IMDB top 250 movies - A retrospective

recently i was checking several top 100-250 imdb movie packs for movies i haven't seen yet (or vaguely remembered), so here is an overview and a general rating with short comments of the current (~last week) top 250, based on personal opinion

the movies are sorted in 3 categories (excellent/very good, good/average, overrated), the numbers representing their ~current position among the top 250

feel free to add your own (over)view, ratings & thoughts on the subject

notes:
- there may be several spoilers contained within some comments
- seems the txt is too long for a single post (lolol) so it will be a 2-3 part post

PART 1

***** excellent or very good (essential/recommended viewing) *****

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
pro's: stephen king
con's: very slow
verdict: for the patient ones

2. The Godfather (1972)
pro's: great atmosphere, good acting & characters
con's: slow, self-indulgent
verdict: an offer you can't refuse

3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
pro's: great atmosphere, good acting & characters
con's: slow, self-indulgent
verdict: see above

4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
pro's: charismatic characters, top spaghetti western
con's: tends to drag, hilarious tunes to lol at
verdict: dirty pleasure

5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
pro's: innovative, refreshing, great dialogue & characters
con's: inconsistent sub-plot quality
verdict: tarantino's best movie

6. 12 Angry Men (1957)
pro's: great acting (fonda), almost claustrophobic atmosphere
con's: one-room show, re-hashing of the same subject, unprofessional jurors
verdict: for the patient ones

11. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
pro's: decent trilogy finale
con's: can't really keep up with the first two parts, unsatisfactory final battle
verdict: sauron should have made them pay more dearly, something worthy of the introductory scenes from the fellowship part

12. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
verdict: early star wars movie, essential viewing regarding the series, dated but fun to watch

13. Seven Samurai (1954)
pro's: nice story, interesting situations, great cinematography
con's: slow, certain local character behavior
verdict: for the patient ones, for a competent western remake see The Magnificent Seven (1960)

14. Fight Club (1999)
pro's: great acting (norton, pitt), charismatic characters, interesting story
con's: believability
verdict: hella fun

15. Goodfellas (1990)
pro's: interesting, great acting (pesci ftw, de niro, liotta)
con's: shallowness
verdict: top gangster movie

16. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
verdict: early star wars movie, essential viewing regarding the series, dated but fun to watch

17. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
pro's: great atmosphere, best fantasy book adaptation
con's: slow, occasionally melodramatic, too short/shy introduction
verdict: awesome

18. City of God (2002)
pro's: raw, dirty, gritty
con's: shallow, believability
verdict: pretty good effort

19. Casablanca (1942)
pro's: great atmosphere
con's: too nonchalant, believability
verdict: very enjoyable

20. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
pro's: great atmosphere, top spaghetti western
con's: very slow
verdict: epic stuff...for the patient viewers

21. Rear Window (1954)
pro's: very engaging, suspenseful
con's: slow, one-room show, repetitive voyeurism, lame ending
verdict: top hitchcock movie

22. The Matrix (1999)
pro's: innovative, great story, charismatic characters
con's: rather shallow characterization, futuristic propaganda/worship
verdict: awesome

23. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
verdict: fun adventure, essential indiana jones movie along with the other two early movies

24. The Usual Suspects (1995)
pro's: not what one would expect at first glance, not your usual gangster movie
con's: improvisations of the soze character
verdict: worthy accomplishment

25. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
pro's: great atmosphere, best lecter adaptation
con's: too perfect villain, too insecure female protagonist
verdict: gotta love it

26. Psycho (1960)
pro's: so simple yet so effective, something for the current filmmakers to learn from
con's: believability
verdict: top hitchcock movie

27. Se7en (1995)
pro's: great atmosphere, great acting (freeman, pitt)
con's: too dark, almost completely futile detective efforts
verdict: awesome

29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
pro's: great atmosphere, more action than the first part
con's: occasionally melodramatic
verdict: awesome

30. Forrest Gump (1994)
pro's: hanks in top form
con's: melodramatic, over-the-top
verdict: a crazy ride

31. Memento (2000)
pro's: the story in reverse, the uncertainty
con's: repetitive, takes patience to follow
verdict: best nolan movie

