Boxoffice.com's Top 100 Films of All Time 2013 -- RESULTS PRESENTATION 4 PM PST/7 PM EST

[4815162342]

I will sharpen the knives for riczhang

[Michael Gary Scott]

[Sims]

Confession: I'm not entirely sure when I'm going to present the list. I'll have it completed by tomorrow, but I'm going to be in a car for 8 hours. At the latest, I'll do it sometime this weekend.

[riczhang]

I will sharpen the knives for riczhang

 

Oh. There will be blood.

[4815162342]

riczhang to his army of tweed-wearing cigar-smoking wine-tasting popcorn film-hating minions about his plan to take over the Top 100 list by launching a coup in the thread and disposing of Sims:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08-uyfp2iPM

[CJohn]

Confession: I'm not entirely sure when I'm going to present the list. I'll have it completed by tomorrow, but I'm going to be in a car for 8 hours. At the latest, I'll do it sometime this weekend.

Glorious weekend is coming then.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

yay

 

I need to see this film

[Kvikk Lunsj]

I only posted my Top 10 before, so here is my Top 100

 

38. The Elephant Man (1980) 

 

Numbers is truly a genus.

[Gopher]

Lawrence of Arabia 

 

The Big Lebowski 

Chinatown

 

To Kill a Mockingbird 

There WIll Be Blood 

Rear Window 

Dr. Strangelove 

 

8-12

Y Tu Mama Tambien  

No Country for Old Men 

Jaws

ET: The Extra-Terrestrial

American Beauty

 

13-18

Raiders of the Lost Ark 

Alien 

Casablanca 

Pan's Labyrinth 

A Clockwork Orange 

2001: A Space Odyssey 

 

19-25

Children of Men

Inglourious Basterds 

The Empire Strikes Back 

WALL-E 

Fantastic Mr. Fox 

Raging Bull

Do the Right Thing 

 

26-40

Before Sunset 

Before Midnight

Before Sunrise 

The Dark Knight

Fargo 

The Apartment 

Singin' in the Rain 

Rashomon 

Jurassic Park 

Django Unchained 

Aliens 

Hannah and Her Sisters 

Brick

The Master 

 

41-60

Inception 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind 

Zero Dark Thirty 

Stories We Tell 

Stand by Me 

The Truman Show 

Requiem for a Dream 

L.A. Confidential 

Magnolia 

The Shining 

Taxi Driver 

Zodiac

The Social Network

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 

In The Loop 

Pulp Fiction 

Citizen Kane 

Schindler's List 

Up 

Where the Wild Things Are 

 

61-80

The Iron Giant

South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut 

Ed Wood 

Mulholland Drive 

Drive

Oldboy

Blue Velvet 

The Shawshank Redemption 

Goodfellas 

Margaret 

Apocalypse Now 

The Godfather 

The Matrix 

Ratatouille 

Spirited Away 

Princess Mononoke 

Terms of Endearment 

Manhattan

Dazed and Confused

The Godfather Part II

Network 

 

81-100 

Toy Story 

Toy Story 2 

Toy Story 3 

In Bruges 

Blazing Saddles 

The Lion King 

Heat 

The Seven Samurai 

This Is Spinal Tap 

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 

Badlands 

Taxi Driver 

My Neighbor Totoro

8 1/2

Tropic Thunder

Amadeus 

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Ghostbusters

Gremlins 

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 

[Punishment]

From page 1:

 

-Films in a series must be listed separately. No votes for just the "Lord of the Rings trilogy" or "Kill Bill," etc. If you can't come up with separate rankings, choose just one film to represent the series (e.g. Fellowship for LOTR). If you disregard this, I will allocate the points to the film in the series that has received the most points from other members.

 

It looks like some of the trilogy movies are going to lose some points as I saw a couple of list that didn't break the films out

[riczhang]

From page 1:

 

-Films in a series must be listed separately. No votes for just the "Lord of the Rings trilogy" or "Kill Bill," etc. If you can't come up with separate rankings, choose just one film to represent the series (e.g. Fellowship for LOTR). If you disregard this, I will allocate the points to the film in the series that has received the most points from other members.

 

It looks like some of the trilogy movies are going to lose some points as I saw a couple of list that didn't break the films out

 

I refuse to break the films out on principle. If the films suffer, they suffer, but on principle I think it is unfair to do that. 

[baumer]

So basically, rules dont apply to riczhang.

[luna]

make sure you tell us the presentation time in advance as i don't want to miss out

 

(also what timezone is forum time?)

[lab276]

make sure you tell us the presentation time in advance as i don't want to miss out  (also what timezone is forum time?)

Yes, I'd like to know because I could just get a list in.

