re: An Experiment - Voting - 100 Movies We Agree Don't Suck

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This is difficult, but here are my top 20 in no particular order, just as they come to my head...

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Do you want me to use as is? Or do you want more time with them?

yeah unfortunately judging from the responses so far, the list is going be skewed. to put it nicely.

must sees. Viridiana, Nazarin, of course Un Chien Adalou, Diary of a Chambermaid, and the Obscure Object of Desire.

1. Gone With The Wind
2. Little Darlings
3. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
4. Empire Strikes Back
5. The Perfect Storm
6. Mr. And Mrs. Smith
7. Dante's Peak
8. Crash
9. Steel Magnolias
10. Schindler's List
11. The Hunt For Red October
12. The Mexican
13. Patriot Games
14. Thelma and Louise
15. The Longest Day
16. Troy
17. Air Force One
18. Saving Private Ryan
19. Fried Green Tomatos
20. Some Kind of Wonderful

All James Bond movies

1. Star Wars (Original trilogy)
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
5. The Godfather Parts I & II
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Casablanca
8. Forrest Gump
9. Back to the Future
10. Seven
11. The Silence of the Lambs
12. Good Will Hunting
13. Glengarry Glen Ross
14. A Few Good Men
15. Office Space
16. Stand By Me
17. The Usual Suspects
18. Batman Begins
19. L.A. Confidential
20. The Prestige

Here goes...

1. The Godfather
2. North by Northwest
3. Chinatown
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Dr. Strangelove
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Notorious
8. Unforgiven
9. Apocalypse Now
10. After Hours
11. Blade Runner
12. Raising Arizona
13. Caddyshack
14. The Sting
15. The Departed
16. Brazil
17. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
18. This is Spinal Tap
19. Casablanca
20. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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TigreDeAustin

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Do you mean the 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Smith right?

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18. Red, White, Blue

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Woo hoo! Are you only the second guy to list Trois coleurs? I smell a groundswell of support...

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How is it going so far?

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24 Ballots

Top 10 stacked with obviously popular films, but not a terrible mix.

98 films have multiple votes, so only 2 spots left.

Spielberg in the lead now with 5 films in the 100, Hitchcock sits at 4, with Coens, Tarantino, Scorcese.

1994 and 1999 seem to be the most well-liked years of film.

My qualms:

Not enough foreign movies in the 100. Only 1 Bergman and Kurosawa, no Fellini, no Tarkovsky. But that kind of stuff to be expected.

Snow White is absent as well, surprisingly.

Some movies missing that I figured would be shoe ins - namely Gladiator (even though I hate it, I know tons love it), Life is Beautiful, and Titanic.

<----------Sad that City Lights is quickly fading....no one else must have seen that movie. Maybe I'll make a thread about its awesomeness, plenty of places to watch it online.

1. Cuckoo's nest
2. The Exorcist
3. Godfather I&II
4. Boogie Nights
5. Usual Suspects
6. Dr. Strangelove
7. Caddy Shack
8. Good Fellas
9. Night& DAWN of dead
10. Full Metal Jacket
11. The Jerk
12. Texas Chainsaw (original)
13. Casino
14. Platoon
15. The Silence of the Lambs
16. War of the worlds (1953)
17. Being There
18. Seven
19. Tombstone
20. Colossus: The Forbin Project