The Redcafe Top 100 movies

Spoons...not sure if you have seen it yet or not, but Build My Gallows High (aka Out of the Past), is on tv either tonight or tomorrow, can't fully remember...is on at about 2.00 in the morning. Great film noir with Robert Mitchum...was on that Film Noir list I did for you a while back.

Still working on the horror list, should be with you soon.
 
Thanks. But why are spastics that are not on the panel posting their lists in here?

feck off Rudie.
 
Spoonez el Grande said:
It was very average.
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I thought it was just okay, but like I said, the book was so much better.
Great cast list though. How many times do you see Hoffman and De Niro in the same movie?
and it depends Reelworld. Are you going to stick American History X, Forrest Gump or Requiem for a Dream in it???????? They spoil Crappy's otherwise decent list.
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Well the thing is, I don't know whether I've watched at least 100 decent movies. I've been trying to put up a list, but I don't think I can manage to reach 100.
 
reelworld said:
I thought it was just okay, but like I said, the book was so much better.
Great cast list though. How many times do you see Hoffman and De Niro in the same movie?

:lol:
Well the thing is, I don't know whether I've watched at least 100 decent movies. I've been trying to put up a list, but I don't think I can manage to reach 100.
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This time next year, then. Make sure you watch loads of classics and all.
 
Sorry gents. Just got back from Vegas last night. No chance at all of putting a decent list together in time. Top ten was hard enough when I just thought about it.
 
OK Caftards, I'm going to have another one of my anti-classic movie fits in here and say that after reading the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest is overrated. A decent attempt at adapting it but a shadow of the book again.
 
I haven't read it. I almost never enjoy the movie over the book and if I watch the movie first I make it a point not to read the book. Usually anyway, it's not a strict rule or anything. One Flew Over is a great movie and I don't need a book to ruin it for me.
 
Remember liking the movie a lot when seeing it. Would probably had made my top 10 had I not read the book. But the book gives a very good perspective of the amount of chopping that the movie did not doing justice to some of the side characters and an amazing narrator. It does generate the desired effect from the book but lacks depth
 
It's the same as The Shining, the book is far superior to the film, but the film is still fecking great as is One Flew Over.
 
listen up spackers, this is not the fecking book club and i wont be serving fecking cookies and milk. get your fecking movie lists up
 
Spoonez el Grande said:
and you've left On the Waterfront out, Crappy. Sort it out man.
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It's there. At no. 43

And I rate American History X and Requiem, let's just leave it at that. Forrest Gump would probably slide off if I see some other classics. I was not able to see as many movies I would have liked to.

Haven't seen Visitor X.
 
I fecked up and Apocalypse Now got lost off my list. This, I hope, is the correct version.

1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. Scarface
3. The Godfather II
4. Memento
5. The Godfather
6. Withnail and I
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Old Boy
9. True Romance
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
11. Downfall
12. The Devils (Les Diaboliques)
13. Wild at Heart
14. Deconstructing Harry
15. A Bittersweet Life
16. Goodfellas
17. Annie Hall
18. Ichi the Killer
19. City of God
20. Black Hawk Down
21. The Name of the Rose
22. How To Get Ahead in Advertising
23. Hannah and Her Sisters
24. Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
25. LA Story
26. Groundhog Day
27. Atlantis
28. Usual Suspects
29. The Shining
30. The Life of Brian
31. The Big Lebowski
32. Stalingrad
33. Syriana
34. Sid and Nancy
35. Chopper
36. The Seventh Seal
37. Richard III
38. Apocalypto
39. A Clockwork Orange
40. Boyz in the Hood
41. Three Kings
42. The Shawshank Redemption
43. The Jungle Book
44. Casablanca
45. Blue Velvet
46. The Princess Bride
47. Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail
48. Being John Malkovich
49. Dead Man’s Shoes
50. Seven Samurai
51. Fahrenheit 9/11
52. Blood Diamond
53. The Motorcycle Diaries
54. The Corporation
55. Visitor Q
56. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
57. LA Confidential
58. Fist of Fury
59. Blade Runner
60. The Lost Boys
61. Last of the Mohicans
62. Grosse Point Blank
63. Trading Places
64. Seven
65. Trainspotting
66. The Long Good Friday
67. Once Were Warriors
68. House of Flying Daggers
69. Enter the Dragon
70. Alien
71. Beetlejuice
72. Aliens
73. Kung Fu Hussle
74. Watership Down
75. Taxi Driver
76. Team America
77. Pulp Fiction
78. Mulholland Drive
79. Get Carter
80. Full Metal Jacket
81. Mean Streets
82. Mad Max 2
83. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
84. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
85. I Heart Huckabees
86. Hellraiser
87. Reservoir Dogs
88. Gangs of New York
89. Edward Scissor Hands
90. Goodnight and Good Luck
91. Following
92. Fight Club
93. Casino
94. Cyrano de Bergerac
95. Psycho
96. Bowling for Columbine
97. Brotherhood of the Wolf
98. Batman
99. A Fish called Wanda
100. Carlitos Way
 
