Sunday, March 24, 2019
Movie #4: Casablanca
Movie #: 4
Movie Title: Casablanca
Year Released: 1942
Director: Michael Curtiz
Notable Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Short Description: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: #3
IMDB.com: #25
Ranker.com: #17
Lifed.com: #16
Empire.com: #18
FilmCrave.com: #37
FlickChart.com: #13
Date Watched: 12/22/2016
Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)
Rationale: For most other movies I watch, 3 out of 5 is generally a respectable score. For a movie regarded so highly as Casablanca is, 3 out of 5 is unacceptable because I was expecting so much more than just average. Humphrey Bogart is an incredibly dry actor and it's a good thing the supporting cast was more than adequate to pick up the slack. Sure, the few famous movie quotes I recognized like "here's looking at you, kid" brought a smile to my face, but that was the only thing to smile about. I'm glad I've now seen it just so I can say I have.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Movie #88: Batman Begins
Movie #: 88
Movie Title: Batman Begins
Year Released: 2005
Director: Christopher Nolan
Notable Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe
Short Description: After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from the corruption that Scarecrow and the League of Shadows have cast upon it. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: #63
Lifed.com: #85
Empire.com: #81
FilmCrave.com: #49
FlickChart.com: N/A
Date Watched: 7/7/2016
Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)
Rationale: In a world that’s full of superhero movies, you’d be hard pressed to find an origin story that’s more complete and satisfying than Batman Begins. Dark and gritty is a welcome tone compared to the flashy and disgusting Batman movies of the mid to late 1990’s. Christopher Nolan made excellent casting choices with Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Michael Caine as Alfred, Gary Oldman as not-yet-Commissioner Gordon, and Liam Neeson as Batman’s foil Henri Ducard/Ra's al Ghul during the ascension of Neeson’s popularity surge in the 2000’s. While superhero movies may never fall into the realm of realistic, Batman Begins is the closest there is and I wholeheartedly appreciate the grounded feel of it.
Movie #31: The Shining
Movie #: 31
Movie Title: The Shining
Year Released: 1980
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Notable Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd
Short 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. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #47
Ranker.com: #35
Lifed.com: #49
Empire.com: #52
FilmCrave.com: #28
FlickChart.com: #26
Date Watched: 10/31/2016
Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)
Adjusted Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
Rationale: The Shining gets a 3.5 out of 5 almost solely based on the outstanding performance of Jack Nicholson. Without his performance as deranged hotel caretaker Jack Torrance it's likely The Shining falls flat on its face because his wife, played by Shelley Duvall, was annoying and their son, played by Danny Lloyd, seemed wooden. Really, there isn't much more that can be said beyond Jack is the man and definitely not a dull boy. On a side note, it was a total and pretty cool coincidence that this happened to be the next movie on my list and I watched it on Halloween night.
Movie #45: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Movie #: 45
Movie Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Year Released: 1968
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Notable Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood
Short Description: Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: #15
IMDB.com: #93
Ranker.com: #51
Lifed.com: #82
Empire.com: #16
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: #83
Date Watched: 9/24/2016
Grade: 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
Rationale: What the hell did I watch? I literally don't know if I've been more perplexed and frustrated after watching a movie that's considered to be as good as 2001: A Space Odyssey supposedly is. The space scenes with HAL turning against the crew were what I expected the vast majority of the movie to be about since that's the most well know and/or liked part, but they were only a portion of the movie and honestly a bit boring with the lack of emotion in the characters. Easily the most disappointed I've been in a while watching a supposedly well regarded classic movie.
Movie #47: Memento
Movie #: 47
Movie Title: Memento
Year Released: 2000
Director: Christopher Nolan
Notable Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Short Description: A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #33
Ranker.com: #66
Lifed.com: #32
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #39
FlickChart.com: #72
Date Watched: 9/17/2016
Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)
Rationale: I've believed this for a while, but Memento further confirms my thought that "In Christopher Nolan I trust." The man is nothing but a genius and, along with Steven Spielberg, tops my list of favorite directors. I've seen other movies that start by showing you the end of a story and then jump back in time to show you how the movie gets to that ending in a very linear method. What I don't recall ever seeing is a movie that builds upon the initial flashback with an additional flashback layer that includes more past information. Over and over the building continues through adding more layers until you're finally at the beginning of the story and discover how it all started rather than seeing the ending first and jumping straight to the beginning. Though repetitive at times because each additional layer required a brief retelling of previous layers, it was an amazing way to watch a movie and Nolan delivers as always.
Movie #48: Reservoir Dogs
Movie #: 48
Movie Title: Reservoir Dogs
Year Released: 1992
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Notable Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen
Short Description: After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #71
Ranker.com: #47
Lifed.com: #62
Empire.com: #97
FilmCrave.com: #44
FlickChart.com: #25
Note: This is the first movie on my list to appear on six of the top 100 lists I used to compile the 251 movies I’m watching.
Date Watched: 9/17/2016
Grade: 4 out of 5 (Excellent)
Rationale: Upon finally seeing Reservoir Dogs, my opinion of not liking Quentin Tarantino movies has certainly changed for the better. There was just the right amount of classic Tarantino action, even with a small cast confined to a small area for most of the movie, and I found the story to be very smartly written. The few characters that you get back stories for had plenty of depth to explain their part in the crime and I wanted more as I thought it ran a bit short at 1 hour 39 minutes. The audience wanting more is one of the qualities of a great movie, though.
Movie #62: The Big Lebowski
Movie #: 62
Movie Title: The Big Lebowski
Year Released: 1998
Director: Joel Coen
Notable Cast: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro, Tara Reid, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Short Description: "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: #29
Lifed.com: #95
Empire.com: #43
FilmCrave.com: #71
FlickChart.com: #67
Date Watched: 8/17/2016
Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
Rationale: I wasn't disappointed with The Big Lebowski like I was Hail, Caesar! and I also didn't have a feeling of meh like after watching Fargo, so that's a plus for a Coen "comedy". Jeff Bridges did a good job as The Dude, but John Goodman was phenomenal as Walter. Most of the laughs came from something Walter said or did and Goodman was the highlight of every scene he was in. I didn't mind Sam Elliot as the narrator, but the two scenes with him in the bowling alley seemed out of place and the second of the two made the ending not flow as well as it could have. The Big Lebowski still doesn't make me a fan of the Coen brothers, but I don't dislike their work as much now.
