The Final Countdown: BOT's Top 100 Movies of All-Time - The List is Complete, The Empire is Dead, I Now Go to the Grey Havens

[TwoMisfits]

1 hour ago, RandomCat said:

...so...if I put alladin on my list and not Lion King?

Then, for next time, you'll notice the error of your ways and put them both on (okay, I didn't have Aladdin, but that's b/c I was trying to spread genres and eras, and I couldn't just put every Disney animated from Little Mermaid to Lion King on - I had to be selective, but they were all awesome:)...

[TwoMisfits]

2 minutes ago, Goffe said:

I haven’t seen a 2D Disney Classic in like 15 years or so, and even then I think I had only seen the old princess movies and BatB (sister had them all on vhs lol). Time to time I think in marathoning them all, but then I’m like I’m 23 what I’m really going to get out of it? time to watch them has passed, and it will be forever a black hole on my film dude curriculum most probably.

They are beautiful musicals...if you like live action musicals, you'll enjoy all the 2d Disney classic ones, too...

 

You are literally never too old for them...I think one of their old VHS boxes even said for ages 2-102:)...

[Jake Gittes]

5 minutes ago, Goffe said:

I haven’t seen a 2D Disney Classic in like 15 years or so, and even then I think I had only seen the old princess movies and BatB (sister had them all on vhs lol). Time to time I think in marathoning them all, but then I’m like I’m 23 what I’m really going to get out of it? time to watch them has passed, and it will be forever a black hole on my film dude curriculum most probably.

For the most part they're short + beautiful to look at so already better than a lot of movies. 

[DAR]

Aladdin is my all time favorite animated film.  

[Arlborn]

My list was woefully lacking in animation, my first animation was Finding Nemo at #25. The other ones in it were Wall-E and Up.

 

In fact there are 10 or 11 movies that I already know I have forgotten to include in my list since I sent it. I shall have to fix that next time around.

 

Edited May 18, 2018 by Arlborn

[MrPink]

2 hours ago, captainwondyful said:

The smartest thing Toy Story 3 did was write a story for twenty-somethings.  They aged Andy, so the audience that saw the original when they were Andy's age, now are going off to college with him.  I love that they even use the same voice actor.

 

The Toy Story series had such a traumatic and enduring effect on me.  I saw the first one when I was eight, and I was CONVINCED my toys were real.  My "Woody" was my American Girl doll Samantha.  She went EVERYWHERE with me.  Once, she fell in a lake which caused her hair to become crazy ratty.  At the time, you could send the doll away to the "hospital."  Mom explained to me that it meant it was sent back to the factory and get a new part.  I totally refused, because in the back of my mind, I still subconsciously thought of Toy Story.  To this day, Samantha has never been in storage because of Toy Story 2.  I'm well past eight now; and right now, she's still displayed on my home office bookshelf.

 

Phenomenal movie.

 

Aladdin is solid, too.  I'm still holding out hope for my fave of faves, though.

 

Oh god I know so many of these feelings.

[dxmatrixdt]

I did a keyword search for 'The Prestige' through the other lists and it did not come up.  It showed up at #181 this year and I'm guessing it needed higher top half (*top 50) placement.  Not sure if Dunkirk was on any of the old lists as I did not run a search on that title.  and The Prestige ranks at #49 on IMDB

Edited May 18, 2018 by Thematrixfilm

[Spidey Freak]

Still think Disney is being overtly greedy by releasing Aladdin and The Lion King live action remakes in the same summer just months apart, but oh well, BP and IW were both BO sensations despite being apart for roughly the same amount of time as Al and TLK next year.

 

P.S. I'm the sole Top 5 vote for Aladdin (I put it at #4)  

[The Panda]

 

Number 42

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Paramount Pictures, Directed by Steven Spielberg (68 Points, 21 Votes)

 

"He chose... poorly."

 

Top 10 Placements: 1

Top 25 Placements: 5

Previous Rankings: 2016 (76, +34), 2014 (77, +35), 2013 (86, +44), 2012 (78, +36)

Awards Count: Won 1 Oscar

Tomatometer: 88% (7.9 Avg Rating)

Box Office: 197.2m (452.7m Adjusted)

Synopsis: When Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. must follow in his father's footsteps to stop the Nazis from getting their hands on the Holy Grail first.

