Hardly Any
How many of the top 250 IMDB user-selected movies have you seen?
I can you tell you now, it won't be many. I just haven't seen that many movies that usually make these lists.
Also - I'm sure what order this list is in.
( ) The Godfather
(X) The Shawshank Redemption
( ) The Godfather: Part II
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
( ) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
( ) Casablanca
( ) Schindler's List
(X) Pulp Fiction
(X) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
( ) Seven Samurai
Total so far: 4 (hmmm, almost half of the first 10).
( ) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(X) Star Wars
( ) Rear Window
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
( ) 12 Angry Men
(X) Raiders of the Lost Ark
( ) The Usual Suspects
( ) City of God
( ) Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
( ) Goodfellas
Total so far: 10
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
( ) Psycho
(X) Citizen Kane
( ) Once Upon a Time in the West
( ) North By Northwest
( ) Memento
(X) The Silence of the Lambs
( ) Lawrence of Arabia
(X) It's a Wonderful Life
( ) Sunset Boulevard
Total so far: 14
( ) Amélie
( ) Fight Club
(X) American Beauty
(X) The Matrix
( ) Vertigo
( ) Apocalypse Now
( ) Taxi Driver
( ) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
( ) Se7en
( ) León
Total so far: 16
( ) Paths of Glory
( ) Chinatown
( ) To Kill a Mockingbird
( ) American History X
( ) The Third Man
( ) Downfall
( ) The Pianist
(X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( ) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
( ) M
Total so far: 17 (wow - just one out of that list).
( ) The Bridge on the River Kwai
( ) Spirited Away
(X) Alien
( ) Das Boot
( ) L.A. Confidential
( ) A Clockwork Orange
( ) The Maltese Falcon
( ) Requiem for a Dream
( ) Hotel Rwanda
( ) The Shining
Total so far: 18 (This isn't looking good)
(X) Double Indemnity
(X) Metropolis
( ) Reservoir Dogs
( ) Saving Private Ryan
( ) Rashomon
( ) Singin' in the Rain
( ) Sin City
( ) Raging Bull
( ) Modern Times
(X) Aliens
Total so far: 21 (Which Metropolis? The original? or the original, but with the 80's soundtrack?)
( ) The Manchurian Candidate
( ) Rebecca
( ) Some Like It Hot
( ) The Great Escape
( ) Pan's Labyrinth
( ) The Departed
( ) All About Eve
(X) 2001: A Space Odyssey
( ) Touch of Evil
(X) Amadeus
Total so far: 23 (Amadeus rocked!!)
( ) Million Dollar Baby
( ) Life is Beautiful
( ) The Seventh Seal
(X) Forrest Gump
( ) Jaws
( ) The Sting
( ) Strangers on a Train
(X) Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(X) Batman Begins
( ) On the Waterfront
Total so far: 26 (Didn't like Gump or Batman Begins)
( ) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(X) Braveheart
( ) The Elephant Man
(X) The Wizard of Oz
(X) Full Metal Jacket
( ) Kill Bill: Vol. 1
( ) Blade Runner
( ) The Apartment
(X) The Incredibles
( ) City Lights
Total so far: 30 (Hated Braveheart, hate war movies, The Incredibles is Excellent!)
( ) Cinema Paradiso
( ) The Big Sleep
( ) High Noon
( ) Notorious
( ) Ran
( ) Donnie Darko
( ) Fargo
(X) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
( ) The Great Dictator
( ) Crash
Total so far: 31 (uh... just one, and it's Star Wars. I've heard good things about Donnie Darko though!)
( ) Once Upon a Time in America
(X) Finding Nemo
( ) Cool Hand Luke
( ) Princess Mononoke
( ) The Sixth Sense
( ) V for Vendetta
( ) Unforgiven
( ) The Wages of Fear
(X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
( ) Ben Hur
Total so far: 33 (couple in that list I'd like to see).
( ) Oldboy
(X) Back to the Future
( ) Annie Hall
( ) Kill Bill: Vol. 2
( ) Yojimbo
(X) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
( ) The Killing
( ) The Green Mile
(X) Life of Brian
(X) The Princess Bride
Total so far: 37 (Life of Brian made the top 250 list?!) Princess Bride is a great movie!
