I don't know...

Have you ever pretended to have an exhaustive knowledge of French New Wave to impress someone of the opposite sex?

Either way I'd say yes. Your bitterness over LOTR fans turning it into a circle jerk is reason enough.

IT WASN'T EVEN ELIGIBLE!

I should admit, I've only sampled most of the great directors (i.e. seen only one Bergman, still no Antonioni; you can only imagine how I felt when they died two weeks ago ). However, what I lack there I (Almost) make up for in my knowledge of silent cinema.

*Goes to add some Bergman/Malick/Lynch/Kubrick to queue*

it has the essentials....

(north by northwest, Vertigo, Rear window, psycho)



i voted for it number 16 and it was a nominee. Outdated but it has had a massive effect on Hollywood and its from JAPAN!!!

Eh, not too bad of a list.... I really like the 1 point per vote criteria considering that means my #1 is #1! Boo yah! I had LOTR: ROTK at #3 so i can't be too unhappy even thought Gladiator was way up there! Anyways, really good job box, this was a huge undertaking. I can't wait for more of these events in the near future!!!!

Yes it was! It was on the list of candidates!

I'm far too flaky to guarantee success of such an enterprise.

Who then? Who then can carry this torch? This burning flame of self importance and overflowing Netflix queues.

Don't think I don't appreciate your effort Box. You did a magnificent job with this whole thing.

Well duh.

face off has Paul Newman

Seven Samurai has that really cool wise guy...


its rather close.

I'd totally host the elite top 100, if I knew how to work excel and stuff...every time box does something like this I get overwhelmed at the thought of all his data. :o : (

and your the same ones accusing AFI of being elitist bastards

K, haven't been here all day so here are some thoughts:

- I ranked Speed #3, bitches. And I'm glad my list is so influential that I got things like Face/Off and Speed on it. Suck on that.

- Children of Men is about 300-400 spots too high.

- The Usual Suspects is too low.

- Pan's Labyrinth at #43 is unbelievably ridiculous. It's good but c'mon.

- Die Hard making it to #42 is most excellent.

- Nice for Departed and Memento.

- While it is still ranked incredibly too high, there is a God because Eternal Sunshine was in no way top twenty EVER material.

- Fuck yes, Batman Begins at #25 and Aliens at #21.

- AWESOME for Se7en. Thank youuuu. And T2!

- Forrest Gump is wayyyy too high.

- The Matrix.

- You guys are the most gullible people on the planet. FvJ at #6 and you believed it? Hahahaha. And seriously, don't say "I knew it, I was just messing," I just read it.

- Satisfied with ROTK as #1.

- GREAT JOB, BOX.

I think I'll post my top twenty for entertainment. Gimme a second.

I'd show you, but my sentbox is 100% full again, so it was deleted. Where did Little Mermaid and Rocky Horror end up? I was probably the only one who ranked them >.>.

Zing was Face/Off your number one movie.

The Matrix

Ok, as I said, I didn't smooth out all the ties (and trust me, there were MANY), but here is the list #101-250. TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. The positions aren't exact; they're rough:



