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[RedKing]

Not nearly enough Asian cinema. Hong Kong alone has been cranking out must-see, fun-as-hell action flicks for decades.

The Protector/Tom Yum Goong because elephant femur tonfa. (It's at about the 3:30 mark). Plus the six million or so joints and bones that Tony Jaa breaks prior to this scene.

Shaolin Soccer, Iron Monkey, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, hell pretty much anything Yuen Woo-ping has so much as breathed on. CTHD and Hero have the advantage of also being beautifully filmed stories besides the wuxia wireworks. Zhang Yimou is awesome.

And Red Cliff if you want a Chinese take on epic movies, i'm not sure when the second part is coming out but i doubt it can fail in any way

True, but the list seemed to be trying to go more for action-oriented films. Albeit, there are some killer fight scenes in Red Cliff. I was a bit disappointed they focused so much on Zhao Yun as the penultimate badass and downplayed Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. I mean, the latter is now a god. Literally. 

[Reelyanoob]

Woot, some old favourites of mine on th OP list - Shogun Assassin for the win!

"We are the Masters Of Death".

Not so sure on some of the new ones e.g. "Hot Fuzz", that's OK but not the best ever. Must've been fairly new when the list was compiled, so "honeymoon effect"?

EDIT: @Aramco (Below): hmm I'm tempted to go back and count how many I've seen now....brb

I count exactly 40 films on that list I've seen for sure, plus I suspect I've seen 2-3 more on TV but forgotten or not known the title, and things like Forrest Gump where it's been on TV but I was tuned out doing something else, not really my thing. Many of the others have been recommended to me in the past, e.g. "The Big Lebowski". I'm surprised it's so much actually.

[Aramco]

I've only seen 10 of those movies.

I expected much lower.

[Cecilff2]

52 from the original list.

[Flying Dice]

Seen 38 from the original list, rolled #69.


Just personal opinion here, but a few of those honestly don't seem like "greatest movies of all time" to me, so much as "fairly recent movies that were decent (or at least better than all of the other crap)", especially when there are a whole lot of really, really awesome movies out there that weren't listed. 

Meh, either way, idea: 99 campiest movies of all time. My nomination: The Werewolf of Woodstock.

[Vector]

Huh, I've seen only 22 of those.

Might have to fix that eventually.

[Tilla]

One shy of 50 for me. Of course I'm a film school dropout. Landed the Shining; seen it. This list is tragically lacking in so-bad-its-good like Birdemic or my avatar source, Gymkata!

[Reelyanoob]

Yeah and no mention of "Superbabies: Baby geniuses II" WTF???

Here's IMDB's 100 worst films ever as voted by site users (the reviews of Superbabies are good for a laugh):

http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom

Paris Hilton has 2 movies in the bottom 20 "Pledge This" and "The Hillz". They use to both be in the bottom 10, but they've been push out by even worse movies unfortunately.

[Tilla]

The biggest shame is that there's enough easily entertained imbeciles in the world that the Transformers trilogy will never make the bottom 100

[Reelyanoob]

You obviously have a poor understand of exactly how bad bottom 100 movies actually are. These are so bad, many barely qualify as "films" at all. Transformers may be bad (I've avoided them so far), but they at least are movies enjoyed by somebody.

I'll show a couple of covers here

#2 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2:


#3 Daniel - Der Zauberer (2004):

[RedKing]

WTF is that last one...like a cheap German ripoff of Harry Potter?

Obviously Manos, the Hands of Fate would end up on that list. As would much of the 'Syfy original movies' catalog.

I dunno, this is a tricky category. Because ideally you're looking for movies that are so bad, that they sail right on past being so-bad-its-good and back around to being so-bad-its-bad. The kind of thing where you can't even enjoy mocking it because there's not enough camp value. I'd nominate The Judas Project. Only movie I've ever gotten up and walked out on.

[Reelyanoob]

Ahh RedKing if only we had a time-machine to go back and advise the German's to make Daniel - Der Zauberer as a cheap Harry Potter rip-off. That idea is infinitely better than what the film is actually about.

Daniel Kubelbock (or whatever his name was), the star, is a non-actor who appeared on a German reality TV show (German Idol or something), playing himself, in a badly written and acted cliche kidnap movie. He is some sort of amateur stage-magician in real life or something. I will never see this film, but that's basically what I remember from IMDB, my memory might be off here.