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Ranking was tough. The top 10 to 15 are solid, and the order withing genres is solid (e.g best western (all puns intended), best war flick, etc.).


1. A Bridge Too Far
2. Diva
3. Fantasia
4. Breaker Morant
5. The Road Warrior
6. Strange Brew
7. Repo Man
8. Once Upon A Time In The West
9. Key Largo
10. The Holy Grail
11. The Train
12. Kelly's Heroes
13. The Forbidden Planet
14. The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3
15. Bram Stoker's Dracula
16. Raising Arizona
17. The Blues Brothers
18. This Is Spinal Tap
19. The Fellowship Of The Ring
20. The Two Towers
21. The Return Of The King
22. Better Off Dead
23. Rollerball
24. The Navigator
25. Rock And Rule
26. Dr. Strangelove
27. Immortal Beloved
28. A Clockwork Orange
29. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
30. Duck Soup
31. A Christmas Story
32. Jaws
33. Richard III (1995)
34. Slap Shot
35. Urgh! A Music War
36. The Spanish Prisoner
37. Laurence Of Arabia
38. The Princess Bride
39. The Meaning Of Life
40. Snatch
41. The Odd Couple
42. Power
43. Fletch
44. Patton
45. The Kentucky Fried Movie
46. Animal House
47. Highlander
48. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
49. The Warriors
50. Nightmare Before Christmas
51. Where Eagles Dare
52. The Big Lebowski
53. Love And Death
54. Poolhall Junkies
55. Pulp Fiction
56. The Producers
57. Apocalypse Now
58. Bananas
59. The Deer Hunter
60. An Absence of Malice
61. High Noon
62. MASH
63. Airplane
64. Escape From New York
65. Scent Of A Woman
66. Brazil
67. Planet Of The Apes
68. Glengarry Glen Ross
69. Pale Rider
70. Bladerunner
71. It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
72. A Fish Called Wanda
73. Trading Places
74. Young Sherlock Holmes
75. Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
76. Videodrome
77. Top Secret
78. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
79. Star Wars
80. The Usual Suspects
81. The Mouse That Roared
82. The Hustler
83. Office Space
84. Alien
85. Bullitt
86. Fantastic Voyage
87. Fandango
88. La Cite Des Enfants Perdus
89. Robocop
90. Happy, Texas
91. Goodfellas
92. The Candidate
93. Soylent Green
94. My Favorite Year
95. The Gods Must Be Crazy
96. The Terminator
97. Johnny Dangerously
98. Caddyshack
99. Death Race 2000
100. A Pure Formality

PLEASE STICKY THIS POST

[note: I will put my list in this thread at a later date]

Ballsy. I commend your effort, seeing as you've some true winners on an ecclectic list, but this one just fucks me off. Watcher in the Woods I could understand, but Fan-fucking-tasia? This is my Ishtar.

Number 22 is redeeming, though. Warms the cockles.

I'll try to post something soon - I'll start with 50.

A few of these will make my list, but I enjoy all these movies.

Steve

Yikes, I've never known Fantasia to elicit such a negative response.

I think Fantasia qualifies as one of the greatest for a number of reasons, subjective and objective.

This was a groundbreaking film. Disney pretty much invents MTV in the 1940's. He took a bunch of risks in making this picture, and with the exception of the ballet-ing elephants, the film delivers. The penultimate scene, "A Night On Bald Mountain" is pretty hard-core for a Disney flick, the images are downright terrifying, and suit the music to a tee. Mickey as the Sorcerer's Apprentice is a classic, and gives the film its continuity with the studio's child-oriented animation bent.

I saw this bad boy as a little kid on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall, and then a few more times at various "art" theatres throughout the years. It remains one of my faves.

who all did listmania 3?

Listmania III was artists, no? I took a pass on that one.

I missed that one..

Sadly, most of my more eclectic favorites just didn't make the cut.

