This is a list of my personal Top 100 films. They are unconventional. They are in no order. I am not an "art-house" buff. I simply want to be entertained. There are a few "quirky" films that can be explained as holdovers from my childhood days. You also will notice a lot of modern films. This is because that I have not seen an extraordinary amount of the "classics". If I do get around to seeing "The Godfather", "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Bridge Over the River Kwai", then I might put them on here.

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Star Wars Trilogy, with ROTJ my favorite
4. The James Bond Film Series, with Goldfinger my fave
5. The Star Trek Film Series, with Star Trek VI my fave
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7. And Now For Something Completely Different (a theatrical presentation of Python sketches)
8. North By Northwest
9. Spaceballs
10. Clue
11. Amistad
12. Rear Window
13. Gettysburg
14. The Sands of Iwo Jima
15. Beauty and the Beast
16. Fantasia
17. Strangers on a Train
18. The 39 Steps
19. Jurassic Park Series, with the original JP being my fave
20. Batman (1966)
21. The Indiana Jones Series, with Raiders being my fave
22. Young Frankenstein
23. To Be Or Not To Be (the Mel Brooks version, I haven't seen Jack Benny's)
24. Schindler's List
25. Stand and Deliver
26. The Man Who Knew Too Little
27. Andersonville (a TNT movie)
28. Papillon
29. The Lion King
30. Aladdin
31. Dick Tracy (the Warren Beatty film)
32. The Jungle Book
33. The Truman Show
34. As Good As It Gets
35. M*A*S*H--Goodbye, Farewell, Amen (the final episode of the original series, considered a TV movie--the football game from the movie M*A*S*H was great, but the rest of the film was dumb)
36. The Magnificent Ambersons
37. The Lady Vanishes
38. Titanic (what the hey)
39. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
40. The Batman Movie Series (with the original Batman being my fave)
41. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
42. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
43. The King and I
44. Plan 9 From Outer Space
45. The Dirty Harry Film Series (with Dirty Harry being my fave)
46. Tommy Boy
47. Austin Powers (I don't care for the Austin sequences, but the Dr. Evil stuff is DEAD on)
48. The Naked Gun Series (with 2 1/2 my fave)
49. Spy Hard (a guilty pleasure)
50. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
51. The Man Who Knew Too Much (The British version)
52. Rush Hour
53. Jackie Chan's First Strike
54. G.I. Joe: The Movie (the cartoon, :))
55. The Muppet Movie
56. Muppet Treasure Island
57. A Charlie Brown Christmas (not really a movie, but a TV special)
58. The Batman/Superman Movie (or "World's Finest" , a four-parter from the cartoons released as a video)
59. The Rocketeer
60. Muppet Christmas Carol
61. My Fellow Americans
62. The Blues Brothers
63. To Kill a Mockingbird
64. Arsenic and Old Lace
65. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
66. The X-Files: Fight the Future
67. Airplane!
68. The Odd Couple
69. The 2 Grumpy Old Men Films (with Grumpier being my fave)
70. A Garfield Christmas (see Charlie Brown)
71. Men in Black
72. Independence Day
73. The Mask of Zorro
74. Desperado (if only for the first half hour)
75. Number 17 (little-seen Hitchcock)
76. The Princess Bride
77. Old Yeller (really, how many cry at watching this?)
78. A Civil Action
79. Miracle on 34th Street
80. Robin Hood (the Disney version)
81. Fun and Fancy Free (if only for Edgar Bergen, get the video, the TV version stinks)
82. All Through the Night (little-seen Bogart/Lorre flick)
83. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (see Charlie Brown)
84. A Christmas Story
85. The Night of the Generals (a World War II thriller)
86. Three Cases of Murder (little seen Orson Welles movie)
87. A Night at the Opera
88. The Night of the Hunter
89. Cape Fear (the Mitchum version)
90. Murder on the Orient Express
91. The Ghostbusters series (with the original being my fave)
92. Lethal Weapon IV (haven't seen the others)
93. Road to Bali
94. Bean
95. The Home Alone series (wiht Home Alone being my fave)
96. Godzilla vs. Gigan
97. The Plot to Kill Hitler (TV movie)
98. Unforgiven
99. Speedy (with Harold Lloyd)
100. The Ducksters (token short, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig)

At the risk of belaboring the obvious...

HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY LEAVE OUT CASABLANCA!!!!

I have not seen "Casablanca". I know...I am film illiterate. As I said at the top, if there's a great film not on here, I probably haven't seen it, and don't want to presume that's it's great by principle.

Nobody leaves off "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"!

Haven't seen it. (I know...I need to get with the classics...it is interesting how many famous--and dead--characters visit this board)

BTW: Mr. Dobbs, I don't need no stinking badges! And Major Strasser, we are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.

Amistad was a highly underrated film. I'm glad I'm not the only one who liked it.

YOU'RE TEARING ME APART by not including Rebel Without a Cause.

Other Faves:

Fargo
Wings of Desire (miles better than "City of Angels")
E.T.
The Color Purple
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Muriel's Wedding
Heathers (My favorite of Teen-Angst Films, and beats "Jaw Breaker" by miles)
Gone With The Wind
Murder By Death
Mildred Pierce
Roots
Dr. Strangelove

In rating films, I'm not certain how one can compare a film like "Schindler's List" to "Star Wars." While both are outstanding, I would have a hard time watching "Schindler" more than once. "Star Wars," on the other hand, is a film I have seen several times and would enjoy seeing again. For me anyway, a favorite film is one I want to watch and rewatch.

