Which Movies in IMDBs Top 50 Have I Watched?
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
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Can The Entertainment Guy and The Hockey Guy collab on ranking the all time hockey films? Sudden Death is surprisingly up there for me
Godfather Parts I and 2 are genuine masterpieces. Seven Samurai can be hard for modern viewers to watch, but it's amazing. The Prestige is Nolan's most underrated film and arguably my favorite of his. And, although not even in the top 50, Lawrence of Arabia is one of the greatest films ever made. Same goes for Apocalypse now, Bridge on the River Kwai, and No Country for Old Men (a modern classic).
You should DEFINITELY revisit your top 200 favorite movies (perhaps even top 300 or whichever number you're comfortable with)
Some movies hit so hard I can't watch them again, yet they are definitely in my top 50.
The performances in Parasite are so good, even if you know the spoilers well worth the time.
Watch The Good The Bad and The Ugly as soon as you possibly can. You seem to be a big fan of Tarantino, and Tarantino was heavily influenced by Sergio Leone's work. Tarantino himself says TGTBATU is "the best directed movie of all time."
I know you said you're not big on westerns, but it's not your typical western. It's a very artful film with memorable characters and a beautiful soundtrack.
The IMDB list is the top 50 *as judged by those who vote*. And there is absolutely a recency bias to its list, because of the number of people who consider older movies as unworthy of their attention regardless of their quality. I've heard numerous people from the 40-and-under demographic say "It's in black and white... I'm not watching that." You want to smack them upside the head, but instead you just come to the realization that they have closed minds, and move on.
I would really consider making time to see Oppenheimer in theater. It really deserves to be seen in the big screen.
I want to but dedicating 3+ hours for a movie is tough. Really should have an intermission for any movie over 2.5 hours. I'll just wait to see it at home.
@@risk_it_4_the_biscuit Just don't buy that giant theatre soft drink :> I get it - I'm 65 - but I did make it thru.
Eli Wallach is fantastic in The Good The Bad And The Ugly.
Curious, Shannon, about two things:
1. What SHOULD be on the list? (It's subjective, so, what's on YOUR top 50?)
2. What movies do you consider to be "Drop The Remote" and watch? You know, you're flipping thru channels, see a movie, and drop the remote and watch the rest of the movie no matter where it is in the movie!
Manhunter, Grosse Pointe Blank, Shawshank, It's A Wonderful Life, Saving Private Ryan, Casablanca, Labyrinth, 2001: A Space Oddyssey a few WWII old movies, too.
You’d love Oppenheimer, there’s even some black n white in there for ya as well
It surprises me what made the list. Some of these movies I wouldn’t call “great.” They’re just entertaining and fun popcorn movies that are well made. From a technical perspective, Who Framed Roger Rabbit should be on the list. The way Zemeckis combined live action and cartoons without CG and made it look more convincing than anything made today is incredible. CGI has ruined everything.
Two films by Studio Ghibli (Japanese animation studio led by Hayao Miyazaki for years) in the Top 50 according to IMDB. There are some really good movies by them like Princess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro, and Kiki's Delivery Service to name a few.
Princess Mononoke is a top favorite of mine. Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle are not far behind. Really any Studio Ghibli production is a beautiful work of animation and story telling. And also Akira. I don't think it was a Ghibli production. But probably one of the best animated movies of all time. I love 🎉just watching that movie for it's visuals. It's gorgeous.
Great work as always Entertain Guy. Just for the record though, and people will be losing their minds over movie trivia, Juror #6 was played by Edward Binns in the movie. Not Jack Lemmon. Jack wishes he was in this, but apparently it didn't affect his career too much! Mr. Binns is one of those character actors who was like in every film for about a five year period in the fifties and sixties.
I definitely recommend watching the entire trilogy that contains The Good the Bad and the Ugly. The first two movies are not as great as the third, but really build it up.
Incredible, probably the greatest film score ever too
For a few dollars more is close to the good the bad and the ugly
But point taken👍
The 12 Angry Men that is in the top 50 is the original with Henry Fonda from the 50s. Not the one with Jack Lemmon from the 90s.
