There are legitimate arguments against some on that list. Movies like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings dip into genres that some people will have no interest in. Although if you're a fan of movies you're doing yourself an injustice by avoiding them.

And why is Inception on that list?

As a big movie buff I watched the first Star Wars and the first two LOTR,just had no desire to go any further.

"12 Angry Men" is on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) tonight (1/15/14) at 11:30 PM (PST)

I think you are hitting on exactly the reason why most don't watch or even try to.

In THAT era, movies like that were groundbreaking pieces of art. If you try to look at movies from that time you are looking at them through the eyes of this generation.

To me movies like The Grapes of Wrath, 12 Angry Men, Casblanca and It's A Wonderful Life are from a generation apart. You have to love old classic movies in B&W to really enjoy them and they aren't everyone's cup of tea.

Fast forward this thread 10 years and you will have a generation of people saying how bad and cheesy movies are from this era.

They are the ones that I haven't seen....I will probably rent Django Unchained this weekend and check it out. Will probably see 12 Years A Slave and Wolf of Wall Street when they come to the $2 Movie Theater. I've watched too many movies over the years, but I got that honestly. When I was young I would spend my weekends at my Grandpa & Grandma's house and on Sunday afternoon it was tradition to watch movies during the colder months.

Yeah, me too. Been meaning to watch that for a while, but just haven't found the time. It's long.

Because it's a great movie. I don't know if I would put it as high as that on my personal list, but it deserves to be there.

Casablanca and Encounters of the Third Kind

Taxi Driver (Scorcese's best IMO), the Miyazaki films on that list (Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke are both incredible), A Clockwork Orange (so unique, Kubrick in the prime of his career...though, a warning, it is more intense than Silence of the Lambs and Aliens), Oldboy (definitely watch it over Spike Lee's remake, it's another one heavy on violence, though).

Some are certainly more dated than others, of course. Having watched 12 Angry Men just last week again, though, I don't see that as a problem with that one.

I love a good B&W film in my tops are pretty much anything Cagney and the classic dark comedy Arsenic & Old Lace.

That is such a good movie. I started watching it a few weeks ago with my teenagers in the room, they were hooked. My daughter was annoyed with me (in jest) because it forced her off of the internet.

Yeah,I highly recommend this movie to anyone and everyone who needs a good laugh.

I have that movie in my collection...it honestly transcends the eras because the theme of the movie still resonates today. People and preconceived notions, bigotry and prejudices are just as prevalent today as there were when the movie was first made.

Yeah, apparently I'm a shitty movie watcher. Here are the ones from the list of 100 I haven't seen
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

7. 12 Angry Men (1957)

14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

20. Seven Samurai (1954)

21. City of God (2002)

24. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

27. Casablanca (1942)

30. Rear Window (1954)

31. Life Is Beautiful (1997)

34. City Lights (1931)

36. Spirited Away (2001)

38. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

40. The Intouchables (2011)

41. Modern Times (1936)

42. Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

43. Apocalypse Now (1979)

44. The Pianist (2002)

51. Django Unchained (2012)

52. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

53. The Lives of Others (2006)

55. The Great Dictator (1940)

57. Cinema Paradiso (1988)

58. North by Northwest (1959)

59. Paths of Glory (1957)

61. WALL•E (2008)

62. Amélie (2001)

63. Citizen Kane (1941)

67. Vertigo (1958)

68. M (1931)

69. Taxi Driver (1976)

70. Double Indemnity (1944)

71. Das Boot (1981)

74. Oldboy (2003)

77. Princess Mononoke (1997)

82. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

83. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

84. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

85. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

86. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

87. Bicycle Thieves (1948)

89. The Sting (1973)

90. All About Eve (1950)

92. Amadeus (1984)

93. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

94. Rashomon (1950)

95. The Third Man (1949)

97. The Apartment (1960)

100. A Separation (2011)