@mr-kell
I also thought of that. I think that’s a good idea.
My top 333 favorite movies
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True Romance
The Deer Hunter
American History X
John Carpenter’s The Thing
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
There will be Blood
Caroline
J.F.K
Rounders
The Cabin in the Woods
Good Will Hunting
Shakespeare in Love
Hamburger Hill
Children of Men
The Terminator
Citizen X
Million Dollar Baby
Creepshow (1982)
Enemy at the Gates
Water World
As Good As it Gets
Cinderella Man
Zodiac
Inception
The Prestige
The Rocket
In the Name of the Father
Friday Night Lights
Kick Ass
Smokin Aces
The Wrestler
Once Were Warriors
Runaway Train
The Shawshank Redemption
Prometheus
La Femme Nikita
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Mr. Holland’s Opus
The Summer of Sam
Inside Man
State of Grace
Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows
Law Abiding Citizen
Jaws
WALL.E
The Changeling
48 Hours
The Outsiders
Dances With Wolves
Titanic
Platoon
The Professional
Wanted
Glory
Amastad
Blade Runner
Legends of the Fall
The Unforgiven
Scarface
Predator
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
The Big Lebowski
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
The Prophecy
The Man in the Iron Mask
Schindler’s List
The Silence of the Lambs
Erin Brokovich
The Social Network
A Beautifull Mind
The Black Stallion
Good Fellas
Moon
Crash
Raging Bull
Minority Report
No Country for Old Men
The Fighter
Forest Gump
Carlito’s Way
Seven Years in Tibet
Shine
Raising Arizona
Anonymous
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Pulp Fiction
Warrior
Se7en
The Abyss
Ratatouille
21 Grams
Heat
Babel
The Exorcist
The Shinning
Twister
2001: A Space Odyssey
Under World
Casino
Quadrophenia
Das Boot
A.I Artificial Intelligence
The Matrix
Shooter
The Reader
Gandhi
Quest for Fire
Bad Boys (1983)
Happy Feet
United 93
The Cell
Fargo
Sid and Nancy
Reality Bits
Highlander
Dawn of the Dead
U.S Marshals
Fire in the Sky
Sin City
16 Blocks
Super Size Me
The Sword and the Sorcerer
Aliens
Monsters Inc.
The Basketball Diaries
Red Dawn
The Usual Suspects
Vacancy
Changling
A History of Violence
Taken
Momento
Vampires
Reign of Fire
Dazed and Confused
Colors
Deliverance
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Taps
Gangs of New York
Natural Born Killers
The Sixth Sence
Requiem for a Dream
Very Bad Things
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Memphis Belle
Kingpin
Reservoir Dogs
Alive
Slap Shot
The Bear
Chaplin
Detroit Rock City
A Knight’s Tale
New Jack City
The Right Stuff
State of Grace
3:10 to Yuma
Taxi Driver
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
We Own the Night
The Visitor
Sleepers
Office Space
First Blood
The Holiday
Time Bandits
To Live and Die in L.A
A River Runs Through It
GI Jane
All The President’s men
Tora, Tora, Tora
Slumdog Millionaire
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thirteenth Warrior
The Sting (1973)
The Blues Brothers
The Lord Of The Ring: The Two Towers
House (1986)
Brides Maids
300
Thunderheart
Being John Malkovich
Quarantine
Strange Days
Coming to America
The Road Warrier
Snatch
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Fugitive
Gladiator
One Crazy Summer
Fight Club
City of God
Amelie
Rob Roy
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Midnight Run
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Die Hard
American Gangster
The Game
The Orphanage
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Romancing the Stone
Biloxi Blues
The Godfather
Conan the Barbarian
A Fish Called Wanda
Lady in White
Walk the Line
Over the Hedge
Spies Like Us
What About Bob?
