I'm bored. I think I'll try to annoy Schild...

[Bunk]

Rotten Tomatoes 100 Greatest Movies (compiled by reader's submitting their top 20 lists)


1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Godfather
3. Goodfellas
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. The Godfather Part II
6. Apocalypse Now
7. Casablanca
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. Fellowship of the Ring
10. Taxi Driver
11. Raiders of the Lost Ark
12. The Return of the King
13. A Clockwork Orange
14. Raging Bull
15. Schindler's List
16. Seven Samurai
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey
18. Dr. Strangelove
19. The Good The Bad And The Ugly
20. Magnolia
21. Lawrence of Arabia
22. Citizen Kane
23. Mulholland Drive
24. Blade Runner
25. Vertigo
26. Star Wars
27. The Silence of the Lambs
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
29. Chinatown
30. Se7en
31. Rear Window
32. Jaws
33. Fargo
34. Kill Bill Vol. 2
35. 12 Angry Men
36. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
37. Memento
38. The Big Lebowski
39. American Beauty
40. Psycho
41. The Third Man
42. Requiem For A Dream
43. Matrix
44. Fight Club
45. The Usual Suspects
46. Annie Hall
47. JFK
48. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
49. Once Upon a Time in the West
50. City Lights



51. Reservoir Dogs
52. Spirited Away
53. Brazil
54. Boogie Nights
55. Back To The Future
56. Amadeus
57. Saving Private Ryan
58. 8 1/2
59. The Shining
60. The Lion King
61. Adaptation
62. Kill Bill Vol. 1
63. The Royal Tenenbaums
64. The Two Towers
65. Rushmore
66. It's a Wonderful Life
67. Amelie
68. Rashomon
69. The Princess Bride
70. Million Dollar Baby
71. The Passion of Joan of Arc
72. Being John Malkovich
73. Lost In Translation
74. Ran
75. Full Metal Jacket
76. Cinema Paradiso
77. City Of God
78. Passion of The Christ
79. To Kill a Mockingbird
80. The Deer Hunter
81. Eyes wide shut
82. Alien
83. Sunset Blvd.
84. Cool Hand Luke
85. Clerks
86. Spiderman 2
87. American History X
88. The Apartment
89. Trainspotting
90. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
91. Throne of Blood
92. Aliens
93. The Maltese Falcon
94. Pleasantville
95. The Truman Show
96. Blue Velvet
97. Heat
98. The Thin Red Line
99. The Insider
100. Ikiru

[Shockeye]

Best way to annoy schild is to point out how so many of his favorite actors are Scientologists.

Like Jason Lee.

[MaceVanHoffen]

Best way to annoy schild is to point out how so many of his favorite actors are Scientologists.

Like Jason Lee.

Or to just come right out and say what we're all thinking:  Jason Lee sucks.  Not even the brilliant direction of Tarantino could goldplate the turd of his acting.

/stirs the pot

[Shockeye]

Best way to annoy schild is to point out how so many of his favorite actors are Scientologists.

Like Jason Lee.

Or to just come right out and say what we're all thinking:  Jason Lee sucks.  Not even the brilliant direction of Tarantino could goldplate the turd of his acting.

/stirs the pot

Are you daft? Have you seen Mallrats? I hate you.

[MaceVanHoffen]

Are you daft? Have you seen Mallrats? I hate you.

Shhh.  I was just stirring the pot.

[HaemishM]

Magnolia? Higher than Vertigo??? The fuck?

STabby StaBBy StAbby StaB

[WayAbvPar]

34. Kill Bill Vol. 2

Ahead of -

44. Fight Club
45. The Usual Suspects

and

57. Saving Private Ryan

as well as

69. The Princess Bride

All MUCH better movies, I am certain.

Also-

79. To Kill a Mockingbird

Gregory Peck's corpse would like a word with the voters.  Maybe it is devalued because the book was so good, but that movie should be in the top 20 easily.

[MaceVanHoffen]

Magnolia? Higher than Vertigo??? The fuck?

STabby StaBBy StAbby StaB

I'm also surprised that Trainspotting was so low.  Brilliant film.  Maybe they aren't listed in any particular order, because Trainspotting is sure better than anything Kubrick has done.  ZING!

Another surprise is Ikiru, which I adore.  I didn't think enough people had heard of that one to make it onto a Top # list.

For the record I like Jason Lee too.  Sorry, I couldn't maintain the guise long enough to get the fun flamefest going.  I do like Tarantino, though.

[Paelos]

The Wizard of Oz & Gone with the Wind both didn't make it on that list of 100.

