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slipjig3 ([personal profile] slipjig3) wrote2009-01-26 10:15 am

The 2009 Movie Survey

I seem to have a burr up my bloomers to do this roughly once every two years, and seeing as how (a) I've just witnessed the most atrocious top-whatever list I've ever laid eyes on, and (b) I'm bored off my tuchus (mostly "b"), I think it's about that time:

Adam's 2009 LiveJournal Greatest Movies of All Time Survey

What I require of you:

1) In a comment to this post, give me your list of the 10 greatest movies of all time. Define the word "greatest" by whatever criteria you like, be it "favorite" or "most important" or whatever. Only feature-length theatrical films will be eligible (even if it was just a showing or two at a film festival or one week in Podunk); direct-to-video, made-for-TV and short-subject titles are not eligible. Also, please only nominate individual films, not series of films.

2) Please make sure your list is in order, or as close as you can make it. In other words, #1 will be your top choice, #2 will be your second choice, and so on. In past years, I have allowed participants to submit lists "in no particular order," but this year I'm using a modified scoring system that won't allow for that. (If sorting your list is proving difficult, at least make sure your top two or three are in order; the scoring system puts the majority of the weight at the high end of the scale, so that the difference between #1 and #2 is much greater than, say, between #9 and #10.)

3) Please do not look at other people's responses until you've handed in yours. I don't want lists that amount to, "Oh, yeah, I forgot about that one! *typetype*" Also, changes are not allowed once your list is submitted; any changes made after the fact will be considered invalid.

4) If you can, please pimp this out in your journal. Every time I dust off this poll, I try for as many responses as I can get, but I always seem to stall out somewhere in the 30's. I'd like to shoot for 100 lists or more, but to do that, I need your help. Please point at me!

5) Deadline: 10 a.m., Monday, February 2. Results to be posted as soon after that as I can get them calculated.

Thank you so much for your participation. I'm looking forward to seeing your lists!

[identity profile] slipjig.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)



I am putting this comment here as a buffer for people who are linked to this post from elsewhere; if you have not already submitted your list, please do not scroll beyond this point. Thank you!







[identity profile] marmota.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
1 Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
2 Remains of the Day
3 Hombre Mirando al Sudeste
4 Le Retour de Martin Guerre
5 La Cite des Enfants Perdus
6 Baghdad Cafe
7 Diva
8 Auntie Mame
9 Orlando
10 Bliss

Honorable mentions that both fought it out for the last two slots (but lost);
Angels over Berlin (Wings of Desire) {damn client won't let me type an umlaut}
The Hudsucker Proxy
Edited 2009-01-27 17:43 (UTC)

[identity profile] slipjig.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
We'll start with mine, I suppose:

1) Singin' in the Rain
2) The Piano
3) Metropolis
4) Brazil
5) The Conversation
6) The Producers (the real, non-musical one, thank you)
7) Citizen Kane
8) Amadeus
9) The Thin Blue Line
10) The Third Man

It's always interesting to see how your own list evolves from year to year.

[identity profile] maverick-weirdo.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
3 of those were in my Film 101 course in college

[identity profile] ultra-lilac.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I started off trying to think of 'The Greatest' as in the most worthy but I don't know enough about film to judge, so I'll just put my personal top ten.

1)The Seven Year Itch
2)Cabaret
3)Labyrinth (sorry)
4)Top Hat
5)Some Like It Hot
6)Raiders of the Lost Ark
7)Star Wars Episode IV- A new hope
8)A Hard Day's Night
9)My Neighbor Totoro
10)Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


I would argue that 'Back to the future' should absolutely be in the top 100 though, so maybe don't listen to me?
;-)

[identity profile] theloriest.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I love your list. :)

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[identity profile] zarhooie.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Princess Bride, 5th Element, The Aristocrats, Ever After, Amelie, Big Fish, Wall-E, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cinderella (the original animated one), High School Musical.

[identity profile] albreda.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Princess Bride
2. Philadephia Story
3. Out of Africa
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. The Gods Must Be Crazy
6. Harvey
7. Casablanca
8. Sound of Music
9. Star Wars Episode 4
10. Bridget Jones Diary

My order could be better, but it will probably come out in the wash, eh?

