OT - Good List of Classic Movies

[jellyman]

Here is a link to a really good list of the Top 100 classic films:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gal...-all-time/ss-AAjlSeF?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=1PRCDEFE.

I would not say I agree with all of the movies on the list, nor necessarily the exact order. But I thought it was a really thoughtful list.

Feel free to agree or disagree.

 

[Knight Shift]

LOL. A 100 slide slideshow. No thanks.
My personal classics:
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Scarface
Animal House
Stripes
Blazing Saddles
Point Break
Office Space
Roadhouse
Dumb and Dumber
Step Brothers
The Big Lebowski

 

[mdk01]

100 slide slideshow starting at 100 and going down. I'll add to Knight's lost:

Lawrence of Arabia
To Kill a Mocking Bird
12 o'clock High
Platoon
Dr. Zhivago
Network
Schindler's List
The French Connection
The Usual Suspects

 

[NewJerseyGuy]

Tin Men -- underrated classic.

 

[batts]

LOL. A 100 slide slideshow. No thanks.
My personal classics:
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Scarface
Animal House
Stripes
Blazing Saddles
Point Break
Office Space
Roadhouse
Dumb and Dumber
Step Brothers
The Big Lebowski

Really oddball list, but a very good one. It should be a list of movies that you watch every time they play on television. Road House is a terrible movie but a must watch for me. ("Pain don't hurt." )

 

[Scarlet16E]

Very heavy toward Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmie Stewart, and Henry Fonda. Not a bad list though.

 

[Knight Shift]

Really oddball list, but a very good one. It should be a list of movies that you watch every time they play on television. Road House is a terrible movie but a must watch for me. ("Pain don't hurt." )

You nailed it. And I ain't ashamed to be called an oddball!
Your avatar reminded me of couple of others:
Goodfellas
Casino
Blues Brothers

The movies on my original list and these three will almost always be watched if I am not watching football or baseball and they are on TV.

 

[phlop87]

Shawshank Redemption, Good Will Hunting, Remember the Titans, Godfather, Blazing Saddles

 

[brodo]

Here's that same list, only on a single page:

http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=h...-all-time/ss-AAjlSeF?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=1PRCDEFE

 

[RUsojo]

Summer Catch and Hard Ball come to mind.

 

[BigRnj]

I hope it has the Blues Brothers and the Gods Must be Crazy otherwise it is incomplete :sunglasses:

 

[seels2662]

Awful awful list. Multiple spaghetti westerns but no film noir. Missing films like the Thin Man or the Sound of Music. The Good the Bad and the Ugly is in the top 5 but Citizen Kane can't crack the top 25? C'mon.

 

[Knight Shift]

I hope it has the Blues Brothers and the Gods Must be Crazy otherwise it is incomplete :sunglasses:

Wow, Young Frankenstein at #94, but none of your movies or the ones on my list except The Godfather--How does the Godfather 2 not make it?
Did not recognize 60-70% of the movies on the list.

 

[BigRnj]

Awful awful list. Multiple spaghetti westerns but no film noir. Missing films like the Thin Man or the Sound of Music. The Good the Bad and the Ugly is in the top 5 but Citizen Kane can't crack the top 25? C'mon.

No Sound of Music is sacrilegious! Tell me Gone with the Wind is on the list...

 

[Knight Shift]

No Sound of Music is sacrilegious! Tell me Gone with the Wind is on the list...

Still pissed about Roadhouse and Point Break. LOL. Roadhouse is so underrated. Patrick Swayze should have won academy awards for both movies.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

NJ GUY I love all things Ballmore. Tin Men is a classic as is Diner .Must be the accent.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Awful awful list. Multiple spaghetti westerns but no film noir. Missing films like the Thin Man or the Sound of Music. The Good the Bad and the Ugly is in the top 5 but Citizen Kane can't crack the top 25? C'mon.

I agree the spaghetti westerns are way over-rated. But isn't "The Third Man" number 28 (on the single page list) film noir? So is number 40 "Double Indemnity" .. probably others.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

Blue Velvet. SLC Punk.This is the End. American Werewolf in London.Breaking Away.Clerks.No Country for Old Men. Fear and Loathing.From Dusk 'Til Dawn.

 

[seels2662]

I agree the spaghetti westerns are way over-rated. But isn't "The Third Man" number 28 (on the single page list) film noir? So is number 40 "Double Indemnity" .. probably others.

Yeah I missed a couple of those plus the Maltese falcon.

Here's the kicker...all of those westerns but no True Grit which was John Wayne's only Oscar performance....

 

[beaced]

Here is a link to a really good list of the Top 100 classic films:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gal...-all-time/ss-AAjlSeF?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=1PRCDEFE.

