IMDB Top 50 - How many have you seen?

Dickerty · 24-03-2015 09:39AM #1

It is obviously heavy on recent movies, since it's based on user scores, but with that being said, how many have you seen?

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Schindler's List (1993)
7. 12 Angry Men (1957)
8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
10. Fight Club (1999)
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001)
12. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980)
13. Forrest Gump (1994)
14. Inception (2010)
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
16. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
17. Goodfellas (1990)
18. The Matrix (1999)
19. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
20. Seven Samurai (1954)
21. City of God (2002)
22. Interstellar (2014)
23. Se7en (1995)
24. The Usual Suspects (1995)
25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
26. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
27. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
28. Léon: The Professional (1994)
29. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
30. Casablanca (1942)
31. American History X (1998)
32. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
33. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
34. Spirited Away (2001)
35. City Lights (1931)
36. Psycho (1960)
37. Rear Window (1954)
38. Whiplash (2014)
39. The Intouchables (2011)
40. Modern Times (1936)
41. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
42. The Green Mile (1999)
43. Memento (2000)
44. The Pianist (2002)
45. The Departed (2006)
46. Gladiator (2000)
47. Apocalypse Now (1979)
48. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
49. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
50. Back to the Future (1985)

I have seen 40 of them...

delbertgrady · 24-03-2015 10:20AM

I've seen 47, 29 of which I saw in the cinema.

jimmii · 24-03-2015 10:23AM

40 too but I really only watch films at the cinema.

intellectual dosser · 24-03-2015 10:25AM

29 - I have work to do!

Duggy747 · 24-03-2015 10:27AM

Seen 46

Watched Rear Window again on Sunday, great film and probably my favourite Hitchcock one.

Deathwish4 · 24-03-2015 10:32AM

Seen 21 of these, most of which wouldn't make my top 500!

Chancer3001 · 24-03-2015 10:36AM

39.

Most of the ones I haven't seen are pre 1980

naughto · 24-03-2015 10:36AM

About 40 as well only seen a few in the cinema thanks to a fibre internet connection and a big f1uck off TV. Can't hack all the cu1nts eating talking around ya. Never mind the price

Dickerty · 24-03-2015 10:40AM

Deathwish4 wrote: »

Seen 21 of these, most of which wouldn't make my top 500!

I agree there are some very flaky ones - Interstellar doesn't belong there, for example. But even the less-than-classic ones did something special:

Matrix for special effects.
Goodfellas for nailing the mob genre.
Inception for visual and conceptual brilliance.
American History X for covering a well known story for another angle.

Chancer3001 · 24-03-2015 10:43AM

It's all a matter of taste.

Clearly any film there belongs there. That's what the list is. Films tht belong there.

It's not "what I think" list.

Or "what people who know about film" think

Or "idiots" think

It's what voters from imdb.com think. And this is that exact list

razorblunt · 24-03-2015 10:49AM

32 - There's a few on there I know I'll probably never get round to (Spirited Away - not a fan of anime at all, Life is Beautiful) but others I've been meaning to get to for ages i.e. have 12 Angry Men, Rear Window bought on iTunes readyt o be watched , Leon is on BluRay but I've yet to get round to it.

I've seen the Guinness version of 7 Samurai - does that count?

Sad Professor · 24-03-2015 11:04AM

49 - the only one I haven't seen is 12 Angry Men.

According to Letterboxd I've seen 197 of the full top 250.

hidinginthebush · 24-03-2015 11:06AM

Sad Professor wrote: »

49 - the only one I haven't seen is 12 Angry Men.

According to Letterboxd I've seen 197 of the full top 250.

You need to rectify this immediately!

AlanG · 24-03-2015 11:11AM

44, including all of top 20. Amazing to see Taxi Driver and Raging Bull absent. 20 years ago nearly every list had Raging Bull in the top 3. Perhaps younger people cant take De Nero seriously any more.

Harry Palmr · 24-03-2015 11:37AM

Happy to report I've seen just 14 of them - why happy? Cos the list is utterly ludicrous.

e_e · 24-03-2015 11:48AM

I've seen 44 and the only one I'm in any way interested in still seeing is Casablanca.

It's all subjective I know but this is a really bad list tbh. Goes to show how IMDB's userbase is ruled by franchise fanboys. Even some of the highly rated dramas aren't anything special imo.

Deathwish4 wrote: »

Seen 21 of these, most of which wouldn't make my top 500!

The number 1 (while a film I enjoy) probably wouldn't even make my top 250.

Mickeroo · 24-03-2015 11:57AM

The answer is 42, but what's the question?

johnny_ultimate · 24-03-2015 12:06PM

48 - one of which is a grevious oversight (Modern Times is one of the key Chaplin films I haven't gotten around to yet) and the other a conscious oversight (no interest whatsoever in ever watching Life is Beautiful).

But the IMDB list is nothing, a popularity contest that is increasingly given more weight than it deserves. Plenty of good to great films in there for sure, but a public vote is inherently biased towards popular, well-known hits so really can't be considered in any way representative of cinema as a whole.

While this list obviously also has its limitations (S&S-polled film critics have their own unique biases!) the much more interesting question I find is how many of the Sight & Sound Top 50 have you seen

I've seen 47, and feel it gives a much broader, challenging overview of what cinema is capable of than the IMDB one - although again with plenty of blindspots given both the voter base and the impossibility of capturing everything in 50 films.

