I've run plenty of movie contests in the past, but I've never actually made a top list for the board, and I figure I might as well do it now.
Rules: 1. To have your list count, you must list at least 20 films, going up to 100. These should be in order. If they are not ranked, they will receive equal points at a lower rate than the formula I will use for calculation. 2. Of course, one list per person, etc.
My list: 1. Mulholland Dr. Sunset Blvd. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Citizen Kane The Rules of the Game 8 1/2 Spirited Away Seven Samurai Pulp Fiction 10. Persona A Clockwork Orange The 400 Blows Casablanca There Will Be Blood Breathless The Godfather: Part II Hugo Taxi Driver Apocalypse Now 20. The Passion of Joan of Arc Schindler's List City Lights Rashomon The Godfather Waltz with Bashir Goodfellas Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Dr. Strangelove Blade Runner 30. The Seventh Seal Pan's Labyrinth The Silence of the Lambs 2001: A Space Odyssey M Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Trainspotting Brazil Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon North by Northwest 40. Chinatown An Andalusian Dog Psycho Black Swan The Bicycle Thief Raging Bull Some Like It Hot Annie Hall 12 Angry Men Fargo 50. City of God Blue Velvet Double Indemnity No Country for Old Men Cinema Paradiso One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Saving Private Ryan Singin' in the Rain The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Raiders of the Lost Ark 60. The Dark Knight Once Upon a Time in the West Vertigo WALL-E The Great Dictator Fantastic Mr. Fox Unforgiven La dolce vita Brokeback Mountain Solyaris 70. Metropolis Grave of the Fireflies Memento The Third Man The Lives of Others American Beauty Duck Soup Fantasia The Social Network All About Eve 80. Videodrome Paths of Glory The Shawshank Redemption The Pianist Eraserhead Star Wars The Hurt Locker Tokyo Story Downfall The Usual Suspects 90. The Exterminating Angel Reservoir Dogs Sunrise The Last Picture Show Alien In the Mood for Love The Shining Oldboy Rear Window The Gold Rush 100. The Wages of Fear
1. Amadeus Requiem for a Dream The Silence of the Lambs American Beauty Eyes Wide Shut The Green Mile The Fountain The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Barton Fink 10. Ed Wood Dead Poets Society The Player There Will Be Blood The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Gettysburg (1993) Edward Scissorhands The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Ordinary People Young Frankenstein 20. Alien Fight Club Vertigo All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Pinocchio (1940) In Bruges Psycho The Wrestler It Happened One Night The Meaning of Life 30. The Producers (1968) Big Fish Top Secret! The Elephant Man Midnight in Paris The Little Mermaid Raiders of the Lost Ark Toy Story 3 The Shawshank Redemption Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 40. The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly A Clockwork Orange Misery Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl World's Greatest Dad Grave of the Fireflies Se7en Blade Runner Of Mice and Men (1992) Blue Velvet 50. Heavenly Creatures
1) The Goonies 2) Persona 3) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 4) Garden State 5) Lost in Translation 6) Back to the Future 7) Fight Club 8) Pulp Fiction 9) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 10) My Neighbor Totoro 11) Real Genius 12) Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi 13) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 14) Memories of a Murder 15) Sin City 16) The Shawshank Redemption 17) American History X 18) V For Vendetta 19) American Beauty 20) The Princess Bride 21) Requiem for a Dream 22) Kill Bill Vol. 1 23) Inception 24) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring 25) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 26) Black Swan 27) The Matrix 28) Watchmen 29) City of God 30) The Lion King 31) Memento 32) Seven Samurai 33) Toy Story 34) Goodfellas 35) 2001: A Space Odyssey 36) Schindler’s List 37) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 38) Donnie Darko 39) Terminator 2: Judgment Day 40) Spirited Away 41) The Dark Knight 42) The Godfather 43) The Godfather Part 2 44) Back to the Future Part 3 45) Juno 46) Rushmore 47) Let the Right One In 48) Wall-E 49) The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 50) Back to the Future Part 2 51) Office Space 52) Mulholland Dr. 53) Toy Story 3 54) Kill Bill Vol. 2 55) Hook 56) American Psycho 57) Amelie 58) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 59) Coraline 60) Last of the Mohicans 61) The Breakfast Club 62) Boy A 63) Toy Story 2 64) (500) Days of Summer 65) In Bruges 66) Avatar 67) Vanilla Sky 68) Apocalypse Now 69) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 70) Meet the Parents 71) Psycho 72) Ghost World 73) Oldboy 74) Reservoir Dogs 75) The Seventh Seal 76) Inglourious Basterds 77) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 78) The Social Network 79) The Butterfly Effect 80) It’s a Wonderful Life 81) Full Metal Jacket 82) The Prestige 83) A Bronx Tale 84) The Sandlot 85) Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail 86) The Boondock Saints 87) Kiki’s Delivery Service 88) Once Upon a Time in the West 89) The Fall 90) For a Few Dollars More 91) Million Dollar Baby 92) Fargo 93) Howl’s Moving Castle 94) Edward Scissorhands 95) The Departed 96) The Hidden Fortress 97) Wicker Park 98) Melancholia 99) Spartacus 100) The Green Mile
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Yes. City of God also did. Mulholland Drive has been there for about three years, and Sunset Blvd. for a bit before that, so I think my top is a lot more consistent now.
