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[Rorschach]

Shockingly, there is one 1920s film on my list.

[TwoMisfits]

21 minutes ago, DAR said:

I can at least think of four outright comedies that will make my list

Just four??:)  You need to think bigger...I had so many more I wanted on my list!

[Jake Gittes]

2 minutes ago, Rorschach said:

Shockingly, there is one 1920s film on my list.

Watch others! There's more good stuff where that came from!

 

(This really applies to everyone who has no problem placing stuff like Casablanca and 12 Angry Men up top but the rest of their list is like cinema didn't exist before 1972)

[TwoMisfits]

6 minutes ago, Rorschach said:

Shockingly, there is one 1920s film on my list.

Hmmmm, that's a tough one to guess...is it Nosferatu?

[TwoMisfits]

Just now, Jake Gittes said:

Watch others! There's more good stuff where that came from!

 

(This really applies to everyone who has no problem placing stuff like Casablanca and 12 Angry Men up top but the rest of their list is like cinema didn't exist before 1972)

I've watched a lot of it (especially recently), and it's tough for it to stand up in today viewing, just b/c so much has changed.  The one's that seem to stand up best are the dramas, the musicals, and the romantic movies...the one's that relied on a lot of horror, comedy, or effects (especially that last one), just start to suffer...

 

And it's worse as you're younger - I know my kids were laughing watching Frankenstein 1931 and Dracula 1931 (yes, I'm a good mom making them watch the classics of where the current day "monster" visions come from)...and I agree with them in part that the scares and effects just aren't as big now as they would have been to audiences then... so you can appreciate them, but lauding them on a top 100 just isn't likely:)... 

 

 

[Rorschach]

11 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Watch others! There's more good stuff where that came from!

 

(This really applies to everyone who has no problem placing stuff like Casablanca and 12 Angry Men up top but the rest of their list is like cinema didn't exist before 1972)

I counted 6 that are pre-1972. I have seen quite a handful of films in that time period. I've still got quite a few years ahead of me to watch a lot of those films. It's not like I'm completely stuck in the mind frame of only watching stuff that came out after Star Wars.

 

11 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

Hmmmm, that's a tough one to guess...is it Nosferatu?

No, but good guess. That's a pretty great film. The one on my list is a comedy.

Edited March 13, 2018 by Rorschach

[TwoMisfits]

1 minute ago, Rorschach said:

I counted 6 that are pre-1972. I have seen quite a handful of films in that time period. I've still got quite a few years ahead of me to watch a lot of those films. It's not like I'm completely stuck in the mind frame of only watching stuff that came out after Star Wars.

 

No, but good guess. That's a pretty great film. It's a comedy.

Ooohhh, haven't seen too many comedies of that era at all, so you'd probably stump me.  I'd guess something with Charlie Chaplin, like The Circus, but have no confidence in my answer:)...

[Rorschach]

1 minute ago, TwoMisfits said:

Ooohhh, haven't seen too many comedies of that era at all, so you'd probably stump me.  I'd guess something with Charlie Chaplin, like The Circus, but have no confidence in my answer:)...

 

[Jake Gittes]

1 minute ago, TwoMisfits said:

I've watched a lot of it (especially recently), and it's tough for it to stand up in today viewing, just b/c so much has changed.  The one's that seem to stand up best are the dramas, the musicals, and the romantic movies...the one's that relied on a lot of horror, comedy, or effects (especially that last one), just start to suffer...

 

And it's worse as you're younger - I know my kids were laughing watching Frankenstein 1931 and Dracula 1931 (yes, I'm a good mom making them watch the classics of where the current day "monster" visions come from)...and I agree with them in part that the scares and effects just aren't as big now as they would have been to audiences then... so you can appreciate them, but lauding them on a top 100 just isn't likely:)... 

 

 

Not to simplify things too much but I'd say with a lot of stuff if it was done basically right it still works. In terms of comedy, among the '30s and '40s screwballs there are some of the funniest movies ever made. The strengths of Keaton, Chaplin and Lloyd are still on full display. Sherlock Jr. is both a better comedy and a better action movie than 99% of movies that were made in both genres over the next century. You have a point about horror/effects but something that relies more on atmosphere like Vampyr or I Walked with a Zombie remains pretty spooky. 

 

Yes the lack of sound and/or color and the stylized dialogue and acting can and unfortunately will be stumbling blocks but the right thing to do is try and adjust to it, not turn away (that's not directed at you, ofc, just me rambling again), and keep digging if you like the big classics. But of course I'm saying this as the kind of freak who would obsess over The Maltese Falcon at age 7 without even any explicit encouragement from his own mom. 

[Tower]

45 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

(This really applies to everyone who has no problem placing stuff like Casablanca and 12 Angry Men up top but the rest of their list is like cinema didn't exist before 1972)

I'm currently at 12 pre-1972 movies (and Casablanca isn't one of them), up from 3 on my previous list.

Edited March 13, 2018 by Tower

[DAR]

55 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Watch others! There's more good stuff where that came from!

 

(This really applies to everyone who has no problem placing stuff like Casablanca and 12 Angry Men up top but the rest of their list is like cinema didn't exist before 1972)

Just looking at a preliminary list I have at least 35 from 1930-1969 that I’m considering 

[TwoMisfits]

1 hour ago, Jake Gittes said:

Watch others! There's more good stuff where that came from!