Critic Opinion: "If you had to invent a screen superhero, a middle-aged, bespectacled archaeologist in a trilby would not be the sort of chap who instantly sprang to mind. Other mild-mannered men find it necessary to nip into a telephone kiosk and change into a cape and swimsuit, or don rippling latex muscles in the Batcave, before they can be heroes; but Dr Indiana Jones just leaves his university study via the window to start a new adventure. And his name is not really Indiana – it’s plain Henry, and his Dad calls him Junior.

 

What director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas have created with the Jones character is an ordinary old-fashioned guy. In the age of Bond gadgetry, Rambotics and spectacular sci-fi hardware (which Lucas patented in the Star Wars series), Spielberg and Lucas, the giants of American commercial cinema, have returned to an essentially British concept – the inspired amateur." - Victoria Mather

User Opinion: "Amazing movie. Everybody involved is at the top of their games here. It has great performances by Ford and Connery. Their chemistry is fabulous. The action scenes are outstanding. Spielberg just came up with a fantastic movie that is  very close to Raiders in quality. 

 

It is immensely rewatchable. Must have watched it over 100 times." - @jb007

 

"Honestly, this is my favorite of the Indy films. The puzzles, the locations, the action, the quotes, and Sean Connery make this a really fun movie and its aged pretty well." - @Master Scottb

Commentary: Indiana Jones and Steven Spielberg swing onto the list, and this time much further up than it ever had before.  The Last Crusade is the third installment of the Indiana Jones series, and there are quite a few who view this one as the greatest of the bunch.  The film is an excellent time, from the impeccably crafted action sequences that give you full scope of everything going on in each shot, to Williams' great score and the iconic performance as Indy by Harrison Ford.  The Last Crusade boasts a fun father-son dynamic, and some iconic sequences to go with the adventure.  When it comes to the adventure genre, there's nothing more iconic than Indiana Jones.  The Last Crusade is seen on 34% of the lists that were submitted, which is the most of any movie we've looked at so far.

Decade Count: 10s (12), 90s (11), '00s (9), 80s (9), 70s (6), 60s (5), 50s (4), 40s (2), 30s (1)

Tomatometer Count: Over 90% (48), 80%-90% (11)

Adjusted Box Office Count: 1b+ (1), 900m (2), 800m (1), 600m (1), 500m (1), 400m (7), 300m (3), 200m (8), 100m (13), Under 100m (20)

Director Count: Alfred Hitchcock (3), James Cameron (2), Damien Chazelle (2), Stanley Kubrick (2), Richard Linklater (2), John McTiernan (2), Martin Scorsese (2), Lee Unkrich (2), J.J. Abrams (1), Paul Thomas Anderson (1), John Avildsen (1), Ash Brannon (1), Frank Capra (1), Ron Clements (1), Joel and Ethan Coen (1), Francis Ford Copolla (1), Alfonso Cuaron (1), Stanley Donen (1), Clint Eastwood (1), David Fincher (1), Victor Fleming (1), Milos Forman (1), Terry Gillam (1), Rian Johnson (1), Terry Jones (1), Gene Kelly (1), Akira Kurosawa (1), John Lasseter (1), David Lean (1), Ang Lee (1), Spike Lee (1), Sergio Leone (1), Katia Lund (1), James Mangold (1), Michael Mann (1), Fernando Meirelles (1), John Musker (1), Christopher Nolan (1), Jordan Peele (1), Roman Polanski (1), Harold Ramis (1), Rob Reiner (1), Russo Brothers (1), Gus van Sant (1), Ridley Scott (1), Steven Spielberg (1) Bryan Singer (1), Andrew Stanton (1), Isao Takahata (1), Quentin Tarantino (1), Guillermo Del Torro (1), King Vidor (1), Orson Welles (1), Peter Weir (1), Robert Wise (1), David Yates (1)

Franchise Count: Best Picture Winner (6), Pixar (3), Star Wars (2), James Cameron (2), Marvel (2), Toy Story (2) 'Before' (1), Blade Runner (1), Monty Python (1), Studio Ghibli (1), Alien and Predator (1), X-Men (1), MCU (1), Captain America (1), Terminator (1), Die Hard (1), Harry Potter (1), Rocky (1), Oz (1), WDAS (1), Indiana Jones (1), Steven Spielberg (1)