I don't see "The Maltese Falcon" here either.

I don't see "The Maltese Falcon" here either.

Double-posting are you? Just goes to show how incompetent you are, Spade!

These are films that entertained me or kept my interest. All the films that people suggest I have not seen, and many are not "good" films, just films that are funny to watch.

Is this board for everyone to list their favorites? You don't expect me to come up with a list of a HUNDRED do you? I have lots of spare time but not THAT much. How about a top ten list instead?

(BTW, several of these are unsuitable for discussion on these boards beyond mention of the title!)

These aren't really in order except that Pulp Fiction is definitely number one.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Crow
3. The Prophecy
4: Star Trek: First Contact
5. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
6. The Professional
7. The Fifth Element
8. Aliens
9. Alien Resurrection
10. Independence Day

Now those are what I call movies!

Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe: obviously his choices aren't the stuff that your dreams are made of!

dwmarch: you really haven't seen too many (classic) movies, have you?

Punster, I probably would really love "The Big Sleep" and "The Maltese Falcon"...if I see them. I did see the finale to "The Maltese Falcon", and Bogart is really good with that rat-a-tat dialogue (see "All Through the Night" for some good Bogart comedy).

Also, my choices have a few classics, quite a bit modern, and a lot of obscure.

MikeC: that bit about "you haven't..." was aimed at dwmarch.

Yeah, I'm just a modern-day type of guy I guess. The oldest movies I've ever seen would be things like "To Kill A Mockingbird" which certainly was a good movie but not amongst my favorites. I haven't even seen any classics like "Gone With the Wind" or "Casablanca" or anything like that. But that's just me. I love movies but I just love *modern* movies for now.

Suspiciously few westerns. Let's lynch him, boys!

Westerns? Desperado and Unforgiven are westerns, and when I see "Blazing Saddles" this weekend, that will probably replace "Bean". I like the western genre, it's just that I haven't seen too many. "True Grit" was a good one, as was "El Dorado".

Okay okay, let me rephrase - no Westerns older than seven years! Get the noose!

Silverado was also a good western.

"El Dorado" was fine at the beginning, slow at the end. And the horrible Chinese joke ruined the whole film. John Cleese was best at "Fawlty Towers", of which, I just saw the episode with the Germans. "True Grit" probably should replace something on the list, and if I updated the list (which I don't), "Blazing Saddles" will now make the list.

"Heddy Lamarr's footsteps!"
"Hedley!"

"My Name is Nobody" was also a great western (starring Henry Fonda).

Well I'd recommend you check out "Red River", "Rio Bravo", "High Noon", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", "Stagecoach"... the classics!

I liked "Shane", myself, but I just a holodeck charater.

Good idea. I'll have to check one or two of those out (El Dorado is a remake of Rio Bravo, with Robert Mitchum instead of Dean Martin, BTW).

"Godzilla Vs. Gigan"?? "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" is easily the greatest Godzilla movie!

"Godzilla Vs. Gigan"? What, is the monster the Skipper's little buddy?

I don't see my movie here either. You know the one - "Salome".

NATE DREDGES TOP TEN FAVORITE MOVIES:

10.THE MAN WHO SHOOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962)-- John Ford, the greatest of all western directors, directs this, the greatest of all western films.
The story of an eastern educated lawyer (James Stewart), who travels to the wild west, hopping to bring law and order to the untamed frontier. early in the film Stewart is attacked by local outlaw Liberty Valance (played by classic western bad-guy Lee Marvin), and is later rescued by a local rancher (John Wayne). As Stewart tries to rally the cowardly townsfolk against Valance, he and Wayne compete for the affections of a local waitress (Vera Miles). In the end Stewart gets the girl, but this is partly because she and the whole town think that he killed Liberty in a shoot-out. Infact Stewart himself believes this until it is reveled to him that in all the confusion, it was actually John Wayne who had shoot and killed the local bad-man. A fascinationg story of how legends were created in the old west, and some great performances by some of the genres greatest performers, earn Liberty the number ten spot on my list.

9.THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)- Charlie Chaplin brings this brilliant satire on Fascism to life in the greatest performance of his carrer. Chaplin plays due roles, those of Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator and "Fuey" of Tomania, and a simple Jewish barber. The most symbolic scene is the dictators 'globe' scene. This is the best comady of the first half of the Century.

8.PATTON (1970)- George C. Scott's greatest performance. Scott is Patton. Karl Maldan is Omar Bradley.

7.TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)- Harper Lee's classic Novel is adapted to the screen in a superb manner. Gregory Peck is the embodyment of Integraty as Atticus Finch.

6.SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)- The happiest movie ever made.

5.DR.STRANGELOVE OR; HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964)- Only Kubrick could have pulled this off. Peter Sellers is Amazing!

4.SERGENT YORK (1941)- This movie says so much! If you want to know about how I feel on War and Religone? Then see this movie.

3.MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)- If only we could send him to Washington now!

2.LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (LA VITA E BELLA) (1998)- If you don't like this movie, then your a Nazi.

1.ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)- "No man is a failure who has friends"-Frank Capria.