1.The Godfather – 1972
2.The Godfather Part II – 1974
3.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – 1975
4.Cool Hand Luke – 1967
5.Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb – 1964
6.The Manchurian Candidate – 1962
7.The Bridge On The River Kwai -1957
8.Lawrence of Arabia – 1962
9.On the Waterfront – 1954
10.Pulp Fiction –1994
11.The Right Stuff – 1983
12.The Empire Strikes Back – 1980
13.Raiders of the Lost Ark – 1981
14.Gone With the Wind – 1939
15.The Shawshank Redemption – 1994
16.Field of Dreams – 1989
17.Jaws – 1975
18.The Hustler – 1961
19.My Favorite Year – 1982
20.Goodfellas – 1990
21.Paths of Glory – 1957
22.Raging Bull – 1980
23.Once Upon a Time In America – 1984
24.Seven Days In May – 1964
25.Seconds – 1966
26.The Taking of Pelham One Two Three – 1974
27.Stalag 17 – 1953
28.To Kill A Mockingbird – 1962
29.The Producers – 1967
30.Alien – 1979
31.Runaway Train – 1985
32.Breaking Away – 1979
33.In the Heat of the Night – 1967
34.The Conversation – 1974
35.The Usual Suspects – 1995
36.Double Indemnity – 1944
37.North by Northwest – 1959
38.Rear Window – 1954
39.Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory – 1971
40.The Natural – 1984
41.The Terminator – 1984
42.Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – 1982
43.Gallipoli – 1981
44.My Bodyguard – 1980
45.River’s Edge – 1986
46.A Soldier’s Story – 1984
47.Salvador – 1986
48.Planet of the Apes – 1968
49.Network – 1976
50.Lone Star – 1996
51.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – 1966
52.The Exorcist – 1973
53.The Dirty Dozen – 1967
54.East of Eden – 1955
55.The Jerk – 1979
56.L.A. Confidential – 1997
57.Paper Moon – 1973
58.Blazing Saddles – 1974
59.A Christmas Story – 1983
60.Chariots of Fire – 1981
61.The Silence of the Lambs – 1991
62.Memento – 2001
63.Die Hard – 1988
64.Close Encounters of the Third Kind – 1977
65.Spiderman 2 – 2004
66.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – 2001
67.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – 2003
68.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – 2002
69.The Matrix – 1999
70.The Lords of Discipline – 1983
71.House of Games – 1987
72.The King of Comedy – 1983
73.National Lampoon’s Animal House – 1978
74.Rosemary’s Baby – 1968
75.Rocky – 1976
76.The Big Red One – 1980
77.The Candidate – 1972
78.Excalibur – 1981
79.Fail - Safe – 1964
80.Planet of the Apes – 1968
81.It’s a Wonderful Life – 1946
82.Hoosiers – 1986
83.Matewan – 1987
84.One False Move – 1992
85.True Romance – 1993
86.A Fish Called Wanda – 1988
87.Miller’s Crossing – 1990
88.Raising Arizona – 1987
89.Eating Raoul – 1982
90.Monty Python and the Holy Grail – 1975
91.12 Angry Men – 1957
92.The Warriors – 1979
93.Diner – 1982
94.The Parallax View – 1974
95.Time Bandits – 1981
96.The Great Santini – 1979
97.Captains Courageous – 1937
98.Re – Animator – 1985
99.Jacob’s Ladder – 1990
100.The Hunt for Red October – 1990

Damn! Forgot that one. Great, great film.

Dammit, Steve. You pretty much made my list. I'm going to take yours and just replace those Lord Of The Rings movies with some TBS Classics.

Steve, with all of the Frankenheimer/Kubrick/Comspiracy classics, you pretty much nailed my tastes. Of Course you left out Gymkata

I had a feeling a bunch would appeal to you and remembered your distaste for The Right Stuff as I placed it at # 11

I'll do this tomorrow.

Funny, because I thought "Wow, number 11," maybe I should re-evaluate that on its merits as a movie alone. I didn't hate it, I just LOVE the book.

I hope we get some more people that will contribute.

Other than the people who have already committed, I'd love to see lists from(off the top of my head)-PopTodd, OPA, Chase, FT, Sketch, Cotton, Shiv, Shmoo and others from the Southern crew.

Steve

Wow!!! Working on mine now. Love this topic.

Hell yes.

Neither of you gave the Wizard of Oz any love?

This is going to take a long while...

I know I'm forgetting quite a few faves, but my top 100 looks something like this:

