The Great Movie Experiment

John McTiernan

5 Movies in the Top 1000

Rank Title For Against Haven't Seen Aggregate
16 Die Hard 528 156 62 77%
115 Predator 398 194 115 67%
163 The Hunt for Red October 369 250 154 59%
184 Die Hard: With a Vengeance 359 245 85 59%
531 The Thomas Crown Affair 244 314 219 43%

2 Movies in Up & Coming

Rank Title Up Down Score
336 The 13th Warrior Vote Up for The 13th Warrior  Vote Down for The 13th Warrior  0
657 Basic Vote Up for Basic  Vote Down for Basic  -1

About these statistics

The rankings of the Top 1000 Movies are based on thousands of users voting in The Great Movie Experiment to compile a list of the best movies of all time. Each vote is a head-to-head pairing of two movies... simply choosing "which movie is better?" many many times.

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Top Ranked John McTiernan Movies

Die Hard Ranked 16 in the Top 1000

Die Hard Smart-mouthed New York City cop John McClane (a perfectly cast Bruce Willis) comes to Los Angeles in an attempt to reconcile with his wife. When terrorists seize her office building, McClane escapes -- shirtless and shoeless -- and desperately tries to stop them. Director John McTiernan moves the fi ...

Predator Ranked 115 in the Top 1000

Predator Two real-life governors -- Arnold Schwarzenegger (Dutch) and Jesse Ventura (Sgt. Blain) -- use their muscled intellects to pursue a force more sinister than state budget crises. It's an otherworldly creature deep in the jungle adept at slaughtering our best-trained fighters, and worse yet, it's prac ...

The Hunt for Red October Ranked 163 in the Top 1000

The Hunt for Red October All hell breaks loose when the Red October -- a Soviet nuclear sub headed toward American waters -- abruptly drops off U.S. scanners. But as the Yanks scramble to take defensive steps, astute CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) convinces the bigwigs that the sub's renegade commander (Sean Connery) ...