Variety ranks The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time

What a crock.

I distinctly remember you throwing a fit on one of the lists I posted saying you hate those lists and wish they weren’t posted here. Yet here you are. Doing what you always do.

I see they finally fixed the entry for Singin' in the Rain where for half a day they credited Ginger Rogers as the female ingenue instead of Debbie Reynolds.

Somebody tell us what’s No. 1, please, I’m not scrolling through all that.

OP is a hypocrite. An uneducated one at that.

R4 there are tabs at the top. You can go directly to 1-10.

The list, to me, is pretty good. I'd switch up the order a bit. But that's to be expected.

But it's a good mix of drama, comedy, horror, foreign, high brow, popular, etc.

I'd quibble about some of the order but a good list.

There is only one that I am WTH?

My Best Friend's Wedding at 71.

It isn't a bad movie. An enjoyable comedy for sure, but top 100 of all time? No.

I'm delighted to see a top 100 list with Rosemary's Baby on it. Less happy to see Bridesmaids and My Best Friend's Wedding on it.

“Bridesmaids” at #94? “The Sound of Music” at #87? “My Best Friend’s Wedding” #71? The more-recent “Moonlight” is at #42.

Gone with the Wind at 21 and Psycho at 1, please… fucking stupid list

Psycho at #1 provides a spot-on representation of what else is on that list.

Gone With The Wind isn't in top 5, ergo the list sucks

I would immediately remove Toy Story, Bridesmaids, Kramer vs. Kramer, Parasite, The Dark Knight, Moonlight, The Tree of Life, My Best Friend's Wedding, 12 Years a Slave, Moulin Rouge, Titanic, and Saving Private Ryan. None of these deserve to sniff the top 100 movies of all time list.

I really like Paris is Burning, Brokeback Mountain, Goldfinger, The Piano and Waiting for Guffman but they are also obviously not Top 100 of all time films.

I really do not care for ET or Pulp Fiction, among other movies, but they're impactful enough to make the list. I guess?

The Graduate only at #100? Is it too problematic these days?

Where is An Unmarried Woman?

[quote] there are tabs at the top. You can go directly to 1-10.

I tried that and it asked me to start a subscription.

There are a number of really mediocre films on this list. And of course they are all relatively recent. Probably the people who made the list saw them when they were very young.

Could someone type out the entire list and post it? We’ll all top the winner.

R10, thank you for the summary. I may look at the list for comedic purposes later in the day.

“Gone with the Wind” is a bad movie, R13.

R20 must be a wokie

Why would The Graduate be problematic? Become it doesn't conform to what people today think of as acceptable behavior? Well it didn't even more so in '67 and yet was a huge hit.

R14 is a fascist

I love Psycho, but number one of all time? And as much as I enjoy It's a Wonderful Life, it does not belong in the top 50, let alone at #8.

While Psycho is excellent, if they wanted a thriller as number one they should have chosen the superior The Silence of the Lambs.

Pink Flamingos is better than Fanny and Alexander and Schindler's List. Got it.

[quote]I distinctly remember you throwing a fit on one of the lists I posted saying you hate those lists and wish they weren’t posted here. Yet here you are. Doing what you always do.

OP here. I have never "thrown a fit" in someone else's thread about hating lists. You are either confusing me with another poster or just a fucking liar who wanted to crap on this thread. My guess is the latter.

I agree with Psycho being #1. Quite a few of the other choices are huge mistakes. Network is preachy dreck; Titanic is just dreck. E.T. and Mean Streets seem great the first time you see them but don't hold up to even a second viewing. Actually, nothing by Spielberg, Tarantino, or Spike Lee should be on the list, they're not great directors.

No JAWS?? Seriously? I disagree with a fair number of movies on this list. I guess we could all make our own top 100 and would mean as much as this list.

I must have missed it. I didn’t see Terrifiers 2 on the list.

Can't be bothered scrolling again but did I miss Sunset Boulevard, Schindler's List and Paths of Glory?

I'm glad that people are finally realizing that The Wizard of Oz should have won the Best Picture Oscar over Gone With The Wind.

While PSYCHO does have several wonderful moments and sequences, it also has many ridiculous, nonsensical moments that insult the intelligence of the audience and keep it far away from being one of the greatest films ever made, let alone THE greatest.

And TITANIC is mostly garbage with some wonderful special effects -- and also, a few very bad special effects.

I’m getting bored of these lists. Talk about overkill.

Missing from the list:

Grease

one of Wim Wenders films: Wings of Desire or Faraway So Close

Did any of Mike Leigh's films make it? Secrets and Lies, Another Year or Vera Drake

The Color Purple

O Brother, Where Are Thou?

