BOT's Top 100 Movies of All Time - Hindsight is 2020 Edition

[Daxtreme]

I saw Rashomon... didn't like it very much

 

Yojimbo was much better in my opinion

[Cap]

You know, @Plain Old Tele, it started off a joke, but that pre-1967 list is looking more and more like a thing that needs to happen.

[The Panda]

On 7/14/2020 at 8:03 PM, The Panda said:

 

We're over halfway through one hell of a year, there's so many questions and concerns, and one of them is surely, "What really is the definitive best 100 movies ever made?".  Well we're all about to find out! 

 

*Gulp*

 

We received 36 lists from members, lower turnout than in the 2018 edition, but that was also fresh off of Infinity War's release and we currently still in the era of Bloodshot being the reigning Box Office champ, so overall decent turnout given everything else that is going on.  

 

A few factoids about the movies that made the list:

 

- No more than 10 funny book films made the list (potentially less).

 

- No more than 15 cartoons made the list (potentially less).

 

- Some fan favorite directors made the list, and some did not at all.

 

- Not all of the movies that made the list are in the English language.

 

- The list was highly competitive, every list caused quite a bit of changes to the ordering and what made it through.

 

- I'll reveal numbers 250-101 as well over the course of the list, that way we'll be able to show IMDb what's really the top 250 movies.  Hahahaha... *help*

 

- There are some newcomers to the list, some returners, some movies that made past lists and didn't even crack the top 250 here.  

 

- While most movies did need at least 10 or more votes to make it onto the list (and even more the higher up you go), there were a few movies that managed to make it through from a smaller but very passionate base.  One movie made the list with only 4 votes!

 

Here are the first 25 movies that did not make the list for you to chew on while I prepare the first write up!

 

26.   The Silence of the Lambs
27.    Parasite
28.    Pulp Fiction
29.    Inception
30.    Alien
31.    The Wizard of Oz
32.   Aliens
33.    Taxi Driver
34.    The Incredibles
35.   Heat
36.    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
37.   Apocalypse Now
38.   Princess Mononoke
39.    The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
40.    Singin’ in the Rain
41.    Saving Private Ryan
42.    Toy Story
43.    Forrest Gump
44.    Pan’s Labyrinth
45.    The Social Network
46.    The Truman Show
47.    Seven Samurai
48.    Rear Window
49.   Psycho
50.   The Shining

51.    Once Upon a Time in the West
52.    Vertigo
53.    Wall-E
54.    Beauty and the Beast (1991)
55.    2001: A Space Odyssey
56.    City of God
57.    Toy Story 2
58.    Memento
59.    Citizen Kane
60.    The Lion King (1994)
61.    Ratatouille
62.   Finding Nemo
63.   A Clockwork Orange
64.    The Thing
65.    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
66.    Rocky
67.    Inglourious Basterds
68.    Mulholland Drive
69.    Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
70.    Monty Python and the Holy Grail
71.    It’s a Wonderful Life
72.    Before Sunrise
73.   Spider-Man 2
74.    North by Northwest
75.    Joker Avengers: Endgame
76.    Aladdin (1992)
77.   Captain America: The Winter Soldier
78.   The Apartment
79.   The Terminator
80.   Die Hard
81.    Unforgiven
82.    Whiplash
83.    Gravity
84.    Toy Story 3
85.   Boyhood
86.    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
87.    The Wolf of Wall Street
88.   Fight Club
89.    Children of Men
90.    Predator
91.    The Bridge on the River Kwai
92.    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
93.   Avengers: Infinity War
94.    Coco
95.    In the Mood For Love
96.    My Neighbor Totoro
97.   Blazing Saddles
98.    Ran
99.   Star Wars: The Last Jedi
100.   Before Sunset
 

116.    The Usual Suspects
117.    Rashomon
118.    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
119.    Pinocchio
120.    Silence
121.    Grave of the Fireflies
122.    Raging Bull
123.    Bambi
124.    Star Wars: The Force Awakens
125.    Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
126.    Amadeus
127.    All About Eve
128.    Se7en
129.    Get Out
130.    Arrival
131.    Interstellar
132.    Halloween (1978)
133.    Guardians of the Galaxy
134.    Bicycle Thieves
135.   The Grapes of Wrath
136.    Sunset Boulevard
137.    District 9
138.    Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
139.    The Great Escape
140.   La La Land

141.    Some Like it Hot
142.    Eyes Wide Shut
143.    Mary Poppins
144.    Ghostbusters
145.   Apollo 13

146.    The Deer Hunter
147.    Life of Pi
148.    Nashville
149.    Oldboy (2003)
150.   The Handmaiden

151.    Call Me By Your Name
152.    The Bourne Ultimatum
153.    Come and See
154.    Days of Heaven
155.    The Sound of Music
156.    Batman Begins
157.    Lady Bird
158.    Return of the Jedi
159.    The Avengers (2012)
160.    The Searchers
161.    Reservoir Dogs
162.    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
163.    Office Space
164.    Akira
165.    The Intouchables
166.    Django Unchained
167.    The Jungle Book (1967)
168.    Good Will Hunting
169.    A Separation
170.    The Iron Giant
171.    The Best Years of Our Lives
172.    Cinema Paradiso
173.    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
174.    Creed
175.    Life of Brian

176.    The Third Man
177.    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
178.    Ben-Hur (1950)
179.    Shrek 2
180.    Young Frankenstein
181.    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
182.    Black Panther
183.    Arsenic and the Old Lace
184.    The Elephant Man
185.    The Raid (2011)
186.    The LEGO Movie
187.    Hot Fuzz
188.    American Beauty
189.    Modern Times
190.    RoboCop (1980)
191.    Gone With the Wind
192.    Zootopia
193.    Captain America: Civil War
194.    Up (2009)
195.    City Lights
196.    Zodiac
197.    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
198.    All the President’s Men
199.    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
200.    No Country for Old Men