Some other great films are:
Meet John Doe
Inheart the Wind
The Manchurian Candidite
The Great Santini
The Hudsucker Proxy
Dave
Back to the Future
2001: A Space Odyssey
Marty
The 3rd Man
October Sky
Wilson
12 Angrey Men (both the 50's and the 90's versions)
All The Kings Men
Arsenic and Old Lace
City Lights
Road to Bali
Mr.Deeds Goes To Town
Rear Window
Vertigo
Rope
Anatomy of a Murder
The Shootist
Mr.Hobbs Takes a Vaction
Brandagon
The Gold Rush
The Apostile
The Snows of Kilaminjaro
Night Train to Munich
This is the Army
Red Dawn
Planet of the Apes
Room Service
Flight of the Phonixe
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
Chaplin
State of the Union
The TV Marty
Gattica
2010
Truman
The Time Machine
The Stand
Christmas in Conneticut
Winchester 73'
The Scalp-Hunters
The Truman Show
West Side Storie
The Rain maker
FBI Storie
Harvy
Fallout
Seven Days in May
Babe

Nate,

You're right. "Patton" is almost always underrated on those "top 100" lists that the critics seem to put out. Scott (and Malden) did a brilliant job in this film.

A message board I've been visiting asked for submissions of Best 100 lists for compilation. I figured I might as well post mine here. I think it's a pretty fair list (I've tweaked it a tad for the occasion).

1. The Godfather
2. Nosferatu
3. Citizen Kane
4. Casablanca
5. The Third Man
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. Taxi Driver
8. Singin' in the Rain
9. Psycho
10. Apocalypse Now
11. A Hard Day's Night
12. Schindler's List
13. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
14. The Bride of Frankenstein
15. Lawrence of Arabia
16. JFK
17. Dr. Strangelove
18. Raging Bull
19. Duck Soup
20. L.A. Confidential
21. The Manchurian Candidate
22. The Empire Strikes Back
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Annie Hall
25. A Streetcar Named Desire
26. Bonnie and Clyde
27. Touch of Evil
28. Vampyr
29. On the Waterfront
30. In Cold Blood
31. Duck Soup
32. Do the Right Thing
33. Gone with the Wind
34. Double Indemnity
35. All About Eve
36. Pulp Fiction
37. Kiss Me Deadly
38. Sunset Blvd.
39. Strangers on a Train
40. Chariots of Fire
41. All Quiet on the Western Front
42. Raiders of the Lost Ark
43. The Big Sleep
44. It Happened One Night
45. Rashomon
46. Unforgiven
47. Dracula's Daugher
48. The Gold Rush
49. Some Like it Hot
50. King Kong
51. Lone Star
52. Patton
53. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
54. The Conversation
55. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
56. The Sweet Hereafter
57. Day of the Jackal
58. Les Diaboliques
59. Stagecoach
60. The Wizard of Oz
61. M.A.S.H
62. Sleuth
63. Faust
64. Rear Window
65. Notorious
66. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
67. The Right Stuff
68. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
69. The Day the Earth Stood Still
70. Dead Man Walking
71. Beauty and the Beast
72. How Green Was My Valley
73. Forbidden Planet
74. House of Games
75. My Fair Lady
76. Jaws
77. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
78. The Grapes of Wrath
79. Goodfellas
80. The Searchers
81. Ed Wood
82. Night of the Hunter
83. Dog Day Afternoon
84. The African Queen
85. West Side Story
86. All the President's Men
87. Gaslight
88. The Bridge on the River Kwai
89. Goldfinger
90. The Shoot Horses, Don't They?
91. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
92. Exotica
93. Halloween
94. Yellow Submarine
95. To Kill a Mockingbird
96. La Strada
97. The Phantom of the Opera
98. My Darling Clementine
99. Wings of Desire
100. Life is Beautiful

Duck Soup showed up twice, as #s 19 and 31

Oops! When I initially submitted it, I had Day of the Jackal listed twice too. Well, we'll keep it at 19, move everything else up one and add Rebel Without a Cause as #100.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is #66 & # 77 also, that leaves room for Forrest Gump. :=)

Oops again! Sorry, not Gump... I liked it, of course, but 100 is a pretty low number. Hmm, what to add... maybe Laura... 12 Angry Men maybe deserves a presence... High Noon's not on here either... Murder My Sweet... East of Eden... The Invisible Man... Star Wars... The Last Temptation of Christ... Frankenstein... Five Easy Pieces... Close Encounters of the Third Kind... Mean Streets... The Adventures of Robin Hood... Tootsie... Duel... Platoon... The Last Emperor... aaaah, I'll decide later.

The following is the list of Sci-Fi's Top 100 Films according to Sci-Fi Entertainment magazine (April 1999):

1 Star Wars
2 Blade Runner
3 2001: A Space Odyssey
4 The Empire Strikes Back
5 The Day the Earth Stood Still
6 Star Trek II-The Wrath of Khan
7 Aliens
8 Return of the Jedi
9 Alien
10 Forbidden Planet
11 Star Trek: First Contact
12 Raiders of the Lost Ark
13 Dune
14 Planet of the Apes
15 The Abyss
16 Independence Day
17 Star Trek IV-The Voyage Home
18 Terminator 2:Judgement Day
19 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
20 The Terminator
21 The Fifth Element
22 War of the Worlds
23 The X-Files
24 Akira
25 Stargate
26 A Clockwork Orange
27 Starship Troopers
28 Back to the Future
29 Battlestar Galactica
30 Contact
31 Men in Black
32 Brazil
33 Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country
34 Jurassic Park
35 E.T.-The Extraterrestrial
36 The Thing (1982)
37 Doctor Strangelove
38 The Adventure of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
39 Soylent Green
40 Spaceballs
41 The Andromed Strain
42 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
43 12 Monkeys
44 The Time Machine
45 Enemy Mine
46 Silent Running
47 Heavy Metal
48 Metropolis
49 Logan's Run
50 Star Trek-Generations
51 Predator
52 The Thing (1951)
53 Tron
54 The Road Warrior
55 Total Recall
56 The Last Starfighter
57 Superman-The Movie
58 Them!
59 Gattaca
60 Alien Nation
61 Robinson Crusoe on Mars
62 Starman
63 Star Trek-The Motion Picture
64 Frankenstein
65 Young Frankenstein
66 The Omega Man
67 RoboCop
68 Back to the Future Part II
69 The Birds
70 Star Trek III-The Search For Spock
71 Escape from New York
72 Godzilla (1954)
73 Mad Max
74 Fahrenheit 451
75 A Boy and His Dog
76 Time Bandits
77 2010
78 King Kong (1933)
79 The Forbin Project
80 The Bride of Frankenstein
81 Repo Man
82 THX-1138
83 Flash Gordon
84 When Worlds Collide
85 Flight of the Navigator
86 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
87 Time After Time
88 Rollerball
89 The City of Lost Childern
90 The Fly
91 This Island Earth
92 The Philadelphia Experiment
93 Fantastic Voyage
94 The Black Hole
95 Superman II
96 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
97 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
98 Altered States
99 Zardoz
100 They Live

