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

1. The Godfather
2. The Sound of Music
3. Its A Wonderful Life
4. Jaws
5. Empire Strikes back
6. Ben Hur
7. Breakfast at Tiffanys
8. Braveheart
9. Shawshank Redemption
10. Alien
11. Vertigo
12. Raiders of the Lost Ark
13. Terms of Endearment
14. Bridge Over River Kwai
15. Rocky
16. Urban Cowboy
17. True Grit
18. Forest Gump
19. A Few Good Men
20. Unforgiven

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Holy cow.

Girl here! :)

These are my favorites, it'd be to hard for me to narrow it to 20:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
The Big Combo (1955)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Blue Max (1966)
Blue Skies (1946)
Body Heat (1981)
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
C'era una volta il West (1968)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
D.O.A. (1950)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)
Garden of Evil (1954)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Goodfellas (1990)
High Noon (1952)
Holiday (1938)
House of Strangers (1949)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
The Hustler (1961)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Killers (1946)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Man Without a Star (1955)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Night and the City (1950)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Out of the Past (1947)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Ride the High Country (1962)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Salaire de la peur, Le (1953)
The Searchers (1956)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Spartacus (1960)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Das (1933)
Thieves' Highway (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Top Hat (1935)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Vertigo (1958)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Aliens (1986)
An American in Paris (1951)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Apocalypto (2006)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Beastmaster (1982)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Big Country (1958)
The Big Heat (1953)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blood Simple. (1984)
Braveheart (1995)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Bullitt (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cape Fear (1962)
Cat People (1942)
Champion (1949)
Charade (1963)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Criss Cross (1949)
Deadly Is the Female (1950)
Detective Story (1951)
Diaboliques, Les (1955)
Die Hard (1988)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
El Cid (1961)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Get Carter (1971)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Guys and Dolls (1955/I)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Harvey (1950)
He Walked by Night (1948)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Hombre (1967)
Hud (1963)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Killing (1956)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Laura (1944)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Man of the West (1958)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Matrix (1999)
Metropolis (1927)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Ninotchka (1939)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Point Break (1991)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Procès, Le (1962)
Pursued (1947)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Ran (1985)
Rashômon (1950)
Repo Man (1984)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Set-Up (1949)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
The Shootist (1976)
Show Boat (1936)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sleuth (1972)
The Spiral Staircase (1945)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Sting (1973)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Swing Time (1936)
The Tall T (1957)
Thief (1981)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vera Cruz (1954)
The Vikings (1958)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
Winchester '73 (1950)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Yellow Sky (1948)

It's going to take me like a week to respond to this thread.

Damn, this is a tough one... top 20, and ranked?!

I'm going to give a slightly younger perspective than most of you, but here goes...

1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Unforgiven
3. Schindler's List
4. Original Star Wars trilogy
5. Casablanca
6. Leon (The Professional)
7. The Usual Suspects
8. Apolcalypse Now
9. This Is Spinal Tap
10. Citizen Kane
11. Braveheart
12. The Outlaw Josey Wales
13. LOTR trilogy
14. Blade Runner
15. Tombstone
16. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
17. The Man With No Name trilogy
18. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
19. No Country For Old Men
20. Good Will Hunting

I'm leavng off some... and surely forgetting a movie or two that moreso deserves a spot, but so it goes.

Freaux,
I edited my movie list. If it's not possible to change it on your list; that's ok. But if you can edit the changes, that would be good:
My Edited Top 20

Here's my twenty.

1) It's a Wonderful Life
2) Vertigo
3) The Ten Commandments (Charlton Heston version)
4) The Wizard of Oz
5) Snow White (First full length cartoon feature)
6) Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7) Lethal Weapon Series
8) Goodfellas
9) Up in Smoke
10) E.T.
11) Ghostbusters
12) Bonnie and Clyde
13) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
14) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
15) Superman 1 and 2 (Christopher Reeves)
16) Dumb and Dumber
17) National Lampoons Vacation Series (esp. the first and Christmas)
18) Gremlins
19) Back to the Future Trilogy
20) The Karate Kid

I may as well put my list in. This was tough

1. Godfather
2. American beauty
3. Excorcist
4. Ken Burn's Jazz
5. Platoon
6. Blade Runner
7. Outlaw Jose wales
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Scarface
10. Monty Python and holy grail
11. American History X
12. Requim for a dream
13. Goodfellas
14. raiders of the lost ark
15. Goonies
16. Drugstore cowboy
17. Full Metal jacket
18. The last Waltz
19. LOTR
20. Caddyshack