Top 100 Greatest Movies All-Time: The Recap and Analysis

I know. I know. I said that I would put this up a week ago, but I didn't. But I'm putting it up now! So never fear! Anyways, here is the master list of all 100 films that I ranked in my top 100, and also with some breakdowns of the list and some of my greatest regrets from the list. Hit the jump for the breakdown.



The Top 100 Movies

Here's Part One (100-76)

Part Two (75-51)

Part Three (50-26)

Part Four (25-16)

Part Five (15-5)

Part Six (5-1)

Here's the Complete List

1. Godfather
2. Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Goodfellas
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Godfather II
8. Unforgiven
9. To Kill a Mockingbird
10. The Dark Knight
11. Usual Suspects
12. Dr. Strangelove
13. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
14. Citizen Kane
15. Saving Private Ryan
16. Fight Club
17. Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
18. Raiders of the Lost Ark
19. Pulp Fiction
20. Fargo
21. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
22. Gladiator
23. Die Hard
24. Rocky
25. The Departed
26. Collateral
27. The Prestige
28. The Untouchables
29. Training Day
30. Raging Bull
31. The Third Man
32. Chinatown
33. Blazing Saddles
34. Schindler's List
35. Network
36. The Manchurian Candidate
37. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
38. Deer Hunter
39. Iron Man
40. Duck Soup
41. The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
42. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
43. Memento
44. Batman Begins
45. A Clockwork Orange
46. Star Wars Episode VI: The Return of the Jedi
47. Taxi Driver
48. Mystic River
49. Vertigo
50. Serenity
51. Back to the Future
52. On The Waterfront
53. Se7en
54. The Big Lebowski
55. Spider-man 2
56. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
57. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
58. Any Given Sunday
59. Finding Nemo
60. Sin City
61. French Connection
62. Harvey
63. Scarface
64. Casino Royale
65. Some Like It Hot
66. District 9
67. Lawrence of Arabia
68. The Maltese Falcon
69. Casablanca
70. The Shining
71. The Lion King
72. V for Vendetta
73. Kill Bill
74. 12 Monkeys
75. Road To Perdition
76. Glory
77. Good Will Hunting
78. The Matrix
79. Rear Window
80. Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail  
81. The Wrestler
82. The Royal Tenenbaums
83. The Princess Bride
84. Anchorman
85. American History X
86. The Incredibles
87. Children of Men
88. The Great Escape
89. Wall-E
90. Full Metal Jacket
91. Million Dollar Baby
92. Demolition Man
93. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
94. Boondock Saints
95. Unbreakable
96. Groundhog Day
97. Snatch
98. The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King
99. Forest Gump
100. Red Dawn

 Breakdowns:

Most Appearances by an Actor in the List:

-Morgan Freeman with 7 appearances in the Top 100, with three in the Top 10.

-Second Place: Robert De Niro with 6 movies

-Third Place: Tie with Harrison Ford (thanks to Indiana Jones/Star Wars) and Jimmy Stewart (thanks to being incredibly awesome) with 5 movies.

-Notables: Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Al Pachino, and Jack Nicholson all had 4 movies; Tom Hanks and Christian Bale had 3 appearances; and there were tons of people tied with 2, most notably Denzel Washington, Gregory Peck, and Sean Connery.

- Number of Hayden Christianson or Robert Pattinson: NONE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE WORST ACTORS EVER.  Essentially, they are wasting good oxygen and that is four good kidneys that more deserving people are deprived of because these two wastes of space are allowed to keep breathing.

Most Appearances by a Director in the List:

- In a kind of surprising turn of events. There are FOUR directors tied at the top of the list with 4 movies apiece making the Top 100: Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, and Christopher Nolan. This is kind of amazing because I thought that honestly Scorsese or Kubrick would have had way more movies and that one of them would have won it outright. Spielberg makes sense that he would be this high, but also Nolan is my favorite current director in Hollywood as all of his films have been great so far (with the exception of Insomnia which was not poorly done but I just didn't like it).

Second Place: Quentin Tarantino with 3 movies

Third Place: Several tied with 2 movies, most notably Frank Capra and Alfred Hitchcock.

Last Place: Uwe Boll. Do I need to explain this?

Number of Movies by Genre:

Science-Fiction: 17

Action Movies: 11

Comedy: 10

Comic Book Films: 9

My Biggest Regret:

I'm very proud of my list, I am. But I do have to say that there are several films that I still wish had made the list, so I'm just going to list a few that I wished had been on there but when push came to shove they were left off:

Psycho, Gone Baby Gone, Inside Man, Big Fish, Blood Diamond, Hamlet (Branagh's version), American Gangster, No Country for Old Men, North by Northwest, Sixth Sense, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice, A History of Violence, Heat, Jackie Brown, Stranger Than Fiction, Jerry Maguire, Apollo 13, Three Kings.

But I have to say that there is one film that I really should have put on the list, and even now putting the total list up I wish that I had put it instead of several other movies: American Psycho. I love this movie, and it's the film that put Christian Bale firmly on the map. When I first saw it I said that Bale was the perfect choice to play Bruce Wayne/Batman, and now he is the definitive movie Batman. This movie is so brilliantly dark and twisted, easily one of the most unexpectedly funny films and the scene where he goes completely crazy and visits the ATM is one of my favorite scenes in any movie. I'm now kicking myself even more for leaving this film off the list. Le Sigh...

Well that's it folks. The list is done. Keep an eye out on the blog for more movie related posts in the upcoming weeks, and at the end of the year I'm going to be doing my top 10 best films of 2009 (right now if you want to know what's number one, it's the only movie that came out this year on the Top 100 list [it rhymes with Mistrict Tine]). Until then, take it easy boys and girls.