Favorite Movies from before y2k

[Flack]

Convinced we were all going to die around y2k, I wrote a list of my favorite 100 movies so that things like this would be preserved after my death. We survived y2k, and in retrospect, I put a lot of terrible movies on this list. Note that this was my list of my 100 favorite movies, not the 100 best movies. So as of December, 1999, these were my 100 favorite films. Feel free to ask questions about any of them.

(Note: If I redo this list I will remove probably 40% of these movies.)

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1 Empire Strikes Back
2 Star Wars
3 Close Encounters of the third Kind
4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5 Wargames
6 Night of the Living Dead
7 Pee Wee's Big Adventure
8 Tron
9 The Exorcist
10 Return of the Jedi
11 Big Trouble in Little China
12 Clockwork Orange
13 Cloak and Dagger
14 2001: A Space Odyssey
15 Fight Club
16 Nightmare on Elm Street (1 and 3)
17 Lord of Illusions
18 Poltergeist
19 Wizard of Oz
20 Labyrinth
21 Rocky 3
22 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Trilogy)
23 Cannibal! The Musical
24 Monty Python's Life of Brian
25 Back to the Future (Entire Trilogy)
26 Almost Famous
27 Outlaw Josie Wales
28 Stargate
29 The Last Starfighter
30 Kentucky Fried Movie
31 Planet of the Apes
32 Aliens
33 Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
34 Jaws
35 Clerks
36 The Matrix
37 Spinal Tap
38 Rocky
39 Silence of the Lambs
40 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
41 Terminator
42 Terminator 2
43 Midnight Cowboy
44 The Jerk
45 Taxi Driver
46 Frankenstein
47 Airplane
48 Silver Streak
49 Pulp Fiction
50 Blazing Saddles
51 Dogma
52 Fast Times at Ridgemont High
53 Mallrats
54 Spaceballs
55 The Blues Brothers (1 only)
56 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
57 Halloween
58 Psycho
59 Princess Bride
60 Evil Dead (Trilogy)
61 Lake Placid
62 Apocalypse Now
63 Citizen Kane
64 Enter the Dragon
65 Air Force One
66 Red Dawn
67 Caddyshack
68 Deliverance
69 Reservoir Dogs
70 Animal House
71 Silent Rage
72 Carrie
73 Bullitt
74 Dr. Strangelove
75 Ninja III - The Domination
76 Jacob's Ladder
77 Rambo II
78 12 Angry Men (the original)
79 Code of Silence
80 Bad Boys (Sean Penn)
81 Magnolia
82 The Day the Earth Stood Still
83 Superman (1 and 2)
84 Something Wicked This Way Comes
85 Freaks
86 Pump up the Volume
87 Robocop (1 only)
88 Escape from New York
89 Thrashin
90 The Shining
91 My Bodyguard
92 Rear Window
93 The Karate Kid (1 only)
94 Zombie
95 Rosemary's Baby
96 Nail Gun Massacre
97 Microwave Massacre
98 The Jazz Singer
99 Robin Hood (1938)
100 Chopping Mall

[Tdarcos]

I looked at this list, and I thought, how many of these have I seen? Not necessarily that they are my favorites or that I liked them much or a lot or a little.

1 Empire Strikes Back
2 Star Wars
3 Close Encounters of the third Kind
4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5 Wargames
8 Tron ("You had access to her after me.")
9 The Exorcist
14 2001: A Space Odyssey
15 Fight Club
18 Poltergeist
19 Wizard of Oz
22 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Trilogy)
25 Back to the Future (Entire Trilogy)
26 Almost Famous
27 Outlaw Josie Wales ("Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.")
28 Stargate
29 The Last Starfighter
30 Kentucky Fried Movie
31 Planet of the Apes
32 Aliens
34 Jaws
35 Clerks ("Slurp, slurp, slurp")
36 The Matrix
37 Spinal Tap
38 Rocky
39 Silence of the Lambs
41 Terminator
42 Terminator 2
44 The Jerk
47 Airplane
48 Silver Streak
49 Pulp Fiction
50 Blazing Saddles
51 Dogma
52 Fast Times at Ridgemont High ("Are you in this class?" "I am now!")
55 The Blues Brothers (1 only)
56 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (The 1950s Kevin McCarthy one or the one with Leonard Nimoy? I saw the 1950s one.)
58 Psycho
62 Apocalypse Now
63 Citizen Kane
65 Air Force One ("Get off my plane!")
66 Red Dawn ("Because we were here first!")
67 Caddyshack
70 Animal House
72 Carrie
73 Bullitt
77 Rambo II
78 12 Angry Men (the original)
80 Bad Boys (Sean Penn)
82 The Day the Earth Stood Still (The 1950s or the Keanu Reaves version? I've seen both)
83 Superman (1 and 2)
87 Robocop (1 only)
88 Escape from New York
91 My Bodyguard
92 Rear Window
93 The Karate Kid (1 only)

[pinback]

You are forbidden from posting here until you explain why you think Fargo -- FARGO!!! -- is the second worst movie of all time.

That is so wholly unacceptable and distasteful that I feel you must be "pulling a fast one" on us.