Movie The New 2014 BigFooty Top 100 Movie Countdown (completed)

[benji2]

As some may be aware, early in 2013 Kyptastic ran a Top 100 Movie Countdown on this forum (and did a sterling job too). It was decided about 6 weeks ago to update this countdown with slightly amended scoring rules, in order to see if the outcome would still be the same, and see where any new movies released in the last 18 months to 2 years would fit into the overall ranking.

I’m ripping a lot of the following from Kyptastic‘s blurb from last year’s Top 100 Movie Countdown, as I really can’t put it any better myself.

Like Kyptastic did, I’m hoping that the release of the countdown will promote discussion and reflection on the films themselves and their position within the countdown. Just remember, it’s a most popular 100 as voted by us, not necessarily a “best” 100.

This time around, people were asked to submit a list of between 10 and 20 films which they considered to be their favourites, not just 10 like last time. It was important that these were ranked from 1 to 20, as the films ranking within a person's list determined how many points were awarded. For example, a film ranked 1 on a posters list would receive 20 points, whilst a film ranked 15 would receive 6 points.

Once all the votes were tallied, the list was created. At the lower levels of the list, there were many ties on raw votes. In order to separate these, I have re-used Kyptastic’s tie-breaking method from last year i.e. the more lists a film appeared on, the higher it would be in the countdown.

If film were tied on points and lists made, the films were ranked by their highest individual score.

For example:

Film A is ranked 8 on Poster 1's list and 4 on poster 2's list
Film B is ranked 7 on Poster 3's list and 5 on poster 4's list

Both these films will receive 30 points (Film A 13+17, Film B 14+16). Both films appeared on 2 lists.
Film A would be ranked higher because it was ranked 4 on Poster 2's list, compared to 5 on Poster 4's list.

There were a few occasions where even this didn’t split two movies. I thought about tossing a coin, or assigning the two movies a random number with the higher random number winning, but in the end I decided just to assign both movies equal ranks (e.g. both movies were ranked =84th, with the next movie ranked 86th). Fortunately this didn’t happen too often and not in the ‘pointy’ end of the countdown.

Like Kyptastic was last year, I was worried there weren’t going to be enough votes for a Top 100, but there were enough in the end for each film on this list to have appeared on at least two poster's lists – well done!

Overall,43 posters took part in the countdown, whilst 445 films received votes.

The countdown will begin in earnest about this time tomorrow evening, and I plan to conclude it with #3-1 on Sunday December 21st. In the meantime, a small hors d’eouvre – the movie that just missed out.


101. Manhattan (1979)

Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 26
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 82nd
Internet
Metacritic: 82/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.0

IMDB Description:
A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead.

