The SHH's Best Films of All Time Tournament: NOMINATIONS

[Human Torch]

I noticed I didn't include any animated films.....maybe I could shave off a couple somewhere and add a few in.I'm going to think it over....

 

[Dark Raven]

I couldn't manage to get any comic book movies in. I had them in at first but they got pushed out as I remembered other classic movies. Very hard to narrow down my list to 40.

 

[DirtyHarry]

I'm thinking about expanding this to 250-300 movies....

 

[Dark Raven]

Maybe I should also do a best movie themes tournament soon to follow from my best comic book themes tournament.

 

[MrMaooz]

Yes, please. You should make a thread for nominations today, Dark Raven.

 

[DirtyHarry]

Yeah, that sounds awesome......

 

[MrMaooz]

To be honest, DR, it'd be a heck of a lot better than the CBM one.

 

[Dark Raven]

It would. But how many should be in it? Another 64 contestant match? Would it work with 96 (having 24 in each bracket)? I want to get the numbers right rather than finding out when it gets to the end that you can't actually get 4 contestants in the semis.

 

[MrMaooz]

96 themes? How about using 64 or 32?

 

[Dark Raven]

On reflection, I'll probably keep it at 64 like before, just because it's hard enough keeping that up and posting the matches without adding extra numbers to the mix.

 

[MrMaooz]

Make the thread today.

 

[Dark Raven]

Ok here's the Best Movie Themes Tournament Nomination thread:

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?p=27311397#post27311397

 

[jmc]

Man this is difficult by I'm going to give it a go.

Edit - scratch that, it's too difficult, too many good films to try and narrow down.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Did the best I could. Tried not to pick too many movies that had sequels(the ones I did are my favorite of the series). These are some of my favorite movies of all time.


Inception
Cast Away
Saving Private Ryan
Spaceballs
Sunshine
Rudy
The Green Mile
Die Hard
Ghostbusters
Wayne's World
Titanic
Scarface
Con Air
City Of Angles
Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
GoldenEye
Jaws
8 Mile
Austin Powers
The Fugitive
Old School
Back To The Future
Signs
Apollo 13
Forrest Gump
Star Wars: A New Hope
Rain Man
Good Will Hunting
Groundhog Day
The Majestic
The Breakfast Club
Air Force One
Contact
Pearl Harbor
Halloween(1978)
Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King
Jurassic Park
Watchmen
Wrongfully Accused
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

 

[Dark Raven]

Ok, already switched one of mine out but hopefully not too many other changes.

 

[rnewbz]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Dark Knight
3. Inception
4. Marvel's The Avengers
5. The Godfather
6. The Godfather Part. II
7. Apocalypse Now
8. The Fly (1986)
9. Blade Runner
10. Vertigo
11. Reservoir Dogs
12. Django Unchained
13. Carrie (1976)
14. Double Indemnity
15. Sunset Boulevard
16. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark
18. Toy Story
19. Memento
20. Fight Club
21. Black Swan
22. Akira
23. The Departed
24. Goodfellas
25. The Wizard of Oz
26. The Matrix
27. The Silence of the Lambs
28. A Clockwork Orange
29. The Shinning
30. Rocky
31. Forrest Gump
32. Avatar
33. Aliens
34. T2: Judgement Day
35. Oldboy (2003)
36. Halloween (1978)
37. The Social Network
38. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
39. Anchorman
40. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

 

[kang604]

The Empire Strikes Back
Boogie Nights
The Matrix
Ghostbusters
The Departed
Anchorman
There Will Be Blood
Batman Begins
A New Hope
Avatar
Se7en
Scarface
The Fountain

 

[DirtyHarry]

Reminder, the deadline is tomorrow

 

[DA_Champion]

In no particular order ...

C.R.A.Z.Y.
La Haine
Coco Avant Chanel / Coco before Chanel
La Grande Seduction
L'Auberge Espagnole
City of Life and Death
Infernal Affairs
Spirited Away
Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind
Pan's Labyrinth
The Godfather
The Godfather II
The Dark Knight
Inception
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Alien
Aliens
The Terminator
Terminator 2
Finding Nemo
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Ratatouille
The Fighter
Oblivion
District 9
Rush
Gravity
Mean Girls
Dirty Dancing
Fight Club
Hunger Games
Hunger Games 2
The Social Network

 

[Dark Raven]

BTW here is the American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:


1. Citizen Kane, 1941.
2. The Godfather, 1972.
3. Casablanca, 1942.
4. Raging Bull, 1980.
5. Singin' in the Rain, 1952.
6. Gone With the Wind, 1939.
7. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962.
8. Schindler's List, 1993.
9. Vertigo, 1958.
10. The Wizard of Oz, 1939.
11. City Lights, 1931.
12. The Searchers, 1956.
13. Star Wars, 1977.
14. Psycho, 1960.
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.
16. Sunset Blvd., 1950.
17. The Graduate, 1967.
18. The General, 1927.
19. On the Waterfront, 1954.
20. It's a Wonderful Life, 1946.
21. Chinatown, 1974.
22. Some Like It Hot, 1959.
23. The Grapes of Wrath, 1940.
24. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982.
25. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962.
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939.
27. High Noon, 1952.
28. All About Eve, 1950.
29. Double Indemnity, 1944.
30. Apocalypse Now, 1979.
31. The Maltese Falcon, 1941.
32. The Godfather Part II, 1974.
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975.
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937.
35. Annie Hall, 1977.
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957.
37. The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946.
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948.
39. Dr. Strangelove, 1964.
40. The Sound of Music, 1965.
41. King Kong, 1933.
42. Bonnie and Clyde, 1967.
43. Midnight Cowboy, 1969.
44. The Philadelphia Story, 1940.
45. Shane, 1953.
46. It Happened One Night, 1934.
47. A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.
48. Rear Window, 1954.
49. Intolerance, 1916.
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001.
51. West Side Story, 1961.
52. Taxi Driver, 1976.
53. The Deer Hunter, 1978.
54. M-A-S-H, 1970.
55. North by Northwest, 1959.
56. Jaws, 1975.
57. Rocky, 1976.
58. The Gold Rush, 1925.
59. Nashville, 1975.
60. Duck Soup, 1933.
61. Sullivan's Travels, 1941.
62. American Graffiti, 1973.
63. Cabaret, 1972.
64. Network, 1976.
65. The African Queen, 1951.
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981.
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966.
68. Unforgiven, 1992.
69. Tootsie, 1982.
70. A Clockwork Orange, 1971.
71. Saving Private Ryan, 1998.
72. The Shawshank Redemption, 1994.
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969.
74. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991.
75. In the Heat of the Night, 1967.
76. Forrest Gump, 1994.
77. All the President's Men, 1976.
78. Modern Times, 1936.
79. The Wild Bunch, 1969.
80. The Apartment, 1960.
81. Spartacus, 1960.
82. Sunrise, 1927.
83. Titanic, 1997.
84. Easy Rider, 1969.
85. A Night at the Opera, 1935.
86. Platoon, 1986.
87. 12 Angry Men, 1957.
88. Bringing Up Baby, 1938.
89. The Sixth Sense, 1999.
90. Swing Time, 1936.
91. Sophie's Choice, 1982.
92. Goodfellas, 1990.
93. The French Connection, 1971.
94. Pulp Fiction, 1994.
95. The Last Picture Show, 1971.
96. Do the Right Thing, 1989.
97. Blade Runner, 1982.
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942.
99. Toy Story, 1995.
100. Ben-Hur, 1959.

 

[DirtyHarry]

This is what I have roughly narrowed it down to (256 movies):

12 Angry Men
12 Monkeys
12 Years a Slave
2001: A Space Odyssey
300
8 1/2
A Clockwork Orange
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Airplane!
Akira
Aladdin
Alien
Aliens
All About Eve
Almost Famous
Amadeus
Amelie
American Beauty
American History X
American Psycho
Annie Hall
Apartment, The
Apocalypse Now
Army of Darkness
The Artist
Avatar
Avengers
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Bambi
Barry Lyndon
Batman Begins
Beauty and the Beast
Ben-Hur
Bicycle Thieves
The Big Lebowski
Black Swan
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blue Velvet
Boogie Nights
Boyz n the Hood
Braveheart
Brazil
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Breakfast Club
Bride of Frankenstein
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Casino
Casino Royale
Charade
Chinatown
Children of Men
Citizen Kane
City Lights
City of God
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Collateral
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Dark Knight
Das Boot
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
The Departed
Dial M for Murder
Die Hard
Dirty Harry
District 9
Django Unchained
Dog Day Afternoon
Donnie Darko
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Dracula (1931)
Drive
Dumb and Dumber
Edward Scissorhands
Elephant Man
Empire Strikes Back
Enter the Dragon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
E.T The Extraterrestrial
The Evil Dead (1981)
Evil Dead 2
The Exorcist
Exterminating Angel
Fargo
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club
Finding Nemo
First Blood
For A Few Dollars More
Forrest Gump
Frankenstein
From Russia With Love
Full Metal Jacket
The General
Ghostbusters
Gladiator
The Godfather
Godfather: Part 2
Goldfinger
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Good Will Hunting
Goodfellas
Gone With the Wind
The Graduate
The Grapes of Wrath
Grave of the Fireflies
The Green Mile
Groundhog Day
Halloween (1978)
Heat
High Noon
Hot Fuzz
How to Train Your Dragon
Ikiru
Inception
The Incredibles
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Inglorious Basterds
The Insider
Ip Man
The Iron Giant
Iron Man
It's a Wonderful Life
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Karate Kid (1984)
Kill Bill Vol. 1
King Kong (1933)
Kung Fu Hustle
L.A. Confidential
Last of the Mohicans
Lawrence of Arabia
La Dolce Vita
Léon the Professional
Let the Right One In
Life is Beautiful
The Lion King
Little Mermaid
Lives of Others
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
M
The Magnificent Seven
Manhattan
The Matrix
Memento
Metropolis
Modern Times
Monsters Inc.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mulholland Dr.
My Neighbor Totoro
Night of the Living Dead
Nightmare Before Christmas
Nights of Cabiria
No Country For Old Men
North By Northwest
Nosferatu
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Oldboy (2003)
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pan's Labyrinth
The Passion of Joan of Ark
Paths of Glory
Persona
The Pianist
Pinocchio
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Platoon
Poltergeist
Predator
The Prestige
Princess Mononoke
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raging Bull
Ran
Ratatouille
Rear Window
Requiem for a Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Return of the Jedi
Robocop
Rocky
Roman Holiday
Rosemary's Baby
The Sandlot
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface (1983)
Schindler's List
Se7en
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Shane
Shaun of the Dead
Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Shrek
Silence of the Lambs
Sin City
Singin' in the Rain
Sixth Sense
Snatch
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
Spider-Man 2
Spirited Away
Stand By Me
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
Star Wars
The Sting
Sunset Blvd.
Superman: The Movie
Taxi Driver
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
There Will Be Blood
The Thing (1982)
This is Spinal Tap
Titanic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Trainspotting
Treasure of Sierra Madre
The Truman Show
Up
Usual Suspects
Vertigo
Wall-E
West Side Story
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Wild Strawberries
Witness for the Prosecution
The Wizard of Oz
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Wrestler
Yojimbo
Young Frankenstein


I will count it later and then organize them into a bracket format.