Finishing half of the IMDB Top 250 and giving each a best picture award

During 2020 I decided to branch out more and discover more entertainment and more art that I hadn’t experienced yet. This led me to the IMDB Top 250. Recently I made it halfway through and I wanted to share my rankings and my thoughts. Since these are the best of the best I’ve given each movie their own best picture superlative. (Number in parentheses are IMDB ranking and number on the side are mine)

  1. The Dark Knight (4)- Best Picture For: Being compared to every new superhero movie ever
  2. The Shawshank redemption (1)- Best Picture For: Having a poster that spoils the movie
  3. Inception (13)- Best Picture For: The trailer that changed everything
  4. Return of the Jedi (85)- Best Picture For: Having homicidal bears that make some people really upset
  5. Terminator 2 (38)- Best Picture For: How to do a proper sequel
  6. Infinity War (64)- Best Picture For: Zoe Saldana haters
  7. 1917 (93)- Best Picture For: Being a war movie not about WWII or Vietnam
  8. The Prestige (47)- Best Picture For: Magic David Bowie that’s not Labyrinth
  9. Aliens (74)- Best Picture For: Alienating the horror movie crowd
  10. The dark knight rises (71)- Best Picture For: Bane’s voice setting the standard for Nolan’s sound engineer
  11. Full metal jacket (99)- Best Picture For: People leaving halfway in
  12. Saving private Ryan (26)- Best Picture For: People leaving twenty minutes in
  13. Forrest Gump (12)- Best Picture For: Stopping Richard Nixon. God bless you Forrest
  14. Memento (55)- Best Picture For: B movie +Gimmick= A+
  15. Good will hunting (88)- Best Picture For: Baseball gloves
  16. The usual suspects (33)- Best Picture For: A prequel to Seven
  17. Empire strikes back (14)- Best Picture For: Being compared to every sequel ever
  18. The last crusade (121)- Best Picture For: Buddy cop comedy
  19. Schindler’s list (5)- Best Picture For: Best Picture
  20. Ford v ferrari (197)- Best Picture For: Fast and Furious for the Oscars
  21. The Truman show (171)- Best Picture For: Conspiracy theories
  22. Se7en (20)- Best Picture For: Letting us know about Kevin Spacey
  23. Whiplash (46)- Best Picture For: Anxiety inducing jazz
  24. The silence of the lambs (23)- Best Picture For: Putting the Sir in Sir Anthony Hopkins
  25. 3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (151)- Best Picture For: Grief
  26. Prisoners (200)- Best Picture For: Wait, that guy is gonna be the riddler? Oh my...
  27. Parasite (30)- Best Picture For: Explaining class systems better than school
  28. 12 Angry Men (5)- Best Picture For: Truth being relative
  29. Fight Club (11)- Best Picture For: Having a quote everyone knows, but actually about the dismantling of society as we know it
  30. The Sixth Sense (164)- Best Picture For: Proving M. Night was once a legend
  31. Star wars: A new hope (25)- Best Picture For: Creating the largest hate group of all time. Star Wars fans
  32. Raiders of the lost ark (56)- Best Picture For: Being a cool Sunday school lesson and a movie about beating the Nazi’s at the same time
  33. The Departed (44)- Best Picture For: Rats
  34. Pulp Fiction (8)- Best Picture For: Everyone skipping Bruce Willis’ hotel section
  35. Lawrence of Arabia (109)- Best Picture For: What 1917 did for one shot WWI films this movie did for coloration and shot composition for WW1 films
  36. Django Unchained (60)- Best Picture For: Bounty hunting
  37. Fargo (176)- Best Picture For: Midwesterners
  38. Interstellar (31)- Best Picture For: Quantum physicists
  39. Hacksaw ridge (190)- Best Picture For: Having a pacifist first half and the most violent things you’ll ever see in the second
  40. Up (122)- Best Picture For: People leaving 15 minutes in
  41. Monsters Inc (232)- Best Picture For: Making liars of parents who said there’s no monsters in your closet
  42. Toy story 3 (110)- Best Picture For: Breaking grown adults
  43. Toy story (81)- Best Picture For: Getting every 2D animator fired
  44. Endgame (73)- Best Picture For: Audience applause
  45. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (96)- Best Picture For: Break up depression
