re: Voting Closed- Top 200 MWADS - 2.0

Well this was ridiculously hard. I did not hold back on childhood movies, comedies, or a popcorn flick or two. Like Tombstone for example, could be comsidered one of the worst westerns of all time around here, which I have no problem with, but for me it is incredibly fun, rewatchable, and has memorable characters. As expected for me my list is Hitchcock and western heavy. 41-50 could have all been more Hitchcock and westerns as well. 80's again proved to be my least favorite post 30's genre. I'm surprised how many recent movies made my list, but when it boiled down to pick between a movie like The Searchers or Pans Labyrinth, I went with a modern movie more than I thought I would have. Also I feel like my top five could swap depending on the day of the week. Anywho...


1. Dial M for Murder (1954) Hitchcock
2. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Mulligan
3. Seven Samurai (1954) Kurosawa
4. The Godfather 1 & 2 (1972 & 1974) Copolla
5. Psycho (1960) Hitchcock
6. Gone With the Wind (1939) Fleming
7. Chinatown (1974) Not deserving of a mention
8. The Hidden Fortress (1958) Kurosawa
9. Silence of the Lambs (1991) Demme
10. Blade Runner (1980) Scott
11. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
12. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Leone
12. Citizen Kane (1941) Welles
13. The Sandlot (1993) Evans
14. Sin City (2005) Miller
15. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) Leone
16. No Country for Old Men (2007) Coen Bros.
17. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Wilder
18. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) del Toro
19. Goldfinger (1964) Hamilton
20. Dumb and Dumber (1994) Farrelly
21. The Birds (1963) Hitchcock
22. House of Flying Daggers (2004) Zhang
23. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Eastwood
24. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Ford
25. The Lion King (1994) Allers & Minkoff
26. Back to the Future 1 & 2 (1985 & 1989) Zemekis
27. The Magnificent Seven (1960) Sturges
28. My Darling Clementine (1946) Ford
29. Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2 (2003, 2004) Tarantino
30. The Muppet Movie (1979) Frawley
31. Finding Nemo (2003) Stanton
32. Casablanca (1942) Curtiz
33. Tombstone (1993) Cosmatos
34. Eight Men Out (1988) Sayles
35. The Assasination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Dominik
36. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Hitchcock
37. The Jungle Book (1967) Reitherman
38. The Dark Knight (2008) Nolan
39. Taxi Driver (1976) Scorsese
40. Se7en (1995) Fincher

My list mixes in some comedies that weren't exactly critically acclaimed.

1. The Departed
2. The Godfather Part I/II
3. Walk hard (seriously underrated, absolutely hilarious, and surprisingly great music)
4. Good Will Hunting
5. The Dark Knight
6. The Prestige
7. Enter the Dragon
8. Not another teen movie (still cracks me up all movie long)
9. Titanic
10. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
11. Batman Begins
12. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
13. Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 (just saw these for the first time yesterday and had to edit my list to add them.)
14. The Shawshank Redemption
15. Team America: World Police
16. Black Swan (Mindfrick + Portman/Kunis being hot = underrated)
17. Scarface
18. Borat
19. 28 days later
20. The Lion King
21. Inception
22. The namesake (great heartfelt story w/ Kal Penn aka Kumar being a solid actor)
23. Donnie Darko
24. 310 to Yuma
25. Memento
26. Unbreakable (so extremely underrated)
27. You Can count on me (call me gay, but its an awesome heartfelt movie)
28. Knocked Up
29. Battle Royale (only foreign film... just a badass violent movie with an interesting plot)
30. The Truman Show
31. No Country For Old Men
32. The Illusionist
33. The bourne identity
34. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
35. The Dark Knight Rises
36. 8-Mile (Good story and good music, underrated iyam)
37. The Social Network
38. American Pie
39. Dirty Harry
40. Talladega Nights: The ballad of Ricky Bobby

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We need these movies in actual ranked order. The ballot will not be counted until they are changed.

Thanks!

1. Double Indemnity
2. North by Northwest
3. The Godfather duo
4. Maltese Falcon
5. Schindler's List
6. The Quite man
7. The Bicycle thief
8. The Seven Samurai
9. Dial M for murder
10. Cool hand Luke
11. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
12. One flew over the Cuckoo's nest
13. Dog Day Afternoon
14. Singing in the rain
15. Clockwork Orange
16. 2001 a Space Odyssey
17. Shane
18. Whale Rider
19. Mr Smith gos to Washington
20. The Wizard of Oz
21. Taxi Driver
22. The Big Sleep
23. Psycho
24. The Searchers
25. Snow White and the seven dwarfs
26. Casablanca
27. A Day at the Races ( Marx brothers )
28. No country for old men
29. Rosemary's baby
30. Dirty Harry
31. Die hard
32. The Grapes of wrath
33. Duck Soup
34. The Sixth sense
35. Its a wonderful life
36. Rocky
37. Blood Simple
38. Metropolis
39. Rear Window
40. Enter the Dragon

Took out some of the greatest movies of all-time and added in a few of my favorites in their place. At the end of the day I’d still rather watch Trainspotting than 8 ½ and I’d recommend it first as well. That doesn’t mean that Trainspotting is the superior film; it’s not.

