Remember back in the day? We used to do lists like crazy. My favorite, the Mt. Everest, if you will, of movie lists was the Top 100 Favorite Movies list. It was bad-ass. Well, John and I re-did ours last year and I’ve continued to update mine every few months. Here’s the current edition.
Incidentally, here’s the text that accompanied my original list. The note is from John; the list was originally posted on his site.
Below is a list of my 100 Favorite movies of all time. (EDITORIAL NOTE: 101. The boy just can’t do anything the same as anyone else.) Note the word “favorite”, I didn’t say “best” or anything else critical, just “favorite”. I’d love to hear responses to this and to see others try to come up with similar lists. I have tried this before, but then they weren’t in order. Also, a few movies have joined or left the list since then. You’ll note that it’s heavy in movies from recent years. I don’t know know if that says anything other the fact that I’ve seen more movies recently.
Oh, Josh. Toy Story 2 was, like, number 101. Tough luck, huh? He he heh.
Slay’s All-Time Top 100 FAVORITE Movies
Last Updated 1/09/06
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- The Star Wars Trilogy
- The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Manhattan
- Do the Right Thing
- American Splendor
- Magnolia
- Sense and Sensibility
- Traffic
- Annie Hall
- Life is Beautiful (La Vita Bella)
- The Royal Tennenbaums
- Untitled
- Hours, The
- American Beauty
- Shakespeare in Love
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- 8 ½
- The Godfather
- Pelishky
- Amelie
- Pi
- Waking Life
- Fight Club
- About a Boy
- Goodfellas
- Pulp Fiction
- Kicking and Screaming
- Oceans 11 (2001)
- Trainspotting
- Waking the Dead
- Chasing Amy
- I ♥ Huckabees
- A Very Long Engagement
- An American In Paris
- The Usual Suspects
- Singles
- Big Night
- Grosse Point Blank
- High Fidelity
- Angels in America
- City of God
- Malcolm X
- Adaptation
- You Can Count On Me
- Memento
- Requiem for a Dream
- Ran
- The Constant Gardener
- Le Trou
- Frida
- Brazil
- Swingers
- Boogie Nights
- Fargo
- Before Night Falls
- The Squid and the Whale
- Gosford Park
- East of Eden
- The Apartment
- Hillary and Jackie
- Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai
- Stone Reader
- Train of Life (Train Da Vie)
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Closely Watched Trains
- Spartacus
- Bamboozled
- Dark Days
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
- Tadpole
- Spanish Prisoner, The
- Flirting with Disaster
- Cool Hand Luke
- Punch Drunk Love
- Deconstructing Harry
- Noises Off!
- Ghostbusters
- Donnie Brasco
- Minority Report
- Slam
- Breathless
- Pollock
- Stop Making Sense
- Sin City
- Withnail & I
- Sideways
- Bowling for Columbine
- Brief Encounter
- Back to the Future
- The Rock
- Bulworth
- Primary Colors
- The Daytrippers
- Good Will Hunting
- Igby Goes Down
- The French Connection
- Donnie Darko
- Fanny & Alexander
Top “Ten” by Year
2010
True Grit
Animal Kingdom
Winter’s Bone
The Town
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Inception
Catfish
Please Give
Cyrus
Honorary mention: Toy Story 3 [I really didn’t like this movie, but the moment where all the toys accept the inevitability of their own deaths was astonishing and unique.]
2009
Che
The Dark Knight
Milk
Synechdoche, NY
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
Rachel Getting Married
The Wrestler
4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days
Be Kind Rewind
2008
The Hurt Locker
District 9
The Princess and the Frog
Revanche
Moon
Star Trek
Watchmen
Gomorrah
Passing Strange
2007
I’m Not There
Once
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
No Country for Old Men
Michael Clayton
Gone Baby Gone
Lars and the Real Girl
2006
Half-Nelson
So Goes the Nation
Brick
When the Levees Broke
An Inconveniant Truth
Who Killed the Electric Car
Friends With Money
Children of Men
Fateless
I Am a Sex Addict
2005
The Constant Gardener
The Squid and the Whale
Jarhead
Sin City
King Kong
Good Night and Good Luck
You and Me and Everyone We Know
Shopgirl
Syriana
2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Motorcycle Diaries
A Very Long Engagement
I (heart) Huckabees
Sideways
Hotel Rwanda
Super Size Me
Before Sunset
Fahrenheit 9/11
Metallica – Some Kind of Monster
Ray
Control Room
2003
American Splendor
City of God
LOTR: The Return of the King
Angels in America
Spellbound
The Triplets of Belleville
2002
The Hours
Frida
Adaptation
About a Boy
Bowling for Columbine
Tadpole
Igby Goes Down
Minority Report
Punch Drunk Love
LOTR: The Two Towers
Talk to her
2001
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
Memento
Waking Life
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
The Royal Tenenbaums
Amelie
Moulin Rouge!
Monsters, Inc.
Life as a House
Ocean’s Eleven
2000
Requiem for a Dream
Traffic
Bamboozled
You Can Count On Me
Judy Berlin
Ghost Dog: The Way of The Samurai
Before Night Falls
The Contender
TimeCode
Girlfight
1999
Magnolia
American Beauty
Pelishky (Cozy Dens)
Train Da Vie (Train of Life)
The Insider
Being John Malkovich
Dogma
Fight Club
Summer of Sam
Man on the Moon
South Park
Mystery Men
1998
Pi
Pleasantville
Life Is Beautiful
Shakespeare In Love
The Spanish Prisoner
X-Files
Bulworth
The Truman Show
Primary Colors
He Got Game
Rounders
The Mask of Zorro
The Big Lebowski
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Prince of Egypt
1997
Chasing Amy
Boogie Nights
Grosse Point Blank
Donne Brasco
Good Will Hunting
Deconstructing Harry
LA Confidential
The Ice Storm
Wag the Dog
Waiting for Guffman
1996
Fargo
Trainspotting
Big Night
Swingers
The Crucible
The Daytrippers
Flirting with Disaster
Secrets & Lies
Slingblade
The Rock
The English Patient
Beavis & Butt-Head Do America
Mars Attacks