# The Great SDMB Movie Poll - Round 1 The Great 128 \[voting in this round closed\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 24, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339 "2026-09-24T14:07:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339/82 "2026-09-27T14:26:23Z")
That’s why i voted on some where i hadn’t seen both. There are a lot of movies i haven’t seen because i know i won’t enjoy them. I hope that doesn’t mess up the results. 😉 Also, thanks. This is a fun poll. ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339/83 "2026-09-27T14:29:19Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I hope that doesn’t mess up the results. Not at all! This poll is purely subjective! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339/84 "2026-09-27T14:31:04Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > (Gathering all the rankings from a source like that is a good use of an AI agent.) For purposes of this, absolutely; but as someone who has run movie leagues for years (which includes pulling IMDb and Metacritic data), I can tell you that (the unpaid versions of) chatGPT and Sonnet are incredibly frustrating, because they both pull wrong values even when you tell them to scrape the web. ChatGPT actually does the better job, but I just tested it again, and it’s still off. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339/85 "2026-09-27T14:38:05Z")
Hah, very true. If your goal is complete accuracy, any of the agents will fall short. But for low-stakes things like this, 90% is close enough. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339/86 "2026-09-27T14:48:02Z")
Do we know for sure that any of the agents will fall short? Like, I keep thinking a better version might pull it off. You might be a little startled at how much time I’ve spent on this since so many websites moved to dynamic scrolling of their tables…all my scoring used to be automated, now, alas… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339/87 "2026-09-27T16:28:23Z")
Polls are now closing. ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339/88 "2026-09-27T18:03:17Z")
Results from Round 1 have been tabulated and seed numbers assigned for the winners and losers. I’ll begin working on the polls for Round 2A (winners bracket) this afternoon. Round 2B (losers bracket) will be a separate thread posted soon thereafter. I made a mistake earlier in the matchups for R2A and R2B - it will be 1 vs 128 etc in 2A and 129 vs 256 etc in 2B. Here are the standings after Round 1: 1 Raiders of the Lost Ark 2 The Princess Bride 3 Jaws 4 Dr. Strangelove 5 Schindler’s List 6 Naked Gun 7 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 8 Stand By Me 9 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 10 Young Frankenstein 11 The Big Lebowski 12 Das Boot 13 The Fifth Element 14 Office Space 15 The Maltese Falcon 16 All the President’s Men 17 Clue 18 Groundhog Day 19 Blazing Saddles 20 Pulp Fiction 21 The Great Escape 22 Breakfast Club 23 The Dirty Dozen 24 Animal House 25 The Terminator 26 The Blues Brothers 27 Little Shop of Horrors (1986) 28 The Silence of the Lambs 29 The Sting 30 The Return of the King 31 Harvey 32 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 33 The Bridge on the River Kwai 34 Breaker Morant 35 Spirited Away 36 Forbidden Planet 37 Ghostbusters 38 Beetlejuice 39 Lawrence of Arabia 40 Kill Bill Pts. 1 & 2 41 Slap Shot 42 The Bourne Identity (2002) 43 Casablanca 44 Seven Samurai 45 The Martian 46 In Bruges 47 Aliens 48 2001: A Space Odyssey 49 The Godfather Part II 50 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 51 Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit 52 Silverado 53 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 54 The Hunt for Red October 55 Project Hail Mary 56 The Thing (1982) 57 Shaun of the Dead 58 Animal Crackers 59 Best in Show 60 Taxi Driver 61 The Magnificent Seven 62 The Empire Strikes Back 63 Fight Club 64 Reservoir Dogs 65 The Fugitive 66 Airplane! 67 Fargo 68 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 69 Citizen Kane 70 A Room With A View 71 Gran Torino 72 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 73 The Incredibles 74 Top Gun 75 The Third Man 76 For a Few Dollars More 77 Planes, Trains and Automobiles 78 The Godfather 79 Back to the Future 80 Top Secret! 