This is topic Goodfellas is the #1 Film of all time. Casablanca is #98 (Now with Full List!) in forum Books, Films, Food and Culture at Hatrack River Forum.
A british magazine has named Goodfellas as the greatest film ever made. Casablanca is #98, and Fight Club is #4.
Any list that puts Fight Club in the top ten loses all credibility with me. I found it a neat movie, but by no means great.
The cool redeeming factor of the list is the inclusion of His Girl Friday at #10.
that is all...
[ October 27, 2005, 03:26 PM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Hey, The Godfather II is a superior film to both of those.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Argh. It's only someone's random list! These lists mean nothing!
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
We saw a live theatre version of His Girl Friday a few months ago.
It was awesome. Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Sure they mean something. They mean the writer of this particular list is an idiot Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
*snicker*
Posted by digging_hoIes (Member # 6963) on :
I've never seen Goodfellas. I saw the Godfather, but I don't remember most of it. I don't know what the fuss is about.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Goodfellas? Number one of all time? No way.
It wasn't a bad movie, although as I recall it had Joe Pesci in it, and he bugs the crap out of me. But it wasn't better than Casablanca. Not a chance. And as for Fight Club...I've never been able to sit through that whole movie.
Oh, and for the record - The Godfather is a great movie. For many reasons, but especially for the fact that Coppola managed to make it seem like he went on location into the past to film the thing. Just watch the opening part of the movie, during the wedding party. That does not look like a movie set...it looks like they really were in the time.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
The Lord of the Rings trilogy not only made the list, it made the top 10: I can therefore safely laugh at it for not having any credibility whatsoever.
And Jaws was in the top 5. Clearly, this list is based on some bizarre set of requirements that none of us is understanding.
Posted by Dr. Evil (Member # 8095) on :
Fight Club was one of those movies that makes all of those young geeks think they are deep and philosophical but they really aren't. I persoanlly couldn't stand the film and think it is over-rated.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I like Fight Club (the movie, not the book) as a love story. Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
Personally, I thought fight club was a good movie. Probably not fourth best of all time, but still really good.
Never seen Casablanca, so I can't comment on their choice in that regard.
Posted by Goo Boy (Member # 7752) on :
Fight Club is a brilliant movie. This list may well be wacko--to be honest, I haven't even looked. But fight club is terrific.
Posted by JemmyGrove (Member # 6707) on :
So we don't get to see the entire list? Bummer.
And I too would like to know what criteria they used to rate movies. It would be interesting to see a description, carefully laid out in detail, listing what it is they value in a good movie.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
1 GoodFellas 2 Vertigo 3 Jaws 4 Fight Club 5 The Godfather Part II 6 Citizen Kane 7 Tokyo Story 8 The Empire Strikes Back 9 The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy 10 His Girl Friday 11 Persona 12 Chinatown 13 Manhattan 14 Taxi Driver 15 It's A Wonderful Life 16 The Apartment 17 Once Upon A Time In The West 18 All About Eve 19 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 20 Apocalypse Now 21 Crash 22 Sunrise 23 The Godfather 24 Rear Window 25 Sunset Boulevard 26 The Third Man 27 Some Like It Hot 28 Raging Bull 29 La Regle Du Jeu 30 Reservoir Dogs 31 Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid 32 Les Enfants Du Paradis 33 Star Wars 34 The Searchers 35 A Matter Of Life And Death 36 2001: A Space Odyssey 37 Touch Of Evil 38 Badlands 39 Monty Python And The Holy Grail 40 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial 41 The Last Picture Show 42 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 43 Heat 44 Annie Hall 45 Mean Streets 46 Nashville 47 Blade Runner 48 Singin' In The Rain 49 Pulp Fiction 50 It Happened One Night 51 Aliens 52 Sullivan's Travels 53 The Deer Hunter 54 Miller's Crossing 55 Kiss Me Deadly 56 The Shawshank Redemption 57 Sweet Smell Of Success 58 Die Hard 59 Blue Velvet 60 The Outlaw Josey Wales 61 Halloween 62 The Night Of The Hunter 63 The Matrix 64 The Conversation 65 8 1/2 66 Se7en 67 L'Atalante 68 This Is Spinal Tap 69 Sideways 70 Dawn Of The Dead 71 North By Northwest 72 The Terminator 73 Hoop Dreams 74 Raiders Of The Lost Ark 75 The Wild Bunch 76 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind 77 Lawrence Of Arabia 78 The Graduate 79 The Wicker Man 80 Day For Night 81 The Shining 82 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind 83 The Wizard Of Oz 84 Metropolis 85 The King Of Comedy 86 Kind Hearts And Coronets 87 Donnie Darko 88 Get Carter 89 Rio Bravo 90 Psycho 91 Dekalog 92 Back To The Future 93 Salvador 94 Magnolia 95 The Usual Suspects 96 Stand By Me 97 Trainspotting 98 Casablanca 99 Three Kings 100 Goldfinger
they actually put Monty Python and the Holy Grail at #39.
