Showing posts with label Raiders of the Lost Ark. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 21, 2024

Screen Rant: The Top Movies of All Time

Screen Rant:

The Top Movies of All TIme

In 2012, ScreenRant.com responded to an upcoming Sight & Sound poll of best movies by compiling a list of their own top 10 movies of all time. Over a decade later, they created a top 50 list with a system that weighed the overall scores from the Internet Movie Database and Metacritic. They put out a list of the top 60 movies of all time in 2024. Here are the results when the 3 lists are aggregated:

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. Citizen Kane (1941)
4. Vertigo (1958)
5. 12 Angry Men (1957)
6. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. Rear Window (1954)
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
10. Psycho (1960)

11. Pulp Fiction (1994)
12. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
13. North by Northwest (1959)
14. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (2001)
15. Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
16. Some Like It Hot (1959)
17. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
18. All About Eve (1950)
19. Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) (2006)
20. Boyhood (2014)

21. Rashômon (1950)
22. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
23. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
24. The Godfather Part II (1974)
25. City Lights (1931)
26. Gone with the Wind (1939)
27. The Dark Knight (2008)
28. Notorious (1946)
29. The Third Man (1949)
30. Ran (1985)

31. Moonlight (2016)
32. Three Colors: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge) (1994)
33. Toy Story (1995)
34. Playtime (1967)
35. Goodfellas (1990)
36. Apocalypse Now (1979)
37. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
38. Pinocchio (1940)
39. A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) (2011)
40. Touch of Evil (1958)

41. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
42. Double Indemnity (1944)
43. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) (1939)
44. Hoop Dreams (1994)
45. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
46. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
47. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
48. 8 ½ (Otto e Mezzo) (1963)
49. Back to the Future (1985)
50. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

51. Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Biciclette) (1948)
52. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
53. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
54. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
55. Aliens (1986)
56. Jurassic Park (1993) 57. Titanic (1997)
58. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
59. Stand by Me (1986)
60. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

61. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
62. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
63. Pretty Woman (1990)
64. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
65. Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim) (1961)
66. The Wild Bunch (1969)
67. My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
68. Jaws (1975)
69. Ratatouille (2007)
70. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

71. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

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Originally posted 5/28/2023; last updated 7/21/2024.
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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Action/Adventure Movies: Top 25

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Top 25 Action/Adventure Movies

These are the top 25 action films as determined by an aggregate of sixteen lists focused on action, adventure, spy, and swashbuckler films. See the bottom of the page for links to the individual lists.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981):
2. Die Hard (1988)
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
4. Aliens (1986)
5. The Matrix (1999)

6. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
7. The Dark Knight (2008)
8. Gladiator (2000)
9. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
10. Goldfinger (1964)

11. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo Hu Cang Long) (2000)
12. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
13. First Blood (1982)
14. Predator (1987)
15. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

16. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
17. John Wick (2014)
18. Lethal Weapon (1987)
19. Robocop (1987)
20. Enter the Dragon (1973)

21. Speed (1994)
22. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
23. Casino Royale (2006)
24. The Fugitive (1993)
25. The Wild Bunch (1969)

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Originally posted 8/29/2019; last updated 5/25/2023.
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Monday, January 23, 2023

Empire Magazine: Top 100 Movies

Empire Magazine:

Top 100 Movies

Empire is a British film magazine which was started in July 1989. Over the years, they have produced multiple best-of all-time movie lists. Dave’s Movie Database has compiled and aggregated nine of those lists into a “definitive” top 100 movies according to Empire.

1. Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
5. Pulp Fiction (1994)
6. Goodfellas (1990)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
8. Jaws (1975)
9. Aliens (1986)
10. The Godfather Part II (1974)

11. Apocalypse Now (1979)
12. Blade Runner (1982)
13. Casablanca (1942)
14. The Matrix (1999)
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
16. Alien (1979)
17. Schindler’s List (1993)
18. The Usual Suspects (1995)
19. Citizen Kane (1941)
20. Taxi Driver (1976)

21. Se7en (Seven) (1995)
22. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
24. Star Wars – Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
25. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
26. Rear Window (1954)
27. Fight Club (1999)
28. Back to the Future (1985)
29. Die Hard (1988)
30. The Big Lebowski (1998)

31. Heat (1995)
32. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
33. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
34. Gladiator (2000)
35. Vertigo (1958)
36. The Shining (1980)
37. L.A. Confidential (1997)
38. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
39. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
40. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

41. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
42. Psycho (1960)
43. The Seven Samurai (Schichinin no Samurai) (1954)
44. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
45. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
46. Jurassic Park (1993)
47. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
48. Gone with the Wind (1939)
49. American Beauty (1999)
50. Raging Bull (1980)

51. Forrest Gump (1994)
52. Some Like It Hot (1959)
53. Titanic (1997)
54. Donnie Darko (2001)
55. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
56. Léon: The Professional (1994)
57. 12 Angry Men (1957)
58. Stand by Me (1986)
59. Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) (2001)
60. The Terminator (1984)

61. Fargo (1996)
62. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era Una Volta il West) (1968)
63. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
64. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
65. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
66. Braveheart (1995)
67. Memento (2001)
68. Trainspotting (1996)
69. Toy Story (1995)
70. Ghostbusters (1984)

71. The Exorcist (1973)
72. Annie Hall (1977)
73. True Romance (1993)
74. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
75. Magnolia (1999)
76. The Third Man (1949)
77. Chinatown (1974)
78. Scarface (1983)
79. North by Northwest (1959)
80. Grease (1978)

81. Lost in Translation (2003)
82. Withnail and I (1987)
83. The Princess Bride (1987)
84. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
85. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
86. The Blues Brothers (1980)
87. The Great Escape (1963)
88. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
89. Good Will Hunting (1997)
90. The Searchers (1956)

91. Platoon (1986)
92. The Graduate (1967)
93. The Wild Bunch (1969)
94. The Dark Knight (2008)
95. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
96. The Thing (1982)
97. There Will Be Blood (2007)
98. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
99. Rocky (1976)
100. The Lion King (1994)

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Originally posted 7/25/2019; last updated 5/28/2023.
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Wednesday, December 31, 1997

Video Detective: Top 100 Films of All Time

Video Detective:

Top 100 Films of All Time

From Filmsite.org: “Video Detective, a pocket-sized guide published in 1997 and written by Jim Riffel, suggested both its top 1000 films and 100 films of all-time for its readers, to provide advice on renting videos.” The original list was presented in unranked, alphabetical order. The top 100 films are listed here, ranked by their overall status in Dave’s Movie Database.

1. Gone with the Wind (1939)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
4. Casablanca (1942)
5. Citizen Kane (1941)
6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
9. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
10. Psycho (1960)

11. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
12. The Godfather Part II (1974)
13. Vertigo (1958)
14. Raging Bull (1980)
15. Apocalypse Now (1979)
16. Taxi Driver (1976)
17. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
18. Some Like It Hot (1959)
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
20. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

21. The Sound of Music (1965)
22. Chinatown (1974)
23. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
24. Rear Window (1954)
25. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
26. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
27. North by Northwest (1959)
28. On the Waterfront (1954)
29. Annie Hall (1977)
30. All About Eve (1950)

31. The Exorcist (1973)
32. Double Indemnity (1944)
33. The Graduate (1967)
34. Ben-Hur (1959)
35. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
36. The Searchers (1956)
37. The Third Man (1949)
38. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
39. 12 Angry Men (1957)
40. The Philadelphia Story (1940)

41. West Side Story (1961)
42. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
43. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
44. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
45. City Lights (1931)
46. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
47. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
48. It Happened One Night (1934)
49. The Sting (1973)
50. Modern Times (1936)

51. The Deer Hunter (1978)
52. Amadeus (1984)
53. My Fair Lady (1964)
54. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
55. Touch of Evil (1958)
56. High Noon (1952)
57. Manhattan (1979)
58. The Gold Rush (1925)
59. Patton (1970)
60. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

61. Paths of Glory (1957)
62. The French Connection (1971)
63. An American in Paris (1951)
64. The Wild Bunch (1969)
65. The General (1927)
66. Top Hat (1935)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1961)
68. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
69. Duck Soup (1933)
70. The African Queen (1951)

71. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
72. Stagecoach (1939)
73. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
74. Frankenstein (1931)
75. M*A*S*H (1970)
76. The Lady Eve (1941)
77. Terms of Endearment (1983)
78. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
79. Laura (1944)
80. The Big Sleep (1946)

81. Gandhi (1982)
82. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
83. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
84. Shane (1953)
85. Harold and Maude (1971)
86. Ordinary People (1980)
87. The King and I (1956)
88. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
89. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
90. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

91. A Room with a View (1985)
92. Wuthering Heights (1939)
93. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
94. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
95. Deliverance (1972)
96. The Caine Mutiny (1954)
97. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
98. East of Eden (1955)
99. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
100. Papillon (1973)

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Originally posted 8/1/2019; last updated 5/28/2023.
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Sunday, December 31, 1989

Top Movies of the 1980s

This page offers lists of the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by two different metrics. The first list is based on box office and the second is based on critics’ picks.

