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sinbad8982
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I've decided to work my way through the IMDB Top 250 after watching a couple of old classics this week, at present I've seen 132 , curious to hear what percentage other people seem to have seen.
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Forrest Gump
Terminator 2
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Alien
Back to the Future
Aliens
The Lion King
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
2001: A Space Odyssey So boring to me
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Die Hard
Jaws
The Thing
The Wizard of Oz
Groundhog Day
Twelve Monkeys
Donnie Darko
Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek
Jurassic Park
District 9
Read To Go when I get time
Inception (2010)
The Shining
The Green Mile
Matrix
Lawrence of Arabia
Batman Begins
The Sixth Sense
Into the Wild
Ben-Hur
Stand by Me
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Not one for the 'classic' films though.
And a few of them I've only seen because I did film studies and had to watch them for my coursework (the older ones from the 20's)
I am very weird when it comes to films. I normally like the films that were flops, or hated or not very well known ones.
most of the unseen are the old ones 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s.. unable to find the mood to seem.
I've seen 162 of them. Looking at the 88 films I haven't seen, there aren't many that I'd want to try.
Highest positioned film that I haven't seen is Fight Club, at 10.
I need to see some more of the classics
It has to be when Manhattan is at 247 and Terminator 2 at 36!:eek:
I think I've seen about a third from the list.
IMDB tends to be popular Hollywood/English speaking films and very little beyond.
A far better and definitive guide IMO (not necessarily for ranking but movies included)
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films.htm
Would be much higher if there was more 'world' cinema on the list.
So (as far as I can see) nothing post 2001 has made it onto the list? Interesting...
There are a few options, just above where the list actually starts, if you click on 'by year' there are around 40 movies from 2001 onwards.:)
Thankfully Inception is nowhere to be found.
I did a bit more in depth searching later on, and discovered a few.
Always disappoints me slightly that Pan's Labyrinth doesn't place higher in lists like this. But then I suppose other people's opinions of films don't really matter...
Aye.
Personally I don't tend to worry about rankings in lists like this but more what is included. So, for me the IMDB list, whilst is has many many great films in it, is on the the whole mainly Hollywood/English speaking safe. Nothing wrong with that but it is limited in its scope considering it is supposed to be a 'of all time list'.
Anyway, apologies OP didn't mean to divert the thread.:o
I counted 97 too!!
So in a sense our scores are meaningless because we're not all looking at the same list. Nevertheless, I scored around 140 to 150, not exact because some sound familiar but I can't be certain I've seen them.