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My list. As you can see, I have thing for the 80's, as well as movies with great music scores. Star Wars (1977, George Lucas) Halloween (1978, John Carpenter) RoboCop (1987, Paul Verhoeven) Deep Red 'Profundo Russo' (1975, Dario Argento) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg) The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner) Caddyshack (1980, Harold Ramis) Tron (1982, Steven Lisberger) Ghostbusters (1984, Ivan Reitman) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969, Peter Hunt) The Thing (1982, John Carpenter) Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero) Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) The Matrix (1999, Larry & Andy Wachowski) Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984, Noboru Ishiguro & Shoji Kawamori) Superman (1978, Richard Donner) Midnight Run (1988, Martin Brest) Escape From New York (1981, John Carpenter) Rocky (1976, John G. Avildsen) JFK (1991, Oliver Stone) Phantasm (1979, Don Coscarelli) A Christmas Story (1983, Bob Clark) Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento) Star Trek the Motion Picture (1979, Robert Wise) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg) The Right Stuff (1983, Philip Kaufman) Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg) Inferno (1980, Dario Argento) Grease (1978, Randal Kleiser) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982, Nicholas Meyer) Body Double (1984, Brian DePalma) Airplane! (1980, Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker) Goldfinger (1963, Guy Hamilton) Duel (1971, Steven Spielberg) Fletch (1985, Michael Richie) Big Trouble in Little China (1986, John Carpenter) Lethal Weapon (1987, Richard Donner) Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg) Fail-Safe (1964, Sidney Lumet) Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian DePalma) National Lampoon's Vacation (1983, Harold Ramis) Prince of Darkness (1987, John Carpenter) Tenebre (1982, Dario Argento) Kelly's Heroes (1970, Brian G. Hutton) American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas) Phenomena (1985, Dario Argento) Demons (1985, Lamberto Bava) The Sound of Music (1965, Robert Wise) Galaxy Quest (1999, Dean Parisot) For A Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1988, Jeremiah S. Chechik) Tremors (1989, Ron Underwood) Blazing Saddles (1974, Mel Brooks) Three Kings (1999, David O. Russell) Batman (1989, Tim Burton) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, Lewis Gilbert) The House by the Cemetery (1981, Lucio Fulci) Predator (1987, John McTiernan) Re-Animator (1985, Stuart Gordon) Evil Dead II (1987, Sam Raimi) City of the Living Dead aka The Gates of Hell (1983, Lucio Fulci) The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma) Blow Out (1981, Brian DePalma) Galaxy of Terror (1981, Bruce D. Clark) Grand Prix (1966, John Frankenheimer) The Natural (1984, Barry Levinson) Open Range (2003, Kevin Costner) Airport (1970, George Seaton & Henry Hathaway) Batman Begins (2005, Christopher Nolan) Return of the Living Dead (1985, Dan O'Bannon) The Edge of Tomorrow (2014, Doug Liman) The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges) This Is Spinal Tap (1984, Rob Reiner) First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff) Free Enterprise (1999, Robert Meyer Burnett) Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004, Adam McKay) The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner) Golgo 13 (1982, Osamu Dezaki) The Road Warrior 'Mad Max 2' (1981, George Miller) The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel & Ethan Coen) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Peter Jackson) For Your Eyes Only (1981, John Glen) Running Scared (1986, Peter Hyams) The Royal Space Force: Wings of Honnêamise (1987, Hiroyuki Yamaga) Used Cars (1980, Robert Zemeckis) Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999, Jay Roach) Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller) Apollo 13 (1995, Ron Howard) A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick) It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra) Conan The Barbarian (1982, John Milius) Vampire Hunter D: BloodLust (2001, Yoshiaki Kawajiri) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Clint Eastwood) Dances With Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner) Fast Five (2011, Justin Lin) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970, Dario Argento)

