The IMDB Test

[Judo]

How many of the top 100 IMDB films have you seen? Anything that you strongly object to or feel the list is missing? And no cheating as its not a contest and the more you've yet to see the luckier you are!

Mark the movies you've seen with an X.
1. [ x] The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. [ x] The Godfather (1972)
3. [ x] The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. [ x] Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
5. [ x] Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. [ x] Schindler's List (1993)
7. [ x] The Dark Knight (2008)
8. [ x] 12 Angry Men (1957)
9. [ x] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
10. [ x] Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
1st subtotal - 10
11. [ x] Casablanca (1942)
12. [ x] Star Wars (1977)
13. [ x] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
14. [x ] Shichinin no samurai (1954) - brilliant smaurai fun!
15. [ x] Goodfellas (1990)
16. [x ] Rear Window (1954)
17. [x ] Cidade de Deus (2002)
18. [x ] Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
19. [x ] C'era una volta il West (1968) - love this film, evil peter fonda's eye blues
20. [x ] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
2nd subtotal: 20/20
21. [ x] Fight Club (1999) - best twist film but overly long
22. [x ] Up (2009)
23. [x ] The Usual Suspects (1994)
24. [x ] Psycho (1960)
25. [x ] The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - my fave film ever, horrow ftw!
26. [x ] Sunset Blvd. (1950) - the last scene in this is what films are all about 3
27. [x ] The Matrix (1999)
28. [x ] Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
29. [ ] Memento (2000)
30.

• North by Northwest (1959)
  3rd subtotal: 29/30
  31. [ x] It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  32. [ x] Se7en (1995)
  33. [ x] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  34. [ x] Citizen Kane (1941)
  35. [ x] Léon (1994) - second fave film ever, peado hitman lol
  36. [ x] Apocalypse Now (1979)
  37. [ x] American Beauty (1999)
  38. [ x] Taxi Driver (1976)
  39. [ x] American History X (1998)
  40. [x ] Vertigo (1958)
  4th subtotal: 39/40
  41. [ x] Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  42. [ ] WALL·E (2008)
  43. [ x] Forrest Gump (1994)
  44. [x ] Paths of Glory (1957)
  45. [x ] Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
  46. [ ] M (1931)
  47. [ ] Double Indemnity (1944)
  48. [x ] To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  49. [x ] Alien (1979)
  50. [x ] A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  5th subtotal: 46/50
  51. [x ] The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  52. [x ] The Shining (1980)
  53. [x ] The Departed (2006)
  54. [ x] Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  55. [ ] The Third Man (1949)
  56. [ ] Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
  57. [ x] Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  58. [ x] Chinatown (1974)
  59. [ x] The Pianist (2002)
  60. [x ] Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
  6th subtotal: 54/60
  61. [ x] City Lights (1931)
  62. [x ] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  63. [x ] Aliens (1986)
  64. [ ] Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  65. [ ] L.A. Confidential (1997)
  66. [ x] Das Boot (1981)
  67. [ ] Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  68. [x ] Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  69. [x ] The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  70. [x ] Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  7th subtotal: 61/70
  71. [x ] El laberinto del fauno (2006)
  72. [x ] Rashômon (1950)
  73. [x ] Raging Bull (1980)
  74. [ ] All About Eve (1950)
  75. [ ] The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  76. [ x] Gran Torino (2008)
  77. [ x] Modern Times (1936)
  78. [x ] Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  79. [ x] Some Like It Hot (1959)
  80. [ ] Rebecca (1940)
  8th subtotal: 68/80
  81. [x ] Der Untergang (2004)
  82. [x ] Metropolis (1927) - god 1927?! Loved this
  83. [ x] The Prestige (2006)
  84. [ ] The Apartment (1960)
  85. [x ] Amadeus (1984)
  86. [x ] The Elephant Man (1980)
  87. [ ] La vita è bella (1997)
  88. [x ] Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)
  89. [ x] 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - beautiful scifi
  90. [x ] The Great Dictator (1940)
  9th subtotal: 76/90
  91. [x ] Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  92. [x ] Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  93. [x ] The Great Escape (1963)
  94. [ ] Ladri di biciclette (1948)
  95. [x ] Back to the Future (1985)
  96. [ ] The Sting (1973)
  97. [ ] Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  98. [x ] Sin City (2005)
  99. [ x] Star Trek (2009)
  100. [x ] Touch of Evil (1958)
  Final score: 83/100
  