The following is the list of the 100 Greatest Guy Films of All Time according to Maxim magazine (March 1998):

1 Slap Shot
2 The Good, Bad and the Ugly
3 Animal House
4 Terminator/Terminator 2:Judgement Day
5 Die Hard
6 Stripes
7 Caddyshack
8 Goodfellas
9 Dirty Harry
10 The Godfather/Godfather Part II
11 Pulp Fiction
12 The Blues Brothers
13 The Longest Yard
14 Rocky
15 Diner
16 Scarface
17 The Wild Bunch
18 Every Bond Movie except Never Say Never Again
19 The Deer Hunter
20 Swingers
21 Reservoir Dogs
22 Raging Bull
23 Cool Hand Luke
24 The Outlaw Josey Wales
25 Apocalypse Now
26 The French Connection
27 The Great Escape
28 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
29 Fletch
30 Fast Times at Ridgemont High
31 Blade Runner
32 This is Spinal Tap
33 Monthy Python and the Holy Grail
34 Death Wish
35 Mad Max/The Road Warrior
36 The Dirty Dozen
37 Taxi Driver
38 Rio Bravo
39 Fandango
40 Deliverance
41 National Lampoon's Vacation
42 The Magnificent Seven
43 The Maltese Falcon
44 High Plains Drifter
45 Blazing Saddles
46 Platoon
47 First Blood
48 Rollerball
49 Lethal Weapon
50 RoboCop
51 Thief
52 The Right Stuff
53 The Last Waltz
54 Bottle Rocket
55 True Romance
56 Horse Feathers
57 When We Were Kings
58 Kelly's Heroes
59 Mean Streets
60 The Killer
61 The Last Detail
62 Semi-Tough
63 The Hot Rock
64 Down By Law
65 The Sting
66 Patton
67 My Breakfast With Blassie
68 Night Shift
69 The Seven-Ups
70 Ocean's Eleven
71 Back to School
72 Runaway Train
73 The Getaway (1972)
74 Lawrence of Arabia
75 Spartacus
76 Easy Rider
77 Police Story
78 Death Race 2000
79 Enter the Dragon
80 48 Hours
81 Bachelor Party
82 Bad Boys
83 Papillon
84 Risky Business
85 Breaking Away
86 Barbarella
87 Planet of the Apes
88 The Searchers
89 The Bridge on the River Kwai
90 Big Wednesday
91 Clerks
92 Midnight Run
93 Dumb and Dumber
94 Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
95 Highlander
96 Old Yeller
97 Shaft
98 Billy Jack
99 Porky's
100 Sirens

The Magnificent Seven should be rated much higher!

This is the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest films:

1 CITIZEN KANE (1941)
2 CASABLANCA (1942)
3 THE GODFATHER (1972)
4 GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
5 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
6 THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
7 THE GRADUATE (1967)
8 ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
9 SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
10 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
11 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
12 SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
13 THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
14 SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
15 STAR WARS (1977)
16 ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
17 THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
18 PSYCHO (1960)
19 CHINATOWN (1974)
20 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
21 THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
22 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
23 THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
24 RAGING BULL (1980)
25 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
26 DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
27 BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
28 APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
29 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
30 THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
31 ANNIE HALL (1977)
32 THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
33 HIGH NOON (1952)
34 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
35 IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
36 MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
37 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
38 DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
39 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
40 NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
41 WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
42 REAR WINDOW (1954)
43 KING KONG (1933)
44 THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)
45 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
46 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
47 TAXI DRIVER (1976)
48 JAWS (1975)
49 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
50 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
51 THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
52 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
53 AMADEUS (1984)
54 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
55 THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
56 M*A*S*H (1970)
57 THE THIRD MAN (1949)
58 FANTASIA (1940)
59 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
60 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
61 VERTIGO (1958)
62 TOOTSIE (1982)
63 STAGECOACH (1939)
64 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
65 THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
66 NETWORK (1976)
67 THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
68 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
69 SHANE (1953)
70 THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
71 FORREST GUMP (1994)
72 BEN-HUR (1959)
73 WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
74 THE GOLD RUSH (1925)
75 DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
76 CITY LIGHTS (1931)
77 AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
78 ROCKY (1976)
79 THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
80 THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
81 MODERN TIMES (1936)
82 GIANT (1956)
83 PLATOON (1986)
84 FARGO (1996)
85 DUCK SOUP (1933)
86 MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
87 FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
88 EASY RIDER (1969)
89 PATTON (1970)
90 THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)
91 MY FAIR LADY (1964)
92 A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)
93 THE APARTMENT (1960)
94 GOODFELLAS (1990)
95 PULP FICTION (1994)
96 THE SEARCHERS (1956)
97 BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
98 UNFORGIVEN (1992)
99 GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
100 YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)


I plan to look over the three lists I posted and the other Top 100 lists on this board and then post my opinion of the Top 100 films.