Movie #66: To Kill a Mockingbird
Movie #: 66
Movie Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Year Released: 1962
Director: Robert Mulligan
Notable Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters, Frank Overton
Short Description: Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: #28
IMDB.com: #68
Ranker.com: #89
Lifed.com: #66
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #66
FlickChart.com: N/A
Date Watched: 8/12/2016
Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)
Rationale: To Kill a Mockingbird is a movie with two totally different stories going on at the same time and my feelings on them are polar opposites. I'm not a fan at all of anything related to Boo Radley and Scout and Jem's attempts to see what he looks like. I'm sure there's symbolism and importance in it that I'm not getting, even with Boo being important to the end of the movie, but it didn't click and wasn't for me. Everything involving the trial of Tom Robinson was superb and Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch delivers one of the most stirring and important speeches in cinematic history when addressing the jury in his closing arguments. That scene alone makes this a top movie in my mind.
Movie #91: The Searchers
Movie #: 91
Movie Title: The Searchers
Year Released: 1956
Director: John Ford
Notable Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood
Short Description: A Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from an Indian tribe. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: #12
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: #84
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: #90
Date Watched: 7/4/2016
Grade: 2 out of 5 (Fair)
Rationale: To the best of my knowledge I’ve not previously intently watched a John Wayne movie. That said, I don’t know if it was just how his character was written or if Wayne’s own personality bled into the movie, but damn he was a racist ass in The Searchers. Every time Wayne’s character Ethan Edwards opened his mouth he was either insulting or yelling at the others in the search party or he was cracking unnecessary comments about the Cherokee Indians they were tracking. Even his character’s niece, who the search party was looking for, wasn’t immune to his wrath once he realized she’d been with the Cherokee too long. I get that times have changed and the world is far more PC now than in the 1950’s, but it really makes one wonder why being a racist ass was ok even back then. Definitely doesn’t make me want to watch more of his films if they’re like this.
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Movie #110: The Night of the Hunter
Movie #: 110
Movie Title: The Night of the Hunter
Year Released: 1955
Director: Charles Laughton
Notable Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce
Short Description: A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: #71
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: #47
Date Watched: 6/1/2016
Grade: 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)
Adjusted Grade: 2 out of 5 (Fair)
Rationale: Robert Mitchum absolutely pulls off creepy as Harry Powell when he’s stalking his step children because they know where the money is that he wants, but that’s as good as The Night of the Hunter gets. I never felt the movie was as suspenseful as it should have been and a few of the supporting actors were flat out bad with unconvincing acting. I noticed that this movie was remade in 1991 as a TV movie and that’s probably what this rendition should have been as well.
Movie #128: The King’s Speech
Movie #: 128
Movie Title: The King’s Speech
Year Released: 2010
Director: Tom Hooper
Notable Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon
Short Description: The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: #35
Empire.com:
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A
Note: This is the highest ranking movie that only appears on Lifed.com's list.
Date Watched: 5/4/2016
Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)
Rationale: I found myself getting increasingly mad at The King’s Speech the deeper I got into it only because I struggled to understand the rationale of a Colin Firth’s King George VI fighting so hard against receiving speech help from Geoffrey Rush's Lionel Logue when that help was clearly working. The film hinted at mental abuse he received from his brother as kids in the form of teasing and from his father in the form of belittling, but if that’s solely the motivation for George’s unwillingness to try and general low self esteem it’s not emphasized enough. I’m still shocked that The Social Network didn’t win Best Picture instead of The King’s Speech as The Social Network was slightly better in my opinion.
Friday, February 8, 2019
Movie #147: This Is Spinal Tap
Movie #: 147
Movie Title: This Is Spinal Tap
Year Released: 1984
Director: Rob Reiner
Notable Cast: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, June Chadwick, Tony Hendra
Short Description: Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DeBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: #48
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A
Date Watched: 3/27/2016
Grade: 3 out of 5 (Good)
Rationale: The best part about This Is Spinal Tap is if you don’t know this is a satire, it’s not hard to fall for the joke and think it’s real. The acting is very convincing and the humor dry enough that it comes off in an almost convincing, semi serious way. Sadly it’s a bit on the short side, but very well done and leaves you wanting more.
Movie #152: West Side Story
Movie #: 152
Movie Title: West Side Story
Year Released: 1961
Director: Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise
Notable Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn
Short Description: Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. (IMDB.com)
Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)
AFI.com: #51
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A
Date Watched: 3/16/2016
Grade: 2 out of 5 (Fair)
Rationale: Unlike Chicago and Cabaret, two musical movies that I enjoyed watching, West Side Story felt like a pure musical you'd see in a performing arts theater, which was not what I expected or wanted to watch. There didn’t seem to be much of a separation of the musical numbers or dancing from the actual story, where as in Chicago and Cabaret, there’s a distinct story with specific cut away scenes for singing and dancing. When I’m watching a movie, I expect an adaptation designed for cinema, not something I could see on a stage.
Movies I Hadn't Seen Before
Going into this project I knew that I had already seen a chunk of movies that were considered to be among the best ever, but there were plenty of movies I hadn't seen before that had that distinction as well. This project helped fill those gaps and it forced/encouraged me to watch movies outside of my normal viewing comfort zone.
Below is the list of movies I hadn't seen before I started to watch the top 251 movies of all time and the grade I gave the movie. There are quite a few big names on this list, including classics like Gone With the Wind and Casablanca as well as more recent hits from the past couple of decades like Braveheart and The Departed. The list averaged a grade of 2.799 out of 5 so there were clearly some duds, but there were also gems I'm glad to include among my personal favorite movies going forward.
Movie # | Movie Title | My Grade |
1 | The Godfather (1972) | 3.5 out of 5 |
3 | The Godfather Part II (1974) | 3 out of 5 |
4 | Casablanca (1942) | 3 out of 5 |
5 | Pulp Fiction (1994) | 4 out of 5 |
8 | Goodfellas (1990) | 4 out of 5 |
13 | Citizen Kane (1941) | 3 out of 5 |
15 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) | 4 out of 5 |
16 | Apocalypse Now (1979) | 2 out of 5 |
17 | Psycho (1960) | 4 out of 5 |
19 | Taxi Driver (1976) | 2.5 out of 5 |
23 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | 2.5 out of 5 |
25 | The Usual Suspects (1995) | 3.5 out of 5 |
27 | Rear Window (1954) | 3 out of 5 |
28 | Alien (1979) | 3 out of 5 |
29 | Vertigo (1958) | 1.5 out of 5 |
33 | Se7en (1995) | 3 out of 5 |
36 | Seven Samurai (1954) | 4 out of 5 |
37 | A Clockwork Orange (1971) | 2 out of 5 |
38 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | 3.5 out of 5 |
39 | Raging Bull (1980) | 3 out of 5 |
40 | Die Hard (1988) | 3.5 out of 5 |
41 | Sunset Boulevard (1950) | 2.5 out of 5 |
42 | North by Northwest (1959) | 3.5 out of 5 |
43 | City Lights (1931) | 3 out of 5 |
45 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | 1.5 out of 5 |
47 | Memento (2000) | 4 out of 5 |
48 | Reservoir Dogs (1992) | 4 out of 5 |
49 | Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) | 3 out of 5 |
50 | Gone with the Wind (1939) | 3.5 out of 5 |
51 | Chinatown (1974) | 2.5 out of 5 |
52 | The Departed (2006) | 3.5 out of 5 |
53 | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | 3.5 out of 5 |
54 | Blade Runner (1982) | 1.5 out of 5 |
55 | Braveheart (1995) | 5 out of 5 |
56 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | 2.5 out of 5 |
59 | Aliens (1986) | 3 out of 5 |
62 | The Big Lebowski (1998) | 3.5 out of 5 |
63 | Some Like It Hot (1959) | 3.5 out of 5 |
64 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) | 4 out of 5 |
65 | The General (1927) | 2 out of 5 |
67 | American Beauty (1999) | 3 out of 5 |
68 | Léon: The Professional (1994) | 3 out of 5 |
70 | The Third Man (1949) | 2.5 out of 5 |
71 | Double Indemnity (1944) | 3 out of 5 |
72 | The Apartment (1960) | 3.5 out of 5 |
74 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | 4.5 out of 5 |
75 | City of God (2003) | 3 out of 5 |
76 | Spirited Away (2002) | 2.5 out of 5 |
78 | The Graduate (1967) | 2.5 out of 5 |
79 | Fargo (1996) | 3 out of 5 |
81 | On the Waterfront (1954) | 2.5 out of 5 |
82 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | 3 out of 5 |
87 | Paths of Glory (1957) | 3 out of 5 |
91 | The Searchers (1956) | 2 out of 5 |
92 | M (1931) | 3.5 out of 5 |
94 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | 2.5 out of 5 |
95 | Amélie (2001) | 2 out of 5 |
96 | The 400 Blows (1959) | 1.5 out of 5 |
97 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | 4 out of 5 |
98 | Modern Times (1936) | 3 out of 5 |
99 | Unforgiven (1992) | 3 out of 5 |
102 | Annie Hall (1977) | 1 out of 5 |
103 | The Princess Bride (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 |
105 | 8 1/2 (1963) | 2 out of 5 |
106 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 2.5 out of 5 |
107 | Up (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 |
109 | Stand by Me (1986) | 3 out of 5 |
110 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | 2 out of 5 |
111 | Yojimbo (1961) | 1.5 out of 5 |
112 | The Sound of Music (1965) | 2 out of 5 |
113 | All About Eve (1950) | 3.5 out of 5 |
114 | It Happened One Night (1934) | 3 out of 5 |
116 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | 2 out of 5 |
117 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | 2.5 out of 5 |
122 | High Noon (1952) | 2.5 out of 5 |
123 | Rashomon (1950) | 2 out of 5 |
124 | Life Is Beautiful (1997) | 4.5 out of 5 |
125 | The Sixth Sense (1999) | 3.5 out of 5 |
126 | Ikiru (1952) | 3.5 out of 5 |
128 | The King's Speech (2010) | 3 out of 5 |
129 | Andrei Rublev (1969) | 1 out of 5 |
130 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 |
131 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 |
132 | Heat (1995) | 3 out of 5 |
133 | Platoon (1986) | 3.5 out of 5 |
134 | King Kong (1933) | 2.5 out of 5 |
135 | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | 3 out of 5 |
136 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 3.5 out of 5 |
137 | The Gold Rush (1925) | 3.5 out of 5 |
139 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | 3 out of 5 |
141 | Network (1976) | 3 out of 5 |
142 | Shane (1953) | 1.5 out of 5 |
143 | Django Unchained (2012) | 4.5 out of 5 |
144 | Scarface (1983) | 3.5 out of 5 |
145 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) | 2 out of 5 |
147 | This is Spinal Tap (1984) | 3 out of 5 |
148 | Oldboy (2003) | 4 out of 5 |
149 | Evil Dead 2 (1987) | 3 out of 5 |
150 | Intolerance (1916) | 1 out of 5 |
151 | La Dolce Vita (1960) | 2 out of 5 |
154 | The Deer Hunter (1978) | 2.5 out of 5 |
155 | MASH (1970) | 2.5 out of 5 |
156 | Notorious (1946) | 1.5 out of 5 |
157 | L.A. Confidential (1997) | 3.5 out of 5 |
160 | Spartacus (1960) | 2.5 out of 5 |
161 | His Girl Friday (1940) | 3 out of 5 |
162 | Touch of Evil (1958) | 1.5 out of 5 |
163 | Duck Soup (1933) | 1 out of 5 |
164 | Amadeus (1984) | 4 out of 5 |
165 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | 3.5 out of 5 |
167 | Nashville (1975) | 2.5 out of 5 |
169 | Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | 3.5 out of 5 |
170 | Come and See (1985) | 2 out of 5 |
171 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) | 1 out of 5 |
172 | Casino (1995) | 3 out of 5 |
173 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 3.5 out of 5 |
174 | The Lives of Others (2006) | 3 out of 5 |
175 | American Graffiti (1973) | 2 out of 5 |
176 | Cabaret (1972) | 4 out of 5 |
177 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) | 3 out of 5 |
178 | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | 3 out of 5 |
179 | Harold and Maude (1971) | 1.5 out of 5 |
180 | The African Queen (1951) | 1.5 out of 5 |
181 | The Intouchables (2011) | 4.5 out of 5 |
182 | Strangers on a Train (1951) | 2.5 out of 5 |
183 | Tokyo Story (1953) | 1 out of 5 |
184 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | 3 out of 5 |
185 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) | 3.5 out of 5 |
187 | The Seventh Seal (1957) | 1.5 out of 5 |
188 | Three Colours Red (1994) | 1.5 out of 5 |
189 | Tootsie (1982) | 4 out of 5 |
190 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 |
191 | The Great Dictator (1940) | 2 out of 5 |
194 | The Wild Bunch (1969) | 3 out of 5 |
195 | Das Boot (1981) | 2 out of 5 |
196 | Trainspotting (1996) | 2 out of 5 |
197 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) | 2.5 out of 5 |
199 | Ratatouille (2007) | 3 out of 5 |
201 | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 |
202 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 |
203 | Manhattan (1979) | 1.5 out of 5 |
204 | All the President's Men (1976) | 2 out of 5 |
205 | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | 4 out of 5 |
206 | Rosemary's Baby (1968) | 3 out of 5 |
208 | The Thin Red Line (1998) | 3.5 out of 5 |
210 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | 3 out of 5 |
211 | Wild Strawberries (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 |
213 | The Great Escape (1963) | 3.5 out of 5 |
214 | Brazil (1985) | 2.5 out of 5 |
215 | Groundhog Day (1993) | 4 out of 5 |
216 | Airplane! (1980) | 3 out of 5 |
217 | Easy Rider (1969) | 1.5 out of 5 |
218 | Gran Torino (2008) | 4.5 out of 5 |
219 | A Night at the Opera (1935) | 1 out of 5 |
220 | Blue Velvet (1986) | 1 out of 5 |
221 | Carrie (1976) | 2 out of 5 |
222 | The King of Comedy (1983) | 2.5 out of 5 |
223 | Training Day (2001) | 4 out of 5 |
224 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | 3 out of 5 |
225 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) | 2.5 out of 5 |
226 | Rain Man (1988) | 3.5 out of 5 |
227 | Magnolia (1999) | 3 out of 5 |
228 | The Conversation (1974) | 2 out of 5 |
229 | Catch Me If You Can (2002) | 3 out of 5 |
230 | Metropolis (1927) | 1 out of 5 |
231 | Swing Time (1936) | 2.5 out of 5 |
232 | When Harry Met Sally (1989) | 3.5 out of 5 |
233 | Sophie's Choice (1982) | 4 out of 5 |
234 | The Big Sleep (1946) | 2.5 ouf of 5 |
235 | Persona (1966) | 4 out of 5 |
236 | Spirit of the Beehive (1973) | 1.5 out of 5 |
237 | The French Connection (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 |
239 | Princess Mononoke (1997) | 1 out of 5 |
240 | A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | 3.5 out of 5 |
242 | The Last Picture Show (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 |
243 | Do the Right Thing (1989) | 1.5 out of 5 |
244 | The Untouchables (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 |
245 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 1 out of 5 |
247 | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | 1.5 out of 5 |
248 | Cinderella Man (2005) | 4 out of 5 |
250 | The Sting (1973) | 4 out of 5 |
251 | Ben-Hur (1959) | 3 out of 5 |
Overall Best to Worst: #1-251
Overall Best to Worst of #1-251
This is the final overall best to worst list of every movie in the top 251 movies of all time. As I expected, this list progressively get harder to compile every time I finished a block of 25 movies and need to incorporate those. I think it's fun to see how they all rank now that I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.
This is the final overall best to worst list of every movie in the top 251 movies of all time. As I expected, this list progressively get harder to compile every time I finished a block of 25 movies and need to incorporate those. I think it's fun to see how they all rank now that I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.
Movie # | Movie Title | My Grade |
11 | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
18 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
12 | The Dark Knight (2008) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
58 | Gladiator (2000) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
104 | Jurassic Park (1993) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
85 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
55 | Braveheart | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
24 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
108 | Titanic (1997) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
9 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
26 | Forrest Gump (1994) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
198 | Apollo 13 (1995) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
90 | The Lion King (1994) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
158 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
34 | Inception (2010) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
119 | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
35 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
2 | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
218 | Gran Torino (2008) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
212 | Argo (2012) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
181 | The Intouchables (2011) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
143 | Django Unchained (2012) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
6 | Schindler's List (1993) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
124 | Life Is Beautiful (1997) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
57 | American History X (1998) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
77 | The Green Mile (1999) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
74 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
46 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
88 | Batman Begins (2005) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
83 | Toy Story (1995) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
120 | Avatar (2009) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
233 | Sophie's Choice (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
205 | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
47 | Memento (2000) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
186 | The Prestige (2006) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
146 | The Avengers (2012) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
22 | Pulp Fiction (1994) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
22 | Back to the Future (1985) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
164 | Amadeus (1984) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
86 | Toy Story 3 (2010) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
215 | Groundhog Day (1993) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
166 | Finding Nemo (2003) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
10 | Fight Club (1999) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
148 | Oldboy (2003) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
32 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
249 | Star Trek (2009) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
48 | Reservoir Dogs (1992) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
8 | Goodfellas (1990) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
20 | The Matrix (1999) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
235 | Persona (1966) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
248 | Cinderella Man (2005) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
207 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
223 | Training Day (2001) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
238 | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
159 | Casino Royale (2006) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
61 | The Wizard of Oz (1939) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
30 | 12 Angry Men (1957) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
250 | The Sting (1973) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
189 | Tootsie (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
209 | Iron Man (2008) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
97 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
69 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
15 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
200 | The Bourne Identity (2002) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
176 | Cabaret (1972) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
36 | Seven Samurai (1954) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
17 | Psycho (1960) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
64 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
73 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
89 | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
185 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
80 | WALL-E (2008) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
14 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
31 | The Shining (1980) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
51 | The Departed | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
157 | L.A. Confidential (1997) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
144 | Scarface (1983) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
193 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
66 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
72 | The Apartment (1960) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
1 | The Godfather (1972) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
92 | M (1931) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
136 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
169 | Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
133 | Platoon (1986) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
137 | The Gold Rush (1925) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
140 | The Hangover (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
113 | All About Eve (1950) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
103 | The Princess Bride (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
40 | Die Hard (1988) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
202 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
226 | Rain Man (1988) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
44 | Jaws (1975) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
173 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
53 | Singin' in the Rain | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
7 | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
107 | Up (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
62 | The Big Lebowski (1998) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
165 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
138 | Inglourious Basterds (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
121 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
100 | The Pianist (2002) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
125 | The Sixth Sense (1999) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
63 | Some Like It Hot (1959) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
213 | The Great Escape (1963) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
38 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
25 | The Usual Suspects (1995) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
168 | The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
240 | A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
21 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
126 | Ikiru (1952) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
232 | When Harry Met Sally (1989) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
190 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
42 | North by Northwest (1959) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
50 | Gone with the Wind (1939) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
208 | The Thin Red Line (1998) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
244 | The Untouchables (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
147 | This is Spinal Tap (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
67 | American Beauty (1999) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
229 | Catch Me If You Can (2002) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
199 | Ratatouille (2007) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
246 | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
93 | No Country for Old Men (2007) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
84 | Rocky (1976) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
33 | Se7en (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
101 | The Terminator (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
60 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
132 | Heat (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
128 | The King's Speech (2010) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
28 | Alien (1979) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
114 | It Happened One Night (1934) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
115 | Ghostbusters (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
3 | The Godfather Part II (1974) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
75 | City of God (2003) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
98 | Modern Times (1936) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
192 | The Breakfast Club (1985) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
184 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
161 | His Girl Friday (1940) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
13 | Citizen Kane (1941) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
27 | Rear Window (1954) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
172 | Casino (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
135 | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
79 | Fargo (1996) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
206 | Rosemary's Baby (1968) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
178 | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
251 | Ben-Hur (1959) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
174 | The Lives of Others (2006) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
139 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
43 | City Lights (1931) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
59 | Aliens (1986) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
71 | Double Indemnity (1944) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
99 | Unforgiven (1992) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
109 | Stand by Me (1986) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
149 | Evil Dead 2 (1987) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
82 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
141 | Network (1976) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
68 | Léon: The Professional (1994) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
4 | Casablanca (1942) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
39 | Raging Bull (1980) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
87 | Paths of Glory (1957) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
227 | Magnolia (1999) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
210 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
216 | Airplane! (1980) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
224 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
49 | Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
177 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
194 | The Wild Bunch (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
225 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
130 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
117 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
134 | King Kong (1933) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
131 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
154 | The Deer Hunter (1978) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
167 | Nashville (1975) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
41 | Sunset Boulevard (1950) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
51 | Chinatown | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
76 | Spirited Away (2002) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
78 | The Graduate (1967) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
19 | Taxi Driver (1976) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
122 | High Noon (1952) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
182 | Strangers on a Train (1951) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
197 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
155 | MASH (1970) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
106 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
94 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
56 | Lawrence of Arabia | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
23 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
201 | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
211 | Wild Strawberries (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
242 | The Last Picture Show (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
231 | Swing Time (1936) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
214 | Brazil (1985) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
222 | The King of Comedy (1983) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
160 | Spartacus (1960) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
70 | The Third Man (1949) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
237 | The French Connection (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
81 | On the Waterfront (1954) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
234 | The Big Sleep (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
118 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
116 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
112 | The Sound of Music (1965) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
95 | Amélie (2001) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
204 | All the President's Men (1976) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
153 | Donnie Darko (2001) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
221 | Carrie (1976) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
228 | The Conversation (1974) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
241 | Grease (1978) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
175 | American Graffiti (1973) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
16 | Apocalypse Now (1979) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
145 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
151 | La Dolce Vita (1960) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
196 | Trainspotting (1996) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
127 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
91 | The Searchers (1956) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
152 | West Side Story (1961) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
65 | The General (1927) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
37 | A Clockwork Orange (1971) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
105 | 8 1/2 (1963) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
123 | Rashomon (1950) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
110 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
191 | The Great Dictator (1940) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
195 | Das Boot (1981) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
170 | Come and See (1985) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
142 | Shane (1953) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
247 | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
217 | Easy Rider (1969) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
179 | Harold and Maude (1971) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
96 | The 400 Blows (1959) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
45 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
111 | Yojimbo (1961) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
162 | Touch of Evil (1958) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
180 | The African Queen (1951) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
29 | Vertigo (1958) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
156 | Notorious (1946) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
236 | Spirit of the Beehive (1973) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
243 | Do the Right Thing (1989) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
54 | Blade Runner | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
203 | Manhattan (1979) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
187 | The Seventh Seal (1957) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
188 | Three Colours Red (1994) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
239 | Princess Mononoke (1997) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
245 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
220 | Blue Velvet (1986) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
102 | Annie Hall (1977) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
163 | Duck Soup (1933) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
183 | Tokyo Story (1953) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
230 | Metropolis (1927) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
219 | A Night at the Opera (1935) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
171 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
150 | Intolerance (1916) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
129 | Andrei Rublev (1969) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
Overall Best to Worst: #26-251
Overall Best to Worst of #26-251
This list is my overall best to worst of every movie I've seen so far on my list of 251. I fully expect this list to get harder to compile every time I finish a set of 25 movies and need to incorporate those, but it'll be fun to see how I rank all 251 movies when I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.
This list is my overall best to worst of every movie I've seen so far on my list of 251. I fully expect this list to get harder to compile every time I finish a set of 25 movies and need to incorporate those, but it'll be fun to see how I rank all 251 movies when I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.
Movie # | Movie Title | My Grade |
58 | Gladiator (2000) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
104 | Jurassic Park (1993) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
85 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
55 | Braveheart | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
108 | Titanic (1997) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
26 | Forrest Gump (1994) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
198 | Apollo 13 (1995) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
90 | The Lion King (1994) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
158 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
34 | Inception (2010) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
119 | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
35 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
218 | Gran Torino (2008) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
212 | Argo (2012) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
181 | The Intouchables (2011) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
143 | Django Unchained (2012) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
124 | Life Is Beautiful (1997) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
57 | American History X (1998) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
77 | The Green Mile (1999) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
74 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
46 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
88 | Batman Begins (2005) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
83 | Toy Story (1995) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
120 | Avatar (2009) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
233 | Sophie's Choice (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
205 | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
47 | Memento (2000) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
186 | The Prestige (2006) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
146 | The Avengers (2012) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
164 | Amadeus (1984) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
86 | Toy Story 3 (2010) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
215 | Groundhog Day (1993) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
166 | Finding Nemo (2003) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
148 | Oldboy (2003) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
32 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
249 | Star Trek (2009) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
48 | Reservoir Dogs (1992) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
235 | Persona (1966) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
248 | Cinderella Man (2005) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
207 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
223 | Training Day (2001) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
238 | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
159 | Casino Royale (2006) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
61 | The Wizard of Oz (1939) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
30 | 12 Angry Men (1957) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
250 | The Sting (1973) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
189 | Tootsie (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
209 | Iron Man (2008) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
97 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
69 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
200 | The Bourne Identity (2002) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
176 | Cabaret (1972) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
36 | Seven Samurai (1954) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
64 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
73 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
89 | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
185 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
80 | WALL-E (2008) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
31 | The Shining (1980) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
51 | The Departed | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
157 | L.A. Confidential (1997) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
144 | Scarface (1983) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
193 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
66 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
72 | The Apartment (1960) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
92 | M (1931) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
136 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
169 | Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
133 | Platoon (1986) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
137 | The Gold Rush (1925) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
140 | The Hangover (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
113 | All About Eve (1950) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
103 | The Princess Bride (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
40 | Die Hard (1988) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
202 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
226 | Rain Man (1988) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
44 | Jaws (1975) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
173 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
53 | Singin' in the Rain | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
107 | Up (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
62 | The Big Lebowski (1998) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
165 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
138 | Inglourious Basterds (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
121 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
100 | The Pianist (2002) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
125 | The Sixth Sense (1999) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
63 | Some Like It Hot (1959) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
213 | The Great Escape (1963) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
38 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
168 | The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
240 | A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
126 | Ikiru (1952) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
232 | When Harry Met Sally (1989) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
190 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
42 | North by Northwest (1959) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
50 | Gone with the Wind (1939) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
208 | The Thin Red Line (1998) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
244 | The Untouchables (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
147 | This is Spinal Tap (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
67 | American Beauty (1999) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
229 | Catch Me If You Can (2002) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
199 | Ratatouille (2007) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
246 | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
93 | No Country for Old Men (2007) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
84 | Rocky (1976) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
33 | Se7en (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
101 | The Terminator (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
60 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
132 | Heat (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
128 | The King's Speech (2010) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
28 | Alien (1979) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
114 | It Happened One Night (1934) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
115 | Ghostbusters (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
75 | City of God (2003) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
98 | Modern Times (1936) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
192 | The Breakfast Club (1985) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
184 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
161 | His Girl Friday (1940) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
27 | Rear Window (1954) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
135 | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
79 | Fargo (1996) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
206 | Rosemary's Baby (1968) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
178 | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
172 | Casino (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
251 | Ben-Hur (1959) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
174 | The Lives of Others (2006) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
139 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
43 | City Lights (1931) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
59 | Aliens (1986) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
71 | Double Indemnity (1944) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
99 | Unforgiven (1992) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
109 | Stand by Me (1986) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
149 | Evil Dead 2 (1987) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
82 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
141 | Network (1976) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
68 | Léon: The Professional (1994) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
39 | Raging Bull (1980) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
87 | Paths of Glory (1957) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
227 | Magnolia (1999) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
210 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
216 | Airplane! (1980) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
224 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
49 | Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
177 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
194 | The Wild Bunch (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
225 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
130 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
117 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
134 | King Kong (1933) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
131 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
154 | The Deer Hunter (1978) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
167 | Nashville (1975) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
41 | Sunset Boulevard (1950) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
51 | Chinatown | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
76 | Spirited Away (2002) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
78 | The Graduate (1967) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
122 | High Noon (1952) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
182 | Strangers on a Train (1951) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
197 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
155 | MASH (1970) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
106 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
94 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
56 | Lawrence of Arabia | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
201 | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
211 | Wild Strawberries (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
242 | The Last Picture Show (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
231 | Swing Time (1936) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
214 | Brazil (1985) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
222 | The King of Comedy (1983) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
160 | Spartacus (1960) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
70 | The Third Man (1949) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
237 | The French Connection (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
81 | On the Waterfront (1954) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
234 | The Big Sleep (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
118 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
116 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
112 | The Sound of Music (1965) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
95 | Amélie (2001) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
204 | All the President's Men (1976) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
153 | Donnie Darko (2001) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
221 | Carrie (1976) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
228 | The Conversation (1974) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
241 | Grease (1978) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
175 | American Graffiti (1973) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
145 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
151 | La Dolce Vita (1960) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
196 | Trainspotting (1996) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
127 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
91 | The Searchers (1956) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
152 | West Side Story (1961) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
65 | The General (1927) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
37 | A Clockwork Orange (1971) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
105 | 8 1/2 (1963) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
123 | Rashomon (1950) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
110 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
191 | The Great Dictator (1940) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
195 | Das Boot (1981) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
170 | Come and See (1985) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
142 | Shane (1953) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
247 | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
217 | Easy Rider (1969) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
179 | Harold and Maude (1971) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
96 | The 400 Blows (1959) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
45 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
111 | Yojimbo (1961) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
162 | Touch of Evil (1958) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
180 | The African Queen (1951) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
29 | Vertigo (1958) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
156 | Notorious (1946) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
236 | Spirit of the Beehive (1973) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
243 | Do the Right Thing (1989) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
54 | Blade Runner | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
203 | Manhattan (1979) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
187 | The Seventh Seal (1957) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
188 | Three Colours Red (1994) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
239 | Princess Mononoke (1997) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
245 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
220 | Blue Velvet (1986) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
102 | Annie Hall (1977) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
163 | Duck Soup (1933) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
183 | Tokyo Story (1953) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
230 | Metropolis (1927) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
219 | A Night at the Opera (1935) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
171 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
150 | Intolerance (1916) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
129 | Andrei Rublev (1969) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
Overall Best to Worst: #51-251
Overall Best to Worst of #51-251
This list is my overall best to worst of every movie I've seen so far on my list of 251. I fully expect this list to get harder to compile every time I finish a set of 25 movies and need to incorporate those, but it'll be fun to see how I rank all 251 movies when I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.
This list is my overall best to worst of every movie I've seen so far on my list of 251. I fully expect this list to get harder to compile every time I finish a set of 25 movies and need to incorporate those, but it'll be fun to see how I rank all 251 movies when I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.
Movie # | Movie Title | My Grade |
58 | Gladiator (2000) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
104 | Jurassic Park (1993) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
85 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
55 | Braveheart (1995) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
108 | Titanic (1997) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
198 | Apollo 13 (1995) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
90 | The Lion King (1994) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
158 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
119 | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
218 | Gran Torino (2008) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
212 | Argo (2012) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
181 | The Intouchables (2011) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
143 | Django Unchained (2012) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
124 | Life Is Beautiful (1997) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
57 | American History X (1998) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
77 | The Green Mile (1999) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
74 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
88 | Batman Begins (2005) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
83 | Toy Story (1995) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
120 | Avatar (2009) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
233 | Sophie's Choice (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
205 | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
186 | The Prestige (2006) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
146 | The Avengers (2012) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
164 | Amadeus (1984) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
86 | Toy Story 3 (2010) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
215 | Groundhog Day (1993) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
166 | Finding Nemo (2003) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
148 | Oldboy (2003) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
249 | Star Trek (2009) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
235 | Persona (1966) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
248 | Cinderella Man (2005) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
207 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
223 | Training Day (2001) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
238 | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
209 | Iron Man (2008) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
159 | Casino Royale (2006) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
61 | The Wizard of Oz (1939) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
250 | The Sting (1973) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
189 | Tootsie (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
97 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
69 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
200 | The Bourne Identity (2002) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
176 | Cabaret (1972) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
64 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
73 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
89 | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
185 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
80 | WALL-E (2008) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
51 | The Departed (2006) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
157 | L.A. Confidential (1997) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
144 | Scarface (1983) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
193 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
66 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
72 | The Apartment (1960) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
92 | M (1931) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
136 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
169 | Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
133 | Platoon (1986) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
137 | The Gold Rush (1925) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
140 | The Hangover (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
113 | All About Eve (1950) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
103 | The Princess Bride (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
202 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
226 | Rain Man (1988) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
173 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
53 | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
107 | Up (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
62 | The Big Lebowski (1998) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
165 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
138 | Inglourious Basterds (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
121 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
100 | The Pianist (2002) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
125 | The Sixth Sense (1999) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
63 | Some Like It Hot (1959) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
213 | The Great Escape (1963) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
168 | The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
240 | A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
126 | Ikiru (1952) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
232 | When Harry Met Sally (1989) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
190 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
208 | The Thin Red Line (1998) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
244 | The Untouchables (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
147 | This is Spinal Tap (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
67 | American Beauty (1999) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
229 | Catch Me If You Can (2002) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
199 | Ratatouille (2007) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
246 | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
93 | No Country for Old Men (2007) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
84 | Rocky (1976) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
101 | The Terminator (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
60 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
132 | Heat (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
128 | The King's Speech (2010) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
114 | It Happened One Night (1934) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
115 | Ghostbusters (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
75 | City of God (2003) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
98 | Modern Times (1936) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
192 | The Breakfast Club (1985) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
184 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
161 | His Girl Friday (1940) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
135 | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
79 | Fargo (1996) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
206 | Rosemary's Baby (1968) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
178 | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
172 | Casino (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
251 | Ben-Hur (1959) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
174 | The Lives of Others (2006) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
139 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
59 | Aliens (1986) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
71 | Double Indemnity (1944) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
99 | Unforgiven (1992) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
109 | Stand by Me (1986) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
149 | Evil Dead 2 (1987) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
82 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
141 | Network (1976) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
68 | Léon: The Professional (1994) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
87 | Paths of Glory (1957) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
227 | Magnolia (1999) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
210 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
216 | Airplane! (1980) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
224 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
177 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
194 | The Wild Bunch (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
225 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
130 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
117 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
134 | King Kong (1933) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
131 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
154 | The Deer Hunter (1978) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
167 | Nashville (1975) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
51 | Chinatown (1974) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
76 | Spirited Away (2002) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
78 | The Graduate (1967) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
122 | High Noon (1952) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
182 | Strangers on a Train (1951) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
197 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
155 | MASH (1970) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
106 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
94 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
56 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
201 | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
211 | Wild Strawberries (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
242 | The Last Picture Show (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
231 | Swing Time (1936) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
214 | Brazil (1985) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
222 | The King of Comedy (1983) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
160 | Spartacus (1960) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
70 | The Third Man (1949) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
237 | The French Connection (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
81 | On the Waterfront (1954) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
234 | The Big Sleep (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
118 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
116 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
112 | The Sound of Music (1965) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
95 | Amélie (2001) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
204 | All the President's Men (1976) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
153 | Donnie Darko (2001) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
221 | Carrie (1976) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
228 | The Conversation (1974) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
241 | Grease (1978) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
175 | American Graffiti (1973) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
145 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
151 | La Dolce Vita (1960) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
196 | Trainspotting (1996) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
127 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
91 | The Searchers (1956) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
152 | West Side Story (1961) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
65 | The General (1927) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
105 | 8 1/2 (1963) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
123 | Rashomon (1950) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
110 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
191 | The Great Dictator (1940) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
195 | Das Boot (1981) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
170 | Come and See (1985) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
142 | Shane (1953) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
247 | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
217 | Easy Rider (1969) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
179 | Harold and Maude (1971) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
96 | The 400 Blows (1959) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
111 | Yojimbo (1961) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
162 | Touch of Evil (1958) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
180 | The African Queen (1951) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
156 | Notorious (1946) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
236 | Spirit of the Beehive (1973) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
243 | Do the Right Thing (1989) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
54 | Blade Runner (1982) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
203 | Manhattan (1979) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
187 | The Seventh Seal (1957) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
188 | Three Colours Red (1994) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
239 | Princess Mononoke (1997) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
245 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
220 | Blue Velvet (1986) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
102 | Annie Hall (1977) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
163 | Duck Soup (1933) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
183 | Tokyo Story (1953) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
230 | Metropolis (1927) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
219 | A Night at the Opera (1935) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
171 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
150 | Intolerance (1916) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
129 | Andrei Rublev (1969) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
Overall Best to Worst: #76-251
Overall Best to Worst of #76-251
This list is my overall best to worst of every movie I've seen so far on my list of 251. I fully expect this list to get harder to compile every time I finish a set of 25 movies and need to incorporate those, but it'll be fun to see how I rank all 251 movies when I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.
This list is my overall best to worst of every movie I've seen so far on my list of 251. I fully expect this list to get harder to compile every time I finish a set of 25 movies and need to incorporate those, but it'll be fun to see how I rank all 251 movies when I'm done. Without further ado, here it goes.
Movie # | Movie Title | My Grade |
104 | Jurassic Park (1993) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
85 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
108 | Titanic (1997) | 5 out of 5 (Exceptional) |
198 | Apollo 13 (1995) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
90 | The Lion King (1994) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
158 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
119 | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
218 | Gran Torino (2008) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
212 | Argo (2012) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
181 | The Intouchables (2011) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
143 | Django Unchained (2012) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
124 | Life Is Beautiful (1997) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
77 | The Green Mile (1999) | 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding) |
88 | Batman Begins (2005) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
83 | Toy Story (1995) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
120 | Avatar (2009) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
233 | Sophie's Choice (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
205 | Cinema Paradiso (1988) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
186 | The Prestige (2006) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
146 | The Avengers (2012) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
164 | Amadeus (1984) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
86 | Toy Story 3 (2010) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
215 | Groundhog Day (1993) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
166 | Finding Nemo (2003) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
148 | Oldboy (2003) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
249 | Star Trek (2009) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
235 | Persona (1966) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
248 | Cinderella Man (2005) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
207 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
223 | Training Day (2001) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
238 | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
209 | Iron Man (2008) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
159 | Casino Royale (2006) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
250 | The Sting (1973) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
189 | Tootsie (1982) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
97 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
200 | The Bourne Identity (2002) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
176 | Cabaret (1972) | 4 out of 5 (Excellent) |
89 | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
185 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
80 | WALL-E (2008) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
157 | L.A. Confidential (1997) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
144 | Scarface (1983) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
193 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
92 | M (1931) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
136 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
169 | Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
133 | Platoon (1986) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
137 | The Gold Rush (1925) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
140 | The Hangover (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
113 | All About Eve (1950) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
103 | The Princess Bride (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
202 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
226 | Rain Man (1988) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
173 | Sullivan's Travels (1941) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
107 | Up (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
165 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
138 | Inglourious Basterds (2009) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
121 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
100 | The Pianist (2002) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
125 | The Sixth Sense (1999) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
213 | The Great Escape (1963) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
168 | The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
240 | A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
126 | Ikiru (1952) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
232 | When Harry Met Sally (1989) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
190 | Cool Hand Luke (1967) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
208 | The Thin Red Line (1998) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
244 | The Untouchables (1987) | 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good) |
147 | This is Spinal Tap (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
229 | Catch Me If You Can (2002) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
199 | Ratatouille (2007) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
246 | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
93 | No Country for Old Men (2007) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
84 | Rocky (1976) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
101 | The Terminator (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
132 | Heat (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
128 | The King's Speech (2010) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
114 | It Happened One Night (1934) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
115 | Ghostbusters (1984) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
98 | Modern Times (1936) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
192 | The Breakfast Club (1985) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
184 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
161 | His Girl Friday (1940) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
135 | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
79 | Fargo (1996) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
206 | Rosemary's Baby (1968) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
178 | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
172 | Casino (1995) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
251 | Ben-Hur (1959) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
174 | The Lives of Others (2006) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
139 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
99 | Unforgiven (1992) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
109 | Stand by Me (1986) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
149 | Evil Dead 2 (1987) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
82 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
141 | Network (1976) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
87 | Paths of Glory (1957) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
227 | Magnolia (1999) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
210 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
216 | Airplane! (1980) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
224 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
177 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
194 | The Wild Bunch (1969) | 3 out of 5 (Good) |
225 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
130 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
117 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
134 | King Kong (1933) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
131 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
154 | The Deer Hunter (1978) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
167 | Nashville (1975) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
76 | Spirited Away (2002) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
78 | The Graduate (1967) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
122 | High Noon (1952) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
182 | Strangers on a Train (1951) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
197 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
155 | MASH (1970) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
106 | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
94 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
201 | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
211 | Wild Strawberries (1957) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
242 | The Last Picture Show (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
231 | Swing Time (1936) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
214 | Brazil (1985) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
222 | The King of Comedy (1983) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
160 | Spartacus (1960) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
237 | The French Connection (1971) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
81 | On the Waterfront (1954) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
234 | The Big Sleep (1946) | 2.5 out of 5 (Satisfactory) |
118 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
116 | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
112 | The Sound of Music (1965) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
95 | Amélie (2001) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
204 | All the President's Men (1976) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
153 | Donnie Darko (2001) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
221 | Carrie (1976) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
228 | The Conversation (1974) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
241 | Grease (1978) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
175 | American Graffiti (1973) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
145 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
151 | La Dolce Vita (1960) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
196 | Trainspotting (1996) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
127 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
91 | The Searchers (1956) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
152 | West Side Story (1961) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
105 | 8 1/2 (1963) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
123 | Rashomon (1950) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
110 | The Night of the Hunter (1955) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
191 | The Great Dictator (1940) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
195 | Das Boot (1981) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
170 | Come and See (1985) | 2 out of 5 (Fair) |
142 | Shane (1953) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
247 | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
217 | Easy Rider (1969) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
179 | Harold and Maude (1971) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
96 | The 400 Blows (1959) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
111 | Yojimbo (1961) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
162 | Touch of Evil (1958) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
180 | The African Queen (1951) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
156 | Notorious (1946) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
236 | Spirit of the Beehive (1973) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
243 | Do the Right Thing (1989) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
203 | Manhattan (1979) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
187 | The Seventh Seal (1957) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
188 | Three Colours Red (1994) | 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal) |
239 | Princess Mononoke (1997) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
245 | Shadow of a Doubt (1943) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
220 | Blue Velvet (1986) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
102 | Annie Hall (1977) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
163 | Duck Soup (1933) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
183 | Tokyo Story (1953) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
230 | Metropolis (1927) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
219 | A Night at the Opera (1935) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
171 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
150 | Intolerance (1916) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
129 | Andrei Rublev (1969) | 1 out of 5 (Poor) |
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