ATRL - Discussion: ATRL's 100 Best Movies (Final Recap)

Allstar · , 11:19 AM

Bridesmaids is super funny and Avatar deserves a place in here. Nice.

Changes · , 11:46 AM

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#69. Final Destination (2000)

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter and Kerr Smith
Rotten Tomatoes: 33% Fresh
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
Gross: $112,880,294

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This is a good placing for this! I love the FD's series. I hope I see more, even tho I only had this one on my list.

Mr. Loco · , 2:29 PM

#65. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine and Daryl Hannah
Rotten Tomatoes: 85% Fresh
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
Gross: $180,949,045

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The new millenium's classic saga from Tarantino, telling an epic reveng history with Uma Thurman making an excelente role as the Bride.

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Allstar · , 2:35 PM

YAAAS, Tarantino. I prefer the first one to the second.

Strangergab · , 4:10 PM

Avatar so low

Mr. Loco · , 4:12 PM

#64. The Sound of Music (1965)

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker
Gross: $158,671,368

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It won a total of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and displaced Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The cast album was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry as it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Every year starting in 2005, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles holds an annual Sound of Music sing-a-long, where the film is played with lyrics underneath the screen. The real Von Trapp children and the actors who played them in the film have made appearances at this event. Called "The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Prozac", it has sold out every year since its inception.
The song "The Sound of Music" was used in the movie Moulin Rouge!, in the green fairy sequence featuring Kylie Minogue, who later used the recording in her 2002 and 2009 tours.
On October 28, 2010, both Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer who portrayed the Captain and Maria, and the seven former child stars from the film appeared together for the first time since the film's release on The Oprah Winfrey Show during the final season, in honor of the film's 45th anniversary.

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Mr. Loco · , 6:12 PM

#63. Goodfellas (1990)

Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci
Gross: $46,836,214

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The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won one for Pesci in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category. Considered one of the best mobs movies ever.

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Strangergab · , 6:29 PM

frantic · , 6:38 PM

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#73. The Breakfast Club (1985)

Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Director: John Hughes
Stars: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% Fresh
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
Gross: $51,525,171

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#63. Goodfellas (1990)

Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci
Gross: $46,836,214

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#65. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine and Daryl Hannah
Rotten Tomatoes: 85% Fresh
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
Gross: $180,949,045

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#67. Bridesmaids (2011)

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.
Director: Paul Feig
Stars: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne
Rotten Tomatoes: 90% Fresh
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
Gross: $287,797,912

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Mr. Loco · , 8:58 PM

#62. Melancholia (2011)

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with the Earth.
Director: Lars Von Trier
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland
Gross: $15,946,321

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One of the few movies from the current year (it's a 2011 movie, but released in almost everywhere until this year). Second and last movie from Lars Von Trier in the list (the other was "Dancer in the Dark"), and also second movie starring Kirsten Dunst (the other was Spider-man).

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Mr. Loco · , 10:59 PM

#61. The Hangover (2009)

A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him.
Director: Todd Phillips
Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper and Justin Bartha
Gross: $467,483,912

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This movie became a classic of how a holiday vacation should really be for crazy drunk men all over the world.

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supaspaz · , 11:34 PM

Ooh, Goodfellas! Finally a true classic.

I love The Sound of Music and Bridesmaids, too.

Mr. Loco · , 12:14 AM

For tomorrow's set we'll have a couple of musicals.

D/X · , 12:37 AM

Avatar place is ok.

Bridesmaids was pure trash.

Red · , 3:14 AM

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You will not

one of the best movies of all time.

I've been meaning to see Melancholia as well. Maybe I will someday.

chiliam · , 9:48 AM

The sound of music

Kill bill

, the 1st Quentin film in this list, i expect to see Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Bastard in top 20.

frantic · , 10:47 AM

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Originally posted by Mr. Loco

#62. Melancholia (2011)

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with the Earth.
Director: Lars Von Trier
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland
Gross: $15,946,321

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THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

jqnetto · , 11:21 AM

The Hangover.

Mr. Loco · , 2:23 PM

#60. Star Wars: Episode IV (1977)

A spirited farm boy, Luke Skywalker, joins rebel forces to save the Princess from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire's planet-destroying Death Star.
Director: George Lucas
Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher
Gross: $775,398,007

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Groundbreaking in its use of special effects, unconventional editing, and science fiction/fantasy storytelling, the original Star Wars is one of the most successful and influential films of all time. It became the highest grossing movie of all time for around 10 years.
When adjusted for inflation, it is the second highest grossing film in the USA and Canada as of 2012. Among the many awards the film received, it gained ten Academy Award nominations, winning six; the nominations included Best Supporting Actor for Alec Guinness and Best Picture. The film is often ranked among the best films of all time.
Star Wars was a technical watershed that influenced many of the movies that came after." It began a new generation of special effects and high-energy motion pictures. The film was one of the first films to link genres—such as space opera and soap opera—together to invent a new, high concept genre for filmmakers to build upon.
After seeing Star Wars, director James Cameron quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry. Other filmmakers who have said to have been influenced by Star Wars include Peter Jackson, Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, Christopher Nolan, John Lasseter, David Fincher, Kevin Smith, John Singleton, and Ridley Scott.

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Red · , 2:42 PM

Wow, I'm surprised that it's this low. I thought it would be at least top 40. Huh.