The interesting thing is the 36 films that made two or more of the lists. Quite an eclectic list:

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Deer Hunter, The
Doctor Strangelove
E.T.-The Extraterrestrial
Easy Rider
Frankenstein
French Connection, The
Godfather Part II, The
Godfather, The
Goodfellas
King Kong (1933)
Lawrence of Arabia
Mad Max
Maltese Falcon, The
Patton
Planet of the Apes
Platoon
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Road Warrior, The
RoboCop
Rocky
Rollerball
Searchers, The
Star Wars
Taxi Driver
Terminator
Terminator 2:Judgement Day
Wild Bunch, The

Any list where Return of the Jedi is listed over Forbidden Planet can't be trusted anyway.

Murray Leeder, my problem with the Sci-Fi Entertainment list is Independence Day at #16. Personally, I don't think it should be on the list AT ALL (definitely on the list of WORST sci-fi films). How could anyone rank it above Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.-The Extraterrestrial?

Here is my list of the top 100+(plus) films that I have seen. I tried to narrow it down to 100 but I couldn't decide what to drop. This list is in alphabetical order. I thought about ranking them into categories (i.e. science fiction, action, drama, etc.) but decided not to. Just for the record, I think that the top sci-fi films are the Star Wars trilogy (with TESB being the best), 2001:A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and E.T.-The Extraterrestrial. The top two action films are Raiders of the Lost Ark and Die Hard.


1 2001: A Space Odyssey
2 A Clockwork Orange
3 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
4 Airplane!
5 Aladdin
6 Alien
7 Aliens
8 Amadeus
9 American Graffiti
10 And Now For Something Completely Different
11 Animal House
12 Apollo 13
13 Back to the Future
14 Back to the Future Part II
15 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
16 Beauty and the Beast
17 Ben-Hur
18 Billy Jack
19 Blazing Saddles
20 Blues Brothers, The
21 Braveheart
22 Brazil
23 Breakfast Club, The
24 Breaking Away
25 Bull Durham
26 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
27 Caddyshack
28 Chinatown
29 Christmas Story, A
30 Citizen Kane
31 Clear and Present Danger
32 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
33 Color Purple, The
34 Courage Under Fire
35 Crimson Tide
36 Crow, The
37 Cutter's Way
38 Dances with Wolves
39 Day the Earth Stood Still, The
40 Desperado
41 Die Hard
42 Diner
43 Dirty Harry
44 E.T.-The Extraterrestrial
45 Elephant Man
46 Empire Strikes Back, The
47 Every Bond Movie except A View to A Kill
48 Fantasia
49 Fargo
50 Few Good Men, A
51 Forrest Gump
52 Fugitive, The
53 Godfather Part II, The
54 Godfather, The
55 Goodfellas
56 Grease
57 Gregory's Girl
58 Gremlins
59 Hair
60 Halloween
61 Heathers
62 Hoosiers
63 Inside Moves
64 It's A Wonderful Life
65 Jaws
66 JFK
67 Karate Kid, The
68 Lethal Weapon
69 Lethal Weapon 2
70 Lion King, The
71 Mad Max
72 Mask of Zorro, The
73 Mask, The
74 Menace II Society
75 Miracle on 34th Street
76 Mr.Deeds Goes To Town
77 Muppet Movie, The
78 National Lampoon's Vacation
79 Network
80 New Jack City
81 Night Shift
82 Nightmare on Elm Street, A
83 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
84 Out of Sight
85 Planet of the Apes
86 Platoon
87 Princess Bride, The
88 Psycho
89 Pulp Fiction
90 Pump Up the Volume
91 Purple Rain
92 Raiders of the Lost Ark
93 Rain Man
94 Repo Man
95 Return of the Jedi
96 Risky Business
97 Road Warrior, The
98 RoboCop
99 Rocky
100 Saturday Night Fever
101 Schindler's List
102 Scream
103 Silence of the Lambs, The
104 Soul Food
105 Southern Comfort
106 Speed
107 Stand By Me
108 Star Trek (Every even-numbered movie)
109 Star Wars
110 Sting, The
111 Street Fighter-The Animated Movie
112 Terminator
113 Terminator 2:Judgement Day
114 The Stunt Man
115 There's Something About Mary
116 Thief
117 THX-1138
118 Time After Time
119 Tootsie
120 Total Recall
121 True Lies
122 Truman Show, The
123 Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
124 Wizard of Oz, The
125 Young Frankenstein

Add Saving Private Ryan to my list. I just saw it on videotape. Great movie.

Murray Leeder, despite our disagreement over on the MTV Movie Awards board, here are the films we agree on:

1 2001: A Space Odyssey
2 Beauty and the Beast
3 Citizen Kane
4 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5 Day the Earth Stood Still, The
6 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
7 Empire Strikes Back, The
8 Godfather, The
9 Goldfinger
10 Goodfellas
11 Halloween
12 Jaws
13 JFK
14 Platoon
15 Psycho
16 Pulp Fiction
17 Raiders of the Lost Ark
18 Schindler's List
19 Star Wars
20 Stunt Man, The
21 Tootsie
22 Wizard of Oz, The

Not a bad list.