I will keep a list of the countdown to date here (2013 position in brackets):
101. Manhattan (82)
100. The Place Beyond The Pines (N/A)
99. Donnie Darko (62)
98. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (N/A)
97. Saving Private Ryan (92)
96. Sin City (93)
95. Inside Llewyn Davis (N/A)
94. Gran Torino (N/A)
93. Dirty Harry (N/A)
92. A Clockwork Orange (N/A)
91. Dr. Strangelove (N/A)
90. The Hangover (N/A)
89. Leaving Las Vegas (N/A)
88. The Great Escape (85)
87. The Deer Hunter (N/A)
86. Titanic (N/A)
85. Training Day (N/A)
84. Full Metal Jacket (N/A)
83. Spirited Away (N/A)
82. Billy Madison (N/A)
81. Ben Hur (N/A)
80. Barry Lyndon (100)
=78. The Prestige (95)
=78. Jackie Brown (N/A)
77. American Psycho (78)
76. Children Of Men (N/A)
75. Die Hard (29)
74. Forrest Gump (13)
=72. American Beauty (31)
=72. Cinema Paradiso (N/A)
71. Network (N/A)
=69. Snatch (55)
=69. Happy Gilmore (51)
68. Jurassic Park (70)
=66. The Elephant Man (89)
=66. Life of Pi (N/A)
65. Groundhog Day (77)
64. Star Wars IV: A New Hope (20)
63. Stand By Me (N/A)
62. The Shining (N/A)
61. North By Northwest (58)
60. Toy Story (N/A)
59. Step Brothers (72)
58. Rear Window (37)
57. Taxi Driver (56)
56. Citizen Kane (80)
55. Blade Runner (10)
54. Lost In Translation (N/A)
53. (500) Days Of Summer (44)
52. Heat (N/A)
51. Seven Psychopaths (N/A)
50. Raiders of the Lost Ark (21)
49. Se7en (42)
48. Oldboy (N/A)
47. Jaws (57)
46. Gladiator (32)
45. Dumb and Dumber (68)
44. Superbad (86)
43. The Searchers (N/A)
42. The 25th Hour (N/A)
41. Into the Wild (24)
40. Vertigo (96)
39. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (33)
38. Memento (36)
37. Goodfellas (7)
36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (19)
35. American History X (9)
34. Apocalypse Now (15)
33. Casablanca (26)
32. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (65)
31. 12 Angry Men (53)
30. The Godfather Part II (11)
29. In Bruges (N/A)
28. Fargo (61)
27. Raging Bull (N/A)
26. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (76)
25. Reservoir Dogs (14)
24. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (23)
23. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (5)
22. Back to the Future (40)
21. Her (N/A)
20. Alien (30)
19. Hot Fuzz (N/A)
18. Silence of the Lambs (43)
17. Monty Python's Life of Brian (50)
16. Anchorman (87)
15. Drive (N/A)
14. The Departed (27)
13. There Will Be Blood (60)
12. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (6)
11. The Matrix (12)
10. Pan's Labyrinth (41)
9. Fight Club (3)
8. Inglourious Basterds (54)
7. Once Upon a Time in the West (16)
6. Inception (49)
5. The Godfather (4)
4. No Country for Old Men (17)
3. The Shawshank Redemption (2)
2. The Dark Knight (28)
1. Pulp Fiction (1)

 

[benji2]

It begins....

100-91:

100. The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)

Director: Derek Cianfrance
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 26
Highest Position: 8th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 68/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.4
IMDB Description:
A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.


99. Donnie Darko (2001)

Director: Richard Kelly
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 26
Highest Position: 11th
2013 Position: 62nd
Internet
Metacritic: 71/100
IMDB User Rating 8.1
IMDB Top 250: #202
IMDB Description:
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.


98. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 27
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 66/100
IMDB User Rating 8.2
IMDB Top 250: #139
IMDB Description:
A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.


97. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 27
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: 92nd
Internet
Metacritic: 90/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.6
IMDB Top 250: #35
IMDB Description:
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.


96. Sin City (2005)

Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 28
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 93rd
Internet
Metacritic: 74/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.1
IMDB Top 250: #180
IMDB Description:
A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption.


95. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 28
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 92/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.5
IMDB Description: A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.


94. Gran Torino (2008)

Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 28
Highest Position: 8th
2013 Position: N/A
InternetMetacritic: 72/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.2
IMDB Top 250: #141
IMDB Description:
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

Keeping the Clint coming...

93. Dirty Harry (1971)

Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 28
Highest Position: 6th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
IMDB User Rating: 7.8
IMDB Description:
When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.


92. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 28
Highest Position: 5th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 78/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.4
IMDB Top 250: #75
IMDB Description:
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.

Keeping the Kubrick coming...

91. Dr Strangelove (1964)

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers (x3), George C. Scott, Slim Pickens
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 28
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 96/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #46
IMDB Description:
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

 

[RobbyRoy]

Solid start, big fan of a few of these.

 

[benji2]

90-81:

90. The Hangover (2009)

Director: Todd Phillips
Starring: Zach Galifinakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 28
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 73/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.8
IMDB Description:
Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.

89. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Director: Mike Figgis
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 28
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 82/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.6
IMDB Description:
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

88. The Great Escape (1963)

Director: John Sturges
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 29
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 85th
Internet
Metacritic: 76/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.3
IMDB Top 250: 113
IMDB Description:
Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

87. The Deer Hunter (1978)

Director: Michael Cimino
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 29
Highest Position: 5th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 73/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.2
IMDB Top 250: #148
IMDB Description:
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam war impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

86. Titanic (1997)

Director: James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 30
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 74/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.7
IMDB Description:
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic

85. Training Day (2001)

Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 30
Highest Position: 6th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 70/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.7
IMDB Description:
On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes on a 24-hour training course with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

84. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D’Onofrio
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 30
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 78/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.4
IMDB Top 250: #87
IMDB Description:
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

83. Spirited Away (2001)

Director: Hayako Miyazaki, Kirk Wise
Starring: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 31
Highest Position: 5th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 94/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.6
IMDB Top 250: #37
IMDB Description:
In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where humans are changed into beasts.


