Match Cut's Movies to See Before You Die (or Get a Girlfriend)

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#492. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 85.5
Highest ranking: 72 (transmogrifier)


#491. Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 84.5
Highest ranking: 81 (eternity)


#490. The Mission (Johnnie To, 1999)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 84.5
Highest ranking: 78 (Sycophant)


#489. The Brave Little Toaster (Jerry Rees, 1987)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 83.5
Highest ranking: 73 (ThePlashyBubbler)


#488. Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 83
Highest ranking: 68 (The Mike)


#487. Shame (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 83
Highest ranking: 67 (dreamdead)


#486. Limbo (John Sayles, 1999)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 82.5
Highest ranking: 76 (transmogrifier)


#485. Something Wild (Jonathon Demme, 1986)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 82.5
Highest ranking: 75 (Raiders)


#484. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 80.5
Highest ranking: 68 (Spinal)


#483. The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1968)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 80
Highest ranking: 77 (Dead & Messed Up)

[Watashi]

I swore Spinal listed Brave Little Toaster in his Top 100.

[Sycophant]

I swore Spinal listed Brave Little Toaster in his Top 100.

Oh, man. I should've put it on mine. Thought I had. Whoops. It's on the list at all, though, so that's pretty awesome!

[The Mike]

Well, it's exciting to have at least made the Top 25.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Woot! Limbo makes the cut! Trans, you're a good man.

[Mysterious Dude]

When I first posted my top 100 at RT, someone described it as "AFI's list with foreign films." Looking back, it was an accurate assessment. There were a lot of titles like Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Gone with the Wind and other films that I like and respect, but do not love. In retrospect, it's an embarrassing list. (On the other hand, the film with the number one spot has not changed.)

It's nice to know that I have now achieved "maverick" status.

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Biggest surprise absentee from the list for me: The Bridge on the River Kwai

[jamaul]

When I first posted my top 100 at RT, someone described it as "AFI's list with foreign films." Looking back, it was an accurate assessment. There were a lot of titles like Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Gone with the Wind and other films that I like and respect, but do not love. In retrospect, it's an embarrassing list. (On the other hand, the film with the number one spot has not changed.)

It's nice to know that I have now achieved "maverick" status.

Are you suggesting that my list is conventional? If so, dammit . . . I agree.

I've made other lists, where I tried way too hard to be hip and different. But I was citing movies I didn't really love. Casablanca, Kane and Godfather are all on my list, and I seriously love them. They are all films I've revisted throughout my adulthood and, upon subsequent viewings, have continued to grow in my esteem.

Gone With the Wind is balls though. I've always thought so. Shriveled, hairy, sweaty, smelly, urine color-toned balls.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Biggest surprise absentee from the list for me: The Bridge on the River Kwai

It was on my old top 100, but I ditched it in favor of other films I've seen since making that list.

[transmogrifier]

Gone With the Wind is balls though. I've always thought so. Shriveled, hairy, sweaty, smelly, urine color-toned balls.

And it didn't make a single list out of 27.

[jamaul]

And it didn't make a single list out of 27.

Thank
God.

[Sycophant]

Thanks for reminding me I really need to rewatch Gone with the Wind.

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#482. Memories of Murder (Bong Jun-Ho, 2003)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 79.5
Highest ranking: 66 (Boner M)


#481. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.....and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 79.5
Highest ranking: 64 (EyesWideOpen)


#480. The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 79
Highest ranking: 62 (Ezee E)


#479. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 77.5
Highest ranking: 65 (The Mike)


#478. Exiled (Johnnie To, 2006)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 76.5
Highest ranking: 56 (Daniel Davis)


#477. Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 76.5
Highest ranking: 55 (The Mike)


#476. Quiz Show (Robert Redford, 1994)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 76
Highest ranking: 76 (Kurosawa Fan)


#475. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel, 1929)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 76
Highest ranking: 75 (Yxklyx)


#474. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin, 1947)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 76
Highest ranking: 71 (dreamdead)


#473. Baraka (Ron Fricke, 1992)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 76
Highest ranking: 61 (Antoine)

[Sycophant]

#475. Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005)

I was not expecting this.

[Spinal]

#496. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 88
Highest ranking: 84 (soitgoes...)

Corrections to a project this massive are probably going to be annoying, so apologies in advance.

But this is #49 on my list.

[jamaul]

Thanks for reminding me I really need to rewatch Gone with the Wind.