I have to include Amadeus in my list after watching it tonight.

But I can't do all the numbering again and I don't have word. So I am assigning the job to mehro or GB ( both can edit my post). Please include Amadeus before Terminator 2 on my list at 44, thereby relegating Sleepers off it. I am off tomorrow for 4 days to Goa, so that will be my final submission.
 
ole_gunner said:
smokin aces
taking of the pelham 123
assault on precinct 13 (original)
the warriors
first blood
12 angry men
falling down
the cube
matrix
die hard 123
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Was awful, the best movie of all time though has to be the Godfather II, which is also the best sequel of all-time by some distance imo
 
I'll finalise mine today.

Still waiting for Cinc's, Ole's, Dwayne's and I think Wibble's. (Peter's mentioned his will be in today). Should be some cracking lists amongst those lot.
 
In no particular order

1. Memento
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather II
4. The Good,the Bad and the Ugly
5. City Lights
6. Once Upon A Time In America
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Rain Man
9. Forrest Gump
10. Leon(The Professional)
11. Empire of the Sun
12. Scarface
13. Miller's Crossing
14. Dial M For Murder
15. Trainspotting
16. Silence Of The Lambs
17. Casino
18. Oldboy
19. City of God
20. Dances With Wolves
21. Exorcist
22. Ed Wood
23. Carlito's Way
24. Full Metal Jacket
25. Austin Powers trilogy
26. Groundhog Day
27. The Gold Rush
28. Usual Suspects
29. Saving Private Ryan
30. Dangerous Liaisons
31. The Big Lebowski
32. Good Will Hunting
33. Clerks
34. Das Boot
35. Goodfellas
36. Bugsy
37. Shindler's List
38. Apocalypto
39. Requiem For A Dream
40. Divorzio all'italiana
41. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
42. The Shawshank Redemption
43. Downfall
44. Office Space
45. Boogie Nights
46. The Man Who Wasn't There
47. The Graduate
48. Midnight Cowboy
49. Spellbound
50. Bad Santa
51. Planes,Trains and Automobiles
52. Vertigo
53. Marathon Man
54. Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
55. Snatch
56. The Matrix
57. LA Confidential
58. Boxer
59. Some Like It Hot
60. The Apartment
61. Scent Of A Woman
62. Love and Death
63. Bullets Over Broadway
64. Thief(Vor)
65. My Cousin Vinnie
66. Friday
67. As Good As It Gets
68. The General(
69. Enter the Dragon
70. American Beauty
71. Bitter Moon
72. Aliens
73. Kung Fu Hustle
74. Road To Perdition
75. Taxi Driver
76. Malcolm X
77. Pulp Fiction
78. Coming To America
79. Once Upon A Time In The West
80. Shaun Of The Dead
81. In the Name of My Father
82. Shallow Grave
83. Indiana Jones trilogy
84. The Unforgiven
85. Elevator To The Gallows
86. Little Big Man
87. North By Northwest
88. Jerry Maguire
89. Basic Instinct
90. Tootsie
91. Braveheart
92. The Untouchables
93. Annie Hall
94. Young Guns
95. Psycho
96. Love Actually
97. Rear Window
98. Predator
99. A Fish called Wanda
100. Fargo
 
