BOT Top 100 Movies of All Time: The Empire Strikes Back... Again... For the Third Time...

[grey ghost]

11 minutes ago, Baumer said:

My favorites are better than your favorites.

 

We should all post what made it from our list to show where we agree.

[AniNate]

11 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

All I can concern myself with are my own choices.

 

If only others here would extend that same courtesy...

[The Panda]

Number 28

Titanic (1997)

55 Points (16 Votes, Avg Score 32.5625)

 

"I'm the king of the world!"

 

Number 1 Placements: 1 Placement

Top 5 Placements: 2 Placements

Top 10 Placements: 5 Placements

Changes in Rankings Over Time: 2014 (59, +31), 2013 (26, -2), 2012 (5, -23)

Tomatometer: 88%

Box Office: 600.79m (1.101b Adjusted)

Most Notable Awards Recognition: Won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture

IMDb Synopsis: 84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

Critic Opinion: "Take one of history's most compelling tragedies, tell it through the lives of two engaging young lovers and show it with some of the best-ever special effects and you have a dazzling, exciting movie that is also poignant and personal.  The story of "Titanic" is so good that if written as fiction, it would be dismissed as preposterous.  The last half of this movie, with the ship sinking, is worth the price of admission. And the scenes in which the ship breaks and the stern plummets into the water are breathtaking." - Joe Holleman

User Opinion: "One of the best films ever. Period. Love this film so much." - Vanilla

Personal Comment: The biggest blockbuster to make our list yet comes rocketing on forward at number 28.  James Cameron makes yet another appearance on our list, and hint this isn't his last one.  Titanic is also the 18th movie from the 1990s to make our list, when all is said and done the 90s will make up over 20% of the list.  Titanic is a behemoth of a movie in nearly every way.  The movie was a monster with critics, even if its received a fair share of backlash years later for being such an instant classic.  The movie also had one of, if not the, most legendary box office runs of all time, and claiming the number 1 movie of all time title for 12 years.  The movie also set records with its awards wins.  This is another movie that I am personally not the biggest fan of, but I have to admit I respect it just for what it managed to do.  Titanic is a legendary film.

 

 

[La Binoche]

Not Titanic at #28  I love the movie but 28?? 

[Empire]

Titanic made my list. Love it!

[The Panda]

Number 27

Taxi Driver (1976)

55 Points (19 Votes, Avg Score 40.52)

 

"Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man."

 

Top 5 Placements: 2 Placements

Top 10 Placements: 3 Placements

Changes in Rankings Over Time: 2014 (64, +37), 2013 (39, +12), 2012 (26, -1)

Tomatometer: 99%

Box Office: 27.3m (109.97m Adjusted)

Most Notable Awards Recognition: Nominated for 4 Oscars

IMDb Synopsis: Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a cesspool. He's a loner who has strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine. He becomes obsessed with her. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. One of his priorities is to be the savior for Iris, a twelve-year-old runaway and prostitute who he believes wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and lover Matthew.

Critic Opinion: "Travis is on the fringe of society because of the corrupt political climate. He combats his emptiness by assuming the role of the hero in his own story as he seeks to violently avenge those that oppress him. Perhaps Travis, a direct product of his environment–a post Vietnam and post-Watergate world–is not any single person but the embodiment of the average working-class man at the time. He becomes a fragmented persona of caricatures of American myths, or, in other words, the corrupt influences around him. Travis becomes the very thing he wants to stop. He is a murderer who hates junkies and a low-life racist that wants to clean up a city full of low-lives. “He’s a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. A walkin’ contradiction.” But perhaps no contradiction is greater or more hypocritical than the 1970s politics that claimed to be for the people yet oppressively run by a corrupt few. That’s why people like Travis will always be the only ones there." - Josh Cabrita

User Opinion: "Such an incredible film, and Robert De Niro totally nailed it. Can you believe this was only his second feature film? Man he played the character like he was living in it the whole life time. And to think about it, he already got an Oscar award before that, for the role in Godfather2. This is really what we called "genius"." - vc2002

Personal Comment: Martin Scorcese and Robert De Niro score the list again with one of their most critically acclaimed works, Taxi Driver.  Taxi Driver is the 7th movie from the 1970s to make our countdown.  There was an early point in the scoring process where Taxi Driver was actually sitting at the #1 spot, in fact it sat there up until right before the halfway mark, and then it slowly dwindled down to number 27 (its highest ranking on our countdown since 2012 by a good margin).  It's fair to say this movie has its fair share of love on this forum, and it's well deserved.  Robert De Niro probably gives the best performance piece of his wonderful career in this masterpiece of a movie.

