That Damned Movie Survey, 2004 edition

[slipjig3]

Okay, I tried this once before eons ago, but I made a few tactical errors in the process that made failure inevitable. I apologize to those of you who've already been through this once (or twice, if you're odhierre or vaclav2), but I am a terminally bored man with a raging list obsession that must be indulged.

Yes, folks. It's that damned Movie Survey again.

Here's how to participate:

1) Prepare a list of the 10 Greatest Movies Ever Made, in your opinion. You can define the word "greatest" however you wish, but all titles must be theatrical releases; made-for-TV films will be ignored. Note also that order is important: a film in the #1 spot on your list will have more weight than a film in the #10 spot. If you absolutely cannot rank the items on your list, make sure you indicate that the list is in "no particular order."

2) Submit the list as a response to this entry. Only lists that appear in full as responses in this string will be counted; lists that appear only in your own journal will not, although of course you're welcome to cross-post all you want. Please do not read the responses here until you've written and submitted your own list. Once you've done so, read to your heart's content, but I want everyone's entry to be untainted by the other respondents.

3) Sit back and wait. I will tabulate the results after a reasonable amount of time and post them in this journal, assuming that the number of responses reaches critical mass.

If you wish to pimp this out in your own journals, you're welcome to do so. (Just make sure that you refer them here; the big problem last time is that I memed when I should've pimped, and I couldn't chase down the threads.) Thank you all in advance for your time, your cooperation, and above all your patience in dealing with online dweebs with too much discretionary time. Enjoy!

Comments

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Might as well get the ball rolling:

1) Singin' in the Rain
2) The Conversation
3) The Piano
4) Schindler's List
5) The Thin Blue Line
6) Brazil
7) Amadeus
8) Raiders of the Lost Ark
9) Vanya on 42nd Street
10) Rear Window

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

In no particular order:

Torch Song Trilogy
Sneakers
Ruthless People
Star Wars
Bend it like Beckham
Triplets of Belleville
Bubba Ho Tep
Antonia's Line
Matrix I
Harold and Maude

[qos.livejournal.com]

Nice to see "Impromptu" mentioned!
It's one of my favorites -- although not on my "greatest" list.

[koyaanisqatsi.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I forgot you said no respondents.

Should I redo my list without the commentary and appendix?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

No, no, that's fine. I just didn't want anyone to base their lists on what other people have already said. Once your list is in, you're welcome to do as you please.

[koyaanisqatsi.livejournal.com]

1) The Godfather
2) Fanny and Alexander
3) Small Change
4) My Life as a Dog
5) Rear Window
6) Harold and Maude
7) Casablanca
8) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9) Das Boot
10) Chinatown.

12 more, and explanations of why, at my journal if you care to read it.

[lilithraevyn.livejournal.com]

"Greatest" in this case is defined as "rewatchability".

1. Indiana Jones; Last Crusade (The Trilogy, but that's 3 movies, not one so I put my fav of the three.)
2. The Mummy
3. Labyrinth
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. The Road to El Dorado
6. Last of the Mohicans
7. Donnie Darko
8. The Goonies
9. Army of Darkness
10. How to Kill Your Neighbors Dog

[prolixfootle.livejournal.com]

Altered States
Blue Velvet
Psycho
Run, Lola, Run
The Princess Bride
2001: A Space Odyssey
Young Frankenstein
The Wizard of Oz
Fargo
Best in Show

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

I swear, this list changes every time I post it.

12 Monkeys
Fight Club
Brazil (I have a serious Terry Gilliam jonses)
Seven (ditto David Fincher)
Jacob's Ladder
Court Jester
Rat Race
Noises Off
Princess Bride
Tombstone
Cutthroat Island

(just kidding on that last one, although despite the acting more wooden than the planks they walk off on, I am oddly intrigued by it)

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

I hate things like this, because I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff I love much better, but....

1. Gone With the Wind
2. Labyrinth
3. Charlies Angels
4. Princess Bride
5. Clerks
6. Das Boot
7. Lord of the Rings (take your pick which of the three)
8. Fight Club
9. 12 Monkeys
10. Rumble in the Bronx

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

See already... because I forgot Shrek. And American Beauty, both of which probably deserve to bump out Jackie Chan, as much as I love him... Le Sigh.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

In no particular order, since my brain just isn't working that way this morning:

Foxfire
Moulin Rouge
Princess Bride
Labyrinth
Frida
L.A. Story
The Taming of the Shrew
Better Than Chocolate
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Lost and Delerious

[crystalrowan.livejournal.com]

1. Schindler's List
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
5. Amadeus
6. The Princess Bride
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8. Noises Off
9. Jaws
10. Star Wars: A New Hope

[shawnj.livejournal.com]

1. The Seven Samurai
2. The Godfather, Part II
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. The Godfather
5. Vertigo
6. The Seventh Seal
7. Apocalypse Now
8. Naked (1993)
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark
10. Chinatown

[antsswarm.livejournal.com]

1. Neverending Story
2. Empire of the Sun
3. Fight Club
4. Exotica
5. Crash
6. American Beauty
7. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
8. Casablanca
9. The Piano
10. Romeo + Juliet


(Total Bonuses that I can't let go of: Heathers, The Name of the Rose, Nell and Contact. There. I'm done now.)

I know what you mean.