[identity profile] theloriest.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude... this was freaking hard. I went mostly with movies that I love, although some got shifted around the list while one got added due to my recently having seen it.

1. Casablanca
2. West Side Story
3. The Godfather
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. Star Wars
6. The Great Escape
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
9. Metropolis
10. Yankee Doodle Dandy




My top ten favorite/greatest movies of all time:

[identity profile] dhimahi.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
1 Jeffrey
2 The Lake House
3 The Hunt for Red October
4 All the President's Men
5 1776
6 M*A*S*H
7 The First Wives Club
8 Mama Mia!
9 Moulin Rouge!
10 Waiting to Exhale

Re: My top ten favorite/greatest movies of all time:

[identity profile] dhimahi.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
As a gemini, I feel it unfair that I am not allowed to post TWO lists, however, I can see how non-geminids might take offense... *wegt*

[identity profile] pezzonovante.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
1. The Godfather
2. Return of the Jedi
3. Seven Samurai
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Casablanca
6. The Usual Suspects
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8. American History X
9. The Shawshank Redemption
10. In a Lonely Place

[identity profile] mirtharesa.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
1 The Secret Garden
2 Pi
3 Fight Club
4 Pride and Prejudice
5 Gone With the Wind
6 White Christmas
7 Memoirs of a Geisha
8 Serenity
9 The Man on the Moon (not the Jim Carey one)
10 Bram Stoker's Dracula

[identity profile] rafaela.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Harold and Maude
2. Trainspotting
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Fight Club
5. Slap Shot
6. Howards End
7. Sense and Sensibility
8. Schindler's List
9. Murderball
10. Passion Fish

[identity profile] krispyxf.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love Passion Fish, too (and most people I know have never heard of it).

[identity profile] parkejen.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I define "greatest" as the movies I could watch again and again and never get sick of. These are the films that, in my eyes, have remained funny/exciting/relevant/quotable across the years.

So, here they are:

1. The Big Lebowski
2. The Wedding Singer
3. Ghost Busters
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. Twelve Monkeys
6. Princess Bride
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9. The Matrix
10. Clue

[identity profile] everlastingyea.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
1) The Passion of Joan of Arc
2) Baraka
3) M
4) The Murderers are Among Us
5) Citizen Kane
6) Wings of Desire
7) Stray Dog
8) Spirited Away
9) The Life Aquatic
10) Lost in Translation

My #1 and 2 are set, but the others are more loose second tiers. There's so many more though, I can't stop at 10....

[identity profile] atari363.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
A mix of favorite and important.

1. Singin' in the Rain
2. Galaxy Quest
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4. Citizen Kane
5. When Harry Met Sally
6. Gangs of New York
7. In Bruges
8. Star Wars
9. Catch Me If You Can
10. Sleeping Beauty

[identity profile] drunkenchipmunk.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
1# Stay
2# Magnolia
3# The Goonies
4# Sleepy Hollow
5# Brick
6# Rocket Science
7# Lars and the Real Girl
8# I Heart Huckabees
9# Spider
10# The Life of David Gale

I'm a "hopeful" romantic ...

[identity profile] krispyxf.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
My Top 10:

1. The Sound of Music
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The African Queen
4. Romancing the Stone
5. When Harry Met Sally...
6. Desk Set
7. Sleepless in Seattle
8. While You Were Sleeping
9. Dances With Wolves
10. Beaches
Edited 2009-01-26 21:07 (UTC)

Re: I'm a "hopeful" romantic ...