 

 

 

[Blankments]

I need to rewatch E.T.

 

Groundhog Day is a masterpiece

 

The Incredibles is the best superhero movie

 

WALL-E is pretty great, need to rewatch it

 

Toy Story 3=Best Toy Story

 

Titanic is really great.

[The Panda]

Number 26

Finding Nemo (2003)

55 Points (19 Votes, Avg Score 38.947)

 

"Just keep swimming."

 

Top 5 Placements: 1 Placement

Top 10 Placements: 4 Placements

Changes in Rankings Over Time: 2014 (36, +10), 2013 (73, +47), 2012 (57, +31)

Tomatometer: 99%

Box Office: 339.71m (483.38m Adjusted)

Most Notable Awards Recognition: Won 1 Oscar

IMDb Synopsis: A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo. After he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their lives free again.

Critic Opinion: "There's Albert Brooks, for example, bringing all his comical self-doubt and worry to bear on Marlin, the worried papa searching for his son. And Ellen DeGeneres, whose addled-but-still-amiable Dory has a huge amount of puppyish charm.  Add in that 12-step support group for sharks "in recovery," those migrating but very mellow sea turtles and the aquarium antics inside that Sydney dentist's office, and you have a genuinely funny and touching film that, in less than a decade, has established itself as a timeless classic." - Stephen Whitty

User Opinion: "Favorite Pixar offering thus far.
 
I can't begin a review with this film and not mention the animation design and complementing world on display here.  Simply a fantastic world to take in as a viewer.  The world here is at times colorful, dark, menacing, and inviting, but most importantly it's always magical as fuck.  Most importantly the ocean is used in a way that brings out the themes and trials of the characters here.  Of course, you wouldn't expect anything else from Pixar.
 
I can imagine that this is one of those films that is loved by parents and children alike.  In fact, despite having no kids of my own it is quite obvious that a parent would likely find a great array of awards on display here.  At the very core of this film lies the emotion bond between a father and his son.  What makes this bond so special is that opening five minutes of the film.  Not only does it shape the characters for the rest of the film, but it also magnifies this relationship between a man and his son.  Once again Pixar takes the familiar father-son bond, but just provides a little more depth and emotion to it.  It is from that first event in the film that the main character's journey begins.
 
This may be a film about finding Nemo, but this is really all about Marlin's journey.  It is very much about Marlin re-discovering trust in not only other fish, but in the world in general.  One is able to see quite easily how the traumatic events of the past plague Marlin and his outlook on life.  It is fitting that is the disappearance of Nemo that provokes Marlin to re-discovering not only the world, but life in general.  To me, this is a film more about loss and coping with that loss than it is a man finding his son.  As a viewer, what a great journey we are able to witness as a dad is able to overcome shadows in his past to locate his lost son.  While doing this Marlin is able to move on from his past and once again begin living life.  Awesome stuff on display here.
 
Pixar has always had a a vast array of endearing supporting characters, but I'm not sure any are more important than Dory here.  While it would have been easily for her to simply have been a gimmick used for comic relief, instead she is the most important driver of Marlin's journey and re-awakening.  The contrast here is something to behold as you have Dory's uninhibited trust of any and all things clashing with the overly-analytic and worrying nature of Marlin.  Over time it is through the character of Dory that Marlin is able to re-gain his trust in the world and perhaps more importantly, other fish.  I feel like I've been saying this way too much of late with these Pixar films, and yet once again the word poetic seems perfect to describe the dynamics on display here.
 
A father searches for his son and in the process is able to put the past behind him and once again find his way in the world.  It doesn't get much better than this." - mattmav45

Personal Comment: Coming in just barely out of the top 25 is the highest rated Pixar film and animated film to make the countdown, Finding Nemo.  Finding Nemo is the 14th movie from the 2000s decade, tying it with the 2010s for the decade with the most movies.  There are many animated films that manage to live in the nostalgic memories of all ages, but few manage to do so as well as Pixar's biggest hit, Finding Nemo.  Finding Nemo is a heartfelt film, full of belly-shaking laughs, and it's one with very little to no flaws in its execution.  While the movie may be one of Pixar's simplest, it also makes it one of Pixar's most endearing.  The movie sends a powerful message of how far a parent is willing to go out of love for their child.