Genre Count: Drama (19), Adventure (17), Thriller (15), VFX Driven (15), Sci-Fi (13), Fantasy (13), Comedy (11), Action (11), Epic (10), Novel Adaption (9), Crime/Noir (9), Romance (9), Family/Children (9), Period Piece (8), Indie (7), Sequel (7), War (6), Tragedy (6), Horror (6), Musical (5), Cult Classic (5), Animation (5), Western (4), Foreign Language (4), Christmas (3), Melodrama (3), Spy/Detective (3), Superhero (2), Comic Book (2), Bio-Pic (2), Satire (2), Remake (2), Romantic Comedy (2), Sports (1)

 

 

 

 

[The Panda]

We'll end tonight's films with a movie I was not expecting to show up, but am pleasantly surprised that it did (and got very high as well)!

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, Critically Acclaimed Panda said:

We'll end tonight's films with a movie I was not expecting to show up, but am pleasantly surprised that it did (and got very high as well)!

Please be lebowski please be lebowski please be lebowski

[The Panda]

 

Number 41

Mononoke-hime (1997)

Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki (69 Points, 15 Votes)

 

"Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living."

 

Number 1 Placements: 1

Top 10 Placements: 3

Top 25 Placements: 7

Previous Rankings: 2016 (Unranked), 2014 (Unranked), 2013 (Unranked), 2012 (Unranked)

Awards Count: 1 Annie Nomination

Tomatometer: 92% (8.0 Avg Rating)

Box Office: 2.4m (4.3m Adjusted)

Synopsis: On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

Critic Opinion: "I go to the movies for many reasons. Here is one of them. I want to see wondrous sights not available in the real world, in stories where myth and dreams are set free to play. Animation opens that possibility, because it is freed from gravity and the chains of the possible. Realistic films show the physical world; animation shows its essence.

Animated films are not copies of "real movies," are not shadows of reality, but create a new existence in their own right. True, a lot of animation is insipid, and insulting even to the children it is made for. But great animation can make the mind sing.  

 

Hayao Miyazaki is a great animator, and his "Princess Mononoke" is a great film. Do not allow conventional thoughts about animation to prevent you from seeing it. It tells an epic story set in medieval Japan, at the dawn of the Iron Age, when some men still lived in harmony with nature and others were trying to tame and defeat it. It is not a simplistic tale of good and evil, but the story of how humans, forest animals and nature gods all fight for their share of the new emerging order. It is one of the most visually inventive films I have ever seen." - Roger Ebert

User Opinion: "Holy mother of fuck is this good." - @cookie

 

"The film does a great job showing themes Shinto. The characters are brilliant each character has important characteristic. No character is absolute good or evil in the film. The score is great and beautiful animation." - @Dexter

Commentary: Studio Ghibli makes its way onto our list again with another first timer for one of these countdowns, as well as the first Miyazaki film to make it onto the list.  Princess Mononoke is an animated fantasy epic, it's a film that displays a classic sense of heroism, and one that is not afraid to paint shades of grey in varying aspects.  There's some elements of naturalism vs industrialism, and how hatred can drive much of the violence and evil in the world.  The journey that's painted manages to go beyond what you'd expect to be possible in an animation.  The film truly transports you to a vivid new world, and you can see the heart that went into the hand painted animation.  The score is also gorgeous, with many flowing themes that have left their slight impact into popular culture.  Princess Mononoke had plenty of passion votes, as it managed a mean score of 4.6, indicating each person who voted for it on average placed it around their top 25.

