re: Discussion: Top 200 Movies We Agree Don't Suck - 2.0

I just picked out the movies that stood out to me as having the greatest emotional and intellectual impact. So I picked things that were both subjectively powerful and had objectively good artistic merits. For that reason, I privileged more recent movies that have gotten to me over old favorites (like Ghostbusters, Raiders, Star Wars, etc. I love those movies and think they are great fun, my love for them has more to do with a history of affection than their deep impact). I'm assuming that the older and more experienced I get the more my taste gets honed.

I also tried not to let "influence on movie history" affect my judgment as much as possible. That said, some of the movies are more representative of what I like (sort of similar to Baloo's rule) than anything wholly definitive of that movie in particular.