My list sent. The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams) Star Wars (John Williams) Tron (Wendy Carlos) RoboCop (Basil Poledouris) Inferno (Keith Emerson) Superman (John Williams) E.T. (John Williams) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Jerry Goldsmith) Return of the Jedi (John Williams) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone) Escape From New York (John Carpenter) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (John Williams) Halloween (John Carpenter) Krull (James Horner) Deep Red (Goblin) Die Hard (Michael Kamen) Batman (Danny Elfman) Raiders of the Lost Ark (John Williams) Macross: Do You Remember Love (Kentaro Haneda) Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (James Horner) The Matrix (Don Davis) Church, The (Keith Emerson & Fabio Pignatelli) Rocky (Bill Conti) Conan The Barbarian (Basil Poledouris) The Black Hole (John Barry) Tenebrae (Goblin) Body Double (Pino Donaggio) Tron Legacy (Daft Punk) The Thing (Ennio Morricone) Phenomena (Goblin & Bill Wyman) Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter) The Mechanic (1972) (Jerry Fielding) The Living Daylights (John Barry) Wings of Honneamise: The Royal Space Force (Ryuichi Sakamoto) Ghostbusters (Elmer Bernstein) Suspiria (Goblin) Dune (Toto) Predator (Alan Silvestri) Dawn of the Dead (Goblin) Star Trek III (James Horner) The Matrix Reloaded (Don Davis) Dances With Wolves (John Barry) Phantasm (Fred Myrow) Once Upon a Time in the West (Ennio Morricone) JFK (John Williams) LoTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (Howard Shore) Batman v Superman (Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL) Thunderball (John Barry) Xanadu (ELO, John Farrar, etc.) Tomorrow Never Dies (David Arnold) The Keep (Tangerine Dream) Blue Thunder (Arthur B. Rubinstein) The Natural (Randy Newman) Mad Max: Fury Road (Junkie XL) Golgo 13 (Toshiyuki Ohmori) For a Few Dollars More (Ennio Morricone) Goldfinger (John Barry) Licence to Kill (Michael Kamen) Starman (Jack Nitzsche) The Right Stuff (Bill Conti) Batman Begins (James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer) Flash Gordon (Queen, Howard Blake) Fletch (Harold Faltermeyer) V for Vendetta (Dario Marianelli) Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman) A View to a Kill (John Barry) Lethal Weapon (Michael Kamen) First Blood (Jerry Goldsmith) Independence Day (David Arnold) Moonraker (John Barry) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (John Williams) Blade Runner (Vangelis) Man of Steel (Hans Zimmer) Revenge of the Sith (John Williams) Demons (Goblin) The Matrix Revolutions (Don Davis) Galaxy Quest (David Newman) The Sword and the Sorcerer (David Whitaker) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Joe Kraemer) The Incredibles (Michael Giacchino) Grand Prix (Maurice Jarre) Nixon (John Williams) City of the Living Dead (Fabio Frizzi) Dressed to Kill (Pino Donaggio) Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith) Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter & Alan Howarth) 2010: The Year We Make Contact (David Shire) The Untouchables (Ennio Morricone) The Poseidon Adventure (John Williams) The Great Escape (Elmer Bernstein) Basic Instinct (Jerry Goldsmith) Back To The Future (Alan Silvestri) The Phantom Menace (John Williams) Apollo 13 (James Horner) The Terminator (Brad Fiedel) Total Recall (Jerry Goldsmith) Against All Odds (Michel Colombier) Attack of the Clones (John Williams) Black Rain (Hans Zimmer)

Please do a top 100 Video Games. I have a list for that.