Decade Count: 10s (12), 90s (12), '00s (9), 80s (9), 70s (6), 60s (5), 50s (4), 40s (2), 30s (1)

Tomatometer Count: Over 90% (49), 80%-90% (11)

Adjusted Box Office Count: 1b+ (1), 900m (2), 800m (1), 600m (1), 500m (1), 400m (7), 300m (3), 200m (8), 100m (13), Under 100m (21)

Director Count: Alfred Hitchcock (3), James Cameron (2), Damien Chazelle (2), Stanley Kubrick (2), Richard Linklater (2), John McTiernan (2), Martin Scorsese (2), Lee Unkrich (2), J.J. Abrams (1), Paul Thomas Anderson (1), John Avildsen (1), Ash Brannon (1), Frank Capra (1), Ron Clements (1), Joel and Ethan Coen (1), Francis Ford Copolla (1), Alfonso Cuaron (1), Stanley Donen (1), Clint Eastwood (1), David Fincher (1), Victor Fleming (1), Milos Forman (1), Terry Gillam (1), Rian Johnson (1), Terry Jones (1), Gene Kelly (1), Akira Kurosawa (1), John Lasseter (1), David Lean (1), Ang Lee (1), Spike Lee (1), Sergio Leone (1), Katia Lund (1), James Mangold (1), Michael Mann (1), Fernando Meirelles (1), Hayao Miyazaki (1), John Musker (1), Christopher Nolan (1), Jordan Peele (1), Roman Polanski (1), Harold Ramis (1), Rob Reiner (1), Russo Brothers (1), Gus van Sant (1), Ridley Scott (1), Steven Spielberg (1) Bryan Singer (1), Andrew Stanton (1), Isao Takahata (1), Quentin Tarantino (1), Guillermo Del Torro (1), King Vidor (1), Orson Welles (1), Peter Weir (1), Robert Wise (1), David Yates (1)

Franchise Count: Best Picture Winner (6), Pixar (3), Star Wars (2), James Cameron (2), Marvel (2), Toy Story (2), Studio Ghibli (2), 'Before' (1), Blade Runner (1), Monty Python (1), Alien and Predator (1), X-Men (1), MCU (1), Captain America (1), Terminator (1), Die Hard (1), Harry Potter (1), Rocky (1), Oz (1), WDAS (1), Indiana Jones (1), Steven Spielberg (1)

Genre Count: Drama (19), Adventure (18), Thriller (15), VFX Driven (15), Fantasy (14), Sci-Fi (13), Comedy (11), Action (11), Epic (11), Romance (10), Novel Adaption (9), Crime/Noir (9), Family/Children (9), Period Piece (8), Indie (8), Sequel (7), War (7), Tragedy (6), Horror (6), Animation (6), Musical (5), Cult Classic (5), Western (4), Foreign Language (5), Christmas (3), Melodrama (3), Spy/Detective (3), Superhero (2), Comic Book (2), Bio-Pic (2), Satire (2), Remake (2), Romantic Comedy (2), Sports (1)

 

 

 

 

[The Panda]

Here's 10 more just misses!

 

166. Edge of Tomorrow

167. Bicycle Thieves

168. Manchester by the Sea

169. Kill Bill Vol 1

170. Hot Fuzz

171. Who Framed Roger Rabbit

172. Deadpool

173. Django Unchained

174. Interstellar

175. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

 

[Daxtreme]

Good choice! Not my favorite ghibli but I'll take whatever shows up 

[The Panda]

As for Princess Mononoke, go to bed listening this, you'll get some epic sleep

 

 

[The Panda]

On 5/12/2018 at 2:53 AM, Critically Acclaimed Panda said:

 

 

Here's the running list with the write up linked to each name!

