I'm sure this has been done to death, but hey, it's my list... I've checked the ones I've seen and added my own rating system.

• $$$$=pay full price, see it on the big screen/buy it on DVD
• $$$=matinee/Cheap rack at Wal-mart
• $$=budget cinema or rent it/thrift store VHS
• $=wait for it to show up on cable
• @~*=BOMB...two hours of my life I'm not getting back!

While I realize that most of these movies were released when FDR was in office, I still like my rating system. It makes sense to me. And hey, it's my list.

• ✔ 1.CITIZEN KANE (1941)$$$$
  • I love the camera angles... and the shrieking opera singing second wife.
• ✔ 2.CASABLANCA (1942)$$$$
  • Here's looking at you, Kid...It's lines like this that make an ugly man a leading man.
  • My all time personal favorite
• 3.GODFATHER, THE (1972)
  • how is it I have not seen this movie???
• ✔ 4.GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)$$$
  • It's been so long since I've seen this
  • Maybe it's just the long association with my name that has me bugged
• ✔ 5.LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)$$$
  • It must be nice to have delusions of grandeur that come true
• ✔ 6.WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939)$$$$
  • this has been in my top five since I was 4 years old
• 7.GRADUATE, THE (1967)
  • another one I haven't seen
• 8.ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
  • I saw it in high school, but I don't remember it well enough to rate it fairly
• ✔ 9.SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)$$$$
  • The little red coat!!!
• ✔ 10.SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)$$$
  • I loved everything but Debbie Reynolds--weird, huh?
• ✔ 11.IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)$$$$
  • Can't have Christmas without it.
• ✔ 12.SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)$$
  • What horrible, sad people.
  • I know that's the point
  • but what horrible, sad people
• ✔ 13.BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE (1957)$$$$
  • These are real men
• 14.SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
  • So are these???
• ✔ 15.STAR WARS (1977)$$
  • Cowboys and Indians in space
  • Maybe I have just outgrown it
• 16.ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
• ✔ 17.AFRICAN QUEEN, THE (1951)$$$$
  • another all time favorite
  • I have a crush on Bogie
• ✔ 18.PSYCHO (1960)$$$
  • No sequels please...ever
• 19.CHINATOWN (1974)
• 20.ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
• 21.GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (1940)
• ✔ 22.2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)@~*
  • tedious
  • enough with the Cokin Filters
  • I get it, it's a monolith
  • I get it, it's an eye
  • I don't get it
• ✔ 23.MALTESE FALCON, THE (1941)$$$$
  • I wouldn't trust Mary Astor as far as I could throw her.
  • Bogie...nuff said
• ✔ 24.RAGING BULL (1980)$$
  • great performances
  • overall...not so much
• ✔ 25.E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)$$$$
  • still makes me cry
• ✔ 26.DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)$$
  • Depressing
  • not very funny
• 27.BONNIE & CLYDE (1967)
• 28.APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
• ✔ 29.MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)$$$$
  • An innocent age when graft was rooted out and punished
  • now we feel helpless against it--it's just how the game is played
  • I object!!!
• 30.TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
• 31.ANNIE HALL (1977)
• 32.GODFATHER PART II, THE (1974)
• ✔ 33.HIGH NOON (1952)$$
• ✔ 34.TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)$$$$
  • one of the few movies that is as good as the book
  • I want to marry Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch
• ✔ 35.IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)$
  • I know it was the 30's but really
  • Agreeing to a son-in-law because he knows when to give her a good sock in the jaw???
• 36.MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
• ✔ 37.BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (1946)$$$$
  • I love everything about this movie
  • Definitely in my top 2
• ✔ 38.DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)$
  • Not a big Barbara Stanwyk fan
  • What am i missing?
• 39.DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
