Of course, I disagree with the placement of some of these on the top 100 movies list... and, of course, I had to click on several of the foreign title links to make sure I had seen them (I had, in most cases).
BTW:
Shichinin no samurai is also known as "Seven Samurai" and was the basis for the Western classic "The Magnificent Seven"
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il is also known as "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", one of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns.
C'era una volta il West is also known as "Once Upon A Time In the West" another spaghetti western, this one starring Charles Bronson.
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi is also known as "Spirited Away", and I daresay it's one of the few anime movies I've seen that I liked. I'm also willing to bet a lot of people who took this little quiz didn't realize which movie it was when they checked that they didn't see it.
Wo hu cang long is also known as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and again, I'm willing to bet most people didn't recognize it by the original title.
IMDB's Top 100 Best Movies of All Time
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1 | Godfather, The (1972) | Finished It | 2 | Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) | Finished It | 3 | Godfather: Part II, The (1974) | Started It | 4 | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) | Finished It | 5 | Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) | | 6 | Casablanca (1942) | Finished It | 7 | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) | Finished It | 8 | Schindler's List (1993) | | 9 | Shichinin no samurai (1954) | Finished It | 10 | Star Wars (1977) | Finished It | 11 | Citizen Kane (1941) | Started It | 12 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | Finished It | 13 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | Finished It | 14 | Rear Window (1954) | | 15 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | Finished It | 16 | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | Finished It | 17 | Memento (2000) | | 18 | Usual Suspects, The (1995) | Finished It | 19 | Pulp Fiction (1994) | Finished It | 20 | North by Northwest (1959) | Finished It | 21 | 12 Angry Men (1957) | Finished It | 22 | Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) | | 23 | Psycho (1960) | Finished It | 24 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | Finished It | 25 | Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) | Finished It | 26 | Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) | Finished It | 27 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | Started It | 28 | Goodfellas (1990) | Finished It | 29 | American Beauty (1999) | Started It | 30 | Vertigo (1958) | | 31 | Sunset Blvd. (1950) | | 32 | Matrix, The (1999) | Finished It | 33 | Apocalypse Now (1979) | Finished It | 34 | Pianist, The (2002) | | 35 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | Finished It | 36 | C'era una volta il West (1968) | Finished It | 37 | Some Like It Hot (1959) | | 38 | Third Man, The (1949) | Finished It | 39 | Taxi Driver (1976) | Started It | 40 | Paths of Glory (1957) | | 41 | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) | Finished It | 42 | Fight Club (1999) | Finished It | 43 | Boot, Das (1981) | Finished It | 44 | Double Indemnity (1944) | | 45 | L.A. Confidential (1997) | Finished It | 46 | Chinatown (1974) | Started It | 47 | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | Started It | 48 | Maltese Falcon, The (1941) | Finished It | 49 | M (1931) | | 50 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) | | 51 | Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) | Hated It! | 52 | All About Eve (1950) | | 53 | Se7en (1995) | Finished It | 54 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | Finished It | 55 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) | Finished It | 56 | Cidade de Deus (2002) | | 57 | Raging Bull (1980) | Started It | 58 | Rashômon (1950) | | 59 | Wizard of Oz, The (1939) | Finished It | 60 | Sting, The (1973) | Finished It | 61 | Alien (1979) | Finished It | 62 | American History X (1998) | Started It | 63 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | Started It | 64 | Léon (1994) | Finished It | 65 | Vita è bella, La (1997) | | 66 | Touch of Evil (1958) | | 67 | Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) | Started It | 68 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | Finished It | 69 | Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) | Finished It | 70 | Great Escape, The (1963) | Finished It | 71 | Wo hu cang long (2000) | Finished It | 72 | Reservoir Dogs (1992) | Finished It | 73 | Clockwork Orange, A (1971) | Started It | 74 | Amadeus (1984) | Started It | 75 | Modern Times (1936) | | 76 | Ran (1985) | | 77 | Annie Hall (1977) | | 78 | Jaws (1975) | Finished It | 79 | On the Waterfront (1954) | Started It | 80 | Braveheart (1995) | Finished It | 81 | High Noon (1952) | Finished It | 82 | Apartment, The (1960) | | 83 | Fargo (1996) | Started It | 84 | Sixth Sense, The (1999) | Finished It | 85 | Aliens (1986) | Finished It | 86 | Shining, The (1980) | Finished It | 87 | Strangers on a Train (1951) | | 88 | Blade Runner (1982) | Finished It | 89 | Metropolis (1927) | | 90 | Duck Soup (1933) | Finished It | 91 | Finding Nemo (2003) | | 92 | Donnie Darko (2001) | | 93 | General, The (1927) | | 94 | City Lights (1931) | | 95 | Princess Bride, The (1987) | Finished It | 96 | Toy Story 2 (1999) | Finished It | 97 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) | | 98 | Great Dictator, The (1940) | | 99 | Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) | | 100 | Lola rennt (1998) | |
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Don't get me wrong, I like the movie. I think it's a very good movie, and only diverges a bit from the original story by Stephen King (called "Rita Heyworth and the Shawshank Redemption" and subtitled "Hope Springs Eternal" from the Different Seasons collection of stories.) And the differences from the story aren't that bad.
I just don't think it's the "#2 movie of all time".
I also question all three of the LotR movies being in the top 10. Good movies? Yes. Great movies? Certainly. Top 10 of all time? All three of them? No... wait, maybe. Give it 5 years and see what people think.
Actually, if there is one thing that shows this list is "messed up", it's that Toy Story 2 is on this list and Toy Story (the original) isn't. Now, I've seen both, but for the life of me, I couldn't tell you one memorable scene in TS 2... so something is just a little wonky here.