Movie The BigFooty Top 100 Films Countdown (3-1!)

[Kyptastic]

As many of you are aware, I've been collecting votes for a BigFooty Top 100 films countdown. The purpose as to get an indication of what BigFooty considers to be their favourite movies. It's been a long process, but I've been very pleased with the reaction from the community and I would hope that the release of the countdown with promote discussion and reflection on the films themselves and their position within the countdown.

Before we begin, I should make it clear how the order was reached. Firstly, people were asked to submit a list of 10 films which they considered to be their favourites. It was important that these were ranked from 1 to 10, as the films ranking within a person's list determined how many points were awarded. For example, a film ranked 1 on a posters list would receive 10 points, whilst a film ranked 5 would receive 6 points.

Once all the votes were tallied, the list was created. At the lower levels of the list, there were many ties on raw votes. In order to separate these, the more lists a film appeared on, the higher it would be in the countdown. If film were tied on points and lists made, the films were ranked by their highest individual score.

For example

Film A is ranked 8 on Poster 1's list and 4 on poster 2's list
Film B is ranked 7 on Poster 3's list and 5 on poster 4's list

Both these films will receive 10 points (Film A 3&7, Film B 4&6). Both films appeared on 2 lists.
Film A would be ranked higher because it was ranked 4 on Poster 2's list, compared to 5 on Poster 4's list.

One of the other concerns I had about this countdown was that there would be a low amount of participation and the list would be dominated by films that appeared high on one person's list and nowhere else. Thanks to the high amount of participation, this was avoided - every film on this list appeared on at least two poster's list.

Overall, 88 posters took part in the countdown, whilst 390 films received votes.

Without further delay, the countdown begins!
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Having been part of these sort of countdowns on other forums in the past, one thing that also helped with discussion and kept people interested in the countdown was a Top 10 prediction game. If you're so inclined, post what you feel will be the top 10 films in their correct order. You won't win anything other than a well deserved sense of self satisfaction, but that could be the greatest prize of all.

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List so far:

102. Top Gun
101. The Untouchables
100. Barry Lyndon
99. Mad Max
98. The Third Man
97. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
96. Vertigo
95. The Prestige
94. Caddyshack
93. Sin City
92. Saving Private Ryan
91. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
90. Infernal Affairs
89. The Elephant Man
88. Predator
87. Anchorman
86. Superbad
85. The Great Escape
84. Zoolander
83. Boogie Nights
82. Manhattan
81. 28 Days Later
80. Citizen Kane
79. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
78. American Psycho
77. Groundhog Day
76. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
75. Gone with the Wind
74. Trainspotting
73. Rififi
72. Step Brothers
71. Star Trek: First Contact
70. Jurassic Park
69. Sleepers
68. Dumb and Dumber
67. To Kill a Mockingbird
66. True Romance
65. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
64. Back to the Future 2
63. The Bourne Identity
62. Donnie Darko
61. Fargo
60. There Will Be Blood
59. Dead Man
58. North by Northwest
57. Jaws
56. Taxi Driver
55. Snatch
54. Inglourious Basterds
53. 12 Angry Men
52. Requiem for a Dream
51. Happy Gilmore
50. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
49. Inception
48. City of God
47. Aliens
46. Braveheart
45. Lawrence of Arabia
44. (500) Days of Summer
43. Silence of the Lambs
42. Se7en
41. Pan’s Labyrinth
40. Back to the Future 1
39. Good Will Hunting
38. 2001: A Space Odyssey
37. Rear Window
36. Memento
35. The Big Lebowski
34. The Blues Brothers
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
32. Gladiator
31. American Beauty
30. Alien
29. Die Hard
28. The Dark Knight
27. The Departed
26. Casablanca
25. Schindler’s List
24. Into the Wild
23. Terminator 2
22. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
21. Raiders of the Lost Ark
20. Star Wars: A New Hope
19. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
18. No Country for Old Men
17. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
16. Once Upon a Time in the West
15. Apocalypse Now
14. Reservoir Dogs
13. Forrest Gump
12. The Matrix
11. The Godfather Part II
10. Blade Runner
9. American History X
8. The Usual Suspects
7. Goodfellas
6. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
5. The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Godfather
3. Fight Club
2. The Shawshank Redemption
1. Pulp Fiction

 

[Kyptastic]

100 - 91


102. Top Gun (1986)

Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Val Kilmer
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 4th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 55%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 6.7
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
As students at the Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young flyer learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

101. The Untouchables (1987)

Director: Brian de Palma
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert de Niro
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 4th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 81%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 8.0
IMDB Top 250: 248
IMDB Description:
Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

100. Barry Lyndon (1975)

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Ryan O’Neil, Marisa Berenson
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 4th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 8.1
IMDB Top 250: 208
IMDB Description:
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century aristocracy.