1) Vertigo 2) Shoot the Piano Player 3) Bicycle Thieves 4) The Godfather 5) Playtime 6) Sherlock, Jr. 7) The Godfather Part II 8) The Gold Rush 9) The Shop Around the Corner 10) 8 1/2
11) The General 12) Duck Soup 13) Modern Times 14) Shane 15) WALL-E 16) The Maltese Falcon 17) Monty Python and the Holy Grail 18) The Devil and Daniel Webster 19) Late Spring 20) 12 Angry Men
21) Singin' in the Rain 22) Double Indemnity 23) Zombieland 24) Our Hospitality 25) The Battleship Potemkin 26) Inception 27) Trouble in Paradise 28) The Navigator 29) The Circus 30) The Dark Knight
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This is what I have so far. Doubtful that I'll finish it, but we'll see:
1. Taken 2. The Lion King 3. Jurassic Park 4. Back to the Future 5. Fight Club 6. Raiders of the Lost Ark 7. Shawshank Redemption 8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 9. Terminator 2 10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 11. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 12. Unknown 13. Tarzan (Disney) 14. Airplane! 15. The African Queen 16. Toy Story 17. Die Hard 18. Back to the Future Part II 19. 12 Angry Men 20. Terminator 21. God Bless America 22. Click 23. Not Another Teen Movie 24. This Is Spinal Tap 25. Inglorious Basterds
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1. The Royal Tenenbaums 2. American History X 3. The Prestige 4. Zoolander 5. There Will Be Blood 6. Catch Me If You Can 7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 8. Reservoir Dogs 9. Home Alone 10. Fantastic Mr. Fox 11. The Lion King 12. L.A. Confidential 13. To Kill a Mockingbird 14. The Incredibles 15. Memento 16. A Clockwork Orange 17. Jaws 18. Gladiator 19. Psycho 20. The Shining 21. Sin City 23. Inception 24. Dumb and Dumber 25. MacGruber 26. Hot Rod 27. Sling Blade 28. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 30. Pulp Fiction 31. Silence of the Lambs 32. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 33. Where the Wild Things Are 34. On the Waterfront 35. Meet the Parents 36. Toy Story 3 37. Boyz n the Hood 38. Being John Malkovich 39. The Sting 40. Hot Fuzz 41. The Departed 42. Moneyball 43. Phone Booth 44. Elf 45. The Quick and the Dead 46. Burn After Reading 47. 3:10 to Yuma 48. Appaloosa 49. Office Space 50. The Princess Bride 51. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 52. Remember the Titans 53. The Triplets of Belleville 54. The Brothers Bloom 55. Raiders of the Lost Ark 56. The Blind Side 57. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl 58. Sex Drive 59. Breaking Away 60. The Dark Knight 61. Hidalgo 62. John Q 63. The Poseidon Adventure
1. Dogville Babel Requiem for a Dream Black Swan Million Dollar Baby Kill BIll vol. 2 Witness for the Prosecution Amores perros Mystic River 10. 21 Grams Seven Pan's Labyrinth Grave of the Fireflies Dancer in the Dark Annie Hall Cinema Paradiso A Clockwork Orange Life is Beautiful Edward Scissorhands 20. City of God Sunset Boulevard The Godfather Repulsion The Nights of Cabiria Psycho 12 Angry Men The Sting Casablanca Anatomy of a Murder 30. Full Metal Jacket Rosemary's Baby REC Mary and Max Beauty and the Beast Zelig Slumdog Millionaire American Beauty Drive Brokeback Mountain 40. Atonement American History X The Shining The Seventh Seal The Silence of the Lambs One, Two, Three Leon The White Ribbon La Pianiste In the Name of the Father 50. L.A. Confidential Persepolis Unforgiven Memento Little Children Changeling Revolutionary Road Bowling for Columbine Juno The Pianist 60. Notes on a Scandal