Boxoffice.com's Top 100 Films of All Time 2013: THE RESULTS (final list in OP)

[Sims]

Heeeeeeeeeeeere we go! A big thanks to the 39 members who submitted lists and made this year's contest possible. 1170 films were submited, but less than a tenth made the final top 100. #100 to #98 will be up shortly.

 

The Top 100 (reading through the thread is more fun, though):

1.   The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)

2.   Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)

3.   The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008)

4.   Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)

5.   The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)

6.   Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)

7.   Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)

8.   The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)

9.   The Matrix (Wachowski and Wachowski, 1999)

10. Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)

11. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)

12. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, 1991)

13. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)

14. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1940)

15. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003)

16. The Godfather (Coppola, 1973)

17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

18. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)

19. WALL-E (Stanton, 2008)

20. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)

21. The Lion King (Allers and Minkoff, 1994)

22. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994)

23. Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994)

24. Inception (Nolan, 2010)

25. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg, 1982)

26. Titanic (Cameron, 1997)

27. Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)

28. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)

29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson, 2002)

30. The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)

31. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)

32. Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995)

33. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010)

34. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)

35. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)

36. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)

37. The Avengers (Whedon, 2012)

38. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)

39. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)

40. The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)

41. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)

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

43. Return of the Jedi (Marquand, 1983)

44. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)

45. Alien (Scott, 1979)

46. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)

47. The Incredibles (Bird, 2004)

48. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)

49. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)

50.   El laberinto del fauno [Pan's Labyrinth] (del Toro, 2006)

51. Memento (Nolan, 2000)

52. The Truman Show (Weir, 1998)

53. Fargo (Coen and Coen, 1996)

54. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)

55. Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004)

56. It’s A Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)

57. American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)

58. Cidade de deus [City of God] (Meirelles, 2002)

59. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam and Jones, 1975)

60. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)

61. Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005)

62. Ratatouille (Bird, 2007)

63. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)

64. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

65. LA Confidential (Hanson, 1997)

66. Gladiator (Scott, 2000)

67. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)

68. Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale and Wise, 1991)

69. Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)

70. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)

71. Toy Story 2 (Brannon, Lasseter, and Unkrich, 1999)

72. Network (Lumet, 1976)

73. Finding Nemo (Stanton and Unkrich, 2003)

74. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)

75. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)

76. No Country for Old Men (Coen and Coen, 2007)

77. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Verbinski, 2003)

78. Aladdin (Clements and Musker, 1992)

79. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)

80. The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)

81. Star Trek (Abrams, 2009)

82. Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996)

83. Children of Men (Cuaron, 2005)

84. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Yates, 2011)

85. The Usual Suspects (Singer, 1995)

86. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg, 1989)

87. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)

88. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)

89. Heat (Mann, 1995)

90. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)

91. The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)

92. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)

93. The Big Lebowski (Coen & Coen, 1998)

94. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)

95. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)

96. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)

97. Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968)

98. Life of Pi (Lee, 2013)

99. All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930)

100. Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)

Edited August 3, 2013 by Sims

[CJohn]

12 AM over here. I won't sleep tonight

[Punishment]

12 AM over here. I won't sleep tonight

 

Sleep is overrated, like some of the movies that will be in this list

[ChD]

2AM here. Watching a few live tournaments while following this also.

[CJohn]

I am seeing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (saw Sorcerers Stone last night). Probably will see Prisoner of Azkaban after this one.

[Sims]

LYR=last year's rank, when available

 

#100 (You did it MGS)

100. Almost Famous

LYR: 312

Cameron Crowe, 2000

 

Nominated for 4 Oscars, won 1

30 points

 

"It's all happening."

 

Synopsis: A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour

 

Trivia: The original title for Almost Famous was actually "Untitled", however Dreamworks would not allow this, so Cameron Crowe called the bootleg edition of Almost Famous on DVD "Untitled" instead.

 

#99 (I thought we could wait a little longer before riczhang's meltdown, but I guess not)

99. All Quiet on the Western Front

LYR: 782

Lewis Milestone, 1930

Nominated for 4 Oscars, won 2

30 points

 

"This story is neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war..."

Synopsis: A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

 

Trivia: The silent (synchronised sound, non-dialogue) version premiered 73 years after the film's release (in the UK, that is) at the Watershed in Bristol on Sunday 23 November 2003. 

 

#98

98. Life of Pi

LYR: N/A

Ang Lee, 2013

 

Nominated for 11 Oscars, won 4

30 points

 

"So which story do you prefer?"

 

Synopsis: A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

 

Trivia: The first film not rated PG-13 or R by the MPAA to win the Oscar for Best Director since Out of Africa

Edited August 2, 2013 by Sims

[Fanboy]

I hope Titanic is not in the top 10 this year. 

[Fanboy]

Almost Famous made it. So happy. 

[AdamKendall]

Hey Almost Famous ... haven't seen the other two.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

New films have entered the 100. 

[CJohn]

Life of Pi was good. There is a good chance it enters in my top 100 next year.

[luna]

Trivia: The first silent film to make the Top 100 in either year.

 

if it were silent

 

also i suppose 782 -> 99 is acceptable...

[Sims]

if it were silent

 

also i suppose 782 -> 99 is acceptable...

 

Haha, I'm an idiot. I put the movie in my Top 20 too. I confused it with something else...

[luna]

so we've got

 

99. all quiet on the western front A

 

a good start if it were indicative of what's to come...lol

[Jake Gittes]

Didn't like Life of Pi, don't like that it's in here

[Fanboy]

If Life of Pi is The Hunger Games' replacement I'm not going to complain. 

Edited August 2, 2013 by Fanboy

[CJohn]

If Life of Pi is The Hunger Game's replacement I'm not going to complain. 

Probably yes. It won't show up next year.

[Sims]

#97

97. Planet of the Apes (1968)

LYR: 102

Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968

 

Nominated for 2 Oscars

31 points

 

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"

 

Synopsis: An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

 

Trivia: Kim Hunter reportedly found the facial ape prosthetics so claustrophobic that she took a Valium each morning while being made up as Zira.

 

#96

96. Requiem for a Dream

LYR: 96

Darren Aronofsky, 2000

 

Nominated for 1 Oscar

31 points

 

"“I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.”

 

Synopsis: The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when their addictions become stronger.

 

Trivia: Most movies contain 600 to 700 cuts. Requiem for a Dream contains over 2,000.

 

#95

95. Full Metal Jacket

LYR: 90

Stanley Kubrick, 1987

 

Nominated for 1 Oscar

31 points

 

"Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit! Get the fuck off of my obstacle! Get the fuck down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! Or I'm going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!"

 

Synopsis: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.

 

Trivia: One of the scenes cut from the movie was a scene that showed a group of soldiers playing soccer. The scene was cut because a shot revealed they were not using a soccer ball, but a human head.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Good additions. 

[CJohn]

Planet of the Apes gets into the top 100. Requiem for a Dream stays exactly at the same place.