Spiderman 2 nudged in, however.

The list sucks.

[MaceVanHoffen]

34. Kill Bill Vol. 2

Ahead of -
...

That got me too.  I liked both Kill Bills, but not enough to put them on a Top 100 list.  Pulp Fiction as #1?  Again, good film but not Top 100 list material.

[HaemishM]

Another surprise is Ikiru, which I adore.  I didn't think enough people had heard of that one to make it onto a Top # list.

If it's the Kurasawa movie I'm thinking of, I dig Ikiru as well. Bought it for $1 on Laserdick many years ago, and only watched it once, but very powerful film. I would never have thought it'd have enough of a following to get on this list.

Kill Bill doesn't belong on any Top # list other than "Top Ten Whoring Ways to Elongate A Shitty Movie into Two Shittier Movies."

[Bunk]

Ikiru is very popular at Rotten Tomatoes, as is most Kurosawa. Unfortunately, so is Magnolia - a movie I failed to sit all the way through.

[Shockeye]

Ikiru is very popular at Rotten Tomatoes, as is most Kurosawa. Unfortunately, so is Magnolia - a movie I failed to sit all the way through.

I think I appreciated the idea and the story of Magnolia more than I did the finished film.

[EDIT] "Lone Star" should've been in that list somewhere. Wonderful film.

[schild]

This doesn't annoy me, it just confirms that you're all fucking idiots for reading that site.

[voodoolily]

Uh..why isn't Black Belt Jones on the list?

[schild]

Upside down it's not a bad list.

Nevermind. I was wrong. It's still a terrible fucking list. Too many movies that shouldn't be anywhere near it.

We should make our own list. In no particular order - that's the only way these things work.

[MaceVanHoffen]

Upside down it's not a bad list.

Nevermind. I was wrong. It's still a terrible fucking list. Too many movies that shouldn't be anywhere near it.

We should make our own list. In no particular order - that's the only way these things work.

We should submit hundreds of lists and engage in some search-engine twiddling to make Cat Woman appear as the top movie of all time.  Bonus points if we can get the news media to cite the list as some sort of authority.

[Rodent]

It's a fucking outrage this movie didn't make the list

[Murgos]

I just watched Kung-Fu Hustle, that was excellent.  Probably not as rewatchable as "Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon" but pretty damn good all the same, it without a doubt out Kill-Bill's Kill Bill.

[angry.bob]

Rotten Tomatoes is a useless shitpile, and anyone who actually reads stuff there, let alone uses it as reference should never, ever, under any circumstances open their fucking mouth about movies. Ever. The entire site is literally nothing but a giant affiliate sales site that lets random stupid shitpile asshole visitors create content for them. There is nothing there now, nor has there ever been, anything worth reading at RT. If you go there for any reason, you are a stupid asshole.

[MaceVanHoffen]

If you go there for any reason, you are a stupid asshole.

Even if it's just to watch the trainwreck?!

[stray]

Alright, here goes:

Greatest 10 movies of all time (Without a doubt, not just my opinion  )

In no particular order:

Hi, Mom!
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Le Samourai
The Unknown
The Bicycle Thief
Casablanca
Yojimbo
The Third Man
City Lights
Out for Justice (Anybody seen Richie?!!  :-D)

Honourable mention goes out to:

Can I Do It 'Till I Need Glasses?

and

Super Fuzz

[schild]

Hi, Mom? As in the Korean movie?!

Which Bicycle Thief? I'm assuming the Italian one.

As for the rest, nah, I disagree with everything you've said. Yojimbo would be in the top 100, but it's nto the best kurosawa and isn't normally on any list without Sanjuro very near it.

[stray]

As for the rest, nah, I disagree with everything you've said.

Of course you do 

Hi, Mom! as in the DePalma/DeNiro movie and (sort of) sequel to Greetings. I had to include at least one film from the "60's/70's student filmmaker" group, and that one kicks it off for me (the faults of DePalma's and DeNiro's later careers aside).

Yes, the Italian version of Bicycle Thief.

Yojimbo because loner stories are necessarily better.

I wish I could include a Brando flick, but Lon Cheney in the Unknown pulls off the most powerful acting ever put on film imho (even if but for one scene). I've never got a jolt like that like the time I first saw it. The whole film kicks ass though.

[schild]

Ikiru, Ran, Hidden Fortress Seven Samurai - these are better Kurosawa movies. Loners or not. If you haven't seen them, do yourself the favor and do it.