33. Leon: The Professional (1994)
pro's: great acting (oldman, portman, reno)
con's: believability
verdict: take care of ur plant

34. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
pro's: hilarious, refreshing
con's: nuclear propaganda/fear
verdict: unusual comedy

35. Apocalypse Now (1979)
pro's: great atmosphere
con's: slow, short & somewhat unsatisfactory last part (finale)
verdict: the smell of napalm & war madness

36. American History X (1998)
pro's: great acting (norton), gritty
con's: tends to drag, strain the nerves in some scenes
verdict: well-done

40. American Beauty (1999)
pro's: great acting (spacey, bening)
con's: many teenage parts, irritating character behavior
verdict: unusual & bizarre in a successful mixture

41. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
pro's: great atmosphere, best terminator movie
con's: believability
verdict: hasta la vista, baby

43. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
pro's: great cinematography, battle/war scenes
con's: believability
verdict: better than expected

44. Alien (1979)
pro's: great atmosphere, impressive creature design
con's: slow, inadequate attention to the futuristic design
verdict: horror par excellence

45. Vertigo (1958)
pro's: excellent first part of the movie
con's: last twist is unbelievable and completely unnecessary, the hearing is a quite weak part too
verdict: top hitchcock movie

48. The Shining (1980)
pro's: great atmosphere, acting (nicholson)
con's: tends to drag, some filler/lesser scenes
verdict: pure insanity

54. Double Indemnity (1944)
pro's: the no holds barred, in your face attitude
con's: some continuity problems
verdict: very good noir

58. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
pro's: great acting (mcdowell)
con's: maybe too bizarre
verdict: great if you can dig it

60. Aliens (1986)
pro's: action overdose, sigourney ftw...again
con's: rather shallow supporting characters
verdict: thoroughly enjoyable

66. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
pro's: tarantino in his element
con's: no virgins here
verdict: hella fun

68. Back to the Future (1985)
pro's: feel-good/likable characters
con's: believability
verdict: marks the era of a more naive family-friendly entertainment

69. L.A. Confidential (1997)
pro's: great characters, multiple stories integration
con's: too long, maybe not enough action
verdict: enjoy the web of corruption

70. Chinatown (1974)
pro's: great acting (nicholson)
con's: low on action scenes
verdict: a pi (private investigator) movie classic

74. The Green Mile (1999)
pro's: stephen king
con's: slow, too optimistic, preachy
verdict: for the patient ones

81. Amadeus (1984)
pro's: eccentric, great acting (over-the-top mozart & scheming salieri)
con's: self-indulgent
verdict: an interesting if not accurate portrayal

83. All About Eve (1950)
pro's: interesting, solid acting (davis, baxter)
con's: dialogue overdose
verdict: better than expected

85. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
pro's: uncompromising, training scenes
con's: somewhat runs out of steam later on
verdict: well-done

88. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
pro's: great atmosphere, regardless of the depicted environment
con's: very slow
verdict: for the patient ones

89. Gladiator (2000)
pro's: competent action, great cinematography
con's: not really about gladiators
verdict: a fulfilling adventure

90. Braveheart (1995)
verdict: somewhat over-the-top 'historical' epic, but its quite enjoyable

96. Unforgiven (1992)
verdict: a dark & impressive western re-visited

97. The Sting (1973)
verdict: recommended light-weight & slick con-job story

102. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
verdict: early star wars movie, essential viewing regarding the series, dated but fun to watch

103. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
verdict: see above for Double Indemnity, its a bogart one-man show

104. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
verdict: fun adventure, essential indiana jones movie along with the other two early movies

105. Princess Mononoke (1997)
verdict: solid anime, somewhat incoherent, but interesting nevertheless

108. Die Hard (1988)
pro's: great action, possibly the best of the 'die hard' movies
con's: believability
verdict: top willis movie

111. Sin City (2005)
pro's: the graphic/visual department
con's: rather shallow
verdict: innovative & unusual comics based thriller

115. Heat (1995)
pro's: great acting (pacino, de niro, kilmer), memorable action scenes
con's: politically correct ending
verdict: epic stuff

