And here is the final list of 256 films.
12 Angry Men
12 Monkeys
2001: A Space Odyssey
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
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Dumbo (1941)
Endless Summer
Evil Dead 2
Fargo
Father Goose
Fight Club
For a Few Dollars More
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
Jaws
Kill Bill Pts. 1 & 2
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
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Poltergeist
Pretty in Pink
Princess Bride
Princess Mononoke
Project Hail Mary
Pulp Fiction
Pygmalion
Queen Christina
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Main
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
Seven Samurai
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 Deer Hunter
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 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 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 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
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
You Only Live Twice
Young Frankenstein
Zulu
Tomorrow I will begin pasting them into a bracket for the first round and composing a voting thread for Round 1. Voting will be head to head matchups based on randomly assigned seed numbers. Each vote will count as one point for scoring. Each round will be an elimination round.