A good list indeed - except for that I don't recall voting for The Stunt Man.

Murray Leeder, you are right. I thought I saw it on your Sunday, May 23nd post. So, strike that one out!

Murray Leeder, if you prefer Gandhi to E.T., do you realize that you left it OFF your Top 100 list?

One word - oops. I should actually assemble a new list pretty soon. I've seen a few new movies I might consider adding, and a few of those have somehow faded in my memory.

Here are my top ten in order.
10:Amadeus
9:12 Angry Men(The Old ONE!!)
8:Blade Runner
7:The Empirer Strikes Back
6:The Wizard of Oz
5:The Phantom Menace
4:Pee Wee's Big Adventure
3:The Garpes of Wrath
2:Bridge on the River Kwai
1:Lawrence of Arabia

I believe Vic Fontaine (the TV show character) likes "The Searchers" more than "Shane".

On my list (the top one), I will see how those films stack up after several months. This is a list of those that I would probably drop now.

1. Stand and Deliver
2. Possibly Aladdin, although I did love the musical numbers
3. Possibly The Magnificent Ambersons
4. Titanic
5. Tommy Boy
6. Probably Spy Hard
7. Probably Rush Hour
8. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, only because the cartoons are better off seen in their full form
9. Possibly G.I. Joe
10. The Muppet Series should have been listed as one entry, with The Muppet Movie my fave
11. The Batman/Superman Movie
12. Possibly The Rocketeer
13. Possibly My Fellow Americans, although I did like it
14. Possibly The Night of the Generals (although the ending rocks)
15. Possibly Three Cases of Murder (although it is really good)
16. Bean
17. The Plot to Kill Hitler
18. Probably Lethal Weapon IV

Actually, this list is futile, as better movies are constantly seen by me. This just reflected what I truly liked at that time period (and what I could remember).

In reference to Entertainment Weekly's Magazine's choice for top 100 sci-fi films. I don't think it should even be called a favs list anyway because Star Wars beats 2001: A Space Odyssey... that is soooooooooo wrong. And Star Trek VI isn't even very high on the list -- to me it's one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. Besides, any magazine that decides what all the top 100 films are are being ridiculous. HELLO TO THE MAGAZINES!!! -- there are 6 billion people on this rotating ball of water (and a sizeable chunk of rock) let them make their own decisions!! (provided they've seen any and all of these sci-fi films).

John A. Lang's picks

Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek II-The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek - First Contact
War of the Worlds (1953)
Star Wars- The Empire Strikes Back
Gone With The Wind
Star Wars- A New Hope
Batman-The Movie
Batman Forever
Mrs. Doubtfire
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Independence Day
Fiddler on the Roof
Star Trek IV- The Voyage Home
Star Trek III- The Search for Spock
The Time Machine (1950's version)
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Star Wars- Return of the Jedi
Superman-The Movie
Superman II

My latest list. Comments are welcome:

1. Nosferatu (1922)
2. The Godfather
3. The Third Man
4. Citizen Kane
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Taxi Driver
7. Psycho
8. Casablanca
9. Singin' in the Rain
10. Apocalypse Now
11. A Hard Day's Night
12. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
13. The Bride of Frakenstein
14. JFK
15. Vampyr
16. Dr. Strangelove
17. Chinatown
18. Duck Soup
19. L.A. Confidential
20. The Manchurian Candidate
21. The Searchers
22. Sunrise
23. King Kong
24. The Passion of Joan of Arc
25. The Seven Samurai
26. Kiss Me Deadly
27. Black Narcissus
28. Once Upon a Time in the West
29. The Day of the Jackal
30. All Quiet on the Western Front
31. A Streetcar Named Desire
32. Touch of Evil
33. Rear Window
34. All About Eve
35. The Gold Rush
36. Bonnie and Clyde
37. Night of the Hunter
38. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
39. Gone with the Wind
40. The 39 Steps
41. Magnolia
42. Double Indemnity
43. Lawrence of Arabia
44. Annie Hall
45. Stagecoach
46. Do the Right Thing
47. The Maltese Falcon
48. Day for Night
49. Les Diaboliques
50. Metropolis
51. Halloween
52. My Darling Clementine
53. The Day the Earih Stood Still
54. Scindler's List
55. Murder, My Sweet
56. The Conversation
57. Strangers on a Train
58. M
59. Rashomon
60. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
61. Woman in the Dunes
62. Dracula's Daughter
63. The Grapes of Wrath
64. Wings of Desire
65. Some Like It Hot
66. Goldfinger
67. In Cold Blood
68. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
69. House of Games
70. Double Indemnity
71. Laura
72. Chariots of Fire
73. La Dolce Vita
74. Pulp Fiction
75. Raging Bull
76. Raiders of the Lost Ark
77. Exotica
78. Sunset Blvd.
79. The Player
80. Forbidden Planet
81. M*A*S*H
82. The Big Sleep
83. The Empire Strikes Back
84. American Graffiti
85. Crimes and Misdemeanors
86. It Happened One Night
87. Ed Wood
88. Meet Me In St. Louis
89. Notorious
90. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
91. It's A Wonderful Life
92. Jaws
93. On the Waterfront
94. Rebel Without a Cause
95. Once Upon a Time in America
96. The Battleship Potemkin
97. Gimme Shelter
98. I Walked With A Zombie
99. Sleuth
100. The Masque of the Red Death

Mike Deeds, in addition to your comments about the Sci-fi list, any magazine that puts the abomination known as Dune on a list of "best" sci-fi films is not to be trusted.