Absolutely find 3 hours some afternoon to watch The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I can also recommend Princess Mononoke (#81) in place of Spirited Away. Everyone should see at least one Miyazaki film and Mononoke is the darkest. (Humble brag, I've seen 244 of the current 250.)
I’ve tried to watch all movies in the top 250 list, and I currently have seven left.
Apart from “Spider-Man: Across the Spiderwerse” I simply haven’t been able to find them.
This journey has definitely given me some great experiences I otherwise would have missed, but it also has served me a bunch of movies I didn’t like at all.
Of the top 50 ones you haven’t seen, my favourites are the Godfather movies, Grave of the fireflies and Cinema Paradiso.
You should make a Letterboxd account to track what movies you watch/like. It's a bit of work making your account and adding all the movies you've seen but it's worth it. It has changed how I watch movies.
Casablanca is probably one of the most influential films ever made. You’ll watch and be shocked how many films rip it off.
What you get from watching foreign language films is a true appreciation of film as an art form, seeing a film that wasn't made with a multimillion dollar budget but instead a desire to tell a story broadens your mind. Give Kurasawa or Bergman or Tarkovsky a try. As for this list I don't see 2001, Apocalypse Now, among others and so it indicates to me that it lacks any merit.
I’m surprised Pan’s Labyrinth isn’t in the top 50. Not sure it’s my favorite, but when trying to account for all factors, it’s almost certainly the best movie I’ve ever seen.
I totally thought "the Intouchables" was a typo for "the Untouchables" 😳
For some reason IMDB doesn’t have Highlander in its top 50. I find it offensive that the greatest movie ever made couldn’t crack their list.
You can’t have it in the top 50, because there can be only one…
Casablanca is definitely worth the watch. A classic movie that holds up. On the top of many lists for a reason.
I almost never watch a movie before checking it in IMDB first lol. Ofc there are some exceptions like newer movies that come out and has some hype around them.
Seven Samurai didn't really appeal to me but I have to say it is a fantastic movie , give it a try
Highly highly recommend Parasite. It manages to work as a dark comedy-drama and thriller with astute social commentary, and I think you'd really appreciate it.
I do not like Citizen Kane whatsoever. Casablanca is such a good movie because it encapsulates the WWII anxiety of the time. Absolutely fantastic and if you’re in a history/WWII mood watch it. It is so good. Can confirm Oppenhiemer was good, a little too long in my opinion
Shawshank is my favorite movie.
Please find some time to watch Oppenheimer Shannon. It is absolutely fabulous. I know you talked about how you know the history, but it really didn’t focus that much on “history”.
One of these times, you should make the same subtle edit to one of your videos as was made at the end of Fight Club.
Funny thing about the Star Wars stuff is that I definitely think Return of the Jedi is the best of the original trilogy yet it's the only one not in the top 50.
The last 30%ish of RoTJ is the best stretch of Star Wars across all 9 movies. Unfortunately the first 70% is borderline unwatchable.
@@drewtash3987 Strongly disagree. The whole movie is great, for me the only SW movie without a dull moment. The others have really boring parts (especially Empire Strikes Back; that movie is torture to sit through in places for me)
Paramount has a great miniseries called The Offer about the making of the Godfather and difficult it was to be made. The Entertainment Guy might like the Offer more than the actual Godfather movie.
American Pyscho will always be my favorite movie.
It's my favourite book 👍
Way too many modern-era movies on this list. I'm of the opinion that it takes a decade or 2 to determine if a movie is truly a classic. Maybe do multiple videos to cover different eras? ETA: The Untouchables is the movie with Kevin Costner and Sean Connery, about federal agent Eliot Ness (Costner) going after Al Capone (Bob DeNiro) in gangster-era Chicago. Great on-location shooting featuring Chicago landmarks such as The Rookery building, La Salle street, and Union Station. Connery is great as an Irish* cop who joins forces with Ness (*and who speaks with a Scottish accent, because Connery never changes voices whether he's playing an American, a Russian, or an Irishman - LOL).
Most of these movies are 20+ years old?
Casablanca is pretty great
The IMDb top 250 should be taken with a massive grain of salt. Granted, it does a significantly better job of representing cinematic quality than pop music charts do musical quality, but one should always keep in mind that excellence and popularity are seldom linked.