201.    Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
202.    Notorious
203.    Margaret
204.    When Harry Met Sally
205.    Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
206.    Ocean’s Eleven
207.    Frozen (2011)
208.    To Kill a Mockingbird
209.    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
210.    1917
211.    8 ½
212.    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
213.    Police Story
214.    Black Swan
215.    Fantasia
216.    A Night at the Opera
217.    Paths of Glory
218.    X-Men: Days of Future Past
219.    Planes, Trains and Automobiles
220.    West Side Story
221.    The Conjuring
222.    The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
223.    Malcolm X
224.    Minority Report
225.    Sicario

226.    Casino Royale
227.    Thor: Ragnarok
228.    Back to the Future Part 2
229.    The Young Girls of Rochefort
230.    The Music Man
231.    American Honey
232.    Barry Lyndon
233.    Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
234.    The Maltese Falcon
235.    Andaz Apna Apna
236.    Fiddler on the Roof
237.    (500) Days of Summer
238.    Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
239.    Roma
240.    The 400 Blows
241.    Tropic Thunder
242.    Ida
243.    Iron Man
244.    The Quiet Man
245.    Dangal
246.    The Sting
247.    The Battle of Algiers
248.    Dunkirk
249.    Before Midnight
250.    Once Upon a Time in America
 

Edited the OP to include hyperlinks for films 50-26, and so BOT can clearly see all of the certified classics they excluded in order to include 8 Pixar films for.

 

Still not salty at all that you all snubbed Rashomon, not at all...

 

Edited July 22, 2020 by The Panda

[Eric Duncan]

I was legit nervous CMBYN didn’t show up, but turns out it just missed the top 150. Things are Gucci now

[Plain Old Tele]

@The Panda we all have lousy taste, you’ve got to include yourself in it too.  

Edited July 22, 2020 by Plain Old Tele

[CoolioD1]

haven't seen my #1 show up yet so gotta assume it's top 5.

[Fancyarcher]

22 minutes ago, Cap said:

You know, @Plain Old Tele, it started off a joke, but that pre-1967 list is looking more and more like a thing that needs to happen.

The sad thing about the potential of making that list, is that we probably won't get as much participation as this list. Not enough people on here have seen a huge amount of older movies. 

[Daxtreme]

why not go for pre-1990

Edited July 22, 2020 by Daxtreme

[EarlyDeadlinePredictions]

What funnybooks are left aside from Dark Knight?

[Plain Old Tele]

5 minutes ago, Fancyarcher said:

The sad thing about the potential of making that list, is that we probably won't get as much participation as this list. Not enough people on here have seen a huge amount of older movies. 

That’s a feature, not a bug. 

[Plain Old Tele]

4 minutes ago, Daxtreme said:

why not go for pre-1990

Because the point is to have the cutoff be the end of the Hayes Code, which signified the beginning of “modern Hollywood”.

[Fancyarcher]

Just now, Plain Old Tele said:

That’s a feature, not a bug. 

Oh I know, and that's the great and frustrating thing about cinema. I still haven't seen some of the classics myself and have watched plenty of old trash, so I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else. 

[Plain Old Tele]

Just now, Fancyarcher said:

Oh I know, and that's the great and frustrating thing about cinema. I still haven't seen some of the classics myself and have watched plenty of old trash, so I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else. 

Same.  

[RealLyre]

glad Parasite made it into the list, it's currently my favorite movie of all time but I'm still relatively new to films so it might change in a couple of years or so.

 

 

Edited July 22, 2020 by RealLyre

[Eric Duncan]

41 minutes ago, Cap said:

You know, @Plain Old Tele, it started off a joke, but that pre-1967 list is looking more and more like a thing that needs to happen.

The list will just be 60% Disney, 20% Hitchcock, 10% Welles and then 12 Angry Men and Wizard of Oz and Casablanca and Singing in the Rain will fill out the rest

[baumer]

I would love to do a pre-1970 film list. For a person my age I am horribly out of touch with films pre-1970. I've seen maybe 25% of the really famous films. But there's so many I've just never gotten around to seeing. The only thing I would be afraid of with doing a pre-1970s list is that citizen Kane would be number one and then I would more than likely have to find a noose and do the rest lol

[Ethan Hunt]

4 minutes ago, baumer said:

I would love to do a pre-1970 film list. For a person my age I am horribly out of touch with films pre-1970. I've seen maybe 25% of the really famous films. But there's so many I've just never gotten around to seeing. The only thing I would be afraid of with doing a pre-1970s list is that citizen Kane would be number one and then I would more than likely have to find a noose and do the rest lol

I mean wouldn't 12 Angry Men win that list in its sleep?

 

Also Citizen Kane is a masterpiece! Love it !

Edited July 22, 2020 by Ethan Hunt

[Plain Old Tele]

9 minutes ago, baumer said:

I would love to do a pre-1970 film list. For a person my age I am horribly out of touch with films pre-1970. I've seen maybe 25% of the really famous films. But there's so many I've just never gotten around to seeing. The only thing I would be afraid of with doing a pre-1970s list is that citizen Kane would be number one and then I would more than likely have to find a noose and do the rest lol

KANE might be high but I doubt it would win.

[Plain Old Tele]

6 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

I mean wouldn't 12 Angry Men win that list in its sleep?

I’m thinking of demanding that lists

contain at least 50 movies. 🧐 So maybe it wouldn’t. 

[cannastop]

42 minutes ago, Plain Old Tele said:

Because the point is to have the cutoff be the end of the Hayes Code, which signified the beginning of “modern Hollywood”.

But then there's no list for movies made in 1967, 1968 or 1969.