Fine. Just remember though: you will never get those four hours back.

[Spinal]

I swore Spinal listed Brave Little Toaster in his Top 100.

It's in my top 110.

[Mysterious Dude]

Are you suggesting that my list is conventional? If so, dammit . . . I agree.

I wasn't trying to make a comment on your list. Sorry if it seemed like that. I was just remarking about my maverick-ness.

I've made other lists, where I tried way too hard to be hip and different. But I was citing movies I didn't really love. Casablanca, Kane and Godfather are all on my list, and I seriously love them. They are all films I've revisted throughout my adulthood and, upon subsequent viewings, have continued to grow in my esteem.

Your list is better than my list, circa 2003. It is the phoniest goddamn thing I've ever seen. I don't know who I was kidding.

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1. The 400 Blows (1959)
2. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
3. Sunrise (1927)
4. M (1931)
5. Casablanca (1942)
6. Breathless (1960)
7. Taxi Driver (1976)
8. City Lights (1931)
9. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
10. Notorious (1946)

11. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
12. Raging Bull (1980)
13. Citizen Kane (1941)
14. Schindler’s List (1993)
15. On the Waterfront (1954)
16. Seven Samurai (1954)
17. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
18. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
19. The Godfather (1972)
20. Touch of Evil (1958)

21. Pulp Fiction (1994)
22. Gone with the Wind (1939)
23. The General (1927)
24. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
25. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
26. Metropolis (1927)
27. Double Indemnity (1944)
28. La Grande Illusion (1937)
29. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
30. Badlands (1973)

31. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
32. The Elephant Man (1980)
33. Paths of Glory (1957)
34. The Graduate (1967)
35. Rear Window (1954)
36. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
37. Pather Panchali (1955)
38. Wild Strawberries (1957)
39. E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)
40. Fargo (1996)

41. Psycho (1960)
42. Nosferatu (1922)
43. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
44. Alien (1979)
45. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
46. The Rules of the Game (1939)
47. Intolerance (1916)
48. Chinatown (1974)
49. Ikiru (1952)
50. Napoléon (1927)

51. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
52. The Seventh Seal (1957)
53. All About Eve (1950)
54. The Conversation (1974)
55. Mean Streets (1973)
56. The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)
57. Imitation of Life (1959)
58. Do the Right Thing (1989)
59. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
60. Jaws (1975)

61. High Noon (1952)
62. Rashomon (1950)
63. Manhattan (1979)
64. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
65. Duck Soup (1933)
66. The African Queen (1951)
67. Traffic (2000)
68. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
69. The Crying Game (1992)
70. Annie Hall (1977)

71. Goodfellas (1990)
72. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
73. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
74. Platoon (1986)
75. The Kid Brother (1927)
76. Rebecca (1940)
77. White Heat (1949)
78. Boogie Nights (1997)
79. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
80. L’Atalante (1934)

81. Some Like it Hot (1959)
82. Our Hospitality (1923)
83. Ran (1985)
84. The Third Man (1949)
85. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
86. The Kid (1921)
87. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
88. Fight Club (1999)
89. Laura (1944)
90. North by Northwest (1959)

91. The Deer Hunter (1978)
92. Way Down East (1920)
93. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
94. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
95. Captains Courageous (1937)
96. Twelve Angry Men (1957)
97. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
98. The Ox Bow Incident (1943)
99. I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
100. Umberto D. (1952)

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[Kurosawa Fan]

#474. Quiz Show (Robert Redford, 1994)
List mentions: 2
Average ranking: 76
Highest ranking: 76 (Kurosawa Fan)

This is why Benny should have posted a list. This film would have been even higher. But I'm happy to be noticed as the poster who had it highest on his or her list.

[Sycophant]

Antoine, I've seen more films on that list than any of the others besides my own. Because I've had to.

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Mine in 2003 probably looked a lot like that but with more Oscar winners.

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[Sycophant]

Oh man, we didn't get Sven's list in here, did we?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Oh man, we didn't get Sven's list in here, did we?

That's depressing. We need him back here. I hate for this to sound more sentimental than it needs to be, but I really miss him around here.

[The Mike]

I wonder how many movies I can have highest rating on. :lol:

[Ezee E]

I imagine if I saw Quiz Show again, it'd probably be up there for the list.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I imagine if I saw Quiz Show again, it'd probably be up there for the list.

You should probably see it again.