 

 

[The Panda]

My internet stopped working for me today, tack that on with me getting home around 9:30 every day this week.  Tomorrow should be one of my easier days so I will start the top 25 tomorrow and try to get a lot in to make up for not as many the last few days.

[Empire]

Finding Nemo....Meh. Not a big fan. Shouldn't be the highest ranking Pixar film. 

[Tower]

The list so far:

position	film	year
100	The Big Lebowski	1998
99	No Country For Old Men	2007
98	Magnolia	1999
97	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2	2011
96	Captain America: Winters Soldier	2014
95	Ghostbusters	1984
94	Do The Right Thing	1989
93	Her	2013
92	Captain America: Civil War	2016
91	Raging Bull	1980
90	Chinatown	1974
89	The Shining	1980
88	The Wolf of Wall Street	2013
87	North By Northwest	1959
86	Spider-Man 2	2004
85	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	2004
84	Aladdin	1992
83	Saving Private Ryan	1998
82	One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest	1975
81	The Terminator	1984
80	Whiplash	2014
79	Aliens	1986
78	Psycho	1960
77	Heat	1995
76	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989
75	Memento	2000
74	Once Upon a Time in the West	1968
73	Boyhood	2014
72	Dr. Strangelove	1964
71	Guardians of the Galaxy	2014
70	It's a Wonderful Life	1946
69	Rocky	1975
68	Avengers	2012
67	Up	2009
66	There Will Be Blood	2007
65	Blade Runner	1982
64	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975
63	Singin' in the Rain	1952
62	Spirited Away	2001
61	Vertigo	1958
60	Batman Begins	2005
59	Die Hard	1988
58	The Silence Of The Lambs	1991
57	Inglorious Basterds	2009
56	The Usual Suspects	1995
55	Return Of The Jedi	1983
54	The Social Network	2010
53	Gravity	2013
52	Ratatouille	2007
51	The Wizard of Oz	1939
50	Citizen Kane	1941
49	The Truman Show	1998
48	Se7en	1995
47	Beauty and the Beast	1991
46	Fargo	1996
45	Alien	1979
44	The Force Awakens	2015
43	Seven Samurai	1954
42	Toy Story 2	1999
41	Rear Window	1954
40	Inside Out	2015
39	Fight Club	1999
38	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004
37	Toy Story	1995
36	The Lion King	1994
35	Jurassic Park	1993
34	E.T The Extra Terrestrial	1982
33	Groundhog Day	1993
32	The Incredibles	2004
31	Wall-E	2008
30	Toy Story 3	2010
29	Apocalypse Now	1979
28	Titanic	1997
27	Taxi Driver	1976
26	Finding Nemo	2003

Edited May 25, 2016 by Tower

[Daxtreme]

Finding Nemo and Spirited Away are equal in my eyes, and in my opinion the only animated movies I truly feel are perfect as far as the genre can go.

 

Such an enchanting movie.

[The Stingray]

Screw you, Tele. Taxi Driver made it!

(I remember you talking reckless about it)

 

Edited May 25, 2016 by The Stingray

[peludo]

With 25 films left, what can we see from now? I dare to say that we will see the whole LOTR trilogy, the two first Godfathers, TDK, Shawshank Redemption, Casablanca, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Raiders, Pulp Fiction, Jaws, Schindler's List and Goodfellas. Those sum up 15. The other 10 are for free choice, but those 15 are very very probable.

[Jake Gittes]

3 hours ago, The Panda said:

 

User Opinion: "Such an incredible film, and Robert De Niro totally nailed it. Can you believe this was only his second feature film? 

 

 

Uh...

[Infernus]

Woo Hoo! Finding Nemo as the top animated film? Totally deserving.

 

Sad though that there's no animation in the top 25.

[Infernus]

Btw @The Panda, can we get a ranking list of the films that didnt make the list before we get to the top 25?

Edited May 25, 2016 by Infernus

[misafeco]

4 hours ago, La Binoche said:

Not Titanic at #28  I love the movie but 28?? 

It should be higher.

[baumer]

Titanic is probably the most emotional I've ever been watching a work of fiction.  

[James]

Hmm... haven't wtched Taxi Driver but I'm think I should do it if only for that guy's mohawk. I freaking love mohawks.