The 30 Greatest Film Challenge 2 (31-60)

[@Dunderslag]

It was an excellent idea to combine eight well-known (more or less) lists into one, especially when you consider that it is impossible to create an objective list that will please everyone. It's nice that the idea is being continued. I find the mixture of world-famous films and those you've never heard of before particularly interesting. And I like the selection of scenes and the annotations, too. So there's no reason why you shouldn't add a third part at some point, 61 to 90, if it's not too much work.

[@TheMediaInsider]

Thank you! Herein lies the problem - I love doing it and would like to make it up to 100, it they do take around 50 hours to write, record and edit, and there are so many other videos I’m excited to make! Thanks for watching and for the encouragement

[@Dunderslag]

@@TheMediaInsider 50 hours ... I think if you've never done something like this yourself, you have no idea how much work it takes to put it together. Good luck anyway!

[@Dunderslag]

Incidentally, I find it quite telling that after the turn of the millennium, not a single movie appears in the Top 60. Or have I overlooked one? I think the most recent movie is “Matrix” from 1999.

[@TheMediaInsider]

Yes, I noticed that, and there are definitely a couple of Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino films that I think will be on such lists in the future

[@BRNRDNCK]

@@TheMediaInsider Would you consider figuring out which films come from 61-90 and publishing a community note instead of making a video?

[@OutOfAmmoOutOfTime]

Another fantastic list. I really appreciate it, I was of course sad to see some favourites missing, but no list can ever be definitive. I missed: Le Samourai, La Jete, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Broken Blossoms, Apocalypse Now, In The Realm Of The Senses, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Parasite to name a very few….thank you for an awesome video!!!!

[@jacobdawes6405]

Titanic is one of my all time favorites! A beautiful movie that puts you into history and tells possibly the best romantic tragedy of all time! No notes, love it start to finish, should be in more greatest films of all time lists

[@TheMediaInsider]

Not sure why I consider it a guilty pleasure! Like I said in the video, it is commercially and culturally hugely popular and significant, and yet snubbed from most lists! I think there is definitely an element of film snobbery, and yet it’s an incredibly enjoyable film.

[@davrothelegend]

Enjoying your work! This type of list really does make you question how we see cinema differently and it's utility. Some enjoy it for the art, some for the escapism and some for the sheer spectacle and fun factor. One reason or use does not have to trump the other, so I believe all are valid reasons to rate a film.

[@TheMediaInsider]

I couldn’t agree more! And I can honestly say there are a bunch of films I enjoy for each of the reasons you’ve listed

[@MastaMyth]

I really wanted The Deer Hunter on this list. Some consider it too long/drawn out, but it adds to the angst and uneasiness of the story being told. A great story, at that.

[@jamiemartin6603]

You shouldn’t need to justify putting Titanic in here. It’s an incredible cinematic achievement that still holds up today as it looks amazing and has great heart. Just because it doesn’t have an intricate or complex plot doesn’t take away from how great it is. As someone who wasn’t even born when it came out, I get disappointed when people disregard as just a romance movie or overrated. It won best picture for a reason. Also, like others said, great list but still no LOTR???

[@TheMediaInsider]

Fellowship of the Ring would completely be on my personal list: best of the three movies in my opinion

[@thevinyltruffle]

31. Rashomon 32. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 33. Beau Travail 34. The Silence of the Lambs 35. Saving Private Ryan 36. The Wizard of Oz 37. North By Northwest 38. The 400 Blows 39. The Bicycle Thieves 40. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc 41. Mulholland Drive 42. Rear Window 43. Alien 44. Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans 45. Toy Story 46. One Flex Over The Cuckoos Nest 47. La Dolce Vita 48. 8 1/2 49. Spirited Away 50. Titanic 51. Pather Panchali 52. The Matrix 53. Raiders of the Lost Ark 54. The Searchers 55. Annie Hall 56. All About Eve 57. 12 Angry Men 58. ET: The Extra Terrestrial 59. The Rules of the Game 60. Raging Bull

