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Yahoo! has released a list this week of the 100 Movies To See Before You Die. According to whom? Yahoo! Oh, sure. If there’s one thing that I think of when I think of Yahoo!, it’s EXPERTISE.
No, David Blaine.
I’m not even sure I know what a list of movies you should see before you die even means. I love movies as much as the next guy who loves movies a lot, but I get kind of grumpy if I go see a movie on a really nice day because who wants to sit in the dark when there’s frisbee golf to be played? I’m sure as hell not going to sit around watching this shit if I’m about to die. I’LL BE IN THE STREETS! MAKING LOVE! Obviously, I’m sure they mean it in a more playful sense. This list is not actually intended only for people who have been medically diagnosed with a fatal disease. But even if this is just a list of the most essential movies, what the fuck is Titanic doing on there? And anyone who says that you absolutely must see Blazing Saddles before you die should go kill themselves. This list is junk! Sure, there’s lots of good movies on here, but throw 100 darts at the wall and one of them is bound to hit the board. It’s called probability science.
Fuck you, Yahoo! We’re making our own list. After the jump, the complete Yahoo! List of 100 Movies to See Before You Die According to Yahoo! Then, in the comments, the Videogum List of 100 Movies to See Before You Die, Because Shut Up, Yahoo!
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The 400 Blows (1959)
- 8 ½ (1963)
- A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
- The African Queen (1952)
- Alien (1979)
- All About Eve (1950)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- The Battle of Algiers (1967)
- The Bicycle Thief (1948)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Blow Up (1966)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Breathless (1960)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Enter the Dragon (1973)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
- The French Connection (1971)
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Godfather, Part II (1974)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- The Graduate (1967)
- Grand Illusion (1938)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- In the Mood For Love (2001)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Jaws (1975)
- King Kong (1933)
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)
- M (1931)
- M*A*S*H (1970)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
- Network (1976)
- Nosferatu (1922)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- Paths of Glory (1958)
- Princess Mononoke (1999)
- Psycho (1960)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
- Rashomon (1951)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- Rocky (1976)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- The Searchers (1956)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Sunset Blvd. (1950)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- The Third Man (1949)
- This is Spinal Tap (1984)
- Titanic (1997)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Toy Story (1995)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- Vertigo (1958)
- When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
- Wild Strawberries (1957)
- Wings of Desire (1988)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
- The World of Apu (1959)
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You are very wrong about this.
The Room, natch. (you’re welcome, Lindsay)
Harry and the Hendersons.
Do you see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?
The Big Lebowski.
duh.
when you find a stranger in the alps. also not fun.
Young Einstein. Duh, obvi.
gotta say spirited away over princess mononoke, not that i don’t love princess mononoke.
How about anything from Studio Ghibli? They’re all great children’s movies that anyone can enjoy.
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i’m not sure this is a movie to see before you die. it’s more like a movie you happened to watch right before you died, if you know what i mean.
I do know. I just thought if I had to see it, everyone else should have to suffer through it like me.
badlands.
Badlands for sure. Any Malick really. I love Days of Heaven – but Badlands is really more the young America classic yah.
Night of The Comet
Streets of Fire
Dressed to Kill
Dr. Strangelove
My Bodyguard
The Jerk
and any movie that saves people through either dancing or video games.
I can’t find a copy of Night of the Comet ANYWHERE. And it’s genious
Streets of Fire… yes!
So…….. this will set a record for number of comments.
Wet Hot American Summer
Raiders of The Lost Ark is there so i’m ok. i imagine dark knight will start getting into these lists in a few years.
fight club.
…what the fuck is Titanic doing on there? And anyone who says that you absolutely must see The Exorcist before you die should go kill themselves. This list is junk!
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Diving Bell & The Butterfly: great movie but needs more time before you can really say it’s a classic. Too soon. It is really good though. Don’t get me wrong.
Dude that said Gummo? You are totally lying. I defy anyone to make a case for that piece of shit. You’re just trying to be edgy. Give it a rest. Kids is better and it’s not that great.
I’d expect these to be USA centric so no surprise there. I’d like to add Last LIfe in the Universe by Ratanaruang
Gummo is an absurd movie, but only in that it is absurd to imagine that so many repulsive things could happen in the lives of such a small collection of people over such a short period of time. The acting, in the scenes that aren’t vox pop hillbilly interviews or improv, is atrocious. I don’t think that a movie that intentionally avoids a redemptive story arc requires good acting. Good acting would probably be contra-indicative. The movie is intended to provoke a negative response in the viewer. Clearly in your case it worked.
Is this supposed to be GOOD movies…or movies that were a huge part of culture? Because if its the latter then Titanic and Blazing Saddles absolutely belong on the list. As would a bunch of other shitty movies like Austin Powers and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
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Real Genius (if it’s still as good as I remember)
Manchurian Candidate (1962 version)
Dumbo
Operation Dumbo.
