Because Nobody Asked For It: The Panda's Top 250 Movies of All Time - COMPLETE

[baumer]

Never got the love for Children of Men.  Not quite my tempo, I guess.

Oddly enough, It's a Wonderful Life is one classic I had never seen before last Christmas.  I fell in love with it as well.  Tele of course told me how putrid it was.

Haven't seen Sound of Music in about 30 years.  Don't remember much about it.

[chasmmi]

Me and Tele actually agree on It;s a Wonderful Life

[The Panda]

I'll get this going again soon, this weekend was hectic

[franfar]

5 hours ago, baumer said:

 

You have to ask?

I forgot that he hates everything joyful

[RandomCat]

You know you've stepped into the twilight zone when Baumer likes an old B&W movie and Tele hates it.

[Plain Old Tele]

I don't hate it, dammit.  

[cannastop]

On 3/18/2017 at 2:38 AM, Beauty and The Panda said:

Most Valuable Player: Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff's Direction

That's a funny way of spelling "Hans Zimmer's score".

[The Panda]

32 minutes ago, cannastop said:

That's a funny way of spelling "Hans Zimmer's score".

 

Hanz Zimmer has never been MVP

[baumer]

3 hours ago, RandomJC said:

You know you've stepped into the twilight zone when Baumer likes an old B&W movie and Tele hates it.

 

I just spit my drink out.

[cannastop]

On 3/29/2017 at 0:35 AM, Beauty and The Panda said:

Number 12

The Sound of Music (1965)

What the fuck?

[The Panda]

2 hours ago, cannastop said:

What the fuck?

 

 

 

[The Panda]

Since I'm taking forever on getting time to reveal the top 11...

 

25 likes to whoever most correctly guesses the films in the top 10 and their ranking order.

 

Deadline is whenever I reveal number 10 sometime this week!

[baumer]

Top 10:

 

10) Freddy Got Fingered

9) Breaking Dawn Part 1

8) Maps to the Stars

7) Nosferatu

6) Ilsa She Wolf

5) Divergent

4) Krull

3) Jaws IV:  The Revenge

2) Cameron's Closet

1) Citizen Kane

[chasmmi]

On 2017. 4. 5. at 11:39 PM, Beauty and The Panda said:

Since I'm taking forever on getting time to reveal the top 11...

 

25 likes to whoever most correctly guesses the films in the top 10 and their ranking order.

 

Deadline is whenever I reveal number 10 sometime this week!

 

It's really hard to remember what hasn't come up yet (especially with Franchises and reading this and the scores list in tandem a lot of the time), but here goes...

 

1) Last Crusade

2) Empire

3) Casablanca

4) Great Dictator

5) Mary Poppins

6) New Hope

7) Raiders

8) Good Bad and Ugly

9) E.T

10) Bicycle Thieves 

[The Panda]

Number 11

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

 

"No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing."

 

Most Valuable Player: David Lean's Direction

Box Office: 37.5m (463.3m Adjusted)

Tomatometer: 97%

Notable Awards: Won 7 Oscars, including Best Picture

Synopsis: The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Critic Opinion: "The producer-director combination of Sam Spiegel and David Lean has topped its production of the prize-winning “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” by the team’s latest brilliant contribution to the screen. “Lawrence of Arabia,” made for Columbia Pictures in Technicolor and Super Panavision, is on exhibition at the Criterion Theatre and in the judgement of this reviewer is the finest film production of 1962.  Lean and photographer Fred A. Young have combined their artistic talents in an evocation of the Arabian desert that makes it both terrifying and deeply moving in its lonely grandeur." - Kate Cameron, New York Daily News (1962)

User Opinion: "LOA's script is a masterpiece of subtlety and economy. There's not a wasted word." - Telemachos

Reasoning: Tele told me that if I didn't place this movie on the list, then I would be eternally banned from the internet and reality, thus I placed it on my list.  I mean it's not like this film is the greatest historical epic ever made or anything.  Or that David Lean doesn't produce the finest work of his career with this film.  Or that Peter O'Toole didn't get robbed of an Oscar for his phenomenal job playing the title role.  Or that the wide-takes aren't gorgeous and brilliant to behold.  I simply placed this movie on my list due to the blackmail, and that's all I have to say about that.

Decade Count: 1930s: 12, 1940s: 16, 1950s: 20, 1960s: 26, 1970s: 27, 1980s: 36, 1990s: 34, 2000s: 34, 2010s: 31
Top 100 Decade Count: 1930s: 4, 1940s: 4, 1950s: 10, 1960s: 14, 1970s: 13, 1980s: 5, 1990s: 14, 2000s: 13, 2010s: 14
Top 50 Decade Count: 1930s: 3, 1940s: 3, 1950s: 6, 1960s: 5, 1970s: 8 1980s: 1, 1990s: 3, 2000s: 8, 2010s: 4
Top 25 Decade Count: 1940s: 2, 1950s: 2, 1960s: 3, 2000s: 6, 2010s: 2

 

 

 

 

[Plain Old Tele]

If you or anyone gets the chance to see a 70mm presentation in a theater, do it! This is one of those movies where the size of the screen really helps, and you get such detail out of the 70mm print that even a Blu-ray doesn't do it justice.

 

Fortunately it seems to regularly make the rounds in major international cities.

