VSM: 100 Very Popular Movies We Need To Watch

It's been a busy summer here - not much time to watch stuff, so not much blogging happening. But we are back at it now, with a massive project to draw us in. These are the most popular* features that we've either never seen, or haven't watched in the last five years or so.

* "popular" according to an arbitrary algorithm that takes into account IMDb scores, and number of IMDb votes weighted for the age of the movie

Very Slow Marathon #16: 100 Very Popular Movies We Need To Watch
1. Papillon, 1973
2. The Magnificent Seven, 1960
3. The Ten Commandments, 1956
4. The Matrix Reloaded, 2003
5. Speed, 1994
6. Die Hard: With a Vengeance, 1995
7. The Fifth Element, 1997
8. Taken, 2008
9. Lolita, 1962
10. The Butterfly Effect, 2004
11. RoboCop, 1987
12. Total Recall, 1990
13. Minority Report, 2002
14. Gattaca, 1997
15. Training Day, 2001
16. Dead Poets Society, 1989
17. Back to the Future Part II, 1989
18. The Rock, 1996
19. Scent of a Woman, 1992
20. Back to the Future Part III, 1990
21. The Invisible Man, 1933
22. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936
23. The Birth of a Nation, 1915
24. Freaks, 1932
25. Intolerance, 1916
26. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, 1999
27. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, 2005
28. Stagecoach, 1939
29. The Breakfast Club, 1985
30. 300, 2006
31. Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986
32. Dirty Harry, 1971
33. The Untouchables, 1987
34. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958
35. The Phantom of the Opera, 1925
36. Blazing Saddles, 1974
37. The Last Laugh, 1924
38. To Have and Have Not, 1944
39. West Side Story, 1961
40. The Evil Dead, 1981
41. A Few Good Men, 1992
42. Night and Fog, 1955
43. Cast Away, 2000
44. X-Men, 2000
45. White Heat, 1949
46. This Is Spinal Tap, 1984
47. X-Men 2, 2003
48. Grease, 1978
49. Sullivan's Travels, 1941
50. Interview with the Vampire, 1994
51. Airplane!, 1980
52. The Fugitive, 1993
53. Breathless, 1960
54. American Psycho, 2000
55. Men in Black, 1997
56. The Rules of the Game, 1939
57. Home Alone, 1990
58. The Game, 1997
59. Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935
60. Clerks, 1994
61. As Good as It Gets, 1997
62. True Romance, 1993
63. Donnie Brasco, 1997
64. The Goonies, 1985
65. Lost in Translation, 2003
- 28 Days Later, 2002
- Aladdin, 1992
- Almost Famous, 2000
- Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938
- Black Hawk Down, 2001
- Blue Velvet, 1986
- Boondock Saints, 1999
- Carlito's Way, 1993
- Catch Me if You Can, 2002
- Collateral, 2004
- Dumb & Dumber, 1994
- Face/Off, 1997
- From Here to Eternity, 1953
- Gangs of New York, 2002
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011
- The Godfather Part III, 1990
- I Am Legend, 2007
- Ice Age, 2002
- The Intouchables, 2011
- Key Largo, 1948
- The Last Samurai, 2003
- Lethal Weapon, 1987
- Love Actually, 2003
- The Notebook, 2004
- Office Space, 1999
- The Others, 2001
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006
- The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
- Rio Bravo, 1959
- Saw, 2004
- Shrek, 2001
- Superbad, 2007
- To Be or Not to Be, 1942
- Tokyo Story, 1953
- Transformers, 2007