D.O.A (1988)
Rudy
American Me
Munich
A Clockwork Orange
House on Haunted Hill
The Salton Sea
The Last Temptation of Christ
Lean on Me
The Contender
Donnie Brasco
Spirited Away
Mystic River
Gone Baby Gone
Stand By Me
Milk
Papillon
Black Hawk Down
The Color Purple
Say Anything
Total Recall (1990)
Donnie Darko
An American Werewolf in London
Stargate
In the Mouth of Madness
Trading Places
Good Morning Vietnam
Hustle and Flow
Fist Full of Dollars
Wonderland
Life is Beautiful
Starship Troopers
The Artist
The Lion King
Little Big Man
Invincible
Cloverfield
Angel Heart
Inglorious Basterds
Graystoke: The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes
Patton
The Doors (1991)
48 Hours
Traffic
The Bone Collector
Minority Report
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
The Lost Boys
The Fly
The Hunt for Red October
Pee Wee Herman’s Big Adventure
Boogie Nights
What Dreams May Come
Apocalypse Now
The Boondock Saints
Halloween
Doomsday
Bowling for Columbine
Braveheart
Downfall
Training Day
Philadelphia
8 Mile
Mississippi Burning
Eastern Promises
Bridge on the Rive Kwai
I am Ledgend
Phenomenon
Bull Durham
Caddy Shack
Where Eagles Dare
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
An Inconvenient Truth
Crossing Over
The Mist
Trainspotting
Armageddon
Pink Floyd The Wall
Heartbreak Ridge
Lucky Number Sleven
Mad Max
Jerry Maguire
King Kong (2005)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
The Fifth Element
Crossroads
Malcolm X
Finding Nemo
Mona Lisa Smile
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Tremors
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Porky’s
Interview with the Vampire
The Crow
Hancock
Super Bad
White Man’s Burden
Jacob’s Ladder
Tropic Thunder
Cujo
Poltergeist
Willow
Sunshine
Monster
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Inside Job
Naked Lunch
True Believer
The Prestige
28 Weeks Later
Young Guns
Black Swan -
This is my list, but what’s your opinion? what’s missing? what doesn’t belong?
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Most all of the true classics are there.
A few I’d add…
Last of the Mohicans
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Layer Cake
Boiler Room
Big Red 1
Serpent & the Rainbow
The Usual Suspects
Ronin
The Score
American Beauty
Bond (All the originals anyway)Sorry if I duplicated… it’s hard in a list that’s not alphabetized.
And more I’m sure… just can’t think of any ATM.
There are a few there I would have never chose, but they were good movies in their own right. At least there aren’t many there I absolutely disliked.
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@Young:
This is my list, but what’s your opinion? what’s missing? what doesn’t belong?
It is too long and of little use. It isn’t separated into genres and is void of any useful categorizations. There aren’t any obvious piles of crap on there in a quick skim (take that back, “Mona Lisa Smile” is a pile of crap despite all the hotties in it) It is okay to like what you like. Our approval is not required.
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Yes, it’s not very usefull, and No, I don’t need approval. I just wanted to share it with everyone.
I think Mona Lisa Smile is a wonderful movie about peer pressure and female adolescence in 1950s America.
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Take out one of the two Dazed and Confused’s and Jacobs ladder and add Crimson Tide and A Simple Plan, unless they were already there, I skimmed it pretty quick.
You must put Black Hawk Down at the top as to not counfuse people. When any one thinks of there favorite movie, BHD is the first one that pops into all of our heads I’m sure.
Were these there?
Spinal Tap
Almost Famous
The Last Boy Scout
Valkyrie
The Hidden
RushmoreNice list man.
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I agree it needs to put categorized by -type-.
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smoke Valkyrie, it´s a piece of cemented together scrap version and not worth a watch…
exchange it with 12 monkeys instead… :-D :-D :-D
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I had a hard time leaving 12 Monkeys, and Almost Famous off the list, but no way would I lose Dazed and Confused, or Jacob’s Ladder.
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Both are quality movies. There would be no reason to leave those off a comprehensive list of movies that are impeccably done.
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Oh agreed. Â Dazed and Confused is in my top 10 for sure, Â you have it listed twice. Â Not that its not worthy of being listed twice. Â “Straight A’s……just kidding.”
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Truth be told that is why I didn’t really list any “to be removed” from the original list.
From my perspective, a list like this is HIGHLY subjective thing.
For myself I use three basic criteria to evaluate a movie’s “value” for myself…
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Overall cohesiveness of the movie… ie. Does the story, cinematography, sound track, narration etc. etc… make sense and work together. ie. Shawshank Redemption (need I say more? The movie had every element that makes a great movie)
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Cast… Do the actors make the movie… ie. Edward Norton MADE American History X. Not to say other actors couldn’t have filled the role, but at the end of the day Norton made you compelled to have sympathy and compassion for an otherwise anti-hero character and brought depth to what would otherwise be a black and white issue (pun intended).
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Does the movie move you? (This will easily be the most subjective of the categories) The story needs to speak to you… and nothing in the first two criteria will do anything for you if this element is missing. I will cite a few movies that I think are questionable (for this exact reason) A River Runs through It (I will die knowing those hours were lost), South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut (offered to those who South Park doesn’t speak to), Water World (Costner couldn’t convince me that ice is cold). Again a highly subjective category.
My last thought on this subject?
Was Blade Runner in there? Cause if it wasn’t…
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I personally thought that “Blade Runner” was overrated, but their are worst movies that made the list, so I will add it for one of the “Dazed and confused” entries.
If I want to judge a movie, I ask myself….
“Do I want to watch it, even if I’ve seen it already?”
If the answer is yes, it’s a good movie IMO.
