64.

18

19 Tuesday w/The Incredibles

80.

12. (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Schindler's List, Lawrence of Arabia, Goodfellas, Fight Club, Saving Private Ryan, Once Upon a Time in America, Heat, Gandhi, Roman Holiday, Back to the Future)

Scrolling down the list, I couldn't help but notice how many movies from the last year or two that are on that list already--the same goes for the bottom 100. It really says something about IMDB, as any movie that is deemed great as being a great movie will be bombarded by "10" votes, and any movie that is deemed horrible will rocket to the bottom 100.

I own 59 of the top 250 and 2 of the bottom 100.

I own Teen Wolf 2, only because it was a double feature with Teen Wolf 1, I've never actually watched the sequel. The other was Cat in the Hat

28 for me

I own 23 (I think) - some surprising nominees in the top 250 IMO, I mean Spirited Away is very good, but in the top 250 films ever made? Come on It was one of the best films released in its year though (2001 or 2003).

I own these (at least these are ones I consider part of my collection) -

Shichinin no samurai (1954)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il/The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
The Matrix (1999)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi/Spirited Away (2001)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Léon (1994)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Wo hu cang long/Crouching Tiger (2000)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Mononoke-hime/Princess Mononoke (1997)
Ying xiong/Hero (2002)
Shrek (2001)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Gladiator (2000)
The Terminator (1984)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Per qualche dollaro in più/For A Few Dollars More (1965)
Heat (1995)

Ack.. I think I've got about 179 (including pre-orders). This is a glorious hobby, isn't it?

65, several others I've owned but traded away as not being keepers.

Looks like I have 48, with 3 more either on order or intend to order.

Surprised to see Bride of Frankenstein but not Frankenstein.

Spiderman 2 made the list?

The Godfather
The Shawshank Redemption
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Godfather: Part II
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pulp Fiction
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Psycho (1960)
The Silence of the Lambs
It's a Wonderful Life
American Beauty
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Matrix
Fight Club
Saving Private Ryan
Alien
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
The Shining
Jaws
Aliens
Finding Nemo
Braveheart
Million Dollar Baby--intend to buy
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
The Incredibles--on order
The Sixth Sense
Forrest Gump
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Unforgiven
Cool Hand Luke
Glory
The Green Mile
Ben-Hur (1959)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Shrek
The Searchers (1956)
Mystic River
Die Hard
A Christmas Story (1983)
Gladiator
Sideways--intend to buy
Spartacus (1960)
Sling Blade
The Terminator
Almost Famous
Rain Man
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Spider-Man 2

55

I was astonished at how many really horrible movies there were among those 250 films. Who votes for these things, 11 year olds?

129. It will be up to about 140 with some coming releases. Not much interest in the other 110.

Only 46. There were only a handful that I want but don't already own.

37.

he Godfather (1972)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Casablanca (1942)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Star Wars (1977)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Memento (2000)
North by Northwest (1959)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Third Man (1949)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Boot, Das (1981)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Chinatown (1974)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Alien (1979)
Modern Times (1936)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Metropolis (1927)
The Shining (1980)
Aliens (1986)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Braveheart (1995)
Yojimbo (1961)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1989)
Mononoke-hime (1997)
Rebecca (1940)
Notorious (1946)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Patton (1970)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Back to the Future (1985)
Glory (1989)
The Green Mile (1999)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Shrek (2001)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Hotaru no haka (1988)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Spartacus (1960)
Toy Story (1995)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
Almost Famous (2000)
The Exorcist (1973)
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Enfants du paradis, Les (1945)
Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)

That's 69 titles. I don't seems to have any of the Bottom 100.

Could you give some examples of some of these "really horrible" movies. Because as far as I can tell most of the films on the list got quite a bit of critical acclaim, even if it may be a stretch to call them one of the greatest movies of all time.

There certainly are too many modern movies on the list, but if it was completely mainstream I don't think we'd be seeing films like "The Seven Samurai" and "Fanny and Alexander" among the more "common" ranked movies.

Still, I'm of the opinion that movies like "Spirited Away" and "Spider-Man 2" deserve to be on the list. They aren't the most influential movies ever made, but I find them to be incredibly entertaining. It's better if you look at it as a list of a slightly more intelligent than mainstream opinion of the most entertaining great films.

Overall though it's kind of hard to categorize the list - for every "Snatch" there's a "Wild Strawberries."

metaridley,

You probably want to change your collection link. When I click on it, it goes to my collection (and if someone else does, it will go to their page if they are signed in). You have to add your username to the end of it. Check the bottom of the DVDAf for the entire collection link for the whole html address.

