What I've seen on IMDB's Top 250

Submitted by directorspen on Thu, 10/07/2004 - 03:44
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  1. The Godfather
  2. Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King
  3. The Shawshank Redemption
  4. The Godfather: Part II
  5. Seven Samurai
  6. Schindler's List
  7. Casablanca
  8. Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring
  9. Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers
  10. Star Wars
  11. Citizen Kane
  12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  13. Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back
  14. Pulp Fiction
  15. Rear Window
  16. Dr. Strangelove
  17. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  18. The Usual Suspects
  19. Memento
  20. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  21. 12 Angry Men
  22. North by Northwest
  23. City of God
  24. Lawrence of Arabia
  25. Psycho
  26. It's a Wonderful Life
  27. Amelie
  28. Silence of the Lambs
  29. Goodfellas
  30. Once Upon a Time in the West
  31. Sunset Boulevard
  32. American Beauty
  33. Vertigo
  34. The Matrix
  35. Apocalypse Now
  36. To Kill a Mockingbird
  37. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  38. The Pianist
  39. The Third Man
  40. Fight Club
  41. Paths of Glory
  42. Spirited Away
  43. Taxi Driver
  44. Singin' in the Rain
  45. Some Like it Hot
  46. Double Indemnity
  47. Das Boot
  48. Chinatown
  49. M
  50. L.A. Confidential
  51. Se7en
  52. All About Eve
  53. The Maltese Falcon
  54. The Bridge on the River Kwai
  55. Rashomon
  56. Requiem for a Dream
  57. Kill Bill: Vol.1
  58. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  59. Saving Private Ryan
  60. Raging Bull
  61. Alien
  62. American History X
  63. The Professional
  64. The Wizard of Oz
  65. The Manchurian Candidate
  66. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  67. Modern Times
  68. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  69. The Sting
  70. Touch of Evil
  71. Life is Beautiful
  72. A Clockwork Orange
  73. On the Waterfront
  74. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  75. Reservoir Dogs
  76. Ran
  77. Amadeus
  78. The Great Escape
  79. Finding Nemo
  80. The Apartment
  81. Annie Hall
  82. Jaws
  83. Metropolis
  84. City Lights
  85. High Noon
  86. Aliens
  87. Braveheart
  88. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  89. The Shining
  90. Fargo
  91. Donnie Darko
  92. Strangers on a Train
  93. The Seventh Seal
  94. Blade Runner
  95. The General
  96. Cinema Paradiso
  97. The Great Dictator
  98. The Sixth Sense
  99. Princess Mononoke
  100. Duck Soup
  101. The Best Years of Our Lives
  102. The Bicycle Theif
  103. Yojimbo
  104. Full Metal Jacket
  105. The Princess Bride
  106. Kill Bill: Vol.2
  107. Rebecca
  108. The Big Sleep
  109. Notorious
  110. Forest Gump
  111. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  112. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  113. Patton
  114. It Happened One Night
  115. Run Lola Run
  116. Toy Story 2
  117. The Graduate
  118. The Deer Hunter
  119. The Incredibles
  120. Once Upon A Time in America
  121. Hero
  122. Cool Hand Luke
  123. Glory
  124. Unforgiven
  125. Manhattan
  126. The Philadelphia Story
  127. The Elephant Man
  128. Ben Hur
  129. Mystic River
  130. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
  131. The African Queen
  132. The Searchers
  133. The Green Mile
  134. Amores Perros
  135. The Grapes of Wrath
  136. Talk to Her
  137. Bringing Up Baby
  138. Stalag 17
  139. Wild Strawberries
  140. Back to the Future
  141. Shrek
  142. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  143. Gone with the Wind
  144. The Night of the Hunter
  145. Platoon
  146. The Hustler
  147. All Quiet on the Western Front
  148. The Gold Rush
  149. The Straight Story
  150. A Christmas Story
  151. The Wild Bunch
  152. Big Fish
  153. Arsenic and Old Lace
  154. Dogville
  155. Battleship Potemkin
  156. Lost in Translation
  157. Oldboy
  158. Young Frankenstein
  159. Die Hard
  160. Life of Brian
  161. His Girl Friday
  162. The 400 Blows
  163. Grand Illusion
  164. The Adventures of Robin Hood
  165. Monsters, Inc.
  166. Spartacus
  167. Witness for the Prosecution
  168. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  169. Garden State
  170. Grave of the Fireflies
  171. The Celebration
  172. Gladiator
  173. Roman Holiday
  174. Sling Blade
  175. The Day the Earth Stood Still
  176. Charade
  177. The Conversation
  178. Ed Wood
  179. Magnolia
  180. A Streetcar Named Desire
  181. Toy Story
  182. Ikiru
  183. Before Sunset
  184. The Killing
  185. Three Colors: Red
  186. All the President's Men
  187. Brazil
  188. Almost Famous
  189. The Insider
  190. To Be or Not to Be
  191. A Night at the Opera
  192. Gandhi
  193. Nosferatu
  194. In America
  195. Who's Afraid of the Virginia Woolf?
  196. Shadow of a Doubt
  197. Dog Day Afternoon
  198. 21 Grams
  199. Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl
  200. Twelve Monkeys
  201. Harvey
  202. Stand By Me
  203. Groundhog Day
  204. Trainspotting
  205. The Exorcist
  206. The Terminator
  207. Being John Malkovich
  208. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  209. Mullholland Dr.
  210. Miller's Crossing
  211. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  212. La Strada
  213. The Lion in Winter
  214. This is Spinal Tap
  215. Laura
  216. Network
  217. Rain Man
  218. The Station Agent
  219. 8 1/2
  220. The Right Stuff
  221. King Kong
  222. Midnight Cowboy
  223. The Big Lebowski
  224. Bonnie and Clyde
  225. The 39 Steps
  226. Snatch.
  227. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  228. Whale Rider
  229. Stagecoach
  230. Rio Bravo
  231. The Thin Man
  232. Adaptation
  233. The Untouchables
  234. Persona
  235. The Last Samurai
  236. In the Heat of the Night
  237. Planet of the Apes
  238. Bride of Frankenstein
  239. Sullivan's Travels
  240. Being There
  241. X2
  242. Fanny and Alexander
  243. Judgement at Nuremberg
  244. The Killer
  245. The Others
  246. Heat
  247. Kind Hearts and Coronets
  248. Children of Paradise
  249. Castle in the Sky
  250. Barry Lyndon
Author Comments: 