( ) The Deer Hunter
(X) Platoon
( ) The Graduate
( ) It Happened One Night
( ) For a Few Dollars More
( ) Gladiator
( ) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
( ) Nights of Cabiria
( ) Gandhi
( ) The African Queen
Total so far: 38 (wow - only one, and it's another war movie)
( ) Kind Hearts and Coronets
( ) Love's a Bitch
( ) The Bicycle Thief
( ) The Battle of Algiers
( ) The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938]
( ) Diabolique
(X) Toy Story 2
( ) 8 1/2
( ) Shadow of a Doubt
(X) Stand By Me
Total so far: 40
( ) The Night of the Hunter
( ) Brief Encounter
( ) Run Lola Run
( ) The Wild Bunch
( ) The General
(X) Die Hard
( ) Harvey
( ) Children of Men
( ) The Conversation
( ) Wild Strawberries
Total so far: 41
( ) Dog Day Afternoon
( ) Patton
( ) Duck Soup
( ) Glory
( ) Nosferatu
( ) The Day the Earth Stood Still
(X) Gone with the Wind
(X) Groundhog Day
( ) Hero
( ) Spartacus
Total so far: 43
( ) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
( ) The Gold Rush
( ) Trainspotting
( ) Finding Neverland
(X) Toy Story
(X) The Grapes of Wrath
( ) The Exorcist
( ) Magnolia
( ) Heat
( ) Mystic River
Total so far: 45
( ) The Big Lebowski
(X) A Christmas Story
( ) Twelve Monkeys
( ) King Kong [1933]
( ) The Prestige
(X) The Philadelphia Story
(X) Shrek
( ) Beauty and the Beast [1946]
( ) Cinderella Man
( ) Big Fish
Total so far: 48 (hated A Christmas Story - that little kid is so annoying!)
( ) Before Sunset
( ) Ed Wood
( ) Judgment at Nuremburg
( ) The Hustler
( ) Snatch.
(X) The Terminator
( ) The Best Years of Our Lives
( ) The Lady Vanishes
( ) Bride of Frankenstein
( ) Walk the Line
Total so far: 49 (Rubi says I have got to see Walk the Line)
( ) Grave of the Fireflies
( ) Out of the Past
( ) In the Heat of the Night
( ) Stalag 17
( ) Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
( ) Witness for the Prosecution
( ) Sleuth
( ) Little Miss Sunshine
( ) Bonnie and Clyde
(X) The Thing
Total so far: 50 (but only if it's John Carpenter's The Thing)
(X) Young Frankenstein
( ) Talk To Her
( ) Rosemary's Baby
( ) Manhattan
( ) Scarface
( ) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
( ) Frankenstein
( ) The Straight Story
( ) Arsenic and Old Lace
( ) Anatomy of a Murder
Total so far: 51
( ) Sling Blade
( ) High and Low
( ) Rififi
( ) All Quiet on the Western Front
( ) Throne of Blood
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(X) Monsters, Inc.
( ) Roman Holiday
( ) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
( ) The Lost Weekend
Total so far: 53
( ) The Four Hundred Blows
( ) Doctor Zhivago
( ) The Searchers
( ) Bringing Up Baby
( ) United 93
(X) A Streetcar Named Desire
( ) Planet of the Apes [1968]
( ) The Lives of Others
( ) Come and See
( ) Sweet Smell of Success
Total so far: 54 (Stella!!!!!)
( ) Brazil
( ) Stalker
( ) Infernal Affairs
( ) The Ox-Bow Incident
( ) Great Expectations [1946]
( ) Dial M for Murder
( ) Umberto D.
( ) Inherit the Wind
( ) In Cold Blood
( ) Mulholland Drive
Grand total: 54 (ooh.. none on that list).
Wow.... Only 54 out of 250. Of course, many of those listed I really have no desire to see. A few I just haven't gotten around to yet (Walk the Line, Blade Runner).
