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194 Casino Royale (2006) A successful reboot that re-invigorated the bond franchise to make it fresh and fit the new modern blockbuster status. Casino Royale was a bold risk that payed off for MGM and the newly found tone and grounded reality highly benefit it to make it one of the best Bond movies. -
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Last one for now 195 Y Tu Mama Tambien What is often considered to be what put Alfonso Cuaron on the map as a modern classic director, Y Tu Mama Tambien is a powerful coming of age story that explored many controversial themes that are relevant and true to society.
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196 Cast Away Tom Hanks really shows how great of an actor he is in this movie where he absolutely commands the screen for the majority of the movie. While some people have problems with this movie, I have found it to be a modern classic that is emotionally moving and powerful.
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197 Tropic Thunder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnND4uH1o9Q Somebody once tried to tell me that Robert Downey Jr was a one note actor who could only play himself, I told them to watch Tropic Thunder and they shut up. Tropic Thunder is riveting and hilarious with strong performances, it's Ben Stiller's best movie.
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198 The Last Waltz Scorsese is one of the most prominent filmmakers working in the business, and the Last Waltz might just be one of his most overlooked masterpieces. The Last Waltz is one of the definitive rock/band/movies about music out there, and by far one of the best (if not the best) concert movie ever made.
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199 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles This is the best movie that John Hughes made, and it often seems like it is almost universally agreed upon. John Hughes is excellent in writing monologues for screen actors and making them believable and it shows in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, which is the funniest of Hughes movies as well as the most powerful and moving of his.
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200 The Fly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUXEZNZxDdI The fly is one of the highlights of the monster movie genre, and a movie that often gets overlooked when talking about some of the best. It boasts one of Goldblum's strongest performances and it balances suspense, thrill, sci-fi, and tragedy impeccably well.
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201 Stagecoach Maybe it's a crime to put a classic like Stagecoach so low on my list, but hey it's my personal list and it ranks where it ranks. It is a very influential classic, so influential that it actually was one of the influencing factors Orson Welles took from to create Citizen Kane, my only problem is it just doesn't age that well because of the fact that nearly every modern movie borrows from this.
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202 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) This was back when Disney was actually good at making live-action films and wasn't always trying to force the next Depp vehicle down their audiences throats (with the exception of the first Pirates). 20,000 Leagues is a sci-fi classic and it is an exceptionally crafted adventure that is still fun to watch today.
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203 Lethal Weapon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTH0eRr_zRw Lethal Weapon has one of Mel Gibson's strongest performances and has played an influential role on the action genre. It is extremely entertaining, Glover and Gibson's chemistry is fantastic, and the action is ecstatic and well-done.
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204 Three Kings Recently it's been hard to remember that David O. Russell isn't an overrated director getting heaps of praise for a good but not great American Hustle, but Three Kings helps me remember how much talent this guy actually has. Three Kings is one of O Russell's strongest movies and proves he isn't the overrated sham most people saw him as this awards season.
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205 Shrek People often will overlook this movie and call it overrated now (and if you are talking about Shrek 2 I certainly agree), but this semi-crude parody is regarded as an animated classic for a reason. Shrek is fun, exciting, with great voice acting, and many jokes that still ring funny today.
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I plan to at least get out of the 200s today, and hey cut me some slack I have gotten through about 50 movies in around 4 days, that's fast pace for me. 206 O Brother, Where Art Thou? People always ask for a definitive adaption to Homer's Odyssey, and in my opinion this movie is it. While yes, it is definitely a modern twist on the epic and only loosely related, it's still a fantastically entertaining, and funny movie that definitely fits into some of the Coen Bros finest canon.
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207 Requiem For a Dream A bold and shocking movie that got drastically overlooked when it was released. The movie isn't really all that rewatchable, but it doesn't need to be because it is unforgettable in many senses. The intensity stays high and the commentary is brilliant.
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208 From Here to Eternity A classic that, although hasn't aged as well as some of the other oldies on my list, is deservedly titled so. This film is one of the definitive accounts of the famous bombing of Pearl Harbor, the relationships are humane, the acting is honest, and the film has an important place in cinema history .
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It only looks bad on McQueen, but I doubt it would have stopped him from winning.
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209 This is the End I'll be honest, I actually edited my list just now to put this in (I took out Chariots of Fire, which I was just going to put in for some filler), because this was hysterical the first time I watched it, and after a good number of more viewings it kept making me laugh and I liked it more and more with each viewing. This will probably be a movie that keeps climbing up my list as I watch it more because it's just to damn watchable and hilarious.
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210 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) This sci-fi classic is not what you would consider a typical, fun sci-fi movie compared to how most sci-fi happens today. The Day the Earth Stood Still was a movie with a message, a warning, that looked to the future (As a good sci-fi movie should) and was painstakingly accurate in what it was trying to warn against.
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211 Rain Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORM_cL3BKwk Rain Man is phenomenally well acted, and what's surprising after looking back is just how great Tom Cruise is in his role, who actually outshines Dustin Hoffman as a brother put through the dilemma of his newly found brother. Rain Man is moving, funny, and engaging the entire way through.
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212 Argo If you object to this pick of mine than Argo fuck yourself. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)
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213 The Incredibles Incredibly funny (heh heh, pun pun) and a blast of a Pixar movie. The animation still looks really sleek, and the storyline still works, as well as one for comic book movies to marvel at (pun pun) and model themselves after. A great outing by Pixar.
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214 Return of the Jedi While it is pretty much universally agreed to be the weakest of the original trilogy, that doesn't mean it's weak. In actuality the ending fight is one of the highlights of the original trilogy, it's just the random WTF moments leading up to the battle that stop this from being up there with the first two.
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215 Aliens James Cameron is pretty much one of the kings of sci-fi, and Aliens is one of his most liked efforts. However I think it was Jeremy Jahns who said you are either an Alien or Aliens type of guy, and he is absolutely right in my case. While Aliens is definitely an awesome watch, I much prefer the predecessor which is why I ranked Aliens so low on this list.
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216 The Bells of St Mary's This is one of the rare cases where a sequel surpasses its predecessor, but what is rare in this case is that it exceeded its predecessor by leaps and bounds. Okay, that may be a subjective opinion there (Given that Going My Way was more successful) but I found Bells succeeded in giving that dramedy feel much better and so this is the one of the two that makes the list.