[Plain Old Tele]

I refuse to break the films out on principle. If the films suffer, they suffer, but on principle I think it is unfair to do that. 

 

I find this an extremely odd sentiment, as I've mentioned elsewhere. The vast bulk of sequels and/or trilogies are not planned in advance. They are entirely separate entities from conception, pre-production, production, through post-production. Lucas didn't plan on EMPIRE when he made STAR WARS (and in fact, that movie has different writers and a different director, even though Lucas was the general overseer). Coppola wasn't planning GODFATHER II when he made the first film (though he quasi-retconned 'em all together later). And GODFATHER III sure as hell wasn't planned when he was making GODFATHER II. Leone wasn't planning THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY when he made A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, etc.

 

How are these examples different from, say, TERMINATOR 1 & TERMINATOR 2? Or LETHAL WEAPON 1 & 2? Or YOJIMBO and SANJURO? Yet there's seemingly no issue about listing them separately.

Edited August 1, 2013 by Telemachos

[riczhang]

So basically, rules dont apply to riczhang.

 

Yeah that.  

 

 

I find this an extremely odd sentiment, as I've mentioned elsewhere. The vast bulk of sequels and/or trilogies are not planned in advance. They are entirely separate entities from conception, pre-production, production, through post-production. Lucas didn't plan on EMPIRE when he made STAR WARS (and in fact, that movie has different writers and a different director, even though Lucas was the general overseer). Coppola wasn't planning GODFATHER II when he made the first film (though he quasi-retconned 'em all together later). And GODFATHER III sure as hell wasn't planned when he was making GODFATHER II. Leone wasn't planning THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY when he made A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, etc.

 

How are these examples different from, say, TERMINATOR 1 & TERMINATOR 2? Or LETHAL WEAPON 1 & 2? Or YOJIMBO and SANJURO? Yet there's seemingly no issue about listing them separately.

 

I think that planned in advance or not is irrelevant. There always will be the overarching story elements that really tie the film together. Standalone films have that element in them already while series don't. It's unfair to judge otherwise. And of course certain movie series that have absolutely no tie or very little tie from one film to the other (*cough* Bond *cough*) are listed seperately. 

[lab276]

The only trilogy I can think of that leaving it together makes more sense than breaking it apart is LOTR.Is the forum on Pacific Time?

[Plain Old Tele]

I can think of three -- off the top of my head -- that I could plausibly accept as a single entity:

 

- LOTR

- Three Colors

- Ivan the Terrible

 

All the others basically come down to ric not wanting to make up his mind.

[Plain Old Tele]

I forgot to congratulate Gopher on his superb taste for #1.

[peludo]

My list

 

1 Casablanca2 The Godfather, Part I3 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring4 Taxi Driver5 A night at the opera6 Fantasia7 The Godfather, Part II8 Star Wars9 The Dark Knight10 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers11 The Apartment12 WALL-E13 Rear window14 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King15 The Sting16 Mary Poppins17 E.T. The Extraterrestrial18 Duck Soup19 The Empire Strikes Back20 The Deer Hunter21 To have and have not22 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade23 12 Angry men24 Murder by death25 My fair lady26 To be or not to be27 Close Encounters of the Third Kind28 The wizard of Oz29 The killing30 Raiders of the Lost Ark31 The big sleep32 The Third Man33 Bringing up baby34 Groundhog Day35 Some Like It Hot36 The great dictator37 The dirty dozen38 Double indemnity39 Network40 Casino41 Schindler's List42 Seven43 Key Largo44 Rebecca45 For a few dollars more46 Z47 Stagecoach48 Modern Times49 L.A. Confidential50 Batman Begins51 Citizen Kane52 Once upon a time in America53 Tootsie54 El verdugo55 North by Northwest56 Beauty and the Beast (1992)57 The bridge on the River Kwai58 Touch of evil59 Frenzy60 Monsters Inc.61 Manhattan62 Up63 Plácido64 Rio Bravo65 Jackie Brown66 Paths of glory67 Goodfellas68 Little Miss Sunshine69 Blade Runner70 The Goonies71 Le diner de cons72 City Lights73 The Untouchables74 Ghostbusters75 La strada76 Spirited Away77 The Dark Knight Rises78 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life79 Ed Wood80 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey81 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid82 The chase83 Life of Brian84 The searchers85 2001: a space odyssey86 Cool Hand Luke87 Charade88 Chinatown89 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie90 Vertigo91 Rocky92 Sunset Boulevard93 The silence of the lambs94 The son of the bride95 The grapes of wrath96 Annie Hall97 The hustler98 A streetcar named Desire99 Intouchables100 The graduate