Vertigo (1958)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Tokyo Story (1953)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Searchers (1956)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
8½ (1963)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
L'Atalante (1934)
Breathless (1960)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Late Spring (1949)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Persona (1966)
Mirror (1975)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
L'Avventura (1960)
Contempt (1963)
The Godfather (1972)
Ordet (1955)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Rashomon (1950)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Stalker (1979)
Shoah (1985)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
The General (1926)
Metropolis (1927)
Psycho (1960)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Sátántangó (1994)
The 400 Blows (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Journey to Italy (1954)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Gertrud (1964)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Playtime (1967)
Close-Up (1990)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998)
City Lights (1931)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
La Jetée (1962)

Mickeroo · 24-03-2015 12:08PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

48 - one of which is a grevious oversight (Modern Times is one of the key Chaplin films I haven't gotten around to yet) and the other a conscious oversight (no interest whatsoever in ever watching Life is Beautiful).

But the IMDB list is nothing, a popularity contest that is increasingly given more weight than it deserves. Plenty of good to great films in there for sure, but a public vote is inherently biased towards popular, well-known hits so really can't be considered in any way representative of cinema as a whole.

While this list obviously also has its limitations (film critics have their own unique biases!) the much more interesting question I find is how many of the Sight & Sound Top 50 have you seen

Vertigo (1958)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Tokyo Story (1953)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Searchers (1956)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
8½ (1963)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
L'Atalante (1934)
Breathless (1960)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Late Spring (1949)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Persona (1966)
Mirror (1975)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
L'Avventura (1960)
Contempt (1963)
The Godfather (1972)
Ordet (1955)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Rashomon (1950)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Stalker (1979)
Shoah (1985)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
The General (1926)
Metropolis (1927)
Psycho (1960)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Sátántangó (1994)
The 400 Blows (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Journey to Italy (1954)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Gertrud (1964)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Playtime (1967)
Close-Up (1990)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998)
City Lights (1931)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
La Jetée (1962)

Only ten from that one for me.

GBXI · 24-03-2015 12:11PM

e_e wrote: »

I've seen 44 and the only one I'm in any way interested in still seeing is Casablanca.

It's all subjective I know but this is a really bad list tbh. Goes to show how IMDB's userbase is ruled by franchise fanboys. Even some of the highly rated dramas aren't anything special imo.

The number 1 (while a film I enjoy) probably wouldn't even make my top 250.

Give us your Top 10 out of interest! I think Shawshank is one of the best.

Sad Professor · 24-03-2015 12:17PM

I’ve seen about 37 from the S&S list. Really 36 since I never finished Andrei Rublev.

It’s a great list, though the order is fairly arbitrary and just a reflection of (mainly European) critical taste at the time the list was made.

delbertgrady · 24-03-2015 12:18PM

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

While this list obviously also has its limitations (film critics have their own unique biases!) the much more interesting question I find is how many of the Sight & Sound Top 50 have you seen

39

Harry Palmr · 24-03-2015 12:20PM

10 from the sight and Sound list, but I've seen 50 of my own Top 50 list. And that's the one that matters! :pac:

thickhead · 24-03-2015 12:24PM

Dickerty wrote:

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 2. The Godfather (1972) 3. The Godfather: Part II (1974) 4. The Dark Knight (2008) 5. Pulp Fiction (1994) 6. Schindler's List (1993) 7. 12 Angry Men (1957) 8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 10. Fight Club (1999) 11. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001) 12. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980) 13. Forrest Gump (1994) 14. Inception (2010) 15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 16. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 17. Goodfellas (1990) 18. The Matrix (1999) 19. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 20. Seven Samurai (1954) 21. City of God (2002) 22. Interstellar (2014) 23. Se7en (1995) 24. The Usual Suspects (1995) 25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 26. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 27. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 28. LÃ©on: The Professional (1994) 29. Life Is Beautiful (1997) 30. Casablanca (1942) 31. American History X (1998) 32. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 33. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 34. Spirited Away (2001) 35. City Lights (1931) 36. Psycho (1960) 37. Rear Window (1954) 38. Whiplash (2014) 39. The Intouchables (2011) 40. Modern Times (1936) 41. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 42. The Green Mile (1999) 43. Memento (2000) 44. The Pianist (2002) 45. The Departed (2006) 46. Gladiator (2000) 47. Apocalypse Now (1979) 48. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 49. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 50. Back to the Future (1985)

Seen them all.

saintsaltynuts · 24-03-2015 12:29PM

34 not bad.I'l have to sit down and 12 Angry Men soon.Going to watch Whiplash next.

Thargor · 24-03-2015 12:46PM

Ive seen 41.

Anything made before 1960 is usually cack anyway ¬_¬

blue note · 24-03-2015 12:55PM

I've seen 41. A few of those I haven't seen have been on my must watch list for ages - The G,B&U, Wonderful Life, Casablanca, Sunset Blvd, Once upon a Time in the West.

Some of those films are odd to find in a top 50 to be honest - Inception, 1 Star Wars and LOTR would be more fair, Leon, Momento, Back to the future.

From the S&S top 50 I've seen 9 and heard of a further 8!

Telecaster58 · 24-03-2015 12:57PM

49. I have not seen Spirited Away and probably won't. On a controversial note, there really is some dross on that list. It's incredible what some people think constitutes a great film.

Burgo · 24-03-2015 01:29PM

Seen them all, but it really isn't a great list in my opinion.

34 from the S&S list.

shazzerman · 24-03-2015 01:55PM

Seen 49 from the IMDB list (haven't seen The Intouchables), and 48 from the S&S list (Jeanne Dielman and Histoires still elude me). How about the They Shoot Pictures list?
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm

I have about 300 left to see on that one...

Agent Coulson · 24-03-2015 01:57PM

Telecaster58 wrote: »

49. I have not seen Spirited Away and probably won't. On a controversial note, there really is some dross on that list. It's incredible what some people think constitutes a great film.

Nothing controversial about that really as you are right.

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