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Old 04-15-10, 04:30 PM
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Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-...-classics.html

damn good list imo. Lots of surprises (big lebowski, a lot of foreign movies, including Red, Oldboy, Hard Boiled, Run Lola Run)
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

Surprisingly good list, though I don't think Anchorman belongs on there.
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

The Hannah Montana Movie -- really, Yahoo?
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

For the reading impaired...

1990
Goodfellas
Misery

1991
Beauty and the Beast
The Silence of the Lambs
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Thelma & Louise

1992
Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam)
Malcolm X
The Player
Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)
Supercop (Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat)
Unforgiven

1993
Dazed and Confused
Groundhog Day
Schindler's List

1994
Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)
Ed Wood
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)

1995
Babe
Before Sunrise
Clueless
Heat
Living in Oblivion
Sense and Sensibility
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects

1996
Big Night
Dead Man
Fargo
Ghost in the Shell (Kokaku kidotai)
Lone Star
Scream
Secrets & Lies
Sling Blade
Swingers
Trainspotting

1997
Boogie Nights
Eve's Bayou
L.A. Confidential
The Sweet Hearafter
Titanic

1998
The Big Lebowski
Fireworks (Hana-bi)
Out of Sight
Saving Private Ryan
There's Something About Mary

1999
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
American Beauty
Being John Malkovich
Election
Fight Club
The Matrix
Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime)
Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)
The Sixth Sense
Three Kings

2000
Almost Famous
Best in Show
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
Yi Yi

2001
Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain)
Donnie Darko
In the Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa)
The Lord of the Rings
Memento
Mulholland Drive
The Royal Tenenbaums

2002
The Pianist
Y Tu Mama Tambien

2003
City of God
Elephant
Finding Nemo

2004
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Directed by: Michel Gondry
Shaun of the Dead
Sideways

2005
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Brokeback Mountain
A History of Violence
Oldboy

2006
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)

2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile)
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

2008
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

2009
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

Originally Posted by scott1598
For the reading impaired...
We still have to read the list. Pictures, please?
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We still have to read the list. Pictures, please?
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

That's just the list for the last 20 years. Their all-time list should be included too (there is some overlap):

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-...e-you-die.html

0-9

* 12 Angry Men (1957)

* 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

* The 400 Blows (1959)

* 8 ½ (1963)


A

* The African Queen (1952)

* Alien (1979)

* All About Eve (1950)

* Annie Hall (1977)

* Apocalypse Now (1979)


B

* The Battle of Algiers (1967)

* The Bicycle Thief (1948)

* Blade Runner (1982)

* Blazing Saddles (1974)

* Blow Up (1966)

* Blue Velvet (1986)

* Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

* Breathless (1960)

* The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

* Bringing Up Baby (1938)

* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)


C

* Casablanca (1942)

* Chinatown (1974)

* Citizen Kane (1941)

* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)


D

* Die Hard (1988)

* Do the Right Thing (1989)

* Double Indemnity (1944)

* Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

* Duck Soup (1933)


E

* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

* Enter the Dragon (1973)

* The Exorcist (1973)


F

* Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

* The French Connection (1971)


G

* The Godfather (1972)

* The Godfather, Part II (1974)

* Goldfinger (1964)

* The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)

* Goodfellas (1990)

* The Graduate (1967)

* Grand Illusion (1938)

* Groundhog Day (1993)


H

* A Hard Day's Night (1964)


I

* In the Mood For Love (2001)

* It Happened One Night (1934)

* It's a Wonderful Life (1946)


J

* Jaws (1975)


K

* King Kong (1933)


L

* The Lady Eve (1941)

* Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

* The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)


M

* M (1931)

* M*A*S*H (1970)

* The Maltese Falcon (1941)

* The Matrix (1999)

* Modern Times (1936)

* Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)


N

* National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

* Network (1976)

* Nosferatu (1922)


O

* On the Waterfront (1954)

* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)


P

* Paths of Glory (1958)

* Princess Mononoke (1999)

* Psycho (1960)

* Pulp Fiction (1994)


R

* Raging Bull (1980)

* Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

* Raise the Red Lantern (1992)

* Rashomon (1951)

* Rear Window (1954)

* Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

* Rocky (1976)

* Roman Holiday (1953)


S

* Saving Private Ryan (1998)

* Schindler's List (1993)

* The Searchers (1956)

* Seven Samurai (1954)

* The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

* The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

* Singin' in the Rain (1952)

* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

* Some Like It Hot (1959)

* The Sound of Music (1965)

* Star Wars (1977)

* Sunset Blvd. (1950)


T

* Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

* The Third Man (1949)

* This is Spinal Tap (1984)

* Titanic (1997)

* To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

* Toy Story (1995)


U

* The Usual Suspects (1995)


V

* Vertigo (1958)


W

* When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

* Wild Strawberries (1957)

* Wings of Desire (1988)

* The Wizard of Oz (1939)

* Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

* The World of Apu (1959)

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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

Originally Posted by dhmac
That's just the list for the last 20 years.
thus the point of the thread..."modern movies"
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

Originally Posted by scott1598
For the reading impaired...

