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

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my point is that the big box office films, whether of today or yesteryear (lol, i have to use that word) are largely fit for entertainment and not much else. while i'll always defend casablanca over transformers i'm not going to pretend that the purposes of the two are really much different. neither are deep or meaningful and exist merely to delight. that isn't a bad thing, but i think the pretension that old audiences were more thoughtful or audacious in their choices is absurd.

 

now i'd also argue that in order for a movie to truly be a masterpiece it has to be something more than just entertainment, but that's a different thing entirely.

 

Pretty much this.

 

But I do think movies are kinda worse today - just like music and literature - and that's because this type of entertainment is more accessible to the masses. So, in order to achieve a broader audience, studios will try to hit all 4 quadrants, investing too much in visual appeal and not risking an overcomplex storyline which would scare people away. When you try to be the movie the everyone likes (and I really mean everyone, not only movie fans), you just end up falling in the "not great, but people will be entertained" category. This is not new, it's just more common, and doesn't mean we don't have masterpieces anymore, but I guess it means the amount of garbage is bigger.

 

Are RomCom (we do have half a dozen of these generic couple stuff every year, don't we?) producers trying to create a masterpiece? They aren't, most of them just want to make money.

Is the RomCom audience going to the movies to watch a masterpiece? They aren't, most of them just want 90 minutes of fun jokes beside their partners.

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I actually figured out what the list would be under last year's scoring system. A couple ranks might be wrong, but this is more or less what it would have been.

 

1.The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Dark Knight
3. Star Wars
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Schindler's List
8. Back to the Future
9. Jaws
10. Fight Club
11. The Godfather Part II
12. Goodfellas
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
14. Casablanca
15. The Matrix
16. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
17. The Godfather
18. WALL-E
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey
20. The Lion King
21. Rear Window
22. Forrest Gump
23. Inception
24. The Social Network
25. The Shawshank Redemption
26. Die Hard
27. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
28. 12 Angry Men
29. Jurassic Park
30. Titanic
31. Toy Story
32. There Will Be Blood
33. Aliens
34. Toy Story 3
35. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
36. Memento
37. Dr. Strangelove
38. Pan's Labyrinth
39. The Avengers
40. Lawrence of Arabia
41. Taxi Driver
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
43. Return of the Jedi
44. A Clockwork Orange
45. Spirited Away
46. The Good the Bad and the Ugly
47. Alien
48. The Shining
49. Apocalypse Now
50. The Incredibles
51. Spider-Man 2
52. Chinatown
53. Psycho
54. The Wizard of Oz
55. City of God
56. Fargo
57. The Truman Show
58. Batman Begins
59. Beauty and the Beast
60. Ratatouille
61. The Silence of the Lambs
62. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
63. Saving Private Ryan
64. American Beauty
65. L.A. Confidential
66. Se7en
67. Toy Story 2
68. Finding Nemo
69. Gladiator
70. Inglourious Basterds
71. Citizen Kane
72. Aladdin
73. Kill Bill Vol. 1
74. It's a Wonderful Life
75. No Country for Old Men
76. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
77. Network
78. Children of Men
79. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
80. Star Trek
81. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
82. The Usual Suspects
83. Planet of the Apes (1968)
84. Halloween (1978)
85. The Dark Knight Rises
86. Monsters, Inc.
87. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
88. Requiem for a Dream
89. Trainspotting
90. Heat
91. The Terminator
92. Magnolia
93. Up
94. Sunset Boulevard
95. The Big Lebowski
96. Full Metal Jacket
97. Do the Right Thing
98. Ghostbusters
99. North by Northwest
100. Once Upon A Time in the West

 

I prefer this one.

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Seeing Trainspotting so far down the list makes me sad...

 

One of the worst "brilliant" films I've ever seen... when Anchorman, Dumbo, All the President's Men, The Graduate, The Goonies, Young Frankenstein, The Muppet Movie, Airplane!, My Neighbor Totoro, When Harry Met Sally, Breakfast Club, etc aren't on the list, it makes me mad that a movie about a bunch of Scottish heroin junkies even got in the top 150 let alone top 100  :D

 

Slumdog Millionaire would have been a better Danny Boyle film to put on here IMO 

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One of the worst "brilliant" films I've ever seen... when Anchorman, Dumbo, All the President's Men, The Graduate, The Goonies, Young Frankenstein, The Muppet Movie, Airplane!, My Neighbor Totoro, When Harry Met Sally, Breakfast Club, etc aren't on the list, it makes me mad that a movie about a bunch of Scottish heroin junkies even got in the top 150 let alone top 100  :D

 

Slumdog Millionaire would have been a better Danny Boyle film to put on here IMO 

 

To each his own I guess,  I also find it very hard to compare movies of different genres...I.E. Anchorman and Trainspotting. 

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To each his own I guess,  I also find it very hard to compare movies of different genres...I.E. Anchorman and Trainspotting. 

I just thought there should have been another comedy on the list and Anchorman would have fit the bill. I'm just not a fan of Trainspotting and I can think of worse films that could have made the top 100

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I actually figured out what the list would be under last year's scoring system. A couple ranks might be wrong, but this is more or less what it would have been.

 

1.The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Dark Knight
3. Star Wars
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Schindler's List
8. Back to the Future
9. Jaws
10. Fight Club
11. The Godfather Part II
12. Goodfellas
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
14. Casablanca
15. The Matrix
16. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
17. The Godfather
18. WALL-E
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey
20. The Lion King
21. Rear Window
22. Forrest Gump
23. Inception
24. The Social Network
25. The Shawshank Redemption
26. Die Hard
27. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
28. 12 Angry Men
29. Jurassic Park
30. Titanic
31. Toy Story
32. There Will Be Blood
33. Aliens
34. Toy Story 3
35. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
36. Memento
37. Dr. Strangelove
38. Pan's Labyrinth
39. The Avengers
40. Lawrence of Arabia
41. Taxi Driver
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
43. Return of the Jedi
44. A Clockwork Orange
45. Spirited Away
46. The Good the Bad and the Ugly
47. Alien
48. The Shining
49. Apocalypse Now
50. The Incredibles
51. Spider-Man 2
52. Chinatown
53. Psycho
54. The Wizard of Oz
55. City of God
56. Fargo
57. The Truman Show
58. Batman Begins
59. Beauty and the Beast
60. Ratatouille
61. The Silence of the Lambs
62. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
63. Saving Private Ryan
64. American Beauty
65. L.A. Confidential
66. Se7en
67. Toy Story 2
68. Finding Nemo
69. Gladiator
70. Inglourious Basterds
71. Citizen Kane
72. Aladdin
73. Kill Bill Vol. 1
74. It's a Wonderful Life
75. No Country for Old Men
76. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
77. Network
78. Children of Men
79. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
80. Star Trek
81. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
82. The Usual Suspects
83. Planet of the Apes (1968)
84. Halloween (1978)
85. The Dark Knight Rises
86. Monsters, Inc.
87. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
88. Requiem for a Dream
89. Trainspotting
90. Heat
91. The Terminator
92. Magnolia
93. Up
94. Sunset Boulevard
95. The Big Lebowski
96. Full Metal Jacket
97. Do the Right Thing
98. Ghostbusters
99. North by Northwest
100. Once Upon A Time in the West

 

Where the fuck is Seven Samurai? Also there is The avengers at #39 but Batman begins is at #58! Ridiculous!

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Where the fuck is Seven Samurai? Also there is The avengers at #39 but Batman begins is at #58! Ridiculous!

 

lol that's a foreign language movie

 

so it clearly is going to struggle here

 

i think i count 4 non-english movies on the whole thing :lol:

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