Following on from the Movie World Cup and WHATEVER's Top 100 Films thread, I spent this evening compiling my own list of Top 100 films. It was based on the order in which I wanted to see movies I had already seen. It is not meant to be a judgement on the quality of the films. I was surprised by the rankings I gave some films.

1 Pulp Fiction
2 Kingdom of Heaven
3 Serenity
4 Jumanji
5 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
6 Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
7 The Bourne Identity
8 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
9 The House Of Flying Daggers
10 Elizabeth
11 War of the Worlds
12 Pitch Black
13 Aliens
14 Saving Private Ryan
15 Pans Labyrinth
16 Cloverfield
17 The Golden Compass
18 A Very Long Engagement
19 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
20 The Chronicles Of Riddick
21 French Kiss
22 Spirited Away
23 The Incredibles
24 Stargate
25 Cliff Hanger
26 Dances With Wolves
27 Leon
28 Apollo 13
29 The Pianist
30 Schindler's List
31 Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
32 Hero
33 Good Will Hunting
34 Platoon
35 The Silence of the Lambs
36 Minority Report
37 Black Hawk Down
38 Empire of the Sun
39 Enemy at the Gates
40 Forrest Gump
41 The Princess Bride
42 Anchorman (The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
43 Jurassic Park
44 King Kong
45 The Bourne Supremacy
46 The Departed
47 Tombstone
48 Apocalypto
49 Fargo
50 Final Destination
51 Casino Royale
52 Das Boot
53 Open Your Eyes
54 The Quick and the Dead
55 Lawrence of Arabia
56 Serendipity
57 Pirates of the Caribbean
58 Spiderman
59 Spiderman 2
60 X-Men 2
61 The Bourne Ultimatum
62 The Addams Family
63 Full Metal Jacket
64 Letters from Iwo Jima
65 Apocalypse Now
66 AI: Artificial Intelligence
67 Predator
68 Gattaca
69 The Shawshank Redemption
70 Dogville
71 28 Days Later
72 Underworld
73 Ben Hur
74 Batman Begins
75 Ronin
76 Ninja Scroll
77 Shrek
78 Monsters Inc.
79 The Jungle Book
80 Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
81 Captain Corelli's Mandolin
82 One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
83 40 Days and 40 Nights
84 Pretty Woman
85 Sweet Home Alabama
86 Titanic
87 The Sound of Music
88 Grease
89 Cruel Intentions
90 My Best Friend's Wedding
91 Babe
92 E.T.
93 Raiders Of The Lost Ark
94 The Thomas Crown Affair
95 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
96 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
97 Snatch
98 There's Something About Mary
99 Dirty Dancing
100 Kramer vs Kramer

Number 40 i'd personally move ^.

and not much of a fan of comedy are you, . but some nice films there.

The Shawshank Redemption: so good, you had to list it twice

I can't even imagine being able to list my top 20 let alone 100. I wouldn't even know where to start and I struggle to remember films from last week let alone 10 years ago.

hey thanks for your feedback. Forest Gump is one of my all time favourite films and would have been in my top 20 a couple of years ago. this list is my current preference for films such that if I was told I could only have 50 films in my DVD collection I'd choose the first 50. any film on this list and some not on it are winners for me imo.

with regards comedy films, I like them but I'm also a big fan of sitcoms. i now tend to like to watch more "serious" films but then get my comedy kicks from sitcoms - and I can watch sitcoms for hours no kidding.

ha ha. thanks. i have replaced the second Shawshank Redemption with the Thomas Crown Affair. the duplication with due to the process by which I compiled the list. essentially, I copied all the nominated films from the Movies World Cup into a spreadsheet and removed the duplicates (though I missed a few). that left 1000+ movies. i then tagged all the movies that i fancied leaving me about 300. i then tagged about 30 of the 300 that i absolutely had to have in my DVD collection. these were the candidates for the top 30 which i then sorted according to how often i would want to watch them in a month say without getting bored. that completed the ranking for the first 30. i repeated the process on the remaining films from the 300 until i had about 110 films. without touching the top 30, i then eliminiated 10 films to end up with 100. ranking the films didn't take too long - just about an hour and it was good fun. this process worked for me because i would have placed some high ranking films lower and some lower ranking films higher. for example the Jungle Book would have been in the top 20 but i don't really have the urge to watch it now though i'd like to be able to watch it once in a while. however, i really want to watch Jumanji which i have watched only once in the past few years. wierd.

edit
i added about 20 wildcard movies not in the movies world cup list to the one i used. a few of them made it into the final list.


i've posted my method. i hope it helps. let me know if you're interested in the list of films i used. there's always imdb too. i guess it depends on your favourite genres...

That's the thing about redemption - you get a second chance