100 Best Movies of All Time
 

Found this interesting. Some interesting picks...very surprised to see City of God there.
Malone

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A few interesting picks.

Lists like this always piss me off though. There is no way these can be considred the 100 Best movies. I think influential would be a much better description.

For these to be the "best", there is entirely way too much credit placed on older movies that simply can not stand up to movies made within the last 25 years.

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One of the critics who helped compile the list said in an interview, "We felt we had to have a film that represented the Silent Era, and the new Digital Animation Era needed to be represented..."

NO THEY DON'T!!!

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I'm just happy 2001: A Space Odyssey isn't on there. That's the most overrated movie ever.

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There are indeed some amazing movies missing from this list, although it's one of those subjective kinds of things I guess.

I realize there's at least 2 Kurosawa films, but I think Seven Samurai is better than Ikiru (haven't seen Yojimbo).

Also, I only looked for Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game, but one of these should have been here (or some Renoir film, but I'm not familiar with his whole catalog of works)

Also, Godard's Breathless...Awesome film, not on the list.

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The Fly? WTF?

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A few interesting picks.

Lists like this always piss me off though. There is no way these can be considred the 100 Best movies. I think influential would be a much better description.

For these to be the "best", there is entirely way too much credit placed on older movies that simply can not stand up to movies made within the last 25 years.

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....surely you jest??!!

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I've only seen 4 of those. Finding Nemo, LOTR, Star Wars and Schindler's List. I have to say, Monsters Inc. > Finding Nemo and there are probably some other animated movies better.

Seen Talk to Her as well, not that good.

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Of the listed movies I have seen, only Finding Nemo, Talk To Her, and Blade Runner jump out at me as movies that simply don't belong.

I was glad to see that Kurosawa was mentioned twice...and though I find Ikiru's inclusion (and Seven Samurai's exclusion) surprising, it is worthwhile to note that Ebert thinks Ikiru was Kurosawa's best film. However, it's not even in my top five...Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Ran, High and Low, and Throne of Blood are all better imo...

One unacceptable exclusion was The Third Man. I have quibbles with other selections...but this one was the most ludicrous.

If I'm taking a Coen Brothers film I'm taking Fargo and not Miller's Crossing.

I think Jean-Pierre Melville got a bit of the shaft here...Bob Le Flambeur and Le Samourai both deserve to be on this list.

Being There and Lone Star should also be on this list, but then again, those two movies seem to always be overlooked.

And finally...two selections I thought were very cool.

City of God is probably the best movie made in the last five years.

And Invasion of the Body Snatchers is just...so fun. Great pick.

Will

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I was glad to see that Kurosawa was mentioned twice...and though I find Ikiru's inclusion (and Seven Samurai's exclusion) surprising, it is worthwhile to note that Ebert thinks Ikiru was Kurosawa's best film. However, it's not even in my top five...Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Ran, High and Low, and Throne of Blood are all better imo...

Will

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.....agreed.

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