Take Shelter Corpse Bride Collateral Big Fish Sin City Kill Bill vol. 1 Gran Torino Blue Velvet Spirited Away 70. Double Indemnity The Name of the Rose Twelve Monkeys Monty Python and the Holy Grail Love Actually Shame Dr. Strangelove Little Miss Sunshine Mr. Nobody Dogtooth 80. À bout de souffle Leolo The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The Ghost Writer Buried Talk to Her The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) The Wrestler A Separation All About Eve 90. All About My Mother Match Point Intouchables Manhattan Murder Mistery Wall E Watchmen Eden Lake Coraline Up The Life of David Gale 100. The Hurt Locker
Honourable mentions:
Inglorious Basterds Being John Malkovich Sweeney Todd The Mist
I see casanova zelos is a criterion collection fan.
I'll get on this later, but my list is going to be semi arbitrary in order. you'll be happy to know that many of yours are going to get some points on my list.
I noticed breathless on there; have you seen vivre sa vie? it's great!
I don't care that I haven't seen a lot of great films, nor do I care that a lot of the great films I've seen, I haven't liked.
Here comes the most controversial rankings in here. And I'm sticking to them.
The Shawshank Redemption The Avengers Cabin in the Woods Die Hard Back to the Future 12 Angry Men (1957) Groundhog Day The Dark Knight Rocky (10) Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
Serenity Fellowship of the Ring Remember the Titans Blazing Saddles The Princess Bride My Cousin Vinny Legend of the Drunken Master Rear Window Dr. Strangelove (20) Fight Club
The Matrix Big The Breakfast Club Moneyball Office Space The Lion King Aladdin The Blues Brothers The Mighty Ducks (30) Coming to America
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World Star Wars IV: A New Hope Toy Story The Two Towers Chronicle The Wicker Man (1974) Goldeneye Inception Batman Begins (40) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Duck Soup The Departed Tropic Thunder The Shining Scream Rocky IV Prisoner of Azkaban Forrest Gump Kill Bill Vol. 1 (50) Return of the King
American Pie The Karate Kid Smokey & the Bandit The Omen (1976) Iron Man The Sandlot 28 Days Later The Truman Show All the President's Men (60) Apollo 13
Toy Story 3 Rocky II Goldfinger Major League In the Heat of the Night The Usual Suspects There Will Be Blood Memento Taxi Driver (70) The Land Before Time
Airplane! clerks. Ghostbusters The Green Mile One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Evil Dead 2 Apocalypse Now Speed (80) Ghost
The Expendables Fast Five True Grit (2011) Sherlock Holmes Beauty and the Beast Sixteen Candles Pulp Fiction WALL-E Robin Hood: Men in Tights (90) Kung Fu Hustle
Shaun of the Dead The Wizard of Oz Men in Black Not Another Teen Movie Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) Dirty Dancing Top Gun Zombieland John Carter (100) Boondock Saints
Could've waited two hours to put Terminator 2 on there somewhere.
Forgot how good it was. All memories of it were just a bratty kid hanging with Bobby Budnick and teaching Arnold random 80s slang like 'eat me' and 'hasta la vista, baby.' Much better than I remembered.
Any more lists? I have everything so far in an excel file. Right now, I have 93 films at an acceptable level with the formula I'm using, which I measure with the fact that there are 93 movies which have scored more than 30 points, as 30 is what everyone's number 1 film gets. I want every film on this list to be on at least two lists, and it looks like it's working, so good.
