i wish i had
Are Fellowship and Towers on the list?
Schindlerās List 6
13. Inception
20. Seven Samurai
23. City of God
25. Life is Beautiful
31. Spirited Away
33. The Pianist
34. Leon
35. Parasite
41. The Prestige
Spoiler the kid is almost certainly guilty, so all that work was just to let a murderer go free.
Yeah. Not really on purpose, just never got around to it.
I enjoyed the first two, but not in a āholy shit this is amazing I gotta see the next oneā way.
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Itās this, itās only at #94.
This is not very surprising, imdb Top 250 is essentially a consensus from polling American high school and college students (slightly exaggerating but not that much), which is why it has so many forgettable movies from the last 2 decades.
The kind of list youre thinking of (made by old snobbish people who have seen a lot of movies) is for instance the Sight&Sound list (Citizen Kane is #2).
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Unless I skipped over something, Iāve only seen 5/100 of those.
(Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, Metropolis, Godfather 1 and 2)
One sushi place I used to go to had an āObama rollā.
Sushi with brown rice, ldo.
I love the LOTR movies, but honestly skipping the third one is an elite move.
Still #1 on my go-to snobby list
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Not even the Hitchcock movies ? Vertigo and Psycho at least are must see.
Yeah I like these lists (some of these movies I would say are not for me, but none are outright bad like in the Imdb top and theyāre all historically important), but the actual ranking in the first 100 or so is a bit arbitrary.
āCitizen kaneā as #1 is definitely some kind of historical artifact, if someone came up to me and said that it was their favourite movie I would 100% not believe them. (āVertigoā I would however !)
Yeah, thereās definitely a difference between āfavoriteā and ābestā movies. Iāve seen Citizen Kane and itās most definitely one of the best movies of all time, especially when you consider some of the movie magic tricks they did back then, but it wouldnāt even be a thought in most peopleās minds for their āfavoriteā movie.
- 12 Angry Men
- Schindler
- LOTR 3
- LOTR 1
- LOTR 2
- one flew over the cuckoo nest
- 7 samurai
- Itās a wonderful life
- Life is beautiful
- The green mile
Looks like it auto made a list even though I typed in the correct ranks, weird. Green Mile should be number 26
Just going through the top 20 on this list and itās much more consistent with my personal preferences. Tokyo Story, for example, is one of my favorite movies.
As ctr said, the Hitchcock movies on this list really hold up well. Vertigo, Psycho, North by Northwest, and Rear Window are all excellent, and donāt depend on being a product of their time and place in cinema history like Citizen Kane does. Apocalypse Now is also outstanding.
Of that list, Iām doing pretty well among the English-language talkies, but given the abundance of non-English and silent movies, thereās a ton I havenāt seen.
Citizen Cane is a good movie but its not even my favorite movie with Orson Welles. The Third Man is great movie and holds up well as a noir thriller.
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Not sure either of those can hold a candle to this masterclass in acting:
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Itās famous because it invented so much about what we think of as āmoviesā. I donāt think many people would list it as their favourite movie. Like few people would list the Model T as their favourite car ever.
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That makes a lot of sense. I also do enjoy it as a movie though, I think the plot and drama hold up well even today. I am not sure I would enjoy driving a Model T though.
I mentioned Tokyo Story above, thatās another movie that is over 60 years old and is very ādatedā but I find it still packs an emotional punch. In fact, in a way the universality of the main theme of Tokyo Story (intergenerational conflict between older people and their adult children, adult children being too busy with their day to day demands to maintain connections with their parents, parents feeling abandoned) is accentuated by the way that the viewer can be a 45 year old Canadian in 2022 and identify a story from 1953 Japan! Itās a great film.
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