Movies on IMDB's Top 250: How many have you seen?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

The link:

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?tt0111161

I have seen 74.

(1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 42, 51, 52, 53, 58, 59, 65, 69,, 76, 91, 92, 98, 99, 104, 105, 106, 110, 111, 115, 120, 124, 131, 132, 133, 135, 144, 147, 152, 153, 156, 157, 159, 169, 174, 175, 181, 183, 190, 199, 201, 205, 209, 210, 232, 235, 236, 237, and 243. You don't have to list them all if you don't want to.)

Any on there that you don't think deserve it? Any unfair exclusions?

[DS1]

1. 151

[bicentennial_baby]

2. 83, I think...

I wasn't sure about a few of the foreign ones, as i didn't want to stop counting long enough to read them thoroughly, lest I lose track, which I did 3x :P

[guitar man]

3. that's a little hard to figure out

I have to double check some of the titles and make sure it's the version I saw. For instance, I was sure I had seen this one until I clicked the link and found out it was a different movie than the one I saw. :D

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208092/

[lost-in-nj]

4. I saw 127

of them!!!



lost

[MrScorpio]

5. 135

I need to see more

[yellowdogintexas]

17. 119. correction: make that 120; no make it 125

I did not think I skipped THAT many.

Edited: damn foreign titles. I overlooked 'Good Bad and Ugly" Jeez

2nd edit. missed Once Upon a Time in the West...same reason.
and 'For a Few Dollars More'

and North by Northwest because I just missed it
and The Unforgiven because I just missed it

[harmonicon]

22. shit! Now I have to add 3 to my count

Those Leone movies are the best.

[Mutley]

6. 99.

That may not be entirely accurate since I didn't double check anything to make sure I saw the same version, and there were a few I didn't count even though I think I saw them, but can't really remember.

[fishwax]

7. 179

A lot of good movies on that list :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. A lot.

[huskerlaw]

9. 57

Maybe I should update my Netflix queue...

[DarkTirade]

10. If we're only counting the ones I've seen completely...

2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24, 29, 31, 33, 36, 37 (proof that Natalie Portman can act, for those who have only seen her in Star Wars), 44, 47, 48, 52, 53, 58, 61 (man is THAT one a bit fucked up... all my life I wanted to see Jennifer Connely get naked, and when she finally did it was such a fucked-up scene that it wasn't the slightest bit erotic), 64, 70, 76, 78, 81 (still funny to this day), 82, 83 (I made it aaaaaaall the way through that movie without crying... until the very end.), 92, 98, 99, 103, 104, 105, 106, 111, 115 (a classic), 117 (this movie sodomized my frontal lobe. Total mindfuck), 118, 122, 123, 124 (great first date movie!), 125, 129, 131, 137, 144, 147, 148, 150, 153 (STFU Donnie), 156, 159, 178, 181, 182, 185, 186 (and I have the soundtrack too!), 190, 196, 197, 198, 199, 202, 227, 232, 235, 236, 237, 240 (Natalie Wood was kinda cute in that one), 246 (lovely cinematography, intense ending)... and it looks like that's all. Lemme count 'em up.

I got 70... did I count that right?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. 117.

[begin_within]

12. No "Tokyo Story." No "Soy Cuba." No "Au Hasard Balthazar." Who are they kidding.

Their list is laughable. At least they did manage to get "Ladri di biciclette" on the list, but all the way down at #109, when it should be around #4 or #5.
As far as ones that did make it which don't deserve it... Pulp Fiction, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, The Departed, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The Big Lebowski, Snatch - all of them taking up space which could have been occupied by far more deserving films.

[fishwax]

19. well, the weighted rating works against films that not as many people have seen/rated

Movies have to have at least 1300 votes before they can be included in the list, and then the average rating is weighted based on how many users have rated the film. Tokyo Story, Soy Cuba, etc. have been rated by relatively few, and so even though the average ratings for those films have been high, the WR has pushed them off the list.

[harmonicon]

23. I mostly agree - I thought it was horrible

I do however think that The Big Lebowski deserves a spot, because 1. it's funny as hell, and 2. it's had a cultural impact in a way that the crap movies you mentioned haven't.

Obviously the people who voted on these movies are largely very young, complete idiots, or both. Probably 1/2 of the movies on the list are from the last ten years. ... and, even though I've never seen it, I somehow doubt that Toy Story 2 is better than Harold and Maude, which it is above on the list, or Night of the Living Dead, which isn't on the list.