99. Mad Max (1979)

Director: George Miller
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 7.0
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
A vengeful Australian policeman sets out to avenge his partner, his wife and his son whom were murdered by a motorcycle gang in retaliation for the death of their leader.

98. The Third Man (1949)

Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 2nd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 8.4
IMDB Top 250: 73
IMDB Description:
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime.

97. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 1st
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Metacritic: 65/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.3
IMDB Top 250: 98
IMDB Description:
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis.

96. Vertigo (1958)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 1st
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 8.5
IMDB Top 250: 53
IMDB Description:
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's much-younger wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

95. The Prestige (2006)

Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 1st
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
Metacritic: 66/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.5
IMDB Top 250: 68
IMDB Description:
The rivalry between two magicians is exacerbated when one of them performs the ultimate illusion.

94. Caddyshack (1980)

Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 5th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 7.2
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.


93. Sin City (2005)

Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 4th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 78%
Metacritic: 74/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.2
IMDB Top 250: 137
IMDB Description:
A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption.

 

[PP34]

Should be very interesting, as I'm looking to start watching more movies.

 

[Plugger35]

Caddyshack at 92? Should be in the top 10.

Speaking of Chevy Chase, just watched National Lampoon's Vacation for about the 100th time on GO, still awesome, it made my extended squad but couldn't quite make the cut for my top 10.

Still deserves to make the top 100 though for this ending alone.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

to the other person who listed Vertigo.

 

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

I should've submitted my list just to get Vertigo higher up. 93 better movies? Nope.

Top 10 was too hard though. Hell, top 10 per decade or genre is hard enough.

 

[JP Sauce]

Oh shit, I forgot to submit my top 10.

 

[Kyptastic]

90-81


92. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 12
Highest Position: 5th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
Metacritic: 90/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.6
IMDB Top 250: 37
IMDB Description:
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

91. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Director: Mel Stuart
Starring: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 13
Highest Position: 4th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 7.8
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
A poor boy wins the opportunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory of all.

90. Infernal Affairs (2002)

Director: Wei-Keung Lau, Alan Mak
Starring: Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 13
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Metacritic: 72/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.1
IMDB Top 250: 211
IMDB Description:
A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.

89. The Elephant Man (1980)

Director: David Lynch
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 13
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 8.3
IMDB Top 250: 118
IMDB Description:
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

88. Predator (1987)

Director: John MacTiernan
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 13
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 63%
Metacritic: 36/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.8
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.

87. Anchorman (2004)

Director: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 13
Highest Position: 5th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 66%
Metacritic: 63/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.2
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
Ron Burgundy is San Diego's top rated newsman in the male dominated broadcasting of the 1970's, but that's all about to change when a new female employee with ambition to burn arrives in his office.

86. Superbad (2007)

Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 13
Highest Position: 4th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
Metacritic: 76/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.6
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

85. The Great Escape (1963)

Director: John Sturges
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 13
Highest Position: 2nd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
Metacritic: 76/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.3
IMDB Top 250: 113
IMDB Description:
Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

84. Zoolander (2001)

Director: Ben Stiller
Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 4th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 64%
Metacritic: 61/100
IMDB User Rating: 6.5
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

83. Boogie Nights (1997)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 4th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
Metacritic: 85/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.9
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the 1970s and 1980s.

82. Manhattan

Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
Metacritic: 82/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.0
IMDB Top 250: 239
IMDB Description:
A divorced New Yorker currently dating a high-schooler brings himself to look for love in the mistress of his best friend instead.

 

[Rod Stroker]

I won't predict the top 10 but I'll predict that the top 3 will be Shawshank, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club although perhaps not in that order.