  Yass got 17 still to see. 'classic' film nights need to be planned! <3
  
  No Blade Runner or The Thing ??? And seriously Up but no disney cartoons? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills x

[JamesC]

You can tell the type of people that post scores on IMDB from that list! I think I've seen all the ones I'd want to on there - probably about half.

There's some real pretentious shite on that list - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless fucking Mind and Requiem For a Dream are prime examples (even the titles are annoying and overlong!)

You're right about the lack of Disney films - very odd.

[Buttonman]

I'm at 100.

For a while I was 250/250 when I set myself the challenge to see the lot. Good fun finding them all - some like 'Sunrise : A Tale of Two Humans' are out of copyright so you can get them on Googlevideo. Some I bought and later resold on eBay others may have been 'auditioned' from reputable websites.

Great way to see a lot of films you wouldn't normally seek out - 'Wages of Fear' about guys driving dynamite trucks and 'Witness for the Prosecution' which has a great couple of twists are two for a start. On the downside there is a lot of Kurosawa which I found a bit dull apart from 'High and Low' which was a contemporary thriller based on an Ed McBain story. A previous quest of mine was to read all 55 McBain 87th Precinct novels which was a great sucess despite the trouble to the postman's back!

Of the list as it stands just now I'm missing :

129. The Artist (2011)
137. Black Swan (2010)
151. Warrior (2011)
159. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
174. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
190. Mary and Max (2009)
194. Harakiri (1962)
203. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
208. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
211. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
222. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
225. Ip Man (2008)
228. Tokyo Story (1953)
237. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
241. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
247. Castle in the Sky (1986)
248. Shutter Island (2010)
250. Andrei Rublev (1966)

That's 18 to go but the list changes everytime you refresh it - I distinctly remember waiting a day to copy my list so that the 3 hour 'Fanny and Alexander' had dropped off.

Of my 'to do' list most are in the last couple of years - things find their natural place over time and I doubt 'Shutter Island' will be there next week (not that I've seen it). It is quite elitist with a lot of films there, it would seem, so that the voters look intellectual - tell me 'Wild Strawberries' is a better film than 'Rushmore'.

Good fun and after this I 'graduated' to only watching films that started with a 'W' and then films that were 'The Definite Article'. Sadly I'm backworking again so no time for such fripperies any more.

[Emperor]

From a quick skim I think I've seen all but Up and that'll be on TV at Xmas I'm sure. I had a bit of a moment when I didn't recognise some of them by their original names.

I suppose the follow-up question is: How many do you own on DVD? I don't have that many as they get shown on TV quite a bit (mainly fancy releases of films I love), but I do have the Criterion release of Seven Samuari (a thing of beauty), Optimum's special edition of Rashomon, Sin City with the free comic, Eternal Sunshine, The Prestige, Pan's Labyrinth (possibly twice as I was given the Del Toro boxset although I've got most of them singly on DVD) as well as the LoTR, Matrix and Alien boxsets. There might be one or two others on the free DVDs given away in papers, like Cinema Paradiso (which has to have come from the Guardian rather than the Mirror ).

[Buttonman]

From the top 100 I'm within 10 feet of DVDs for 13 of them. If recordings of any sort are counted I'd probably say about half. Do try not to watch the same thing twice yet the last thing I wastched as the 'Up to 11' Edition of 'This is Spinal Tap' - 3 discs for a fiver well recommended!

[klute]

I have most of those on dvd,but i'm not really one for lists.Mine changes all the time it's ever evolving.

Though i'm saddened that both Dazed and Confused and Thank God it's Friday aren't in the list....infact i think there's still alot missing hence the not liking lists's

[Judo]

wow buttonman 250/250 that's some severe film buffitude going on there... You free for a pub quiz lolol?!