117. Fargo (1996)
verdict: enjoyable coen brothers weirdness

119. Blade Runner (1982)
pro's: great atmosphere
con's: lots of too drawn-out scenes, replicant stupidity
verdict: a futuristic classic

120. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
verdict: yet another leone's spaghetti-flavored dirty pleasure

125. Snatch. (2000)
pro's: innovative, great characters, best ritchie movie
con's: pikey resourcefulness
verdict: hella fun

132. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
verdict: somewhat irritating but still a very good classic

142. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
verdict: quite over-the-top but thoroughly enjoyable tarantino extravaganza, the same goes for vol.2

143. Donnie Darko (2001)
verdict: bizarre but enjoyable if you can dig it

145. Platoon (1986)
verdict: a recommended, great & intense war movie

146. Into the Wild (2007)
pro's: the scenery, the adventure(s)
con's: the human-related side-plots
verdict: better than expected

147. Scarface (1983)
verdict: a well-done though quite lengthy al pacino one-man show

149. Trainspotting (1996)
pro's: its fun regardless of whats depicted
con's: the movie-makers just don't care
verdict: hella fun

150. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
verdict: well-done but somewhat melodramatic eastwood movie

152. There Will Be Blood (2007)
verdict: slow but intense daniel-day lewis one-man show

155. Gone with the Wind (1939)
pro's: cinematography, acting (leigh, gable)
con's: lengthy, at times strenuous
verdict: for the patient ones

159. District 9 (2009)
pro's: alien invasion with a twist
con's: shaky camera, irritating main character
verdict: unusual sci-fi refreshing the genre

161. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
pro's: great atmosphere, great acting (darin, villamil), especially using eyes & body-language
con's: slow
verdict: an unexpected gem, highly recommended

162. Groundhog Day (1993)
verdict: a classic & fun repeating-day scenario movie

164. Ben-Hur (1959)
pro's: grand production that actually works, top heston performance
con's: heavy christian bias
verdict: must-see movie of epic proportions (before cgi-era), similar recommendation: Quo Vadis (1951), The Ten Commandments (1956)

165. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
verdict: see under Snatch, quite similar stuff

170. Casino (1995)
pro's: great acting (pesci ftw, de niro, stone)
con's: propaganda
verdict: top gambler/gangster movie

171. The Terminator (1984)
verdict: not as good as terminator 2, however a strong performance nevertheless

174. The Thing (1982)
pro's: the scenery, atmosphere
con's: rather flat characters
verdict: among top carpenter movies

175. Stand by Me (1986)
pro's: stephen king
con's: low on action
verdict: a well-done family-friendly adventure

176. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
pro's: solid action though not as good as old-school ones (fi. Die Hard)
con's: shaky camera, damon's acting, believability
verdict: quality similar to other bourne movies

180. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
verdict: a bizarre but interesting ride with good performance by pitt & willis

181. How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
pro's: interesting, decent animation
con's: irritating main character, a bit formulaic
verdict: very enjoyable recent viking teens & dragons story

187. Avatar (2009)
pro's: cinematography, atmosphere
con's: stolen story, too naive approach, propaganda
verdict: well-done cameron movie after more than a decade of relevant directorial absence

188. Network (1976)
pro's: tongue in cheek approach
con's: propaganda
verdict: skillfully made 'critique' of the tv/media megalomania

205. The Wild Bunch (1969)
verdict: great late-period western with hard-boiled outlaws in a gripping performance

216. Rocky (1976)
pro's: rocky's character, rocky-apollo chemistry
con's: exaggerated fighting stamina, too naive approach
verdict: along with rambo, the defining stallone role

221. Magnolia (1999)
pro's: multiple stories interconnection, solid acting
con's: tends to fall into melodrama & exaggeration
verdict: for the patient ones

230. Roman Holiday (1953)
pro's: cinematography, atmosphere, great acting (peck, hepburn)
con's: believability
verdict: thoroughly enjoyable romance with some light-weight humor as well

233. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
verdict: quite over-the-top but thoroughly enjoyable tarantino extravaganza, the same goes for vol.1

235. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
pro's: john wayne (though he played in many better westerns)
con's: too black & white, propaganda
verdict: fun to watch, though not your usual western flavor



