The Yahoo! Movies Editorial Staff recently compiled a list of the
Top 100 movies you should see before you die. I think it's an interesting list, and agree that most of those that I've seen, are indeed classic movies. I was surprised by "Gone With the Wind," "Braveheart," "Dances With Wolves," and "Forrest Gump" not making it, though. What about "The Breakfast Club"? Another classic. I think it's hard to pick just 100, as tastes in movies are personal and one list is never going to satisfy everyone.
In total, I've personally seen half (49). They're listed below. See the full list
here. So what do you think? What great movies are missing from the list?
12 Angry Men (1957)
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall
8 ½ (1963)
Directed By: Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee
All About Eve (1950)
Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Annie Hall (1977)
Directed By: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Casablanca (1942)
Directed By: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Chinatown (1974)
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed By: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
Die Hard (1988)
Directed By: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore
The Exorcist (1973)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair,
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Directed By: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold,
The French Connection (1971)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
The Godfather (1972)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Goldfinger (1964)
Directed By: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman
Goodfellas (1990)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
The Graduate (1967)
Directed By: Mike Nichols
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,
Groundhog Day (1993)
Directed By: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
It Happened One Night (1934)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Jaws (1975)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Why You Should See It
King Kong (1933)
Directed By: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack
Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Directed By: David Lean
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)
Directed By: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Directed By: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Directed By: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Tim Matheson
On the Waterfront (1954)
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Directed By: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield
Princess Mononoke (1999)
Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver
Psycho (1960)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
Rear Window (1954)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr
Schindler's List (1993)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Directed By: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Directed By: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Directed By: David Hand
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
The Sound of Music (1965)
Directed By: Robert Wise
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Star Wars (1977)
Directed By: George Lucas
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Directed By: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
The Third Man (1949)
Directed By: Carol Reed
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
Titanic (1997)
Directed By: James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
Why You Should See It
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Directed By: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
Toy Story (1995)
Directed By: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne
Vertigo (1958)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Directed By: Rob Reiner
Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Directed By: Victor Fleming
Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
It may seem like an early April Fool's joke, but there's no "nyuk nyukking" here. Sean Penn, after winning a Best Actor Oscar for his role as Harvey Milk, is set to star as Larry (one of the three stooges), in the upcoming movie adapated from the famous short films. It will be directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, and released sometime in 2010.
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