41.                        Princess Mononoke

42.                        Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

43.                        Aladdin

44.                        Toy Story 3

45.                        Pan's Labyrinth

46.                        Se7en

47.                        Toy Story 2

48.                        The Shining

49.                        The Wizard of Oz

50.                        Vertigo

51.                        Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

52.                        Seven Samurai

53.                        The Usual Suspects

54.                        Rocky

55.                        One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

56.                        Apocalypse Now

57.                        Once Upon a Time in the West

58.                        Groundhog Day

59.                        Whiplash

60.                        2001: A Space Odyssey

61.                        Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

62.                        Wall-E

63.                        Taxi Driver

64.                        Rear Window

65.                        Star Wars: The Force Awakens

66.                        The Truman Show

67.                        Die Hard

68.                        The Terminator

68.                        The Sound of Music

70.                        Memento

71.                        Get Out

72.                        Fargo

73.                        Psycho

74.                        Inglourious Basterds

75.                        Heat

76.                        Footloose Captain America: The Winter Soldier

77.                        Logan

78.                        La La Land

79.                        Do the Right Thing

80.                        Predator

81.                        The Departed

82.                        It's a Wonderful Life

83.                        Citizen Kane

84.                        Before Sunrise

85.                        The Princess Bride

86.                        Unforgiven

87.                        Lawrence of Arabia

88.                        Avatar

89.                        Blade Runner

90.                        Chinatown

91.                        Good Will Hunting

92.                        Gravity

93.                        Singin' in the Rain

94.                        Monty Python and the Holy Grail

95.                        There Will Be Blood

96.                        Star Wars: The Last Jedi

97.                        City of God

98.                        Boyhood

99.                        Grave of the Fireflies

100.                      Life of Pi

 

166.                      Edge of Tomorrow

167.                      Bicycle Thieves

168.                      Manchester by the Sea

169.                      Kill Bill Vol 1

170.                      Hot Fuzz

171.                      Who Framed Roger Rabbit

172.                      Deadpool

173.                      Django Unchained

174.                      Interstellar

175.                      Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

176.                      Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

177.                      Network

178.                      The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

179.                      Pinocchio

180.                      Spider-Man

181.                      The Prestige

182.                      How to Train Your Dragon

183.                      The Life of Brian

184.                      Gone With the Wind

185.                      Cinema Paradiso

186.                      City Lights

187.                      Modern Times

188.                      Brokeback Mountain

189.                      Apollo 13

190.                      Ex Machina

191.                      The Big Short

192.                      Gone Girl

193.                      The Grapes of Wrath

194.                      X-Men: Days of Future Past

195.                      Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

196.                      Close Encounters of the Third Kind

197.                      The Wolf of Wall Street

198.                      Batman (1989)

199.                      Young Frankenstein

200.                      Reservoir Dogs

201.                      Texas Chainsaw Massacure

202.                      The Dark Knight Rises

203.                      Roman Holiday

204.                      Starship Troopers

205.                      Arsenic and the Old Lace

206.                      Leon: The Professional

207.                      Almost Famous

208.                      JFK

209.                      Mulholland Drive

210.                      The Exorcist

211.                      The Last of the Mohicans

212.                      Stand By Me

213.                      Scarface

214.                      The Searchers

215.                      Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

216.                      (500) Days of Summer

217.                      Tremors

218.                      Big Fish

219.                      Jurassic World

220.                      Ocean’s Eleven

221.                      Office Space

222.                      Duck Soup

223.                      Slumdog Millionare

224.                      Raising Arizona

225.                      The Producers

226.                      American Psycho

227.                      Batman Returns

228.                      The Quiet Man

229.                      Skyfall

230.                      The Hunger Games

231.                      Independence Day

232.                      Zodiac

233.                      Paths of Glory

234.                      Perks of Being a Wallflower

235.                      The Royal Tenenbaums

236.                      The Great Escape

237.                      Wonder Woman

238.                      12 Years a Slave

239.                      Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

240.                      Hunt for the Wilderpeople

241.                      The LEGO Movie

242.                      The Jungle Book (1964)

243.                      Rashomon

244.                      Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

245.                      Das Boot

246.                      Prisoners

247.                      Dredd

248.                      Notorious

249.                      Men in Black

250.                      Kung Fu Panda

 

The updated running countdown!

[The Panda]

There'll be at least one spandex movie tomorrow, uh oh.

 

Almost all of tomorrows movies look very commercially friendly...

[Spidey Freak]

1 hour ago, Critically Acclaimed Panda said:

 

Number 41

Mononoke-hime (1997)

Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki 

 

"Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living."

 

Number 1 Placements: 1

That was me too. 

[Brainbug]

2 hours ago, Critically Acclaimed Panda said:

Here's 10 more just misses!

 

 

169. Kill Bill Vol 1

 

172. Deadpool

 

 

 

Yay for Princess Mononoke, but these two deserved a spot as well. Kill Bill Vol 1 is the definition of a fun film for me, its endlessly rewatchable and my favourite Tarantino. Deadpool i just love.

[Avatree]

whats happened to the Nolan love on this forum? Three films now to miss the top 100.