I have run out of films

Why stop at 150-200 though? You could do a top 500 or 1001, all of which could be good films.

I'm not 100% certain since I don't keep track, but I'm pretty sure I either haven't seen most of them, or haven't seen them in so long, I've forgotten all about them.

With time, I’ve come to realize that it’s extremely important for me as a cinephile to not only watch the best of the best.

At one point, I had a month or so where I watched and rewatched a lot of “big” or “critically acclaimed” films in a row. And seeing so many greats ended up clouding my vision and also not appreciating one great from the next.

Once I went back to just watch some random stuff and instead expand my horizon and try different stuff, it was so much better coming back to the big movies again.*

Everything worked out for the better and I realized it is a necessity to sort of mix it up once in a while. For your own sake but also because the great films might simply not be great because you are fatigued/clouded or whatever. That’s what I realized at least.

My daughter would call you a movie snob because your are only watching what you consider great and not being open minded to other things.

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Re-evaluating your own standards by watching other movies will eventually rewrite the movies you like now. I've seen 3000 movies and 463 of them are ranked five-stars. This is because every genre has a plethora of great movies.

I REALLY have to expand on this. Listening to bad albums by acts like Brokencyde and Attila ended up teaching me why albums like Kid A are so good. It means you have real low-grade stuff to compare the good stuff to.

Wow, I've seen 0 from that list, and I actually haven't heard of most of them.

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I'm going to take a different tack here. Are you working against some life factor you're not sharing. For example ... I'm 69, and I'm realizing that, not only will I never see all movies, I'll never even see all the movies that are still on my voluminous bucket list of flicks. I more than occasionally watch some mindless action movie or something not to my taste that my wife prefers. I've given up on the guilt. I've accepted that I won't attain that perfection of reaching the end of my list before I reach my end, and it's more important to enjoy in the moment than chase a goal that was always going to elude me, whether at 29 or 69.

Regardless of your reasons, I applaud your dedication to quality. I think the others are trying to give you sound advice, but perhaps also the advice that would fit best with their outlook on things rather than yours.

So now I backtrack a bit with a minor suggestion: Like someone trying to adhere to a strict diet, maybe allow yourself a cheat day now and then.

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I don't get this, because I am open minded in terms of what I consider great.

Near the top of my list for example are:

2 The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô
4 Roma 2018 Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
6 Salt for Svanetia 1930 Georgia Mikhael Kalatazov
7 Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
10 Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
13 Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
15 Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
16 High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
18 Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
19 McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 USA Robert Altman
22 The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
23 Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
25 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
26 Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
28 Embrace of the Serpent 2016 Colombia Ciro Guerra
30 The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
31 Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
32 Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
35 Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
36 Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
39 La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
42 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
43 Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
45 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
46 In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
47 The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
48 The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi
49 Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
50 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
51 Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
52 Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
53 The Player 1992 USA Robert Altman
54 At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
55 The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
57 Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
58 Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
62 My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
64 La Point Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
66 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
69 The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
71 Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
73 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
75 The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
78 Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
79 Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
91 Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang

These aren't necessarily universally considered great, and certainly aren't commonly well known.

You don't watch anything modern. Again, you would be considered a snob.

When you say "again", on your last test actually I wasn't a snob.
And I'm not on this one either:

46 In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
17 Donnie Darko 2001 USA Richard Kelly
78 Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
87 The Others 2001 Spain Alejandro Amenábar
10 Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
41 No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
83 Wall-E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
97 There Will be Blood 2008 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
122= Inglourious Basterds 2009 USA Quentin Tarantino
74 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
55 The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
77 Django Unchained 2012 USA Quentin Tarantino
89 Argo 2012 USA Ben Affleck
91 Frances Ha 2012 USA Noah Baumbach
122= Drive 2012 USA Nicolas Winding Refn
122= Nightcrawler 2014 USA Dan Gilroy
8 La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
28 Embrace of the Serpent 2016 Colombia Ciro Guerra
120 Arrival 2016 USA Denis Villeneuve
4 Roma 2018 Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
122= 1917 2018 UK
69 The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers

Robert can I ask you what your goal is in making this thread? That's not a complaint. I enjoy reading your threads and interacting with you...I honestly don't know what exactly you are asking for?

this happens to me at times as i don't tend to watch movies rated below 5.5 and i have cut down the number of genres i watch. i tend to look back to older films or foreign made movies i haven't see. some of the movies i watched recently for the first time:

woman in the dunes
the face of another
modern times
the grand illusion

Go take a walk in the woods, sit on the beach for a couple days, start a stamp collection or build a birdhouse. Too many movies exhausts your brain. If you can't find anything that seems new or interesting, that's because of "too many movies".

I don't need to see your list. No sense in posting it to me. We have completely different taste and I'm open to watching things outside my top 100.

I enjoy interacting with you too.

I have enjoyed the thread, I think it's brought out several really interesting observations.

It was literally just a moment I had (and really it's more than a moment, but it was a moment where I was aware of it), where I thought, there's not really any more movies that I want to watch.

Literally that. And just felt like sharing that thought. 100% it wasn't an attempt at a boast or anything like that, just kind of saying I'm bored and don't know what to do next (which kind of sums my life up albeit in a far far far far less dramatic and depressing way!).

I don’t understand the point of this thread

Robert needs to feel special and we are helping him achieve that.

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I heard of someone who only watched films on the IMDb Top 250 because he didn't have time for mediocrity. He had time to post online all day but he didn't have time to watch a film with a 7.7 on IMDb. It made no sense. I guess he can do that, except it really limits what one sees, and it's a rather pointless limitation. Just watch anything. Some movies are fluffy and that's okay. We don't need deep artsy fartsy films every time we watch something. I asked him what happens if he dislikes a movie from the Top 250, and he said that never happens because it obviously can't since it's obviously great. I had no friendly response.

Unless you have watched 50,000 films you haven’t run out.