 

(This really applies to everyone who has no problem placing stuff like Casablanca and 12 Angry Men up top but the rest of their list is like cinema didn't exist before 1972)

By the way, I am mostly agreeing with your sentiment in my own list - I had 16 films from 1969 or before on my list...which is more than I had from 2010 onward:)...

[IronJimbo]

Just now, TwoMisfits said:

By the way, I am mostly agreeing with your sentiment in my own list - I had 16 films from 1969 or before on my list...which is more than I had from 2010 onward:)...

can i just say.. maybe this is unrelated but... my mum has the worst taste in film, it's real bad.

 

I remember me telling my Dad there was a sequel to blade runner coming out... she said "not that film, it's dire".. I couldn't believe it. It's ok though... she watch anything with spaceships in. She won't watch Titanic because she knows the ending is sad.. she didn't even go and see Avatar when it was in cinema. sorry I had to get that off my chest

[baumer]

2 hours ago, DAR said:

Hey just wait until I slot movies produced by Harvey Weinstein or star Kevin Spacey or Mel Gibson

 

Way ahead of you there Dar. 😊

 

In fact, I'm willing to bet 75% of the lists will have at least one Harvey film on the list.

[Jake Gittes]

11 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

she didn't even go and see Avatar when it was in cinema. sorry I had to get that off my chest

[Dementeleus]

6 minutes ago, baumer said:

 

Way ahead of you there Dar. 😊

 

In fact, I'm willing to bet 75% of the lists will have at least one Harvey film on the list.

 

Challenge accepted.

 

edit: dammit, challenge failed. But only because he held the rights at one point, not that he had anything to do with making them.

Edited March 14, 2018 by Trolltastic Tele

[baumer]

Just now, Trolltastic Tele said:

 

Challenge accepted.

 

I'm quite sure you'll have at least one on your list.

[CoolioD1]

sorry guys i'm not a #cinephile and i don't have any pre-1970 movies on my list. as a matter of fact i just did a quick update on my list and every single film on it is from 2003.

[baumer]

11 minutes ago, Trolltastic Tele said:

 

Challenge accepted.

 

edit: dammit, challenge failed. But only because he held the rights at one point, not that he had anything to do with making them.

 

Yeah but they are still listed as executive producers on all three films.

[SLAM!]

So I'm not gonna be able to put my list in order for a while, but I still wanted to share my full list of 100 in alphabetical order now that I've decided which films to include.

 

1. 12 Years a Slave
2. 300*
3. Aliens
4. Amadeus
5. American Sniper
6. Arrival
7. Avatar
8. Baby Driver
9. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
10. Black Swan*
11. Breathless
12. Casino Royale
13. Children of Men
14. Citizen Kane
15. Contagion
16. Coraline
17. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
18. The Dark Knight
19. The Day After Tomorrow
20. Dead Poets Society
21. Die Hard
22. District 9
23. Do The Right Thing
24. Dredd*
25. Dunkirk
26. The Empire Strikes Back
27. Fight Club
28. Forrest Gump
29. Finding Nemo
30. Get Out
31. Ghost in the Shell**
32. Gladiator*
33. Good Will Hunting
34. The Grand Budapest Hotel
35. Gravity
36. The Grey
37. Hanna
38. His Girl Friday**
39. How To Train Your Dragon
40. The Hurt Locker
41. Inception
42. The Imitation Game
43. The Incredibles
44. The Iron Giant
45. Iron Man*
46. Inside Llewyn Davis
47. Inside Out
48. Jaws*
49. Juno
50. Les Miserables
51. Logan
52. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring*
53. Love & Mercy
54. The Lovely Bones
55. Mad Max: Fury Road
56. Manchester by the Sea
57. Mary Poppins
58. The Matrix
59. Mean Girls
60. Moonrise Kingdom
61. Moneyball
62. Mr. Holland's Opus
63. Napoleon Dynamite
64. National Lampoon's Christmas
Vacation
65. The Nightmare Before Christmas
66. North By Northwest
67. Passion of the Christ
68. Phoenix
69. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
70. The Prince of Egypt
71. Princess Mononoke
72. Psycho
73. Raging Bull**
74. Raiders of the Lost Ark
75. Rattatouille
76. Rocky*
77. Room
78. Run Lola Run
79. The Sandlot
80. Saving Private Ryan*
81. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
82. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
83. Singin' in the Rain**
84. The Sixth Sense*
85. The Social Network*
86. The Sound of Music*
87. Speed
88. Spirited Away
89. Taken
90. Titanic*
91. The Truman Show
92. Up
93. Wall-E
94. War Horse
95. Whiplash
96. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
97. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
98. The Wind Rises
99. The Wizard of Oz
100. Your Name

 

* = I haven't sat down to watch the film in its entirety, but I know for sure that, from what I've seen, the film deserves to be on my list.

** = I haven't see the film yet, but I am definitely going to be watching it before the deadline, mainly because of the film class I am currently in at college. I own the DVD for Ghost in the Shell, and I plan to watch it as soon as I get the chance.

 

I know how I want to order my list: via a playoff-style tourney using 100 pieces of paper in a bucket. And I'm gonna personally make sure I have the best list possible from there. Wish me luck!