Well, since Carlotta took all that effort to make her list, I suppose I’ll make mine as well.  That way she won’t feel too overly geeky.

Anyway, my list will be not the 100 best films, but the 100 most entertaining (to me, at least).  So yes, some of them will actually be rather bad films in many ways.  But hey, you don’t have to watch them.  And since there’s so many entertaining movies, and I can probably sit around thinking up more and more and more of them all the time, I’ll just list the best ones from among my own personal movie collection.

1.  A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum (1966)
2.  Alexander Nevsky (1938)
3.  Apollo 13 (1995)
4.  Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
5.  The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
6.  Black Hawk Down (2001)
7.  The Bourne Identity (2004)
8.  Le Pacte Des Loups (2001)
9.  Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)
10.  A Bug’s Life (1998)
11.  Casablanca (1943)
12.  Chicago (2002)
13.  Chicken Run (2000)
14.  The Court Jester (1956)
15.  Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
16.  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
17.  The Dark Crystal (1983)
18.  Das Boot (the full version) (1985)
19.  Demolition Man (1993)
20.  The Desert Rats (1953)
21.  Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
22.  Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
23.  El Dorado (1967)
24.  The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
25.  Faust (1925)
26.  Fiddler On the Roof (1971)
27.  The Fifth Element (1997)
28.  The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
29.  Forrest Gump (1994)
30.  Galaxy Quest (2000)
31.  The General (1927)
32.  Glory (1989)
33.  The Gods Must Be Crazy (I’ll include the original and the sequel together here) (1980/1988)
34.  Gojira (not the Americanised version) (1954)
35.  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
36.  The Great Escape (1963)
37.  Hatari! (1962)
38.  Hellboy (2004)
39.  The Hidden Fortress (1958)
40.  High Noon (1952)
41.  The Horse Soldiers (1959)
42.  The Incredibles (2004)
43.  Independence Day (2000)
44.  The Indiana Jones movies (1981/1984/1989)
45.  The Italian Job (2003)
46.  Kagemusha (1980)
47.  Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
48.  Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
49.  King Kong (1933)
50.  Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
51.  Ladyhawke (1985)
52.  The Legend of Drunken Master (1994)
53.  Lilo & Stitch (2002)
54.  The Long Kiss Goodnight (1995)
55.  The Longest Day (1962)
56.  The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001/2002/2003)
57.  The Lost World (they keep finding more and more bits of this movie that were lost, I think it’s up to about 90 minutes long now) (1925)
58.  The Magnificent Seven (1960)
59.  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
60.  Master and Commander (2003)
61.  The Matrix (1999)
62.  The Memphis Belle (1990)
63.  Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
64.  Monsters, Inc. (2001)
65.  Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
66.  The Mummy (1999)
67.  Nosferatu (1922)
68.  Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
69.  The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
70.  The Pianist (2003)
71.  Pirates of the Caribbean:  Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
72.  The Princess Bride (1987)
73.  The Quiet Man (1952)
74.  Ran (1985)
75.  Rashomon (1950)
76.  Robin Hood (1991, the one with Patrick Bergin rather than Kevin Costner)
77.  The Rock (1996)
78.  Romancing the Stone (1984)
79.  Ronin (1998)
80.  Serenity (2005)
81.  The Seven Samurai (1954)
82.  Shall We Dance?  (1996)
83.  The Shootist (1976)
84.  Signs (2002)
85.  The Sixth Sense (1999)
86.  Space Cowboys (2000)
87.  Them! (1954)
88.  The Thing From Another World (1951)
89.  Throne of Blood (1957)
90.  Tora!  Tora!  Tora!  (1970)
91.  Toy Story (both 1 and 2) (1995/1999)
92.  Tremors (1990)
93.  True Lies (1994)
94.  Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
95.  UHF (1989)
96.  Wasabi (2001)
97.  Who Am I?  (1998)
98.  Willow (1988)
99.  X-Men (2000)
100.  Yojimbo, and its sequel Sanjuro (1961/1962)

Them! was awesome!

I forgot The Good The Bad and The Ugly too.

MadCarlotta - 25 June 2007 11:07 AM

Them! was awesome!

Of course it was.  Otherwise I would have left it off of my list. 

Gah, I left Ice Pirates, the first three Star Wars movies, The Battling Butler, Oscar, Labyrinth and White Christmas off of my list because they were sitting on a table instead of being on the shelves.  Oh well.  I’ll throw them in there, too, so it can be a really really crowded top 100 movies!

I always think that To Kill A Mockingbird should be WAY higher ranked than it is.
That’s just me, though
And where were the Indie flicks, like Donny Darko?!

Kidding

I was very surprised to see Casablanca knocked out of the top spot.. it always wins.
Maybe that’s why it wasn’t the first-place winner

I can’t possibly list my top 100. I’m too dithery for that.

Boo - 25 June 2007 11:57 AM

I can’t possibly list my top 100. I’m too dithery for that.

Heh, that’s what I was thinking too - I know I’d 1) forget some of my favourites, and 2) change my mind 87 times while making up the list!

Madmouse - 25 June 2007 12:03 PM

Boo - 25 June 2007 11:57 AM

I can’t possibly list my top 100. I’m too dithery for that.

Heh, that’s what I was thinking too - I know I’d 1) forget some of my favourites, and 2) change my mind 87 times while making up the list!

Agreed! How can you take 100 of your closest “friends” and rank them? Impossible, I say!

Ranking is indeed too hard. So here is how I’m going to make my list:

Dily’s Top Movies *ahem*

1. Movies I love
2. Movies I like
3. Movies I kinda like
4. Movies I sorta like
5. Movies that make me go ‘meh’.

Sorry, “Movies I hate”! Maybe you’ll make the list next year.

Dily - 25 June 2007 01:53 PM

Ranking is indeed too hard. So here is how I’m going to make my list:

Dily’s Top Movies *ahem*

1. Movies I love
2. Movies I like
3. Movies I kinda like
4. Movies I sorta like
5. Movies that make me go ‘meh’.

Sorry, “Movies I hate”! Maybe you’ll make the list next year.

Where do “Movies that make your eyes glaze over and your brains dribble out of your ears” go, though?

Chick flick section?

Neo!