82. Billy Madison (1995)

Director: Tamra Davis
Starring: Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 31
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 16/100
IMDB User Rating: 6.4
IMDB Description:
In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.

81. Ben Hur (1959)

Director: William Wyler
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 31
Highest Position: 6th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
IMDB User Rating: 8.1
IMDB Top 250: #185
IMDB Description:
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

 

[benji2]

80-71....


80. Barry Lyndon (1975)

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Ryan O’Neil, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 32
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 100th
Internet
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 8.1
IMDB Top 250: #228
IMDB Description:
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century aristocracy.

=78. The Prestige (2006)

Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 32
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 95th
Internet
Metacritic: 66/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #51
IMDB Description:
The rivalry between two magicians is exacerbated when one of them performs the ultimate illusion.

=78. Jackie Brown (1997)

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 32
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 64/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.5
IMDB Description:
A flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.

77. American Psycho (2000)

Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Christian Bale, William Dafoe, Jared Leto
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 32
Highest Position: 7th
2013 Position: 78th
Internet
Metacritic: 64/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.6
IMDB Description:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

76. Children of Men (2006)

Director: Alfonso Quaron
Starring: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 32
Highest Position: 6th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 84/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.9
IMDB Description:
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.


75. Die Hard (1988)

Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 32
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 29th
Internet
Metacritic: 70/100
IMDB User Rating 8.3
IMDB Top 250: #119
IMDB Description:
John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save wife Holly Gennaro and several others, taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.


74. Forrest Gump (1994)

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 32
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 13th
Internet
Metacritic: 82/100
IMDB User Rating 8.8
IMDB Top 250: #14
IMDB Description:
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him.

=72. American Beauty (1999)

Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 33
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 31st
Internet
Metacritic: 86/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #60
IMDB Description:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.


=72. Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Phillipe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 33
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 86/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #58
IMDB Description:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theatre and formed a deep friendship with the theatre's projectionist.

71. Network (1976)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 33
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
IMDB User Rating 8.2
IMDB Description:
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.

 

[Kyptastic]

Some big drops in that 10 - Die Hard, Forest Gump and American Beauty.

 

[benji2]

Some big drops in that 10 - Die Hard, Forest Gump and American Beauty.

To better illustrate any differences between the 2013 countdown and this one, I have added the 2013 position in brackets next to each movie in the countdown so far in the OP. 13 to 74 is quite a drop. A lot of new entries at this end of the countdown.

 

[spinynorman]

Billy Madison > Manhattan lol.

 

[Biggy_Boy]

Interesting to see the differences between this list thus far and the last one. In the first thirty, there have been some very highly acclaimed movies that weren't featured at all last time, but some good films that were ranked highly last time have fallen pretty dramatically. Given it's the bottom end of the list, that first ten is really strong. Looking forward to seeing how the rest of the list pans out. Have a feeling Pulp Fiction will win again.

 

[benji2]

Billy Madison > Manhattan lol.

Was wondering when someone would comment on '16/100 at Metacritic' Billy Madison

 

[benji2]

A bit earlier today as I'm going out:

70-61:

=69. Snatch (2000)

Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Brad Pitt, Jason Statham, Benicio del Toro
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 33
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 55th
Internet
Metacritic: 55/100
IMDB User Rating 8.3
IMDB Top 250: #93
IMDB Description:
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

=69. Happy Gilmore (1996)

Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 33
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 51st
Internet
Metacritic: 31/100
IMDB User Rating 7.0
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.


68. Jurassic Park (1993)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 33
Highest Position: 9th
2013 Position: 70th
Internet
Metacritic: 68/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.0
IMDB Top 250: #237
IMDB Description:
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

=66. The Elephant Man (1980)

Director: David Lynch
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 34
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: 89th
Internet
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 8.2
IMDB Top 250: #134
IMDB Description:
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.\

=66. Life of Pi (2012)

Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 34
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 79/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.0
IMDB Description:
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

(that was the last tie for a position)

65. Groundhog Day (1993)

Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliot
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 34
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 77th
Internet
Metacritic: 72/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.1
IMDB Top 250: #218
IMDB Description:
A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.

64. Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1977)

Director: George Lucas
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 35
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: 20th
Internet
IMDB User Rating 8.8
IMDB Top 250: #20
IMDB Description:
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a wookie and two droids to save the universe from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader.


63. Stand By Me (1986)

Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 36
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
IMDB User Rating 8.1
IMDB Top 250: #183
IMDB Description:
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.

62. The Shining (1980)

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 38
Highest Position: 6th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 61/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #57
IMDB Description:
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

61. North by Northwest (1959)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Eve Marie-Saint, James Mason
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 38
Highest Position: 6th
2013 Position: 58th
Internet
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #62
IMDB Description:
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

 

[benji2]

Got some time to myself so will post the next 10 now...

60-51:


60. Toy Story (1995)

Director: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 38
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 92/100
IMDB User Rating 8.3
IMDB Top 250: #109
IMDB Description:
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.

59. Step Brothers (2008)

Director: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 38
Highest Position: 9th
2013 Position: 72nd
Internet
Metacritic: 51/100
IMDB User Rating: 6.9
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
Two aimless middle-aged losers still living at home are forced against their will to become roommates when their parents get married.

58. Rear Window (1954)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 39
Highest Position: 5th
2013 Position: 37th
Internet
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating 8.6
IMDB Top 250: #36
IMDB Description:
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

57. Taxi Driver (1976)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybil Shepherd
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 39
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 56th
Internet
Metacritic: 93/100
IMDB User Rating 8.4
IMDB Top 250: #76
IMDB Description:
A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.

56. Citizen Kane (1941)

Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 39
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 80th
Internet
IMDB User Rating: 8.4
IMDB Top 250: #64
IMDB Description:
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

55. Blade Runner (1982)

Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 39
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 10th
Internet
Metacritic: 88/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.2
IMDB Top 250: #138
IMDB Description:
Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to Earth seeking their maker.

54. Lost In Translation (2003)

Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 40
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 89/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.8
IMDB Description:
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.

53. (500) Days of Summer (2009)

Director: Marc Webb
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 40
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 44th
Internet
Metacritic: 76/100
IMDB User Rating 7.8
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.

52. Heat (1995)

Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 42
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 76/100
IMDB User Rating 8.3
IMDB Description:
A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

51. Seven Psychopaths (2012)

Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 42
Highest Position: 6th
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 66/100
IMDB User Rating 7.2
IMDB Description:
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

Will be posting evenings again from tomorrow...

 

[RobbyRoy]

Very surprised Taxi Driver only appeared on 3 lists!

 

[benji2]

We're halfway there....

50-41:

50. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 42
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: 21st
Internet
Metacritic: 90/100
IMDB User Rating 8.6
IMDB Top 250: #31
IMDB Description:
Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.

49. Se7en (1995)

Director: David Fincher
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 6 Lists
Votes: 42
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: 42nd
Internet
Metacritic: 65/100
IMDB User Rating 8.7
IMDB Top 250: #23
IMDB Description:
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.

48. Oldboy (2003)

Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 43
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 74/100
IMDB User Rating 8.4
IMDB Top 250: #70
IMDB Description:
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days.

47. Jaws (1975)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 43
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 57th
Internet
Metacritic: 79/100
IMDB User Rating 8.1
IMDB Top 250: #205
IMDB Description:
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.

46. Gladiator (2000)

Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 45
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 32nd
Internet
Metacritic: 64/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: 63
IMDB Description:
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

45. Dumb and Dumber (1994)

Director: Peter Farrelly
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 46
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 68th
Internet
Metacritic: 41/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.3
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
The cross-country adventures of two good-hearted but incredibly stupid friends.


44. Superbad (2007)

Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 46
Highest Position: 7th
2013 Position: 86th
Internet
Metacritic: 76/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.6
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

43. The Searchers (1956)

Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 47
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
IMDB User Rating: 8.0
IMDB Description:
A Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from an Indian tribe.

42. 25th Hour (2002)

Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffmann
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 48
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 67/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.7
IMDB Description:
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.

