Why did I waste my time doing this? SHUT UP is why! I mean, because I realize that while I love movies, there are a lot of "classics" that everyone has seen that I've somehow missed. Like The Godfather trilogy. And every Star Wars movie. And, um, pretty much everything made before 1950, with the exception of Christmas movies. I wanted to make a list of those movies everyone knows and loves and respects and then dutifully check off each title as I watch them. Shocking, I know, coming from the woman who is currently re-reading the entire Stephen King anthology chronologically.
So how did I come up with my list? I took a few things into consideration - Academy Award Best Picture wins and nominations, Best Actor/Actress wins, and inclusion on a handful of different American Film Institute lists (namely, the 100 Greatest Films and the 10-Year Update of the 100 Greatest Films, the 100 Most Inspiring Films, the 100 Greatest Comedies - because I feel like comedies get a raw deal from the Academy - and films included in the 100 Greatest Quotes - because I figure any movie whose quote has stood the test of time has obviously left its mark on society). Then I weighted them: the more lists a film was included on, the higher it rose, with Best Picture winners getting top billing, followed by Best Picture nominees, the most recent version of the 100 Greatest Films, the older version, the Most Inspiring, Greatest Comedies and finally, Greatest Quotes. Best Actor/Actress winners were used as tiebreakers or to reorder titles within a selection.
I told you I need a hobby.
In addition, I also put sequels together because it seemed silly to that the third Lord of the Rings movie would be listed above the original, as it actually won Best Picture. And even though Rocky V is on no one's list of Greatest Movies of All Time, I can't not include the whole series, so my bad.
Anyway, I welcome discussion. What movies do you think should be included in the GOAT discussion? The AFI lists are imperfect in that they all came out in the mid-2000s, so what recent comedies or quotes or Best Movies would you add? Either way, I think I've got my work cut out for me.
Casablanca
Gone With the Wind
On the Waterfront
Rocky
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV
Rocky V
Rocky Balboa
Annie Hall
Lawrence of Arabia
Schindler’s List
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Sound of Music
Ben-Hur
It Happened One Night
The Apartment
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part III
All About Eve
Midnight Cowboy
The Silence of the Lambs
In the Heat of the Night
Forrest Gump
West Side Story
The Deer Hunter
Unforgiven
Platoon
The French Connection
Dances with Wolves
Titanic
From Here to Eternity
Amadeus
All Quiet on the Western Front
An American in Paris
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Patton
My Fair Lady
Gandhi
Mrs. Miniver
Braveheart
Rain Man
Driving Miss Daisy
A Beautiful Mind
Chariots of Fire
Grand Hotel
The Artist
The King’s Speech
Million Dollar Baby
Gladiator
American Beauty
Shakespeare in Love
Terms of Endearment
Kramer vs. Kramer
A Man for All Seasons
Marty
All the King’s Men
Hamlet
The Lost Weekend
Going My Way
The Great Ziegfeld
Argo
The Hurt Locker
Slumdog Millionaire
No Country for Old Men
The Departed
Crash
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Chicago
The English Patient
The Last Emperor
Out of Africa
Ordinary People
The Sting
Oliver!
Tom Jones
Gigi
Around the World in 80 Days
The Greatest Show on Earth
Gentlemen’s Agreement
How Green Was My Valley
Rebecca
You Can’t Take it With You
The Life of Emile Zola
Cavalcade
Cimarron
The Broadway Melody
Wings
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
Shane
Yankee Doodle Dandy
The Graduate
Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
High Noon
The Philadelphia Story
M*A*S*H
American Graffiti
Tootsie
Citizen Kane
Sunset Boulevard
Chinatown
Apocalypse Now
The Maltese Falcon
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Bonnie and Clyde
A Streetcar Named Desire
Taxi Driver
Jaws
Network
Raging Bull
Double Indemnity
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Temple of Doom
The Last Crusade
A Clockwork Orange
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
The Shawshank Redemption
All the President’s Men
12 Angry Men
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Fargo
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
The Sixth Sense
Apollo 13
The Pride of the Yankees
Field of Dreams
On Golden Pond
Dead Poets Society
Moonstruck
She Done Him Wrong
Auntie Mame
Nashville
Nashville
Cabaret
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Last Picture Show
Doctor Zhivago
Stagecoach
Wuthering Heights
Giant
A Place in the Sun
Breaking Away
Miracle on 34th Street
Norma Rae
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Right Stuff
Lilies of the Field
Seabiscuit
The Color Purple
The Defiant Ones
Sergeant York
The Killing Fields
Sounder
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Dark Victory
Erin Brokovich
The Verdict
The Ten Commandments
Babe
Boys Town
Fiddler on the Roof
Working Girl
Captains Courageous
Places in the Heart
Madame Curie
Ray
Born Yesterday
