YMMV / 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

• Archive Panic: Watching 1001 movies is no mean feat, and it doesn't help matters that it has been updated annually since 2003, bringing the total number of entries to 1245 as of the 2021 edition. It gets even worse if one tries to watch all the entries that are specific to the non-English editions, such as Miss Julie, I Am Curious (Yellow), and Show Me Love in the Swedish edition.
• Broken Base:
  • Being updated almost yearly has led to the inclusion of recent movies which many readers believe haven't been out long enough to be included in the book. They often get removed the very next year for lacking notability, too.
  • A lot of people refuse to watch or contest the inclusion of The Birth of a Nation (1915) (due to its extreme Values Dissonance, including portraying the Ku Klux Klan as heroes) and/or Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (due to the film revolving around graphic depictions of sexual violence and torture, with ongoing debate over whether it's merely exploitative Torture Porn with little artistic merit).

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