Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971
Tootsie
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Okay, I think that’s ten for me.
Just remembered Rat Race
Unforgiven
Godfather Part II
Good Will Hunting
Airplane
Groundhog Day
Arthur
The Hunt for Red October
The Exorcist
Almost Famous
On Golden Pond
Or the first, both great choices, and i should have added one.
Good one.
Not one bad choice there.
Yes!
I was weighing between that or Casablanca.
!!! 
I prefer the OG- It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Salute to all for listing so many of my favorites and guilty pleasures. I could pull a top 50 from these and be very upset about the ones that didn’t make the cut. I’ll try to list 10 I don’t recall seeing above:
Princess Mononoke
The Usual Suspects
Rouge One
Inglorious Basterds
Silver Linings Playbook
North Dallas Forty
Bull Durham
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
This list is put together without extensive thought, but I love each and every one of them.
- The Princess Bride
- Casablanca
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Star Wars
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Clue
- The Fugitive
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- What’s Up Doc?
- The Producers
Phantom of the Paradise
Slap Shot
The Sting
From Russia With Love
The Godfather
The Silence of the Lambs
Some Like It Hot
Back to the Future
Vertigo
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Hot Fuzz
The Incredibles
I had to trim the list from 15… the 15 were the only films I rate 10/10 on IMDB.
I have so many favorite movies, I can only give a random sampling off the top of my head. But Casablanca and American Graffiti come before all others.
The next random ten include:
- My Man Godfrey
- Pygmalion
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- His Girl Friday
- Double Indemnity
- Mildred Pierce
- The Heiress
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- The Apartment
- The Train
Runners up:
The Philadelphia Story
The Great Escape
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Wait until Dark
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
In no particular order;
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Project Hail Mary
- Aliens
- Shin Godzilla
- The Princess Bride
- District 9
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Kill Bill Pts. 1 & 2
Arrival (2016) — Science Fiction / Drama
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) — Comedy / Road Movie
The Deer Hunter (1978) — War / Drama
Jaws (1975) — Thriller / Horror / Adventure
The Godfather (1972) — Crime / Drama
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) — Science Fiction / Adventure
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) — Psychological Drama
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) — Black Comedy / Political Satire
His Girl Friday (1940) — Screwball Comedy / Romance
Safety Last! (1923) — Silent Comedy / Romantic Comedy
Please hold further nominations while I tally up the overnights. We may have reached 256 unique entries.
That put us over the top and we now have 272 unique entries. I’m going to work my way back through the submissions and remove the last 16 unique nominations for a final list of 256, which I will post here.
Wow. I’m kind of gobsmacked that a few of these weren’t nominated until the last few posts. These are the last 16 unique nominations that will be removed from the running:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arrival
District 9
Double Indemnity
Jaws
Kill Bill Pts. 1 & 2
Mildred Pierce
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Safety Last!
Shin Godzilla
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Deer Hunter
The Heiress
The Train
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
It pains me that I didn’t squeeze Jaws onto my list and I can’t believe it’s not in the running, but this is the only fair way to do this. With the tournament format, 256 is a hard limit because really 512 is too many to handle. Final list of 256 forthcoming.
:Drumroll: Here is the list of the 256 unique entries.
12 Angry Men
12 Monkeys
A Clockwork Orange
A Good Year
A League of their Own
A Midnight Clear
A Room With A View
Airplane!
Aliens
All That Jazz
All the President’s Men
Almost Famous
Amarcord
Anger Management
Animal Crackers
Animal House
Apocalypse Now
Apollo 13
Arthur
Back to the Future
Bad Santa
Beat The Devil
Beetlejuice
Before Sunrise
Best in Show
Big Wednesday
Bikini Beach
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Blazing Saddles
Bottle Shock
Braveheart
Breaker Morant
Breakfast Club
Breathless (1960)
Bruce Almighty
Bull Durham
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Captain America: The First Avenger
Casablanca
Charade
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Christmas Vacation
Citizen Kane
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clue
Cold Mountain
Come and Get It
Contact
Das Boot
Dinner for Schmucks
Dr. Strangelove
Dumbo (1941)
Endless Summer
Evil Dead 2
Fargo
Father Goose
Fight Club
For a Few Dollars More
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Forbidden Planet
Free Solo
From Russia With Love
Galaxy Quest
Ghosbusters
Goldfinger
Good Will Hunting
Goodfellas
Grand Torino
Grease
Greyhound
Grosse Point Blank
Groundhog Day
Harvey
Help!