The Thin Man
The Great Dictator
Ninotchka
Broadcast News
The Awful Truth
Father of the Bride (1950)
Love Story
Jerry Maguire
A Few Good Men
Funny Girl
Dog Day Afternoon
42nd Street
As Good as it Gets
As Good as it Gets
Coming Home
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Black Swan
The Blind Side
Milk
The Reader
There Will Be Blood
The Queen
Capote
Mystic River
The Hours
The Pianist
Shine
The Piano
Howards End
Scent of a Woman
My Left Foot
Children of a Lesser God
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Tender Mercies
The Goodbye Girl
A Touch of Class
The Lion in Winter
Darling
Mary Poppins
Judgement at Nuremberg
Elmer Gantry
Room at the Top
Separate Tables
The King and I
The Rose Tattoo
The Country Girl
Roman Holiday
The Heiress
Johnny Belinda
Mildred Pierce
Gaslight
The Song of Bernadette
Watch on the Rhine
Suspicion
Kitty Foyle
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Jezebel
The Good Earth
The Story of Louis Pasteur
The Informer
The Private Life of Henry VIII
The Champ
Disraeli
The Divorcee
In Old Arizona
Seventh Heaven
Amour
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables (2012)
Life of Pi
Zero Dark Thirty
The Descendents
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids are Alright
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
True Grit (2010)
Winter’s Bone
Avatar
District 9
An Education
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
A Single Man
Up
Up in the Air
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
Brokeback Mountain
Good Night and Good Luck
The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Sideways
Lost in Translation
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Gangs of New York
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Chocolat
Traffic
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
The Insider
Elizabeth
The Thin Red Line
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
LA Confidential
Secrets & Lies
The Postman
Sense and Sensibility
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Quiz Show
The Fugitive
In the Name of the Father
The Remains of the Day
The Crying Game
Beauty and the Beast
Bugsy
JFK
Prince of Tides
Awakenings
Ghost
Born on the Fourth of July
The Accidental Tourist
Dangerous Liaisons
Mississippi Burning
Fatal Attraction
Hope and Glory
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Mission
A Room with a View
Prizzi’s Honor
Witness
A Passage to India
A Soldier’s Story
The Big Chill
The Dresser
Missing
Atlantic City
Reds
The Elephant Man
Tess
All That Jazz
Heaven Can Wait
Midnight Express
An Unmarried Woman
Julia
The Turning Point
Bound for Glory
Barry Lyndon
The Conversation
Lenny
The Towering Inferno
Cries and Whispers
The Exorcist
Deliverance
Nicholas and Alexandra
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
Anne of the Thousand Days
Hello, Dolly!
Rachel, Rachel
Romeo and Juliet
Doctor Doolittle
Alfie
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
Sand Pebbles
Ship of Fools
A Thousand Clowns
Becket
Zorba the Greek
America, America
Cleopatra
How the West Was Won
The Longest Day
The Music Man
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Fanny
The Guns of Navarone
The Hustler
The Alamo
Sons and Lovers
The Sundowners
Anatomy of a Murder
The Nun’s Story
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Peyton Place
Sayonara
Witness for the Prosecution
Friendly Persuasion
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
Mister Roberts
Picnic
The Caine Mutiny
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Three Coins in the Fountain
Julius Caesar
The Robe
Ivanhoe
Moulin Rouge (1952)
The Quiet Man
Decision Before Dawn
Quo Vadis
King Solomon’s Mines
Battleground
A Letter to Three Wives
Twelve O’Clock High
The Red Shoes
The Snake Pit
The Bishop’s Wife
Crossfire
Great Expectations
Henry V
Razor’s Edge
The Yearling
Anchors Aweigh
The Bells of St. Mary’s
Spellbound
Since You Went Away
Wilson
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heaven Can Wait
The Human Comedy
In Which We Serve
The More the Merrier
The Ox-Bow Incident
49th Parallel
Kings Row
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Pied Piper
Random Harvest
The Talk of the Town
Wake Island
Blossoms in the Dust
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Hold Back the Dawn
The Little Foxes
One Foot in Heaven
All This, and Heaven Too
Foreign Correspondent
The Letter
The Long Voyage Home
Our Town
Love Affair
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
The Citadel
Four Daughters
Grand Illusion
Pygmalion
Test Pilot
Dead End
In Old Chicago
Lost Horizon
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Stage Door
A Star is Born
Anthony Adverse
Dodsworth
Libeled Lady
Romeo and Juliet
San Francisco
A Tale of Two Cities
Three Smart Girls
Alice Adams
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
David Copperfield
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Les Miserables (1935)
Naughty Marietta
Ruggles of Red Gap
Top Hat
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Cleopatra
Flirtation Walk
The Gay Divorcee
Here Comes the Navy
The House of Rothschild
Imitation of Life
One Night of Love
Viva Villa!