1)In the Mood For Love
2)Three Colours: Blue, White, Red
3)Hiroshima mon amour
4)The Piano Teacher
5)Les enfants du paradis
6)La belle et la bête
7)Blue Velvet
8)Le quai des brumes
9)Orphée
10)Days of Being Wild
11)Hidden
12)On the Waterfront
13)Les quatre cents coups
14)Repulsion
15)Code Inconnu
16)The Double Life of Veronique
17)L’année dernière à Marienbad
18)Double Indemnity
19)2046
20)Performance
21)Rashomon
22)This Sporting Life
23)Strangers on a Train
24)Fahrenheit 451
25)The Third Man
26)The American Friend
27)The Servant
28)Le boucher
29)Human Desire (Lang)
30)The Big Sleep
31)Extension de la domaine de la lutte (Harel)
32)Casablanca
33)Solaris (Tarkovsky)
34)Aguire, the Wrath of God
35)Blade Runner
36)The Godfather 1 &2
37)Pulp Fiction
38)A Streetcar Named Desire
39)Jamon Jamon
40)La haine
41)Don’t Look Now
42)Mulholland Drive
43)Lacombe Lucien (Malle)
44)Pépé le Moko
45)Jean de Florette/Manon des sources
46)Un chien andalou/L’age d’or
47)M
48)The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
49)La dentellière (Goretta)
50)La veuve de Saint-Pierre
51)Raging Bull
52)À bout de souffle
53)Metropolis
54)The English Patient
55)Mildred Pierce
56)The Gospel According to St Mark (Pasolini)
57)Crash (Cronenberg)
58)La haine
59)Head-on (Fatih Akin)
60)Citizen Kane
61)Z
62)Seven Samurai
63)Mean Streets
64)Celine and Julie Go Boating
65)Le valseuses
66)La Strada
67)Le samourai
68)Kagemusha
69)Don’t Look Back (Pennebaker)
70)Fargo
71)Once Upon a Time in the West
72)Le feu follet (Malle)
73)Psycho
74)LA Confidential
75)La cérémonie (Chabrol)
76)Walk About
77)The Maltese Falcon
78)McCabe and Mrs Miller
79)Sunrise
80)Fistful of Dollars (trilogy)
81)5x2
82)The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
83)Big Lebowski
84)Peeping Tom
85)Mon oncle d’Amerique
86)Fox and His Friends
87)Alien
88)If…
89)Cabaret
90)Wild at Heart
91)The Postman Always Knocks Twice (Garnett)
92)Five Easy Pieces
93)Taxi Driver
94)High Plains Drifter
95)Amores perros
96)The Lives of Others
97)High Noon
98)The Go Between
99)Macbeth (Polanski)
100)La bête humaine



A few thoughts:

-Much more fun than I expected, making me plug some holes and re-evaluate some opinions
-Tried to keep it to a maximum of two films per director
-Leant towards enjoyment rather than admiration though there are perhaps a few here to be admired more than enjoyed
-I think I have a tendency to overrate films seen either a long time ago or very recently
-I’ve seen a lot of these on a big screen and some films (particularly older b&w for some reason) suffer badly on a small screen
-Long list of “to see” now especially Asian stuff
-I suspect my list would be much different in a year’s time
 
Excellent list PS - good to see Quai des Brumes so high...I'm sure I forgot to include that on mine - shame on me! Similar titles as mine there too, although I think you have yours a bit more accurately rated tha I did...rather let my heart rule my head on a few, but nevermind.
 
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