#50 Pulp Fiction
I thought someone already listed it but didn't see it on the list (very helpful by the way) - hopefully I didn't just miss it.
Tarantino's best, smartest, and most engaging film - few films have stronger, more interesting characters. The intertwining, non-linear stories were done perfectly.
I thought someone already listed it but didn't see it on the list (very helpful by the way) - hopefully I didn't just miss it.
Tarantino's best, smartest, and most engaging film - few films have stronger, more interesting characters. The intertwining, non-linear stories were done perfectly.
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No one had posted Pulp Fiction yet. I've updated the first post with the list of all 50 films so far.
Bring on the next 50!
No one had posted Pulp Fiction yet. I've updated the first post with the list of all 50 films so far.
Bring on the next 50!
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Correct. For some reason I thought there was a third one posted. I think it's because Brazil was really high up on DSF's Top-100 and I was thinking about posting it soon. Anyway, fixed. Scorcese's leading with three.
Correct. For some reason I thought there was a third one posted. I think it's because Brazil was really high up on DSF's Top-100 and I was thinking about posting it soon. Anyway, fixed. Scorcese's leading with three.
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#51 Pan's Labyrinth
A fantasy movie that is less fantasy and more reality. Such a tragic yet inspiring tale of a young girl.
[video=youtube;Lbx-4TDHzVA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbx-4TDHzVA[/video]
#51 Pan's Labyrinth
A fantasy movie that is less fantasy and more reality. Such a tragic yet inspiring tale of a young girl.
[video=youtube;Lbx-4TDHzVA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbx-4TDHzVA[/video]
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#52 American Beauty
Not only is it the Best Picture winner of 1999 (arguably the best year of movies of all time) but it is a crowning achievement in film. A story of the last year of a man's life before his unexpected death, Lester Burnham and his family are awakened from their dull lives when 3 different people are introduced into their world. These people and the new problems in their daily lives around them change their destinies forever in a tale filled with red color filters, floating plastic bags, and a beautiful script by Six Feet Under's Alan Ball. A soon to be classic.
[video=youtube;ChzaLc4rS04]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChzaLc4rS04[/video]
#52 American Beauty
Not only is it the Best Picture winner of 1999 (arguably the best year of movies of all time) but it is a crowning achievement in film. A story of the last year of a man's life before his unexpected death, Lester Burnham and his family are awakened from their dull lives when 3 different people are introduced into their world. These people and the new problems in their daily lives around them change their destinies forever in a tale filled with red color filters, floating plastic bags, and a beautiful script by Six Feet Under's Alan Ball. A soon to be classic.
[video=youtube;ChzaLc4rS04]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChzaLc4rS04[/video]
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#53 Serenity
A fantastic followup to the tragically short-lived Firefly series. One of my favourite sci-fi films of all time, with a fantastic story and excellent characters.
I'm a leaf on the wind....
#53 Serenity
A fantastic followup to the tragically short-lived Firefly series. One of my favourite sci-fi films of all time, with a fantastic story and excellent characters.
I'm a leaf on the wind....
J. Agamemnon
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just making sure, are we still waiting every ten posts before we post another movie?
just making sure, are we still waiting every ten posts before we post another movie?
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J. Agamemnon
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I guess that where I'm confused because i thought it was 24 hours if no one else has posted another movie.
I guess that where I'm confused because i thought it was 24 hours if no one else has posted another movie.
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I had forgotten and got excited when I remember about the fantasy films of the 80's.
I have a bunch more and was going to post them, but now I'll wait.
I had forgotten and got excited when I remember about the fantasy films of the 80's.
I have a bunch more and was going to post them, but now I'll wait.
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#54 Sin City (2005)
Probably the first comic adaptation to be page for page from the comic. Actors that are perfectly cast, great tone, style, and story.
[video=youtube;IwIlEu7o9ZM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwIlEu7o9ZM[/video]
#54 Sin City (2005)
Probably the first comic adaptation to be page for page from the comic. Actors that are perfectly cast, great tone, style, and story.
[video=youtube;IwIlEu7o9ZM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwIlEu7o9ZM[/video]
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#55 The Secret of Nimh (1982)
The best Don Bluth movie, the Secret of Nimh is a classic heroes tale, but with the heroes being rats. Its the first movie I remember where the hero was female as well. I miss animation styles like this, it's something the computer generation can't achieve.
