BOT's Top 100 Movies of All-Time: 2018 Edition - DEADLINE IS TODAY! SEND A LIST!

[Dementeleus]

3 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

(but then how do you decide if Galaxy Quest or Scream or The Lion King are actually "better" when they are totally different movies...)

 

You just go with your gut and make a choice.

 

Then when the next ranking comes around, you can change your mind.  

[IronJimbo]

3 minutes ago, Telehilation said:

 

 

 

 

I could understand you saying Tarkovsky wasn't the best director if he only did it once, but making the best film of all time... not once, but twice though? Solaris and Stalker are simply two a greatest films ever made, what other director (except Jim of course) could pull something like that off. I mean nothing against you if you prefer Nolan or some television gone comic book movie director but I'll stick to directors with vision who progress cinema as an art-form rather than digress it.

[Dementeleus]

2 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

I could understand you saying Tarkovsky wasn't the best director if he only did it once, but making the best film of all time... not once, but twice though? Solaris and Stalker are simply two a greatest films ever made, what other director (except Jim of course) could pull something like that off. I mean nothing against you if you prefer Nolan or some television gone comic book movie director but I'll stick to directors with vision who progress cinema as an art-form rather than digress it.

 

SOLARIS and STALKER are great (I'm a bigger stan for the latter). Also very partial to ANDREI RUBLYEV and IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (admittedly that's a very straightforward movie). I also like MIRROR, but admittedly I should see it again -- I find it amusing that he thought that was his most obvious work. SACRIFICE and NOSTAGLIA are a notch below -- they have some of his greatest sequences but I think they're a little looser than his others. Man, though, the ending of NOSTALGIA is insanely good.

[Ethan Hunt]

I see a disturbing number of lists that do not feature Before Sunrise 

[IronJimbo]

1 minute ago, Telehilation said:

 

SOLARIS and STALKER are great (I'm a bigger stan for the latter). Also very partial to ANDREI RUBLYEV and IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (admittedly that's a very straightforward movie). I also like MIRROR, but admittedly I should see it again -- I find it amusing that he thought that was his most obvious work. SACRIFICE and NOSTAGLIA are a notch below -- they have some of his greatest sequences but I think they're a little looser than his others. Man, though, the ending of NOSTALGIA is insanely good.

Now think about it I've never seen Nostalgia, it was The Mirror that I had watched and didn't realise until too late that there wasn't a plot.

[Avatree]

3 hours ago, MrGamer said:

How serious would people take my list if I put The Room in my Top 50? 

The Room will most likely be in my top 10.  Time to make a FYC campaign?

[Tower]

FYC, a film that isn't usually talked about for these lists, but should be:

[SLAM!]

3 hours ago, MrGamer said:

How serious would people take my list if I put The Room in my Top 50? 

 

Well, The Room is great for a different reason than being great.

 

But I'll be voting for a different 'Room' instead:

 

Edited March 6, 2018 by slambros

[MrGamer]

17 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

I see a disturbing number of lists that do not feature Before Sunrise 

Haven't seen any of the "Before" trilogy. May have to change that before deadline. 

[aabattery]

1 minute ago, MrGamer said:

Haven't seen any of the "Before" trilogy. May have to change that before deadline. 

 

Hopefully your take on Sunset isn't absolute garbage like Ethan's is.

[Ethan Hunt]

5 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

Hopefully your take on Sunset isn't absolute garbage like Ethan's is.

HEY IF THE OTHER TWO MAKE THE LIST YOU CAN THANK MY ASS

[MrGamer]

6 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

Hopefully your take on Sunset isn't absolute garbage like Ethan's is.

So, make sure Sunset makes my list. Got it. 

[Daxtreme]

45 minutes ago, TwoMisfits said:

I will say all of you are so good - I have a hard time ranking more than a few in a "real" order...I'm considering actually doing this ranking, but man, it's hard...it's almost easier for me to make separate categories of films 1st and then intersperse them (but then how do you decide if Galaxy Quest or Scream or The Lion King are actually "better" when they are totally different movies - although on Galaxy Quest - that's another amazing comedy that holds up and might be better than all the source material it's based on:)...

