I have watched too many movies

Buckethead Buckethead

Mapgirl found IMDB's list of the 100 greatest movies, along with a meme to indicate which you have seen and not seen. This I have done, and as an added bonus, indicated with an asterisk which movies on the list I own. I was rather surprised to discover that I have seen every single one of the top thirty, and 43 of the top fifty. That's a lot, I think. My total count was 82 out of 100. My list is below the fold:

I included links for the first fifty, then got tired of that shizzle.

I don't know why the table appears so far down, but scroll a bit, it's there.

Rank Movie Status
1 Godfather, The (1972) Seen *
2 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) Seen *
3 Godfather: Part II, The (1974) Seen *
4 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) Seen *
5 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) Seen *
6 Casablanca (1942) Seen *
7 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) Seen *
8 Schindler's List (1993) Seen
9 Shichinin No Samurai [Seven Samurai] (1954) Seen *
10 Star Wars (1977) Seen *
11 Citizen Kane (1941) Seen
12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Seen *
13 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Seen *
14 Rear Window (1954) Seen
15 Seen *
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Seen *
17 Memento (2000) Seen
18 Usual Suspects, The (1995) Seen *
19 Pulp Fiction (1994) Seen *
20 North by Northwest (1959) Seen
21 12 Angry Men (1957) Seen *
22 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le [Amelie] (2001) Seen
23 Psycho (1960) Seen
24 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Seen *
25 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il [The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly] (1966) Seen *
26 Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) Seen
27 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Seen
28 Goodfellas (1990) Seen
29 American Beauty (1999) Seen
30 Vertigo (1958) Seen
31 Sunset Blvd. (1950) Unseen
32 Matrix, The (1999) Seen *
33 Apocalypse Now (1979) Seen *
34 Pianist, The (2002) Unseen
35 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Started
36 C'era una volta il West [Once Upon a Time in the West] (1968) Seen
37 Some Like It Hot (1959) Seen
38 Third Man, The (1949) Seen
39 Taxi Driver (1976) Seen
40 Paths of Glory (1957) Unseen
41 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi [Spirited Away] (2001) Seen
42 Fight Club (1999) Seen *
43 Boot, Das (1981) Seen *
44 Double Indemnity (1944) Unseen
45 L.A. Confidential (1997) Seen
46 Chinatown (1974) Started
47 Singin' in the Rain (1952) Seen
48 Maltese Falcon, The (1941) Seen *
49 M (1931) Unseen
50 Requiem for a Dream (2000) Seen
51 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) Seen
52 All About Eve (1950) Unseen
53 Se7en (1995) Seen
54 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Seen *
55 Saving Private Ryan (1998) Seen *
56 Cidade de Deus [City of God] (2002) Unseen
57 Raging Bull (1980) Seen
58 Rashômon (1950) Seen *
59 Wizard of Oz, The (1939) Seen
60 Sting, The (1973) Seen *
61 Alien (1979) Seen *
62 American History X (1998) Seen
63 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Seen
64 Léon (1994) Seen *
65 Vita è bella, La [Life is Beautiful] (1997) Seen
66 Touch of Evil (1958) Unseen
67 Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) Seen *
68 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Seen *
69 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) Seen *
70 Great Escape, The (1963) Started
71 Wo hu cang long [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] (2000) Seen *
72 Reservoir Dogs (1992) Seen *
73 Clockwork Orange, A (1971) Seen *
74 Amadeus (1984) Seen *
75 Modern Times (1936) Seen *
76 Ran (1985) Seen *
77 Annie Hall (1977) Seen
78 Jaws (1975) Seen *
79 On the Waterfront (1954) Unseen
80 Braveheart (1995) Seen *
81 High Noon (1952) Seen *
82 Apartment, The (1960) Unseen
83 Fargo (1996) Seen *
84 Sixth Sense, The (1999) Seen *
85 Aliens (1986) Seen *
86 Shining, The (1980) Seen *
87 Strangers on a Train (1951) Unseen
88 Blade Runner (1982) Seen *
89 Metropolis (1927) Unseen
90 Duck Soup (1933) Seen
91 Finding Nemo (2003) Seen *
92 Donnie Darko (2001) Seen
93 General, The (1927) Unseen
94 City Lights (1931) Unseen
95 Princess Bride, The (1987) Seen *
96 Toy Story 2 (1999) Seen *
97 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) Seen *
98 Great Dictator, The (1940) Seen
99 Sjunde inseglet, Det [The Seventh Seal] (1957) Started
100 Lola rennt [Run Lola Run] (1998) Seen
Posted by Buckethead Buckethead on   |   § 4

§ 4 Comments

1

Holy crap that's a weak list. Not YOUR list, but their selections.

"The Usual Suspects?" That's not even the best move with Kevin Spacey!

Johno Johno

2

Good lord . . . on what benighted planet does Amelie make it on the top 100 list as the sole French film, to the exclusion of anything by Truffaut? Or Renoir? Or Bresson? Or Clouzot?

And how in the flying hell does Roberto Benigni get onto a list that Michelangelo Antonioni and Dario Argento get left off of?

FInally, am I crazy, or are there no Altman movies on there? I mean, I loved Donnie Darko and Finding Nemo, but I'd dump them both for Nasvhille and M*A*S*H, and fuck a whole bunch of American Beauty and replace it with The Long Goodbye, please.

Phil Phil

3

I agree with you both. I would make serious changes to that list. Even the AFI lists were better than this.

I was just diggin how many I'd seen.

Buckethead Buckethead

4

Well, to be fair, it's not like someone from the IMDB sat down and picked the list. These are the highest rated films on IMDB, not the greatest films of all time. If you take that into account, along with the demographic of the typical IMDB user (most likely American males with techie leanings), you can see why certain films are higher than they probably should be. Also, newer good films tend to start high and eventually fall down the list as time goes on. Test of time and all that. Older films are tempered by the number of votes and wider variety of people who've seen them. And so on. Personally, I'm at 75 out of 100, which isn't too shabby, methinks. I don't think I own as many though:P

Mark Mark

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