Revenge of the Top 100 Movie Lists
Well, I finally managed to come up with my own Top 100 Movies list. Many are not really Top 100 material, I suppose, but my movie viewing has been limited compared to the rest of you, and a lot that I have seen were so long ago I don't remember much about them. (The whole list of movies that I can ever remember seeing at all is only 165 entries long.) Maybe I should have gone for a more modest Top 50 like Kathy L. did. But the deed is done, so here's my hundred; I'll undoubtedly be kicking some out as I watch more new ones. The ranking of the bottom 40 is kinda nebulous, as I find it difficult to compare 40 so-so apples, oranges, peaches, and bananas in any meaningful way. You can consider it more or less a 40-way tie for 61st place.
Kathy McCracken's Top 100 Movies, v.1.0 (May 21, 2005)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Star Trek: First Contact
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- My Left Foot
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Fiddler on the Roof
- A Beautiful Mind
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Fantasia
- Ben-Hur
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Independence Day
- Rebecca
- The Hunt for Red October
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Boys Don't Cry
- Spaceballs
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- The Butterfly Effect
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Galaxy Quest
- Jurassic Park
- X-Men
- Men In Black
- Star Trek: Generations
- Spiderman
- Jurassic Park III
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
- The Road Warrior
- X2: X-Men United
- Daredevil
- Catch Me If You Can
- Rain Man
- The Ten Commandments
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Apollo 13
- Timeline
- Starship Troopers
- Planet of the Apes (2001)
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
- I, Robot
- The Matrix
- Minority Report
- The Puppet Masters
- The Time Machine
- Sahara
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Air Force One
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- Paper Moon
- The Graduate
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Back to the Future
- Crocodile Dundee
- Airplane!
- Romancing the Stone
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Spiderman 2
- Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
- Papillon
- Jurassic Park: The Lost World
- Star Trek Nemesis
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- The Sound of Music
- The Jewel of the Nile
- The Odd Couple
- Office Space
- City Slickers
- Men In Black II
- Tootsie
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Flashback
- Frequency
- On Golden Pond
- Thelma and Louise
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- Gone With the Wind
- King Arthur
- The Andromeda Strain
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Star Trek: Insurrection
- Back to the Future II
- Back to the Future III
- Clear and Present Danger
- Patriot Games
- The Good Son
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Sphere
- The Miracle Worker (1962)
- Anna and the King
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- The Poseidon Adventure
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The War of the Roses
2 comments:
You certainly like your sci-fi! Only seen 165 movies? Isn't that like one a year? (Ducks, runs for cover, etc.) :)
More like three a year, wiseass. :-) Except I don't think I saw too many movies before I was, oh, 8 or so?
I've never been much of a movie-goer, probably because most of my years growing up there was no theater in my small town. Although believe it or not there actually was a movie theater open there for a few years -- I must have been around 10-12. I remember seeing The Wizard of Oz there (and no, it was not first run!), but no recollection of any other specific movies.
After it closed and was torn down for a parking lot, the closest movie theater would have been 10 miles away, and it was a rare treat to be able to go to a movie. So I pretty much never developed the habit. You young whippersnappers grew up with cineplexes all over the place and ample opportunity to see movies whenever you wanted to.
I know there were more movies that I have seen at one time or another, but either they were so long ago I've forgotten them completely, or I have such a dim recollection that it wasn't worth putting on my preliminary list; after all, if I don't remember anything about it, it's hardly going to be in my top 100. :)
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