Originally Posted By DAR I found this on another message board that I participated in. I went from 2009-1930's 2000's 1. Lord of the Rings-All three films 2. The Dark Knight 3. The Incredibles 4. The Departed 5. Batman Begins 6. Kingdom of Heaven-Directors Cut 7. Gladiator 8. District 9 9. City of God 10. Finding Nemo 1990's 1. Goodfellas 2. The Shawshank Redemption 3. Toy Story 4. Pulp Fiction 5. Tombstone 6. Fight Club 7. Silence of the Lambs 8. The Truman Show 9. The Lion King 10. Terminator 2: Judgement Day 1980's 1. The Empire Strikes Back 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark 3. Die Hard 4. Hoosiers 5. Back to the Future 6. Blade Runner 7. The Thing 8. Ghostbusters 9. This is Spinal Tap 10. Amadeus 1970's 1. The Godfather 2. Star Wars: A New Hope 3. Jaws 4. The Godfather Part II 5. Network 6. The Outlaw Josey Wales 7. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 8. Patton 9. Dirty Harry 10. Animal House 1960's 1. The Manchurian Candidate 2. The Good the Bad and the Ugly 3. Cool Hand Luke 4. The Jungle Book 5. Lawrence of Arabia 6. Bonnie and Clyde 7. Goldfinger 8. The Dirty Dozen 9. Once Upon A Time In The West 10. West Side Story 1950's 1. Sunset Boulevard 2. 12 Angry Men 3. Stalag 17 4. Bridge on the River Kwai 5. On the Waterfront 6. North By Northwest 7. Singing in the Rain 8. The Day the Earth Stood Still 9. Peter Pan 10. Rio Bravo 1940's 1. Pinocchio 2. Treasure of the Sierra Madre 3. White Heat 4. His Girl Friday 5. The Maltese Falcon 6. Red River 7. The Grapes of Wrath 8. Fantasia 9. Casablanca 10. Miracle on 34th Street 1930's 1. King Kong 2. Adventures of Robin Hood 3. Bride of Frankenstein 4. Duck Soup 5. Bringing Up Baby 6. A Night at the Opera 7. The 39 Steps 8. You Can't Take It With You 9. A Day at the Races 10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Interesting that neither "Wizard Of Oz" nor "Gone With The Wind" showed up on the 30's list. "Cabaret" should appear on the 70's list.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Agreed, Inspector. What about the sixties? "Jungle Book" but no "Mary Poppins"? "West Side Story" but no "Sound of Music"? Fail.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I definitely agree that it's a little surprising that Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz are missing, since they're generally considered to be two of the top films of all time, let alone within the decade. I'm also a little surprised that Schindler's List isn't in the 90's, but Toy Story is. I guess Toy Story had a much more widespread impact on the film industry, but I think that Schindler's List is a far far superior film, both from an entertainment and artistic standpoint.
Originally Posted By Anatole69 There are some good films on that list, but it leans a little too heavily on American cinema, and American mainstream cinema at that, for my taste. - Anatole
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Let's see, MIA: Gone with the Wind Wizard of Oz Citizen Cane Sound of Music Casablanca It's A Wonderful Life To Kill a Mocking Bird African Queen In the Heat of the Night Antony and Cleopatra Dr Zhivago Ghandi The Matrix La Bella Vita (It's a Beautiful Life) hmmmmmm
Originally Posted By u k fan It's such a cheat to include all 3 LOTR movies as one. I hate when lists do that. Also, where's Three Amigos? That ommision shows that this list is not well-researched!!!
Originally Posted By DAR Other notes: Gone with the Wind-Frankly I don't really care for it that much Wizard of Oz-I like it I just don't love it. Citizen Cane-It's a very good movie just outside my top ten for the 40's Sound of Music-Again a good movie but not one I go crazy over Casablanca-Number 11 in the 40's It's A Wonderful Life-Again a movie I like just To Kill a Mocking Bird-Yeah I'm a little mad I forgot about this one African Queen-Just saw it recently and I liked it but I think I need additional viewings In the Heat of the Night-Never seen it Antony and Cleopatra-Never heard of it Dr Zhivago-I like it but if we're talking David Lean, I go to Bridge on the River Kwai or Lawrence of Arabia Ghandi-Again a good movie but I only did ten The Matrix-A great movie no doubt La Bella Vita (It's a Beautiful Life)-Never saw Schindler's List-It's a very good movie and certainly worthy of its accolades. But I've only seen it once and that was enough for me. LOTR-Since the book is considered as one I considered the movies as one too.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Oh, I didn't realise these were personal picks, I thought it was a survey. Hmmmm, when I have a little more time, I might respond. The ones I have put in here that you have not seen, I do recommend them. Also, ET is missing from the 80's - I would put that in there before Die Hard.
Originally Posted By Anatole69 I didn't realize these were personal picks either. I thought it was a list from a movie website. If it's just personal picks, then of course it's fine. >_< - Anatole
Originally Posted By u k fan The good news is DAR that you have such fantastic taste that we believed that this was an official list from somewhere!!!
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Exactly, u k fan! Nice, well-informed list, DAR! I'm impressed. I don't know enough films to compose my own list. (Does "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" count as a film?)
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Oh. Okay. Maybe that "Numa-Numa" short classic? No? Then I think I'll just have to lurk here and occasionally carp about others' lists.