1. The Meaning Of Life
2. M*A*S*H
3. Blade Runner
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Long Good Friday
6. Walkabout
7. Man Bites Dog
8. Harold And Maude
9. Dawn Of The Dead (orig.)
10. Volcano: An Enquiry Into The Life and Death Of Malcolm Lowry
11. Local Hero
12. Withnail And I
13. The Conversation
14. Slap Shot
15. Leolo
16. Some Like It Hot
17. Dr. Strangelove
18. Performance
19. Apocalypse Now
20. The Wicker Man
21. Stardust Memories
22. Catch 22
23. Sunset Boulevard
24. Bottle Rocket
25. The Ruling Class
26. Picnic At Hanging Rock
27. Fight Club
28. The Man Who Fell To Earth
29. King of Comedy
30. The Saltmen Of Tibet
31. Strange Brew
32. His Girl Friday
33. Don't Look Now
34. Time Bandits
35. Delicatessen
36. This Is Spinal Tap
37. Amelie
38. The Road Warrior
39. Eraserhead
40. The Maltese Falcon
41. Body Heat
42. Young Frankenstein
43. Bedazzled (orig.)
44. When We Were Kings
45. All That Jazz
46. The Party
47. Twelve Monkeys
48. Richard Pryor: Live In Concert
49. Naked
50. The Filth And The Fury
51. Slaughterhouse Five
52. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (orig.)
53. L.A. Plays Itself
54. King Of New York
55. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
56. A Brief History Of Time
57. Rope
58. Chinatown
59. Henry Fool
60. Three Kings
61. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
62. Barton Fink
63. Rock 'n' Roll High School
64. Breaker Morant
65. Vanishing Point
66. The Third Man
67. The Holy Grail
68. The Producers
69. Airplane
70. The Man Who Would Be King
71. Glengarry Glen Ross
72. Cabaret
73. Repo Man
74. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
75. The Usual Suspects
76. The Stuntman
77. The Emerald Forest
78. Swimming To Cambodia
79. 2001: A Space Odyssey
80. Primer
81. The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
82. Caddyshack
83. Start The Revolution Without Me
84. The Longest Yard
85. Naked Lunch
86. The Grifters
87. Memento
88. The Sixth Sense
89. Do The Right Thing
90. Hidden Agenda
91. Videodrome
92. Double Indemnity
93. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
94. It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
95. The River's Edge
96. Maelstrom
97. American Movie
98. The Butcher Boy
99. Gates Of Heaven
100. Beetlejuice

Tough and the order probably isn't that great.

1.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2.Psycho
3.Raising Arizona
4.Jaws
5.In the Mood for Love
6.Chinatown
7.Being John Malkovich
8.Miller's Crossing
9.LA Confidential
10.Reservoir Dogs
11.The Manchurian Candidate (original)
12.Mulholland Drive
13.City of Lost Children
14.The Godfather
15.The Godfather II
16.Pulp Fiction
17.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
18.Trainspotting
19.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
20.Goodfellas
21.The Graduate
22.American Beauty
23.Do the Right Thing
24.Brazil
25.Citizen Kane
26.American Graffiti
27.The Wild Bunch
28.The Big Sleep
29.2001: A Space Odyssey
30.Memento
31.Bonnie and Clyde
32.The Exorcist
33.Once Upon a Time in America
34.Breaking the Waves
35.Strangers on a Train
36.The Vanishing (original)
37.A Hard Day's Night
38.Lord of the Rings Trilogy
39.Aliens
40.Boogie Nights
41.The Usual Suspects
42.The Days of Wine and Roses
43.Singin' in the Rain
44.Out of Sight
45.Vertigo
46.A Night at the Opera
47.Rushmore
48.Star Wars
49.Audition
50.Mad Max
51.Platoon
52.Richard III (1995)
53.Last Days of Disco
54.28 Days Later
55.A River Runs Through It
56.Elephant
57.Lone Star
58.Schindler's List
59.Delicatessen
60.The Getaway (1972)
61.Three Kings
62.Man Bites Dog
63.Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
64.Heavenly Creatures
65.Fargo
66.The Big Lebowski
67.Glengarry Glen Ross
68.Freaks
69.3 Days of the Condor
70.Session 9
71.Barton Fink
72.Dirty Harry
73.The Limey
74.Fallen Angels
75.The Awful Truth
76.Sonatine
77.Donnie Darko
78.The Firm (BBC)
79.The Long Riders
80.Visitor Q
81.The Great Dictator
82.Full Frontal
83.Night of the Living Dead
84.Repulsion
85.Slap Shot
86.Barcelona
87.The Grifters
88.Monsters Inc.
89.Blazing Saddles
90.All the President's Men
91.Nobody's Fool
92.Saving Private Ryan
93.Thin Red Line
94.Chaos (Nakata)
95.The Thing (1980)
96.Bullitt
97.Fail-Safe
98.Swingers
99.Black Christmas
100.The Ladykillers (original)

I saw Fandango once many years ago and enjoyed it, but my memory of it is too faint for it to have made my list.

Wizard of Oz would have popped up soon had I continued.

Steve

None of these made my list. All are great movies.

Nice. You've got quite a few I just damn forgot about.

Nice. This will be in my top 10. My list will greatly overlap with yours.

i havent seen enough movies to really put an informed list of my 100 top movies, but i can say that if anyone doesnt have the manchurian candidate (the original) on their list because they havent seen it, they need to remedy this stat. bloody incredible movie.