Movie New BigFooty Top 100 Movie Countdown for 2014 (voting closed)

[benji2]

No worries - still need some more votes (only have 29 lists, hoping for 50) so will extend this deadline. Not sure exactly when to - maybe Sunday the 7th?

 

[RobbyRoy]

No worries - still need some more votes (only have 29 lists) so will extend this deadline. Not sure exactly when to - maybe Sunday the 7th?

Beauty. Will begin work on somehow narrowing it to 20.

 

[Grogg]

1. Pans Labyrinth
2. Oldboy (2003)
3. Once Upon A Time In The West
4. To Kill A Mockingbird
5. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
6. Fargo
7. Silence Of The Lambs
8. The Third Man
9. Raging Bull
10. North By Northwest
11. Kung Fu Hustle
12. Confession of Murder
13. The Bourne Identity
14. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
15. The Fly
16. The Killing Fields
17. Incendies
18. The Lives Of Others
19. Ran
20. Dr. Strangelove

Edit: added the qualifier 2003 to Oldboy

 

[spinynorman]

1. Cries and Whispers (1972)
2. The Searchers (1956)
3. Vertigo (1958)
4. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
5. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
6. Raging Bull (1980)
7. Some Like It Hot (1959)
8. Casablanca (1942)
9. Ikiru (1952)
10. The 400 Blows (1959)
11. M (1931)
12. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
13. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
14. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
15. Roman Holiday (1953)
16. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
17. The Grand Illusion (1937)
18. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
19. ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
20. Amarcord (1973)

 

[00Stinger]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Snatch
3. Goodfellas
4. Sin City
5. Any Given Sunday
6. Matrix
7. Scarface
8. Blow
9. Zoolander
10. Inception
11. Scott Pilgrim vs. the world
12. American History X
13. Zombieland
14. Natural Born Killers
15. Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
16. Constantine
17. Dogma
18. Training Day
19. Once apon a time in Mexico
20. Raiders of the lost arc

 

[PVF]

1. The Godfather Part 1
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Silence of the Lambs
6. Memento
7. The Usual Suspects
8. The Godfather Part 2
9. Training Day
10. L.A Confidential
11. Monty Python's: The Life of Brian
12. Kill Bill Vol 2
13. Hot Fuzz
14. American Gangster
15. The Shining
16. American Psycho
17. Se7en
18. The Dark Knight
19. Old School
20. Buried


Wow that was hard.

 

[djrossie16]

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Raging Bull
3. The Godfather
4. Into the Wild
5. Boogie Nights
6. A City of Sadness
7. Leaving Las Vegas
8. Hunger
9. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
10. Lacombe Lucien
11. Head-On
12. Gladiator
13. Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring
14. Once Upon a Time in the West
15. The Lunchbox
16. Breaker Morant
17. The Edge of Heaven
18. The Best Years
Years of Our Lives
19. Come and See
20. Dazed and Confused

 

[Lyttelton Ranger]

20 films, yeah:

1. Spoorloos (The Vanishing)
2. Naked
3. Buffalo 66
4. Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
5. Requiem for a Dream
6. There Will Be Blood
7. The Hunter
8. Once Were Warriors
9. Lilya 4-Ever
10.Olivier Olivier
11.The Place Beyond the Pines
12.Somersault
13.The Deer Hunter
14.Touching the Void
15.Eternal Sunshune of the Spotless Mind
16.Fargo
17.District 9
18.Clerks
19.In Bruges
20.Layer Cake

 

[benji2]

20 films, yeah:

Yep 20 films would be ideal, but 10 will do. Props to those that have submitted a list, it's a challenge I know - I had 42 movies in my first 'shortlist'. Keep 'em coming, we're up to 35 lists now.

 

[Troubadour]

1. Smokey and the Bandit
2. The Searchers
3. Pale Rider
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Life of Pi
6. Ben Hur
7. Easy Rider
8. Rio Bravo
9. Dirty Harry
10. Inside Man
11. Lock Stock
12. A Perfect World (1993)
13. Vanishing Point (1971)
14. The Mummy (1999)
15. The Company Men
16. Transporter
17. Grand Budapest Hotel
18. National Treasure
19. Tomb Raider
20. Live and Let Die (Bond)

 

[Robbo92]

1. Back to the Future: Part 2
2. The Godfather Part 1
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
5. Empire Strikes Back
6. The Shining
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Seven Psychopaths
9. In Bruges
10. Zoolander
11. Fight Club
12. Inglorious Basterds
13. Jurassic Park
14. Jaws
15. Alien
16. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
17. Shutter Island
18. Return of the King
19. Step Brothers
20. A Clockwork Orange

Not my most thought out list and heavily influenced by other answers in this thread but there's my contribution without thinking too deeply about it. Top 5 pretty accurate but in no particular order after that.

 

[RobbyRoy]

1. No Country For Old Men
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Pulp Fiction
6. City of God
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. The Departed
9. Jurassic Park
10. The Master
11. Collateral
12. The Tree of Life
13. Heat
14. The Dark Knight
15. Patton
16. Hud
17. Pan's Labyrinth
18. Saving Private Ryan
19. The Royal Tenenbaums
20. Gladiator

Ridiculously hard to narrow it to 20 then even harder to order them. Can't afford to spend any more time on it so here it is!

 

[00Stinger]

I really don't get the love for 'No Country for old men'. I mean it was ok, but that's it and the ending was so rushed it. It was almost like they thought s**t this movie is going for too long so just finish it

 

[BEaston]

Man this is hard...

