Nathan Bransford challenged people to post their list of 100 favorite movies. The order is about right for the first few and then is pretty much equal for most of the rest. I should list The Centenarian Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared and A Good Day to Die Hard since I'm in them, but neither are out yet. I'm sure I'm missing some, too!
1. Blade Runner
2. Lord of the Rings
3. The Harry Potter films
4. The Princess Bride
5. A Fish Called Wanda
6. Alien/Aliens
7. Sixteen Candles
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. The Full Monty
10(a)(because I accidentally left it out!) Back to the Future
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark
11. The Silence of the Lambs
12. Schindler's List
13. ET
14. Platoon
15. Unforgiven
16. Pulp Fiction
17. Better Off Dead
18. Watch It
19. Star Wars (IV and V mainly)
20. There's Something About Mary
21. Good Morning, Viet Nam
22. Life of Brian
23. The Godfather
24. Good Will Hunting
25. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
26. Full Metal Jacket
27. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
28. Shaun of the Dead
29. Stand By Me
30. La Femme Nikita
31. Dead Poet's Society
32. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
33. Forrest Gump
34. Rocky
35. Rudy
36. Time Bandits
37. Sliding Doors
38. Groundhog Day
39. Murder By Death
40. The World According to Garp
41. Dumb and Dumber
42. Lawrence of Arabia
43. The Road Warrior
44. Gattaca
45. 28 Days Later
46. Jaws
47. Disclosure
48. Basic Instinct
49. Dangerous Liaisons
50. Cabaret
51. Summer of '42
52. The Thing
53. True Lies
54. Lethal Weapon
55. Die Hard
56. The Right Stuff
57. The Usual Suspects
58. As Good As It Gets
59. Love Actually
60. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
61. Finding Forrester
62. Scream
63. Hardware
64. Jurassic Park
65. Night Watch/Day Watch
66. The Colors trilogy
67. Goodfellas
68. True Romance
69. Ruthless People
70. Down and Out in Beverly Hills
71. Beverly Hills Cop
72. Mrs. Doubtfire
73. Ghost
74. Midnight Run
75. The Sting
76. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (US version)
77. Braveheart
78. The Spanish Apartment
79. Sex and Lucia
80. Queen Margot
81. Showgirls
82. Almost Famous
83. Clueless
84. LA Confidential
85. Carlito's Way
86. Boyz n the Hood
87. MASH
88. Bend It Like Beckham
89. Young Guns
90. Searching for Bobby Fischer
91. A Fistful of Dollars
92. Four Weddings and a Funeral
93. Salem's Lot
94. The Shining
95. Arachnophobia
96. The Exorcist III
97. Manhattan
98. Beautiful Girls
99. Leon, the Professional
100. When Harry Met Sally
TV Shows
1. Game of Thrones
2. Freaks and Geeks
3. Rome
4. Friday Night Lights
5. Northern Exposure
6. Firefly
7. Big Bang Theory
8. Battlestar Galactica (new version)
9. Band of Brothers
10. Frasier
11. The Walking Dead
12. Seinfeld
13. Friends
14. Taxi
15. Sopranos
16. Cheers
17. Deadwood
Kids
1. Monsters Inc.
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Toy Story
5. Bridge to Terabithia
6. The Secret Garden
7. The Incredibles
8. Finding Nemo
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I appreciate that you distinguish between The Professional and Leon, the Professional. :)
ReplyDeleteCool list!
ReplyDeleteSave some of that for an upcoming blogfest...
I think we have a lot of overlap...
ReplyDeleteBryan, nothing beats people with great taste!
ReplyDeleteWe could watch a lot of entertainment together. Great list.
ReplyDeleteJust compiling that list must have taken some patience. I suppose making a list of 'just' your Top 20 would incur similar amounts of frustration - 'Does this one make it, or not?'
ReplyDeleteCan't argue with the majority of your choices - loving the fact you have Bladerunner up at #1, right where it belongs.
I think I've seen all of those except maybe ten. I could never put my favorite movies in order. It always depends on my mood. Road Warrior is one of my favorites, though. Don't think I saw that on the list.
ReplyDeleteGreat list, Ted! I don't think I'd be able to list that many and still be happy that I'd included all of my favouriteS!
ReplyDeleteJamie
L.G., The Road Warrior is there! It's at 43, though like I said, the actual numbers don't mean all that much past the top 10. And the ones from 90-100 could easily be swapped out for a number of other movies I really like. I toned down the horror choices, and there are loads of those that I really like.
ReplyDeleteSearching for Bobby Fischer! A favorite few have seen.
ReplyDeleteI see you completely cheated by grouping all the best ones (LOTR, HP, SW). Well played, Ted.
ReplyDeleteSo Ted, I can't wait to see the new Die Hard movie that is all over the television in advertising spots because I know you are in it! So excited! I hope I can spot you.
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