Others that I'm proud of seeing, The Philadelphia Story (love it!), Double Indemnity.
I fell asleep during Citizen Kane and didn't finish American Beauty because it was such an awful movie - do those two count?
3 comments:
Wow, not ANOTHER one of these lists...
American Beauty was ok, nothing special though. Citizen Kane you might want to give another chance. And I'm stunned that you haven't seen Blade Runner; that's definitely a KevBayer movie if there was one! Brazil is must-see for an sf dude as well.
Anyway, I compulsively have to do these:
(X) The Godfather
(X) The Shawshank Redemption
(X) The Godfather: Part II
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(X) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(X) Casablanca
(X) Schindler's List
(X) Pulp Fiction
(X) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
(X) Seven Samurai
10 for 10
(X) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(X) Star Wars
(X) Rear Window
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(X) 12 Angry Men
(X) Raiders of the Lost Ark
(X) The Usual Suspects
(X) City of God
(X) Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(X) Goodfellas
20 for 20
(X) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(X) Psycho
(X) Citizen Kane
(X) Once Upon a Time in the West
(X) North By Northwest
(X) Memento
(X) The Silence of the Lambs
(X) Lawrence of Arabia
(X) It's a Wonderful Life
(X) Sunset Boulevard
30 for 30
(X) Amélie
(X) Fight Club
(X) American Beauty
(X) The Matrix
(X) Vertigo
(X) Apocalypse Now
(X) Taxi Driver
(X) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(X) Se7en
(X) León
40 for 40
( ) Paths of Glory
(X) Chinatown
(X) To Kill a Mockingbird
(X) American History X
(X) The Third Man
( ) Downfall
( ) The Pianist
(X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( ) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
( ) M
45 out of 50
(X) The Bridge on the River Kwai
(X) Spirited Away
(X) Alien
( ) Das Boot
(X) L.A. Confidential
(X) A Clockwork Orange
( ) The Maltese Falcon
(X) Requiem for a Dream
( ) Hotel Rwanda
(X) The Shining
52 out of 60
( ) Double Indemnity
( ) Metropolis
(X) Reservoir Dogs
(X) Saving Private Ryan
( ) Rashomon
( ) Singin' in the Rain
(X) Sin City
(X) Raging Bull
( ) Modern Times
(X) Aliens
57 out of 70
( ) The Manchurian Candidate
( ) Rebecca
(X) Some Like It Hot
(X) The Great Escape
( ) Pan's Labyrinth
( ) The Departed
( ) All About Eve
(X) 2001: A Space Odyssey
( ) Touch of Evil
(X) Amadeus
61 out of 80
(X) Million Dollar Baby
(X) Life is Beautiful
(X) The Seventh Seal
(X) Forrest Gump
(X) Jaws
(X) The Sting
( ) Strangers on a Train
(X) Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(X) Batman Begins
(X) On the Waterfront
70 out of 90 (You didn't like Batman Begins??)
( ) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(X) Braveheart
( ) The Elephant Man
(X) The Wizard of Oz
(X) Full Metal Jacket
(X) Kill Bill: Vol. 1
(X) Blade Runner
(X) The Apartment
(X) The Incredibles
( ) City Lights
77 out of 100(I think you and Rubi'd really enjoy The Apartment)
( ) Cinema Paradiso
( ) The Big Sleep
(X) High Noon
( ) Notorious
( ) Ran
(X) Donnie Darko
(X) Fargo
(X) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
( ) The Great Dictator
(X) Crash
82 out of 110(Yes, you need to see Donnie Darko)
( ) Once Upon a Time in America
(X) Finding Nemo
(X) Cool Hand Luke
(X) Princess Mononoke
(X) The Sixth Sense
(X) V for Vendetta
(X) Unforgiven
( ) The Wages of Fear
(X) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
( ) Ben Hur
89 out of 120
(X) Oldboy
(X) Back to the Future
(X) Annie Hall
(X) Kill Bill: Vol. 2
( ) Yojimbo
(X) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
( ) The Killing
(X) The Green Mile
( ) Life of Brian
(X) The Princess Bride
96 out of 130
(X) The Deer Hunter
(X) Platoon
(X) The Graduate
( ) It Happened One Night
( ) For a Few Dollars More
(X) Gladiator
(X) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
( ) Nights of Cabiria
( ) Gandhi
( ) The African Queen
101 out of 140
( ) Kind Hearts and Coronets
( ) Love's a Bitch
( ) The Bicycle Thief
( ) The Battle of Algiers
( ) The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938]
( ) Diabolique
(X) Toy Story 2
( ) 8 1/2
( ) Shadow of a Doubt
(X) Stand By Me
103 out of 150
( ) The Night of the Hunter
( ) Brief Encounter
(X) Run Lola Run
(X) The Wild Bunch
( ) The General
(X) Die Hard
(X) Harvey
( ) Children of Men
( ) The Conversation
( ) Wild Strawberries
107 out of 160(You would love Harvey)
(X) Dog Day Afternoon
( ) Patton
( ) Duck Soup
( ) Glory
(X) Nosferatu
( ) The Day the Earth Stood Still
( ) Gone with the Wind
(X) Groundhog Day
(X) Hero
(X) Spartacus
112 out of 170
( ) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
( ) The Gold Rush
(X) Trainspotting
(X) Finding Neverland
(X) Toy Story
( ) The Grapes of Wrath
(X) The Exorcist
(X) Magnolia
(X) Heat
( ) Mystic River
118 out of 180
(X) The Big Lebowski
(X) A Christmas Story
(X) Twelve Monkeys
(X) King Kong [1933]
( ) The Prestige
( ) The Philadelphia Story
(X) Shrek
( ) Beauty and the Beast [1946]
(X) Cinderella Man
(X) Big Fish
125 out of 190(check out Big Fish some time)
( ) Before Sunset
(X) Ed Wood
( ) Judgment at Nuremburg
( ) The Hustler
(X) Snatch.
(X) The Terminator
( ) The Best Years of Our Lives
( ) The Lady Vanishes
( ) Bride of Frankenstein
(X) Walk the Line
129 out of 200
( ) Grave of the Fireflies
( ) Out of the Past
( ) In the Heat of the Night
( ) Stalag 17
(X) Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
( ) Witness for the Prosecution
( ) Sleuth
( ) Little Miss Sunshine
( ) Bonnie and Clyde
(X) The Thing
131 out of 210
(X) Young Frankenstein
( ) Talk To Her
( ) Rosemary's Baby
( ) Manhattan
(X) Scarface
(X) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
( ) Frankenstein
( ) The Straight Story
( ) Arsenic and Old Lace
( ) Anatomy of a Murder
134 out of 220
(X) Sling Blade
( ) High and Low
( ) Rififi
( ) All Quiet on the Western Front
( ) Throne of Blood
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
(X) Monsters, Inc.
( ) Roman Holiday
( ) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
( ) The Lost Weekend
137 out of 230
(X) The Four Hundred Blows
( ) Doctor Zhivago
(X) The Searchers
( ) Bringing Up Baby
( ) United 93
( ) A Streetcar Named Desire
(X) Planet of the Apes [1968]
( ) The Lives of Others
( ) Come and See
( ) Sweet Smell of Success
140 out of 240
(X) Brazil
( ) Stalker
( ) Infernal Affairs
( ) The Ox-Bow Incident
( ) Great Expectations [1946]
( ) Dial M for Murder
( ) Umberto D.
( ) Inherit the Wind
( ) In Cold Blood
(X) Mulholland Drive
142 out of 250...and another 108 for my Netflix Queue...:/
I just can't decide which version of Blade runner to rent. The one with narration, the one without, and isn't there a third?
I've also heard that Brazil is a good SF movie, I just haven't gotten around to seeing it.
I'm suprised MCF hasn't seen Metropolis. It's a silent Black and white movie about a female android and a revolt of the common man against "the machine".
Many later movies took imagery from this movie.
76 of them here... many of them I saw when I was a kid.
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