Operation Dumbo Drop
touche!
Leprechaun (1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002)
Space Camp
Big Trouble in Little China
This Is Spinal Tap
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
It’s been said, but it should be repeated: Fight Club.
That’s actually 102 movies. Learn to count Yahoo!
Sort of a Crank 3 premise maybe… “Find me a Blockbuster, Amy Smart!”
Needs more Jodorowsky. Keep Blue Velvet though. Substitute Wall-E for Toy Story. Rob Reiner has at least three movies worth seeing more than When Harry Met Sally (Misery, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride). Oh, Groundhog Day over Ghostbusters? And many other dubious picks…
I get into the Wall-e vs Toy Story argument literally everyday with my roommate (obviously we are very popular with the ladies) and i am on the Wall-e side. I honestly think that Wall-e was the best movie that came out last year. Better than the Wrestler, better than Slumdog, better than Milk. I don’t remember the last movie that hit me that hard, and when you consider the visuals and its ability to appeal to all ages. True Toy Story was all of those things in its time. I feel that Toy Story was the breakout, Wall-e was the pinnacle.
Wall-E begins in a dialogless dystopia as frightening as Eraserhead and ends in an homage to Kubrick’s 2001. For kids! Otherwise, I wouldn’t consider any Pixar film for a “100″ list. Even though they are nice when your chilling with your nephew.
You go tell your roommate that you SO win with Wal-e. That movie is so presh it makes me want to squeeze stuffed animals.
Little Monsters starring Fred Savage & Howie Mandel. That’s the 1 movie you need to see before you die. Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie if you ABSOLUTELY need to see two films before ceasing to live.
The Wizard is more crucial.
Once, yes, but they ran out of those free Nintendo Powers a while back.
Hocus Pocus
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But… ?
That was supposed to be a reply to CarolineA’s comment:
“This Is Spinal Tap
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
It’s been said, but it should be repeated: Fight Club.”
II will down arrow myself : (
Eternal Sunshine
Royal Tenenbaums
Empire Strikes Back
Newsies
fuck yes newsies
The Wizard
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Putney Swope!!!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Basquiat &
The Doors (same movie)
Big Lebowski (duh)
Ferris Bueller (big duh)
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan
Edward Scissorhands
Rushmore
Usual Suspects
The Fog of War
The Long Goodbye
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead. That way you’ll have something to do, provided you die in Denver.
“Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom” — but only to be seen right before you die because seeing it will probably kill you.
Gregory’s Girl.
Surely all movies are movies to see before you die? Unless there’s a list of movies to wait until you’re dead to bother with I don’t know about?
Better Off Dead
Oh hell, any movie featuring Curtis Armstrong.
How come Lord of the Rings gets grouped together as one entry on the list, while the Godfather I and II are listed separately? THERE ARE RULES, YAHOO. Please consult them.
Perhaps they were trying to avoid including “The Godfather Part III”
Do The Right Thing? Really? What is this Beginning Film 101?
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Dead Man
Night on Earth
Mr. Mom, Center Stage, and Half-Nelson are just a few of the notable omissions. Good job yahoo. you’ve failed once again.
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Santa Sangre,The Eighth Day,Girl On A Bridge,Ran,Amelie,Clockwork Orange, Goodfellas,Mean Streets,Night Watch,Let The Right One In,Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Battleship Potemkin,Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge,Audition,High Tension,The Deer
Hunter,Last Temptation Of Christ.
THE LAST KISS!!!
ANY MOVIE WITH ROBIN WILLIAMS!
Trainspotting
Eternal Sunshine
Grave of the Fireflies
Cinema Paradiso
Brazil
CIty of God
There Will Be Blood
American Beauty
12 Angry Men
My Own Private Idaho
I hope he’s ready.
Rushmore
The Sandlot
Children of Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Yes please! And speaking of which “Shaun of the Dead” for sure.
Home Alone
Casino
The Room
Schindler’s List
Some Like It Hot
Harold & Maude
Dazed & Confused
Fuck you, Blazing Saddles is terrific. One of the ten funniest movies of all-time.
Um, yes. Gene Wilder is fucking amazing. What the hell is wrong with Blazing Saddles? Why does videogum hate Mel Brooks?
2nd’d. mel brooks is amazing. also, airplane!
night of the living dead
Hell yes. Took the words right out of my mouth. Er, hands.
I’m also going to demand Ghostbusters.
Also: Back to the Future 1 & 2
Young Frankenstein
Fargo
Big Lebowski
A Mighty Wind
28 Days Later
No Country for Old Men
Diving Bell and the Butterfly (I agree with whoever on here said it’s not quite a classic, but I think it’ll get there.)
Big ups to This is Spinal Tap, but The Usual Suspects? Titanic? T2? No thanks.
Waterworld
24 Hour Party People
Back To The Future dammit!
