Ebert's "Great Movies" - how many have you seen?

Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list currently includes about 360 films*...

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=greatmovies_fulllist

How many of them have you seen? (I've seen about 243)







*this isn't an exact count because of a few discrepancies on the list (eg. a few title are listed twice; a couple of titles are actually trilogies).

 

Dunno, looks like i've seen them all minus 20 or 30.

 

184, I think...?

 

Looks like 158.

Interesting list, though there are a number of movies on it I wouldn't call GOOD, much less "great"!

 

95 or so. Is BEAT THE DEVIL even available in a good edition?

 

Scratching my head on quite a few myself.


I think I saw 72 of them from start to finish and probably around the same amount of them, or more, partially.

Some of the older movies listed I never saw, but did see the remakes.


Interesting that he has a couple Beatles movies listed and few teenage comedies as well.

 

About 90, was going double looking through it all.

 

183 here. Most I agree with their inclusion on such a list.

 

Best I've seen is this one: http://www.amazon.com/Beat-The-Devi...qid=1342450599&sr=8-2&keywords=beat+the+devil

It's not bad but it could be better. If anyone knows of a better version, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

 

I've seen 93 for certain, from start to finish, and parts of many more. The thing is, out of those 267 I haven't seen, there are only another 30 or so that I would want to watch.

 

I counted 149.

 

Like "Contact"?

 

Thanks. I previously had a DVD of the movie, but it was almost Madacy-like in quality.

Strange that it's not available as a standard-quality DVD.

 

Im too busy to count, so I'll just say a lot.

 

I count 239 that I have definitely seen, but I'd bet I have seen at least a dozen more from the list than that, but I can't distinguish them clearly.

 

135 or so, the odd choices usually have a good reason why they've been chosen. However, there are still a few that leave me scratching my head as to why someone would rank them that highly.
For criticism there is little equal to the first Great Movies book.

 

Nice list. It would be perfect if Spielberg's A.I. wasn't on there.

 

"Contact" is certainly a "huh?" choice. Plenty of others that I don't like, too, but that's cool - we all have our preferences...

 

Such as....??

I'm in the (seemingly) incredibly small minority who thought Contact was a fantastic film. I've never understood why so many people dislike it with such a passion, but hey, to each his own.

 

A.I. is the sleeper for cult staus in the years to come.

 

How can you immediately discount 230+ films? You can't know if you'd like a movie or not until you watch it.....

 

Looks like I've seen 34 from start to finish. A few minutes of several of the
rest. I'm not much of a movie fan or TV watcher.........

 

Ebert's choice of not only including Godfather 1 ,,,but Godfather 2??!!!!! I recently relooked at the latter film
(1)It is a fine example of disjointed plotting. Various political characters are early introduced but the reasons regards futher proper plot development -the expected 'payoff' ever dissolves or disappears. Other characters are merely introduced to help prop up its 162 minute running time -creating but 'a big hick-up' when they instead wanted a epic. Keaton's 'big reveal' to Pacino before he slaps her...is both laughably dumb and stupid in dramatic terms. Almost as if her character is too ignorant to know the true menace Pacino's character is capable of. Please!!!!!What the hell is Troy Donahue in the film for,,,(another 'star' name just to add to the credits)? The whole thing meanders along, telegraphing everything coming, every chance it gets - like a tired dated day time serial. You think "get it over with ... this is boring"
All this, dubiously complimented with that ill conceived 'continental feel ' dark shadowy lighting., except for things like say, the Miami shots to let people know "its sunny, down there "
(2) The incredibly clumsly lay out construction of the script ....plus the extremely bad messy disjointed editing accentuating it, is a marvel at showing Coppola 'so full of ideas, so unable to then execute them properly'. A first grade easy primer for any film student.
(3) The only time Coppola really grabbed hold and showed real controlled bravura direction ,was the final denouement scene at the opera house - for something like 28 minutes duration - in the derided Godfather 3.

 

"Contact" isn't a BAD film - I just don't think it's better than "pretty good", and it's definitely not something I'd put on a list of "the great films"...