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Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

Okay, here is the real link to the whole list. Note that the list isn't ranked (there is no "number one" movie...), it's just an alphabetized but otherwise unordered list.

I don't like lists like this because they tend to be biased towards old movies. Here's the breakdown by decade:

• 2000's: 5 movies
• 1990's: 10 movies
• 1980's: 12 movies
• 1970's: 9 movies
• 1960's: 15 movies
• 1950's: 16 movies
• 1940's: 15 movies
• 1930's: 12 movies
• 1920's: 6 movies

Were the first four decades of movie-making so great that they produced more "top" movies than the most recent four? Were the '50's really the golden age of cinema? Were the '70's through '90's really worse than the '40's through '60's?

I don't think so. It just doesn't make sense to me that the best movies are getting progressively fewer and further between as time goes on. In general, movies that I consider "top" movies these days are infinitely more entertaining, moving, spectacular, and in other ways better than movies were fifty years ago. Writers can better relate to the culture I grew up in, they are more free to explore topics that were once considered taboo, technology has greatly expanded the realm of the possible in movie-making, actors are much more real than they used to be, etc. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but hopefully you can see my point.

I think that people who rate old movies as high or higher than recent or current movies are just being nostalgaic or trying to sound sophisticated. It's a little bit like saying that Beethoven is the best composer of all time when you know that if you start rooting through everyone's CD collections, you'll find tons more McCartney/Lennon and (sigh) Madonna. I'm not saying that I don't like old movies at all; one of my personal favorites is 12 Angry Men (didn't make the list), but I'm just talking about in general.

Some of my top choices (by entertainment value, not necessarily culturally significant) that didn't make the list would have to include, in no particular order (all links go to IMDB):

Raiders of the Lost Ark (leaving this one off is, in my humble opinion, the most egregious sin), Rat Race, The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Ghost Busters, The Majestic, Airplane!, The Professional, The Shawshank Redemption, Back to the Future, Toy Story, Mr. Holland's Opus, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Primal Fear, The Matrix, Superman, ...

(I'll stop boring you with my list now.)

no Incubus?

it has william shatner!

it was in esperanto!

it has goat heads!

this is a travesty...

The final masterpiece of one of the greatest filmmakers, Sergio Leone. (who at least did get a couple of movies on the list) Makes me wonder whether they only considered the (severely crippled) version that was shown in theatres.

Glad to see Brazil on there though.

The final masterpiece of one of the greatest filmmakers, Sergio Leone. (who at least did get a couple of movies on the list) Makes me wonder whether they only considered the (severely crippled) version that was shown in theatres.

Glad to see Brazil on there though.

Has the new SW dropped below "8" yet? It was up at 8.3 in the beginning (matching Saving Private Ryan). <looks> .. yes! It's down to 8.1 ... seems to drop 0.1 for every 10K votes. Good riddance. Should be down around 6-7 after a round or two on television.

What a waste of time. No pun intended.

I think Time summed up the waste of time based on the fact that 2 guys thought that a few classics "didnt do it for them" - this isnt a "top 100" then.

For a more reliable list of top movies based on the average medium of voters, goto IMDB Top 250

My vote goes to Heathers with Wynnona Ryder and Christian Slater.

You can't seriously be suggesting that "The Ring" (not "Ringu", but the remake?) is worthy of a top-100 spot? It was an absolutely horrible movie. Just one step above Vercingétorix.

Okay, so maybe two steps above "Druids", but still. Horrible picture.

About the only accurate top 100 movie list is on the IMDB's top 100 http://www.imdb.com/chart/top (Well, it is actually the top 250, but you get the point)

My roommate and I have a $20 (two DVD at a time) unlimited rental account from Blockbuster. We're going down the IMDB's top 100 films (the top 250 can be found here), and the entertainment is definately worth the less-than-$0.50-a-day charge. They don't have all the movies though, so we may switch over to Netflix.

Hopefully, Keanu Reeves decides to recreate his earlier success in fighting evil corporate scientists by releasing the water-to-energy schematics under GPL.

You haven't seen the WMD that site was carrying, the sheer destructive force of bombs like this or this could bring the country to its knees. Only a preemptive strike prevents further damage from the radiating disease following these around.

-Matt

You haven't seen the WMD that site was carrying, the sheer destructive force of bombs like this or this could bring the country to its knees. Only a preemptive strike prevents further damage from the radiating disease following these around.

-Matt

Now how long will it take for the letters OYA to be lost from the name plate, and for the probe to become sentient

LOL, At least that film has one of the best film scores ever composed by the legendary, late Jerry Goldsmith to break up the tedium of all the F/X shots. Added to that, the film is the only one to justly deserve the 'Motion Picture' subtitle -- the other (currently) nine other films in the series play out like 2-hour episodes from their respective TV series of varying quality I.E.

The even numbered films are good.

The odd numbered films are bad.

Apparently Raziel is Real American Hero that sells diamonds. While Kain's arch-nemesis is a really strechty guy and his band of Gamma-irradiated heroes.

Apparently Raziel is Real American Hero that sells diamonds. While Kain's arch-nemesis is a really strechty guy and his band of Gamma-irradiated heroes.

Was Luke Skywalker (aka Mark Hamill) there?

Moore breaks a taboo that pervades much of fiction, not just the comics: the suggestion that those in power might not have thought through what they are doing, that they may not even care enough or be smart enough to think things through.

Yeah, some taboo... Try Dr. Strangelove, Catch-22... heck, try Oedipus Rex.

This kind of criticism of people-in-charge is one of the major themes in Western literature and drama.

...Microsoft is offering a number of prizes, including the chance to meet Gates in Seattle...