This is by no means updated, I just wanted to bold Raging Bull.

178/250 - 71.2%

Bold = have seen
Red = haven't seen

The Incredibles...in the top 150? Well, here's to IMDB's wacky formula.

RosieCotton10/07/2004

Wow, you've seen quite a few!

directorspen10/07/2004

After the top 100, the watched sort of pan out.

RosieCotton10/11/2004

You need to get cracking. You're behind.

directorspen10/11/2004

Yeah, really. This past summer and the one before you wouldn't believe how many times I went to my local library and checked out a lot of the movies on this list. I would let the movies sit around thinking I'd get around to them but a week would pass and I'd have to return them without seeing them. I should have seen so many more.

Also, I have quite a few unfinished films on this list (Godfather II, Lawrence of Arabia, Raging Bull, Alien, Blade Runner, Full Metal Jacket, Cool Hand Luke, The African Queen, Die Hard, The Conversation, 12 Monkeys, Network) which I've seen a good portion of but didn't want to say I'd seen them because I'd not finished them.

RosieCotton10/11/2004

I've done the same. I remember seeing a portion of a film, but I can't take credit for it. Or, I'm 50% sure I've seen it, but I can't remember a thing about it, so I have to see it again.

dayfornight10/23/2004

Such a strange place, that IMDb Top 250 list. The Usual Suspects and The Matrix better movies than The Third Man? No, I think not. That's what happens when 15-year-olds vote, I guess. No offense to the 15-year-old Listologists out there, but geez, the IMDb list is blasphemous.

directorspen10/23/2004

It really is. And where all the Lord of the Rings movies are in the top 10. But to soften the shock of it all, it's better to know that it's based on votes from members and what the top 1000 posters on IMDB say. Take a look at the number of votes for The Matrix then see how many Sunset Boulevard or Once Upon a Time in the West have.

RosieCotton11/12/2004

Demonstrates the dangers of mob rule.

directorspen11/12/2004

Indeed it does. And you could take that theory to many things in life, such as religion. But that's another discussion.