  46. Kill bill Vol.1 (175)- Best Picture For: Quinten Tarintino doing whatever he wants for four hours straight
  47. Requiem for a dream (91)- Best Picture For: Being a better drug PSA than anything school taught
  48. Inglourious Basterds (86)- Best Picture For: Learning German through tension
  49. The lion king (35)- Best Picture For: Being a PG Hamlet musical
  50. Spotlight (226)- Best Picture For: Redeeming Scott Templeton from The Wire
  51. The Green Mile (29)- Best Picture For: Weeping
  52. Gone girl (188)- Best Picture For: Never trusting your spouse again
  53. The Godfather Part 2 (3)- Best Picture For: Being the best prequel-sequel outside of lion king one and a half
  54. The Matrix (16)- Best Picture For: Woah’s
  55. Die hard (127)- Best Picture For: Being the template of every action movie to come after it
  56. Logan (218)- Best Picture For: Proving X Men movies can be good
  57. Hamilton (27)- Best Picture For: The reason to get Disney +
  58. Hotel Rwanda (225)- Best Picture For: Being Schindler's list for people that hate black and white
  59. Goodfellas (17)- Best Picture For: The origin of the Wet Bandits
  60. Room (172)- Best Picture For: People that think castaway is overrated
  61. The Pianist (37)- Best Picture For: Being Schindler's List for people that hate black and white
  62. Inside out (160)- Best Picture For: Expressing emotions better than you ever will
  63. Braveheart (78)- Best Picture For: FREEDOM!
  64. Gladiator (42)- Best Picture For: Showing the good half of Ridley Scott’s filmography
  65. The Shining (62)- Best Picture For: Pissing off Stephen King
  66. Back to the future (36)- Best Picture For: Being a light hearted family movie that has plot points of rape and incest
  67. Dr. Strangelove (69)- Best Picture For: Satire of the Cold War
  68. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (9)- Best Picture For: Being so proud of a piece of music you include it as much as possible
  69. City of God (22)- Best Picture For: Being the most violent movie I’ve ever seen
  70. The Godfather (2)- Best Picture For: Proving Al Pacino was once a good actor
  71. Batman begins (130)- Best Picture For: Creating the gritty superhero genre
  72. Apocalypse Now (54)- Best Picture For: Cow parallels
  73. The terminator (245)- Best Picture For: The movie with that one quote in it
  74. Wall-e (63)- Best Picture For: An easily digestible dystopian look at our bleak future
  75. Alien (74) - Best Picture For: Being the wrong answer to Alien vs. Aliens
  76. Return of the King (7)- Best Picture For: *Insert multiple endings joke here
  77. Deathly Hallows part 2 (217)- Best Picture For: Milking cash from consumers and milking tears from fans
  78. Finding Nemo (170)- Best Picture For: Anxiety for parents
  79. Dead gets society (214)- Best Picture For: Creating the gold standard for teachers that can never be met
  80. Mad Max; Fury Road (205)- Best Picture For: Fire guitars
  81. Pan’s labyrinth (142)- Best Picture For: If Alan Moore wrote the Chronicles of Narnia
  82. It’s a wonderful life (24)- Best Picture For: Wait this Christmas movie is about suicide
  83. How to train your dragon (199)- Best Picture For: Adorable killer beasts
  84. Stand by me (206)- Best Picture For: Oh this is where stranger things comes from
  85. Coco (76)- Best Picture For: Crying in Spanish
  86. The princess bride (244)- Best Picture For: A bigger disparity in quality from first half to second than full metal jacket
  87. Catch me if you can (195)- Best Picture For: Being Spielberg's most underrated movie
  88. Into the spider verse (67)- Best Picture For: Actually doing a good job replacing an iconic character
  89. Before sunrise (193) Best Picture For: Being a super unrealistic love story yet at the same time extremely honest
  90. Warrior (161)- Best Picture For: Having actors before they were famous do a better fighting movie than Rocky
  91. Fellowship of the ring (10)- Best Picture For: *Insert eagles joke here
  92. Two Towers (15)- Best Picture For: Being the first of many opportunities to give Andy Serkis an Oscar
  93. Amadeus (83)- Best Picture For: The kind of movie you watch expecting nothing and being blown away
  94. Jurassic park (166)- Best Picture For: Having a banner fall over a T-Rex
  95. Rocky (230)- Best Picture For: Training montages
  96. Joker (58)- Best Picture For: Wait this is ranked 58th movie of all time. It’s great and all… but 58th really?
  97. Raging bull (147): Insecure boxing
  98. 2001 (90)- Best Picture For: Educated stoners
  99. Million Dollar Baby (209)- Best Picture For: Adding depth to the argument is Hillary Swank hot or not
  100. Platoon (215) - Best Picture For: Charlie Sheen not being on your TV at 2 at night for two and a half men reruns
  101. Gran Torino (180)- Best Picture For: Clint Eastwood learning not to be so racist
  102. There will be blood (148)- Best Picture For: Milkshakes
  103. Network (207)- Best Picture For: Prophesying clickbait
  104. A clockwork orange (102)- Best Picture For: Make sure no one walks in on you watching this movie
  105. Taxi Driver (106)- Best Picture For: The movie with that one quote in it
  106. Rear Window (52) Best Picture For: Peeping Toms
  107. Green Book (131)- Best Picture For: Ending racism
  108. The Help (243)- Best Picture For: Ending racism
  109. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest (18)- Best Picture For: Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson in a psych ward
  110. The wolf of wall street (143)- Best Picture For: Make sure no one walks in on you watching this movie
  111. V for Vendetta (156)- Best Picture For: Making a random day in November a nerd holiday
  112. Witness for the prosecution (68)- Best Picture For: Having six plot twists in five minutes
  113. Sunset Blvd. (65)- Best Picture For: Lying to help someone’s mental health and hoping it ends well
  114. To kill a mockingbird (119)- Best Picture For: Having a dog die that inadvertently propels the plot that’s not of mice and men
  115. The General (198)- Best Picture For: Train enthusiasts
  116. A Beautiful mind (139)- Best Picture For: Being a boring biopic, having a twist, and then being boring again
  117. The Circus (236)- Best Picture For: Music but with pictures
  118. The Kid (101)- Best Picture For: Music but with pictures
  119. Blade runner (169)- Best Picture For: Having more cuts than a butcher house
  120. Monty python and the holy grail (126)- Best Picture For: If quoting, opens doors like some form of secret society
  121. Heat (124)- Best Picture For: Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro fanfiction
  122. Monty python’s life of Brian (216)- Best Picture For: Making Christians mad without seeing it even though the movie is about blindly following the crowd
  123. Anand (125)- Best Picture For: Random sing along sections
  124. Hachi: a dog's tale (211)- Best Picture For: Not being a good movie but at least it has a dog
  125. Klaus (185)- Best Picture For: Being overrated
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