His Girl Friday
Hobson’s Choice
Hot Fuzz
In Bruges
Inception
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Inglorious Basterds
Invasion of Astro-Monster (AKA Monster Zero)
It follows
It’s a Wonderful Life
King Kong (1933)
Kiss Me Deadly
Kiss the Blood off my Hands
Kongo (1932)
LA Confidential
La Femme Nikita
Last Year at Marienbad
Lawrence of Arabia
Layer Cake
Leon: The professional
Les Miserables
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Locke
Lost Highway
Madagascar II
Master and Commander
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Moonrise Kingdom
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha)
Murder by Death
My Cousin Vinnie
My Man Godfrey
Naked Gun
Naked Lunch
North By Northwest
North Dallas Forty
Notorious
Office Space
Old Henry
On Golden Pond
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oscar
Out of the Past
Papillon
Paul
Persona
Persuasion (1995)
Phantom of the Paradise
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Poltergeist
Pretty in Pink
Princess Bride
Princess Mononoke
Project Hail Mary
Pulp Fiction
Pygmalion
Queen Christina
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Man
Rashomon
Rat Race
Repo Man
Reservoir Dogs
Return of the Living Dead
Road House
Rock and Roll High School
RocknRolla
Rocky
Rogue One
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
Shaun of the Dead
Sideways
Silver Linings Playbook
Silverado
Sixteen Candles
Slap Shot
Sleuth (1970s version)
Snatch
Some Like It Hot
Spaced Invaders
Spirited Away
Stalker (1979)
Stand By Me
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Wars: A New Hope
Strange Cargo (1940)
Support Your Local Sheriff
Swordsman II (1992)
Taxi Driver
The Abyss
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Apartment
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Lebowski
The Birds
The Blues Brothers
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Cabin in the woods
The Caine Mutiny
The Castle
The Cocoanuts
The Descendants
The Dirty Dozen
The Drop
The Emperor’s New Groove
The Empire Strikes Back
The Exorcist
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fifth Element
The Fugitive
The Girl Can’t Help It (1958)
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Great Escape
The Grey Man
The Hangover
The Hunt for Red October
The Incredibles
The Little Girl That Lives Down The Lane
The Longest Day
The Magnificent Seven
The Maltese Falcon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Martian
The Matrix
The Outfit
The Oxbow Incident
The Package
The Princess Bride
The Producers
The Quiet Man
The Return of the King
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Searchers
The Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sting
The Terminator
The Thing (1982)
The Third Man
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Two Towers
The Usual Suspects
The Wages of Fear
The Wrong Trousers
This Is Spinal Tap
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
To Have and Have Not
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tombstone
Tootsie
Top Gun
Top Hat
Top Secret
Touch of Evil
Toy Story
Trainspotting
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
True Grit (Coen Bros)
Unforgiven
Vertigo
Wait Until Dark
Wallace & Gromit – Curse of the Were Rabbit
Weekend at Bernie’s
What’s Up Doc?
Who’s Harry Crumb
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971
Winter’s Bone
Witness for the Prosecution
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yojimbo
You Only Live Twice
Young Frankenstein
Zulu
In giving further consideration to the 16 latest entries that were removed, I offer the following proposal: if anyone wants to make a swap for a unique pick on their list for one of the removed movies, please do so before 6 PM Eastern today. The swap has to be for a movie that you were the only one who nominated, e.g. you can’t swap Jaws for The Godfather because it was nominated multiple times. I’ll check proposed swaps for uniqueness until the 6 PM deadline.
Is it too late to put in my list?
The Seven Samurai
2001: A Space Odyssey
Forbidden Planet
The Sting
Star Wars (1977)
What’s Up, Doc
The Last of Sheila
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Fantasia
I will sacrifice my Road House - which I’m pretty confident is a unique pick - to get Double Indemnity in the game.
mmm
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Treasure of the Sierra Madre are presumably the same film. There are two movies titled The Producers: The original was made in 1967 and the remake in 2005. It’s likely both posters meant the original version.
Good catch. It was submitted a total of 3 times and I only caught one missing the ‘The’