2016 MWADS Top 20: 3 Years Later

So I was checking back into some old stuff, mostly because I keep a running list of how my likes have changed over time (even in just 3 years) as I refine my own movie collection. One place to go is my old MWADS lists (Sci Fi, 80s, 90s, 70s, etc.), but he most complete is always our Top 100 overall.

So I was looking at 2013, and this was the Top 20:

1. Godfather I & II
2. Seven Samurai
3. Vertigo
4. Goodfellas
5. Casablanca
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. Schindler's List
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9. Star Wars
10. Once Upon a Time in the West
11. Jaws
12. Shawshank Redemption, The
13. Empire Strikes Back, The
14. Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
15. Citizen Kane
16. Silence of the Lambs, The
17. City of God
18. Pan's Labyrinth
19. Cool Hand Luke
20. Departed, The



Not really a bad list. It seems a couple of films might be overrated slightly, The Departed (ok highly...no way that cracks the Top 20 now), Shawshank and Pan's Labyrinth, and the Top 20 is largely sci-fi and comedy free (which is odd), but we have a couple of westerns, some great war pictures, and a bunch of dramas. It's good to see Jaws in the mix though.

Still, I think our approach is always awesome, as we set out to do the first time:

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5 Years ago, we embarked on a small experiment to catalog what we thought were “Movies We Agree Don’t Suck.” We decided it wasn’t a “Best Movies Ever List,” and it wasn’t an “Our Favorite Movies List.” It sat somewhere between that discussion; it was a list that evoked the best of what film had to offer AND the ability of film to entertain. “We have a lot of different tastes and a decent amount of posters, that alone should level out inconsistencies.

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See the original MWADS thread: 2008-Now we're old.