1. The Dark Knight 2. Memento 3. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 4. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring 5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 6. Pan's Labyrinth 7. Batman Begins 8. Aladdin 9. Toy Story 10. The Truman Show 11. Drive 12. Toy Story 3 13. Toy Story 2 14. Spider-Man 2 15. The Lion King 16. Casablanca 17. The Incredibles 18. Reservoir Dogs 19. Oldboy 20. Snatch 21. The Wrestler 22. City of God 23. Warrior 24. Up 25. Pulp Fiction 26. Iron Man 27. V for Vendetta 28. Sin City 29. American History X 30. The Shawshank Redemption 31. The Godfather 32. The Godfather II 33. A Clockwork Orange 34. Requiem for a Dream 35. Inception 36. The Shining 37. The Avengers 38. District 9 39. Tropic Thunder 40. Spider-Man 41. Goodfellas 42. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 43. Inglourious Basterds 44. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers 45. Se7en 46. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 47. The Social Network 48. Léon 49. Beauty and the Beast 50. Jurassic Park 51. Fight Club 52. L.A. Confidential 53. The Usual Suspects 54. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 55. Ip Man 56. Ed Wood 57. The Matrix 58. Scarface 59. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 60. Forrest Gump 61. Full Metal Jacket 62. Taxi Driver 63. 3 Idiots 64. 2001: A Space Odyssey 65. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 66. X2 67. Captain America 68. How to Train Your Dragon 69. Hot Fuzz 70. No Country for Old Men 71. Watchmen 72. Ghost World 73. Blade Runner 74. The Silence of the Lambs 75. Desperado
(1) Taxi Driver Forrest Gump Star Wars IV: A New Hope The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Slumdog Millionaire A Clockwork Orange Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King There Will Be Blood (10)Pulp Fiction
Citizen Kane Spirited Away Gran Torino Monty Python and the Holy Grail Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Raiders of the Lost Ark Sunshine Apocalypse Now Fight Club (20)Cool Hand Luke
Gandhi District 9 Schindler's List Kill Bill Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi WALL-E School of Rock The Shawshank Redemption Shaun of the Dead (30)The Artist
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring 127 Hours Glory Road Elf Reservoir Dogs Memento Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back How to Train Your Dragon Groundhog Day (40)V for Vendetta
The Goonies Leon: The Professional The Departed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Spartacus The Prestige Trainspotting To Kill a Mockingbird Goodfellas (50)Toy Story 2
Monty Python's Life of Brian Lawrence of Arabia My Cousin Vinny Back to the Future The Dark Knight Princess Mononoke Finding Nemo 2001: A Space Odyssey The Silence of the Lambs (60)Tropic Thunder
American History X The Last King of Scotland A Fistful of Dollars Good Morning, Vietnam The Pianist The Social Network The Hurt Locker Star Trek Mulan (70)Blazing Saddles
L.A. Confidential Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Saving Private Ryan Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rear Window The Aviator Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Up Inception (80)Good Burger
Shallow Grave Young Frankenstein The Iron Giant Stagecoach Toy Story Kick-Ass Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure October Sky Win Win (90)The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Into the Wild A Separation Superbad Death on the Nile Crash Eagle Eye The Day After Tomorrow The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Taken (100)In the Heat of the Night
1. Pontypool 2. Reservoir Dogs 3. Dracula (1931) 4. Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 5. The Avengers 6. Psycho (1960) 7. The Shining 8. Pulp Fiction 9. The Shawshank Redemption 10. The Dark Knight
11. The Mist 12. 28 Days Later 13. Misery 14. Captain America: Super Soldier 15. Iron Man 16. Scream 17. True Grit (2010) 18. District 9 19. Drive 20. Trick ‘r Treat
21. I Am Legend 22. Child’s Play 23. Spider-Man 2 24. Deliverance 25. Inception 26. Freaks 27. The Punisher (2004) 28. Land of the Dead 29. The Omega Man 30. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
31. Evita 32. Night of the Living Dead 33. Cashback 34. Halloween 35. Limitless 36. Vertigo 37. Spirited Away 38. Memento 39. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 40. Shutter Island
41. 300 42. Goodfellas 43. Resident Evil: Degeneration 44. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 45. Patton 46. The Thing From Another World 47. Nosferatu 48. Jeepers Creepers 49. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) 50. Ed Wood
Yeah, sorry mada, but I'm going to have to make Kill Bill into just Vol. 1. I had to do the same myself for the Lord of the Rings, which is why I only voted for Return of the King.