HitchFan97's Top 50: 2012 Update

I've been getting anxious to revise my list for a while, but I thought i'd wait until the new year to do it. Anyways, I think my Top 50 has greatly changed and improved even in such a short period of time, and I feel that this new list is an effective blend of personal favorites that are great entertainment to me as well as those films that are towering artistic accomplishments. I've also included the film's status regarding my previous list; how much it dropped, moved up, or if it's new. Enjoy

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Some of the pics aren't showing for me, Hitch. Nice to see Friday The 13th there.

Avatar wasn't showing up for me either, I think I fixed it. And Friday The 13th is hugely underrated

Nightmare is such a great horror film. An excellent choice, Hitch. Raging Bull is a great film, but I don't care for it too much. Maybe it's the character La Motta, but I think Pesci is better in this than De Niro. It's not the showy performance, but he allows De Niro to take over the screen in their big scenes.

Raging Bull is probably Scorsese's greatest artistic achievement, and therefore gets a spot on my list, but I'll agree that he's made several more entertaining pictures that all make the cut.

#40: The Godfather Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990)



-21


#39: The Toy Story Trilogy (John Lasseter, 1995-2010)



NEW


#38: Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)



NEW


#37: Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)



-15


#36: Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)



NEW

Jaws and First Blood are excellent picks. I love them both.

One thing. Rather than do another top 50, why didn't you attempt a top 100?

I think if i'm making a list like this, I should genuinely LOVE every film on it, and I do. This wouldn't be the case if I did a Top 100; there's just not 100 films I really, really love.

#35: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Edgar Wright, 2010)



-12


#34: Airplane! (Jim Abrahams & David Zucker, 1980)



NEW


#33: Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)



-13


#32: The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)



-14


#31: The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)



-15

Decent choices thus far. Have you seen Repulsion? Imho, its much scarier than Rosemary's Baby.

Not yet, i'm planning on it though

I couldn't agree more. In that case, kudos to you for sticking to 50.

+rep for that and for Rope and Airplane. I'm not a Hitch fan (the director, not you obviously ) but Rope is one of my favourites of his and Airplane is still one of the funniest films I've ever seen.

I didn't used to like Rosemary's Baby, but I liked it a lot more the last time I saw it. I still wouldn't say I like the film, but I liked it more.

And there's the first half. Up next, the TOP 25

Not bad, Hitch. Not bad at all. Looking forward to the second half.

Good list....Waiting to see where you gonna place "Psycho" ...

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I used to think that Apocalypse Now is the best war movie. Now I prefer Full Metal Jacket.

I'll give you a hint; it will be very high up.

#25: Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)



+15


#24: Play Misty For Me (Clint Eastwood, 1971)



-9


#23: Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995)



NEW


#22: Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)



NEW


#21: Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)



+3

And thus begins the Top 25

Apart from Cape Fear, I like the rest of those 5. Good to see great horror being represented.

#20: Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)



+1


#19: Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)



-6


#18: The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)



-6


#17: Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)



NEW


#16: The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)



-6

I haven't seen Play Misty for Me For ages I did see it at the movies when it came out, I loved it then

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