Box Office:

Top 25 of the 1980s

These are the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by adjusted worldwide box office gross. The first number indicates dollars made in millions. See sources for box office figures here.

1) 3095.40: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
2) 2274.00: Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3) 1723.70: Star Wars – Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
4) 1639.60: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
5) 1400.40: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

6) 1258.10: Back to the Future (1985)
7) 1213.60: Batman (1989)
8) 1164.90: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
9) 1120.60: Top Gun (1986)
10) 1102.80: Back to the Future II (1989)

11) 1078.70: Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
12) 1075.70: Rocky III (1982)
13) 1051.90: Superman II (1980)
14) 1028.70: Rain Man (1988)
15) 994.50: Rocky IV (1985)

16) 994.30: Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
17) 956.10: Fatal Attraction (1987)
18) 942.90: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
19) 780.20: Ghostbusters (1984)
20) 617.94: Look Who’s Talking (1989)

21) 576.08: Crocodile Dundee (1986)
22) 526.84: Out of Africa (1985)
23) 520.58: Tootsie (1982)
24) 505.83: Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
25) 505.56: Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

Critics’ Picks:

Top 25 of the 1980s

These are the top 25 movies of the decade as determined by a combination of the movies’ ratings points and awards points.

1) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
2) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3) Amadeus (1984)
4) Raging Bull (1980)
5) Star Wars – Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

6) Do the Right Thing (1989)
7) Back to the Future (1985)
8) Star Wars – Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
9) Platoon (1986)
10) Terms of Endearment (1983)

11) Rain Man (1988)
12) Ordinary People (1980)
13) The Right Stuff (1983)
14) blade runner ()
15) Gandhi (1982)

16) The Princess Bride (1987)
17) Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
18) The Last Emperor (1987)
19) When Harry Met Sally (1989)
20) This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

21) The Shining (1980)
22) Tootsie (1982)
23) Dead Poets Society (1989)
24) Brazil (1985)
25) Blue Velvet (1986)

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Friday, June 12, 1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark released

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Released: June 12, 1981

Studio: Paramount

Genre: action

Box Office (numbers in millions):

Domestic: 248.20 Worldwide: 389.90

Adjusted for Inflation:

Domestic: 868.70 Worldwide: 1251.70

Directing: Steven Spielberg

Screenwriting: Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Phillip Kaufman

Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

Review:

This “fast-paced action/adventure flick” VD brought together the talents of famed directors Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and George Lucas (Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back). “The result was the ultimate action movie with the ultimate action hero – Indiana Jones, the asp-kicking adventurer with quip and whip at the ready.” TV It was a “thrilling, entertaining homage to 1930’s cliff-hanging adventure serials/films at Saturday matinees” FS hailed as “one of the greatest action films ever made.” FS

Harrison Ford followed up his performance as Han Solo in two Star Wars movies with this nearly as iconic role as Jones, an archeologist a “pre-WWII comic-bookish, globe-trotting…adventurer/archaeologist” FS “with a flair for dramatic situations.” A98 He “is enlisted to locate the Biblical Ark of the Covenant before the evil agents of Hitler use its powers to win the war.” FS

“When Spielberg was directing for Paramount Pictures on this venture, he incorporated the studio's mountain logo, dissolving it into a real summit, which served as the opening shot of the film. Artfully done, it set the stage for the adventure about to unfold.” MSN

“The film’s opening sequence is a white-knuckled” FS “thrill ride” TV “in a South American rainforest and cave with poisonous darts and a threatening boulder.” FS “Any other movie would have considered [it] a climax: For Raiders, [it] is just the beginning” TV “as he escapes one life-threatening situation, fight, scrape, and chase after another” FS The movie also “includes the best snake scene since Genesis” TV “and the mysterious wrath of God in its finale.” FS

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Awards/Honors/Lists:

Dave’s Movie Database Lists:

Dave’s Movie Database Genre Lists:

Box Office:

Awards:

Oscars:

Wins: 4 – Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects. Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing

Nominations: 8 – including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score

Other Lists/Honors:

Critics’ Picks:

First posted 7/31/2019; last updated 5/31/2023.
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