81 Princess Mononoke 82 Wait Until Dark 83 Unforgiven 84 Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers 85 You Only Live Twice 86 The Descendants 87 Support Your Local Sheriff 88 This Is Spinal Tap 89 The Abyss 90 La Femme Nikita 91 What’s Up Doc? 92 Good Will Hunting 93 Murder by Death 94 Vertigo 95 Rock and Roll High School 96 King Kong (1933) 97 LA Confidential 98 Little Shop of Horrors (1960) 99 Tombstone 100 Endless Summer 101 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 102 Rocky 103 His Girl Friday 104 Clash of the Titans (1981) 105 The Hangover 106 The Shawshank Redemption 107 Rat Race 108 The Birds 109 Some Like It Hot 110 The Apartment 111 Master and Commander 112 The Searchers 113 The Caine Mutiny 114 Free Solo 115 From Russia With Love 116 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971 117 To Kill a Mockingbird 118 Almost Famous 119 The Package 120 The Fellowship of the Ring 121 Apocalypse Now 122 The Quiet Man 123 Charade 124 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 125 Pretty in Pink 126 Pygmalion 127 The Drop (2014) 128 RocknRolla 129 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 130 Dumbo (1941) 131 Who’s Harry Crumb 132 Persuasion (1995) 133 It follows 134 Toy Story 135 The Usual Suspects 136 Witness for the Prosecution 137 Repo Man 138 North By Northwest 139 The Matrix 140 The Longest Day 141 Stalker (1979) 142 Trainspotting 143 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 144 Captain America: The First Avenger 145 Leon: The Professional (AKA The Professional) 146 Spaced Invaders 147 Inglourious Basterds 148 Grease 149 Help! 150 Apollo 13 151 Les Miserables 152 Star Wars: A New Hope 153 It’s a Wonderful Life 154 Bad Santa 155 Hobson’s Choice 156 Top Hat 157 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 158 True Grit (2010) 159 Sixteen Candles 160 Weekend at Bernie’s 161 A Good Year 162 Grosse Point Blank 163 Bruce Almighty 164 The Exorcist 165 Cold Mountain 166 Goodfellas 167 My Man Godfrey 168 Silver Linings Playbook 169 Amarcord 170 A Clockwork Orange 171 Breathless (1960) 172 The Cocoanuts 173 Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) 174 Paul 175 The Adventures of Robin Hood 176 My Cousin Vinnie 177 Saving Private Ryan 178 The Wages of Fear (1953) 179 Big Wednesday 180 Locke 181 12 Monkeys 182 Goldfinger 183 Father Goose 184 Rashomon 185 Sleuth (1972) 186 Galaxy Quest 187 The Producers 188 Road House (1989) 189 The Deer Hunter 190 Phantom of the Paradise 191 The Castle 192 12 Angry Men 193 The Cabin in the woods 194 Inception 195 Contact 196 The Emperor’s New Groove 197 Christmas Vacation 198 Sideways 199 Braveheart 200 The Outfit (2022) 201 Bull Durham 202 Arthur 203 The Best Years of Our Lives 204 Poltergeist 205 The Little Girl That Lives Down The Lane 206 Strange Cargo (1940) 207 The Oxbow Incident 208 Hot Fuzz 209 A League of their Own 210 To Have and Have Not 211 The Shining 212 Tootsie 213 Papillon 214 A Midnight Clear 215 Old Henry 216 Return of the Living Dead 217 Greyhound 218 Winter’s Bone 219 Layer Cake 220 Notorious 221 Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 222 Kongo (1932) 223 Yankee Doodle Dandy 224 Swordsman II (1992) 225 Before Sunrise 226 Bottle Shock 227 Come and Get It 228 Rain Main 229 Touch of Evil 230 On Golden Pond 231 Moonrise Kingdom 232 All That Jazz 233 Mildred Pierce 234 Naked Lunch 235 Persona 236 Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure 237 Kiss Me Deadly 238 Zulu 239 Double Indemnity 240 The Grey Man 241 Invasion of Astro-Monster (AKA Monster Zero) 242 Evil Dead 2 243 Oscar 244 Queen Christina 245 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 246 North Dallas Forty 247 Last Year at Marienbad 248 Lost Highway 249 Anger Management 250 Out of the Past 251 Beat The Devil 252 Kiss the Blood off my Hands 253 Bikini Beach 254 Dinner for Schmucks 255 Snatch 256 Madagascar II ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339/89 "2026-09-27T20:04:43Z")
Can you post links here to the new thread(s) after you’ve set them up? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339/90 "2026-09-27T20:11:34Z")
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Round 2B is here: [The Great SDMB Movie Poll - Round 2B Best of the Rest - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-2b-best-of-the-rest/1033445) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-sdmb-movie-poll-round-1-the-great-128-voting-in-this-round-closed/1033339.md?page=4)