Star Wars (1977) Deep Red (1975) Halloween (1978) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Superman (1978) Rocky (1976) Phantasm (1979) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Suspiria (1977) Kelly's Heroes (1970) Blazing Saddles (1974) Duel (1971) The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Airport (1970) American Graffiti (1973) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Jaws (1975) The Conversation (1974) The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971) Grease (1978) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Zombie (1978) The Outlaw Jose Wales (1976) Deliverance (1972) The Exorcist (1973) The Warriors (1979) MASH (1970) Rocky II (1979) Soylent Green (1973) Saturday Night Fever (1977) The French Connection (1971) The Towering Inferno (1974) Alien (1979) Moonraker (1979) The Longest Yard (1974) Laura (1979) Young Frankenstein (1974) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Dirty Harry (1971) Black Sunday (1977) The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) Rollerball (1975) The Parallax View (1974) What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) Adios, Sabata (1970) Foul Play (1978) Time After Time (1979) Capricorn One (1978) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Spazmo (1974) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) Winter Kills (1979) Sorcerer (1977) Silent Running (1972) Three Days of the Condor (1975) Smokey and the Bandit (1977) The Sting (1973) Death Wish (1974) Magnum Force (1973) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) The Black Hole (1979) The Seven-Ups (1973) The Eiger Sanction (1975) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Marathon Man (1976) Hooper (1978) What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974) Logan's Run (1976) Coma (1978) Alucarda (1978) French Connection II (1975) Dark Star (1974) Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) The Hospital (1971) The Fury (1978) Battlestar Galactica (1978) Caligula (1979) Night Moves (1975) The Goodbye Girl (1977) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) The Jerk (1979) Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Airport '75 (1974) The Omen (1976) Silver Streak (1976) Alice Doesn't Live here Anymore (1974) Five Deadly Venoms (1978) Live and Let Die (1973) Tourist Trap (1979) King Kong (1976) When a Stranger Calls (1979) Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) Play Misty for Me (1971) The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971) Annie Hall (1977) Slap Shot (1977) The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: The Movie (1978) I think I could do a top 200 70's films. Now I hope someone does a top 100 thread for my favorite decade of film, and that's the 1980's.

Baumer, I was looking at your list back on page 6 and noticed that you have Black Christmas at both 29 & 36, as well as Slap Shot at 48 & 59. I'm sure you noticed this a while back but I thought I would mention it just in case.

Thank You. I just finished rewatching Chinatown. Beautiful looking movie and impeccable in all other departments, but yet it just doesn't quiet grab me enough to make my top 100 films of the decade.

I'm not sure when the exact deadline is. Is it midday sunday October 6? I decided to do this just a few days ago, so I'm trying to cram a few more films at the last minute. Thursday I watched the Long Goodbye (wonderful dialog) for the first time and rewatched The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (a film filed with great New York based character actors). Friday I rewatched Black Friday (fantastic thriller that is only slightly let down by the lack of technology to pull off the ending as well as the rest was.) and a watch of a movie I had seen parts of and that is Breakheart Pass. I really like Breakheart, but the final act gets bogged down by overly complicated action. This morning I watched the best of the lot: The Outlaw Jose Wales. This film is a masterpiece! If anyone had doubted the skills of Clint Eastwood as a director they were certainly silenced after seeing this.

List sent! No changes.

I see, and will resend my list later. I'm doing this at work, from my phone and this thread is very hard for it to display, much less message from, but I will look back at the last 4 pages to get the full scoop.

Was there a question for me? I haven't looked at this thread for some days, spending all my time on the top 100 B&W one, and now that I return I see that some cheating has been committed. I then see that my user name was brought up on a list for questioning for some reason. If any info about me is needed, then ask away. BTW. I would like to see the list reposted, with the bogas votes tossed out. I guess that would be a lot of work though.

I have plenty of films on my list, so losing a few is no big deal. And by the way here's the entry for 13 Ghosts: As with several of his more famous productions, Castle used a gimmick to promote the movie. For 13 Ghosts, audience members were given a choice: the "brave" ones could watch the movie and see the ghosts, while the apprehensive among them would be able to opt out of the horror and watch without the stress of having to see the ghosts. The choice came via the special viewer, supposedly "left by Dr. Zorba." In the theatres, most scenes were black and white, but scenes involving ghosts were shown in a "process" dubbed Illusion-O: the filmed elements of the actors and the sets — everything except the ghosts — had a blue filter applied to the footage, while the ghost elements had a red filter and were superimposed over the frame.[4] Audiences received viewers with red and blue cellophane filters. Unlike early 3D glasses where one eye is red and the other is cyan or blue, the Illusion-O viewer required people to look through a single color with both eyes. Choosing to look through the red filter intensified the images of the ghosts, while the blue filter "removed" them.