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PART 2

***** average (decent, good for one viewing) *****

8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
verdict: good only to see nicholson's performance and hardly anything else

9. The Dark Knight (2008)
pro's: relatively decent action, psychotic joker (not as good as nicholson i'm afraid)
con's: lame batman (keaton & kilmer ftw), believability, departure from a quirky fantasy into a dark serious crime-thriller area
verdict: watch it once and then re-watch the early, better batman movies

10. Inception (2010)
pro's: multi-layered story, cgi, decent di caprio performance
con's: believability, self-indulgent, tries too hard, pointless/laughable action/shooting/locations/opponents
verdict: so much potential, yet such a faceless/lifeless outcome, matrix prevails...easily

28. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
verdict: family-friendly feel-good old-school movie with a significant dosage of naivete

32. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
verdict: not bad, could have been better if they focused more on believability

38. Citizen Kane (1941)
pro's: cinematography
con's: sloppy character development, dry/empty storytelling, utopian change-the-world aspirations
verdict: young rosebud fails to excite or keep attention, he just drools over media power/influence

39. North by Northwest (1959)
pro's: cinematography, suspense
con's: spy-game lite, believability
verdict: a movie that manages to sink further and further into nonsensical solutions as its duration progresses

42. Taxi Driver (1976)
pro's: gritty, raw, atmosphere
con's: believability, very shallow characters
verdict: good only for a few scenes - everything in between is so sloppy/redundant/pointless, it hurts

47. Amélie (2001)
verdict: unusual & colorful movie, yet somewhat annoying too

49. City Lights (1931)
verdict: classic chaplin, light & feel-good, though dated & naive

52. WALL·E (2008)
verdict: decent animation, forgettable story

55. The Lives of Others (2006)
pro's: the story, the main actor/character
con's: propaganda, believability
verdict: they try too hard regarding their messages/bias and manage to nullify the original movie potential

57. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
pro's: scenery, production
con's: very slow, self-indulgent, propaganda
verdict: an example of 'grand', where it doesn't really work

59. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
pro's: good start, decent gregory peck
con's: preachy, pretending to be serious
verdict: tries too hard and ends up having silly scenes & situations, shooting itself in the leg

61. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
pro's: cinematography, atmosphere
con's: its empty, mechanical, voyeuristic, without significant character development
verdict: again much potential that got wasted upon the altar of the visual

64. Modern Times (1936)
verdict: classic chaplin, light & feel-good, though dated & naive

71. The Prestige (2006)
verdict: somewhat enjoyable, good visuals & start, terrible ending idea

72. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
pro's: convincing bogart
con's: believability
verdict: too exaggerated, conveniently arranged story with some good acting

76. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
pro's: gore, uncompromising
con's: slow, propaganda, believability, last hour is useless
verdict: epic aspirations, too many problems & sloppiness

86. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
verdict: rather self-indulgent story with some good camera work, though largely unsatisfactory

93. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
verdict: tarantino selling-out for the cause, tries too hard and fails miserably, has however its moments

98. Gran Torino (2008)
verdict: had a potential to be very good, however it was virtually ruined by a shallow, exploitative and way too predictable story

109. The Great Escape (1963)
verdict: can be fun if you suspend belief and just let it be a silly adventure

112. The Seventh Seal (1957)
pro's: atmosphere, scenery, decent acting
con's: lacking in substance, simplistic philosophy, lame finale
verdict: should have been much better/intriguing

116. Yojimbo (1961)
verdict: too self-indulgent, lost among banalities, with a few good scenes but thats just about it

122. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
verdict: not too bad, but not really believable, feels kinda cheap in the end

123. Jaws (1975)
pro's: jaws
con's: lame story not involving jaws
verdict: dated, but fairly enjoyable horror

126. Ran (1985)
pro's: hilarious over-the top old hidetora character, plentiful blood-spills, cinematography
con's: slow, especially the beginning, strange characters
verdict: a movie unsure of what it wants, though it probably wouldn't get anywhere even if it knew