[melvh.livejournal.com]

yeah.... found I had to bump the Name of the Rose to number 11. And I KNOW I missed a bunch that'll wake me up in the wee hours demanding their place on the list......

[tsiankiio.livejournal.com]

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Harvey
3. Roman Holiday
4. The Whole Nine Yards
5. North by Northwest
6. High Risk (Hong Kong Die Hard)
7. Face/Off
8. Royal Tannebaums
9. Sabrina (old one)
10. Lilo and Stitch

Top 10

[hookncrook.livejournal.com]

#1 Apocolypse Now
#2 Ran
#3 Stange Days
#4 Bullsworth
#5 Some Like It Hot
#6 North by Northwest
#7 The Fifth Element
#8 Pricilla Queen of the Desert
#9 Anthony and Cleopatra
#10 Gone with the Wind

[thejunebug.livejournal.com]

No particular order:

My Fair Lady
Gone With the Wind
Arsenic and Old Lace
Thomas Crown Affair
Pirates of the Caribbean
Brigadoon
An Affair to Remember
Lord of the Rings*
Always
Finding Nemo

*I think all three LOTR should be counted as one whole movie, since that's how Tolkien wrote the books. But if I had to pick, I would choose ROTK.

just curious...

[sonek321.livejournal.com]

on the Thomas Crown Affair, do you mean the original Steve Mcqueen, or the Pierce Brosnan remake. I've never actually seen the original, so I was wondering if you rank it better than the remake...

[qos.livejournal.com]

Compiling a list like this always makes me acutely aware of how few truly great movies I've seen. I'm sure there many greater films out there, beyond my experience. But here's my contribution:

1. Gone with the Wind
2. Ran
3. Casablanca
4. Gandhi
5. The Lord of the Rings (taking the trilogy as one work)
6. Moulin Rouge
7. A Passage to India
8. Star Wars
9. Thelma & Louise
10. Pirates of the Caribbean

[qos.livejournal.com]

Reading through the other responses, I see you ask us to pick *one* of the LotR movies. I'd have to say "The Fellowship of the Ring".

But I think you should reconsider taking them all as one. Unlike, say, the Star Wars trilogies, there is a unity to the production that really makes them a single great work.

[bandie528.livejournal.com]

shit. I can never think of movies on the fly!

I guess I'll define "greatest" as "movies I can watch over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and never tire of."

1. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
2. Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail (was this a theatrical release or not?)
3. The Princess Bride
4. Chocolat
5. Monsoon Wedding
6. Pirates of the Caribbean
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Big Trouble in Little China
9. Disney's Beauty and the Beast
10. Ronin

Goodness, I'm so weird. The end.

Okay, gotta ask...

[dragon-lady1211.livejournal.com]

"Big Trouble in Little China"? Is this is that Kurt Russell movie where he's a truck driver who ends up in some kind of underground war in Chinatown? Has Kim Cattrall in it? If so, why?

[melvh.livejournal.com]

1)2001: a Space Odyssey
1)Lord of the Rings (one or all)
3)Star Wars (the one they eventually called "A New hope")
4)the Agony & the Ecstasy
5)the Prophecy
6)Something Wicked This Way Comes
7)Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
8)Manhunter
9)the Princess Bride
10)the Slipper & the Rose

[melvh.livejournal.com]

I agree that the LotR trilogy should count as a single piece of work, but if I must choose one of them, I choose Fellowship.

Ten Best Movies

[hasfartogo.livejournal.com]

Spirited Away, Gone with the Wind, Now Voyager, My Neighbour Totoro, All About Eve, The Maltese Falcon, Mildred Pierce, Amelie, Alien, Millennium Actress.

[sevanetta.livejournal.com]

I liked the criteria of rewatchability, so I’m borrowing it. No particular order. Nine instead of ten.

Grease
Moulin Rouge
Bring it On
Fight Club
LOTR The Two Towers
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Legally Blonde
Centre Stage

Please see 'Movies' journal entry on Tuesday 27th January. :)

Next to impossible

[sonek321.livejournal.com]

it would be easier if it was 10 of each genre, but here goes...in no particular order

1 - LA Story
2 - Donnie Darko
3 - Trainspotting
4 - Amelie
5 - Time Bandits
6 - The Godfather
7 - Ghostbusters
8 - Memento
9 - High Fidelity
10 - Bottle Rocket

Quiz

[seymoure.livejournal.com]

1. Casablanca
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Godfather
4. La Strada
5. Singing In The Rain
6. The Sting
7. The Great Escape
8. The Seven Samurai
9. King Kong (original)
10. Metropolis

[lauconfidential.livejournal.com]

while i realize that my "greatest" list would be more appropriately deamed my "favorites", but, anyway, here goes...

1. the usual suspects
2. la confidential
3. the shawshank redemption
4. ocean's 11 (kind of out of place...)
5. dr. strangelove or:...
6. schindler's list
7. bringing up baby
8. memento
9. singin' in the rain
10. the graduate

i wish ud ask for top 20...hmmm...

Movie Survey 2004

[dragon-lady1211.livejournal.com]

****This list is in no particular order****
01)Braveheart
02)Excalibur
03)Dead Poet's Society
04)Young Frankenstein
05)National Lampoon's Animal House
06)Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
07)Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers {Haven't seen the third one as yet - yes, I've kind of been living under a rock!}
08)Jaws
09)Raiders of the Lost Ark
10)Lake Placid