I feel that the top 250 is a mix of some of the best mainstream movies and a bunch of hard to watch “arty” movies.
I’ve seen almost all of them, and I have a really hard time understanding the appeal some of them.
Then again, I guess different people grade by different criteria. I sort of use the “to what degree were I entertained”, while others might use more of technical or academic criteria.
My lowest score for a movie in top 250 is 3, given to “The passion of Joan of Arc”.
I agree with you about the Dark Knight. Very overrated.
Heath Ledger's joker made/saved the movie.
I have probably seen about half of the movies on IMDB's top 50 list. My favorites that are re watchable for me are Goodfella's, The Departed, Leon, Back to the Future, and Terminator 2. The Untouchables and Leon are both worth seeing.
No Jaws, no Sting, no Citizen Kane...insert weird monkey with hands in the air
Groundhog day???
One of the best experince was seeing a movie with no spoilers(sometimesthe best thing is no or very limited ads)...opening night Alien
Didn't know what to expect WOW
The Joe Pesci bit was on point 😂
Speaking of scrooge
Agree with Sims
George C Scott👍
Lesser known one
Patrick Stewart as Scrooge
A Christmas Carol good one too
I've seen Fight Club more than I can count. It's an incredible movie that you need to watch at least twice. Empire & Two Towers are superior. Back to the Future II is also my favorite but the first is, in fact, near perfect.
If I were to recommend one movies of the one's you haven't seen I would have to go with Harakiri. Absolutely fantastic film. The same director also made The Human Condition, which I, and many others, consider the best WWII film ever made (but it's also nearly 10 hours long). So probably just stick to Harakiri, at least for the time being.
What, no Xanadu?? IMDb better retabulate the votes.
Or Zardoz!
The lack of Cohen Brothers films on that list is disturbing.
Also, where's Kubrick?
IMDB ratings combine critic ratings with general audience ratings so it's not the best site to research the best films ever made. Audience ratings could be influenced by hype and mainstream appeal which is why several modern films are on this list and something more deserving like Citizen Kane isn't. More recent critical analysis of The Dark Knight, Gladiator, and The Green Mile for example reveal that they have too many flaws to be considered a top 50 film of all time. While Rotten Tomatoes gets a lot of hate, at least they separate the two ratings into their own categories so I find it to be more reliable.
I have watched 35/50, the 3 I would recommend you watch from the right hand side are Leon - worth it for the great Gary Oldman performance alone, city of god - great cinematography and defo life is beautiful - IMO the greatest holocaust film ever made and the most emotion I have ever felt watching a film.
I definitely recommend Oppenheimer in theaters. Definitely doesn’t feel like 3 hours
THG is finally doing some hoovering, haha.
Shawshank has been my favorite movie for over 15 years, even before I knew about ratings or anything.
Manhunter is amazing and Peterson was a revelation, Brian Cox and Tom Noonan are believable and scarey as hell. Found Hopkins version of Lector was more a cartoon supervillian, than human.
Top 200 Fave Movies Updated for 2023?
Would be a great project
The Battle of Algiers is a suggestion
Casablanca great movie
Sahara another good ww2 with Bogart
Not a WW2 movie but same vein is Flight of the Phoenix with James Stewart
Goodfellas came at a time when I hit burnout on mobster movies, so I've never seen it.
didnt you put shawshank in your top 15 movies of all time?
the Untouchables is Costner as Elliot Ness trying to take down Capone (Deniro). great cast solid film
1987.
m.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/ Different movie.
Catcher was a Spy
Brilliant movie,ww2 Paul rudd great acting
It's difficult to give any credence to a list that doesn't include any Coen brothers movies...
In these times it is really hard a black and white film to be top 1 or even in top 50, There is definitely some I disagree should not be here. For my the top 1 is the original Disney 20000 leagues under the see, the color work and all is just lovely especially if your sucked in immersed. The only spot of bother is a guitar scene towards the second half that knock 0.1 points for me. 9.9. 2nd movie for me is Her, 9.8. 3rd I forgot the name but a horror movie low budget independent production amateurish film. Citizen Kane feel too random in story and slow for now, what's usually praised and considered to be top 1 is the lighting, but I didn't find it such it can be top 1 by that alone, I would agree it is excellent for the time and above average enjoying purely the lighting even today. Also it is reference to the time and any tabloid reference would felt wayside now and not as much a connection as it is now so it is not as timeless as it is considered.