[franfar]

1 minute ago, Tele Came Back said:

If you or anyone gets the chance to see a 70mm presentation in a theater, do it! This is one of those movies where the size of the screen really helps, and you get such detail out of the 70mm print that even a Blu-ray doesn't do it justice.

 

Fortunately it seems to regularly make the rounds in major international cities.

You mean where the coastal elites live? Ugh they get everything 

 

 

[RandomCat]

That requires me going into miami...

[The Panda]

Number 10

Casablanca (1942)

 

"Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

 

Most Valuable Player: Howard Koch, Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein for the Screenplay

Box Office: N/A

Tomatometer: 97%

Notable Awards: Won 3 Oscars, including Best Picture

Synopsis: In Casablanca in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate encounters a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Critic Opinion: ""Casablanca." 1942. Nobody plays "As Time Goes By" like piano man Sam (Dooley Wilson). Nobody lights a torch like Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa or carries one like Humphrey Bogart's Rick. And nobody ever gathered together a sharper, more pungent international "Golden Age" cast (including Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, S.Z. Sakall, Marcel Dalio, Leonid Kinskey, John Qualen and Curt Bois) in a more imperishable exotic movieland cabaret (Rick's) than Warner Bros. producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz did in this greatest of all Hollywood World War II adventure romances." - Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

User Opinion: "If I had to name a single Favorite Movie of All Time, first I would argue for the opportunity to list my Top 5 - and then if that request was adamantly denied, I would list "Casablanca" as my Number 1.It was a film I had always heard of but had never seen. Then when I finally watched it, I was astounded at the number of quotes that came from this film. "Here's lookin' at you, kid." "Louie, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship." "Round up the usual suspects." The list goes on and on. Rick is the quintessential "man that men want to be and women want to be with." He is the ultimate COOL. During the beginning of the film, we see how nothing bothers him. Win money, lose money, have people's friendship or don't, whatever. Then when Ilsa returns to his life, we see how he is torn down to his very foundation. And it makes him such a real person, and not a flimsy character in some old black-and-white movie.If you are cognizant of when the film was made, there are several moments of "racy" humor to be appreciated. Probably considered borderline blue in its time.If you've never seen this film, turn off the computer and go find it." - MagnetMan

Reasoning: There are multiple movies that make appearances on critic lists as the "The Greatest Movie of All-Time", Citizen Kane may be the first one to come to mind, but Casablanca is another pick one that consistently tops those lists.  Like Citizen Kane, only to an even greater extent, the film really shows that if any movie is deserving of that title, it might as well be this one.  The film is absolutely timeless in its storytelling, with an ingenious screenplay at the heart of it all, and the film is an absolute cinematic revelation for the era that it was produced in.  This is truly one of the all-time greats, and I shouldn't have to say much more than that.

Decade Count: 1930s: 12, 1940s: 17, 1950s: 20, 1960s: 26, 1970s: 27, 1980s: 36, 1990s: 34, 2000s: 34, 2010s: 31
Top 100 Decade Count: 1930s: 4, 1940s: 5, 1950s: 10, 1960s: 15, 1970s: 13, 1980s: 5, 1990s: 14, 2000s: 13, 2010s: 14
Top 50 Decade Count: 1930s: 3, 1940s: 4, 1950s: 6, 1960s: 5, 1970s: 8 1980s: 1, 1990s: 3, 2000s: 8, 2010s: 4
Top 25 Decade Count: 1940s: 3, 1950s: 2, 1960s: 3, 2000s: 6, 2010s: 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Panda]

Number 9

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

 

"Never tell me the odds."

 

Most Valuable Player: George Lucas' Universe

Box Office: 209.4m (682.4m Adjusted)

Tomatometer: 94%

Notable Awards: Won 2 Oscars

Synopsis: "After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke."

Critic Opinion: "“The Empire Strikes Back” is the ultimate in fantasies, a visual wonder and a movie that should be recommended highly if only because it makes you feel good." - Rena Andrews, The Denver Post (1980)

User Opinion: "I could write an endless essay on why this is the best blockbuster ever made.  Watched it again last night and WOW. It's too perfect. I don't have a single flaw, gripe or nitpick about it." - Jay Hollywood

Reasoning: I don't think there's much I can say that everyone on this forum doesn't already know about this movie.  The Empire Strikes Back is the prime of the crop of the greatest movie franchise out there, and it's the greatest sequel to have ever been made. The film is an adrenaline rush the entire way through and it leaves you wanting more.  It's a perfect film, obviously.

Decade Count: 1930s: 12, 1940s: 17, 1950s: 20, 1960s: 26, 1970s: 27, 1980s: 37, 1990s: 34, 2000s: 34, 2010s: 31
Top 100 Decade Count: 1930s: 4, 1940s: 5, 1950s: 10, 1960s: 15, 1970s: 13, 1980s: 6, 1990s: 14, 2000s: 13, 2010s: 14
Top 50 Decade Count: 1930s: 3, 1940s: 4, 1950s: 6, 1960s: 5, 1970s: 8 1980s: 2, 1990s: 3, 2000s: 8, 2010s: 4
Top 25 Decade Count: 1940s: 3, 1950s: 2, 1960s: 3, 1980s: 1, 2000s: 6, 2010s: 2

Top 10 Decade Count: 1940s: 1, 1980s: 1