127. No Country for Old Men (2007)
verdict: daniel-day lewis one-man show, but way too slow to be more interesting

129. The Lion King (1994)
verdict: decent, though too melodramatic

133. The Big Lebowski (1998)
pro's: weird characters & situations
con's: doesn't have anything to say, irritating dialogue devoid of anything captivating
verdict: the dude is simply not that interesting, especially not in the long run

135. The Sixth Sense (1999)
verdict: fairly decent but very slow ghost story

137. Toy Story (1995)
verdict: it was somewhat entertaining, though not more than just decent

144. High Noon (1952)
pro's: solid performances
con's: believability, character behavior & decisions
verdict: it can be done better than that...much better

148. The Gold Rush (1925)
verdict: classic chaplin, light & feel-good, though dated & naive

157. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
pro's: fonda's performance
con's: slow, exaggerated, believability
verdict: good idea, lazy adaptation, almost a road movie lol

163. Amores Perros (2000)
pro's: raw, dirty
con's: unnecessary stories, shallow characters, unbelievable situations/behavior
verdict: too many dogs s(p)oil the carpet, or something, eh?

166. The Big Sleep (1946)
pro's: the atmosphere, the dialogue
con's: repetitive, artificial, playing it safe all the time
verdict: a decent thriller with solid acting but too lengthy & tending to resort to cheap solutions

169. Finding Nemo (2003)
verdict: decent animation, forgettable story

172. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
pro's: feel-good family-oriented post-war movie
con's: a lot of sweetener used, propaganda
verdict: guess it was too much to ask from such a premise anyways

184. Gandhi (1982)
verdict: good for one viewing, otherwise at times quite dull and generic

197. The Hustler (1961)
verdict: can be fun if you suspend belief and just let them have their silly plot

198. Star Trek (2009)
pro's: cgi
con's: lame young kirk & spock in need of some crumbs of charisma, believability
verdict: the old movies had more in them than this cgi-fest

199. Dial M for Murder (1954)
verdict: decent beginning getting worse as the twists keep coming and coming, dial E for enough is enough

204. The Exorcist (1973)
verdict: not too bad, but not too scary either, passable

207. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
pro's: acting (leigh, brando)
con's: exaggeration every step of the way (including the acting), lack of realism
verdict: if they had played it a bit more down-to-earth it would have been much better

209. The Social Network (2010)
pro's: decent acting
con's: cardboard characters, without depth
verdict: see it once, then turn down the volume on the mainstream hype-churning media machine

217. The Truman Show (1998)
pro's: decent carrey (less comedic)
con's: artificial setting, too fake acting
verdict: too theatrical for its own good, doesn't manage to impress, seems half-done

219. Mystic River (2003)
verdict: solid eastwood effort, but it somehow falls flat, leaving a taste of mediocrity

234. Rope (1948)
verdict: silly idea, not that good in execution, hitchcock manages to make it float...barely

241. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
verdict: decent animation, forgettable story

242. Rain Man (1988)
verdict: passable hoffman & cruise interaction, not too convincing outcome

243. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
verdict: solid cinematography, a contrived idea of spirituality - what the young character needed was simple meditation yet somehow his mentor doesn't teach him that basic practice in 20+ years? nuff said

244. Stalker (1979)
verdict: solid cinematography, extremely slow, partially satisfactory

248. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
verdict: russel crowe keeps the movie from falling apart, which is the only reason to consider watching it

250. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
verdict: decent slow war drama with its own share of propaganda and unlikely situations



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PART 3 (last part)

***** overrated (not recommended) *****

7. Schindler's List (1993)
verdict: nothing to see here, just to feel enormous boredom & futility mounting with each passing minute

37. Toy Story 3 (2010)
verdict: overrated, just like the majority of recent movies, this is simply a failure

46. Spirited Away (2001)
verdict: grotesque nonsense

50. Paths of Glory (1957)
verdict: lacking attempt at parody, thoroughly unsatisfactory

51. The Pianist (2002)
verdict: only if one wants to endure the torture of watching brody playing his usual victimized/molested/suffering routine, this time aided by a piano, hoping that someone would cry him at least a teardrop (a river would be too generous)