Anyhow, here are my present favorites:


Princess Mononoke
The Star Wars Trilogy (especially Empire and Jedi)
Lawrence of Arabia
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
The Manchurian Candidate
Apocalypse Now
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Castle of Cagliostro
Dark City
The Wizard of Oz
Akira
The Usual Suspects
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Ghost in the Shell
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
It's A Wonderful Life
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Last of the Mohicans
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The rest of Miyazaki's films that I've seen (meaning Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbour Totoro)


I can't think of anymore right now; I've seen way too many films, and yet I still have yet to watch such things as Citizen Kane, Schindler's List, Gone with the Wind, Grave of the Fireflies, among others.

My Favorite movies:
1. Ran (From Akira Kurosawa)
2. Patton
3. Clerks
4. Happy Gilmore
5. Casino
6. Star Trek: First Contact
7. Schindler's List
8. The Matrix
9. True Lies
10. The Patriot
11. Tommy Boy
12. Saving Private Ryan
13. Goodfellas
14. BraveHeart
15. Goldfinger

In no particular order, and including only films that weren't already mentioned above:

Twelve Angry Men (the 1959 Sidney Lumet version, not the crappy Showtime remake)
The Shawshank Redemption (Can't BELIEVE no one else mentioned it.)
Die Hard II
Mr. Holland's Opus
Toy Story
Alladin (Disney's animated version)
The Abyss (specifically, James Cameron's Director's Cut)
The Outsiders
Chasing Amy
Full Metal Jacket (I'm SHOCKED no one else mentioned it.)
Malcolm X (Ditto. I once told Denzel Washington when my company was doing a research screening of The Bone Collector in NJ that he shoulda gotten the Oscar for this movie. He responded jokingly, "Yeah, I should have!")
The Ten Commandments (Tritto.)
Seven
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
The Sixth Sense
The Others
Poltergeist
Alien
Boyz in the Hood
The Legend of Druken Master (and a bunch of other Jackie Chan movies.)
Thirteen Days
The Accused
Requiem for a Dream
Kramer vs. Kramer (These last three are not favorites in that I "like them" or love watching them, but rather were so sincere in the way they were made, and so powerful when I saw them that I might not want to do so again, [but in a way that's a compliment to them.])


My faves which were already mentioned:
the Star Trek II-IV trilogy
Star Trek VI
Star Trek First Contact
The Empire Strikes Back
Contact
Rocky
Rain Man
The Karate Kid
Crimson Tide
Braveheart
Die Hard
Clerks
Clue
The Lion King (though it was ripped off of Kimba the White Lion.)
Amistad
The Color Purple
Back to the Future trilogy
Aliens
True Lies
Terminator 2
The Silence of the Lambs
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Life is Beautiful (La Vita e' Bella) (You said it, Nate. BTW, "e'" means is. "e" means and. Just so you know.
The Indiana Jones triology
The Usual Suspects
As Good as It Gets
Titanic
The Airplane! movies
The Naked Gun movies
Miracle on 34th Street
The first three Lethal Weapon movies (particularly the first two. MikeC, if you liked IV, you might LOVE the first two!)

100 is an arbitrary number that takes too long to make but does not cover too many films. I've got break them up into categories and just stop when the quality drops off. The order is very general.

I'll start with an "easy" category. Comedies. My definition of "good" is it made me laugh out loud, consistently, even on second viewing. All else is irrelevant. Sorry stooge fans, no shorts. No cartoons either.

1 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World
2 Anything and everything Marx Brothers
3 Anything and everything Monty Python
4 Anything and everything Mel Brooks (except Robin Hood: Men in Tights.)
5 Anything and everything Woody Allen pre Annie Hall (non-inclusive)
6 Bean
7 Something about Mary
8 Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (just seeing if anyone reads this.)

Short list. Many good movies are not on it because at some point I stop laughing.

Bill, are you saying that anything made by any of the ZAZ team DOESN'T belong on your list??? Not Airplane, not Top Secret!, not Naked Gun???

Who is ZAZ? Those were funny movies. I did not stop laughing, even if the bit was $tupid. I'd put them on on even though they must be forgettable. (Well, I forgot them.)

ZAZ is Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker. The guys who made those movies.

One of my favorite movies which has not already been listed is a black-and-white Japanese film titled Hara Kiri. I saw this movie at a film festival about fifteen years ago, but I haven't heard about it since. It tells the story of two samurai (father and son) who fall on hard times after their patron is defeated. Eventually, the destitute son goes to a local noble and asks for help in committing hara kiri so he no longer must live in dishonor. The noble agrees. However, he has heard stories of other samurai who have used the same story to obtain charity from other nobles. The noble insists that the son perform hara kiri on himself immediately. Unfortunately, the son pawned the blade of his sword, and can only attempt to disembowel himself using a bamboo blade. Needless to say, its not a clean death. The son's story is recounted by the father, who has tracked down and killed all those who were responsible for his son's end.
This movie contains some of the best sword fight sequences I've ever seen on film, plus a great story. If anyone has seen it or knows if it is on video, I'd appreciate your input.

I figured my list (at the top of this page) could use a revising, and rather than drive up the K on the original thread, I created a new one.

