Sane's Top 100

I am now using your ratings system instead of my previous one of giving very low ratings on average.

100. What Time is it There (2001) - Tsai Ming Liang (Taiwan)
99. Through the Olive Trees (1994) - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)
98. Three Colors: Blue (1994) - Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland) 69/100
97. Papillon (1973) - Franklin J Schaffner (USA)
96. Moneyball (2011) - Bennett Miller (USA) 70/100
95. Lust, Caution (2007) - Ang Lee (Taiwan)
94. Lady Vengeance (2005) - Park Chan Wook (Korea)
93. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) - Quentin Tarantino (USA) 89/100
92. The Isle (2000) - Kim Ki Duk (Korea)
91. Inglourious Basterds (2009) - Quentin Tarantino (USA) 86/100
90. Shutter (2004) - Banjong Pisanthanakun/Parkpoom Wongpoom (Thailand)
89. Seven Samurai (1954) - Akira Kurosawa (Japan) 96/100
88. Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg (USA) 94/100
87. Monsters (2010) - Gareth Edwards (UK)
86. The Matrix (1999) - Andy & Lana Wachowski (USA) 92/100
85. The Kid (1921) - Charlie Chaplin (USA)
84. Happy Times (2000) - Zhang Yimou (China)
83. La Haine (1995) - Mathieu Kassovitz (France)
82. Four Lions (2010) - Christopher Morris (UK)
81. Three Colors: Red (1994) - Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland) 84/100
80. Taste of Cherry (1997) - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)
79. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Irvin Kershner (USA) 95/100
78. Summer Interlude (1951) - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)
77. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Frank Darabont (USA) 90/100
76. Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Steven Spielberg (USA) 82/100
75. Life of Pi (2012) - Ang Lee (Taiwan)
74. The Last King of Scotland (2006) - Kevin Macdonald (UK)
73. Juno (2007) - Jason Reitman (Canada) 78/100
72. A Hijacking (2012) - Tobias Lindholm (Denmark)
71. The Hangover (2009) - Todd Phillips (USA) 72/100
70. A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick (USA) 92/100
69. Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock (UK) 90/100
68. Ponyo (2008) - Hayao Miyazaki (Japan) 90/100
67. Monty Python & The Holy Grail (1975) - Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones (UK) 87/100
66. The Grandmaster (2013) - Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong)
65. The Face of Another (1966) - Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan)
64. Cries and Whispers (1972) - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden) 90/100
63. Bicycle Thieves (1948) - Vittorio De Sica (Italy) 98/100
62. The Apartment (1960) - Billy Wilder (USA) 83/100
61. American History X (1998) - Tony Kaye (USA) 79/100
60. Act of Dishonour (2010) - Niloufar Pazira (Canada)
59. 12 Angry Men (1957) - Sidney Lumet (USA) 87/100
58. There Will be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas Anderson (USA) 93/100
57. Star Wars (1977) - George Lucas (USA) 95/100
56. The Road Home (1999) - Zhang Yimou (China)
55. Raging Bull (1980) - Martin Scorsese (USA) 64/100
54. The Bow (2005) - Kim Ki Duk (Korea)
53. Hotel Rwanda (2004) - Terry George (UK)
52. Fargo (1996) - Coen Brothers (USA) 73/100
51. The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino (USA)
50. Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola (USA) 98/100
49. Aliens (1986) - James Cameron (USA) 94/100
48. Tokyo Story (1953) - Yasujiro Ozu (Japan) 99/100
47. Seven (1995) - David Fincher (USA) 81/100
46. Rebecca (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock (UK)
45. Memento (2001) - Christopher Nolan (UK) 82/100
44. Goodfellas (1990) - Martin Scorsese (USA) 89/100
43. Cloverfield (2008) - Matt Reeves (USA) 81/100
42. Breathless (1960) - Jean-Luc Goddard (France) 3/100
41. Babel (2006) - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Mexico)
40. Satantango (1994) - Bela Tarr (Hungary) 89/100
39. Memories of Matsuko (2006) - Tetsuya Nakashima (Japan)
38. Life is Beautiful (1997) - Roberto Benigni (Italy)
37. Last Train Home (2009) - Lixin Fan (Canada)
36. Hunger (2008) - Steve McQueen (UK)
35. Downfall (2004) - Oliver Hirschbiegel (Germany) 90/100
34. American Psycho (2000) - Mary Harron (Canada)
33. 2046 (2004) - Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong)
32. Intouchables (2011) - Olivier Nakache/Eric Toledano (France) 79/100
31. The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola (USA) 92/100
30. Hana-Bi (1997) - Takeshi Kitano (Japan) 87/100
29. Detachment (2011) - Tony Kaye (USA) 85/100
28. City of God (2003) - Katia Lund/Fernando Meirelles (Brazil) 91/100
27. Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott (UK) 94/100
26. The Sweet Hereafter (1997) - Atom Egoyan (Canada)
25. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - James Foley (USA)
24. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Sidney Lumet (USA) 81/100
23. Django Unchained (2012) - Quentin Tarantino (USA) 80/100
22. Chungking Express (1994) - Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong) 49/100
21. Pather Panchali (1955) - Satyajit Ray (India) 91/100
20. Dogville (2003) - Lars Von Trier (Denmark) 81/100
19. Avatar (2009) - James Cameron (USA) 75/100
18. Hero (2002) - Zhang Yimou (China) 81/100
17. The Godfather Part II (1974) - Francis Ford Coppola (USA) 92/100
16. Whisper of the Heart (1995) - Yoshifumi Kondo (Japan) 96/100
15. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring (2003) - Kim Ki Duk (Korea)
14. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Jonathan Demme (USA) 86/100
13. Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) 62/100
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Milos Forman (Czech Republic) 78/100
11. Dancer in the Dark (2000) - Lars Von Trier (Denmark)
10. Confessions (2010) - Tetsuya Nakashima (Japan)
9. Wuthering Heights (1939) - William Wyler (USA)
8. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - John Cassavetes (USA)
7. Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - Isao Takahata (Japan) 97/100
6. Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino (USA) 91/100
5. Taxi Driver (1976) - Martin Scorsese (USA) 93/100
4. Oldboy (2003) - Park Chan Wook (Korea) 85/100
3. 3-Iron (2004) - Kim Ki Duk (Korea)
2. In the Mood for Love (2000) - Wong Kar Wai (Hong Kong) 71/100
1. Late Spring (1949) - Yasujiro Ozu (Japan)[/quote] 98/100