41. Into the Wild (2007)

Director: Sean Penn
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughan, Catherine Keener
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 48
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 24th
Internet
Metacritic: 73/100
IMDB User Rating 8.2
IMDB Top 250: #159
IMDB Description:
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

 

[benji2]

Very surprised Taxi Driver only appeared on 3 lists!

Finished very close to where it did last time though...

 

[benji2]

Getting interesting now...

40-31....

40. Vertigo (1958)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 49
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: 96th
Internet
IMDB User Rating: 8.4
IMDB Top 250: #66
IMDB Description:
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's much-younger wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

39. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 6 Lists
Votes: 50
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 33rd
Internet
Metacritic: 89/100
IMDB User Rating 8.4
IMDB Top 250: #84
IMDB Description:
A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.

38. Memento (2000)

Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 51
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 36th
Internet
Metacritic: 80/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #41
IMDB Description:
A man creates a strange system to help him remember things; so he can hunt for the murderer of his wife without his short-term memory loss being an obstacle.

37. Goodfellas (1990)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 51
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: 7th
Internet
Metacritic: 89/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.7
IMDB Top 250: #18
IMDB Description:
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

36. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 51
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 19th
Internet
Metacritic: 79/100
IMDB User Rating 8.7
IMDB Top 250: #16
IMDB Description:
Upon admittance to a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients to take on the oppressive head nurse, a woman he views as more dictator than nurse.

35. American History X (1998)

Director: Tony Kaye
Starring: Ed Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D’Angelo
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 52
Highest Position: 5th
2013 Position: 9th
Internet
Metacritic: 62/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.6
IMDB Top 250: #32
IMDB Description:
A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.

34. Apocalypse Now (1979)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 53
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 15th
Internet
Metacritic: 90/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #45
IMDB Description:
During the U.S.-Viet Nam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

33. Casablanca (1942)

Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Heinreid
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 53
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: 26th
Internet
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating 8.6
IMDB Top 250: #30
IMDB Description:
Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

32. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Viggo Mortensen
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 6 Lists
Votes: 53
Highest Position: 9th
2013 Position: 65th
Internet
Metacritic: 88/100
IMDB User Rating 8.8
IMDB Top 250: #17
IMDB Description:
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.

31. 12 Angry Men (1957)

Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Martin Balsam
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 55
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: 53rd
Internet
IMDB User Rating 8.9
IMDB Top 250: #7
IMDB Description:
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.

 

[little graham]

Dunb and dumber in front of Raiders of the lost ark? You guys have no idea! Raiders was decade defining masterpiece. Dumb and dumb is an average comedy. Even the women were sexier in raiders, cmon!

 

[djrossie16]

Dunb and dumber in front of Raiders of the lost ark? You guys have no idea! Raiders was decade defining masterpiece. Dumb and dumb is an average comedy. Even the women were sexier in raiders, cmon!

 

[Roobs321]

Dunb and dumber in front of Raiders of the lost ark? You guys have no idea! Raiders was decade defining masterpiece. Dumb and dumb is an average comedy. Even the women were sexier in raiders, cmon!

There is always that one person who doesn't really understand the whole community list shindig.

Once Upon a Time in the West must have racked up about 100 or so votes, and given we're just hitting the mid 50s vote wise, it might be a dark horse to the likely types (i.e. Pulp Fiction).

 

[djrossie16]

Only a fraction of those who have seen 12 Angry Men have probably seen The Hill (1965) by Lumet. What a director he was.

 

[little graham]

[

There is always that one person who doesn't really understand the whole community list shindig.
.

In this case a lot more than who do..

 

[benji2]

30-21:

30. The Godfather Part II (1974)

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 56
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 11th
Internet
Metacritic: 80/100
IMDB User Rating 9.1
IMDB Top 250: #3
IMDB Description:
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba.

29. In Bruges (2008)

Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciaran Hinds
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 56
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 67/100
IMDB User Rating 8.0
IMDB Description:
Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

28. Fargo (1996)

Director: Joel Cohen
Starring: William H Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 6 Lists
Votes: 58
Highest Position: 6th
2013 Position: 61st
Internet
Metacritic: 85/100
IMDB User Rating 8.2
IMDB Top 250: #153
IMDB Description:
Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

27. Raging Bull (1980)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 59
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 92/100
IMDB User Rating 8.3
IMDB Top 250: #112
IMDB Description:
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.

26. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Orlando Bloom
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 59
Highest Position: 6th
2013 Position: 76th
Internet
Metacritic: 92/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.8
IMDB Top 250: #11
IMDB Description:
A meek hobbit of The Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring and the dark lord Sauron.

25. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 7 Lists
Votes: 59
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 14th
Internet
Metacritic: 78/100
IMDB User Rating 8.4
IMDB Top 250: #77
IMDB Description:
After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

24. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 7 Lists
Votes: 59
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 23rd
Internet
Metacritic: 68/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #40
IMDB Description:
The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor is dead, and another T-101 must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator, the T-1000.

23. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 60
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 5th
Internet
Metacritic: 78/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.8
IMDB Top 250: #12
IMDB Description:
As Luke trains with Master Yoda to become a Jedi Knight, his friends evade the Imperial fleet under the command of Darth Vader who is obsessed with turning Skywalker to the Dark Side of the Force.

22. Back to the Future (1985)

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 61
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: 40th
Internet
Metacritic: 86/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #49
IMDB Description:
A teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.

21. Her (2013)

Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansen
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 62
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 90/100
IMDB User Rating 8.1
IMDB Top 250: #244
IMDB Description:
A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need.

 

[benji2]

And now,

20-11:

20. Alien (1979)

Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 62
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: 30th
Internet
Metacritic: 83/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #50
IMDB Description:
The commercial vessel Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. After searching for survivors, the crew heads home only to realize that a deadly bioform has joined them.

19. Hot Fuzz (2007)

Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 6 Lists
Votes: 66
Highest Position: 3rd
2013 Position: N/A
Internet
Metacritic: 81/100
IMDB User Rating 7.9
IMDB Description:
Exceptional London cop Nicholas Angel is involuntarily transferred to a quaint English village and paired with a witless new partner. While on the beat, Nicholas suspects a sinister conspiracy is afoot with the residents.

18. Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Director: Jonathon Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 7 Lists
Votes: 74
Highest Position: 5th
2013 Position: 43rd
Internet
Metacritic: 84/100
IMDB User Rating 8.6
IMDB Top 250: #25
IMDB Description:
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

17. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

Director: Terry Jones
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 75
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 50th
Internet
Metacritic: 75/100
IMDB User Rating 8.2
IMDB Top 250: #173
IMDB Description:
Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

16. Anchorman (2004)

Director: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 7 Lists
Votes: 75
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 87th
Internet
Metacritic: 63/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.2
IMDB Description:
Ron Burgundy is San Diego's top rated newsman in the male dominated broadcasting of the 1970's, but that's all about to change when a new female employee with ambition to burn arrives in his office.

15. Drive (2011)

Director: Nicholas Winding Refn
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 7 Lists
Votes: 78
Highest Position: 1st
Internet
Metacritic: 78/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.8
IMDB Description:
A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor.

14. The Departed (2006)

Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 5 Lists
Votes: 79
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: 27th
Internet
Metacritic: 86/100
IMDB User Rating 8.5
IMDB Top 250: #47
IMDB Description:
An undercover state cop who infiltrated a Irish gang and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat.

13. There will be Blood (2007)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hinds
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 6 Lists
Votes: 84
Highest Position: 4th
2013 Position: 60th
Internet
Metacritic: 92/100
IMDB User Rating 8.1
IMDB Top 250: #184
IMDB Description:
A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

12. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)

Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellan
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 7 Lists
Votes: 84
Highest Position: 2nd
2013 Position: 6th
Internet
Metacritic: 94/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.9
IMDB Top 250: #9
IMDB Description:
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.

11. The Matrix (1999)

Director: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 6 Lists
Votes: 89
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: 12th
Internet
Metacritic: 73/100
IMDB User Rating 8.7
IMDB Top 250: #19
IMDB Description:
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

 

[benji2]

I will post the Top 10 one at a time between tomorrow night and Sunday night.

Not sure how many I'll do tomorrow though (if any) - glug glug.

 

[benji2]

OK lets do this...the

movies as voted by us

And at No.10:

10. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi Lopez
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 9 Lists
Votes: 94
Highest Position: 1st
2013 Position: 41st
Internet
Metacritic: 98/100
IMDB User Rating 8.3
IMDB Top 250: #123
IMDB Description:
In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.