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I launched the Dave’s Movie Database in August 2019. On the one-year anniversary, I decided to create a Hall of Fame. The original list of top 100 movies of all time have all been inducted in the first class of 2020. Each August, the next ten highest-ranked movies according to Dave’s Movie Database will be inducted.
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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)
21. Se7en (Seven) (1995)
31. Heat (1995)
41. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
51. Forrest Gump (1994)
61. Fargo (1996)
71. The Exorcist (1973)
81. Lost in Translation (2003)
91. Platoon (1986) Resources:
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| The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo)Released: December 23, 1966 Studio: Produzioni Europee Associate Genre: Western Box Office (numbers in millions):Domestic: 25.10 Worldwide: 25.25 Adjusted for Inflation:Domestic: 186.80 Worldwide: 187.94 |
Directing: Sergio Leone Screenwriting: Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach Review:The third installment in Italian director Sergio Leone’s epic trilogy was actually a prequel to A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). “This sweeping, stylistic, and operatic film” FS has become possibly “the best known ‘spaghetti western’ of all time,” FS credited as “invigorated the ailing western.” PM Like Leone’s other westerns, the movie “is viciously violent and machismo in tone, but buoyed by the classic, instantly recognizable, twanging Ennio Morricone score.” FS It features “very little dialogue…and vast widescreen landscapes.” FS “Leone built the action to a vertiginous climax, intercutting vivid panoramas with jarring close-ups.” PM This is his movie which “best balances art and entertainment.” E18 The film is set during the Civil War. Leone traveled to America to research the Civil War at the Library of Congress. He credited “legendary Civil War photographer Mathew B. Brady's expansive collection of images documenting the war as a main source of inspiration.” MSN The story focuses on acquiring “a treasure chest of $200,000 in stolen Confederate gold buried in a grave at a faraway location.” FS Three “basically amoral, anti-social bounty hunters, outlaws, and murderers, are forced to form an uneasy partnership or alliance, leading to the film’s climactic graveyard shootout in which the opportunistic desperados find themselves facing off one last time for the fortune.” FS Clint Eastwood plays “the unsmiling anti-hero ‘Good’ guy” FS known as “The Man with No Name.” He was in all three of Leone’s Dollar movies, but this was his “star-making role.” FS “Angel Eyes Sentenza (Van Cleef) serves as the vile and ruthless ‘Bad’ guy, and Tuco Ramirez (Wallach) provides the greedy, talkative, clownish and self-centered ‘Ugly.’” FS It’s the latter who “steals this Wild West show.” E18 Sources:
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| Mary PoppinsReleased: August 26, 1964 Studio: Disney Genre: musical/fantasy/comedy Box Office (numbers in millions):Domestic: 102.27 Worldwide: -- Adjusted for Inflation:Domestic: 887.80 Worldwide: 1511.80 |
Directing: Robert Stevenson Screenwriting: Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi Starring: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke Review:“This supercalifragilisticexpialidocious musical fantasy” A07 “is proof of how childhood films can be a wonderful salve as you grow into an adult.” RF “There’s charm, wit, and movie magic to spare in Walt Disney’s adaptation of P.L. Travers’s book about a ‘practically perfect’ nanny who brings profound change to the Banks family of London, circa 1910.” LM The movie “introduced Andrews to film history as the magical nanny who…arrives at the home of Jane and Michael Banks via umbrella and teaches them that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” A07 Dick Van Dyke “is equally good as Bert, the whimsical jack of all trades). That’s Jane Darwell, in her last screen appearance, as the bird lady.” LM Sources:
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| InceptionReleased: July 8, 2010 Studio: Warner Bros. Genre: sci-fi/action Box Office (numbers in millions):Domestic: 292.60 Worldwide: 839.03 Adjusted for Inflation:Domestic: 341.69 Worldwide: 938.50 |
Directing: Christopher Nolan Screenwriting: Christopher Nolan Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard Review:“Christopher Nolan, who wrote, directed, and produced the film, actually relied on his own dream experiences rather than research as he worked on this passion project.” MSN “Given its setting is largely the subconscious, though,…every scene – let alone the movie – could be punctured with that postscript beloved of primary school story scribblers: ‘And I woke up and it was only a dream...’ So, don’t brace for a ‘ta-dah!’ moment – it will impede your enjoyment and waste your time.” E10 “This is about life and death and what might be beyond and between. It is also about blazing gun battles, zero-gravity fist fights and stars you’d like to sleep with.” E10 This is “a film that embraces intellect and emotion but also sheer entertainment.” E10 “In terms of scale and style…[Inception] is comparable to [James] Bond’s best excursions” E10 “except, instead of a British secret agent, we get a freelance corporate dream-thief.” E18 It is “filtered through a brain-frying, subconscious-spelunking, time-dilating structure.” E10 “You remain emotionally engaged, even if you’re not entirely sure what’s going on.” E10 “When you’re not basking in the visuals, you can always lean into DiCaprio and appreciate the emotion.” E10 “He appears effortless, even though he’s the beam on which the whole mighty edifice rests. It’s because you believe his journey, his heart, that you buy into Inception.” E10 Sources:
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| No Country for Old MenReleased: November 9, 2007 Studio: Miramax Genre: crime/film noir/western Box Office (numbers in millions):Domestic: 74.28 Worldwide: -- Adjusted for Inflation:Domestic: -- Worldwide: 111.05 |
Directing: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Screenwriting: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin Review:Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver “there best film since FargoPD They “didn’t let the dense prose of Cormac McCarthy inhibit them from faithfully adapting No Country for Old Men,” ST a “thriller about a drug deal gone to hell and an ensuing manhunt into a staggering deconstruction of the classic Western.” PD The movie “is a tension-ratcheting, 1980 Texas-set chase movie” E18 in which “a man (Josh Brolin) comes upon $2 million in missing drug money and soon finds himself being hunted by a ruthless killer (Javier Bardem).” ST “Terrific performances bring every character even further to life.” ST Bardem “makes an awesome villiain;” E18 his “chilling killer Anton Chigurh, [is] often cited as the most realistic depiction of a psychopath in film history.” PD “Pitch-black modern themes and characteristically gorgeous Roger Deakins cinematography linger in the mind.” PD Sources:
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