101 Donnie Darko
102 As Good As It Gets
103 Ed Wood
104 Brokeback Mountain
105 To Kill A Mockingbird
106 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
107 The Fugitive
108 The Iron Giant
109 American History X
110 Ghostbusters
111 Shaun Of The Dead
112 Gone With The Wind
113 Heat
114 Braveheart
115 Gattaca
116 Nightmare on Elm Street
117 The Exorcist
118 Fargo
119 Erin Brockovich
120 Spider-Man
121 Platoon
122 Blade Runner
123 Shichinin No Samurai (Seven Samurai)
124 Collateral
125 Young Frankenstein
126 Before Sunrise
127 Mulholland Drive
128 Twelve Monkeys
129 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
130 Casino Royale
131 Being John Malkovich
132 Sunset Blvd.
134 Sleepy Hollow
133 Amadeus
135 Rain Man
136 The 40-Year-Old Virgin
137 Babe
138 Big Fish
139 It's A Wonderful Life
140 Pleasantville
142 The Little Mermaid
143 The Maltese Falcon
144 Beetlejuice
141 Apollo 13
145 Reservoir Dogs
146 Shrek
147 There's Something About Mary
148 Unforgiven
149 V For Vendetta
150 Fabuleux Destin D'amélie Poulain, Le (Amelie)
151 Modern Times
152 The Great Escape
153 C'era Una Volta Il West (Once Upon a Time in the West)
154 Apocalypse Now
155 Sideways
156 South Park BLU
157 When Harry Met Sally…
158 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
159 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
160 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
161 High Fidelity
162 The Green Mile
163 Dead Poets Society
164 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
165 Cast Away
166 Lost In Translation
167 The Thing
168 Contact
169 Back to the Future 2
170 Magnolia
171 Ocean's Eleven
172 The Pianist
173 Closer
174 Halloween
175 Léon (The Professional)
176 Million Dollar Baby
178 The 400 Blows
179 The Sting
180 Blazing Saddles
181 Match Point
182 The Gold Rush
183 Untergang, Der (Downfall)
184 Zoolander
185 Field Of Dreams
186 Grease
187 La Mala Educacion (Bad Education)
188 Revenge of the Sith
189 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
190 Team America
177 About A Boy
191 All The President's Men
192 American Psycho
193 Boogie Nights
194 Casino
195 Chicago
196 Full Metal Jacket
197 Hotel Rwanda
198 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
199 Mystic River
200 Ordinary People
201 Requiem For A Dream
202 Signs
203 The Notebook
204 A League of Their Own
205 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
206 The Bridge On The River Kwai
207 Jerry Maguire
208 Mary Poppins
209 United 93
211 The Kid
212 Big
213 Dances With Wolves
214 Pinocchio
215 The Sound Of Music
216 A Beautiful Mind
217 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
218 Dark City
219 Dirty Harry
220 In the Mood For Love
221 The Deer Hunter
222 The Prestige
223 The Village
224 Dawn of the Dead (2004)
225 Knocked Up
226 Meet the Parents
227 On The Waterfront
228 Scarface
229 Some Like It Hot
230 Walk The Line
231 Y Tu Mama Tambien
210 300
232 Blue Velvet
233 Dancer in the Dark
234 Manhattan
235 Rebecca
236 Rocky
237 The Third Man
238 Vita e Bella, La (Life is Beautiful)
239 Chicken Run
240 King Kong (1933)
241 Mononoke-Hime (Princess Mononoke)
242 National Lampoon's Animal House
243 Planet Of The Apes
244 The Elephant Man
245 The Emperor's New Groove
246 The New World
247 Chunking Express
248 Duck Soup
249 Barry Lyndon
250 The Hours

Thanks for all the comments :-)


And thanks to everyone for participating! It's taken six weeks or so, if you can believe it, but we did it!!!!

Huh.

i think it included to many overrated recent flicks for my taste but it covered the really good old films and skipped the overated ones unlike AFI.

nice to The Maltese Falcon and Seven samurai were somewhat close.

both a good 100+ spots too low, but yeah...better than Barry Lyndon's 249th place.

Also, I think this might be the best community-based top 100 so far...online film community. Definitely some weirdness and obvious internet biases there, too...but I like it, basically. They ended up with the three biggie hitchcock's all in a row...talk about coincidences :o

Btw, 800+ posts in less than 12 hrs- is that some kind of record?

Box, did anyone else vote for The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Top 20 (* = made the list):

1. The Matrix (*)
2. Face/Off (*)
3. Speed (*)
4. Die Hard (*)
5. Se7en (*)
6. The Departed (*)
7. Scream (*)
8. The Usual Suspects (*)
9. Aliens (*)
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (*)
11. Nightmare on Elm Street
12. Revenge of the Sith
13. Batman Begins (*)
14. King Kong (2005) (*)
15. Inside Man
16. Spider-Man 2
17. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
18. Minority Report (*)
19. Gladiator (*)
20. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (*)

Other than the top 10, the rankings were just kinda rough for me. I had trouble picking out the other 10, and not remembering the point system for the top 20, I just went with it. So no, Inside Man would not be that high on my top 100 (which I plan to work on shortly, because it's really changed a lot), but I figured it didn't matter how 15-20 were ranked (just looked it up, though, and I see there's a difference for 15 and 16, but it wouldn't have changed much I guess).

Question: How did Nightmare on Elm Street not make top 100? Where are all the horror fans?

i told you if you poll film buffs godfather always ends up in the top 5.


wow those guys adore Kubrick and Hithcock.... Those two guys really changed my opinion on films. My list was like Zingalings at first but its much different.


i like that list especially the Blade Runner inclusion...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington would have been nice to see as well. Maybe its just to old now and yes the film is boring at parts but really some parts are just so gripping.