The color bit may be shot with color film. I'll post a paragraph I pulled from Wikipedia about this. "Although The Tingler was filmed in black-and-white, a short color sequence was spliced into the film. It showed a sink (in black-and-white) with bright-red "blood" flowing from the taps and a black-and-white Evelyn watching a bloody red hand rising from a bathtub, likewise filled with the bright red "blood". Castle used color film for the effect. The scene was accomplished by painting the set white, black and gray and applying gray makeup to the actress to simulate monochrome. Some claim that the scene is actually filmed black and white and that they only paint the "blood" red on the film. This claim remains unknown."

Tower just nixed my inclusion of 'The Tingler' and '13 Ghosts' as having minor color tinting added in post production. This is rather technical but it's his rules so it's okay. I'm curious though, does this disqualify silent movies? Many of them had hand coloring as well. Also, will you really allow Mad Max: Blood and Chrome? That's the most colorful Mad Max film of them all, that is until the desaturated version that was released on home video. By the way, how does Fury Road look in black and white? I'm curious at how well a color movie can be converted to B&W. I'll have to get me a copy and see.

Tower, this is the list I just sent you. Fail-Safe (1965) Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) Citizen Kane (1941) The House on Haunted Hill (1959) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Young Frankenstein (1974) Paths of Glory (1957) The Fountainhead (1949) The Canterville Ghost (1944) The Bedford Incident (1965) Random Harvest (1942) A Face in the Crowd (1957) Saboteur (1942) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Ed Wood (1994) Mighty Joe Young (1949) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Seconds (1966) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Tarzan and His Mate (1934) Night of the Demon (1957) The Tingler (1959) Meet John Doe (1941) The Unknown (1927) Gojira (Godzilla) (1954) Seven Days In May (1964) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) The Big Heat (1953) Dam Busters (1955) The Invisible Ray (1936) 80,000 Suspects (1963) The Thing From Another World (1951) Tarzan The Ape Man (1939) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Kiss Me Deadly (1955) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) The Monolith Monsters (1957) The Wrong Man (1956) Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956) The Invisible Man (1933) Rocketship X-M (1950) These are the Damned (1962) They Drive by Night (1940) It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) 12 to the Moon (1960) Kronos (1957) Daikaiju Gamera (1966) Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) Freaks (1932) The Hill (1965) Last Man on Earth (1965) Psycho (1960) Girls Town (1959) The Lady From Shanghai (1947) The Elephant Man (1982) Live Wires (1946) 13 Ghosts (1960)

There's cat's all over this section!

I saw Random Harvest randomly one night on TCM and thought it was really neat, though I doubt it makes many of the 'important' B&W films lists, and I posted the first part of my list hoping to give others the idea of putting Fail-Safe on their list too. I actually prefer Fail-Safe to Dr. Strangelove, even if Strangelove is great too.

In 'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn' Peggy Ann Garner gives one of the best child actor performances I have ever seen. You should definitely check it out.

The deadline for this has raced up on me! I have a list of over 50 titles that I still need to do a little more work on, but here is preliminary teaser of my top 20. Fail-Safe (1965) Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) Citizen Kane (1941) The House on Haunted Hill (1959) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Young Frankenstein (1974) Paths of Glory (1957) The Fountainhead (1949) The Canterville Ghost (1944) The Bedford Incident (1965) Random Harvest (1942) A Face in the Crowd (1957) Saboteur (1942) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Ed Wood (1994) Mighty Joe Young (1949) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Seconds (1966) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

I wonder if you lowered the list of 100 from each person down to a top 50 or 25, if this would make it less daunting of a task to work out a list and maybe more people would join in? I know you can submit a smaller list but at the way you have the rules set, it comes a high cost of placement for a person's favorites, and you could still display the final list at 100 titles.

