I thought this might be fun. I'd seen some posts (via Kate Steele first!) talking about the BBC list of 100 books to read and how BBC believes most people have read only 6 of those 100 books.
That topic eventually randomly led to some friends and I deciding to see how many movies we had seen in the AFI Top 100 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years..._100_Movies_(10th_Anniversary_Edition)] - we did the 2007 edition, not the 1997 edition). Out of the AFI Top 100, I've seen 53.
Also, we did the top 100 movies from the IMDb Top 250 (http://www.imdb.com/chart/top). This one is more biased toward a certain target audience (i.e. young male adults like me), and I certainly have used this list more in my past to consider what movies to watch, so it turns out that I've seen 74 of the current 100.
It should be noted that this list changes here and there (Inception will definitely get lower over time, as new movies typically peak at the start. The Dark Knight was #1 at its start. And movies will fall in and out of the top 100). But yeah, I thought some of you might enjoy seeing these lists and seeing how many of these films you had watched. Cheers.
The movies I've seen are in bold.
AFI
1 Citizen Kane
2 The Godfather
3 Casablanca
4 Raging Bull
5 Singin' in the Rain
6 Gone with the Wind
7 Lawrence of Arabia
8 Schindler's List
9 Vertigo
10 The Wizard of Oz
11 City Lights
12 The Searchers
13 Star Wars
14 Psycho
15 2001: A Space Odyssey
16 Sunset Boulevard
17 The Graduate
18 The General
19 On the Waterfront
20 It's a Wonderful Life
21 Chinatown
22 Some Like It Hot
23 The Grapes of Wrath
24 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
25 To Kill a Mockingbird
26 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27 High Noon
28 All About Eve
29 Double Indemnity
30 Apocalypse Now
31 The Maltese Falcon
32 The Godfather Part II
33 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
34 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35 Annie Hall
36 The Bridge on the River Kwai
37 The Best Years of Our Lives
38 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39 Dr. Strangelove
40 The Sound of Music
41 King Kong
42 Bonnie and Clyde
43 Midnight Cowboy
44 The Philadelphia Story
45 Shane
46 It Happened One Night
47 A Streetcar Named Desire
48 Rear Window
49 Intolerance
50 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
51 West Side Story
52 Taxi Driver
53 The Deer Hunter
54 MASH
55 North by Northwest
56 Jaws
57 Rocky
58 The Gold Rush
59 Nashville
60 Duck Soup
61 Sullivan's Travels
62 American Graffiti
63 Cabaret
64 Network
65 The African Queen
66 Raiders of the Lost Ark
67 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
68 Unforgiven
69 Tootsie
70 A Clockwork Orange
71 Saving Private Ryan
72 The Shawshank Redemption
73 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74 The Silence of the Lambs
75 In the Heat of the Night
76 Forrest Gump
77 All the President's Men
78 Modern Times
79 The Wild Bunch
80 The Apartment
81 Spartacus
82 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
83 Titanic
84 Easy Rider
85 A Night at the Opera
86 Platoon
87 12 Angry Men
88 Bringing Up Baby
89 The Sixth Sense
90 Swing Time
91 Sophie's Choice
92 Goodfellas
93 The French Connection
94 Pulp Fiction
95 The Last Picture Show
96 Do the Right Thing
97 Blade Runner
98 Yankee Doodle Dandy
99 Toy Story
100 Ben-Hur
IMDb Top 100
1 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2 The Godfather (1972)
3 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
4 Inception (2010)
5 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
6 Pulp Fiction (1994)
7 Schindler's List (1993)
8 12 Angry Men (1957)
9 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
10 The Dark Knight (2008)
11 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980)
12 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(2003)
13 Seven Samurai (1954)
14 Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
15 Goodfellas (1990)
16 Casablanca (1942)
17 Fight Club (1999)
18 City of God (2002)
19 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001)
20 Toy Story 3 (2010)
21 Rear Window (1954)
22 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
23 Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
24 Psycho (1960)
25 The Usual Suspects (1995)
26 The Matrix (1999)
27 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
28 Se7en (1995)
29 Memento (2000)
30 It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
31 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
32 Sunset Blvd. (1950)
33 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
34 The Professional (1994)
35 Forrest Gump (1994)
36 Citizen Kane (1941)
37 Apocalypse Now (1979)
38 North by Northwest (1959)
39 American Beauty (1999)
40 American History X (1998)
41 Taxi Driver (1976)
42 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
43 Vertigo (1958)
44 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
45 Amélie (2001)
46 Alien (1979)
47 WALL·E (2008)
48 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
49 The Shining (1980)
50 Spirited Away (2001)
51 Paths of Glory (1957)
52 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
53 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
54 The Pianist (2002)
55 Double Indemnity (1944)
56 The Departed (2006)
57 The Lives of Others (2006) 50
58 M (1931)
59 Aliens (1986)
60 City Lights (1931)
61 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
62 Requiem for a Dream (2000)
63 Das Boot (1981)
64 The Third Man (1949)
65 L.A. Confidential (1997)
66 Chinatown (1974)
67 Reservoir Dogs (1992)
68 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
69 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
70 Modern Times (1936)
71 Life Is Beautiful (1997)
72 Back to the Future (1985)
73 Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
74 The Prestige (2006)
75 Raging Bull (1980)
76 Cinema Paradiso (1988)
77 Singin' in the Rain (1952)
78 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
79 Some Like It Hot (1959)
80 Rashomon (1950)
81 Amadeus (1984)
82 All About Eve (1950)
83 Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
84 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
85 Inglourious Basterds (2009)
86 The Green Mile (1999)
87 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
88 Braveheart (1995)
89 The Great Dictator (1940)
90 Bicycle Thieves (1948)
91 The Apartment (1960)
92 Downfall (2004)
93 Up (2009)
94 Gran Torino (2008)
95 Metropolis (1927)
96 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
97 The Sting (1973)
98 Gladiator (2000)
99 The Elephant Man (1980)
100 Sin City (2005)
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