1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2. Solyaris
3. Andrei Rublev
4. North by Northwest
5. The Godfather
6. Chinatown
7. Seven Samurai
8. Rashomon
9. The 400 Blows
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey
11. Lawrence of Arabia
12. Rear Window
13. Apocalypse Now
14. Blue Velvet
15. Taxi Driver
16. Pierrot le Fou
17. Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
18. Brazil
19. Le Cercle Rouge
20. Touch Of Evil
21. Man with a Movie Camera
22. Closely Watched Trains
23. On the Waterfront
24. Duck Soup
25. Stalker
26. In Cold Blood
27. Reservoir Dogs
28. There Will Be Blood
29. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
30. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
31. Akira
32. Glengarry Glen Ross
33. Full Metal Jacket
34. Miller’s Crossing
35. Trainspotting
36. A Trip to the Moon
37. Man Bites Dog
38. Mean Streets
39. Fantastic Mr. Fox
40. Ghost Dog – The Way of the Samurai

So close:
Fantasia, Time Bandits, Kill Bill, Repo Man, Pusher, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, In the Loop, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Conversation, Badlands, Sanjuro, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, The Thing, GoodFellas, Fargo, NCFOM, Raging Bull, The Big Lebowski, Requiem for a Dream

1. Submarine
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Midnight in Paris
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. The Graduate
6. Casino
7. Training Day
8. Swingers
9. Goodfellas
10. Cashback
11. Fight Club
12. (500) Days of Summer
13. Lord of the Rings
14. Moonrise Kingdom
15. Cashback
16. Trainspotting
17. Chinatown
18. Die Hard
19. The Men Who Stare at Goats
20. Annie Hall
21. Pulp Fiction
22. Wedding Crashers
23. Shades of Ray
24. Shawshank Redemption
25. Donnie Darko
26. Sideways
27. Empire Strikes Back
28. Apollo 13
29. Session 9
30. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
31. Jerry Maguire
32. Margin Call
33. The Departed
34. Office Space
35. Inglourious Basterds
36. Vanilla Sky
37. Sleepers
38. Batman Begins
39. Restrepo
40. Inception

What's the deadline? I'll have time early next week, but probably not before.

You could do it without my list, but then I would have to call it MYADS.

1 The Godfather I / II
2 Pulp Fiction
3 On The Waterfront
4 Goodfellas
5 Casablanca
6 Jaws
7 It's A Wonderful Life
8 The Sting
9 A Clockwork Orange
10 Reversal of Fortune
11 12 Angry Men
12 Amedeus
13 All The President's Men
14 Rear Window
15 Citizen Kane
16 Schindler's List
17 Risky Business
18 Path's of Glory
19 A Fish Called Wanda
20 American Graffiti
21 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
22 Raiders of the Lost Ark
23 The Empire Strikes Back
24 Star Wars
25 Quiz Show
26 To Kill A Mockingbird
27 Saturday Night Fever
28 Inglorious Basterds
29 M*A*S*H
30 The Fifth Element
31 Bullets Over Broadway
32 Chinatown
33 Snatch
34 The Manchurian Candiate (1962)
35 Animal House
36 Chasing amy
37 Breaking Away
38 Annie Hall
39 Airplane!
40 A Hard Days Night

Well, here is my list. Hopefully I did this right and didn't frick anything up. I lean heavily towards Sci-fi and anime for the most part so if you would like me to write a summary for either of those two genres, that is what I know the best. I hate making lists.

1. Aliens
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. Children of Men
4. Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance
5. Casablanca
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
8. Blade Runner
9. The Green Mile
10. A Fish Called Wanda
11. Blazing Saddles
12. The Sting
13. Patton
14. Howl's Moving Castle
15. Godfather 1 and 2
16. Ghost in the Shell
17. My Cousin Vinny
18. Caddyshack
19. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
20. Groundhog Day
21. Pulp Fiction
22. Lord of the Rings
23. Dazed and Confused
24. Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone
25. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
26. Saving Private Ryan
27. 13 Assassins
28. Clerks
29. Spirited Away
30. Grave of the Fireflies
31. Monty Python's Life of Brian
32. Unforgiven
33. Almost Famous
34. Good Will Hunting
35. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
36. V for Vendetta
37. Sin City
38. Serenity
39. Princess Mononoke
40. Shaun of the Dead