas. I made my list to be a history of my favorite movies, and not just a current 100, hence Rocky and others of it's ilk.

Now that I'm done answering your critiques, I can move on to your questions. Wonder Boys is a great flick, but it didn't even shape into my memory while making my list. The Emerald Forrest, Hope and Glory, and Hell in the Pacific are all good films, but alas, the list could not go to 103. Unfortunately I did not remember Patton while making my list, because I would have added it. I think Scott's portrayal was one of the finest acting performances in the history of cinema. Dark City is another movie I should have added to the list, because it is easily one of the greatest sci-fi's ever created. Yet, in defense of The Matrix, it made my list first off, because it kicked ass! Secondly, because of the ground breaking camera work, and thirdly, because it was the first sci-fi to come out in a long time that had any thought to it. I couldn't ignore the fact that there were so many people who just couldn't grasp the content, that IMO makes it a good movie. Crimes of the Heart and Paradise Road are the other two movies I like a lot from Bruce Beresford. Lord of the Flies, the remake, was a very good film, I have yet to see the original. Maybe when I do, I'll revise the list. I have seen Oliver Twist , but I didn't love it as much as the other three Lean movies I chose, I didn't hate it though. 1941, good movie, but great? Not in my opinion, sorry. As far as The Messenger, it got a lot of moderate to poor reviews. But I like Milla Jovovich, and she really chomped at the bit for this part, and was incredible. Absolutely wonderful, that girl can act. That's why I love it. Léon made my list, I think you must have missed it. I haven't seen Le Dernier Combat, Subway, or The Big Blue, so I cannot comment. Aliens is the first real hardcore action sci-fi that I can remember being blown away by, so it made my list. I put no other Zemeckis film before Forrest Gump, no way. Well maybe Used Cars. The remake of The Thing is Carpenter's best work. Period. Army of Darkness is my favorite of the trilogy, but Evil Dead II is pretty good campy fun too. I'm not as much a fan of the first one as I used to be. Bruce Campbell rocks, I wish he got more roles. Dead End and We're No Angels are my two favorite Bogart flicks. In the first one he plays a gangster who comes back to the neighborhood he grew up in. It's really more of a Joel McCrea movie though. In the second, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, and Aldo Ray, play three convicts who escape Devil's Island and wind up in a small town. They want to steal some clothes and other things, but wind up being drawn into the inhabitants of the town. It's the best comedy he ever starred in, at least I think so. Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict are the other Sydney Lumet films I like, but not enough to add to the list. I think maybe I made a mistake with Dog Day Afternoon though, I really do love that movie. As far as Kubrick's filmography, I should have added 2001 and Dr. Strangelove, 100 just isn't big enough. I had another Ford film on my list which is actually my favorite of his, it is How Green Was My Valley. I have seen Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Heaven's Gate and Year of the Dragon, my favorite of these three being Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. I have not seen either Desperate hours or The Sicilian. I had heard neither were good. Plus I usually avoid Christopher Lambert movies, I don't like him, with the exception of Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (Guilty Pleasure). And last, but certainly, not least, I like Mel's version of Hamlet because he needed to prove he was more than a lethal weapon, and he succeeded.

Satisfied? ~whew~

Braveheart is the ipitomy of the epic battle movie

Way Way Better Epic to name a few:
Spartacus, Seven Samurai, Lawerance of Arabia

and thirdly, because it was the first sci-fi to come out in a long time that had any thought to it. I couldn't ignore the fact that there were so many people who just couldn't grasp the content, that IMO makes it a good movie.

Off the cuff some great Sci-fi's to come out in the 90's:
Cube
Pi (Aronofsky, 1998)
The City of Lost Children (Jeunet & Caro, 1995)
Sphere

1941, good movie, but great? Not in my opinion, sorry.

I don't know why people dislike his film for me it defaintly one of my favorite Spielberg's

I put no other Zemeckis film before Forrest Gump, no way. Well maybe Used Cars.

Used Cars rocks, It's a misunderstood comedy for sure.