[video=youtube;FwNfsLwQBhM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwNfsLwQBhM[/video]
#55 The Secret of Nimh (1982)
The best Don Bluth movie, the Secret of Nimh is a classic heroes tale, but with the heroes being rats. Its the first movie I remember where the hero was female as well. I miss animation styles like this, it's something the computer generation can't achieve.
[video=youtube;FwNfsLwQBhM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwNfsLwQBhM[/video]
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56. Magnolia (1999)
After the epic that was Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson withdrew from the world and started writing a film that would be "intimate and small-scale." This film grew and grew and eventually became this masterpiece. A great cast (Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly etc.), a beautiful soundtrack by Aimee Mann and one of the most magnificent sequences I have ever seen: "Wise Up." Magnolia is one of those films that I can watch over and over and see new things and it's one that never fails to inspire me.
[video=youtube;QYTqhmzROko]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYTqhmzROko[/video]
56. Magnolia (1999)
After the epic that was Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson withdrew from the world and started writing a film that would be "intimate and small-scale." This film grew and grew and eventually became this masterpiece. A great cast (Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly etc.), a beautiful soundtrack by Aimee Mann and one of the most magnificent sequences I have ever seen: "Wise Up." Magnolia is one of those films that I can watch over and over and see new things and it's one that never fails to inspire me.
[video=youtube;QYTqhmzROko]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYTqhmzROko[/video]
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#57. Rocky (1976) I'm surprised this movie hasn't been introduced. I know the whole saga is great, but about four of the films are just so great as stand alone's and the first film is quite possibly THE best underdog story ever made. Starring Sylvester Stallone in his first major role. He penned the script himself and wanted to act as Rocky and, against the studio's wishes, was able to fulfill his role as Rocky.
[video=youtube;YgmK7110jYU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgmK7110jYU[/video]
#57. Rocky (1976) I'm surprised this movie hasn't been introduced. I know the whole saga is great, but about four of the films are just so great as stand alone's and the first film is quite possibly THE best underdog story ever made. Starring Sylvester Stallone in his first major role. He penned the script himself and wanted to act as Rocky and, against the studio's wishes, was able to fulfill his role as Rocky.
[video=youtube;YgmK7110jYU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgmK7110jYU[/video]
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#58 Gladiator (2000)
Russell Crowe's career launching role as Maximus, a Roman general turned gladiator, out for revenge against the corrupt Emperor Commodus. Joaquin Phoenix is fantastic as well, as Commodus. By far one of my favorite performances from one of my favorite actors. There are few movies that I can watch over and over again. This is one of them.
[video=youtube;ol67qo3WhJk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol67qo3WhJk[/video]
#58 Gladiator (2000)
Russell Crowe's career launching role as Maximus, a Roman general turned gladiator, out for revenge against the corrupt Emperor Commodus. Joaquin Phoenix is fantastic as well, as Commodus. By far one of my favorite performances from one of my favorite actors. There are few movies that I can watch over and over again. This is one of them.
[video=youtube;ol67qo3WhJk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol67qo3WhJk[/video]
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#59 Aliens
The best of the franchise and one of the best action films of the 80s ever. Filled with iconic moments such as the Powerloader fight and the knife trick scene, rammed with so many quotable lines such as "Get away from her you *****!", "They mostly come at night...mostly" and "My mummy said there are no monster, no real ones. But there are." Legendary.
#59 Aliens
The best of the franchise and one of the best action films of the 80s ever. Filled with iconic moments such as the Powerloader fight and the knife trick scene, rammed with so many quotable lines such as "Get away from her you *****!", "They mostly come at night...mostly" and "My mummy said there are no monster, no real ones. But there are." Legendary.
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#60: SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
The first time I saw this movie I was in the 8th grade and I was completely blown away. A very powerful movie and definitely one of the best movies made to date.
[video=youtube;dwfIf1WMhgc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIf1WMhgc[/video]
#60: SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
The first time I saw this movie I was in the 8th grade and I was completely blown away. A very powerful movie and definitely one of the best movies made to date.
[video=youtube;dwfIf1WMhgc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwfIf1WMhgc[/video]
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#61. The Silence of the Lambs (1991). One of the most thoroughly good movies I've ever seen. The script is perfect. The performances are perfect. The direction is perfect. This is a movie that lurks in your mind long after you've seen it. It makes you question yourself, and whether you could ever sympathize with a monster. Definitely a must-see picture.