1991
Thelma & Louise

1992
Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)
Supercop (Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat)

1993
Dazed and Confused
Groundhog Day
Schindler's List

[B]1994[/B
Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)

1995
Before Sunrise
Living in Oblivion
Sense and Sensibility

1996
Lone Star

1997
Eve's Bayou
The Sweet Hereafter

1998
Saving Private Ryan

1999
Three Kings

2000
Yi Yi

2001
Mulholland Drive

2004
Sideways

2006
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)

2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
Michael Clayton

2009
The Hurt Locker
These are the ones I haven't yet seen. I own all but maybe 3 of them.
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Not too bad as lists go. It wouldn't be my list, but that's because it's someone else's. At least it's relatively eclectic, with a few foreign films scattered about. Not a single documentary, though, which is a terrible oversight.
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Decent list. I'm surprised to see Elephant on there, because I've only heard bad things. Maybe I should give it a shot since I like/love most of the rest of their picks.
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

This list loses all credibility because ________ is or is not on it.
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Ive seen 65 of those, I plan on seeing Avatar when it comes out on DVD 4-22 and I wanna see The Hurt Locker
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

It's an okay list. Although I would have been happier not having seen some of them. It doesn't come across as a list of particularly important films as it does a list of movies that just happened to be popular during their respective release years.
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Although Toy Story is understandable, the selection of Wall-E over other Pixar movies is a bit of a head-scratcher.
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

That's a pretty good list as far as these things are worth. I've seen 56 from that list, and not a clunker in the bunch.
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I haven't seen 42 of the titles.

Originally Posted by scott1598

1990
Misery

1991
Thelma & Louise

1992
Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam)
The Player
Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)
Supercop (Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat)

1993
Schindler's List

1994
Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)
Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)

1995
Babe
Before Sunrise
Living in Oblivion
Sense and Sensibility

1996
Big Night
Dead Man
Ghost in the Shell (Kokaku kidotai)
Lone Star
Secrets & Lies
Sling Blade

1997
Eve's Bayou
The Sweet Hearafter

1998
Fireworks (Hana-bi)

1999
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime)
Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)

2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
Yi Yi

2001
Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain)
In the Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa)

2002
The Pianist
Y Tu Mama Tambien

2003
City of God

2004


2005
Oldboy

2006
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)

2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile)
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

2008
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

2009
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

Seems like a totally meaningless list of films to me....like they tossed a few hundred good to great films from the last 20 years into a hat and randomly picked 100 from it.
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

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This list loses all credibility because ________ is or is not on it.
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Only just two films in 2002. I would add Spirted Away and Hero on that list.
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on the last 10 years list I've seen all but 6

On the all time list I've seen all but 3

I better not watch The African Queen or Raise the Red Lantern or it will be time for me to die!

Oh and Anchor Man fucking rocks. It absolutely deserves to be on there.
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

I've seen a majority of them!

1990
Goodfellas
Misery


1991
Beauty and the Beast
The Silence of the Lambs
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Thelma & Louise


1992
Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam)
Malcolm X
The Player
Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)
Supercop (Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat)
Unforgiven

1993
Dazed and Confused
Groundhog Day
Schindler's List


1994
Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)
Ed Wood
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption

Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)

1995
Babe
Before Sunrise
Clueless
Heat

Living in Oblivion
Sense and Sensibility
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects

1996
Big Night
Dead Man
Fargo
Ghost in the Shell (Kokaku kidotai)

Lone Star
Scream
Secrets & Lies
Sling Blade
Swingers
Trainspotting


1997
Boogie Nights
Eve's Bayou
L.A. Confidential
The Sweet Hearafter
Titanic

1998
The Big Lebowski
Fireworks (Hana-bi)
Out of Sight
Saving Private Ryan
There's Something About Mary


1999
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
American Beauty
Being John Malkovich
Election
Fight Club
The Matrix
Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime)
Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)
The Sixth Sense
Three Kings


2000
Almost Famous
Best in Show
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)

Yi Yi

2001
Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain)
Donnie Darko

In the Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa)
The Lord of the Rings
Memento
Mulholland Drive
The Royal Tenenbaums


2002
The Pianist
Y Tu Mama Tambien

2003
City of God
Elephant
Finding Nemo


2004
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Directed by: Michel Gondry
Shaun of the Dead
Sideways

2005
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Brokeback Mountain
A History of Violence
Oldboy


2006
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men

The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)

2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile)
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood


2008
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E


2009
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
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Re: Yahoo's top 100 modern movies to see before you die

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This list loses all credibility because ________ is or is not on it.

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Whoa, I've seen 82 of those films on that list.

I probably will watch at least 6-8 more in the next year (some films are sitting on my DVD/BD shelves waiting to be watched).
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That's probably one of the best "best of" lists I've ever seen.


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