Wednesday, September 21, 2005

 

Holy Moly: These are my 200 Favorite Movies Of All Time (at the moment)

Alright, I tried to actually rank these as quickly as possible and not think too much about it. I'm probably forgetting something, possibly several films, but I've tried to be pretty thorough. Also, this is a snapshot of my mood right this instant; I reserve the right to change my opinions hourly without notifying anyone.

Fire away.

  1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  2. Star Wars – ALL of them
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  4. The Matrix Trilogy
  5. All the Pretty Horses
  6. A Clockwork Orange
  7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  8. Office Space
  9. O Brother, Where Art Thou
  10. Lost In Translation
  11. Full Metal Jacket
  12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  13. Magnolia
  14. Gladiator
  15. One Hour Photo
  16. All the President’s Men
  17. The Sixth Sense
  18. The Royal Tenenbaums
  19. The Shining
  20. Dr. Strangelove
  21. Pulp Fiction
  22. Harold and Maude
  23. High Fidelity
  24. Memento
  25. The Straight Story
  26. The Thin Red Line
  27. Batman Begins
  28. Donnie Darko – Director’s Cut
  29. Closer
  30. Tombstone
  31. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
  32. A Very Long Engagement
  33. The Last of the Mohicans
  34. Fahrenheit 9/11
  35. Rushmore
  36. Amelie
  37. A River Runs Through It
  38. Braveheart
  39. The Shawshank Redemption
  40. Jacob’s Ladder
  41. Eyes Wide Shut
  42. Apocalypse Now
  43. Wedding Crashers
  44. The Fog of War
  45. Friday
  46. Raising Arizona
  47. Legends of the Fall
  48. Sideways
  49. The Quiet American
  50. Unforgiven
  51. Sling Blade
  52. The Ring
  53. Trainspotting
  54. Dances With Wolves
  55. In the Bedroom
  56. Love Liza
  57. Schindler’s List
  58. American Beauty
  59. Glory
  60. Amadeus
  61. Hard Boiled
  62. Best In Show
  63. Saving Private Ryan
  64. L.A. Confidential
  65. Austin Powers – the first two
  66. The Princess Bride
  67. A Christmas Story
  68. Fletch – 1 and 2
  69. Billy Madison
  70. Cold Mountain
  71. A Man on the Moon
  72. The Big Lebowski
  73. Blade – 1 and 2
  74. The Sweet Hereafter
  75. Elizabeth
  76. Chasing Amy
  77. October Sky
  78. Punch Drunk Love
  79. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  80. Beloved
  81. Whale Rider
  82. The Girl with the Pearl Earring
  83. The 40 Year Old Virgin
  84. Contact
  85. Platoon
  86. Friday Night Lights
  87. American Splendour
  88. Seven
  89. Life is Beautiful
  90. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  91. Lonesome Dove: the miniseries
  92. Romeo and Juliet
  93. The Good Girl
  94. Happy Gilmore
  95. Dead Man Walking
  96. Top Gun
  97. You Can Count on Me
  98. Tommy Boy
  99. Falling Down
  100. Requiem for a Dream
  101. X-Men: 1 and 2
  102. The Apostle
  103. Bowling for Columbine
  104. Shrek: 1 and 2
  105. Roger and Me
  106. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
  107. About A Boy
  108. Y Tu Mama Tambien
  109. About Schmidt
  110. Black Hawk Down
  111. Traffic
  112. Touching the Void
  113. The Insider
  114. Happy Endings
  115. Far From Heaven
  116. Dangerous Liaisons
  117. Gattaca
  118. Kids
  119. The Man Who Wasn’t There
  120. Sexy Beast
  121. Ghost World
  122. Big Daddy
  123. Monster’s Ball
  124. Shattered Glass
  125. Hero
  126. The Constant Gardener
  127. Bad Santa
  128. Just Married
  129. Garden State
  130. Mr. Deeds
  131. Dumb and Dumber
  132. Liar, Liar
  133. There’s Something About Mary
  134. Minority Report
  135. Space Balls
  136. The Wedding Singer
  137. Fried Green Tomatoes
  138. Reservoir Dogs
  139. Clerks
  140. Face Off
  141. November
  142. Fearless
  143. AI
  144. Forrest Gump
  145. The Color Purple
  146. Boogie Nights
  147. So, I Married an Axe Murderer
  148. 12 Monkeys
  149. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
  150. The Waterboy
  151. Hustle and Flow
  152. Starship Troopers
  153. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
  154. I, Robot
  155. Talk to Her
  156. Mallrats
  157. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  158. Gettysburg
  159. Dogma
  160. Erin Brockovich
  161. Gods and Monsters
  162. Leaving Las Vegas
  163. Shadowlands
  164. Naked Gun movies
  165. Way of the Gun
  166. Being John Malkovich
  167. Indiana Jones movies
  168. Philadelphia
  169. Three Kings
  170. Run Lola Run
  171. Boys Don’t Cry
  172. Sweet and Lowdown
  173. Airplane
  174. As Good as it Gets
  175. Total Recall
  176. The Others
  177. Good Will Hunting
  178. Affliction
  179. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
  180. Die Hard
  181. Amistad
  182. The Hours
  183. Of Mice and Men
  184. The Terminator – 1 and 2
  185. Air Force One
  186. Junebug
  187. Batman – the first 3
  188. Meet the Parents
  189. Cast Away
  190. Muppets movies up to about 1995
  191. What about Bob?
  192. The Red Violin
  193. Chevy Chase Vacation movies
  194. Primary Colors
  195. The Rock
  196. The Perfect Storm
  197. Crash
  198. The School of Rock
  199. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
  200. Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams

# posted by townesvanfaulkner @ 3:01 PM
Comments:
I actually haven't seen any of these. I've been meaning to check out paths of glory for a long long time since I'm such a Kubrick fan.

I can do amazing things when I'm bored at work.
# posted by Blogger townesvanfaulkner : 4:07 PM
 
Yeah, there were several movies like Goodfellas and Natural Born Killers that I saw a long time ago and recall enjoying but I just couldn't remember them well enough to know where to include them. I decided just to exclude them rather than try to discern how much I liked them.

There are also a slew of movies like The Usual Suspects, The Doors, and JFK that I saw but was too drunk to really follow them.

I'm not a big fan of caddyshack (please forgive me) and Holy Grail was pretty good.
# posted by Blogger townesvanfaulkner : 10:10 AM
 
where is 'daddy and them'?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 1:26 PM
 
what about 'the graduate'? you didn't like it?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 1:28 PM
 
'coal miners daughter'?? i'm going to have to make my own list.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 1:29 PM
 
I actually haven't seen these either. I've never even heard of Daddy and Them. What's that?
# posted by Blogger townesvanfaulkner : 12:55 PM
 
you have to drop what you're doing and go rent Coal Miners Daughter and Daddy and Them. Coal Miners Daughter is Loretta Lynn's story - lots of funny and touching southern appalachian color. Daddy and Them is a Billy Bob Thornton written and directed film that never made it to the big screen. Billy Bob had a falling out with the production company because of some things that were cut from All the Pretty Horses. Andy Griffith plays his dad, John Prine his brother, Jim Varney his uncle who is in jail. Not much plot, but worth checking out. You can rent it at Blockbluster or some other similar place. I'm slowly becoming a fan of your blogspot. I'm waiting for top 100 albums, live shows, or similar music rankings. you and amy and the pups are well.
take good care, travis
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 8:18 PM
 
You had some "just out" movies that I was very surprised to see on your list. Mr/Mrs Smith (or did you mean the old one), 40 year old virgin, and more. I know you get 200 spots but come on.

All in all I liked most of these. I suppose if I chose 200 I'd have some stinkers too.

You forgot:
Any/All Kurisowa films (although props for Dreams)
Harry Potter - come on you know you love them
Cloak and Dagger, the only movie I have ever rewound and watched again. Notice I say rewound, I was like 10.
Army of Darkness

Oh so many others, maybe I'll make my own list.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 4:55 PM
 
I think its genuinely been a very good year for movies (box office sales be damned), and we're just now entering oscar season. 40 year old virgin is destined to be a comedy classic right up there with Adam sandler movies, something about mary, deuce bigalow, dumb and dumber, etc. So, yeah it belongs, and wedding crashers was even BETTER, though A-killa disagrees.

I thought Batman Begins was the best comic book movie ever. I really liked Mr and Mrs smith--it was action packed, funny, and sexy as all get out.

I did forget Igby Goes Down, Ame. Wish you had remembered that one earlier.

We saw Thumbsucker last weekend and it is high-quality shit. Vince Vaughn, elliot smith on the soundtrack, great performance by a new kid. Good stuff. Saw History of Violence before that, and thought it was ridiculously overhyped, kind of hollow, not as powerful as I would have expected, though it did have its moments.
# posted by Blogger townesvanfaulkner : 8:07 AM
 
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