 

[TwoMisfits]

1 hour ago, Telehilation said:

 

You just go with your gut and make a choice.

 

Then when the next ranking comes around, you can change your mind.  

I'd probably change my mind seconds after posting, when I see 10 movies I'd forgotten posted on someone else's list:)...

[tawasal]

I am just gonna post a list here that is in no particular order just to store the movies I am going to need on my top 100 and fill the list as I reach the deadline. 

 

1920s

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1920s

1. The Kid (1921)
2. The Gold Rush (1925)
3. The General (1926)
4. The Circus (1928)

 

1930s

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1930s

1. Modern Times (1936)
2. City Lights (1931)
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
4. The Thin Man (1934)
5. My Man Godfrey (1936)
6. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

 

1940s

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1940s

1. Casablanca (1942)
2. The Great Dictator (1940)
3. Laura (1944)
4. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
5. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
6. The Lady Eve (1941)

 

1950s

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1950s

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
3. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
4. Ikiru (1952)
5. Roman Holiday (1953)
6. La Strada (1954)
7. High Noon (1952)
8. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
9. Harvey (1950)
10. The Quiet Man (1952)
11. Imitation of Life (1959)
12. Sabrina (1954)

 

1960s

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1960s

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
3. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
4. The Apartment (1960)
5. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
6. The Sound of Music (1965)
7. Fistful of Dollars (1964)
8. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
9. Spartacus (1960)
10. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

 

1970s

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1970s

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
3. Alien (1979)
4. The Sting (1973)
5. Rocky (1976)
6. The Last Picture Show (1971)
7. Paper Moon (1973)
8. Jaws (1975)
9. Papillon (1973)
10. Being There (1979)
11. Harold and Maude (1971)
12. Animal House (1978)
13. American Graffiti (1973)

 

1980s

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1980s

1. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. The Princess Bride (1987)
3. Stand by Me (1986)
4. A Christmas Story (1983)
5. The Breakfast Club (1985)
6. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
7. Say Anything... (1989)
8. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
9. Heathers (1988)
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
11. Aliens (1986)
12. Blade Runner (1982)

 

1990s

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1990s

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. Léon: The Professional (1994)
3. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
4. The Usual Suspects (1995)
5. The Green Mile (1999)
6. Good Will Hunting (1997)
7. L.A. Confidential (1997)
8. Fargo (1996)
9. The Truman Show (1998)
10. True Romance (1993)
11. Pump Up the Volume (1990

 

2000s

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2000s

1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Gladiator (2000)
3. The Lives of Others (2006)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004)
5. Amélie (2001)
6. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
7. V for Vendetta (2005)
8. No Country for Old Men (2007)
9. Into the Wild (2007)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers(2002)

 

2010s

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2010s

1. The Intouchables (2011)
2. Room (2015)
3. Incendies (2010)
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
5. Her (2013)
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
7. Short Term 12 (2013) 
8. Life of Pi (2012)   

 

 

Edited March 6, 2018 by tawasal

[Ethan Hunt]

1 hour ago, slambros said:

 

 

Yeah please no one vote for this movie.

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Yeah please no one vote for this movie.

It may potentially be on mine towards the bottom  

[Ethan Hunt]

Just now, WrathOfHan said:

It may potentially be on mine towards the bottom  

Gross

[tawasal]

2 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Yeah please no one vote for this movie.

Where is your taste for good movies? 

[Ethan Hunt]

4 minutes ago, tawasal said:

Where is your taste for good movies? 

 

Right here:

8 hours ago, Ethan Hunt said:

A tentative look at my top 10

 

1. Before Sunrise

2. Rocky

3. The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless MInd

4. American Honey

5. Raiders of the Lost Ark

6. Transformers

7. Finding Nemo

8. Before Midnight

9. Citizen Kane

10. The Matrix