[@daviahnthrasher72]

Eli Madden kinda clutch

[@afonsoazevedoneves]

Great job. Although I think you can make a solid argument for all of these films I would love to see your take in the likes of gems like The Thin Red Line, that was a bit obscured by Saving Private Ryan but when I saw it years later couldn’t understand by the life of me it wasn’t considered the best war movie. Maybe because like 2001, it goes beyond its genre. Another movie that I only understood and learn to love years later was White Hunter, Black Heart.

[@SavidgeGaming]

Loved both of these videos. I will slowly but surely get through these films. :)

[@TheMediaInsider]

Glad you enjoyed! Can’t guarantee you’ll enjoy all of them but you’re bound to find some of them new favourites.

[@JacobAdrian-i5m]

Finally watched DAS BOOT. Definitely one of the greats!

[@TheMediaInsider]

I’ve added it to my watch list! I’ll try to catch it this week!

[@JacobAdrian-i5m]

@@TheMediaInsider just make sure you go for 3 1/2 hour version. Or the 5 hour television run. Both are great.

[@johnjay9404]

Das Boot is important. I would like to add Generation War. Very compelling German side of the war.

[@harshalthakur5625]

Magnificent curation and analysis

[@TheMediaInsider]

High praise indeed! Thank you!

[@silverfiste]

great list(s) would be interesting to see lists for specific genre

[@carsonw8223]

Another great list, script, and editing job! But I still don't know how LOTR, massively acclaimed by critics and fans alike, more so than many films on this list, didn't make the list. Something is wrong with the algorithm!

[@TheMediaInsider]

Looking back at it, most greatest film lists definitely seem to favour movies that are at least 50 years old, so it’s definitely a bit skewed. Totally agree that Lord of the rings should be on the list from a storytelling, special effects, and feat of logistics point of view. And the soundtrack!

[@RCCrisp]

​@@TheMediaInsiderthere might be an issue with split voting. While I haven't investigated I know a lot of these lists either put Return of the King on their list to represent the entire trilogy or The Two Towers to represent the best film. Would love to see what score you'd get if you aggregated all three LOTR movies as "one movie" and what place it would get.

[@TheMediaInsider]

@@RCCrisp I actually considered doing this, but then I thought it would only be fair if I did the same for all trilogies like Godfather etc. and didn’t want to skew it even more!

[@kelskye]

Glad to see The Matrix in. Fully agreed that when it came out it was mind-blowing! Combining the two lists, I've seen 53/60. Missing: List 1: Do the Right Thing, Jeanne Dielman List 2: Beau Trevail, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Sunrise, 8 and 1/2, Pather Panchali

[@TheMediaInsider]

Not going to lie, that is a very impressive number! Of the ones you’ve listed, I would say the passion of Joan of Arc is the first one you should watch! Absolutely amazing given its age

[@reptongeek]

My local cinema was showing Do The Right Thing earlier this year. Couldn't go unfortunately as I was busy elsewhere

[@seancromwell327]

Annie Hall is also one of my top 4 movies of all time!

[@TheMediaInsider]

It’s good but wouldn’t be on my top 100 at all!

[@lovethomassowell]

I don't think they will make it in the top 100, but am hoping to see Laura, The Conversation, and The Day of the Jackal

[@TheMediaInsider]

Sadly not but i think the conversation was highest of the three

[@NDKMovieMunchies]

There are movies that were released a long time ago but when you watch them again, you still find them very interesting. nice !

[@TheMediaInsider]

I totally find that! And sometimes I’ll watch and oldie and think they don’t make them like that anymore

[@NDKMovieMunchies]

@@TheMediaInsider yes. i like to see the simple techniques of such movies. it seems more real

[@njt002]

Harrison Ford was a great Indiana Jones as the adventurer, but I never believed him as a professor.