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The Godfather (1972) 118,334
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 144,616
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 98,450
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Casablanca (1942)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Star Wars (1977)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Rear Window (1954)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Cidade de Deus (2002)
Memento (2000)
Psycho (1960)
North by Northwest (1959)
C'era una volta il West (1968)
Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
American Beauty (1999)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Matrix (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
Vertigo (1958)
The Third Man (1949)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Pianist (2002)
Se7en (1995)
All About Eve (1950)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Chinatown (1974)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Léon (1994)
Alien (1979)
Modern Times (1936)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Raging Bull (1980)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Great Escape (1963)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
City Lights (1931)
The Apartment (1960)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Shining (1980)
Jaws (1975)
High Noon (1952)
Aliens (1986)
Annie Hall (1977)
Wo hu cang long (2000)
Fargo (1996)
Blade Runner (1982)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Donnie Darko (2001)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Duck Soup (1933)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Notorious (1946)
The Graduate (1967)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Unforgiven (1992)
Lola rennt (1998)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Back to the Future (1985)
Manhattan (1979)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Searchers (1956)
Die Hard (1988)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Charade (1963)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Magnolia (1999)
The Terminator (1984)
Toy Story (1995)
Roman Holiday (1953)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Laura (1944)
The Conversation (1974)
Stand by Me (1986)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Exorcist (1973)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Network (1976)
Snatch (2000)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

I wouldn't say that there are a lot of really horrible movies on the list, but there are plenty of mediocre ones that happen to have devoted geek followings (the type that vote in online polls on IMDB). These films include: Se7en, Leon, Reservoir Dogs, Braveheart, Kill Bill, The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, Shrek, Life of Brian, Gladiator, Magnolia, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Almost Famous, 21 Grams, Snatch, The Shawshank Redemption, etc. Most of these movies aren't bad, but they're hardly the pinnacle of cinema. I think of them more as stepping stones, "My First" sorts of pictures that people see in high school and that get them interested in film.

Then there are the WTF recent films like Hotel Rwanda, Sideways, Life Is Beautiful, Finding Neverland, American Beauty, etc., that won't even earn a footnote in cinema history except perhaps for their box office numbers.

Finally, there are the super-schmaltzy older films that have survived because of the populist attitudes they embrace, films such as It's a Wondeful Life, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc. I don't think of these as classics so much as just old movies.

Exactly. I own 89 as well, and several of those remaining are those on my "to buy" list.

Of the ones I instantly recognize, I have 31 (maybe some more if they are listed by a foreign title).


1. 9.0 The Godfather (1972) 118,334
2. 8.9 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 144,616
3. 8.9 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 98,450
8. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 153,400
10. 8.7 Star Wars (1977) 131,282
12. 8.7 Pulp Fiction (1994) 127,859
13. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 110,788
14. 8.6 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 101,214
19. 8.6 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 91,594
40. 8.4 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 22,662
44. 8.3 Boot, Das (1981) 27,985
47. 8.3 The Pianist (2002) 29,496
54. 8.3 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 59,265
59. 8.3 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 97,148
60. 8.3 Alien (1979) 61,289
76. 8.2 A Clockwork Orange (1971) 63,857
79. 8.2 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 67,406
85. 8.2 Aliens (1986) 62,808
86. 8.2 Finding Nemo (2003) 39,294
88. 8.2 Braveheart (1995) 89,423
100. 8.1 The Princess Bride (1987) 53,169
104. 8.1 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 46,965
109. 8.1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 76,102
126. 8.0 Lola rennt (1998) 32,583
132. 8.0 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 80,438
137. 8.0 The Green Mile (1999) 58,719
147. 7.9 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 60,484
177. 7.9 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 8,050
188. 7.9 The Terminator (1984) 58,615
193. 7.8 All the President's Men (1976) 13,197
197. 7.8 Twelve Monkeys (1995) 61,232

I can agree with some of what you are saying, but all of those older films you mentioned are classics and if anything deserve to be higher on the list. I agree about some of the more recent films. I have seen many of them and have no interest in buying them on DVD. Most don't seem to me like they will hold up at all 10 years or more from now. Many of the recent Academy Awards Best Pictures like American Beauty had me shaking my head when I watched them. Good films yes, but really the best we had to offer for the entire year? The Academy really has a bad history of picking top films.

71...surprised I have that many

123...a few more not on dvd yet, that will be on my shelf soon...some in the next few weeks

95 on DVD, maybe 20 others that are still on VHS. For instance, I don't have KING KONG because I'm waiting for the remastered SE. There are maybe 30 more that are on my want list (HIS GIRL FRIDAY, SUNSET BLVD, THE BIG SLEEP, etc.)