[begin_within]

25. It seems heavily slanted towards more recent films.

I have nothing against "The Big Lebowski" or the people who like that film, but it was a disappointment to me. I'm guess I'm just resentful that films like that are on the list while most of my own favorites are nowhere on it.

[harmonicon]

26. meh

A lot of my favourites aren't on there, but lots of them are also weird zombie and sci-fi movies, so I'm not that surprised. I'm more bothered by the complete crap that's on there than I am by the lack of any one thing in particular.

[Critters2]

13. 115. I'll be adding some of these to my Netflix queue. nt

[pokerfan]

14. 93

[LisaM]

15. Geeze, I've only seen 44 of those movies

There are lots of classics that aren't there, but I would rank "Henry and June" right up there with some of the best movies I've seen, also "Sid and Nancy", and "The Women".

[HughBeaumont]

16. The following:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, part of 10 (I really . . . REALLY tried and really want to see The Seven Samurai . . . but my body just DOES not allow me to. I can drink 8 Red Bulls, ingest a Vivarin/NoDoz/Jolt cocktail . .. doesn't matter. Glacially paced B/W movies are like Nyquil no matter what :( ), 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, (there's the first undeserved rankings: ALL the LOTR movies. I mean, COME on), 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 32, (while healing from my vasectomy!) 33, 34, 35 (the fact that Taxi Driver is ranked this low is bullshit), 36 (ANOTHER undeserved. I still don't get WHY people beat off over "American Beauty", I really don't.), 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49 (Lives of Others is a very underrated movie. Check it out), 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 80, 82, 87, 88, 91, 92, 93, 95 (GREAT movie), 98, 99, 103, 104, 105, 106, about to watch 109, 111, 114, part of 116 (again . . . couldn't stay awake), 117, 118, 119, 120, 123 (OVER-RATED!), 124, 125, 127, 128, 131, 132, 133, 135, 137, 140, 144, 147, 150, 151, 153, 154, 156, 158, 159, 160, 161, 166, 174, 175, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 190, 191, 193, 196, 201, 202, 205, 209, 210, 213, 218, 223, 227, 232, 235, 236, 242, 246, 248, 249, 250

Soooo . . . . 131. I think that says a lot about our library, which contains about 90% of these, believe it or not.

[cyberswede]

18. 131 for sure

...maybe a couple more...my memory isn't what it used to be. :)

[YankeyMCC]

20. Wow, I've seen 102

I didn't realize what a movie buff I am:

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[JeanGrey]

21. 186

[harmonicon]

24. at least 98

Some of them I just couldn't remember. I found it amazing that a large number of the movies on the list are from the last 10 years. Most of them on there that I've seen are either complete crap or just not that great. I think most people have just never seen a good film, or very few.

[ForrestGump]

27. So far, 157

of them, including almost the entire top 10 ("Casablanca was #10 and, probably like a few other classic movies on this list that I'm claiming not to have seen, if I ever saw it I saw it when I was very young and have long since forgotten it). I’ve got 34 of these films on DVD (the bolded titles).

