Since Prince got nothing going on these days.
Anyone elce care to make a list and how many times should we expect to see Purple Rain in for 1984?

1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 The Kid
1922 Nosferatu
1923 Safety Last!
1924 The Thief of Bagdad
1925 The Gold Rush
1926 The Black Pirate
1927 Metropolis
1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929 Pandora’s Box
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 City Lights
1932 I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang
1933 King Kong
1934 It Happened One Night
1935 Bride of Frankenstein
1936 Modern Times
1937 Snow White
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 The Wizard of Oz
1940 Rebecca
1941 The Maltese Falcon
1942 Casablanca
1943 Shadow of a Doubt
1944 Double Indemnity
1945 Brief Encounter
1946 It’s a Wonderful Life
1947 Miracle on 34th Street
1948 Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 The Third Man
1950 Sunset Blvd.
1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still
1952 High Noon
1953 Shane
1954 Rear Window
1955 The Night of the Hunter
1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1957 12 Angry Men
1958 Vertigo
1959 Ben Hur
1960 Psycho
1961 Yojimbo
1962 To Kill a Mockingbird
1963 The Great Escape
1964 Dr. Strangelove
1965 Repulsion
1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1967 The Graduate
1968 Planet of the Apes
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1970 Kelly’s Heroes
1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1972 The Godfather
1973 The Exorcist
1974 The Godfather Part II
1975 Jaws
1976 Rocky
1977 Star Wars
1978 Superman
1979 Alien
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Blade Runner
1983 Scarface
1984 The Terminator
1985 Back to the Future
1986 Aliens
1987 The Untouchables
1988 Rain Man
1989 Do the Right Thing
1990 Goodfellas
1991 Beauty and the Beast
1992 Unforgiven
1993 Schindler’s List
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 The Usual Suspects
1996 Trainspotting
1997 LA Confidential
1998 Saving Private Ryan
1999 The Matrix
2000 Memento
2001 Mulholland Dr.
2002 The Two Towers
2003 The Matrix Reloaded
2004 Napoleon Dynamite
2005 Revenge of the Sith
2006 Pan’s Labyrinth
2007 Hot Fuzz

P.S. This is just my own personal choice and not an official list.
I just edited out Duck Soup for King Kong (1933) and From Russia With Love for The Great Escape (1963).
I haven't yet seen such reputed classics as The Bourne Trilogy, Zodiac, Seven or Out of the Past (1947) which was on T.V. here late on New Years Day but I missed it cos it went under it's alternate title of Build My Gallows High ...GRRR!
Hot Fuzz only makes the list cos I haven't seen any other half decent movie which came out in 2007.

Second edit - Spirited Away makes way for Mulholland Dr. (2001).

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1939 was Gone with the Wind

babooshleeky said:

Thank you, I was wondering where the hell that was.

The Hell...what the the fruit pulp is Hot Fuzz about?

Wow....best movie of '07 and I never heard of it.

*looks it up*


Oh...THAT movie. I never saw it but remember seeing previews and stuff. Good that it won, then.

The Maltese Falcon is great... but, um... Citizen Kane, for me.

WOW a list I can agree with for the most part. All of those are really good movies and I can see them making the best of list.

LadyLuvSexxy said:

It's a really good movie...though I liked Shawn of the Dead better.

Any other suggestions for replacement movies? edit

Citizen Kane is overrated in my book as is Buster Keaton's The General.
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superspaceboy said:

I don't recall any of the movies that I saw between the years 1920-1949.
That period of time, I went into theatres more to make out with my dates more than I did to actually see the movie.
As a matter of fact,
my cherry got busted during I Am A fugitive From A Chain Gang.
Also, back then, it only cost half a sixpence for two bags of popcorn (....which in those days was called distended maize morsels).

omnithanos said:

I actually agree with much of your list.

However, for 1956 I would replace "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with "Forbidden Planet".

Just my person choice.

I checked to see if you had Blade Runner for 1982. The rest is insignificant.

mannn....

I really wanna get laid.

1920 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1922 - Nosferatu
1923 - Safety Last
1924 - Greed
1925 - Stage Struck
1926 - Sherlock Jr.
1927 - Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
1929 - Un Chien Andalou
1931 - M
1932 - Freaks
1935 - Top Hat
1936 - Modern Times
1937 - La Grande Illusion
1939 - The Wizard of Oz
1940 - Casablanca
1941 - Citizen Kane
1942 - Shadow of a Doubt
1945 - Spellbound
1946 - Gilda
1948 - The Bicycle Thief
1949 - The Third Man
1950 - Rashomon
1954 - Ordet
1955 - Pather Panchali
1957 - Nights of Cabiria
1958 - Vertigo
1960 - Psycho
1961 - West Side Story
1962 - Mama Roma
1964 - Woman in the Dunes
1966 - Battle of Algiers
1967 - Bonnie and Clyde
1969 - Antonio Das Mortes
1970 - The Conformist
1971 - Jaws
1972 - Fanny and Alexander
1975 - Picnic at Hanging Rock
1978 - Days of Heaven
1979 - Rock and Roll High School
1980 - The Shining
1983 - The King of Comedy
1985 - Pee Wee's Big Adventure
1987 - The Dream
1988 - The Decalogue
1989 - Do The Right Thing
1992 - These Hands
1994 - Priest
1995 - Dead Man
1996 - Nobody's Business
1997 - The Taste of Cherry
1998 - The Cremaster Cycle
1999 - Being John Malkovich
2001 - Mulholland Drive
2002 - City of God
2003 - The Dreamers
2005 - Yes
2006 - Wide Awake
2007 - The Golden Door

Napoleon Dynamite was such a shitty movie

Not sure if I agree with 'Hot Fuzz' being the best of 2007, but it sure as hell was good

heartbeatocean said:

Interesting!
I haven't seen alot of those, 33 in fact (I counted 'em). I saw La Grande Illusion in a bargain bin for 3.99 a couple of years ago but I didn't get it and it was gone the next day.
We share 13 favourites and you've converted me on another. How could I have forgotten about Mulholland Drive?

You can't have both Jaws and Hanging rock though, they were both 1975. Two of the main contenders for film of 1971 are on T.V. here today. The French Connection and Willy Wonka.