1. The Matrix
2. Boyhood
3. Inception
4. Memento
5. Cloud Atlas
6. The Departed
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Place Beyond The Pines
9. Drive
10. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
11. Dr Strangelove
12. Pan's Labrynth
13. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
14. The Breakfast Club
15. The Dark Knight
16. No Country For Old Men
17. Slumdog Millionaire
18. Resevoir Dogs
19. Terminator 2
20. Blade Runner

Unlucky: Heat, Gattaca, Office Space, The Usual Suspects

 

[Red Black and Blue]

1. Casablanca
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. In Bruges
4. Pans Labyrinth
5. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
6. Jagten (The Hunt)
7. Snatch
8. The Guard
9. Rear Window
10. Almost Famous
11. Gone Baby Gone
12. Good Morning Vietnam
13. Cool Hand Luke
14. Silence of the Lambs
15. I Saw The Devil
16. The Intouchables
17. Calvary
18. Big Bad Wolves
19. Inglorious Basterds
20. Se7en

 

[benji2]

Up to 40 lists now, thanks to everyone who has voted. Just about there now, voting will close 23:59 tomorrow night (7/12). I'll then work out whether it makes the most sense to have a Top 100 or 50 or 30 based on the votes we have and start the countdown from there.

 

[vast]

1. Lost in Translation
2. Heat
3. Batman Begins
4. The Dark Knight
5. Memories of Murder
6. Jaws
7. 25th Hour
8. The Prestige
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. Seven
11. Gladiator
12. Terminator 2
13. Rocky
14. Drive
15. The Crow
16. Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2
17. Goldeneye
18. First Blood
19. Kick Ass
20. Warrior

 

[00Stinger]

Pretty obvious Pulp Fiction will be number 1

 

[Richard Cranium]

1. Lost in Translation (2003)
2. Apocalypse Now (1979)
3. Se7en (1995)
4. Tokyo Story (1953)
5. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
6. Network (1976)
7. The 400 Blows (1959)
8. Toy Story 3 (2010)
9. Her (2013)
10. Vertigo (1958)
11. The Dark Knight (2008)
12. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
13. Contempt (1963)
14. The Third Man (1949)
15. Donnie Darko (2001)
16. Up (2009)
17. Oldboy (2003)
18. Pulp Fiction (1994)
19. Taxi Driver (1976)
20. This is Spinal Tap (1984)

 

[Grogg]

Spinal Tap.

Awesome nom, Guest is a genius.

 

[Roobs321]

Wow, Once Upon a Time in the West has already made a couple top 3 appearances, as well as appearing a few more times. I don't recall it featuring too prominently last time around, but seems to have dark horse potential at the moment.

 

[djrossie16]

Wow, Once Upon a Time in the West has already made a couple top 3 appearances, as well as appearing a few more times. I don't recall it featuring too prominently last time around, but seems to have dark horse potential at the moment.

Part of my review when I viewed it a couple of years ago. I probably like it more for the way it's made than anything else. Pure brilliance by Leone.

This Western has so many classic elements particularly of that of the Spaghetti variety, but this distinguishes itself by paying homage to famous hollywood westerns referencing (more than I care to mention) heavily and ironically. Of course it has the (really) beautiful woman played by Claudia Cardinale, the bad guys the good guys who are a little bit bad, classic opening and (particularly) epic final sequence which ties it all together. What makes this film great is the almost flawless direction by Sergio Leone and all the lead actors superb performances (Henry Fonda as the baddie unexpectedly and I guess ironically works so well). Charles Bronson just looks the part and Jason Roberts for the humour throughout.
But what makes it epic is the beautiful composition from Ennio Morricone the jarring harmonica theme thoughout and the inspirational orchestral movement signalling the introductions of a horse carriage or the steam train breaking though the old west in conjuction with wide shots of the beautiful landscape. Just brilliant. Leone and Morricone could very well be the best director and composer partnership ever!

 

[Roobs321]

Part of my review when I viewed it a couple of years ago. I probably like it more for the way it's made than anything else. Pure brilliance by Leone.

This Western has so many classic elements particularly of that of the Spaghetti variety, but this distinguishes itself by paying homage to famous hollywood westerns referencing (more than I care to mention) heavily and ironically. Of course it has the (really) beautiful woman played by Claudia Cardinale, the bad guys the good guys who are a little bit bad, classic opening and (particularly) epic final sequence which ties it all together. What makes this film great is the almost flawless direction by Sergio Leone and all the lead actors superb performances (Henry Fonda as the baddie unexpectedly and I guess ironically works so well). Charles Bronson just looks the part and Jason Roberts for the humour throughout.
But what makes it epic is the beautiful composition from Ennio Morricone the jarring harmonica theme thoughout and the inspirational orchestral movement signalling the introductions of a horse carriage or the steam train breaking though the old west in conjuction with wide shots of the beautiful landscape. Just brilliant. Leone and Morricone could very well be the best director and composer partnership ever!

Yep, the Leone/Morricone synced up collaboration on the Once Upon a Time films is what makes them so extraordinary.

 

[RobbyRoy]

Wow, Once Upon a Time in the West has already made a couple top 3 appearances, as well as appearing a few more times. I don't recall it featuring too prominently last time around, but seems to have dark horse potential at the moment.

I sure hope so!

 

[benji2]

5 hours to get your lists in peeps...