• ✔ 40.NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)$$$$
  • if I had to pick between Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant???
  • don't rush me
• ✔ 41.WEST SIDE STORY (1961)$$
  • having trouble taking it seriously since a stand-up comic once said...
  • this kid is running through Spanish Harlem yelling Maria and only one girl sticks her head out the window???
• ✔ 42.REAR WINDOW (1954)$$$$
  • I want to be Grace Kelly When I grow up
• ✔ 43.KING KONG (1933)@~*
  • 'Twas Beauty killed the beast???
• 44.BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (1915)
• 45.STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A (1951)
• 46.CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (1971)
• 47.TAXI DRIVER (1976)
• ✔ 48.JAWS (1975)$$
  • It was great until TBS got ahold of it and played it over and over and over and over with hours of commercial interruptions
• ✔ 49.SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)$$$$
  • It's perfect
• 50.BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
• ✔ 51.PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE(1940)$$$
  • Oh to be Katharine Hepburn with Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart both in love with me!!!
• 52.FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
• ✔ 53.AMADEUS (1984)$$$$
  • The Requiem!
• 54.ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
• ✔ 55.SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (1965)$$$$
  • Gee a house full of unruly kids--what would that be like
• 56.M*A*S*H(1970)
• 57.THIRD MAN, THE (1949)
• ✔ 58.FANTASIA (1940)$$$
  • Is it just me, or is Fantasia just a bit erotic?
  • Yeah, it's just me
• 59.REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
  • Saw it in high school
  • don't remember it
• ✔ 60.RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)$$$
  • I will never outgrow this one
• ✔ 61.VERTIGO (1958)$$$
  • Jimmy Stewart + Alfred Hitchcock = WIN!
• ✔ 62.TOOTSIE (1982)$$$
  • Gandhi was good, but Dustin Hoffman was robbed.
• 63.STAGECOACH (1939)
• ✔ 64.CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)$$$
• ✔ 65.SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (1991)@~*
  • EEWWW!!!
• 66.NETWORK (1976)
• 67.MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (1962)
• ✔ 68.AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN (1951)$$$$
  • Gershwin
  • Gene Kelly
  • Paris
  • I'm happy
• 69.SHANE (1953)
• 70.FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (1971)
• ✔ 71.FORREST GUMP (1994)$$$$
  • Learned more about recent history from Forrest Gump than I ever did in school
• ✔ 72.BEN-HUR (1959)$$$
  • You just gotta
• 73.WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
• ✔ 74.GOLD RUSH, THE (1925)$$$$
  • I just wanna cuddle him
• ✔ 75.DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)$$
  • I love watching this movie, but I wouldn't put it in the top 100
• ✔ 76.CITY LIGHTS (1931)$$$$
  • my hands down favorite Charlie Chaplin
  • such a sweet love story
  • unconditional love
• 77.AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
• ✔ 78.ROCKY (1976)$$
  • Please no sequels!
  • Formulaic
• 79.DEER HUNTER, THE (1978)
  • I have seen the beginning, the end and the middle, but never the whole thing in one sitting
  • Coming home movies--I prefer Best Years of Our Lives
• 80.WILD BUNCH, THE (1969)
• ✔ 81.MODERN TIMES (1936)$$$$
  • Very intelligent social commentary
• 82.GIANT (1956)
• 83.PLATOON (1986)
• ✔ 84.FARGO (1996)$$$$
  • I honestly don't know why I love this movie
  • It's just so weird
  • Does make me homesick, though
• 85.DUCK SOUP (1933)
• ✔ 86.MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)$$$
• ✔ 87.FRANKENSTEIN (1931)$$$$
  • IT'S ALIVE!!!!
• 88.EASY RIDER (1969)
• 89.PATTON (1970)
• 90.JAZZ SINGER, THE (1927)
• ✔ 91.MY FAIR LADY (1964)$$
  • What is it with musicals and abusive relationships???
• 92.PLACE IN THE SUN, A(1951)
• 93.APARTMENT, THE (1960)
• 94.GOODFELLAS (1990)
• 95.PULP FICTION (1994)
• 96.SEARCHERS, THE (1956)
• ✔ 97.BRINGING UP BABY (1938)$$
  • not top 100 worthy
  • fun
• 98.UNFORGIVEN (1992)
• ✔ 99.GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)$$$
  • Spencer Tracy reminds me of my dad
• 100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)

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