[identity profile] maverick-weirdo.livejournal.com 2009-01-29 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Desk Set was my number 11

[identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
1. The Wizard of Oz
2. South Pacific
3. Sansho The Bailiff
4. Lord of The Flies (original b+w, NOT the remake)
5. Young Frankenstein
6. Singin' In The Rain
7. Blade Runner
8. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children ( Gotta give my one silly fandom a shot for once)
9. The African Queen
10. Orpheus Descending (Kevin Anderson/Vanessa Redgrave)

[identity profile] bluanne.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Jane Erye ( B&W Version)
2. While You Were Sleeping
3. The Man From Snowy River
4. The Princess and The Warrior
5. Boondock Saints
6. Green Street Hooligans
7. Return to Snowy River
8. Gladiator
9. Darkness Falls
10. Princess Bride

[identity profile] mrpepper98.livejournal.com 2009-01-26 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Casablanca
3. Psycho
4. West Side Story
5. Back to the Future
6. Pulp Fiction
7. The Departed
8. The Graduate
9. Alien
10. The Shawshank Redemption

My favorite Costume Movies

[identity profile] murasakinoyoroi.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
1) Sabrina (w/ Audrey Hepurn)
2) Fifth Element
3) Pride and Prejudice (2 DVD version with Colin Ferth)
4) Rear Window
5) The Last Samurai
6) Lord of the Rings
7) Funny Face
8) Restoration
9) Tidus Andronikus (the new stylized version)
10) Moulin Rouge

[identity profile] keyframe.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Harold and Maude (1971)
The Incredibles (2004)
Duck Soup (1933)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Mamma Roma (1962)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

[identity profile] flagmantho.livejournal.com 2009-01-30 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
dang! how could i forget double indemnity?

[identity profile] lindo-711.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
1) The Shawshank Redemption
2) Life is Beautiful
3) Everything is Illuminated
4) The Breakfast Club
5) Forrest Gump
6) Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
7) Metropolis
8) Little Miss Sunshine
9) V for Vendetta
10) Toy Story

[identity profile] captain18.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
This is some mix of milestones, personal meaning, and rewatchability. "Balto" probably isn't the best animated film ever made -- "The Little Mermaid" (1987) could beat it, but it means more to me than I can properly express, so it lands where it does.

10: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
9: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
8: Ghostbusters (1984)
7: The Atomic Cafe (1982)
6: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
5: All The President's Men (1976)
4: Balto (1995)
3: Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
2: Citizen Kane (1941)
1: Casablanca (1942)

Hm. That's a pretty bastardized list. Sometime it would be interesting to do something like this in categories. "Citizen Kane" is a great example. The film blows me away every time I watch it, it's a masterpiece, but I'm never like, "oh, let's put in Citizen Kane!" Conversely, "All The President's Men" is a movie I could watch once a week, but technically it is rather pedestrian (except for the Library of Congress shot) and it doesn't really have an ending.

Of course, getting people to agree on the rules for that kind of list would be like herding cats...

[identity profile] tinchen.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha, I made my lsit in much the same way. Movies I just love for reasons I'm not quite sure of and some of those where I left the cinema really really impressed by the art of story telling and the great achivment of the actors.

[identity profile] phyxius.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
This was really hard. Wish it was a top 20.

1. The Princess Bride
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. Fight Club
4. Serenity
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. Immortal Beloved
7. Requiem For A Dream
8. Stand By Me
9. Stardust
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[identity profile] felisdemens.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
1) All About Eve
2) Trouble Every Day
3) Kissed
4) Cat People (1942)
5) In My Skin
6) Dark Forces
7) Se7en
8) Crash
9) Session 9
10) Kung Pow

[identity profile] lbitw.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I should have know you have seen Kissed. I hardly ever meet people who have watched, let alone enjoyed that movie.

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*only* 10?

[identity profile] rubian77.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I like to rank movies based on the following factors: Quotability, watchability, a happy ending, artistic endeavor, and amusement factor. So this list is purely from a "I enjoy it" factor - not of their importance to the film genre as a whole.

1. The Princess Bride
2. Beetlejuice
3. Star Wars: A New Hope
4. Dune (I prefer the full-length, Alan Smithee version. So sue me.)
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. Ghostbusters
7. The Great Muppet Caper
8. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (ok, so this one was just titillating.)
9. The Matrix (they should've never made the sequels.)
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (say what you will. I really enjoyed this movie.)

'course, this is the list today...it might change by next week.

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[identity profile] lbitw.livejournal.com 2009-01-27 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The sequels actually knocked The Matrix off my list.

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