Godfather 2 might be the best movie ever. I hope you get around to watching those.
Django?
"Seven Samurai" is one of my favorite films, but I would understand if people didn't go out of their way to watch it. Seeing it ruined "The Magnificent Seven" for me, because I can't watch that version now without comparing the two films.
I'm surprised that "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" is on the list. It's a good western (I can put it on, take a nap, wake-up & not feel like I missed anything important), but nowhere near as good as "Unforgiven". Heck, I'd watch "The Quick and the Dead" again before "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly", but that's just me.
Seven Samurai is very good
I do like Magnificent Seven, as well
Saw Seven Samurai 2nd
On the not seen list, Godfather I-II are great, The Pianist is overrated (even though I own it), American History X is amazing but dark, Leon the Professional if you can tolerate the non-2023 acceptable awkward tension between the leads, has an amazing Gary Oldman performance: "EVERYONNNNNE!!!", The Prestige has a fantastic "Sixth Sense" style twist and is a great once-through.
Just my personal opinion.
Totally agree w/ you, especially regarding Godfather I-II and Leon the Professional. I especially like the young Vito Corleone flashbacks in Godfather II; they make me think of my grandfather who came here from Italy when he was 16.
Bridge on the River Kwai
Suprising Das Boot not in there
The fact that citizen Kane isn’t on the imdb top 50 greatest movies of all time is a travesty
I've heard it said there is something different about not seeing it projected on a big screen. Plus the anti-b&w prejudice is increasing every year and the best film-making innovations Welles put in are standard now.
Very mediocre list, but the list of the films you haven't seen is superior to the ones you have seen. I'd recommend especially The Seven Samurai, Leon the Professional and Grave of the Fireflies as 3 movies to watch this summer. And if you want to watch with family and kids go with Spirited away, you'll enjoy it.
I think I only saw half of those movies that you listed as seen and none of the not seen. I'm not really much of a movie guy I guess.
Henry Fonda plays Juror 8, not Jack Lemmon.
I mixed up my versions of the movie. Lemmon played the role in 1997. I liked both performances.
@@NotTheHockeyGuy I've actually never seen the 1997 one.
Better be careful teg, tgh might file a copyright strike for using his set, and sounding way too much like him👀
I love movies but I will say I kinda hated Citizen Kane, and I did not like any of the Nolan Batman movies.
Back to the Future 2 is actually almost unwatchable for me. There are such massive plot holes that I can’t stand to watch it.
They rushed 2 & 3
What ?? You've never seen The Godfather I and II ??? Incredible ! You miss something ! I never watched any minute of all the Star Wars and I'm 54 years old...and I don't care about them ! Continue your great work ! ;-)
Where is Office Space in this list? Ludicrous!
I've never understood the appeal of The Shawshank Redemption. Terribly dull film.
Now the 50 worst movies lol We probably watched more of those.
No Jurassic Park? Invalid list.
I never cared for Jurassic Park. I thought it was predictable and only enjoyed Goldblum.
I think Forrest Gump is the most overrated movie of all time
Imdb top 250 list suuuuuucks.
The Dark Kight wasn't even the best movie in that trilogy. I feel like Pattinson's Batman had more growth in the one movie than Bale's had in 3 movies.
Heath ledger man heath fuckin ledger
Personally not a big fan of the IMDb list
Talk about a troll baiting video... Man, I am all for different opinions. And Shannon, you are more than welcome to yours. I think Shawshank might be the most rewatchable movie ever.
omg you havent seen leon or the good the bad and the ugly? waa waa wa.
i havent seen openheimer.short list :O
p.s.
if i may suggest a good movie to watch : sisu.
its a bit violent,but its over the top and not realistic at all.thats what makes it a must see imo.
Gladiator just ok 🥲? For me it's one of those movies I rewatch maybe like every 4-5 years!!