[@TheMediaInsider]

I always thought he was quite wooden as Professor Jones in the classroom, and when I look at it now I wonder if that was intentional: almost highlighting the double life he leads that the students wouldn’t believe

[@dh3279]

Some great and obviously appropriate films on this list. One broad omission to me is Korean films. There are several that should find their way onto these types of lists. My personal favorite is The Man From Nowhere, but other masterpiece Korean films like Tae Guk Gi, Train To Busan, The Handmaiden, A Tale of Two Sisters, and Oldboy are probably worthy too.

[@TheMediaInsider]

Old boy and parasite would 💯 be on my personal list

[@RossCurtis-l5h]

Difficult to pick favourite, important, memorable films when there are so many on different levels out there. Hoping to see in the future maybe, The Wild Bunch, Spartacus or even Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.

[@TheMediaInsider]

I’m tempted to follow this up with my personal top 30. Butch Cassidy would definitely be on the list!

[@andrewduvall1637]

I’m ready for 61-90!

[@Jamiecbailey]

Mullholland Dr: The dirt covered hobo is explained in “The Return.”

[@reptongeek]

I love All About Eve! So glad it made the list

[@TheMediaInsider]

I thought that was a bit of a curve ball!

[@MusicAsWeMakeIt]

Thank you. Nice work.

[@TheMediaInsider]

Thank you too!

[@johnjay9404]

Hmm... I have to admit, I'm disappointed that WALL-E wasn't mentioned. I feel it's a very important Pixar animation. Also, Spielberg's Close Encounters of the third kind.

[@TheMediaInsider]

Yes, I think it’s one of their best animations, and I often think it’s one of the most accurate depictions of our dystopian future when you look at the way technology is evolving

[@satyb]

My only gripe is that some films only have 3 scores and can average out better than some with more. If I wasn't so lazy I would go through the list and give a 4th score of 100 for those with only 3 and maybe just take the 4 best scores from the others. But at the end of the day it's a list of films I've already heard about and seen over 90% and doesn't change my mind for which ones I like and which I don't but it may help people looking for ideas of films to watch.

[@TheMediaInsider]

I’ve pondered over this too: the algorithm I’ve used certainly isn’t perfect, but like you say, hopefully provide a good starting point for must see movies for those relatively new to film. In hindsight, I’ve thought about whether it would’ve been more balanced if those that received a score in the top 20 had an inflated score, so that those with a range of very low scores weren’t able to balance the same.

[@MichaelKitto]

look forward to the list of films 61-90

[@TheMediaInsider]

No promises!

[@jacobdawes6405]

I think its crazy how little animated movies made it on these lists. The constant disrespect by film critics and industry veterans towards animation as a medium never ceases to baffle me .

[@TheMediaInsider]

Couldn’t agree more! For me, I’d add: Grave of the fireflies Ghost in the shell Soul When the wind blows How about you?

[@seancromwell327]

ALIEN is one of my top 4 movies of all time!!!!

[@TheMediaInsider]

I’ve never stopped to really think about the other of my top 10 but alien would definitely be there!

[@1800astra]

I admit, I had some issues with your first vid (and made comment on it), but this has really reset the compass. Superb summaries, great cuts from each movie, some really thoughtful critique.. I love it! How much longer are you keeping it going? We're at 60, and as yet we've seen no Fassbinder, Herzog, Kieslowski or, dare I say it, Griffith?

[@TheMediaInsider]

After the slog of editing both videos, I promised I would never make another, and already I’m considering it! Thanks for watching

[@runthemmemes7682]

Never picking toy story over Akira

[@TheMediaInsider]

Same

[@xepfeon]

An unfortunate big mistake in the video, is calling animation a genre. It is it's own medium.

[@TheMediaInsider]

Dang!

[@thepartyoftea]

Just missing four, not bad.

[@TheMediaInsider]

Blimey, that’s not bad at all!