Army of Darkness is my favorite of the trilogy, but Evil Dead II is pretty good campy fun too. I'm not as much a fan of the first one as I used to be. Bruce Campbell rocks, I wish he got more roles.

I dig Bruce and his big chin and for me Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn is better. The dark slapstick humor with tons of atmosphere and the hammy up by Bruce plus it campy camp look, great photography and camera work. Which ending do you like more in Army of Darkness.

I have not seen either Desperate hours or The Sicilian. I had heard neither were good.

Yeah I doubt too many people do like these films, but I do.

Thanks for the response.

I din't say it was the greatest ever made, but it's up there.

Eh, haven't seen, AWSOME, and Blah.

I didn't say I disliked it, I do like it. But there are so many more Spielberg movies I love. He's my favorite director, even though it seems to be the "in" thing to dis' his work.

I totally agree.

I didn't know there were more endings than the one in the department store.

I'm so sorry.

I didn't know there were more endings than the one in the department store.

Wow, than your in for a treat. I'm not going to say a word about it. Please do youself a huge favor by renting, buying, stealing the director's cut.

Here's a 100 or so

Right Now....

Love to hear any comments or questions


Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (Maddin, 2002)
Safe Conduct (Tavernier, 2002)
Ten (Kiarostami, 2002)
Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
Gosford Park (Altman, 2001)
Me Without You (Goldbacher, 2001)
Mullholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
Wonder Boys (Hanson, 2000)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers, 1998)
Pi (Aronofsky, 1998)
When Trumpets Fade (Irvin, 1998)
Jackie Brown (Tarantino, 1997)
Bottle Rockets (Anderson, 1996)
Nixon (Stone, 1996)
Before Sunrise (Linklater, 1995)
The Croosing Guard (Penn, 1995)
The Flower of My Secret (Almodovar, 1995)
The Age of Innocence (Scorsese, 1993)
Fearless (Weir, 1993)
Geronimo: An America Legend (Hill, 1993)
The Joy Luck Club (Wang, 1993)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen, 1993)
Schindler's List (Spielberg, 1993)
Mad Dog and Glory (McNaughton, 1992)
Unfogiven (Eastwood, 1992)
City of Hope (Sayles, 1991)
Jacob's Ladder (Lyne, 1990)
Miller's Crossing (Coen Brothers, 1990)
Crimes and Misdemenors (Allen, 1989)
The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis, 1988)
The Big Easy (McBride, 1987)
The Dead (Huston, 1987)
Evil Dead II: Dead By Dead (Raimi, 1987)
Hope and Glory (Boorman, 1987)
House of Games (Mamet, 1987)
Down By Law (Jarmusch, 1986)
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
My Life As A Dog (Hallstrom, 1985)
Broadway Danny Rose (Allen, 1984)
Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
Le Dernier Combat (Besson, 1983)
The Right Stuff (Kaufman, 1983)
Videodrome (Croneneberg, 1983)
Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
John Carpenter's The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
The Verdict (Lumet, 1982)
Blow Out (De Palma, 1981)
Heaven's Gate (Cimino, 1980)
The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
Apocalypse Now Redux (Coppola, 1979)
Escape from Alcatraz (Siegel, 1979)
Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1978)
Scorsese American Boy: A Profile of Stevie Price (Scorsese, 1978)
Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977)
All the President's Men (Pakula, 1976)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood, 1976)
Bite the Bullet (Brooks, 1975)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa, 1975)
Amarcord (Fellini, 1974)
California Split (Altman, 1974)
Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)
The Odessa File (Neame, 1974)
The Parallex View (Pakula, 1974)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Cimino, 1974)
The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
The Sting (Hill, 1973)
Junior Bonner (Peckinpah, 1972)
The Bird With The Crystal PLumage (Argento, 1970)
Patton (Schaffner, 1970)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1969)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They ? (Pollack, 1969)
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
Bullitt (Yates, 1968)
The Great Silence (Corbucci, 1968)
La Route De Corinthe (Chabrol, 1968)
2001: ASP (Kubrick, 1968)
Belle De Jour (Bunuel, 1967)
Branded To Kill (Suzuki, 1967)
Aura (Damiani, 1966)
Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966)
Bande A Part (Godard, 1964)
That Man From Rio (De Broca, 1964)
THe Train (frankenheimer, 1964)
Zulu (Endfield, 1964)
Charade (Donen, 1963)
The Girl Who KNew Too Much (Bava, 1963)
The Great Escape (Sturges, 1963)
Lord of the Flies (Brooks, 1963)
Days of Wine and Roses (Edwards, 1962)
Hell is For Heroes (Seigel, 1962)
101 Dlamatians (Geronimi, Luske & Reitherman, 1961)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
Moby Dick (Huston, 1956)
The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
Bob Le Flambeur (Melville, 1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1955)
Rififi (Dassin, 1955)
The Far Country (Mann, 1954)
Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
The Seven Samarui (Kurosawa, 1954)
Mon Oncle (Tati, 1953)
Pickup On South Street (Fuller, 1953)
Bend of the River (Mann, 1952)
Early Summer (Ozu, 1951)
Oliver Twist (Lean, 1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948)
The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
DEad of Night (Cavalcanti, Critchton, Deasrden & Hamer, 1945)
A Canterbury Tale (P & P, 1944)
The More The Merrier (Stevens, 1943)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
Penny Serenade (Stevens, 1941)
49th Parallel (P & P, 1941)
Rebecca (Hitchcock, 1940)
Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939)
All Quiet on the Westernfront (Milestone, 1930)
Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922)

