Great Movies Lists: Your Picks?

[filmfanatic]

In light of Roger Ebert's recent passing, I decided to go through some of Ebert's old articles and discovered this: a list of what he considered to be "great movies".

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=greatmovies_fulllist

Going over the list, the thought crossed my mind of how other people would put together "great movies" lists. How would they be similar? How would they be different? That is why I would like to conduct an experiment.

What would be your "great movies" list? No specific number is necessary to hit for this. Just list the films that you consider great in some way. I'm working on my own "great movies" list at the moment, so I'll put it up later.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

The Sight And Sound Poll that happens every 10 years is pretty amazing and legit. Here's the top 50: https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time

Obviously, I think Ebert's is pretty great as well.

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm is another great list.

Please Ban Anyone That Lists the IMDB Top 250.[DOUBLEPOST=1365378070][/DOUBLEPOST]also, fuck it, I've posted my Criticker rankings before. But here is EVERYTHING I rank in the very top tier. So these are all in the top 10% of all movies I've seen ever. And I've seen 1,325 films at last check.

100Citizen Kane (1941)
100Jaws (1975)
100Stop Making Sense (1984)
99The Godfather (1972)
98The Godfather: Part II (1974)
97Network (1976)
9612 Angry Men (1957)
96Annie Hall (1977)
96The Third Man (1949)
95One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
95The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
94Mulholland Drive (2001)
94No Country for Old Men (2007)
932001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
93Blade Runner (1982)
93The Graduate (1967)
93Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
92Apocalypse Now (1979)
92Die Hard (1988)
92Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
92Goodfellas (1990)
92Road to Perdition (2002)
92Rocky (1976)
92A Serious Man (2009)
92Taxi Driver (1976)
92There Will Be Blood (2007)
92Vertigo (1958)
91Chinatown (1974)
91Cool Hand Luke (1967)
91The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
91Inglourious Basterds (2009)
91Magnolia (1999)
91The Maltese Falcon (1941)
90Airplane! (1980)
90Alien (1979)
90The Big Lebowski (1998)
90Blazing Saddles (1974)
90The Blues Brothers (1980)
90Children of Men (2006)
90Collateral (2004)
90The Departed (2006)
90The Descendants (2011)
90The Exorcist (1973)
90Ghostbusters (1984)
90Hugo (2011)
90The Shining (1980)
90Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
90Zodiac (2007)
89O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
89Casablanca (1942)
89Fargo (1996)
89Groundhog Day (1993)
89L.A. Confidential (1997)
89The Master (2012)
89North by Northwest (1959)
89The Social Network (2010)
89Unforgiven (1992)
89WALL·E (2008)
88Almost Famous (2000)
88Animal House (1978)
88Boogie Nights (1997)
88Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
88Caddyshack (1980)
88Drive (2011)
88Fight Club (1999)
88The Lion King (1994)
88Ordinary People (1980)
88Pulp Fiction (1994)
87Adaptation. (2002)
87Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
87A Clockwork Orange (1971)
87The Deer Hunter (1978)
87Full Metal Jacket (1987)
87Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
87JFK (1991)
87Michael Clayton (2007)
87Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
87The Sting (1973)
87Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
87Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
87When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
86American History X (1998)
86Auf der Strecke (2007)
86Back to the Future (1985)
86Catch Me If You Can (2002)
86City of God (2003)
86Coming to America (1988)
86Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
86The Jerk (1979)
86Jurassic Park (1993)
86The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
86Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
86Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
86The Producers (1968)
86Revolutionary Road (2008)
86Singin' in the Rain (1952)
86Some Like It Hot (1959)
86The Thing (1982)
86The Usual Suspects (1995)
86Vacation (1983)
85The Abyss (1989)
85Atonement (2007)
85Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
85Falling Down (1993)
85Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
85Good Will Hunting (1997)
85Heat (1995)
85The Hurt Locker (2009)
85Jerry Maguire (1996)
85The Killer (1989)
85Milk (2008)
85Misery (1990)
85The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
85Reservoir Dogs (1992)
85The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
85Shutter Island (2010)
85The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
85To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
85Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
84Aliens (1986)
84The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
84Casino Royale (2006)
84Che: Part One (2008)
84Deliverance (1972)
84Dirty Harry (1971)
84Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
84The Fugitive (1993)
84Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
84GoldenEye (1995)
84The House of the Devil (2009)
84Let the Right One In (2008)
84Platoon (1986)
84Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
84Rachel Getting Married (2008)
84Rain Man (1988)
84Requiem for a Dream (2000)
84Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
84Stripes (1981)
84Sunrise (1927)
84Synecdoche, New York (2008)
84The Tree of Life (2011)

 

[Espy]

Chinatown.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Chinatown.

Chinatown is a perfect movie. I only can really say that about Jaws and Stop Making Sense otherwise, really.

 

[Espy]

You forgot The Social Network.

Also... Vertigo?

And Alien.

 

[Tress]

Here ya go.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

You forgot The Social Network.

Also... Vertigo?

And Alien.

All three of those are on my list?

 

[Espy]

You said Chinatown and one or two others were perfect though, I added the couple others I thought were "perfect".

If I had to put together a manageable list of movies I think every person should be tied to chair and forced to watch before they are allowed to be a part of society it would probably go along these lines:

1) Chinatown
2) The Social Network
3) The Tree of Life
4) Jaws
5) Vertigo
6) Rear Window
7) Alien
8) The Shining
9) 2001: A Space Odyssey
10) Taxi Driver

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

1) Chinatown
2) The Social Network
3) The Tree of Life
4) Jaws
5) Vertigo
6) Rear Window
7) Alien
8) The Shining
9) 2001: A Space Odyssey
10) Taxi Driver

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this list makes my cinema dick hard

I get like. Irrationally, really fucking upset at the people that say The Shining is bad.

Although, I'd put 2001 ahead of it. It's still just. fucking stunning filmmaking

 

[bhamv3]

It's disconcerting to realize how few of the movies on these lists I've seen.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

It's disconcerting to realize how few of the movies on these lists I've seen.

Dude, don't worry about it. I consider myself a HUGE movie dork and fan and all that good stuff. I have seen a shitload of movies, and everyone on earth can find like 100+ "essential" movies from someone they've never heard of.

 

[Espy]

this list makes my cinema dick hard[DOUBLEPOST=1365383156]

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I get like. Irrationally, really fucking upset at the people that say The Shining is bad.

Although, I'd put 2001 ahead of it. It's still just. fucking stunning filmmaking

I guess I should have mentioned I'm not super picky about the order of those. It's kind of loosely based on which I think are best but all 10 are mind blowingly amazing so whatev.

People who think The Shining are bad are bad people.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

yeah, agreed. Even though the list I posted goes from 100-84, I am not super picky from the ordering of those! although I think 100-90 is a mini-tier above anything in the 80s. But that's still just quibbling. A lot of the stuff in the 80s I didn't pop into the 90s was just me being like "I can't give that a 90-100 since it's too new!"

 

[Zappit]

Moonstruck should be on the list somewhere. Life of Pi was pretty amazing.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I gave Life of Pi 78, it's close.

Never saw Moonstruck

 

[Zappit]

You should see it, it's really quite good.