| Shane's Top 100
Movies The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (er... The Exceptional, the Great, and the Good) (2004-3-23 - back to top) |
Once I had 196 nominees, my first step was to split them up into three more-or-less equal-sized groups. The first group was the films that I personally find Exceptional - stuff I just knew had to be in the top 100. The second group were the one's I wasn't sure, and the last set were ones I was pretty sure wouldn't make the top 100. As I started to sort through these movies, I began to question what my criteria should be for sorting. To just say "the best films" really doesn't solve the problem. There are many films that I think are excellent that I didn't personally care for. And there are many films I loved that aren't really that great from a cinematography point of view. I wanted this list to be -my- top 100 films. The first criteria I came up was:
This is a pretty good criteria, but it tends to artificially promote some films. For example. In such a one-way journey, I may decide to include Back to the Future 2 even though I didn't like it that much. It is an important part of the trilogy and if I could only have 100 films for the rest of my life, if I already picked BTF 1 and BTF 3, I'd likely pick 2 as well to complete the set.
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1 to 66 |
A Fish called Wanda |
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67 to 135 | 12 Monkeys Apollo 13 Beetlejuice Beverly Hills Cop 1 Bicentennial Man Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Buckaroo Banzai Bugsy Malone Contact Dark City Die Hard Elizabeth English Patient, The Ferris Bueller's Day Off Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) Gattica Good Will Hunting Green Mile, The Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone High Fidelity Independence Day Joe Versus the Volcano Jurassic Park Last Action Hero, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Matrix Revolutions, The Men in Black (1997) Minority Report Monty Python and the Holy Grail Mr Holland's Opus Mummy, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The My Fair Lady Naushika Never Ending Story, The Ninth Gate, The Office Space Paper, The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Player, The Porco Rosso (Kurenai no buta) Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) Professional, The Repo Man Romancing the Stone Rumble In The Bronx Saint, The Shakespeare in Love Shawshank Redemption Sixth Sense, The Speed Thomas Crown Affair Titanic Tootsie Total Recall Toy Story Tron True Lies Twister Unbreakable Wag the Dog Walk in the Clouds What About Bob? Who Framed Roger Rabbit Willow X-Men Zoolander |
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136 to 196 | 2010 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Addams Family, The Aladdin Always America's Sweethearts Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Back to the Future 2 Beauty and the Beast Beverly Hills Cop 2 Blazing Saddles Blues Brothers Boondock Saints Bourne Identity, The (2002) Bowfinger Chicago City Slickers Commando Conspiracy Theory Dave Death Becomes Her Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Edward Scissorhands F/X Glory Goonies Gremlins Gross Point Blank Hackers Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Hercules (1997) Hunt for Red October, The In & Out Innerspace James Bond - Tomorrow Never Dies Kindergarden Cop Last Emperor, The Last Star Fighter, The Lethal Weapon 3 Lethal Weapon 4 Mask of Zorro Patch Adams Pr editor Private Eyes, The Return to Me Rocketeer, The Rush Hour Shanghai Noon Shrek Spaceballs Strange Brew Swingers Tarzan (1999) Terminator, The There's Something About Mary Three Men and a Baby Wayne's World Weird Science What Lies Beneath X2 XXX |