Children of Men
Shadow of a Doubt
The Apartment
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Taking of Pelham 123
Evil Dead 2
Big Trouble in Little China
8 1/2 ferreal.
But did you actually watch this or did you guys just like copy+paste imdb’s list.
Forgot to add:
Ghostbusters
Blazing Saddles… or anything by Mel Brooks, for that matter.
really? have you seen history of the world?
no tyler perry movies? strange…
I think at least one Oliver Stone movie should have made the list. JFK or Platoon.
Umm, Teen Wolf?
Perfect timing! My netflix queue is empty.
I’d add Ghost in the Shell, City of God and especially The Lives of Others, but this isn’t my list.
Howard the Duck.
Duh.
Clueless
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Brick
SLC Punk
25th Hour
Secretary
Wall Street
Idiocracy
There Will Be Blood
The Red Violin
Amadeus
Gummo.
Koyaanisqatsi.
Cool Hand Luke.
Naked.
Plein Soleil.
C’est Arrivé pres de chez Vous (aka Man Bites Dog).
A Clockwork Orange.
Un Chien Andalou.
Audition.
White Heat.
Also, from the ones already mentioned in the comments, I second Fight Club, Harold and Maude, Children of Men, Badlands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and There Will Be Blood,
Wargames
Prayer of The Rollerboys
Revenge of the Nerds
House Party
The Skateboard Kid 1 and 2
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Just One of The Guys
Problem Child 2
Little Giants
Look Who’s Talking Too
Night of the Creeps
Joysticks
Highlander
Fortress
Bloodsport
Cyborg
Second Just One of the Guys.
I think I love you…. Prayer of the Roller Boys… yep, I’m pretty sure I love you.
you are my doppelgänger . ditto this whole list.
Lost in Translation
Basquiat
Dirty Work
Fargo
I don’t see Lost up there, you should put Lost up there.
I second Idiocracy.
Back to the Future and Ghostbusters clearly should be on any top 100. And I’m sure I’m on an island, but my favorite Pixar movie was The Incredibles. And I wouldn’t have a problem throwing that in a top 100.
As since I’m in the mood to further alienate myself, Enter the Dragon isn’t bad, but if I was going to put a kung fu movie on, I’d rather see 36th Chamber of Shaolin or Shogun Assassin. OR if you want a specifically Bruce Lee movie, Fist of Fury.
Alright, that’s enough nerdy for one day.
Adaptation
The Good Girl
Reservoir Dogs
Wall-E, Barry Lyndon, Before Sunset, No Country for Old Men, Tokyo Story what?
Barry Lyndon, definitely. I would also add Amadeus too.
Local Hero!!
Second.
Mac and Me
Little Monsters
Sandlot
+1 for the sandlot!
Miller’s Crossing
Raising Arizona
Chairman Of The Board
i bet the board is spelled b-o-r-e-d
Heathers
Miller’s Crossing
Enough with the Spielberg! Raiders, Jaws, done.
The Professional
El Cid
Taxi Driver
Caddyshack
Breakfast Club
No Country For Old Men
uhhh the shawshank redemption people, how has that not been mentioned, i second fight club times infinity… and donnie darko…
Shawshank Redemption probably wasn’t mentioned because it’s in Yahoo’s list.
the sugarland express.
I was really happy to see The Good The Bad and The Ugly, because it is the best movie ever made, also Raise the Red Lantern is fabulous, if hard to watch. The Saddest Music in the World, should also be on there.
and why do people hate Blazing Saddles? maybe you just failed to see it when you were still young and un-jaded.
best movie EVER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdsejuMA5a0
hahaha thats fucking funny man
Didn’t Tom Scharpling already do this on the Best Show? C’mon guys.
Trainspotting
Oh, and Once Upon a Time in the West.
Um excuse me but you forgot to include Coyote Ugly
synecdoche, new york.
No Caddyshack?? I second that, along with Dead Man and Edward Scissorhands. Because I’d see my entire Johnny Depp collection before I die. Also, possibly, Talladega Nights.
That’s a middle school production of The Crucible up there, isn’t it? Hang on, Betty Parris!
No Pink Flamingos on the list???? You can rest in peace only after Pink Flamingos!
Freddy Got Fingered.
BACKWARDS MAN!
oldboy
The Farrelly brothers got snubbed. I’ll add Kingpin to the list and anyone who doesn’t agree with that shit can go get Munsoned.
Most i laughed in the theater in the 90s, add it to my list
What about The Goonies?! Come on, you guys!
the lives of others and once are both great…
Rosemary’s Baby
Harold & Maude
Groundhog Day
Caligula
There Will Be Blood
Sunset Boulevard
The US vs John Lennon
Secretary
Until Peter Jackson makes a fourth Lord of the Rings where Gandalf eats Legolas and lays the Shire to waste with the rest of the zombie horde, I say Dead Alive.
Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy. Oldboy.
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