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December 23, 2004


Top 250

A link to the top 250 movies.

Me, not being a movie buff, has seen only a paltry 82 of these. Anyone seen over 100? 150? 200?

Posted By: Brad Warbiany @ 9:17 am || Permalink || Comments (5) || Trackback URL || Categories: Uncategorized

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  1. I’ve seen about 92 of them.

    However, Toy Story 1&2, Die Hard, and Groundhog Day.

    Good movies all, but they have no place on a greatest of all time list.

    Personally I think several recent films made the cut without enough time passing to make this type of judgement. Spiderman 2 for instance, also note all three LOTR movies rating very high on the list. I’m not implying that they don’t belong somewhere in the top 250, but all three in the top ten?

    I think this list would having dramatically different results if it had people rating the movies against each other, rather than on an individual basis.

    Comment by jrj — December 24, 2004 @ 7:27 pm

  2. I’ve seen Groundhog Day as many times as Murray experienced the day in that movie. It’s a classic.

    Anyway, I have 116 on that list. In question: Rocky 1, nowhere on the list. Sequels to Rocky; Keep ‘em. Other sequels that made the list; Odd.

    However, thanks to that list I now want to see 12 Angry Men again. Another great movie that I want to own.

    Uncle Jack

    Comment by Uncle Jack — December 25, 2004 @ 4:05 pm

  3. “Good movies all, but they have no place on a greatest of all time list.”

    Jim,
    They’re voted by users on that web site, not some group of movie critics or anything of that nature. Some of those shouldn’t be on the list, but good movies and popular movies aren’t always the same thing. Especially amongst internet geeks on a web site :-)

    As I’ve always said, you’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the general public.

    Comment by Brad Warbiany — December 26, 2004 @ 2:35 pm

  4. Actually I have seen 153 of these, and there a number on there that I have been meaning to see that are extremely hard to find for rent.

    So I think the list is not necessarily bad and I think that it reflects a good mix between critical and fan favorites, at least more so than say, AFI’s top 100 which are nearly all critic’s picks. For instance, I doubt that any critic would rate toy story 2 higher than toy story 1 simply because it is a sequel.

    To critics, having an original idea is sometimes more important than having a slicker movie.

    I tend to agree with that train of thought.

    There are a number of Akira Kurosawa’s films on this list, who had virtually all of his scripts borrowed and converted to westerns. (yojimbo – A fistful of dollars, seven samurai – the magnificent seven)

    Yojimbo, to elaborate, was turned into Sergio Leone’s “A Fistful of Dolars” with Clint Eastwood.

    The reason “A Fistful of Dollars” is still a good movie however is because Sergio Leone’s camera angles and extreme closeups and violence severely changed the way westerns were made. I do not remember if it was in the list or not but both Yojimbo and A fistful of dollars deserve to be on the list, one for both for different styles of originality and vision.

    Comment by B. Rowe — January 5, 2005 @ 12:27 pm

  5. I’ll have to agree, the list isn’t bad at all. I’ve seen 142 from the 250. My all time favorite still remains to be Casablanca. I’m not sure about two LOTR in the top 10.

    Comment by sportznutt — January 6, 2005 @ 4:02 pm

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