Top 100 movies of all time.

[Vik]

15. THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - this is the one I have the most trouble with being top 100, but the monster sure is iconic

I can understand why it bothers you, it's just a personal favourite of myne, definately my favourite monster classic. It get's better the more I watch it.

[Rev. Powell]

15. THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - this is the one I have the most trouble with being top 100, but the monster sure is iconic

I can understand why it bothers you, it's just a personal favourite of myne, definately my favourite monster classic. It get's better the more I watch it.

That's OK, unusual choices are part of what this exercise is about. 

29. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

[Jim H]

4. A BETTER TOMORROW - interesting; it's not even my favorite John Woo film, but I can see it.

I think I'm pretty unusual in the west in that it is my favorite Woo film.  What's interesting to me is that Chinese critics almost unanimously put A Better Tomorrow as his best work.  For example, the Hong Kong film awards list it as the second best Chinese film EVER, behind Spring in A Small Town.  Over here, of course, it's usually the Killer which is put up top. The Killer is my third favorite Woo film, behind Bullet in the Head.  I'm not quite sure what puts me more in tune with ABT, but I love all three films, and all three would make it in a personal top 100.

30. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

[bionica]

31. The Dark Crystal

[Leah]

32. Manos, the Hands of Fate- Just because it's so bad that's it's bad in a good way

[Rev. Powell]

4. A BETTER TOMORROW - interesting; it's not even my favorite John Woo film, but I can see it.

I think I'm pretty unusual in the west in that it is my favorite Woo film.  What's interesting to me is that Chinese critics almost unanimously put A Better Tomorrow as his best work.  For example, the Hong Kong film awards list it as the second best Chinese film EVER, behind Spring in A Small Town.  Over here, of course, it's usually the Killer which is put up top. The Killer is my third favorite Woo film, behind Bullet in the Head.  I'm not quite sure what puts me more in tune with ABT, but I love all three films, and all three would make it in a personal top 100.

My guess is that ABT is viewed as sort of the Chinese equivalent of GODFATHER/GOODFELLAS, but Western audiences miss a lot of the dramatic nuances.  Like most Americans, I guess I find it easier to respond to the straight-out action of THE KILLER/HARD-BOILED.

33. AMADEUS (1984)



Bull - no comment.

[JaseSF]

34. FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

[Couchtr26]

35) The Seven Samurai

[Vik]

36.

[Rev. Powell]

37. STAR WARS (1977)

[Vik]

37. STAR WARS (1977)

What episode ?

[Rev. Powell]

37. STAR WARS (1977)

What episode ?

That's "episode IV," the one actually called STAR WARS.

[Rev. Powell]

37. STAR WARS (1977)

What episode ?

That's "episode IV," the one actually called STAR WARS.

By the way I hope I didn't sound sarcastic there, I was actually trying to be clear. 

[3mnkids]

Just updating the list started by Rev.   

1. FIGHT CLUB
2. THE GODFATHER
3. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
4. A BETTER TOMORROW
5. BRAZIL
6. THE WAGES OF FEAR
7. SCARFACE
8. A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
9. NOSFERATU (1922)
10. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
11. IN BRUGES
12. SCHINDLER'S LIST
13. CASABLANCA
14. THE WIZARD OF OZ
15. THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
16. THE HUSTLER
17. THE EXORCIST
18.  2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
19. MULHOLLAND DRIVE
20. AMERICAN BEAUTY
21. VERTIGO
22. HEAVENLY CREATURES
23. BULLY
24. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD
25. APOCALYPSE NOW
26. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
27. One flew over the cuckoo's nest
28. Superman: The Movie.
29. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
30. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
31. The Dark Crystal
32. Manos, the Hands of Fate
33. AMADEUS (1984)
34. FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)
35. The Seven Samurai
36. M (1931)
37. STAR WARS (1977)

[Vik]

37. STAR WARS (1977)

What episode ?

That's "episode IV," the one actually called STAR WARS.

By the way I hope I didn't sound sarcastic there, I was actually trying to be clear. 

I didn't think you were ;)
But aren't they all called Star Wars ? I thought, example, Episode 5 was called STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Or is it only THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK ?