Jul 1, 2008
Posted by Scott in Featured Articles, Geeks on Movies | 54 comments
We Are Movie Geeks top 100 movies …
After the great success of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ post we decided to make a “Top 100 movies of geekdom”. We made all of our guys submit a top 100 movies list and here is what we got when we combined them all… and this is what we got:
Unanimous Votes:
| Goodfellas, |
| A Clockwork Orange, |
| Empire Strikes Back, |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark |
.
Received 2 or more votes:
| 300 |
| 40 Year Old Virgin |
| Alien |
| Aliens |
| Anchorman |
| Animal House |
| Army of Darkness |
| Back to the Future |
| Batman |
| Batman Begins |
| Big |
| Big Lebowski |
| Braveheart |
| Brokeback Mountain |
| Citizen Cane |
| Clerks |
| Death Proof |
| Die Hard |
| Donnie Darko |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| Fight Club |
| Ghost World |
| Goonies |
| Halloween (Original) |
| In Bruges |
| Iron Man |
| Jaws |
| Jurassic Park |
| Kill Bill |
| Lord of the Rings |
| M*A*S*H |
| Memento |
| Midnight Cowboy |
| No Country for Old Men |
| Office Space |
| Pirates of the Caribbean Curse |
| Planet Terror |
| Psycho |
| Pulp Fiction |
| Raging Bull |
| Requiem for a Dream |
| Rocky |
| Rushmore |
| Shawshank Redemption |
| Silence of the Lambs |
| Sin City |
| Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back |
| Stripes |
| Taxi Driver |
| Terminator |
| Terminator 2 |
| The Godfather |
| The Godfather II |
| The Good, Bad, and the Ugly |
| The Matrix |
| The Prestige |
| The Shining |
| The Usual Suspects |
| There Will Be Blood |
| Top Gun |
| Toy Story |
| Vacation (National Lampoon’s) |
.
Those movies will be on the list unless they get voted off by multiple other geeks, but that’s only 66 movies, so we need everyone to vote on the remaining 34 movies. The movies that get the most votes will make it on the list and make it to the wallpaper. So leave your votes for movies to either be removed from the above list, or added to the list.
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The Departed, Eastern Promises, The Rock, Inside Man, Ocean’s 11, and Liar Liar are all worthy movies to be on that list in my opinion.
I’ll second Eastern Promises, if only to get something by Cronenberg on there. But how about a vote for Videodrome?
btw, Scott, is the Batman on that list the one I voted for (1966) or the other one (1989)?
Please add
Gandhi
Saving Private Ryan
Ben Hur
American Beauty
Hey dude, its the 1989 version..sorry.
I third Eastern Promises, and second The Departed, I was pulling for Saving Private Ryan to get on the list as well!
Brett, I had ‘Videodrome’ on my list, but apparently was the only one … ‘Ghandi’ also made my Top 100 list … so, I vote for them to be put back in, since we now have 2 votes for each.
Shit..Forgot to put House of Sand and Fog on my list DAMMIT!
yeah!! go videodrome!!
anyone for Akira, the original japanese cut of Godzilla (Gojira), or The Thing for goodness sake?
‘Gojira’ would definitely be worthy, I love ‘The Thing’ but not sure I would include it in my top 100 of all time. As for ‘Akira’ … I purposely didn’t include animated films in my list. Not that there aren’t any worthy candidates, I just see them as being there separate category. Maybe we should make an animated top list?
what?! don’t be like the Academy, animated movies are some of the all time classics regardless of the fact that somebody drew them. Grave of the Fireflies is one of the best war films ever made, Roger Ebert will back me up on that claim. and Akira is a true classic, not to mention all that it inspired. i refute this declaration and patiently await backup on the subject!!
also, if Top Gun and fucking PLANET FUCKING TERROR are on the list, then I think John Carpenter and Rob Bottin deserve some love for The Thing. I’d give him The Thing before I gave him Halloween. and how about The Shining, dammit?
FLAME WAR!!!
Wow, I didn’t even realize Saving Private Ryan wasn’t on there… just one of those movies you automatically expect and don’t look for. That one and Schindler’s List for that matter.
It should be, an oversite in combining the lists. The shining should be up there too.
No Equillibrium ?
booooooo…..
GUN-KATA !
Agreed that there should be some Akira in there and Cronenberg as well though my vote is for The Brood. I’d also add Porky’s and Black Christmas (original) to the list.
I second Equilibrium with the greatness of Gun-Kata and also through in Ghost in the Shell and how about some Deer Hunter?
Porkys should make it, not sure about Black Christmas, or Equilibrium(although a great flick).
Black Christmas is a must – especially if you have Halloween in the mix! After all, Carpenter took Clark’s POV camera shot to the max. Add in a group of liberated women and Margot Kidder spewing some of the best lines ever and you have a must see horror classic!
Holy cripes, I just realized that An American Werewolf In London should be on here. It trumps Black Christmas AND Halloween and its not even about a holiday. I feel like half of this game is arguing things OUT of the list to make room for new suggestions, so Anchorman should probably get kicked off the list for it, funny though it may be.
also, people might take this list more seriously if we spell “Citizen Kane” correctly.
i take that back, actually, Anchorman IS pretty awesome, haha. and we’ve only got like 60 items on the list anyway.
I agree with most of the list, especially The Shining, but how come Vertigo isn’t on there!
Um… please, please take a look at the following, as many of these films don’t just deserve to be on the list, but some really need to be a part of the list. I mean, damn, if we’re putting ‘Big’ on the list, surely we could consider a film like ‘Apocalypse Now.’ Just sayin’ is all.
Star Wars
Casablanca
Vertigo
It’s a Wonderful Life
Frankenstein (1931)
Bride of Frankenstein
Leon – The Professional
Double indemnity
Modern Times
Rashomon
A Night at the Opera
Rebecca
It Happened One Night
The Searchers
Unforgiven
The Innocents
Apocalypse Now
Rear Window
Jean de Florette
Fargo
2001
Aguirre-The Wrath of God
Night and Fog
A Hard Days Night
Chinatown
Das Boot
Blade Runner
The Third Man
On The Waterfront
Brazil
The Great Dictator
Metropolis
Ran
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Delicatessen
The Day the Earth Stood Still
8 1/2
Fantasia
Doctor Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Adventures of Robin Hood
Grapes of Wrath
Snow White
Akira
Do The Right Thing
Rebel Without a Cause
LA Confidential
Eraserhead
M (1931)
The Seventh Seal
The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
Lord of The Rings (trilogy)
Blazing Saddles
Suspiria
King Kong (original)
Black Sunday (1960)
The Thin Man
Nosferatu (1922)
Dark City
Ben-Hur
To Kill a Mockingbird
North by Northwest
The Maltese Falcon
The Wizard of Oz
Singin’ in the Rain
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Annie Hall
Strangers on a Train (1951)
On The Waterfront
Notorious
Full Metal Jacket
Patton
Some Like It Hot
Reservoir Dogs
Sunset Blvd.
Goldfinger
How Green Was My Valley
The Quiet Man
West side Story
Spartacus
The Uninvited
Moulin Rouge
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Producers (1968)
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Babe
That is a great list..nice on the mention of David Lynch’s Eraserhead which I totally forgot to add to my list. Lost Highway or Mulholland Dr. anyone?
Why is Pink Flamingos not on this list?
hahaha yeah I think John Waters should have one of his movies on the list at least.
Citizen Kane
Vertigo
Psycho
Taxi Driver
Star Wars
Wizard of Oz
Old Boy
Amelie
Donnie Darko
Full Metal Jacket
Dark Crystal
Spirited Away
Back to the Future
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Movie was very well written)
Porky’s
Princess Bride
Punch Drunk Love
Requiem for a Dream
Amadeus
Miller’s Crossing
Nightmare on Elm Street
Suspiria
Sleepaway Camp
and more I can’t think of right now…
Nick, kudos man … your list looks very familiar. I’m seeing a lot of titles pop up as suggestions that I had on my list, so here it is for all to see, for better or worse:
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Adaptation (2002)
Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
Alien (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)
Amadeus (1984)
Apcocalypse Now (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Braveheart (1995)
Brazil (1985)
Breathless (1961)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Bull Durham (1988)
Burden of Dreams (1982)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Defending Your Life (1991)
Diabolique (1955)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Fargo (1996)
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (1997)
Fight Club (1999)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Gandhi (1982)
Ghost World (2001)
Goodfellas (1990)
Hard-Boiled (1992)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Odyssey (1991)
Heat (1995)
House of Games (1987)
Ikiru (1952)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Kagemusha (1980)
La Dolce Vita (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Leon: The Professional (1994)
Matewan (1987)
Memento (2000)
Metropolis (1927)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
My Life as A Dog (1987)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
North by Northwest (1959)
Notorious (1946)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Papillon (1973)
Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Rashoman (1951)
Red (1994)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Rocky (1976)
Sexy Beast (2000)
Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Abyss (1989)
The Apartment (1960)
The Bicycle Thief (1949)
The Birds (1963)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
The Conversation (1974)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Exorcist (1973)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather, part I (1972)
The Godfather, part II (1974)
The Graduate (1967)
The Kid (1921)
The Lord of the Rings (trilogy as one)
The Matrix (1999)
The Natural (1984)
The Odd Couple (1968)
The Piano (1993)
The Player (1992)
The Seven Samurai (1956)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Shining (1980)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Trainspotting (1996)
Videodrome (1982)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
now thats jazzy mr.Travis, all in alphabetical order and all the year releases of the films to go with it.
Good Stuff btw!
DAMN..I forgot to put City of Lost Children on my list, Ron Perlman is freakin amazing in that!
all right, now I’m seeing discrepancies in the original list counts. I voted for Burden of Dreams and so did Travis, so why isn’t it on the 2 or more list? Same thing with Touch of Evil. Same thing with Blade Runner. SAME THING WITH ROCKY!! I’M CALLING FOUL!!
likewise, thanks to Nick’s new votes: Vertigo, Space: 2001, Do The Right Thing, and The Day The Earth Stood Still from Nick’s list are also on my list, so they ought to hit 2 vote category now as well. Not to mention Aguirre and Leon and others from Travis’ list…
oh, and Brazil. i’m not joking around here.
This comments section is gettin’ pretty sexy.
and, as a side note, did anyone read the aintitcool article regarding the unearthed and COMPLETE CUT of Metropolis? Ho-lee shit…
i will say only this: paths of glory…see that movie, made me shed some tears it did.
Uh, yeah … I read about ‘Metropolis’ just now on Variety and totally geeked out! Just posted a bit about it on the site. Major news!
Here is my list:
1.Goonies
2.No Country For Old Men
3.Gangs of New York
4.Pulp Fiction
5.There Will Be Blood
6.Taxi Driver
7.Raging Bull
8.Mean Streets
9.Rushmore
10.The Royal Tennenbaums
11.The Usual Suspects
12.Rebel Without A Cause
13.Midnight Cowboy
14.Straw Dogs
15.Hard Boiled
16 The Killer
17.Irreversible
18.The Shining
19.Clockwork Orange
20.Godfather
21.Godfather II
22.Carlito’s Way
23.Serpico
24.Dog Day Afternoon
25.The Graduate
26.Run Lola Run
27.LayerCake
28.Blade Runner
29.Requiem For A Dream
30.Shawshank Redemption
31.Star Wars:Empire Strikes Back
32.True Romance
33.The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
34.Fight Club
35.Dazed and Confused
36.Labyrinth
37.Willow
38.Donnie Darko
39.Big Lebowski
40.Clerks
41.Mallrats
42.Superbad
43.The Departed
44.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
45.Seven Samurai
46.Goodfellas
47.The Hidden Fortress
48.City of God
49.Apocalypse Now
50.M
51.Chinatown
52.Forrest Gump
53.Reservoir Dogs
54.Bullit
55.The Great Escape
56.Full Metal Jacket
57.On the Waterfront
58.The Wild One
59.Streetcar Named Desire
60.Cool Hand Luke
61.Bonnie and Clyde
62.For a Few Dollars More
63.Platoon
64.Deer Hunter
65.8½
66.Trainspotting
67.Saturday Night Fever
68.Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
69.Brazil
70.History of Violence
71.La Haine
72.Dead Ringers
73.Friday
74.Naked Lunch
75.Say Anything
76.Risky Business
77.The Girl Next Door
78.Man on Fire
79.Lucky Number Slevin
80.The Machinist
81.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
82.Rescue Dawn
83.Dobermann
84. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
85.Waking Life
86.The Untouchables
87.City of Lost Children
88.Mad Max
89.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
90.Desperado
91.Boondock Saints
92.Sid and Nancy
93.Citizen Kane
94.The Professional
95.Tokyo Drifter
96.Do the Right Thing
97.Blood Simple
98.Sin City
99.’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
100.Hard Eight
I too had 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rocky, The Day the Earth Stood Still
300 and Fight Club? I think those 2 are on the wrong list….they belong on the list of 100 most homo-erotic movies of all time.
and where is The Karate Kid? sweep the leg!!
Not the biggest fan of ’300′ I am … but, ‘Fight Club’ was great! ‘The Karate Kid’ also was good, but not top 100 material (IMO) … “Wax On, Wax Off” … this is why these lists are so darn tough! There’s a ton of films I struggled with but ultimately left off the list. The big question is, how do you determine what makes the list and what doesn’t? I ended up basing mine on what films had the most influence and/or impact on me, combined with their level of achievement and how well they stand up to my standards of repeated viewing. Gee, that sounds more complicated than it actually is …
The list is being redone, we will be including any unanimous votes, and anything that received 3 or more nods. Once we get that done we will repost the list and bash it out on the remainings..
Also, Panda Huger…Fight club is one of the greatest movies of our generation..by OUR i dont mean YOUR because you must be way too old to appreciate that damn movie.
The Karate Kid is a great flick and would probably make a bunch of lists for people that arent that into film(like i assume you are for even suggesting it).
Panda hugger….No Karate and no Rudy!!!!
hahaha Panda Hugger, we are just giving you a rough time!
Heres my list. I feel I have enough credibility to give it.
1.The Departed
2.Trainspotting
3.Raiders of the Lost Ark
4.Apocalypse Now
5.Goodfellas
6.Pulp Fiction
7.The 40 Year Old Virgin
8.Die Hard
9.Back to the Future
10.Terminator 2: Judment Day
11.Empire Strikes Back
12.Aliens
13.One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest
14.A Clockwork Orange
15.Animal House
16.The Godfather
17.Jaws
18.The Exorcist
19.Batman Begins
20.Psycho
21.Heat
22.True Romance
23.Taxi Driver
25.Caddyshack
26.Star Wars
27.Scarface
28.The Terminator
29.Toy Story
30.The Sixth Sense
31.The Godfather Part II
32.Lord or the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring
33.Dazed and Confused
34.Beverly Hills Cop
35.E.T.
36.Alien
37.Saving Private Ryan
38.No Country for Old Men
39.The Dirty Dozen
40.Collateral
41.The Shining
42.Pirates of the Carribean:Curse of the Black Pearl
43.Fast Times at Ridgemont High
44.Deliverance
45.Meet the Parents
46.Reservoir Dogs
47.Lord of the Rings:Return of the King
48.The Shining
49.Bonnie and Clyde
50.American Beauty
51.Forrest Gump
52.Rocky
53.Shrek
54.A History of Violence
55.The Deer Hunter
56.Blade Runner
57.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
58.The Silence of the Lambs
59.The Shawshank Redemption
60.Easy Rider
61.Platoon
62.Top Gun
63.Dirty Harry
64.Cool Hand Luke
65.Titanic
66.Lethal Weapon
67.The Wizard of Oz
68.Schindlers List
69.Blue Velvet
70.Walk the Line
71.Bad Lieutenant
72.Midnight Express
73.A Nightmare on Elms Street
74.Training Day
75.The Lion King
76.The Searchers
77.Spiderman
78.The Doors
79.Ghost
80.The Princess Bride
81.Catch Me If you Can
82.Jurassic Park
83.The Matrix
84.Halloween
85.Blazing Saddles
86.Live and Let Die
87.Alladin
88.National Lampoons Vacation
89.Gangs of New York
90.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
91.Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
92.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
93.Eastern Promises
94.The Bourne Identity
95.Batman
96.Casino
97.The Color of Money
98.Superman
99.Witness
100.Signs
maybe automatic disqualification for putting signs on there?
i heart blue velvet.
the brood
naked lunch
s7ven
black hawk down
true romance
devils advocate
how about this
i would love to argue anyone that thinks black hawk down shouldn’t be on the list. Probably one of the greatest modern warfare movies that will ever be made.
i think Apocalypse Now should deserve to be on the list before saving private ryan. If saving private ryan was to be on the list. My argument for that would be Marlon Brando, robert duvall, harrison ford, and martin sheen. One of the great Vietnam era movies. I get that Saving private Ryan is one of the great WWII movies but Band of Brothers will always trump Saving Private Ryan. Plus I think the movie get too much hype due to its opening scene. Not saying its a bad movie I just think Apocalypse now is one that no one should miss.
the offical list is in the hands of the man..(Scott)
71 films made the cut (3of7 votes from the Editors)
There are about 60 films battling for the final 29 spots.
wew….alot of movies!
Panda Hugger Rudy ..one vote from your sis…wouldn’t make the top 500…. Number 1 rule..you don’t diss Fight Club!
I thought you guys were movie geeks….. with one hundred spots the was not enough places for:
The Wild Bunch
scanners
MenaceIIsociety
Malcolm X
Boyz in the Hood
She’s Gotta Have it
Do the Right Thing
reservoir Dogs
Bonnie and Clyde
Heavy Traffic
48 hrs
Slapshot
Cool Hand Luke
Once upon a Time in the West
fistful of Dollars
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Jason and the Argosnauts
On the Waterfront
You have a top 100 list with no Peckinpah, Ray Harryhaussen, Akira kurosawa, Ralph Bakshi, Walter Hill, Michael Mann, Richard Donner and only 1 sergio Leone. Where are the good Blaxploitation (Shaft, Superfly, Claudine, Education Of Sonny Carson, Lady sings the Blues)or any of the old American International stuff. I will commend you guys for not including (The Departed). This is the most undeserving Best picture. It was a shot by shot remake with one of those 1950′s hollywood endings were the bad guy has to get his in the end. Watch (Infernal Affairs).
ok, a lot of people with some good suggestions here but i just have to say Dawn of the Dead? Please?
and none of that remake malarky of course! haha
John Carpenter's The Thing, Ichi The Killer, Suspiria, Boondock Saints, Seven, The Warriors, 28 Days Later, The Big Lebowski, The River's Edge, Pieces, Zombie, Rear Window, Psycho, El Topo, Hackers, Sonatine, Battle Royale, Requiem For A Dream, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Akira.