Good movies

[alexxkay]

Entries marked with an asterisk are ones I own on tape or DVD, and am willing to loan to poor, benighted souls who have missed them :-)
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IMDB's Top 100 Best Movies of All Time generate this HTML for your own page at ObeytheFist.com
Rank Movie Didn't See It/ Started It/ Finished It/ Hated It! 1 Godfather, The (1972) 2 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 3 Godfather: Part II, The (1974) 4 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) Finished It 5 *Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) Finished It 6 *Casablanca (1942) Finished It 7 *Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) Finished It 8 Schindler's List (1993) 9 Shichinin no samurai (1954) Finished It 10 Star Wars (1977) Finished It 11 *Citizen Kane (1941) Finished It 12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 13 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Finished It 14 Rear Window (1954) Finished It 15 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Finished It 16 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Finished It 17 *Memento (2000) Finished It 18 Usual Suspects, The (1995) Finished It 19 *Pulp Fiction (1994) Finished It 20 North by Northwest (1959) Finished It 21 12 Angry Men (1957) 22 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 23 Psycho (1960) Finished It 24 *Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Finished It 25 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 26 *Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) Finished It 27 *It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Finished It 28 Goodfellas (1990) 29 American Beauty (1999) 30 Vertigo (1958) Finished It 31 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 32 Matrix, The (1999) Finished It 33 Apocalypse Now (1979) 34 Pianist, The (2002) 35 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 36 C'era una volta il West (1968) 37 *Some Like It Hot (1959) Finished It 38 Third Man, The (1949) 39 Taxi Driver (1976) 40 Paths of Glory (1957) 41 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 42 *Fight Club (1999) Finished It 43 Boot, Das (1981) 44 Double Indemnity (1944) 45 *L.A. Confidential (1997) Finished It 46 Chinatown (1974) 47 *Singin' in the Rain (1952) Finished It 48 *Maltese Falcon, The (1941) Finished It 49 *M (1931) Finished It 50 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 51 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) 52 All About Eve (1950) 53 Se7en (1995) 54 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Finished It 55 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 56 Cidade de Deus (2002) 57 Raging Bull (1980) 58 Rashômon (1950) Finished It 59 *Wizard of Oz, The (1939) Finished It 60 Sting, The (1973) Finished It 61 Alien (1979) Finished It 62 American History X (1998) 63 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 64 Léon (1994) 65 Vita è bella, La (1997) 66 Touch of Evil (1958) 67 *Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) Finished It 68 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Finished It 69 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 70 Great Escape, The (1963) 71 Wo hu cang long (2000) 72 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 73 Clockwork Orange, A (1971) Finished It 74 *Amadeus (1984) Finished It 75 Modern Times (1936) 76 Ran (1985) Finished It 77 Annie Hall (1977) Started It 78 Jaws (1975) Started It 79 On the Waterfront (1954) 80 Braveheart (1995) 81 High Noon (1952) Started It 82 Apartment, The (1960) 83 *Fargo (1996) Finished It 84 *Sixth Sense, The (1999) Finished It 85 Aliens (1986) Finished It 86 Shining, The (1980) Started It 87 Strangers on a Train (1951) 88 Blade Runner (1982) Finished It 89 *Metropolis (1927) Finished It 90 *Duck Soup (1933) Finished It 91 Finding Nemo (2003) 92 Donnie Darko (2001) 93 General, The (1927) 94 City Lights (1931) 95 *Princess Bride, The (1987) Finished It 96 *Toy Story 2 (1999) Finished It 97 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 98 Great Dictator, The (1940) 99 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 100 Lola rennt (1998) Finished It
Which movies have you seen?

Comments

[greatsword.livejournal.com]

Reading this, I have to wonder how they defined "best". Toy Story 2 was fun, but it wasn't great. Is this a pure popularity contest?

Pretty much...

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

These are the 'top 100' movies as rated by people ranking individual movies on a 1-10 scale on IMDB. So yeah, it's got a large popularity factor.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Short answer, yes, it's a pure popularity contest. The self-selection is "people who care enough to vote at IMDB", so there's a high degree of internet-nerd-centricity.

FWIW, I think *extremely* highly of Toy Story 2. Yes, it was "fun", but it also dealt with some extremely important themes that have rarely even been touched on by other movies, and (as far as I know) never as well.