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THE 100 GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME ACCORDING TO US
The American Film institute had its turn, now it' ours.
Here are Eric's Top 100. I've actually seen almost 80 of the AFI' top 100 and I'm trying to see the rest, so this list is subject to change as I see more. I extended my list to 115, partly because I listed movies I dont think were considered for the AFI list, like foreign movies and very recent movies (the most recent on the AFI list was Fargo). So here is the evidence I have spent way too much time thinking about this:
1 Casablanca
2 The Maltese Falcon
3 Star Wars
4 Psycho
5 North by Northwest
6 The Empire Strikes Back
7 Rashomon
8 Reservoir Dogs
9 Airplane
10 It's a Wonderful Life
11 Raiders of the Lost Ark
12 Fargo
13 The Godfather
14 The Wizard of Oz
15 Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
16 Pulp Fiction
17 The Blues Brothers
18 Apocolyse Now
19 Young Frankenstein
20 The Seven Samurai
21 Rear Window
22 Rebecca
23 Strangers on a Train
24 The Manchrian Candidate
25 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
26 Halloween
27 Citizen Kane
28 Arsenic and Old Lace
29 Double Indemnity
30 Scream
31 Die Hard
32 Saving Private Ryan
33 The Usual Suspects
34 A Christmas Story
35 The Godfather, Part II
36 Dead Again
37 The Birds
38 L.A. Confidential
39 The Great Escape
40 Titanic
41 Men In Black
42 A Few Good Men
43 Clue
44 The Player
45 Ghostbusters
46 Dead Alive
47 American Graffiti
48 Chasing Amy
49 Back to the Future
50 Dazed and Confused
51 Forrest Gump
52 Silence of the Lambs
53 The Shining
54 Blazing Saddles
55 Bridge on the River Kwai
56 Horsefeathers
57 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
58 Goodfellas
59 A Streetcar Named Desire
60 Independence Day
61 The English Patient
62 Batman (the Michael Keaton one)
63 Jaws
64 Dial M for Murder
65 Bull Durham
66 Frighteners
67 Field of Dreams
68 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
69 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
70 El Mariachi
71 Lawrence of Arabia
72 A Night at the Opera
73 Love and Death
74 Taxi Driver
75 A Clockwork Orange
76 A Time to Kill
77 Amadeus
78 Duck Soup
79 JFK
80 Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
81 M.A.S.H.
82 The Princess Bride
83 Spellbound
84 The House of Yes
85 Rebel Without a Cause
86 Mission Impossible
87 Alien
88 The Hudsucker Proxy
89 The Truman Show
90 Tombstone
91 Spaceballs
92 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
93 Airport
94 Vertigo
95 Anatomy of a Murder
96 The Shawshank Redemption
97 Shadow of a Doubt
98 Suspicion
99 Sleeper
100 Lifeboat
101 Harvey
102 Return of the Jedi
103 Scream 2
104 From Here to Eternity
105 This is Spinal Tap
106 WarGames
107 The Magnificent Seven
108 Beetlejuice
109 Primal Fear
110 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
111 The Nightmare Before Christmas
112 The Untouchables
113 Mutiny on the Bounty
114 Seven
115 The 39 Steps
Taste in movies is very subjective & I don't expect anybody to agree with my choices. But I'm open to suggestions. I do plan to rearrange this frequently.