Interesting stuff. First installment here: http://www.breitbart.com/big-h...s-ever-made-150-165/

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Too many Woody Allen films appeared on this list... IMHO, no one single Woody Allen film should be in anyone's top 165, let alone 3-4 of them. YMMV, but there it is.

Hmmm. No Schindlers List? Wasn't it an American film?

It's one man's opinion. And a rather questionable one at that. Anyone who puts Smokey & The Bandit one spot below Patton is someone who clearly doesn't get out to see much sunlight and breathe fresh air.

Yes, there are questions on the rankings. Immediately seen with To Kill a Mockingbird ranked 164. There are gems in the dialogue though.

"So wait five years. Then watch this canary in the freedom mine again, and what you will discover is that we have a little less freedom than we did the year before.

In 1974 Blazing Saddles was a classic comedy. Thanks to the left’s fascist war on speech, and a cowardly and feckless community of film writers who refuse to push back, Blazing Saddles is something even better today — deliciously, joyously, deliriously subversive."

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Yes, there are questions on the rankings. Immediately seen with To Kill a Mockingbird ranked 164. There are gems in the dialogue though.

"So wait five years. Then watch this canary in the freedom mine again, and what you will discover is that we have a little less freedom than we did the year before.

In 1974 Blazing Saddles was a classic comedy. Thanks to the left’s fascist war on speech, and a cowardly and feckless community of film writers who refuse to push back, Blazing Saddles is something even better today — deliciously, joyously, deliriously subversive."

There very well indeed may be questions with the overall rankings, but in my opinion he absolutely nailed it with his number 1 ranking. I am mesmerized by this film every time I watch it, and I do so often!

The Searchers is a true classic. And no one did it better than John Ford.

I doubt I’m alone when I say please feel free to spoil away at what the results are

there are not 140 better movies than raiders of the lost ark.

I've never seen The Searchers, but I will rectify that this weekend.

The author doesn't seem to be a fan of sci-fi/fantasy at all. Amazing to me that a list 165 long doesn't include Alien, Aliens, Terminator, and the LOTR triology. (unless I missesd 'em while skimming the list.) Those films, IMO, are tops in their respective genres.

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Originally posted by mttaylor1066:
Too many Woody Allen films appeared on this list... IMHO, no one single Woody Allen film should be in anyone's top 165, let alone 3-4 of them. YMMV, but there it is.

This alone stopped me from reading the list.

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Originally posted by mttaylor1066:
Too many Woody Allen films appeared on this list... IMHO, no one single Woody Allen film should be in anyone's top 165, let alone 3-4 of them. YMMV, but there it is.

This alone stopped me from reading the list.

I don't think he can be ignored. Allen has always been a whiny little bitch, jokey if not hilarious. The less he appears in his films the better.

"Hannah and Her Sisters" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors" may involve some unlikable characters, too provincial NYC for everyone but insightful and instructive of given mindsets. You don't have to agree with them to find value. "Hannah" is particularly interesting in that an alleged male could write a female centered film that rings so true.

"Zelig" is iconic in its way.

"Annie Hall" is probably Allen's best received and I absolutely hate it. Real life Woody is awful, just like Alvy Singer.

I stopped reading when I saw the placement of The Godfather Trilogy.

I'll admit the third installment was crap but the first two are very near the top of my personal list. The old days of cinema when character development was a thing.

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I stopped reading when I saw the placement of The Godfather Trilogy.

I'll admit the third installment was crap but the first two are very near the top of my personal list. The old days of cinema when character development was a thing.

This and Citizen Kane. Both ranked in the 120s.
So Nolte thought a bunch of Woody Allen films, along with Smokey & the Bandit, Malcolm X, Menace II Society, Tucker, Shaft, etc. were better films

the key when perusing other people's film lists, be it top 10, 165, or The 1,000 Greatest Films, is not to compare to your list of where you'd put what movie, but to find new films that you'd never think of seeing, and maybe try them out. it's never ending, as no one can see them all.

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..Citizen Kane...

"Sight & Sound" is a long time, highly respected film publication. They've had an all-time, world wide greatest list for decades, voted on by top directors and critics. "Citizen Kane" has topped that list many times. Buster Keaton's "The General" is some folks' greatest film and surely deserves mention here.

Such lists like this, produced by dilettantes, can be taken only so seriously. One man's opinion is just that.

The Searchers is fantastic, but Casablanca remains my number 1.

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165 greatest American movies ever made

According to whom?