85. Toy Story 3 (2010, Lee Unkrich)
84. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
83. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
82. Dead Man (1995, Jim Jarmusch)
81. Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
80. Anchorman (2004, Adam McKay)
79. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
78. Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
77. The Matrix (1999, Larry and Andy Wachowski)
76. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998, Guy Ritchie)
75. High Fidelity (2000, Stephen Frears)
74. Barton Fink (1991, Joel and Ethan Coen)
73. Stand by Me (1986, Rob Reiner)
72. Snatch (2000, Guy Ritchie)
71. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
70. Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
69. The Gods Must be Crazy (1982, Jamie Uys)
68. Hoop Dreams (1994, Steve James)
67. Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)
66. The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006, Ken Loach)
65. Oldboy (2003, Chan-wook Park)
64. Airplane (1980, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker)
63. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
62. Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
61. Up (2009, Pete Doctor and Bob Peterson)
60. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
59. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
58. There Will be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
57. Stalker (1979, Andrey Tarkovskiy)
56. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
55. The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
54. Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone
53. Amelie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
52. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
51. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
50. Christmas Vacation (1989, Jeremiah S. Chechik)
49. Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman)
47. City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund)
46. 12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)
45. Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
44. The Mirror (1975, Andrey Tarkovskiy)
43. 8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
42. Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)
41. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
40. The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)
39. Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
38. Tombstone (1993, George Cosmatos and Kevin Jarre)
37. Braveheart (1995, Mel Gibson)
36. Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
35. Adaptation (2002, Spike Jonze)
34. The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
33. The Usual Suspects (1995, Bryan Singer)
32. Se7en (1995, David Fincher)
31. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
30. Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis)
29. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
28. The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
27. Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
26. Clerks (1994, Kevin Smith)
25. The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino)
24. Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
23. Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)
22. The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
21. Fargo (1996, Joel and Ethan Coen)
20. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
19. Pierrot le fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
18. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuaron)
17. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
16. Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
14. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
13. No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel and Ethan Coen)
12. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
10. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
9. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
8. The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)
7. The Godfather: Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
6. The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel and Ethan Coen)
5. Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)
4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)
2. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)

RM's Top Movies is a countdown of the greatest movies of all time, according to us.

Permitted movies
-at least 60 minutes long
-where it first played does not matter. This is not the Oscars. I don't care if it was a TV-movie, a theatrical release, even a TV mini-series if you like.
-TV episodes and TV shows are not allowed.
-Any genre, including documentary or experimental film.

Have fun

how many cinematic motion pictures should we choose?

a ranked list of 10 movies, via PM, please. Do we think that that is the right number?

Yes ten is a solid number, 20 seemed a bit excessive.

Will they be ranked in how their scored? Meaning will my number 1 carry more weight for the overall list than my number 10?

No I think the ranking will come from how many RMers have that movie at the same spot. Law of Averages.

It's like what is done in Other Bands at the end of the Year record threads.

I'm not sure what you mean Rick. I thought a good way to do it was to have the #1 rank of each list get 10 points, the #2 rank get nine points, etc. down to the #10 rank on each list getting one point.
Do we think this or the law of averages is a better way to determine rank?

do this

Depending on how many submit I guess law of averages would work better for a larger sample size. But seeing as A&E doesn't have the traffic as OB does I think the #1 10 points, #2 9points, ... #10 1point. would work better.

All I was thinking is if you were going to spreadsheet all the entries and then if a movie shows up on the majority of peoples lists then this would show that that movie is popular amongst the RM crowd.

But like I said, I don't see A&E as popular with RMers as OB is so you should just go with the predetermined ranking points system.

The OB lists use a point system.

From the latest one:

Points system seems best. Submit your ranked list accordingly. Ten movies, ranked, in a PM to me. Thanks.

It might be better to use a 20 point system, similar to the OB one, or some other number of points. ie number 1 gets 20 pts, number 10 gets 11, with a 20 point system. That way two number 10s outweigh one number one, instead of 10 number 1s being needed. If you want number 1 to be a little more important, you could do 15 point max, or less important, you could do 50 point max, etc.

Yeah I'm stupid, when I made the post I had then looked at the latest one in OB, thanks for calling me out though.

Goes back to sit in the corner, carry on with this thread though, it shall be fun to see what movies I've seen from the RM Top Movie thread and which ones I need to see.

That's a really good idea. I'll edit the first post to include this.

I'm a cockass-son of a bitch

Don't post the list in the thread, if you please. PM me with your final list whenever it's ready. Thanks IHRM.

IHRM disqualification for failing to read the rules?

1. Precious
2. For Colored Girls
3. I can do bad all by myself
4. Medeas Family Reunion
5. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
6. Why Did I get Married
7. Why Did I get Married Too
8. Meet the Browns
9. The Family That Preys
10. Daddy's Little Girls
11. S.W.A.T.

no DQ's. I just want him to send me a PM once he has a final list.