After another 25 movies, it is time to look back at the second quarter of this overall list and do some comparisons and ranking. For our previous “Best & Worst”, click here.
As a reminder, here are the 25 movies we watched:
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- An American in Paris (1951)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
- A Star Is Born (1954)
- East of Eden (1955)
- Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- Giant (1956)
- The Searchers (1956)
- A Face in the Crowd (1957)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Gigi (1958)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- North By Northwest (1959)
- How the West Was Won (1962)
- What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
- Viva Las Vegas (1964)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Bullitt (1968)
My Top 5
#5: What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) – “I finally found out, and it was a terrible, horrible, thrilling story.
#4: A Star Is Born (1954) – “I didn’t expect much, but what I got had me tearing up in the end. Always swim with a lifeguard, kids.”
#3: The Dirty Dozen (1967) – “Strangely funny and endearing, this is that every dude movie should dream of being.”
#2: A Face in the Crowd (1957) – “Powerful from beginning to end. This has made me rethink Andy Griffith the actor, a staple of my childhood, and wish more people watched this film for it’s haunting reflection of modern politics.”
#1: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – “It was hard to pick this over my #2 choice, but Bogart’s descent into madness from his greed will forever stay with me.”
Diane’s Top 5
#5: A Star Is Born (1954) – “Solid movie despite the racist song and missing scenes (included in our version as stills).”
#4: What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) – “Nice to see two stars channeling their real life hatred in such a productive way.”
#3: The Dirty Dozen (1967) – “I bet my dad watched this movie so many times.”
#2: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – “Finally, a Bogart movie we actually enjoyed.”
#1: A Face in the Crowd (1957) – “I’ve never watched “The Andy Griffith Show” and now because of this movie I never will be able to.”
Our Worst 5 (Combined)
#5 (Combined): Bullitt (1968) – We forgot too much about this boring film to come up with a good quote. Car chase, maybe?
#4 (Me): Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
#4 (Diane): How the West Was Won (1962)
#3 (Me): Viva Las Vegas (1964)
#3 (Diane): Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
#2 (Me): How the West Was Won (1962)
#2 (Diane): Viva Las Vegas (1964)
#1 (Combined): Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) – “When people think of a musical where women get kidnapped and develop Stockholm Syndrome they usually think of Beauty and the Beast when they should really be thinking about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers“.
Murf Versus 