Top Ten All-Time

And the Winner Should Have Been...

Because there's about to be a new edition of the Sight & Sound poll for the Greatest Films of All-Time, we decided to tell you what our top ten lists are. Probably not a lot of surprises. But there could be spoilers!
(Also, Bob's uncertain if he numbered Mark's movies correctly since he did go out of order and didn't mention the rank consistently each time.)
00:10 We've got jokes in the intro
02:04 How Bob ranks movies (spoiler: he's a big dork)
03:59 Baseball-Reference.com!
04:53 How Mark ranks movies (spoiler: it's quite different because Mark has a social life)
07:33 How events in our lives affect how we rank movies at different points in time
08:45 A note on the BFI Sight & Sound polls and how we'll approach the topic
11:27 Bob #10 spot - The Hidden Blade
15:05 How are things ranked when they're still new and fresh in your mind?
15:56 Mark #10 - Prisoners
18:44 How many of Mark's choices will star Jake Gyllenhaal
19:16 Is the suspense as done by Hitchcock?
20:45 Bob #9 - In the Mood for Love
23:53 Mark #9 - Princess Mononoke
26:21 Bob didn't like it, but hasn't seen it in a long time
27:33 Miyazaki's environmental themes
29:14 Bob's wrong about the timeline
29:31 Bob #8 - Das leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
34:00 Mark #7 - The Pursuit of Happyness
36:39 Bob is a Grinch
37:35 Will Smith playing Will Smith?
38:47 Is Bob crazy?
39:32 Bob's #7 - The Apostle
40:39 Mark #6 - The Empire Strikes Back
43:00 Star Wars :: The Matrix
45:04 Bob's #6 - A Night at the Opera
47:29 The Stateroom scene
49:04 Mark #5 - There Will Be Blood
51:28 Bob's #5 - Singin' in the Rain
53:41 Mark's #1 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
55:42 Sight & Sound polls
58:21 Did the poll change with the changing demographics of the critics polled?
1:00:48 Mark's observations on the list
1:02:05 Older movies benefit by lack contemporary mediocrity
1:04:28 How objective can one be when rating movies?
1:08:07 Does it matter if the movie is in color or black-and-white?
1:11:55 What's next for the poll(s)?
1:14:49 Bob's #4 - Seven Samurai
1:16:10 Mark #4 - The Prestige
1:17:13 Bob's #3 - Casablanca
1:18:24 Mark's #3 - Blade Runner
1:19:15 Bob's #2 - Hamlet (1996)
1:21:01 Mark's #2 - Nightcrawler
1:22:19 Bob's #1 - Tokyo Story
1:23:13 Mark's #8 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
1:25:08 Wrapping up
1:25:45 Tom Hanks? No, we're done.

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