The White Parade
A Farewell to Arms
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Lady for a Day
Little Women
Smilin’ Through
State Fair
Arrowsmith
Bad Girl
Five Star Final
An Hour with You
Shanghei Express
The Smiling Lieutenant
East Lynne
The Front Page
Skippy
Trader Horn
The Big House
The Love Parade
The Alibi
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
The Patriot
The Racket
City Lights
City Lights
2001: A Space Odyssey
Some Like it Hot
The African Queen
The African Queen
Singin’ in the Rain
The Gold Rush
Duck Soup
Modern Times
Bringing Up Baby
Sullivan’s Travels
Psycho
King Kong
Vertigo
Vertigo
The Searchers
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Rear Window
North by Northwest
The Wild Bunch
Easy Rider
Spartacus
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The General
A Night at the Opera
Harold and Maude
Frankenstein
The Jazz Singer
Cool Hand Luke
Airplane!
National Lampoon’s Animal House
When Harry Met Sally
Caddyshack
Sons of the Desert
Sunrise
Sunrise
Sophie’s Choice
The Miracle Worker
Philadelphia
Cat Ballou
Wall Street
Intolerance
Swing Time
Do the Right Thing
Blade Runner
The Birth of a Nation
The Third Man
Fantasia
Rebel Without a Cause
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Hoosiers
National Velvet
Glory
Pinocchio
Meet John Doe
Rudy
The Black Stallion
A Raisin in the Sun
Silkwood
The Day the Earth Stood Still
An Officer and a Gentleman
The Spirit of St. Louis
Gunga Din
Birdman of Alcatraz
Thelma and Louise
Serpico
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Stand and Deliver
Hotel Rwanda
The Paper Chase
Fame
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Karate Kid
Blazing Saddles
The Producers (1967)
Young Frankenstein
The Odd Couple
His Girl Friday
A Fish Called Wanda
Adam’s Rib
Being There
There’s Something About Mary
Ghostbusters
This is Spinal Tap
Arsenic and Old Lace
Raising Arizona
Groundhog Day
Harvey
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Big
My Man Godfrey
Manhattan
Shampoo
A Shot in the Dark
To Be or Not to Be
The Seven Year Itch
Arthur (1981)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
The Lady Eve
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Diner
It’s a Gift
A Day at the Races
Topper
What’s Up, Doc?
Sherlock, Jr.
Beverly Hills Cop
Horse Feathers
Take the Money and Run
Mrs. Doubtfire
Bananas
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Monkey Business
9 to 5
Victor/Victoria
The Palm Beach Story
Road to Morocco
The Freshman
Sleeper
The Navigator
Private Benjamin
Lost in America
Dinner at Eight
City Slickers
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Beetlejuice
The Jerk
Woman of the Year
The Heartbreak Kid
Ball of Fire
Silver Streak
Bull Durham
Court Jester
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Good Morning, Vietnam
Sudden Impact
White Heat
Dr. No
To Have and Have Not
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Now, Voyager
Dirty Harry
Animal Crackers
A League of Their Own
Scarface
Beyond the Forest
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Planet of the Apes
The Shining
Poltergeist
Marathon Man
Mommie Dearest
Little Caesar
Soylent Green
Dracula
Knute Rockne All American
Goldfinger
The Naughty Nineties
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing
The Iron Lady
Crazy Heart
The Last King of Scotland
Training Day
La Vie en Rose
Walk the Line
Monster
Monster’s Ball
Life is Beautiful
Leaving Las Vegas
Reversal of Fortune
Boys Don’t Cry
Dead Man Walking
Blue Sky
Misery
The Color of Money
The Accused
Trip to Bountiful
Harry and Tonto
Save the Tiger
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Klute
Women in Love
True Grit (1969)
True Grit (1969)
Charly
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Hud
Two Women
BUtterfield 8
Stalag 17
Cyrano de Bergerac
I Want to Live!
Three Faces of Eve
Anastasia
Come Back, Little Sheba
A Double Life
The Farmer’s Daughter
To Each His Own
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Free Soul
Dangerous
Morning Glory
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Min and Bill
The Way of All Flesh
The Last Command
Coquette
Street Angel
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