Well, that film is probably my number one "personal" choice. I know it's not universally acclaimed, but it is very well written, very strongly acted by huge stars, and the whole atmosphere of the film is just brutal. It is also probably the first film to portray vampires as full-fledged personalities instead of one-dimensional monsters.
Oranje Café's Top 50 Films aller tijden Aftellen Schroefdraad (The Countdown)
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Well, that film is probably my number one "personal" choice. I know it's not universally acclaimed, but it is very well written, very strongly acted by huge stars, and the whole atmosphere of the film is just brutal. It is also probably the first film to portray vampires as full-fledged personalities instead of one-dimensional monsters.
It really served a historical purpose in how it captured what it was like to be a vampire.
Sounds just about right.
Gravity lacks something that's pretty important for a great film. A story. It was kinda pretty though.
I wouldn't call that list my top 20 of all time though. If I wanted to do that, I probably had to make lists for most influential, most emotional, most entertaining and a few more categories. Then take the top 10 of all of them, add a few personal favourites, randomise it all and look at the result, just to be annoyed by it and change a few things again. Maybe, maybe it'll lead to a half decent list. I'm 100% sure that Gravity wouldn't be in it though, while Interview with a Vampire actually might make my top 20 of most entertaining films of all time. I loved that film, watched it twice in the cinema back then.
A list like this might have worked if we limited the scope. If we had a best films of the 90s or the best films of the 00s list we would probably end with a much better list
The IMDB list is better. The general public has a better taste in films than the caf.
Damning, damning.
Gladiator fits in this list though. It's blokey, it's epic, a bit emotionally manipulative. I wasn't the least bit surprised to see it appear.
This is the list from 2007. Didn't realize back then how much De Niro and Scrosese were in the top 10. even with all the committees and months of discussions i dont know how stuff like usual suspects, shawshank, casino and fight club made it so high.
1.Godfather 2
2.Godfather
3.Apocalypse Now
4.Goodfellas
5.Taxi Driver
6.Raging Bull
7.Blade Runner
8.Casablanca
9.Clockwork Orange, A
10.The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
11.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
12.In the Mood for Love
13.Das Boot
14.Seven Samurai
15.Deer Hunter, The
16.Dr Strangelove
17.On the Waterfront
18.Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back
19.Pulp Fiction
20.City of God
21.Usual Suspects, The
22.Jaws
23.Alien
24.Memento
25.Scarface
26.Great Escape, The
27.Life of Brian
28.Double Indemnity
29.Full Metal Jacket
30.Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
31.Schindlers list
32.Mullholland Drive
33.Aliens
34.Se7en
35.Amelie
36.Shining, The
37.Silence of the Lambs
38.Platoon
39.Fight Club
40.Reservoir Dogs
41.Casino
42.Chinatown
43.Shawshank Redemption, The
44.Terminator 2
45.To Kill a Mockingbird
46.2001: A Space Odyssey
47.Big Lebowski, The
48.Citizen Kane
49.Old Boy
50.Streetcar Named Desire, A
51.Terminator
52.It’s a Wonderful Life
53.Once Upon a Time in the West
54.Seventh Seal
55.Star Wars: A New Hope
56.Monty Python and the Holy Grail
57.12 Angry Men
58.Blue Velvet
59.Rear Window
60.Some Like it Hot
61.Lawrence of Arabia
62.Once Upon A Time in America
63.Third Man, The
64.Ran
65.Rashomon
66.Trainspotting
67.Hiroshima mon amour
68.Psycho
69.Downfall, The
70.Breathless
71.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
72.Brazil
73.Matrix
74.LA Confidential
75.Modern Times
76.Wild at Heart
77.American Beauty
78.Cool Hand Luke
79.Sunset Boulevard
80.Planet of the Apes
81.Leaving las vegas
82.Rocky
83.400 Blows, The
84.Back to the Future
85.Network
86.Donnie Darko
87.Solyaris(Tarkovsky)
88.Leon
89.Ichi the Killer
90.Fargo
91.Exorcist, The
92.Toy Story
93.Dog Day Afternoon
94.Gladiator
95.Being John Malkovich
96.Twelve Monkeys
97.Fistful of Dollars, A
98.Mean Streets
99.Diaboliques, Les
100.Die Hard
1.Godfather 2
2.Godfather
3.Apocalypse Now
4.Goodfellas
5.Taxi Driver
6.Raging Bull
7.Blade Runner
8.Casablanca
9.Clockwork Orange, A
10.The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
11.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
12.In the Mood for Love
13.Das Boot
14.Seven Samurai
15.Deer Hunter, The
16.Dr Strangelove
17.On the Waterfront
18.Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back
19.Pulp Fiction
20.City of God
21.Usual Suspects, The
22.Jaws
23.Alien
24.Memento
25.Scarface
26.Great Escape, The
27.Life of Brian
28.Double Indemnity
29.Full Metal Jacket
30.Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
31.Schindlers list
32.Mullholland Drive
33.Aliens
34.Se7en
35.Amelie
36.Shining, The
37.Silence of the Lambs
38.Platoon
39.Fight Club