[video=youtube;lQKs169Sl0I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKs169Sl0I[/video]
#61. The Silence of the Lambs (1991). One of the most thoroughly good movies I've ever seen. The script is perfect. The performances are perfect. The direction is perfect. This is a movie that lurks in your mind long after you've seen it. It makes you question yourself, and whether you could ever sympathize with a monster. Definitely a must-see picture.
[video=youtube;lQKs169Sl0I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKs169Sl0I[/video]
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#62 Juno (2007)
The movie that made me fall in love with Ellen Page. Snappy dialogue and a great story about teen pregnancy.
[video=youtube;K0SKf0K3bxg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SKf0K3bxg[/video]
#62 Juno (2007)
The movie that made me fall in love with Ellen Page. Snappy dialogue and a great story about teen pregnancy.
[video=youtube;K0SKf0K3bxg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SKf0K3bxg[/video]
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#63 The Dark Crystal, 1982
A marvelous masterpiece of puppetry and storytelling that scared the pants out of me when I first watched this at the tender age of 4. Then I wanted to see it again. It's a great film directed by the puppetry duo of Frank Oz and Jim Henson.
[video=youtube;ZzgVPB5dpgg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzgVPB5dpgg[/video]
#63 The Dark Crystal, 1982
A marvelous masterpiece of puppetry and storytelling that scared the pants out of me when I first watched this at the tender age of 4. Then I wanted to see it again. It's a great film directed by the puppetry duo of Frank Oz and Jim Henson.
[video=youtube;ZzgVPB5dpgg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzgVPB5dpgg[/video]
J. Agamemnon
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yuck, I never cared for Dark Crystal.
yuck, I never cared for Dark Crystal.
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BLASPHEMER! Nah, just kidding. Oddly I never got into it as a kid, but I love it as an adult, I know, weird.
#64 Audition (2000) - Personally one of my favorite Takashi Miike films. It starts as the quirky little romance, then about half way through, it takes a detour through Crazy Town.
[video=youtube;yhsrsWcEspc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhsrsWcEspc[/video]
BLASPHEMER! Nah, just kidding. Oddly I never got into it as a kid, but I love it as an adult, I know, weird.
#64 Audition (2000) - Personally one of my favorite Takashi Miike films. It starts as the quirky little romance, then about half way through, it takes a detour through Crazy Town.
[video=youtube;yhsrsWcEspc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhsrsWcEspc[/video]
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J. Agamemnon
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Freaking Miike. I can't wait to see 13 Assassins. I'm too scared to see Ichi The Killer because i heard it was Machine Girl bloody, which I didn't care for.
Freaking Miike. I can't wait to see 13 Assassins. I'm too scared to see Ichi The Killer because i heard it was Machine Girl bloody, which I didn't care for.
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#65. The Truman Show. I don't think a person can watch this film properly and not have it permanently add at least a small new level to their everyday life, even if they didn't like the film for some reason. People can go on and on about how hardcore and ****-disturbing various movies are but at the end of the day this 1997 Jim Carrey dramedy is the only film I know of which has literally created a mental disorder, and that is still only a fraction of the reason it belongs on lists like this.
#65. The Truman Show. I don't think a person can watch this film properly and not have it permanently add at least a small new level to their everyday life, even if they didn't like the film for some reason. People can go on and on about how hardcore and ****-disturbing various movies are but at the end of the day this 1997 Jim Carrey dramedy is the only film I know of which has literally created a mental disorder, and that is still only a fraction of the reason it belongs on lists like this.
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66. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
One of Buster Keaton's finest silent films. Included many special effects that are eye-popping even today. Fun fact: Keaton busted his spine while filming the water tower scene and damaged it pretty bad yet didn't even know it until a doctor told him years later.
