Well… I was originally planning to post my thoughts on my number five movie: The Matrix. But plans change.

Honestly, I just haven’t had enough time to watch it and put down some thoughts while watching. So this is a fill in post so I can properly watch the movie for next Monday. If you were really looking forward to my thoughts on The Matrix, I apologize for making you wait another week.

Recently, I started thinking about what I would do with my Monday posts once I was finished with my Top 100 Favorite Movies. In a previous post, I put it to a vote with four potential options:

1. Top 100 Best Movies I’ve Never Seen
2. Top 100 Worst Movies I’ve Ever Seen
3. Top 100 Worst Movies I’ve Never Seen
4. Stop It With The Lame Movies Already!

Okay, so the fourth option was more a joke than anything else.

It later occurred to me that I never explained how I’d be able to figure out what any of those lists actually are. How could I possibly know what the best movies I’ve never seen are? How could I know what the worst movies I’ve seen or haven’t seen could be?

The answer is the same as when I determined my 100 favorites… Flickchart…

They have this handy algorithm that determines, based on all the people who use the site, what the best and worst movies of all time are. So I can easily make up a list of movies I’ve never seen and look at the 100 best or skip to the bottom and look at what movies are the 100 worst, based on other people’s votes.

And since Flickchart already keeps track of all the movies I’ve seen and ranked, it has a pretty good idea about what 100 movies are the worst ones I’ve personally seen. These, however, would only be based on my personal choices and not the decisions made by people around the world.

I did get several votes saying I should do the 100 Worst Movies I’ve Never Seen… but then I started thinking about the reality of doing that…

See, if I do the 100 Worst Movies I’ve Never Seen, then they would possibly become a part of the 100 Worst Movies I’ve Ever Seen… and if I should ever decide to do that list, I’d be hitting a lot of potential repeats. And who wants to deal with that?

I also put it to a vote on Twitter and it came out that the winner was the 100 Worst Movies I’ve Ever Seen. So I was planning to with that…

But then I started looking at the bottom of my list on Flickchart and I was appalled at more than a few of the movies that were showing up in my bottom 100. For example… How on earth did Good Will Hunting wind up there? I’m not saying it’s the best movie ever made, but it certainly doesn’t deserve to be that low on a list of over 2,000 movies (I’ve seen 2,225 according to the site). Robin Williams’ performance alone should throw it a lot closer to the top.

Anyway, before I can do the Top 100 Worst Movies I’ve Ever Seen, I need to seriously reassess the bottom of my Flickchart list. I’m guessing those movies wound up at the bottom because I only voted on them once or twice and they went up against movies that were obvious top picks for me.

So, instead, let’s go with the 100 Best Movies I’ve Never Seen. I’m sure there are some shiny gems in there that I’ll wind up loving and a few that I’ll probably not like so much. That’s how it works. Take my opinion on Citizen Kane… please. You can stop reading here if you want. The rest of this post will be those 100 movies that Flickchart says are the best I’ve never seen. If you’re sticking around, here we go…

1. Ikiru
2. Seven Samurai
3. High and Low
4. Harakiri
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
6. M
7. The Night of the Hunter
8. The Third Man
9. Yojimbo
10. Rashomon
11. The Wages of Fear
12. Paths of Glory
13. Le Samourai
14. Persona
15. Touch of Evil
16. Bicycle Thieves
17. The General
18. The Red Shoes
19. The Passion of Joan of Arc
20. The 400 Blows
21. Tokyo Story
22. Notorious
23. Wild Strawberries
24. The Seventh Seal
25. Strangers on a Train
26. 8 1/2
27. Grand Illusion
28. Ace in the Hole
29. The Professional
30. Cool Hand Luke
31. The Conversation
32. The Rules of the Game
33. Throne of Blood
34. Shadow of a Doubt
35. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
36. His Girl Friday
37. Stalker
38. Sweet Smell of Success
39. La Dolce Vita
40. Badlands
41. The Big Sleep
42. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
43. In a Lonely Place
44. Rope
45. Sherlock, Jr.
46. The Thin Man
47. Days of Heaven
48. Anatomy of a Murder
49. The Thing (1982)
50. American History X
51. My Neighbor Totoro
52. Out of the Past
53. A Fistful of Dollars
54. Diabolique
55. Rififi
56. The Kid
57. Rio Bravo
58. A Matter of Life and Death
59. Once Upon a Time in the West
60. Breathless
61. The Killing
62. Rebecca
63. For a Few Dollars More
64. The Sting
65. Laura
66. Stalag 17
67. Metropolis
68. Fanny and Alexander
69. Dog Day Afternoon
70. The Great Escape
71. In the Mood for Love
72. Ran
73. Charade
74. The Hustler
75. Brief Encounter
76. Dial M for Murder
77. Parasite
78. Scarface
79. Come and See
80. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
81. The Hidden Fortress
82. Manhattan
83. City of God
84. Bride of Frankenstein
85. The Battle of Algiers
86. To Be or Not to Be
87. The Lady Vanishes
88. Witness for the Prosecution
89. Life of Brian
90. Paris, Texas
91. The King of Comedy
92. Miller’s Crossing
93. The Long Goodbye
94. My Man Godfrey
95. Sanjuro
96. Grave of the Fireflies
97. Roman Holiday
98. Arsenic and Old Lace
99. Chungking Express
100. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

And there you have it. The best movies I’ve never seen. Supposedly… I’ll be starting with number 100, as I have in the past, and work my way up to number one. Some of these films may be hard to track down, so if I wind up needing to skip something, I’ll be sure to come back to it when I get my hands on it.

Wish me luck…