Yes, one person. I'm obliged to keep shut about who voted, but his name begins with Make

3 years ago my top ten included spiderman 2, X-men 2 and Hp3.

Now it's

The Godfather
The Shawshank Redemption
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
Lawrence Of Arabia
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Vertigo
12 Angry Men
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
The Godfather Part II
Schindler's List

i tell you , watch those essentials films and your opinion on films will change. Also don't watch Kubrick before watching a new film in theaters. You really hate the film you watch in theaters then.

I wish more people voted. 35 voters after six weeks of campaigning is disappointing.

Just got back from Santa Cruz. Thoughts coming up, but first: WHAT A GREAT F****** JOB YOU DID, BOX!!!!! And I was actually surprised to see a number of deserving classics as high as they are.

No wonder he recruited me so quickly...

Don't blame yourself. You did a great job.

Seriously, alt-100. Screw off the first semester of school.

nice to see you young folks

still pay homage to the classics.


i was quite scared that American beauty, and Children of men would be in the top ten.

The apotheosis of the LotR series is incredibly frustrating.

So most of the most profound films and filmmakers are left off the list for blockbusters. Really surprising. I suppose that's what happens when you let people without much knowledge about, yknow, actual film, vote.

Not that I'm the expert. Hell nooo. But seriously... why bother with these lists? It's futile.

None of this is box's fault of course. He is flawless.

You're invited too.

well in my top 50, SW, Lotr and Godfather are the only sequels or big blockbuster films.

NO IJ, Jaws, Terminator, Jurrasic Park and such.

my recent blockbusters are in the bottom 50.
my top 50....


The Godfather
The Shawshank Redemption
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
Lawrence Of Arabia
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Vertigo
12 Angry Men
The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
The Godfather Part II
Schindler's List
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo, Il (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
Goodfellas
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Star Wars
Shichinin No Samurai (Seven Samurai)
Rear Window
Patton
It's A Wonderful Life
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Taxi Driver
Psycho
North By Northwest
Blade Runner
Citizen Kane
A Streetcar Named Desire
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
The Grapes Of Wrath
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
To Kill A Mockingbird
Spartacus
Sholay (Hindi)
On The Waterfront
Gone With The Wind
Glory
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
All Quiet On The Western Front
American History X
The Deer Hunter
Chinatown
Gattaca
Saving Private Ryan
Das Boot
All The President's Men
Wizard of OZ
Ben-hur

oh yeah its a tad different from my the list i voted for.

American Beauty did indeed make the top 10.

I wonder how different the list would look if we looked at only people's top twenties and ignored their 21-100. Probably The Matrix, Jaws, Titanic, and The Silence of the Lambs would be a lot lower, and then Before Sunset and City Lights would be even higher.

btw, I noticed that of the 94 films that WOKJ users voted to add to the original ballot of AFI/IMDB films, the only ones to make it onto the Top 100 are:

Aladdin
Edward Scissorhands
Face/Off
Garden State
King Kong (2005)
Minority Report
Monsters Inc
Office Space
Scream
Speed
The Lion King
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Truman Show
The Untouchables
Unbreakable
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
X2: X-Men United

Anybody care to make comparisons as to which of our films also made the AFI and IMDB Top 100 lists?

Yeah seriously, uber-major props to Box. I sure couldn't have done it.

oh whatever Godfather beating all those films made me happy enough.

Seconded.

i agree to that

MY EYES

MY EYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

1 The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King - expected, and No. 2 on my list
2 Raiders Of The Lost Ark - glad to see it this high; thought LOTR would be 1 and 2, so great to have a film in my top 10 sneak in
3 The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring - understandable, right on the edge of my top 20, but I left it off to push other films
4 The Godfather - lovely, was afraid it's not going to get into top 10, let alone top 5; definitely deserving of its place in film history and any best of all time polls; got even better for me as its impact sunk in
5 The Shawshank Redemption - one of those films that may not be the best in any area, but does each aspect so well
6 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - good position; surprised it wasn't in the top 5
7 The Matrix - had it lower, but understand why it's here and won't complain
8 Jurassic Park - the biggest surprise and my biggest complaint in the top 10; thought it would be a film that's on many lists but not enough high votes
9 Pulp Fiction - expected and in my top 5
10 American Beauty - expected and in my top 5
11 Star Wars - well-placed position
12 Forrest Gump - 1994 was so good
13 Jaws - not in my top 20 but no complaint
14 Schindler's List - deserved
15 Terminator 2: Judgment Day - see Jaws
16 Se7en - more love at KJ than I realized
17 Casablanca - Best surprise of the top 20; the film is so quotable and got better every time I watched it, really timeless
18 The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - the weakest one of the trilogy, and wish it would've been in the mid-50 range
19 The Silence Of The Lambs -
20 The Lion King - one of Disney's best and I know it's a childhood favorite for a lot of us

From 21 - 50:
Big for Psycho, Before Sunset, Dr. Strangelove, Singin' In the Rain, Memento, 12 Angry Men, and The Usual Suspects.
Biggest surprise: Citizen Kane cracks top 50. This certainly dispels the notion that it's not liked by people outside AFI or critics community. And Pan's Labyrinth being as high as it is.

As for Gladiator, I wouldn't have it in my top 200, but not surprised to see it placed so high.

From 51 - 100:
I'm happy that a lot of recent films which are loved at KJ are placed in the lower half instead of the upper. No real head-scratchers except for maybe Scream, but only initially. The one real gripe is Rear Window, which should've been much closer to Psycho in ranking, and any of the choices between 101 and 110 is better than Unbreakable.

poor Heat

But with a list made up of popular opinion it's only natural to be disappointed with the end result.

Haha. Well, I do take great pride in the fact that the two biggest "WTF" nominees are both in my top five.

Great job Box! And horrible job voters!

Like seriously, all you LotR fanboys can't even figure out which is the best of your stupid trilogy (FotR, which is the only one that works as a coherent film)

This ahead of Schindler's List is a travesty!!

You gotta be kidding me. With this pick the list has lost its tinies bit of credibility left. I didn't know that many disturbed posters were in here.

I agree. I hate him for it nevertheless..

After all is said and done, I have to say I absolutley despise this list. The #1 didn't even make my top 100. And of my top 20 8 (including my #1) didn't even make the list. Except Raiders everything went lower than I had it.

1. Blade Runner
2. Citizen Kane
3. Schindler's List
4. All About Eve
5. North By Northwest
6. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
7. Garden State
8. The Adventures Of Robin Hood
9. Singin' In The Rain
10. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
11. Babe
12. Moulin Rouge!
13. Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
14. Die Hard
15. Witness
16. The Fugitive
17. The Shawshank Redemption
18. Jerry Maguire
19. It's A Wonderful Life
20. United 93