Many of my personal favorites in this list. Weird that your favorite Miyazaki is Ponyo, a great movie like all his others but it lacks the dramatic power of his more serious works or the supreme purity and elegance of Totoro.

I do like Totoro more but I didn't watch it in time. When I started this list my intention was to try to avoid watching movies that I thought would be good enough to make the list because then I would have to decide whether to put them in and take another movie out or not. That pretty much went out the window because as soon as I started the countdown I watched Late Spring ...

So, then my plan was if I saw something great I would put it in and just remove the "worst" of the movies that I hadn't posted yet. But once I got to about 70 I didn't want to remove anything because everything that was left deserved to be there.

So, then I thought I'll just do a post at the end saying "BTW, recently watched these and they would have made the list". Then yesterday I went to do it and then thought "that looks silly" - posting my Top 5 and an hour later posting "Oh, and here's a movie that should have been in my top 5 but wasn't".

Get the feeling I think to much about this crap?

So, Totoro would have been about number 30 had I watched it in time (and Bergman's Persona was the really difficult one - it would have been at about 5). Also, the other "Noriko" movie, Early Summer, would have been at about 23.

BTW, in regards to Ponyo - I felt like it had more in common with Totoro than many of his other movies - as opposed to Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke. I felt like Ponyo and Totoro had more "heart" than the others which appealed to me - maybe just due to have characters that were very young. Anyway, that's just how I saw it - you may disagree.

A lot of those ratings are similar to mine ... except this one:I can actually understand people hating that - I thought I was going to in the first 10 minutes - but 3 would make it one of the worst movies ever. I even gave Jaws The Revenge a 5!

Haha, Guap, how would you rate Come and See and The Tree of Life? 1/100?

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.