Thread: The top 50 films of all time

You may quibble, but this is a great list to refer to. Many are hard to find in digital form. Nice site, too.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time


http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/greatest-films-all-time-2012

No Animal House?

Yeah, I know. No Caddyshack or Road Warrior, either.

No Hot Dog the Movie

This list is shit. It sounds like garbage a recent film school grad would say. Utter pretentious brain dead crap. It didn't even mention arguably one of the most important films in film making history: "Birth of a Nation". That movie proved audiences would sit through long movies and it brought more "new" technique to filming than probably any film ever has.

There were plenty of classic films on there but a lot of not "great" films. And yes, I went to film school and was forced to watch many of those. And many others I watched were better than some of those. Film critics are idiots.

That is hands down the worst top films list I've ever seen.

Stalker should be at #1 and for sure it should be ahead of Mirror.

Shoot 'Em Up?
Hitman?
Crank 1&2?
The Transporter 1&2?
Smokin' Aces?

No? How 'bout some classics then?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?
Fist Full of Dollars?
For a Few Dollars More?
The Magnificent Seven?
My Name is Nobody?
The Alamo?

I am dissapointed. So I suppose Hot Rod is out of the question then?

Vertigo at No.1?

I almost stopped reading. Although I'm not really sure what No. 1 should be. Just probably not Vertigo.

The rest of the list does reveal more about the panel than the movies.

Originally Posted by bendtheski

Shoot 'Em Up?
Hitman?
Crank 1&2?
The Transporter 1&2?
Smokin' Aces?

No? How 'bout some classics then?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?
Fist Full of Dollars?
For a Few Dollars More?
The Magnificent Seven?
My Name is Nobody?
The Alamo?

I am dissapointed. So I suppose Hot Rod is out of the question then?

Are you fucking serious? Those newer movies you listed shouldn't be on any top anything list.

Besides... The Magnificent Seven is on there, it's called Seven Samurai which is the Japanese movie by Akira Kurosawa it was based on. And it's one of the films I would agree with on that list. I think Ran should have beat Rashomon.

Kung fu Hustle?
I just find the rest entertaining as hell, especially Shoot 'Em Up. I'd still take any one of them over the 50 on the list.

Some of the suggested movies here are even worse than the pretentious list.

Originally Posted by TahoeJ

Some of the suggested movies here are even worse than the pretentious list.

I think some of them may not be serious.....

But I didn't go to film school.

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

But I didn't go to film school.

If you had, you would know that the tits at the Wet Tshirt competition were nuanced foreshadowing of the tits at the Ski Chalet hot tub party.

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

I think some of them may not be serious.....

But I didn't go to film school.

Obviously... but it's hard to tell around here in some cases.

Originally Posted by TahoeJ

Obviously... but it's hard to tell around here in some cases.

Yes. And apparently even so for those that did go to film school.

I was thinking, that, at this point, one of Christopher Nolan's movies should easily be in the list. But, you know, 2001 got panned early - the stoners saved it, in the end.

What? No Beverly Hills Chihuahua? WTF?!?!?!

#1. Strange Brew

No Hot Tub Time Machine? Seriously, It bugs me that the list omits a lot of modern classics.

Shawshank Redemption

Gladiator

Blade Runner

Schindlers List

Goodfellas

a few recent ones that IMO deserve consideration
Inception & Inglorious Bastards