I've always been Meh on the bicycle thief. I see the appeal. But just meh. If I *had* to pick an italian movie i'd probably be weak and say Cinema Paradiso. It's pretty much perfect. Even the longer version is amazing.

I'm not sure what I'd put in my top 10. It would probably look something like this.

Clockwork Orange
Charade
North by Northwest
All the President's Men (or Bob Roberts. I'm torn between these two movies, always.)
Battle Royale
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (or Brazil)

Ya know. This is too fucking hard. I could make a list of the 100 best movies I've ever seen. Maybe I'll do that this weekend.

I do know if I had to pick something from the Coppola/Depalma/Spielberg/Lucas group, I'd fight against the Man. If my hand was forced I'd pick Godfather 1/2.

[stray]

Ya know. This is too fucking hard.

Yes. But it's still kind of fun. There's probably lots I'd agree with you on a "Top 100" list though.

I've seen just about every Kurosawa flick (if not all), and Yojimbo still takes the cake for me. I think I've mentioned it before, but when it comes down to it, I'm a whore for action movies. Especially of the "crafty/asskicking/lone wolf" variety. Yojimbo typifies that. If no Yojimbo, there'd be no Clint, Bruce Lee, Sonny Chiba, Road Warrior, Die Hard, and the like (Yes, I said Die Hard  :-D).

After Yojimbo though, it's a toss up for me....Throne of Blood, High and Low, Ran, etc.. All immensely great, and I wouldn't argue with any of them being on a Top 100 list.

The only shame I feel is not having enough room for Hitchcock on my top 10, yet finding room for Steven Seagall (I think that just may have been my way of saying there is no "top 10"). Out for Justice is definitely one of the most underrated comedies though 

[Paelos]

Citizen Kane
The Wizard of Oz
The Godfather
Schindler's List
Rear Window
Vertigo
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dangerous Liasons
Tombstone
Jaws

Those are my Ten I think I've enjoyed the most watching.

[El Gallo]

Hrm, here's my off the top of my head top 10, I'm sure I'll fiddle around with it later.

The Lion in Winter
Fantasia
Citizen Kane
Lawrence of Arabia
The Great White Hope
2001
Airplane
The Godfather
Dr Strangeglove
Pulp Fiction

[UD_Delt]

I don't know if this counts as a top # list but this is my list of movies that I watch the formatted version on TV whenever I notice them on despite owning the DVD...

Shawshank Redemption
Willy Wonka & The Chocalate Factory
The Breakfast Club
Scarface
Red Dawn
Saving Private Ryan
Usual Suspects
The Outsiders

[Signe]

It makes me sad that Run, Lola, Run isn't on anyone's list. 

[MaceVanHoffen]

Shawshank Redemption

Anything with Morgan Freeman in it is watchable and often brilliant.  Shawshank was awesome.  That man has also taken some of the worst scripts out there and elevated them to only mildly crappy movies.  That Dreamcatcher (not sure of the name) flick comes to mind.  He's the reason I'm looking forward to Batman Begins.

[schild]

It makes me sad that Run, Lola, Run isn't on anyone's list. 

That would be in my bottom 50. But top 50?  No.

[Murgos]

It makes me sad that Run, Lola, Run isn't on anyone's list. 

Put it on yours.

For myself I would have to go with, in no particular order:

Lawrence of Arabia
A Bridge on the River Kwai
Star Wars  :)  (I still like it bestest)
Yojimbo
Ran
The Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
To Have and Have Not
Casablanca
Dr. Strangelove:  Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

[schild]

I think one of the big problems with top 10 lists is that they try to be based too much on artistic merit. It isn't until you get to number 30-40 that you start getting movies that you could actually watch every day. Twice. And I think that's the real test. For example, I'd probably put Exorcist, Silence of the Lambs, Lost in Translation, The Rock, and Ring somewhere in my top 20. Those movies are infinitely rewatchable to me. If I watched Clockwork Orange or Ran more than 1 time in a month there's a chance my head would cave in on my brain.

[Murgos]

I agree, sort of, Ran is difficult to rewatch too frequently unless you just want to take in the cinematography, Yojimbo, on the other hand is, to me, compltetely rewatchable.  Back to back even, but I still think Ran is the better movie.

Shawshank just has something about it that just never fails to be uplifitng no matter how many times I've seen it.   After it's over I feel better and the story is just so well told that it flows along effortlessly.  But Lawrence of Arabia is a better movie.

I tried to reflect that in my choices, some are my favorites to watch and some are my favorites for what they accomplish in telling thier story.

The top 250 at IMDB is a pretty good list, I don't agree with the order but I do agree with 99% of whats on it.