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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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The Last Kiss, because if you ARE terminally ill it will definitely make you feel better about dying. Because it will make you want to die. Because it is bad. It’s so bad that you’ll be glad you’re terminally ill because you will die and not have to see or think about it anymore. GET IT?
Also, is VG.com going to make a composite Top 100 list? I vote yes.
When I think of Videogum, I think Expertise. The fact that Harold & Maude is missing renders this list completely pointless.
The Orphanage is maybe my favorite movie ever.
Since they haven’t been mentioned….The Road to Welville and Perfume. Totally twisted, totally wonderful. Oh, and Dr. Kellogg was really that weird….
Boogie Nights. Back and forth, forever.
Where is The Holy Mountan? There never was, never will be another film like it, ever.
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Manchurian Candidate (1962 duh), true romance, labyrinth
Anybody for Soul Man? No? Okay.
I’ve seen all of these. Can I be excused (from life)?
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Clue
Throw Momma From The Train
The Labyrinth
Oh sweet jesus, I almost forgot: Willy Wonka (original)
the apartment
DARBY O’GILL & THE LITTLE PEOPLE
am i the first person to guess that the picture is of Lindsay in a high school production of Doubt?
Cool Hand Luke
Roadhouse
Best of the Best
Starship Troopers
Goodbye! Lenin
Donnie Darko
Lost in Translation
Eternal Sunshine
The X From Outer Space (the best movie ever)
Regarding Monty Python:
I don’t care what anyone says (or quotes ad nauseum), Life of Brian and Meaning of Life are comedically superior to Holy Grail. Personally, Meaning of Life would go on my list. Well, all three would, but for whatever reason, Yahoo! felt compelled to put only one.
Pan’s Labyrinth
Leolo!! And there’s not even one Indian film on the list. Too many American films.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?… stupid. Goldfinger?…. Thunderball is an a whole different level. Also, nothing by Wes Anderson? No Royal Tenenbaums? Good Will Hunting should also be on there as well.
Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Gooey Buns #5
Dawn of the Dead, o.g. version! Best horror ever!
The Darjeeling Limited.
It always pisses me off that breathless always gets into these lists.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it – it supposed to be about young cool french people doing young cool things and lets forget the fact that young cool things and young cool people age very fucking fast.
battle royale should be in any list of films to see before you die.
The Prestige
Little Miss Sunshine.
WHAT ABOUT BOB?
Son of Rambow
Heathers
The Spy That Came in From the Cold
Being John Malkovich
Children of Men
Siver City
Better yet, Teen Witch!
Requiem for a dream…duh.
This forum is great for people who want to express how wacky/indie/ironic/artful they are, as displayed by their taste in movies. Also the Mighty Ducks, The Insider, Magnolia, TWBB, Newsies, Eternal Sunshine, Royal Tenenbaums… See, wacky and arty!
The dad from Good Times is in this one so you know it’s fucking awesome.
EDIT: You cut my picture in half Videogum…
Irreversible because who doesn’t want to see 8 minutes of graphic simulated rape after sitting through over a half hour nauseating camera work and storyline told in reverse, before they die.
Umm… what?
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
Drop Dead Fred
Teeth.
ANCHORMAN!
Pan’s Labyrinth
True Romance
Kill Bill
Donnie Darko
In Bruges
Harold & Maude for sure.
My problem with these lists is that A. it’s a list. Of art. Quantifying and therefore qualifying it? I guess? Is the theory? Yet I read them? and B. It blocks anything I might think of as an unmissable movie because WE JUST BLOCKED YOU FROM THINKING. Experts!
Where the Wild Things Are
Indiana Jones 4
What Dreams May Come
AI
Bicentennial Man
Last Kiss
Black Dahlia
Man of the Year
S1MONE
Across the Universe
Death Sentence
Lost in Space
Dan in Real Life
reqium for a dream anyone??
The Piano
Where The Wild Things Are
After Hours
Welcome To The Dollhouse
The Shining
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Labyrinth
if only for dance magic. and the worm that insists on coming inside and meeting the. missis.
Labyrinth (David Bowie’s package)
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The Never Ending Story
The Shining
Lost in Translation
Harold and Maude
Requiem for a Dream
Good Will Hunting (Elliott
North By Northwest
Trouble the Water
Red Dawn
Citizen Kane
The Princess Bride
The Big Lebowski
The 400 Blows
Spirited Away
Breathless
Saved!
Waiting for Guffman
Caddyshack
Ghost Busters (all of them)
Harolde and Maude
The Wizard of Oz totally sync’d up to Pink Floyd, dude!
city of god? pan’s labryinth?
oh and to add one more…life is beautiful. wonderful wonderful movie that everyone should see before they die.
You Make My Day
wet hot american summer.
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
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THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN.
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN!
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN!!
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN!!
Jodorowskys Holy Mountain is always missing from lists like this ….and its because people are just ratteling off good movies of the top of their heads. As a big Jodorowsky fan I have showed this film to tons of people and never heard anyone say anything less than amazing about this film.
I defy anyone to watch the Holy Mountain. and then come up with a list of 100 better films.
Dangerous Cousins. It?s the best 52 minutes you?ll spend all day.
anyone say withnail and i?
Salesman- best documentary in my humble opinion…
Technically, this would be a list of 105 movies because of Star Wars being 6 movies total. RIght?
There’s not enough cartoons on this list. I mean I think I’d probably show some one a bunch of Disney movies before a lot of these other movies.
Muppets Take Manhattan.
there certainly needs to be, at the least, one wes anderson and one kevin smith flick. Where the fuck is the love for Gus Van Sant?
American Psycho
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Fisher King
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS !!!
What is wrong with you people? Unforgiven should be on any short list, much less the top 100.
And whoever said Bicentennial Man should be kicked hard in the tenders. No one should have to see a movie where a woman wants to marry and have sex with a machine.
MELODY!
some crap trailer…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_4GQx5Dv38&feature=related
The Truman Show is underrated. Fantastic movie.
What? No Radio Head?
I just watched ‘Zorro the Gay Blade’ and would have to firmly place it at # 67 on my Hot 100 list
The Constant Gardener.
How about Blue Velvet or Eraserhead? Quit naming movies on the list that you think should be on the list, totally lame-o.
Revolver
Hard Candy
Mad Max II: The Road Warrior