 

[Marlowe]

So who was the other person who voted forˋCaddyshack?ˊ

Granted, the last time I watched it was about three years ago. I remember showing it to a girl when she mentioned she hadn't seen it before, y'know. I laughed my ass off, but she did not like it, and I haven't been that disappointed since. But it's still the superior golf comedy, and I will disappointed again when`Happy Gilmore’ finishes ranked above it.

 

[Rod Stroker]

It was one of my Honorable Mentions. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and I've seen it more times than I can remember

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Vertigo should be much, much higher. (I really should've put it on my list).

 

[Roobs321]

Yay, Barry Lyndon made it! Thanks other person!

Mad Max, Vertigo & Manhattan all feature in my Top 100 as well, so happy with their inclusions.

I cant be bothered going back and adding up votes, but I think the first 2 Godfather's will be right up there. Also noticed a lot of votes coming in for Once Upon a Time in the West, although it would be unusual to see it top the more mainstream GB&U on one of these type lists.

 

[KGBeast]

I like them all so far.

 

[Predator35]

Predator at 87, should of been top 10. Good list so far though.

 

[rayven]

Boogie nights was a cinematic masterpeace. Froze a time and place, a time of great change.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

"Dear Editor,

I didn't bother to vote, however I am outraged that my favourites are not included in this list.

Yours sincerely,
H. Sun-Reader"

 

[Kyptastic]

81. 28 Days Later (2002)

Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
Metacritic: 73/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.6
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.

80. Citizen Kane (1941)

Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 8.5
IMDB Top 250: 45
IMDB Description:
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

79. The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (2007)

Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 2nd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
Metacritic: 68/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.6
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.


78. American Psycho (2000)

Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Christian Bale, William Dafoe, Jared Leto
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 2nd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 67%
Metacritic: 64/100
IMDB User Rating: 7.6
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

77. Groundhog Day (1993)

Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell , Chris Elliot
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 5th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
Metacritic: 72/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.1
IMDB Top 250: 176
IMDB Description:
A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.

76. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellan, Orlando Bloom
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 4th
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
Metacritic: 92/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.8
IMDB Top 250: 12
IMDB Description:
A meek hobbit of The Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring and the dark lord Sauron.

75. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 3 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 2nd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
Metacritic: N/A
IMDB User Rating: 8.2
IMDB Top 250: 156
IMDB Description:
American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

74. Trainspotting (1996)

Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 4 Lists
Votes: 14
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Metacritic: 83/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.2
IMDB Top 250: 148
IMDB Description:
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

73. Rififi (1955)

Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 15
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
Metacritic: 97/100
IMDB User Rating: 8.2
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...

72. Step Brothers (2008)

Director: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly
Bigfooty
Appeared on: 2 Lists
Votes: 15
Highest Position: 3rd
Internet
Rotten Tomatoes: 55%
Metacritic: 51/100
IMDB User Rating: 6.7
IMDB Top 250: N/A
IMDB Description:
Two aimless middle-aged losers still living at home are forced against their will to become roommates when their parents get married.

 

[Ed_Gein]

Is it not strange that a film could appear on 1 list in 1st spot and be ranked higher than a film that is in say, 6 lists in 10th spot?

Great work though, looking forward to the rest of the countdown.

 

[PP34]

Nice list. Is it just me or are the pictures not loading?

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

Nice list. Is it just me or are the pictures not loading?

Not just you mate; can't see any of them.

 

[750mlPump]

Anything but Pulp Fiction for number 1 please.

 

[Kyptastic]

Hmm, the pictures are loading for me on my computer, but not on my iPad or iPhone. What are you guys viewing the thread from.

Oh, and I just don't get the love for Step Brothers. I enjoy Will Ferrell movies as much as the next guy, but I don't see why people like this one.

Maybe it's because everyone talked it up to me, but I might have giggled once or twice. It's not the uproarious comedy it was sold to me as.

 

[PP34]

Hmm, the pictures are loading for me on my computer, but not on my iPad or iPhone. What are you guys viewing the thread from.

PC via Firefox.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

Hmm, the pictures are loading for me on my computer, but not on my iPad or iPhone. What are you guys viewing the thread from.

Mac, Safari. Could be the issue but haven't really had this happen before.

Regardless, not a huge issue. Fantastic effort with this thread mate, really enjoying it. Didn't contribute since I have a clear top 5 and that's it (so many others to squeeze into a 10!) but it's a great read nonetheless. Will certainly be adding a few to my "to see" list.