Anyone here old enought to remember Death Race 2000? Remember why Frankenstein (David Carradine) wanted so badly to win the race?

^_^

Social perversions and thought crime.

I have photos of naked children. Myself and siblings from 50 years ago. These days, if I 'got caught' sending copies to my siblings over the internet, who do you think would be on the spot to prove he's not engaged in a criminal activity?

What if I had PGP on my computer? I do.
What if I had a copy of a film titled, 'Lolita'? I do. Go ahead and look. It's a film from 1962 by Vladimir Nabokov. They have it at the local video store and Amazon sells it. I got my copy at Best Buy for $2.99.
What if I was looking for some information on Vladimir Nabokov and reviews of the film? Why damn, I have a record of 'lolita; in my google search.

Back in the 60's this would pose no problems. Today, people are so quick to assume what I might be THINKING along the lines of their narrow little prurient minds, and you can bet that most jurors don't have much common sense, that a clever prosecutor could put the burden all on me. This is NOT constitutional law. The prosecutor has to prove I'm guilty of a crime, not of possessing all the components which might make me guilty of a crime.

What sort of crime is pornography anyway? IMO it's NOT a crime. If there is any criminal activity, in the referenced case, it's that the guy solicited a minor for activity, as far as we know, without the permission of her guardians. Shops put candy within easy reach of children all the time. Children have money. No one prosecutes the shop owner for soliciting a sale without the parents permission. In the present USA climate one wonders if the parents, giving permission for photos, might not be on their way to jail too.

Who the hell is in charge of ones kids anyway?

As for photographs. If taken in public there should be no problems. If distributed without permission, there are laws covering this, whether photos are 'prurient' or not. As for a minor being involved, without her guardians permission, that's a problem. With their permission should be fine. What the heck are guardians anyway.

It's only pornography in the mind of the viewer.
Attributing the same thoughts to someone else and charging them with a crime is in FACT charging them with a thought crime. This opens the door for other crimes which someone else may think you think...

hate CRIME
racist CRIME
theft CRIME
murder CRIME

really acted since Leon (at age 12)

Absolute rubbish. Check your facts :

+ (2005) - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
+ (2002) - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
+ (1999) - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
+ (1996) - Mars Attacks!
+ (1995) - Heat

and many other films without much of a break since Leon.

really acted since Leon (at age 12)

Absolute rubbish. Check your facts :

+ (2005) - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
+ (2002) - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
+ (1999) - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
+ (1996) - Mars Attacks!
+ (1995) - Heat

and many other films without much of a break since Leon.

I'm sure that Jane Leeves from Frasier will be glad to know that you think she's pissing all over your accents.

Then again, it is kind of ridiculous to have American actors aping American accents that are not their own, so I suppose you're allowed to complain about British actors doing the same thing. YMMV.

he doesn't think there will ever be a market for a film where the hero is an anarchist terrorist.

Yeah, because Fight Club totally bombed and wasn't culturally or financially successful in any way.

The casting is at least interesting http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/fullcredits#wr iters- Hugo "Agent Smith" Weaving as V.? I dunno if I can picture that. Then again, V. is a creepy mofo and Weaving can do that well. Personally I coulda seen John Malkovich in the role. Natalie Portman- well, damn, you can't go wrong there.

You can't take Moore disavowing the movie one way or the other: he disavows all his film offspring. On the other hand, thus far they haven't exactly done him proud, either.

I generally use the street metaphor. Do not give any information over the internet that you wouldn't give to a stranger that approaches you on the street.

There will always be phishers who will be able to get at least some victims. Just as there are people who commit fraud without using the internet. Some are very good at what they do, like Victor Lustig, who sold the Eiffel tower in 1925 -- twice. One of Lustig's scams, the horse betting office, inspired the 1973 movie "The Sting".

I believe that it's not the quality of the phishers that makes them dangerous. What makes the internet so particularly attractive for con artists is the fact that it works so well as a search engine for victims. Traditionally, the con artists biggest job was looking for a victim, today they send an email to thousands of people and the gullible ones come voluntarily forward.

Hmmm... Film out in 1995... Ms Jolie born in 1975... I make that 20, so not underage, no.

Now, whether she looked underage... that's an entirely different matter <grin>

Hmmm... Film out in 1995... Ms Jolie born in 1975... I make that 20, so not underage, no.

Now, whether she looked underage... that's an entirely different matter <grin>

If you ban something for having someone tied to train tracks.. You'd have to ban Dudley Do-Right.

(Ever seen the bugs bunny cartoon where the fish jumps out of the water, pulls a gun on himself and kills himself?)

IIRC, the line was "Now I've seen everything", in a Peter Lorre voice.

That's inconceivable!

I'm glad to see that they are not showing The Conqueror at Snow Canyon, near St. George, Utah. Not only was it a lousy film, but the filming location was contaminated with radioactive dust from nearby atomic bomb tests in the previous couple of years. An unusually high number of the cast and crew (including John Wayne) died of cancer.

The sixth comment before a Real Genius reference.
May I first complement you on you choice of footwear!

The idea of downloading your brain reminds me of the forgettable Schwarzenegger movie The 6th Day. Even though the movie was crap it made me think of the following:

1. If a character was about to die, he/she would quickly clone themselves into a new body by downloading his/her brain through the eyeballs. This occured often in the movie.
2. Would you be the same person?
3. Would your soul be downloaded as well?
4. Did anyone else have the same thoughts when they were watching this movie?

we've seen this before ...

More like shooting down nuclear weapons from the ground. After all, the missile defense drones don't seem to be doing it. Why not just try the obvious.

Of course, they'll have to station the test facility under an abandoned drive-in movie theater.