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@Young:
“Do I want to watch it, even if I’ve seen it already?”
Well that doesn’t really make it a qualifier by my standards. I’ll watch old re-broadcasts of golfing championchips on a Sunday morning when I’m hung-over over anything else… that doesn’t make them my “favorites” or great.
And on the subject of Blade Runner… yes (depending on your era) I can see that watching it might be not as spectacular as others(especially when it was so critically acclaimed). But then again if A.I. made your list… personally a movie I felt was the same, sans violence and real sense of a bleak future but with better graphics… then it really does come down to a sense of subjective perspective. If Blade Runner had the technology that Spielberg used, then there wouldn’t even be a debate.
But again, it’s all subjective to the viewer.
At minimum I will say that of the 333 movies you listed, I share your view with well over 200. (didn’t count)
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@Young:
“Do I want to watch it, even if I’ve seen it already?”
Well that doesn’t really make it a qualifier by my standards. I’ll watch old re-broadcasts of golfing championchips on a Sunday morning when I’m hung-over over anything else… that doesn’t make them my “favorites” or great.
I enjoy watching movies, and a good or great movie is a mater of a simple equation IMO.
BTW… If your watching old re-runs of anything, it’s probably your favorite something… if not, you should change the channel and watch something better.
And on the subject of Blade Runner… yes (depending on your era) I can see that watching it might be not as spectacular as others(especially when it was so critically acclaimed).But then again if A.I. made your list… personally a movie I felt was the same, sans violence and real sense of a bleak future but with better graphics… then it really does come down to a sense of subjective perspective. If Blade Runner had the technology that Spielberg used, then there wouldn’t even be a debate.
I’m 40 years old, and have been watching movies since I was 9, I don’t need my Sci-Fi to be spectacular (Sunshine, Moon, and 2001 are all there), I just don’t feel great about Ridley Scott’s early stuff (Alien is not there, but Aliens is). However, He changed my mind recently with Prometheus.
Now lets use your example of Artificial Intelligence, A film conceived and started by Stanley Kubrick before he died, which was than finished by Steven Spielberg. The first half feels like Kubrick, where the second half is obviously Spielberg, and just like Blade Runner could have been better with technology, A.I could have been better with Stanley.
I like Kubrick and I get his work (A clockwork Orange, 2001, and Full Metal Jacket made my list) more than I get Ridley (Gladiator, and Robin Hood didn’t make it),…. and that is where subjective opinion enters any conversation about art.
But again, it’s all subjective to the viewer.
At minimum I will say that of the 333 movies you listed, I share your view with well over 200. (didn’t count)
Thanks, you have good taste in movies…… I just realized that I forgot “Black Swan”… Amazing film!!.
Working Girl is out, Black Swan is in…
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Not sure why you listed An Inconvenient Truth and Super Size Me, as those are documentaries; but if you really like them that much I guess it is your decision.
I was surprised at some inclusions and the lack of others. Namely: Bill & Ted… love it.
The Lord of the Rings/Star Wars: you have The Two Towers and Ep. III & V, but not the rest of them. I am curious as to why. You could get away with not including SW Ep. I and II and maybe The Fellowship of the Ring, but I would think if you like SW & LOTR then you must have A New Hope, Return of the Jedi and Return of the King.
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Inconvienient truth, is more like “convenient lies”.
Especially when you consider how Al Gore the flimmaker lives. Petty fear mongering to raise capital for personal gain.
NEWS FLASH EVERYBODY
The earth heated up on it’s own and MELTED itself out of a petrified ice age WITHOUT any help from us on several occassions. 100 years of human anything, quite literally pales in comparison to trillions of years of history. IT’S NORMAL.
Whether we helped 1% or not is totally irrellevant.Who are we to be so arrogant to think that we totally control a rock that is mindlessly spinning through the universe at 55,000 mph.
Freaking out about your -carbon footprint-, and going out of your way to support carbon/enegry based tax systems doesn’t help anyone but those who want to have power over you, and don’t care about their own footprints anyways.
It’s was a MOVIE, you saw what they wanted you to see. WAKE UP! You are not on the Truman Show!
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Note: the vilification of Al Gore is best understood in the context of personalisation. When opponents attack something abstract - like science - the public may not associate with the argument. By giving a name and a face and a set of behavioural characteristics - being a rich politician, for example - it is easy to create a fictional enemy through inference and association. Al Gore is a successful politician who presented a film, his training and experience suitable to the task. To invoke Gore is a way to obfuscate about climate science, for which Gore has neither responsibility, claim nor blame.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/al-gore-inconvenient-truth-errors.htm
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The lower 48 states set temperature records for the warmest spring, largest seasonal departure from average, warmest year-to-date, and warmest 12-month period, all new marks since records began in 1895.
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