40.Reservoir Dogs
41.Casino
42.Chinatown
43.Shawshank Redemption, The
44.Terminator 2
45.To Kill a Mockingbird
46.2001: A Space Odyssey
47.Big Lebowski, The
48.Citizen Kane
49.Old Boy
50.Streetcar Named Desire, A
51.Terminator
52.It’s a Wonderful Life
53.Once Upon a Time in the West
54.Seventh Seal
55.Star Wars: A New Hope
56.Monty Python and the Holy Grail
57.12 Angry Men
58.Blue Velvet
59.Rear Window
60.Some Like it Hot
61.Lawrence of Arabia
62.Once Upon A Time in America
63.Third Man, The
64.Ran
65.Rashomon
66.Trainspotting
67.Hiroshima mon amour
68.Psycho
69.Downfall, The
70.Breathless
71.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
72.Brazil
73.Matrix
74.LA Confidential
75.Modern Times
76.Wild at Heart
77.American Beauty
78.Cool Hand Luke
79.Sunset Boulevard
80.Planet of the Apes
81.Leaving las vegas
82.Rocky
83.400 Blows, The
84.Back to the Future
85.Network
86.Donnie Darko
87.Solyaris(Tarkovsky)
88.Leon
89.Ichi the Killer
90.Fargo
91.Exorcist, The
92.Toy Story
93.Dog Day Afternoon
94.Gladiator
95.Being John Malkovich
96.Twelve Monkeys
97.Fistful of Dollars, A
98.Mean Streets
99.Diaboliques, Les
100.Die Hard
At least we have the Godfather films in the right order this time.
What?! You guys seriously need to stop watching small budget films from East Timor or something.
Don't tell him to do that! The economy of East Timor would collapse if they lost Nilsson's viewership.
Personally, I would have troubles to put a list of 10 comedians (including movie/TV show actors) who are worthy to be fair. In fact my list would probably be:
1. Jim Carrey. That's it.
By far my least favorite genre, so on that top 50 I won't put lists. 1 done, 49 to go on my non-nerdish list.
I guess Louis CK would win a comedian one. I'd be curious to see what standing Gervais would have, there's a lot of hate for him on the Caf I think.
Standup comedy is boring as feck, Doug Stanhope is the only worthwhile one.
Just looked up Ebert's review of 300. I liked this line
"'300' has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers plugging their next feud."
"'300' has one-dimensional caricatures who talk like professional wrestlers plugging their next feud."
Regarding the De Niro/Scorsese top heaviness one tends to see in these types of lists: it's due to the male-dominated act of 'ranking' things.
For example, the IMDB voter male/female breakdown is something like 7:1 (Hearsay, tbf. I never checked it.)
Methinks you haven't been watching enough stand up, Nilsson. If you can appreciate Doug Stanhope then you definitely have the capacity to enjoy great comedy.
Too many platitudes and midlife crises' too wade through.
You, sir, are nuts if you don't like Louis CK, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Pablo Francisco, Dave Chappelle etc...
I can spend entire evenings watching comedy shows on youtube.
You don't like Carlin, Vato? And Jimmy Carr!
Chappelle is good. Louis Ck...too much midlife crisis.
Never saw Carlin but I absolutely love Jimmy Carr indeed!
Try Pablo Francisco's show 'Ouch' if you haven't seen it yet. It's hilarious, seriously.
Even Jamie Fox has a few great shows.
No Usual Suspects and Shawshank yet you lot are going on like it's the ultimate list.
We should do the opposite lists as well. Like the 50 worst movies of all time, etc.
No Usual Suspects and Shawshank yet you lot are going on like it's the ultimate list.
n. 21
They were simpler times. Children respected their elders, we could leave our doors unlocked without fear of getting robbed and Spoony still wore tight jumpers.
You could be onto something, but the way things are going round here the last few days 300 would win it easy just as a bit of a joke.
True.That seems a bit pointless, but we could make a list of the 20 worst movies that have an imdb ranking above 7.5. That should be fun and lead to great moaning and flaming. 300 and Gladiator would be early favourites from what I've read here so far.
Hehe not bad. But I worry that a lot of it would be wumming and not what you actually think were bad films.
nr. 43...nr. 443 would be a more fitting ranking though.
And there it is...
Tricking people into believing it's a great film was one of the greatests wums of all times.
What's so special about Shawshank? I really don't get. I haven't heard a single reason why it's best of all time material. That film got a very strange hype in the middle of the last decade, where all of a sudden everyone seemed to call it a masterpiece, but despite having a few flaws (some of the guards are almost cartoon villains and look out of place in the film) and doing nothing exceptionally well, it's all of a sudden regularly called a top 5 film of all time. It seems like Morgen Freeman's narration has fried the brains of a whole generation of moviegoers (well not really moviegoers, more home cinema watchers, barely anyone saw it in the cinemas back then). Now, don't get me wrong, it's of course a great film. It just looks so out of place to me in a discussion about the greatest films ever.