Countdown: The 165 Greatest American Movies Ever Made (1-15)

[oyarde]

Speaking of Peck, on this list...

Shampoo but no Moby Dick?

Yes , that is gay .

 

[oyarde]

Just a few not making the cut:

Our Town(1940)
The Old Man and the Sea(1958)
The Last Temptation of Christ(1988)
American Beauty(1999)
Natural Born Killers(1994)
Lost In Translation(2003)
Interstellar(2014)
The Sixth Sense(1999)
Immortal Beloved(1994)
2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)
Hunchback of Notre Dame(1939)
The Shawshank Redemption
American History X(1998)
The Miracle Worker(1962)
The Sound of Music(1965)
Traffic(2000)
Alien(1979)
Sexy Beast(2000)
Resevoir Dogs(1992)


etc. etc.

Resevoir Dogs is better than half the list . Shawshank is top 50 .

 

[oyarde]

Many other westerns, but not the best one ever filmed, Tombstone?

Good point.

 

[oyarde]

This cannot be a list without Brother Where Art Thou and The Ghost and the Darkness .

 

[shakey1]

'The Big Lebowski' & 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' come to mind (just about any Coen Bros. movie, actually).

 

[georgiaboy]

A quick google search reveals estimates of over 500,000 feature films made, all time. The average person has about 50 years of movie watching.
Generously assuming 2 unique movies a day, every day, for 50 years, comes to 36,500 movies, or 7.3% of all movies ever made.

More realistically, a typical person is going to see much less than that over a lifetime of movie watching.

So yeah.

I'll throw STRANGER THAN FICTION into the mix. Also ABOUT TIME.

 

[Todd]

If Amadeus isn't on the list then they should just get the hell out.

It's a perfect movie and the two lead performances are incredible. That's #1 on my list if you haven't guessed.

 

[Raginfridus]

This some kind of definitive list, but not one Kubrick movie out of ~400 movies? He's more American than Hitchcock, who I find formulaic and boring by comparison. Only two directors from "classic" Hollyweird could turn real novels into movies, let alone accomplish The Shining.

Tremors is basically Jaws with cooler characters and interesting rules. It's by far the best American monster movie of all time, but it's not even in the rejects list.

Ok, A Clockwork Orange is in the rejects list after all.