53. M (1931)
verdict: this one was laughable, unbelievably amateurish

56. The Departed (2006)
verdict: one of the most overrated mafia movies, the characters are silly caricatures, all its 'fame' stems from the director's 'brand' name, simple as that

62. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
verdict: its spotless due to a huge vacuum sucking any remnants of a brain left therein, so that it can shine brightly in its own emptiness

63. Das Boot (1981)
verdict: nothing special here, plenty of submarine movies that are much more interesting

65. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
verdict: benigni? what a clown - life certainly must be good since such persons can freely make junk movies like this one

67. The Third Man (1949)
verdict: quite lame, slow & mostly uninteresting thriller

73. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
verdict: worthless & superfluous childhood fantasies

75. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
verdict: they should stick to tv-shows and not embarrass themselves with feature-length collections of unrelated and mostly weak sketches

77. Raging Bull (1980)
verdict: this movie was so fake it felt nauseating, even his grand victory (the sole reason for the movie adaptation) was fraudulent, which can be seen from the footage and was widely practiced at the time

78. Rashomon (1950)
verdict: staring into the actor's faces for a few hours doesn't sound too promising, does it?

79. Some Like It Hot (1959)
verdict: nothing hot here, just pointless drivel in spades

80. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
verdict: one memorable song/dance and thats it, the rest is not worth mentioning

82. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
verdict: lame & forgettable combination of war drama (laughable, unbelievable, completely unnecessary plot) & horror-fantasy (shallow & cheap promotion tool for self-sacrifice)

84. The Great Dictator (1940)
verdict: 5 minutes of funny hitler parody is all this movie has to offer

87. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
verdict: infantile & laughable movie deserving to be discarded asap

91. The Apartment (1960)
verdict: much ado about nothing may summarize this one

92. Metropolis (1927)
verdict: painfully bad & outdated, catastrophic acting

94. Downfall (2004)
verdict: the only interesting thing here is the psychotic hitler portrayal, the rest is simply filler & apologetic material

95. Oldboy (2003)
verdict: everything half-baked and tasteless, not recommendable

99. The Elephant Man (1980)
verdict: as some might have guessed its an exploitation of physical deformities with a clumsy story around it - cheap & weak

100. Up (2009)
verdict: too bad there wasn't enough balloons to fly this one far away from the undeserved hype it got

101. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
verdict: aka the total idiot's guide to politics, its so unbelievably gullible & sugary

106. On the Waterfront (1954)
verdict: the movie was a joke, the confrontations, the believability department & the finale as well

107. Rebecca (1940)
verdict: an exercise in women-exploitation, naturally it landed high enough

110. Black Swan (2010)
verdict: more like an ugly duckling being a victim of constant abuse from the deluded directors (the one on & off screen)

113. Batman Begins (2005)
verdict: ...begins to stink, strange how uninteresting this one turned out to be

114. The General (1926)
verdict: another infantile buster keaton movie, has only a handful of funny scenes

118. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
verdict: an exercise in futility, dull & empty movie

121. The King's Speech (2010)
verdict: his speech sux, even more so does a movie about that speech

124. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
verdict: very weak & not interesting

128. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
verdict: another potter movie ends up as a disjointed mess with lame battles & lifeless characters, similar to part 1

130. Wild Strawberries (1957)
verdict: as the 'saying' goes: old man - dead hand, in this case: as good as dead movie

131. Touch of Evil (1958)
verdict: tedious & uninteresting, mediocre acting, a forgettable outcome

134. The Deer Hunter (1978)
verdict: which has about two ridiculously short hunting scenes and one exorbitantly inflated wedding scene - the rest being a long game of russian roulette in vietnam, how fascinating...the dumpster loved it

136. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
verdict: contrived materialistic propaganda with a thin/unbelievable story and mediocre acting

138. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
verdict: newman in a highly self-indulgent unrealistic movie

139. Annie Hall (1977)
verdict: neurotic-o-rama a la woody allen is definitely not recommendable

140. Strangers on a Train (1951)
verdict: ridiculously shallow ideas of a crime depicted in this movie

141. It Happened One Night (1934)
verdict: cheap, soapy, shallow, avoid

151. Ikiru (1952)
verdict: utter boredom plaguing yet another kurosawa movie, which is slowly becoming something of a common occurrence - can someone say: yet another quite overrated & narcissistic director

153. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
verdict: forgettable & cheesy western, trying too hard to be funny/nonchalant, wasting a good cast to some third-rate adventures

154. Notorious (1946)
verdict: the only thing notorious here is the absence of a decent story/movie, acting was mediocre too

156. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
verdict: old, unbelievable, childish, forget it

158. The Kid (1921)
verdict: chaplin tries his usual recipe but adds too much 'flying angels' spice and ruins the relatively decent meal

160. The Wages of Fear (1953)
verdict: incompetent forgettable garbage pumped up to over 2 hours for some meaningless trivial plot

167. The Graduate (1967)
verdict: vastly overrated exercise in futility

168. Life of Brian (1979)
verdict: they should stick to tv-shows and not embarrass themselves with feature-length collections of unrelated and weak sketches

173. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
verdict: laughable, just like its later big-budget remake

177. Diabolique (1955)
verdict: cheap, inflated, unbelievable story with a few amateurish twists crammed at the end, just awful

178. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
verdict: pacino as the clumsy criminal making it only worse due to the shamelessly hollow script

179. V for Vendetta (2006)
verdict: lame action scenes, poor storytelling, weak hero - the only thing memorable here is the mask

182. The Wrestler (2008)
verdict: cliche-ridden bleak drama wallowing in depression, rourke made a solid performance though

183. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
verdict: the movie can't be explained, its simply daft, much like the name totoro sounds

185. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
verdict: the movie version of the trial is blatantly exaggerated & treating its audience like idiots, that shall not pass

186. Good Will Hunting (1997)
verdict: as if the idea of a wonder-mathematician springing out from a local janitor is not laughable enough, the rest gets stretched beyond decent movie-making and fails in the process

189. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
verdict: the singing preacher ready for any kind of exploitation and conveniently finding any excuse that fits his religious belief, as long as everyone else is gullible beyond belief it may very well work that way

190. Ratatouille (2007)
verdict: of rats, garbage & cooking with heavily stretched-out humorous-wannabe lines

191. 8½ (1963)
verdict: another fellini's personal fantasy of the emperor having some non-transparent clothes

192. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
verdict: a very weak effort, disjointed & sloppy, not recommended

193. The 400 Blows (1959)
verdict: redundant movie about spineless parents & unbelievably stubborn/self-sufficient children, nothing to enjoy unless one likes voyeurism

194. The Princess Bride (1987)
verdict: exceptionally lowly fantasy with exceptionally unimaginative characters & events

195. Mary and Max (2009)
verdict: dull, uninteresting, to sum it up: simply worthless waste of time

196. The Killing (1956)
verdict: mediocre movie, additionally burdened with forgettable dialogue

200. La Strada (1954)
verdict: pretentious drama, exaggerated acting, unsatisfactory entertainment level/value

201. Persona (1966)
verdict: dull, uninteresting, to sum it up: simply worthless waste of time

202. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
verdict: the only interesting thing is the camera angle, other than that and the fact it gets old real fast, its nothing to write home about

203. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
verdict: very self-indulgent movie, the two main actors being competent, however the material which is given to them is merely convoluted junk, stapled together to gain a more impressive size, masking its worthlessness

206. Stalag 17 (1953)
verdict: doesn't really work, its too pretentious for its own good

208. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
verdict: slow, boring, uninteresting, to sum it up: simply worthless waste of time

210. The Incredibles (2004)
verdict: add-ed neurotic superheroes served for children to absorb, not recommended (neither to adults)

211. Barry Lyndon (1975)
verdict: nice scenery doesn't hide gaping holes of lacking substance surrounding this movie

212. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
verdict: pretentious (silent) drama, exaggerated acting, a waste of time

213. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
verdict: the premise is a joke, the execution even more so

214. In Bruges (2008)
verdict: where some unbelievably lame characters make their inexplicably lame moves, utter nonsense

215. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
verdict: just look at the introductory school scene to realize how bad this goes on to be

218. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
verdict: buster didn't make anything interesting in this movie...as usual

