1,000 Greatest Movies of All-Time
This is a great site overall, a must-see for any movie fan
https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films_table.php
Super list and site 👍
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Excellent site. I think it is the best of the best of lists. I've seen about 580 of the films from last year's edition of the list. I'm not sure yet how many I have seen from the new updated edition.
shareToo many films that critics have convinced people are great but are not rewatchable such as Raging Bull. Watching a constantly yelling abusive a-hole punch drunk ex-boxer is not something I want to see twice. He has barely 5 comedies in his top 100, where's Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein?
shareit's an aggregation of various polls and critic lists.
i actually kinda agree with your general point in that all-time lists lean a little too heavily on prestigious 'eat your vegetables, this is good for you' cinema. at least for my tastes. but that's the way critical consensus sways, and if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
& if nothing else, lists like this are often a gateway into finding new things that you may have overlooked. i certainly don't go in expecting to like every film, or even most of them. it would be weird if i did, imo.
I love your eat your vegtables analogy. Vertigo #2 was a shock, most people IMO wouldn't list it their top 5 Hitchcock films. Where is the list for the movies you've seen 50 times because there so enjoyable like My Cousin Vinny or A Christmas Story.
sharei'm not shocked by vertigo. it won the last sight and sound poll, which is the big snobby cinema poll that people generally cite as something like an authority on quality cinema, edging out citizen kane for the first time in decades.
you can be fairly certain when you look at any such aggregate, you're gonna see kane and vertigo and tokyo story and the searchers and sunrise and so on kicking around the top 20.
& fair enough. those are all movies that have stood the test of time, & i'm not going to argue with anyone who says they belong there. at least not argue hotly. they personally don't excite me too much, i guess, but it's a big old world and we are all entitled to our preferences.
I didn't care much for Vertigo... Hitchcock has some good movies, but none would be favorites of mine.
shareThe Searchers at number 9. The highest I have ever seen it.
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