Big Fish

Were the Merchant Ivory movies overlooked? A Room with a View or Maurice

That Touch of Mink

It Happened One Night

A Face in the Crowd

Roman Holiday

Miracle on 34th Street

And I'm sure I'll think of more that deserve a place on the list.

GREASE, R36??? Oh, my sides!!!!

The Way We Were

Funny Girl

Best In Show

Bullets Over Broadway

[quote]GREASE, [R36]??? Oh, my sides!!!!

You may not think Grease is high art, but it did help the movie musical in the late 70s when the art form was dead, killed by Lucille Ball's Maimed. And it brought teenagers into the theater to see a movie musical. In its day, Grease was huge.

What's Up, Doc? should have made the list over most of the comedies that made it. Do they really think that Bridesmaids is better that WUD?

R29 Thank you. Jaws is a superlative film.

R39 What about Cabaret?

[quote][R39] What about Cabaret?

Cabaret was still riding off the 1960s movie musicals like Funny Girl, Hello Dolly, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Fiddler on the Roof.

Plus, teenagers didn't go to see Liza in drag.

Fame should replace Moulin Rouge

R43 Star, Dr. Dolittle, Paint Your Wagon, Finian's Rainbow, Camelot and Sweet Charity, were very expensive late 60s musical and Hello Dolly was a BO disappointment. In the 70s audiences stayed away from Darling Lili,1776, Man of La Mancha, Mame, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Boyfriend, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever . . . Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret and Grease. Grease didn't inspire the return of musicals as The Wiz, Xanadu, New York, New York were flops.

What an odd list. Road Warrior instead of Fury Road? Mean Streets instead of Raging Bull or Taxi Driver? And was One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest missing or did I miss it?

When I saw My Best Friend's Wedding I knew it was gonna be a weird list.

Parasite should be ranked in top 50. The only julia movie that should be on here is pretty woman or erin b.

[quote]You may not think Grease is high art, but it did help the movie musical in the late 70s when the art form was dead, killed by Lucille Ball's Maimed. And it brought teenagers into the theater to see a movie musical. In its day, Grease was huge.

I agree with you on both counts, but of course, neither of them is justification for naming the movie one of the 100 greatest of all time. Any such ranking should be in terms of quality, not popularity and box-office receipts. And the problem is not that GREASE isn't "high art," the problem is that it's swill.

These lists are so stupid. Film is completely subjective. Is Bridesmaids really deserving over The Deer Hunter or Manhattan? Great films inevitably get left off when you try and limit the choices.

This is generally a good list and a solid slap in the face to Sight and Sound.

The Red Shoes

Sunset Boulevard

Rear Window.

Bride of Frankenstein

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

So much crap on that list. There are some great films, but My Best Friends Wedding? Are they joking?

Kramer vs Kramer, Bridesmaids, My Best Friend's Wedding, Alien, Pink Flamingos, The Shining, The Tree of Life, 12 Years a Slave, Paris is Burning, Dazed and Confused, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Piano . . .WTF!

what about Forbidden Games, Sunset Boulevard, The Battle of Algiers, The Gold Rush, Tootsie, Schindler's List . . .?

Some I haven't seen so no comments. Some choices were excellent. "Breaking The Waves" for example. Also both Psycho and Vertigo which are in my top ten list. But some were absurd. My Best friend's Wedding certainly. Also 'Titanic' which wasn't half as good as 'A Night To Remember'. Also Sound Of Music which had wonderful Julie Andrews and a great score but otherwise was a TV movie level drag (Christopher Plummer thought a lot less of it than me).

It includes a great many films that it should include.

There's a fair measure if cheesy popular fare: My Best Friend's Wedding, Bridesmaids, Toy Story, Moulin Rouge, musicals, Star Wars... But fewer than I expected, actually.

Some favorites are inevitably missing. I would have chosen different films for Luis Buñuel or Terrance Mallick, for instance. But about 90 of those films are absolutely worth seeing, which seems a small achievement considering the state of most such lists.

Christopher Plummer didn’t like SOM? I never knew that. Interesting. Makes me wonder now how Julie feels about it….

It's certainly much better than these lists normally are. I appreciate they included GWTW and had TWOO at #2 but, was The Exorcist not included or did I miss it?

[quote]These lists are so stupid. Film is completely subjective. Is Bridesmaids really deserving over The Deer Hunter or Manhattan? Great films inevitably get left off when you try and limit the choices.

Some are more stupid than others, but regardless, they all do what they're meant to do -- namely, attract readership (and clicks) and stimulate debate.

I don't mind subjective lists. That's the point of this one. I would put a few more non-english language films in the top 30.

Did they include any films with blackface?

Requiem for a Dream

So, according to this list, Natural Born Killers is Oliver Stone's best film?

I stopped writing film reviews so I would never have to see another Oliver Stone movie.

What a load of bollocks.