[ October 27, 2005, 03:21 PM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Die Hard is a better movie than Wizard of Oz?
This list has zero credibility with me. Especially for putting Fight Club so high on the list. I thought that movie was great the first time I saw it, and the second and third. But somewhere in there the hype overwhelmed me and broke the spell. It isn't THAT great, but it is great.
Plus the list is missing Boondock Saints. Shame.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
2001 sucked.
And Alien 3 is way better than Aliens.
-pH
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
After reading the list, all I can say is that this might be someone's list of their 100 favorite films, but "100 Greatest"? Not even close.
I'd have to think about the list some more to come to any real conclusions, but a couple things came to mind as I was reading it.
"6 - Citizen Kane"...This is a good movie, but I think of it a lot like the way I think of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". They are both great, and made some interesting innovations, but neither one are nearly as great as they are given credit for being.
"12 - Chinatown"...Defintely top ten material in my book.
"23 - The Godfather" and "24 - Rear Window"...these are both top ten material, as well.
"28 - Raging Bull"...I really hated this film, but I can still see very well that it is a great piece of filmmaking.
"76 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind"...Maybe not top 10 material, but I'd certainly consider putting it in the top 20.
"98 - Casablanca"...Maybe not number 1, but I'd definitely put it in the top 5.
Then again, this is just as subjective as the list as published.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I liked Once upon a Time in the West. And I really liked 2001. The pacing, in particular, which I know sounds kind of odd.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
Wow, my professor seems to agree with the compiler of this list. I am taking an 'American Popular Culture of the 50s and 60s' class, and right now we're doing a film unit. The movies we have watched/will watch for class are as follows (with their ranking on the list in parenthesis):
High Noon (not ranked) Rear Window (24) Vertigo (2) Some Like it Hot (27) The Apartment (16) The Graduate (78)
Only the Western (High Noon) did not make the list. Pretty cool. Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
quote: 61 Halloween
WOOHOO!
Edit:
quote: 3 Jaws
Double WOOHOO!
Edit of the Edited Edit:
quote: 77 Lawrence Of Arabia
This could have and should have been a lot higher than 77.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
...These are all so very male films...
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
You know.....when I looked at the first time I didn't notice that. But it looks like they are. I'm going to bet that the writer was a male!
Posted by JemmyGrove (Member # 6707) on :
Thanks Ben for the complete list. That's way more fun than getting just the highlights.
Hansenj, I'd be interested to hear some of your professor's comments. I think it would be cool to see some material about why these movies are where they are on this list.
And I think I would agree with you Teshi, although I'm not sure I could really explain why I agree with you. It wouldn't surprise me if the committee rating movies on this list (in my head I somehow imagined a group of people doing the rating) was predominantly male.
Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Why does the Lord of the Rings Trilogy take one slot, but Star Wars takes two different spots from the original trilogy?
Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
For me the list is invalidated by the fact that "Crash" is in the top twenty.
Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
Or right behind the top twenty.
Posted by JaimeBenlevy (Member # 6222) on :
Serenity deserves to be in any top 100 list. Along with Finding Nemo.
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
quote:And Alien 3 is way better than Aliens.
*pulse-rifle*
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
quote:19 - Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Oh come on! Even though I rank this as one of the scariest movies I've seen, there is no criterion (objective or subjective) that would place it on a list of the top 100 movies of all time, let alone have it crack the top 20.
There's just no way.
In fact, there are easily 20 better movies in the classification of B-movie horror films. Probably, if we think hard enough, we could think of 20 better films in the B-movie horror films from the 1970's.
I'd like to point out that this has placed TCM as the top rated horror film (unless one considers Vertigo as horror genre) of all time.
This list is now dismissed as pure drivel with a hmmmph and a fffftttttttppptttthhh.
Posted by theamazeeaz (Member # 6970) on :
If you make your own list, then you can put Serenity exactly where it belongs. And Star Wars. And Lotr. And Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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