129) The artist - its really just a shitter version of sunset boulevard but good enough.
137) Black swan - its really just a shitter version of swan lake but good enough.
151) Warrior -its really just a shitter version of rocky but good enough.

Hmm I'm sensing a pattern... Beauty and the beast though - one of the best disney films - though your possibly not the target market.

I agree on the pretension front and some of these films just *arent* the best, but merely non offensive eg the prestige. Good film but I have it on dvd and still aren't in a rush to rewatch it. Eternal sunshine same, I love michel gondry and it was a good film, but not top 100 good.

Emperor Up is good though I found it a little too long and the 3D made my head hurt. Dvd wise... all the best horrors and all the best martial arts. No jackie chans armour of the gods??? Love that film. Then I have a few of the darker 'classics' but between myself and my sunnier flatmate we have about 60 or so of these x

[dweezil2]

69 (dude) out of 100 here.

But really, some of those just should't be on there! Forrest fucking Gump? Purleeaasse!

[M.I.K.]

137) Black swan - its really just a shitter version of swan lake but good enough.

Also has a whole load of similarities with a 1997 Japanese animated film called Perfect Blue. Darren Aronofsky acknowledges the similarities are there, but claims the film wasn't an influence, which is a bit weird seeing as how he already owns the film rights to Perfect Blue, having bought them so he could 'borrow' one of the scenes for film number 64 on the list.

[Roger Godpleton]

Black Swan is better than Perfect Blue purely on the basis that it isn't fucking anime.

[Judo]

mik oh yes perfect blue! I haven't seen that in years but now that you mention it yeah a bit. But perfect blue has a better, darker plot. Swan lakes perfect as it is and if I'd been asked how it could be improved pills, lesbians and wanking in front of mothers would *definitely* not have been my answer. God portman your glory days of leon are well and truly behind you x 

[Emperor]

Of the list as it stands just now I'm missing :

...

225. Ip Man (2008)

On Film4 tonight, so fill your gap and stick around for the sequel which follows it.

[James Stacey]

41.

[ x] The Godfather (1972)
3. [ x] The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. [ x] Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966)
5. [ x] Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. [ x] The Dark Knight (2008)
10. [ x] Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
12. [ x] Star Wars (1977)
13. [ x] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
14. [ x] Shichinin no samurai (1954) - brilliant smaurai fun!
18. [x ] Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
19. [x ] C'era una volta il West (1968)
20. [x ] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
22. [x ] Up (2009)
25. [x ] The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
27. [x ] The Matrix (1999)
32. [ x] Se7en (1995)
33. [ x] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
36. [ x] Apocalypse Now (1979)
37. [ x] American Beauty (1999)
41. [ x] Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
42. [ x] WALL·E (2008)
43. [ x] Forrest Gump (1994)
45. [x ] Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
48. [x ] To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
49. [x ] Alien (1979)
57. [ x] Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
60. [x ] Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
63. [x ] Aliens (1986)
66. [ x] Das Boot (1981)
68. [x ] Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
69. [x ] The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
70. [x ] Reservoir Dogs (1992)
71. [x ] El laberinto del fauno (2006)
72. [x ] Rashômon (1950)
78. [x ] Singin' in the Rain (1952)
79. [ x] Some Like It Hot (1959)
89. [ x] 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
91. [x ] Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
93. [x ] The Great Escape (1963)
95. [x ] Back to the Future (1985)
99. [ x] Star Trek (2009)

and I can't say there are many on the list I havent seen that I want too. Why the Godfather films are so highly regarded I'll never know. Read the book first and it just felt like so much was missing for such a long pair of films.

[Buttonman]

Of the list as it stands just now I'm missing :

...

225. Ip Man (2008)

On Film4 tonight, so fill your gap and stick around for the sequel which follows it.

Oh very good I'll V+ that for later dissection - cheers. Have the non-list 'King of Marvin Gardens' and 'W' contender 'We own he night' to catch up on first.

[bluemeanie]

It doesn't have Pirahna 3D so is therefore not worth completing