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Schindler's List (1993)
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
8. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 200,724
11. Star Wars (1977)
12. 12 Angry Men (1957)
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
14. Goodfellas (1990)
16. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
18. C'era una volta il West (1968)
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
20. The Usual Suspects (1995)
21. Psycho (1960)
22. Fight Club (1999)
23. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
24. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
25. Citizen Kane (1941)
26. North by Northwest (1959)
27. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
28. Memento (2000)
29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
30. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
31. The Matrix (1999)
32. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
35. Taxi Driver (1976)
36. American Beauty (1999)
37. Léon (1994)
38. Vertigo (1958)
39. American History X (1998)
40. Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)
44. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
45. Chinatown (1974)
48. Alien (1979)
50. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
51. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
52. Forrest Gump (1994)
53. The Shining (1980)
54. Double Indemnity (1944)
58. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
59. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
60. L.A. Confidential (1997)
61. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
62. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
63. Boot, Das (1981)
65. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
67. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
70. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
71. Raging Bull (1980)
76. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
77. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
79. All About Eve (1950)
80. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
81. Some Like It Hot (1959)
86. The Great Escape (1963)
87. The Prestige (2006)
88. The Elephant Man (1980)
91. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
92. Jaws (1975)
93. The Sting (1973)
98. Braveheart (1995)
99. Blade Runner (1982)
100. Strangers on a Train (1951)
102. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
103. Batman Begins (2005)
104. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
105. Back to the Future (1985)
106. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
107. High Noon (1952)
110. Fargo (1996)
111. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
112. Notorious (1946)
113. Unforgiven (1992)
115. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
119. Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
120. The Green Mile (1999)
123. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
124. Gladiator (2000)
125. Die Hard (1988)
127. Into the Wild (2007)
129. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
133. The Sixth Sense (1999)
135. Platoon (1986)
137. Life of Brian (1979)
144. Finding Nemo (2003)
147. The Incredibles (2004)
148. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
150. V for Vendetta (2005)
151. The Wild Bunch (1969)
152. The Graduate (1967)
154. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
156. The Princess Bride (1987)
157. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
159. Stand by Me (1986)
160. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
161. Gandhi (1982)
164. Snatch. (2000)
165. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
167. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
168. The Thing (1982)
169. Gone with the Wind (1939)
170. The African Queen (1951)
173. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
174. Scarface (1983)
175. Groundhog Day (1993)
176. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
177. The Gold Rush (1925)
179. The Conversation (1974)
180. Duck Soup (1933)
182. The Terminator (1984)
183. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
184. Patton (1970)
186. Wo hu cang long (2000)
187. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
188. Sleuth (1972)
189. The Hustler (1961)
190. The Lion King (1994)
191. King Kong (1933)
195. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
196. The Exorcist (1973)
197. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
200. The Lost Weekend (1945)
201. Juno (2007)
202. Spartacus (1960)
203. Stalag 17 (1953)
204. Frankenstein (1931)
205. Magnolia (1999)
207. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
209. Casino (1995)
211. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
213. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
214. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
215. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
217. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
218. Big Fish (2003)
220. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
221. Dial M for Murder (1954)
223. Mystic River (2003)
224. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
225. Lola rennt (1998)
227. Young Frankenstein (1974)
230. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
231. Roman Holiday (1953)
234. Harold and Maude (1971)
235. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
236. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
237. A Christmas Story (1983)
240. The Searchers (1956)
241. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
243. Blood Diamond (2006)
244. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
246. Ying xiong (2002)
250. Cinderella Man (2005)


Obviously the list is dominated by American films or by other films that did well in the US, and there are certainly a few films that I'd never place above excellent outings like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (as perhaps expected from a William Goldman script, it's got to be one of the most perfectly written screenplays ever filmed), but these lists are never perfect and rarely close to a good stab at objectivity.

[Angleae]

28. Only 29

I don't watch a lot movies.

[TheMightyFavog]

29. Here are mine

4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 19, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 34, 52, 58, 59, 63, 76, 93, 100, 103, 105, 106, 111, 112, 117, 119, 123, 137, 152, 153, 158, 173, 178, 181, 184, 190, 196, 199, 215, 225, 232, 237, 242, and 248

[Richardo]

30. 107. What's surprising is how many I have NOT seen.

Some real classics on that list too, I'm afraid :blush:

[BarenakedLady]

31. 114 or so. (n/t)

[charlie and algernon]

32. 94

[Chan790]

33. All but 16. (I think, I counted the ones I didn't see, not vice-versa)

So it might be higher or lower.

I used to proctor a campus foreign language lab and I saw a lot of them there. Also took "Propaganda and Culture" and "Political Film in America", both of which were excuses to watch movies for a class.

Refusing to watch Star Wars or LOTR also knocked down my score.

[tjwmason]

34. Seen 69 here.

Numbers: 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 39, 48, 58, 62, 65, 70, 75, 76, 80, 82, 86, 88, 91, 92, 99, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 111, 120, 124, 125, 131, 137, 140, 141, 149, 150, 152, 159, 161, 169, 170, 171, 175, 180, 181, 182, 184, 190, 191, 196, 197, 202, 211, 231, and 245.

[annonymous]

35. I have seen 43 of them

They should give the English translations of some of the films listed. I don't know if Spirited Away is on the list but it deserves to be. I hated The Big Lebowski and The Graduate and thought Forest Gump was a bit too annoying to be included as one of the great films.

[trackfan]

36. 63

8,9,11,12,15,16,21,25,26,27,30,38,44,50,53,58,60,62,67,76,77,81,82,
83,84,86,92,96,105,106,108,111,112,130,131,134,137,138,148,152,165,
167,170,172,177,180,184,187,191,201,202,207,211,214,215,217,226,227,
230,234,238,244,248