Amelie (Jeunet, 2001) - I'm waiting for the DVD
Gosford Park (Altman, 2001) - Ditto.
Mullholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001) - On my top 100 list.
Wonder Boys (Hanson, 2000) - Great flick.
FIGHT CLUB (Fincher, 1999) - Great flick.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (Coen Brothers, 1998) - Great flick.
JACKIE BROWN (Tarantino, 1997) - Great flick.
BOTTLE ROCKETS (Anderson, 1996) - I'm embarrased that I haven't seen it.
Fearless (Weir, 1993) - Great flick.
SCHINDLER'S LIST (Spielberg, 1993) - On my top 100 list.
UNFORGIVEN (Eastwood, 1992) - On my top 100 list.
JACOB'S LADDER (Lyne, 1990) - Great flick.
MILLER'S CROSSING (Coen Brothers, 1990) - Great flick.
CRIMES AND MISDEMENORS (Allen, 1989) - Great flick.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis, 1988) - Great flick.
EVIL DEAD II (Raimi, 1987) - Great flick.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (Leone, 1984) - Great flick.
THE RIGHT STUFF (Kaufman, 1983) - Great flick.
Videodrome (Croneneberg, 1983) - Great flick.
BLADE RUNNNER (Scott, 1982) - Great flick.
JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING (Carpenter, 1982) - On my top 100 list.
THE VERDICT (Lumet, 1982) - Great flick.
BLOW OUT (De Palma, 1981) - Great flick.
THE SHINING (Kubrick, 1980) - I'd love it if I didn't dislike Shelly Duval so much.
APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX (Coppola, 1979) - Great flick.
ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN (Pakula, 1976) - Great flick.
CHINATOWN (Polanski, 1974) - Great flick.
PATTON (Schaffner, 1970) - Great flick.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Leone, 1969) - On my top 100 list.
THE WILD BUNCH (Peckinpah, 1969) - Great flick.
BULLITT (Yates, 1968) - Great flick. McQueen = the original stud.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Kubrick, 1968) - Great flick.
THE GREAT ESCAPE (Sturges, 1963) - On my top 100 list.
DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES (Edwards, 1962) - On my top 100 list.
RIO BRAVO (Hawks, 1959) - Great flick.
12 ANGRY MEN (Lumet, 1957) - Great flick.
THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE (Huston, 1948) - Great flick.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Capra, 1946) - If you go through life without loving this movie at least once, then you're Satan.
CITZEN KANE (Welles, 1941) - The original great flick.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERNFRONT (Milestone, 1930) - Great flick.

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