I would not say I agree with all of the movies on the list, nor necessarily the exact order. But I thought it was a really thoughtful list.

Feel free to agree or disagree.

If it doesn't include Prizzi's Honor and The Unconquered then it is missing two very good ones.

 

[RUTGERZ_R00LZ]

FWIW, my favorites include Moby Dick, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Young Frankenstein.

He lives. He lives. My creature lives!

 

[brodo]

I checked Netflix to see which of these movies are available. These 7 are it.

#11 Metropolis (from 1927)
#23 Sunset Boulevard (1950)
#47 Patton (1970)
#51 The Sting (1973)
#59 The Hustler (1961)
#61 To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
#99 Once Upon A Time in the West (1969)

 

[brodo]

No Sound of Music is sacrilegious! Tell me Gone with the Wind is on the list...

Frankly, BigRnj, Gone with the Wind is #60.

 

[brodo]

I hope it has the Blues Brothers and the Gods Must be Crazy otherwise it is incomplete :sunglasses:

Neither one made the list.

And my all-time favorite movie - The Shawshank Redemption - is nowhere to be found.

 

[BigRnj]

Frankly, BigRnj, Gone with the Wind is #60.

..... Well then "SCARLET I don't give a damn"

 

[LC-88]

oops 1975. No "Papillon" nor "Sand Pebbles" nor "Great Escape". No love for McQueen.
Come to think of it, Heston got left off too, "Ten Commandments", "Ben Hur", "Planet of the Apes"

 

[phs73rc77gsm83]

You probably couldn't get two people to agree on a top 100 let alone the order. I haven't seen a dozen or so on the list so I can't comment on those but there are some great ones left out, and my personal list would omit a number they did include. I think the American Academy of Film or some such organization published a list a few years ago that made a bit more sense, at least for me. Good topic for discussion, in any case.

 

[willisneverrana43]

Used Cars
Hollywood Knights

 

[ScarletNut]

Funny, I frequently play a "what if" game. If you were on a deserted island and could only bring 5 DVD movies with you (assuming you had access to electricity, a DVD player, etc), which would you bring? Remember, these are movies you would have to watch over and over. My picks: The Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Wedding Crasher and the 5th always changes for me.

 

[RU#1fan]

oops 1975. No "Papillon" nor "Sand Pebbles" nor "Great Escape". No love for McQueen.

This. And Newman in Cool Hand Luck, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,

 

[JoeRU]

Casablanca
Quiet Man
Wind that shakes the barley
The Commitments
Clerks
Eddie and the Cruisers
Billy Jack

 

[brodo]

Funny, I frequently play a "what if" game. If you were on a deserted island and could only bring 5 DVD movies with you (assuming you had access to electricity, a DVD player, etc), which would you bring? Remember, these are movies you would have to watch over and over. My picks: The Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Wedding Crasher and the 5th always changes for me.

You might get tired of only one comedy in your list so maybe add Airplane or Caddyshack. The Princess Bride is great on repeat.

 

[ScarletNut]

You might get tired of only one comedy in your list so maybe add Airplane or Caddyshack. The Princess Bride is great on repeat.

I agree. I thought of Animal House too.

 

[BigRnj]

NO CADDYSHACK, NO ANIMAL HOUSE, NO GREAT ESCAPE!!! NO LIKE

 

[Southern Gentleman]

Casablanca
Quiet Man
Wind that shakes the barley
The Commitments
Clerks
Eddie and the Cruisers
Billy Jack

You are a person of HIGH quality! Anyone who lists The Quiet Man has my support!

 

[DanoRU]

Didn't recognize most on that list so I could easily knock off half of them. Movies I always enjoyed and weren't mentioned were "Kelly's Heroes", "It's a mad mad mad mad world" and one most never heard, "Cops and Robbers" starring Joe Bologna.

 

[BigRnj]

Dirty Dozen, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and the Fugitive are missing

 

[ddsmugs]

Apocolypto and Gunga Din

 

[Knightmoves]

Used Cars
Hollywood Knights

Casablanca and Used Cars rocks the house IMHO.

Did I miss Clint Eastwood movies Outlaw Josie Wales and The Unforgiven ?

 

[seels2662]

Funny, I frequently play a "what if" game. If you were on a deserted island and could only bring 5 DVD movies with you (assuming you had access to electricity, a DVD player, etc), which would you bring? Remember, these are movies you would have to watch over and over. My picks: The Godfather, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, Wedding Crasher and the 5th always changes for me.

Now this is great
My five
The Thin Man
The Shawshank Redemption
Midnight Run (the Robert Deniro one)
Cinderella Man
Whatever my new fav is to watch (currently probably Deadpool)