220. Let the Right One In (2008)
verdict: the recent vampires seem to have acquired a nasty habit of appearing in all kinds of downright worthless movies...such as this one

222. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
verdict: fellini manages to be more understandable, however what he presents is simply unworthy of his supposed reputation - can someone say: yet another quite overrated & narcissistic director

223. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
verdict: this is not good, its amateurish, its boring and annoying

224. Big Fish (2003)
verdict: the movie is a washout, a lost cause, a waste of time

225. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
verdict: is an arbitrary reason to concoct some inflated & lame satanic birth story & the related worshipers & victims

226. Ed Wood (1994)
verdict: would make an excellent movie if it had anything relevant to say, in the meantime it proved a definite failure

227. Infernal Affairs (2002)
verdict: completely lifeless & boring asian action/thriller movie, basically it has nothing to offer

228. Manhattan (1979)
verdict: neurotic-o-rama a la woody allen is definitely not recommendable

229. The Celebration (1998)
verdict: amateurishly shot, annoying characters & events, unworthy of viewer attention

231. Children of Men (2006)
verdict: the movie is a joke, a joke on the viewer and those looking at top entries

232. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
verdict: the depp one-man show project, getting old really fast, it has too many flaws to be considered as anything decent

236. Patton (1970)
verdict: a crazy ride with the delusional general, supremely outperforming the british, let alone the enemy - worthy of watching only for the pompous introductory speech, the rest is weak & unbelievable

237. Sleuth (1972)
verdict: endless dialogue, low attention value, extremely overrated & self-indulgent

238. Shutter Island (2010)
verdict: should get shuttered to pieces due to how unbelievably badly this movie had been arranged/put together

239. Ip Man (2008)
verdict: mediocre fighting, simple-minded story-telling, goody 2 shoes attitude, and it doesn't get any better later on

240. His Girl Friday (1940)
verdict: not interesting, more like irritating and repetitive annoyance

245. Tokyo Story (1953)
verdict: dull, uninteresting, to sum it up: simply worthless waste of time

246. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
verdict: over-the-top james stewart in a serious drama, his performance is downright silly

247. Grand Illusion (1937)
verdict: is an apt name for this trash, endless conversation, lame prison break and overall incompetence...nice going lol

249. Duck Soup (1933)
verdict: the usual marx brothers nonsense, which doesn't belong in a full-length movie, but rather in some tv-show where they can beat their already lifeless jokes to death and back again


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All I will say so far is thnx a lot for this list! Will definitely look into it. I watched some, but not all of them!

Simply awesome.I wish you could have added your own rating but that takes too much time.

Hey slikrapid, thanks for the list, good work, I would like to say few things,

1st I no longer trust IMDB like before, recently I started noticing ratings that are too different from reality, yes it's a matter of personal taste in the end, but for some reason for me 8/10 at IMDB could be 5/10 for me or the opposite (less often of course), I just need to see it and judge for myself, before, the difference would have been be +/- 1.xx point between my rating and IMDB rating , 2.00 in worst case senario, but now it could be 3, this is too much, its the differnece between love and hate.

2nd Why doesn't IMDB make the Top 250 movie for the last 5 years ? or where can I find such data, I mean if you filter by 2011 or 2010 you will find only 5 movies at most, what about the rest of the movies in 2011 or 2010 ? don't they deserve a mention ?

a few corrections to the list - these 2 entries should switch places, like this:


***** average

232. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
verdict: the depp one-man show project, this first movie was still fresh and decently done albeit with a stretched finale - as for the rest of this franchise: getting old really fast, repetitive & with too many flaws to be considered as anything decent

***** overrated

135. The Sixth Sense (1999)
verdict: very slow ghost story, memorable... yes, but not really satisfactory

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4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
con's:, hilarious tunes to lol at

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well it was made in 66.. what else u expect.. harcore music from 300 movie :lol:

hehe, it was likely done on purpose, to accentuate the movie weirdness - also, its questionable whether they count as 'cons' at all

The ecstasy of gold is probably the best thing to have come by way of The good, the bad...

I just love that song. Metallica almost always opens with that intro.

*Haven't perused through your first post. Maybe in due time with a clearer head*