I haven't seen this film since high school, so here's what past me wrote about this film in a paper on dreams versus reality in the cinema which also covered UN CHIEN ANDALOU and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (and bear in mind I was a pretty ****ty writer then):
"In Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. (1924), which is also a narrative short, Keaton and his filmmaking crew take advantage of the manipulation techniques of cinema as well, and play with the viewer's perception quite a bit. The film appears to be a fairly normal story of a man attempting to woo a woman. That is, until the endlessly entertaining midsection of the story arrives. The central character (Keaton again), a film projectionist, falls asleep on the job and enters a completely unrealistic world. From the moment the dream begins, the audience knows they are being taken somewhere special when Keaton's character casually walks right into the onscreen action and enters a film within a film. This scene is a metaphor for the moviegoing experience as a whole. As an audience member, sitting in a darkened theater with walls of sound surrounding you, the eye will naturally focus on the bright, flickering light of the moving pictures up on the screen. As a result, everything else fades away and, if the film successfully achieves its goal, the audience member will feel as if they are right up there with the characters they are watching. The sequence from Sherlock Jr. is similar to the one described from Un Chien Andalou in that a character was just allowed a portal to exit one location and immediately wound up somewhere else, somewhere far away. Again, this is all something one would never be able to accomplish in the world of 'realistic cinema'"
I think I got a C plus on the paper, btw.
There's no trailer for SHERLOCK, JR. but Google Videos has the whole film here.
66. Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
One of Buster Keaton's finest silent films. Included many special effects that are eye-popping even today. Fun fact: Keaton busted his spine while filming the water tower scene and damaged it pretty bad yet didn't even know it until a doctor told him years later.
I haven't seen this film since high school, so here's what past me wrote about this film in a paper on dreams versus reality in the cinema which also covered UN CHIEN ANDALOU and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (and bear in mind I was a pretty ****ty writer then):
"In Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. (1924), which is also a narrative short, Keaton and his filmmaking crew take advantage of the manipulation techniques of cinema as well, and play with the viewer's perception quite a bit. The film appears to be a fairly normal story of a man attempting to woo a woman. That is, until the endlessly entertaining midsection of the story arrives. The central character (Keaton again), a film projectionist, falls asleep on the job and enters a completely unrealistic world. From the moment the dream begins, the audience knows they are being taken somewhere special when Keaton's character casually walks right into the onscreen action and enters a film within a film. This scene is a metaphor for the moviegoing experience as a whole. As an audience member, sitting in a darkened theater with walls of sound surrounding you, the eye will naturally focus on the bright, flickering light of the moving pictures up on the screen. As a result, everything else fades away and, if the film successfully achieves its goal, the audience member will feel as if they are right up there with the characters they are watching. The sequence from Sherlock Jr. is similar to the one described from Un Chien Andalou in that a character was just allowed a portal to exit one location and immediately wound up somewhere else, somewhere far away. Again, this is all something one would never be able to accomplish in the world of 'realistic cinema'"
I think I got a C plus on the paper, btw.
There's no trailer for SHERLOCK, JR. but Google Videos has the whole film here.
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67. Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Steven Soderbergh directs George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Elliott Gould, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle, Carl Reiner, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts in a script by Ted Griffin (Terriers!). Ocean's Eleven is one of the coolest films ever made and just oozes class all over. It's the little things like the two brothers always arguing and the names of the fictional heists to Pitt's character always eating junk food and the giant plot hole at the end that make this film so much fun to watch. It's got a great commentary by Soderbergh and Griffin too where they talk about the film being in black and white and I want to see this version.
[video=youtube;ImMGNQ2OEjo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImMGNQ2OEjo[/video]
In fact, I think I'm going to watch this now.
67. Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Steven Soderbergh directs George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Elliott Gould, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle, Carl Reiner, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts in a script by Ted Griffin (Terriers!). Ocean's Eleven is one of the coolest films ever made and just oozes class all over. It's the little things like the two brothers always arguing and the names of the fictional heists to Pitt's character always eating junk food and the giant plot hole at the end that make this film so much fun to watch. It's got a great commentary by Soderbergh and Griffin too where they talk about the film being in black and white and I want to see this version.
[video=youtube;ImMGNQ2OEjo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImMGNQ2OEjo[/video]
In fact, I think I'm going to watch this now.
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YES! where did those pamphlets come from?
anyway.
68. The Bourne Ultimatum i love this movie so much. The scene with the reporter in the train station is maybe my favourite suspense scene ever. Great (if sometimes unbelievable) action, a likable hero, and just fun fun fun.
YES! where did those pamphlets come from?
anyway.
68. The Bourne Ultimatum i love this movie so much. The scene with the reporter in the train station is maybe my favourite suspense scene ever. Great (if sometimes unbelievable) action, a likable hero, and just fun fun fun.