Mike Cheyne’s 100 Films

1. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
2. Adaptation
3. The Adventures of Robin Hood
4. Airplane!
5. Bananas
6. The Band Wagon
7. Batman (1966)
8. Best in Show
9. The Birds
10. Black Hawk Down
11. Blazing Saddles
12. The Blues Brothers
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Brute Force
15. Bullitt
16. Cape Fear ('60s)
17. Catch Me If You Can
18. A Christmas Story
19. Citizen Kane
20. Clue
21. Dick Tracy
22. The Dirty Dozen
23. Dirty Harry
24. The Empire Strikes Back
25. Fantasia
26. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
27. Force of Evil
28. For Your Eyes Only
29. From Russia With Love
30. Galaxy Quest
31. Gettysburg
32. Giant
33. Goldfinger
34. The Great Race
35. High Noon
36. Home Alone
37. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
38. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
39. It’s a Gift
40. It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
41. It’s a Wonderful Life
42. Jaws
43. The Lady Vanishes
44. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
45. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
46. The Manchurian Candidate
47. The Man Who Knew Too Little
48. The Man Who Knew Too Much
49. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
50. The Man Who Wasn’t There
51. The Matrix
52. The Matrix Reloaded
53. The 39 Steps
54. A Mighty Wind
55. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
56. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
57. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
58. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
59. The Natural
60. A Night at the Opera
61. The Night of the Hunter
62. North by Northwest
63. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
64. Octopussy
65. Old Yeller
66. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
67. Pillow Talk
68. The Pink Panther Strikes Again
69. The Princess Bride
70. Raiders of the Lost Ark
71. Rear Window
72. Return of the Jedi
73. Road to Perdition
74. Robin Hood (cartoon)
75. Shadow of a Doubt
76. Shane
77. The Shootist
78. A Shot in the Dark
79. Singin’ in the Rain
80. The Sixth Sense
81. Spaceballs
82. Stand and Deliver
83. Star Wars
84. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
85. The Sting
86. Strangers on a Train
87. A Streetcar Named Desire
88. Sunset Boulevard
89. To Kill a Mockingbird
90. Topper
91. Top Secret
92. Touch of Evil
93. Toy Story
94. Toy Story 2
95. Twelve Angry Men
96. Waiting for Guffman
97. Wait Until Dark
98. White Heat
99. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
100. Young Frankenstein

Comments? Arguments? Reviews?

Comments? yeah. Annie Hall and Silence of the Lambs are conspicuously absent.

47. The Man Who Knew Too Little
Not the Bill Murray goofy spy flick? It was a cute little romp, but hardly deserves to be up there with Princess Bride and It's a Wonderful Life. I'd definitely substitute the far more complex and engaging Groundhog Day, also starring Murray. Probably his best work.

Sequels:
Toy Story 2: Definitely.
Attack of the Clones: Wha?? The prequels just don't have that magic that Lucas wielded back when he operated on much much lower budgets. The man is a master of SFX and incredible sights and sounds, but back when he had to film the Trench Run scenes in a parking lot, the movies seemed much more real.
Temple of Doom: Huh? Not the worst Indiana Jones outing...well, okay, it was the worst, but it was still a good flick. Just doesn't belong in the exact same rank with Raiders and Crusade.

17. Catch Me If You Can
Good movie. Very well-made. Fun. Not the all-time best.

74. Robin Hood (cartoon)
The Disney cartoon? With all the characters as animals? I must have watched it a thousand times between the ages of 6 and 16 but I've never even considered it in the context of the finest movies. Hmm.

Anyway, I'm getting a little tired so I'll have to take another look at this after a bit of sleep. Some very very good choices in that list, tho, Mike.

Dude, I've never seen Annie Hall or Silence of the Lambs. They're not my cup of tea in films.

Snick, your comments are, of course, true. In fact, I idiotically forgot Foreign Correspondent, so feel free to dump Robin Hood (which is on there because I also watched it a thousand times as a youth).

I haven't seen Groundhog Day (my bad), but I was pleasantly surprised by The Man Who Knew Too Little, and laugh for laugh, it gave me quite an enjoyable film experience.

Attack of the Clones and Temple of Doom are indeed weaker than the other films in their series. I refused to put Phantom Menace on, but Attack of the Clones, I felt, had a lot of scenes that were magical. I find the Indiana Jones series perpetually underrated (and Star Wars overrated), so I have no problem with putting Temple of Doom on there.

Catch Me If You Can has some serious flaws, but it was one of my more enjoyable movie experiences in recent years, and I've tried to put in some modern films.

I accidentally left off Identity, One-Hour Photo, and The In-Laws (original), but I have no idea what films to bump off.

What about Casablanca?

(broken record kicks in)

Haven't seen it.

Go rent it. Now. You won't be disappointed.

I really need to. I saw about half of it on TV once and it was really good but I had to leave or something so I didn't see the rest of it.

You also forgot Gone with the Wind.

Read the 7:46 a.m. post.

(although I WANT to see Casablanca, I don't want to see Gone With the Wind--heresy I know.)

I also forgot The Music Man. And I would really like to put on one of the Star Trek movies too.

Mike: I though GWTW was highly overrated. Casbablanca is a TRUE classic however. I also highly recomend Alfred Hithccock's Rebbecca if you haven't seen it already. AS for Attack of the Clones, I happen to agre with you. I thought it was a good movie, but fact that Phantom menace (and ROTJ before it) were sub-par (to put it nicely) hung around AOTC's neck like a friggin' albatross.

While I did like AOTC I still don't think that it's quite as good as ESB or ROTJ. Though I think that it's almost as good.

And I think that Forest Gump is a better movie than Catch Me If You Can. That's just me though.