There are all kinds of great movies. There are the classically great movies, the awesomely great movies and the bad-yet-still-great movies. But what we have here trumps all that. This is the crème de la crème. These are the Batmans to shittier films’ Robins. These are the Dickens to other films’ Hubbards. Most definitely, these are the Chachies to other films’ Joanies.

There is nothing whack about the following films. Not at all. And even that seems like understating things…

What you are about to puruse is a list of what the savants of cinema, (i.e., the community) consider to be the best films of all time. While reading this, you may find yourself disagreeing with some of our picks. That is okay, but please take into account the following:

1) Everyone has opinions.
2) Opinions are like assholes; everyone has one and they all stink.
3) Except for ours, because the DIMPs membership just came back from our high colonic.

I tried using a graphing calculator to find out if there was some code or pattern to the combined DIMP brain and why they chose certain movies over others, but the only thing I could come up with was “Syntax Error.” So instead we asked for lists from our membership and compiled the results to bring you the most awesome list of all time. We did it right on the forum and I tallied the results up with my old-school abacus. The abacus is so awesome that the Greeks used it, and the Greeks were right about everything! (Especially gyros, mmmmmm.) So without further ado, I give you…

The DVD In My Pants 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time:
100) The Bride Of Frankenstein
99) Annie Hall
98) Bambi
97) Breaking The Waves
96) Metropolis
95) Straw Dogs
94) The African Queen
93) 12 Angry Men
92) A Hard Day’s Night
91) Bonnie And Clyde
90) Fargo
89) Planet Of The Apes
88) Repulsion
87) Reservoir Dogs
86) Rules Of The Game
85) Sunset Boulevard
84) The Bicycle Thief
83) The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
82) 8 1⁄2
81) Rocky
80) Saturday Night Fever
79) The Evil Dead
78) The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
77) Unforgiven
76) Goldfinger
75) Lost In Translation
74) Patton
73) Pink Floyd: The Wall
72) The Bridge On The River Kwai
71) The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
70) The Maltese Falcon
69) To Catch A Thief
68) Duck Soup
67) His Girl Friday
66) The Matrix
65) The Shawshank Redemption
64) Full Metal Jacket
63) Monty Python And The Holy Grail
62) The Conversation
61) The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
60) The Seventh Seal
59) It’s A Wonderful Life
58) Jurassic Park
57) Rashômon
56) THX 1138
55) Au Hasard Balthazar
54) Blue Velvet
53) Brazil
52) Eraserhead
51) Jules Et Jim
50) Paths Of Glory
49) The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King
48) Barry Lyndon
47) Some Like It Hot
46) The Decalogue
45) The Great Escape
44) The Wizard Of OZ
43) Kill Bill – Volume 2
42) Moulin Rouge!
41) King Kong
40) The Exorcist
39) Hiroshima, Mon Amour
38) Saving Private Ryan
37) Kill Bill – Volume 1
36) Raging Bull
35) The Third Man
34) Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
33) Psycho (1960)
32) Alien
31) Superman: The Movie
30) The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
29) Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
28) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
27) Blade Runner
26) Cool Hand Luke
25) Jaws
24) Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
23) Gone With The Wind
22) The Shining
21) Apocalypse Now

20) Pulp Fiction The minds of believe there are 19 films better than Pulp Fiction, but I think that based on pure cool factor alone, it might have made the number one slot (with the exception of maybe Goodfellas). Quentin Tarantino’s first major hit proved to the world that Travolta could still be cool, that Samuel L. Jackson is awesome beyond belief, and most importantly that Tarantino wasn’t a one-trick pony. It could even be argued that the film brought back the entire genre of film noir, allowing awesome films like L.A. Confidential, No Good Deed, Mulholland Dr. and even Dark City to get the green light. A great film with a timeless feel, Pulp Fiction is destined to be classic because of wide audience appreciation, not because a scholar says so. -- Shawn McLoughlin

19) Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope Why does this movie endure? Is it the story? It’s a fine story, but nothing original. Is it the acting? Doubtful, this movie was bashed by critics for its poor acting back in 1977. Is it the special effects? When it came out the effects certainly had drawing power, but by today’s standards they aren’t great. Is it the music? Certainly, the music separated this film from any other film of its time, but music alone can’t carry a film – at least not one to be considered by many to be the greatest of all time. So what is it? A pompous film critic might suggest it’s the sum of all the parts that formed this perfect fantasy tale. That’s fine and dandy, but the child in me knows the real answer. It’s the quotability. What kid didn’t reenact this film during recess, after school, everywhere, after seeing it? Who hasn’t quoted lines from this film at some point in their lives? Adults, regardless of their upbringing, can and will recite this movie line for line – and enjoy doing so. So what makes this film great? It’s not the film, it’s the audience. -- Christ Knight

18) Once Upon A Time In The West The western genre has had its ups and downs. Even at its best, there was a solid plateau in quality. Some of the better ones are based on script more than anything else. But Italian director Sergio Leone changed that. With his Dollars trilogy and this film more than any other, he injected style in a genre that most desperately needed it. The awesome extreme close-ups show facial pores in more graphic detail than a Noxzema ad. But if nothing else, it proves to people over 20 that Charles Bronson was way cool - before he made the 74 sequels to Death Wish. Oh, and Claudia Cardinale gives me wood. -- Shawn McLoughlin

17) A Clockwork Orange The reasons behind A Clockwork Orange's popularity are quite obvious – liberal-minded, filled with catchphrases from the protagonist, hyper-violent and hyper-stylized (with typical Kubrickian restraint and coldness) and overwhelmingly beautiful in its depiction of a crumbing establishment. Yet despite such obvious appeals, one finds that every single scene combines to create not just a pop culture masterpiece, but a focused societal criticism that just happens to look like a gorgeous photograph and feature a hilarious and heartbreaking lead performance from Malcolm McDowell. Just another chapter in Kubrick's near-spotless filmography. -- Marq

16) Chinatown “Noir;” as a genre, be it literary or live-action, will never go away – and we should all be thankful for that. Reinventing itself (while still holding true to its essential components) at least once every decade, film noir never looked, sounded, read or reintroduced itself as ideally as when Robert Towne and Roman Polanski combined the peaks of their talents into one stunning Los Angeles-set mystery. Filled with typically noir themes of corruption, sex and overwhelming revelations, Chinatown is the smartest pulp you'll encounter. With a script from Towne that is still considered a benchmark and Polanski masterfully weaving all the ingredients, Chinatown will forever be one of cinema's most timeless stories, an ideal representation the greatness that came out of Hollywood in the '70s with an ending that still confounds you in the best of ways. -- Marq

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