Hi guy's, I mostly lurk here but I thought I would join in on this one. I hate to be one of those with so much John Williams towards the top of my list, but the man was just rewriting the business from the mid 70's through the mid 80's. The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams) Star Wars (John Williams) Tron (Wendy Carlos) RoboCop (Basil Poledouris) Inferno (Keith Emerson) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Jerry Goldsmith) Superman (John Williams) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (John Barry) E.T. (John Williams) Return of the Jedi (John Williams) Macross: Do You Remember Love (Kentaro Haneda) Escape From New York (John Carpenter) Krull (James Horner) The Church (Keith Emerson & Fabio Pignatelli) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (John Williams) The Black Hole (John Barry) Halloween (John Carpenter) Deep Red (Goblin) Die Hard (Michael Kamen) Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (James Horner) Rocky (Bill Conti) The Matrix (Don Davis) Wings of Honneamise: The Royal Space Force (Ryuichi Sakamoto) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone) Batman (Danny Elfman) Tron Legacy (Daft Punk) Conan The Barbarian (Basil Poledouris) Raiders of the Lost Ark (John Williams) Tenebrae (Goblin) Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter) Dune (Toto) The Thing (Ennio Morricone) The Living Daylights (John Barry) Suspiria (Goblin) Predator (Alan Silvestri) Dawn of the Dead (Goblin) Star Trek III (James Horner) Phenomena (Goblin) The Matrix Reloaded (Don Davis) Phantasm (Fred Myrow) City of the Living Dead (Fabio Frizzi) Ghostbusters (Elmer Bernstein) JFK (John Williams) The Keep (Tangerine Dream) LoTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (Howard Shore) V for Vendetta (Dario Marianelli) Once Upon a Time in the West (Ennio Morricone) Blue Thunder (Arthur B. Rubinstein) The Natural (Randy Newman) Tomorrow Never Dies (David Arnold) Thunderball (John Barry) Batman v Superman (Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL) A View to a Kill (John Barry) Goldfinger (John Barry) Mad Max: Fury Road (Junkie XL) Golgo 13 (Toshiyuki Ohmori) Nixon (John Williams) Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman) For a Few Dollars More (Ennio Morricone) Licence to Kill (Michael Kamen) Fletch (Harold Faltermeyer) Starman (Jack Nitzsche) 2010: The Year We Make Contact (David Shire) The Matrix Revolutions (Don Davis) Blade Runner (Vangelis) Moonraker (John Barry) Demons (Goblin) The Sword and the Sorcerer (David Whitaker) Body Double (Pino Donaggio) Batman Begins (James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer) Independence Day (David Arnold) Galaxy Quest (David Newman) Dances With Wolves (Ennio Morricone) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Joe Kraemer) The Incredibles (Michael Giacchino) To Live and Die in L.A. (Wang Chung) Grand Prix (Maurice Jarre) The Untouchables (Ennio Morricone) Lethal Weapon (Michael Kamen) The Poseidon Adventure (John Williams) First Blood (Jerry Goldsmith) The Right Stuff (Bill Conti) Destroy All Monsters (Akira Ifukube) Contamination (Goblin) Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (John Williams) Dressed to Kill (Pino Donaggio) Man of Steel (Hans Zimmer) The Great Escape (Elmer Bernstein) Basic Instinct (Jerry Goldsmith) Austin Powers (George S. Clinton) Diamonds are Forever (John Barry) Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter & Alan Howarth) Apollo 13 (James Horner) The Terminator (Brad Fiedel) Total Recall (Jerry Goldsmith) Against All Odds (Michel Colombier) Dirty Harry (Lalo Schifrin) The Transformers: The Movie (Vince DiCola) Black Rain (Hans Zimmer)

Seems like a lot of territory's didn't get it in 3D then. I don't care for 3D personally, but I think Universal should have gone with 3D everywhere on this one. And I guess this should be on the Furious 7 thread. Sorry.

Thanks, didn't know it had gotten a 3D north america release. My area just got it in 2D.

Can anyone calculate what amount more Furious 7 would have earned if it had been given a 3D release worldwide? Also where do I find worldwide and domestic admissions? Seems like admissions might be a better gauge at calculating real popularity over raw box office, at least during the same era.