[@niklasent]

Still no Lotr and no Sergio Leone😢

[@TheMediaInsider]

I know right?! Question which lotr and which leone film?

[@niklasent]

@@TheMediaInsider Thats not so easy. My personal favorite is Two Towers and Once upon the time in the west. But more critically acclaimed are Rofk and GBU😅

[@MastaMyth]

@@niklasentI was looking for a comment like yours as well as one about Cimino’s The Deer Hunter. As far as Leone goes, I’d vote for Once upon a time in America. On the other side, the Fellowship would get my vote

[@onyx108]

Hello sir

[@TheMediaInsider]

Hello there!

[@shturmovik3033]

Why not top 100?

[@TheMediaInsider]

I don’t think my brain would survive! Working on an analysis of parasite next

[@peterhudson23]

Sorry to be this way, just a bit frustrated, cause where in the F*CK is City of God?! Sorry again, to me it's the best film ever made for a great many reasons, edged out the Godfather in my own list maybe about 7 or 8 years ago after really thinking about it

[@TheMediaInsider]

Yes, really shocked at how few mentions it got on the various lists I used

[@TSP-HIKER]

I can't stand John Wayne. His voice alone is grinding my gears. I love so many of these movies and I love westerns too. But John Wayne is just too... something. What is it? Somebody help me out here. What am I missing?

[@TheMediaInsider]

I think he’s just very of his time. I also think that he became incredibly dated once he was replaced with Clint Eastwood.

[@thevinyltruffle]

@@TheMediaInsideralso, he was a horrible person. When I see him, I can’t see past what he embodies in real life.

[@masudashizue777]

I usually like war films but I don't care for Saving Private Ryan. It tries too hard to try to impress you.

[@hyun-kookchoi6349]

Yes!! Finally someone who agrees with what I'm saying all the time. Especially the landing scene screams constantly "look look how well I'm staged", and in the end it's all about revenge and how well saved Ryan lived his life to justify the casualties of the endeavour. If there's only one war movie one should see it's "come and see", and one could make an argument for it being probably the one movie not to miss of all movies.

[@TheMediaInsider]

I loved it! I still remember seeing it in the cinema (albeit as a teen) and it had a big impact

[@richardthurston2171]

@@hyun-kookchoi6349 Two very good films depicting the madness of war. Both by Stanley Kubrick. Paths of Glory from 1957 and Full Metal Jacket from 1987. Both are powerful and deeply unsettling.

[@MichaelLuke-w6p]

it does impress MOST people and critics, war is not heroic but tragic 😢😢

[@charlotte-m5d]

Parasite is the last movie I saw in a theater and it was absolute garbage.

[@TheMediaInsider]

I loved it! You’ve not been in 5 years?

[@thevinyltruffle]

Garbage? Wow. You’re prob more of a Micheal Bay lover.

[@ABloodyEyeFull]

Titanic and The Silence of the Lambs would be highest on my worst films of all time list. Both are overrated, silly, unrealistic, and unconvincingly daft!

[@TheMediaInsider]

That’s a fantastic idea! I’ve been wondering what to follow this up with: the 30 worst films of all time!

[@fiat2496]

when I see someone include Jeanne Dielman on their list, it immediately throws in to question every other film on their list. It's objectively awful.

[@philipgwyn8091]

You don't actually know what "objectively" means, do you.

[@TheMediaInsider]

The thing I like about this list is just how diversity is: to have the likes of Titanic alongside Jeanne Dielman shows how much there is out there

[@fiat2496]

@@philipgwyn8091 Yes. I used it properly. Do you know what a question mark is and where they belong in a sentence?

[@chamilton4577]

No, you didn't use the word "objectively" correctly. Words have meanings. If you don't care about the actual meaning, at least have the sense to not double down when corrected. Embarrassing.

[@fiat2496]

@@chamilton4577 Is English your first language?