By now, you’ve probably clicked your way through our galleries counting down EW’s 100 "new classic" movies, the magazine’s picks for the best films released in the last 25 years. (Here’s the list for easy reference.) Three questions:
(1) How did we do?
(2) How many of the movies have you seen (counting the Lord of the Ringstrilogy as one, like we did)? I’m going to be escorted out of thebuilding for admitting this, but I’ve only seen 66 of them. No need tochastise me, I’m on it. (Good thing I’m in the TV department…)
(3) Anyone else get a little giddy reading that run of Die Hard, Moulin Rouge, This is Spinal Tap, and The Matrix (starring Laurence Fishburne, pictured)? Perfect marathon, right? It’s kind of fun to read the list and see what titles give you the warmest fuzzies (Out of Africa and Waiting for Guffman, who knew?).
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Did I miss the Princess Bride? Honestly – I must have. If it is really not on there I don’t know what to say – I’m even at a loss for sarcasm.
If I counted right, I have seen 79 out of the 100 movies. Pretty good list and I agree with most of it. But more importanly, I agree with you #1 movie, Pulp Fiction. Hands down the best movie on this list, IMO.
No Fast Times at Ridgemont High or any John Hughes 80’s movies??
I’ve seen 95 out of 100.
i got 99 out of 100…that whole lack of a social life thing….
1)I like the list. I do not agree 100%, but overall (and not stricly for comparison, I know they’re not the same topic!)I like it better than the AFI lists that just came out. I would like to see more foreign movie. What about Amelie?
2)58 not so bad, I think and I have seen most of the top 25.
3)I was way too excited to see Speed on your list…
All in all, the list is not bad. I’m glad PULP FICTION was chosen as number #1 because I thought that was the single best film of the ’90s. There is, however, no excuse for linking crap movies like SOUTH PARK, THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, AUSTIN POWERS and SPIDERMAN 2 with the word “classic”. Shame on you!
Where’s The Princess Bride? Seriously, there’s no excuse for omitting that movie. Also, Who Framed Roger Rabbit should have made it.
49. Almost half.
Only 67 out of 100. I’m disappointed in myself, but then I realized that if you made a list of the 100 worst movies of the past 25 years, I’d have probably seen more of those than of these. I’m not sure whether that makes me more or less pleased with myself.
PS. Thanks for including “In the Mood for Love” on your list. LOVE that movie. But where’s the love for a bunch of other foreign classics? Run Lola Run anyone?
89 – I am soooo amazed! AND I have a social life….
I agree with the movies you chose although I did find a lot of the ranking really odd. Casino Royale so high? Unforgiven so low? (Although I do think the Top 3 are right on.) I would have liked to see some more foreign films (Run Lola Run perhaps) and some deserving Best Pictures (Million Dollar Baby and–I can’t wait for the message board skewering–Crash) but there’s not a blatant poor choice among the 100.
1) I agree with it more than I usually do with lists of these types. I was glad to see the “pretentious art films” kept to a minimum and a lot of comedies taken into consideration.
2) Surprisingly, I only got 63 out of 100. Guess I haven’t seen as many movies as I thought.
3) I was happy to see Pulp Fiction at number one. Having Clueless come immediately above Gladiator was a bit of a sacrilege though.
1. Pretty happy with it. Though surprised I didn’t see such classics as The Princess Bride or Clerks.
2. 48, but I see it as now having a list for summer movie watching.
3. As an animation nut, I also got giddy seeing The Incredibles (yay Brad Bird!) and The Lion King on there.
I’ve seen 52.
X- Men or X2 not included? For shame!
Where the hell is the Color Purple?!
94/100 (I couldn’t finish Glory or LOTR but I understand why they were chosen) Love, love, love this list. So much better than the AFI list. Maybe I would have moved some things around but overall great choices. Pulp Fiction rightly deserves #1.
I have seen 71 of the movies. Which, considering I was born in 1980 so all the movies have come out since I was 3. I have seen 23 of the top 25. I’m only missing “Crumb” and “Do the Right Thing”.
I really liked that you included the underrated “Glory”, the wonderful so-called chick flick “A Room With A View”, and that LOTR was at least #2.
However, I’ll repeat what I said in the TV Classics post:
Where on earth is “The Shawshank Redemption”?? Or “The Princess Bride”? And how could you possibly leave out “Back to the Future”?
And then there’s “Finding Nemo”, “Amelie”, “Sense and Sensibility”, “Amadeus”, “Beauty and the Beast”… But again, this list was composed entirely by men, so it’s not surprising that those “chick flicks” were forgotten, and that the list consists of a lot of guy-favorite films.
(1) Not bad. Thanks for adding Talented Mr. Ripley, but where’s the love for Adaptation? Or old school?
(2) 56. I immediately added about a dozen to the queue.
(3) Guess what I’m doing tomorrow.
I had 86. I’m shocked at the lack of cult films. I’m partial to The Big Lebowski, but what about Clerks, Cry Baby, Raising Arizona, Fast Times & Ridgemont High (I mean COME ON!), Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner. Seems like these are the must haves for any collection.
All things considered, I think you guys did a really good job with the list (and I’ve seen 91 out of 100). I think it’s important to note that I don’t think you guys were trying to rank the 100 greatest movies of the past 25 years, but instead were trying to identify the ones that would endure decades from now. In that regard, well done.
Just a few minor quibbles:
I think Broadway Baby is absolutely right that “Princess Bride” should be on there.
Also, I’d personally rank “Bourne Ultimatum” ahead of “Bourne Supremacy.”
Finally, where the heck is “Usual Suspects”? (I apologize if I just missed it.)
I don’t totally agree with Pulp Fiction, but most of them were pretty good. I think alot of them should have been higher up, but whatever…..
Eric Friedmann is a filthy minger for hating on South Park: BLU and 40-Year Old Virgin!
74. Although really I’m fine with not seeing most of the the others.
I’ve seen 45 of them. I’ll agree with everyone else about “The Princess Bride” being left off. Also, no Miyazaki at all? I’d put in a vote for “Spirited Away.” What about “Labrynth” or any of the other 2d Disney movies (Little Mermaid, Black Cauldron)? Also…”300″, “Sin City” and “The Illusionist”.
i agree with majority of films but most defently not the order gladiator imo way out ranks pulp fiction and spinal tap
1) Some good, some bad (Napoleon Dynamite? Really?), some forgotten (Where the hell is Pan’s Labyrinth? Among others…)
2) 75
3) Actually, yes.
This has already been an argument for a few weeks now but about Jurassic Park or Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. Two landmark science fiction films that deserve their due. Oh and Pulp Fiction…please…overrated…just the rest of Tarentino’s hack work.
I’ve seen 99 I think, only one I’m missing is Evil Dead 2. I’m completely shocked I’ve seen that many. Needs more foreign films.
I’ve seen 73 of them. I’m not going to bad-mouth “Pulp Fiction,” but it wouldn’t have been at the top of my list. I just never “got it,” and based on how everyone raves about it, it’s obviously my loss.